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This Action Moves Biden’s Heat on Natural Gas to Front Burner
Natural gas is coming under fire. Again. Localities across the U.S. are pursuing bans on natural gas appliances under the banner of fighting climate change and meeting the Biden administration’s lofty aspirations of net-zero emissions. Most recently, the San Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted to adopt new rules that phase out certain… -
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Senate Democrats’ Fickle Love-Hate Relationship With ‘Blue Slips’ on Judicial Nominees
With the 118th Congress underway, the Senate’s process of evaluating President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations has resumed. This means that, joining death and taxes on the certainty list, is pressure for the majority to rig the process by abandoning the “blue slip” process that gives deference to senators in whose state a judicial nominee would… -
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What Ex-State Department Official Would Have House Committee Ask TikTok CEO
Keith Krach, former undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment in the Trump administration, is adamant about what questions he would have lawmakers ask TikTok’s chief executive officer, Shou Zi Chew, during Shou’s appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23. “Well, maybe the first thing I’d ask him… -
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Are We the Byzantines?
When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its… -
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From ‘Greed and Ego’ to Prison and a Second Chance
I took a flight from Los Angeles to Minneapolis and was picked up at the airport by a black driver. His name is Davis. He looked mid-20s, but it turned out he was 39. He was charming, soft-spoken, friendly, and became talkative once he realized I wanted to talk. During the drive to my hotel,… -
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Biden Tries to Boost Pay for Federal Bureaucrats by Highest Rate Since Carter
President Joe Biden’s $7 trillion tax-and-spending plan would boost pay for federal bureaucrats by 5.2%, their highest raise in decades and more than private sector employees have gotten. The proposed 5.2% hike for government workers contrasts with private sector employees, who earned an average pay raise of 4.4% from February 2022 through February 2023, according… -
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A Chance for Real Change
When the history books look back on 2023, the biggest American news story may be something that’s getting little attention right now: the school choice revolution. This year, Iowa, Utah, and Arkansas have passed massive school choice bills, giving parents access to state education funding for their children and letting them decide if they want… -
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The Most Important Founding Father You May Not Remember
Thursday is the birthday of the most important Founding Father Americans may not even remember. He doesn’t have a musical written about him. He doesn’t have an HBO series. But he is one of the most significant Founders in the history of the United States. Thursday is the 272nd anniversary of James Madison’s birth. More… -
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Police Lt. Explains How Cartels Are Taking Advantage of Biden’s Open Border Policies
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz.—Worms crawled out of a small hole in the front of a carpet shoe that was used by a cartel member likely only weeks before. Dropping the piece of camouflage fabric the cartels use to make their tracks less visible to Border Patrol, I scanned the small parcel of desert that was covered… -
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If You’re Woke and Go Broke, Should Taxpayers Pay Your Bills?
It’s feeling like 2007 all over again as Silicon Valley Bank and other financial institutions are going belly up and asking for bailouts from the federal government. President Joe Biden insists that he won’t be bailing out Silicon Valley Bank, but he certainly is. The bailouts are coming. They’ve already begun. The official reason for… -
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19 ‘Freedom-Loving States’ Form Anti-ESG Alliance
A group of 19 Republican governors from "freedom-loving states" announced an anti-environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, alliance on Thursday. "This month, Congress exercised its powers under the Congressional Review Act to disapprove of the Department of Labor Rule relating to 'Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights,’" the governors' joint statement… -
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‘Restorative Justice’ Is Killing American Classrooms
As record numbers of fistfights are erupting amid a behavior crisis in the American public education system, more schools are attempting to use restorative justice—even though that process often makes behavioral problems worse. Restorative justice is a remediation theory that suggests students respond better to affirmation-based conversations in which an adult de-escalates any problem situation… -
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Forget Statehood: Congress’ Quashing of DC’s Pro-Crime Bill Shows City Incapable of Self-Governance
What do you do when carjackings are surging in your city? For local leaders in Washington, D.C., the answer is clear: Reduce the penalties for carjackings, of course. It’s pure genius. In November, the D.C. Council passed the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, which was vetoed by Mayor Muriel Bowser. The Democratic mayor’s veto… -
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Russia Helping China Speed Up Its Nuclear Buildup. US Unprepared to Counter It.
Policymakers are increasingly concerned about evidence of increasing cooperation between the United States’ two greatest adversaries, Russia and China. While recent discussion has focused on China providing Russia with lethal aid to support its aggression in Ukraine, a potentially more dangerous element to this budding relationship has just come into public view: Russian support for China’s… -
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These 12 Defensive Uses of Guns Support Student’s Plea for Armed Self-Defense
After a gunman killed three students last month at Michigan State University, the campus was quickly awash in cries for more gun control. It wasn’t long before the Rock, a campus monument long used by students as a free canvas for promoting school events and social issues, became a focal point of pro-gun control messaging…. -
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Treasury Secretary: US ‘Banking System Is Sound’
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. “banking system is sound” just days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. “This week the government took decisive and forceful actions to stabilize and strengthen public confidence in our financial system,” Yellen said before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. “First, we worked with… -
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Ranked-Choice Voting Is ‘Spreading Like Poison,’ Alaskans for Honest Elections Founder Says
The founder of Alaskans for Honest Elections is speaking out against ranked-choice voting, which he says is “spreading like poison.” “Ranked-choice voting is a whole way that certain people want to redefine how we vote. It’s no longer one person, one vote. It’s a very complicated system where everybody’s thrown into a jungle primary,” Art… -
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Girls High School Basketball Team Banned From Future Tournaments for Refusing to Compete Against Team With Male Player
A Christian school’s girls basketball team has been banned from competing in future tournaments after forfeiting a game against a team with a male student who claims to be transgender. In February, the Mid Vermont Christian School girls high school basketball team pulled out of a game in the girls state basketball playoffs. Head of… -
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Voter Fraud Office Nets 2 More Arrests
Florida continues a crackdown on election-related crime, announcing the arrests of two more individuals Wednesday on charges of casting illegal votes in last year’s election. The Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security, created by legislation that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last April, announced the arrests of 20 convicted felons it said voted… -
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‘We Are Under Siege,’ Texas Sheriff Says of Border Crisis
Kinney County, Texas, is “under siege by illegal aliens and smugglers,” Sheriff Brad Coe testified Wednesday during a House committee hearing. “The number of migrants seen on game cameras … , we’re averaging between 160 and 180 people per night that are going through the county unchallenged,” Coe said during the Homeland Security Committee’s hearing in…