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‘Not Legitimate’: Corporate Media Works Against Average American, Federalist Editor Says
The Right must fight back in the information war waged by left-wing media, the editor-in-chief of The Federalist says, adding that conservatives should take their cues from how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis treats “false reporting.” “Because they’re combining with Big Tech to suppress conservative publications and outlets, we need to treat it like the information… -
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‘Bail Out Rich People’: What You Need to Know About Biden Administration’s Silicon Valley Bank Action
The “rich people” with money in Silicon Valley Bank are the real winners in President Joe Biden’s handling of the California-based bank’s collapse, economist Peter St Onge says. After the fall of Silicon Valley Bank over the weekend, the Biden administration announced that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will cover all depositors’ money there. Normally,… -
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‘Real Foreign Interference’: DC Latest Jurisdiction to Allow Noncitizens to Vote
The nation’s capital has joined jurisdictions in at least five states across the country in allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections. The District of Columbia’s law takes effect Tuesday amid bipartisan opposition in Congress. As noted in my 2022 book “The Myth of Voter Suppression,” Democrats long have sought to change election laws to… -
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Author Naomi Wolf Apologizes for Trusting Jan. 6 Media Coverage
Journalist and author Naomi Wolf apologized for believing the legacy media coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, incidents at the U.S. Capitol after Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired additional, previously unreleased footage last week. “I must say that I am sorry for believing the dominant legacy-media ‘narrative’ pretty completely from the time it was… -
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Did Silicon Valley Bank Prioritize Social Justice Over Risk Management?
After one of the biggest banks in the technology startup lending space collapsed last week, President Joe Biden tried to reassure Americans that their banking system was still safe. But if bank examiners are not doing their job, which was the fundamental problem in the Silicon Valley Bank crash, then customers’ deposits are not safe…. -
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Angry Federal Judge Orders Biden’s DHS: End Mass Parole of Illegal Aliens
In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II for the Northern District of Florida has ordered a stop to the Biden administration’s “Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention” (“Parole+ATD”) policy that has been illegally releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens… -
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Amid DOJ Failure to Enforce Law, Supreme Court Requests More Help
The United States Supreme Court has asked Congress to increase funding to help protect the Supreme Court justices. The court’s budget request asks for $5,897,000 for the “expansion of protective activities” and a separate increase of $585,000 for new IT security positions in “cybersecurity, software development, and network engineering.” “This request would expand security activities… -
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Florida’s Education Choice Opportunity
Florida long has been a leading state for education freedom and choice. It was no surprise when Florida ranked first in the nation last year in The Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Education Freedom Report Card. “Florida’s schoolchildren are thriving because we invest in our students, and we empower parents to decide what learning environment is best… -
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I Was Assaulted by Antifa at a Detrans Rally
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Members and allies of the detransitioner community met in front of the California State Capitol here Friday ahead of Detrans Awareness Day. Attendees included notable detrans activists, such as Abel Garcia. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California has become a hot spot in recent years for radical activists and politicians seeking to provide quick and unfettered… -
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I Went to the Southern Border at 3 A.M. This Is What I Saw.
YUMA COUNTY, Ariz.—It was 3 a.m. and a line of about 40 illegal aliens stretched along a section of the border wall waiting to be transported to the local processing center. Behind the group stood another 50 people who had crossed the border illegally into Yuma County, Arizona. A large white bus full of… -
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Orthodox Rabbi Debunks Left’s Claim That Conservatives Want to Force ‘Christian Values’ Down Americans’ Throats
OXON HILL, Md.—Rabbi Yaakov Menken, whose organization represents more than 2,000 Orthodox Jewish rabbis on public policy, told The Daily Signal that his group constitutes living proof that social conservatives aren’t trying to force “Christian values” down Americans’ throats, as many on the Left claim. When conservatives speak up, “the Left will immediately claim that… -
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6 Takeaways From House’s Hearing on Clean Elections
House Republicans pointed to the success of state election reforms during a hearing Friday, citing high turnout and smooth operations in the 2022 midterm elections as evidence. Despite such results, House Democrats insisted Americans are having difficulty voting. In part, they blamed laws passed in almost half the states in 2021 and early 2022, among… -
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With Capitol Video, Fox’s Carlson Blows Up Democrats’ Jan. 6 Narrative
After reviewing some 41,000 hours of security camera videos, Tucker Carlson and his Fox News team this week refuted numerous lies that Democrats have trafficked since Jan. 6, 2021. The following are the five biggest: Democrats consider Jan. 6 a “deadly insurrection.” They call this Storming of the Bastille 2.0 a bloody attempted overthrow of the U.S. government…. -
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The Price of Eliminating Consequences
Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a good Samaritan in Portland, Oregon, confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered goods. More stunning, however, was the sheer outrage—of the thieves! They pouted. They screamed. They resisted. How dare anyone stop them from stealing anything they wished. The criminals entertained no… -
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Time to Declare War on Mexican Drug Cartels
The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should—in a just world—refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans… -
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Republicans Plan to Combat ‘Drunk Government Binge Spending.’ Here’s How
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The House’s most conservative caucus announced its “Shrink Washington, Grow America” plan on Friday as the debt ceiling debate continues in Washington. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, began the caucus’ press conference by discussing the Democrats’ support for a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill that President Joe Biden signed into… -
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What We Weren’t Shown About Jan. 6
Jan. 6 was, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., explained that the riot of Jan. 6 was a “violent insurrection.” And in order to preserve democracy, Schumer stated, Fox News should take Tucker Carlson off the air…. -
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Outburst by ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Adams Wasn’t Racism. It Was Frustration.
About Scott Adams, the white male creator of the (once) popular “Dilbert” comic strip, The Washington Post wrote: “On his Feb. 22 episode of ‘Real Coffee With Scott Adams,’ the creator of the comic strip ‘Dilbert’ decided to riff on a much-criticized Rasmussen poll and promote a type of segregation. He declared that black Americans… -
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Newsom Tries to Impose California’s Extremism on 21 States
Once again, California is trying to bully other states. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that California would not renew a $54 million contract with Walgreens. Walgreens’ crime? The drug store chain had said it would not stock abortion pills in 21 states, following a sharply worded letter from 20 state attorneys general warning that mailing… -
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Dems Attacking DeSantis on Disney Need to Take a Closer Look at Their Own Party
When Disney began lobbying against a parental rights bill in Florida that would prohibit public school teachers from discussing sex, sexual orientation, or so-called gender identity with prepubescent kids in kindergarten through third grade, Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed a special session of the Legislature to review Walt Disney World’s 50-year-old “independent special district” status to…