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Biden Tries to Dismiss High Inflation Numbers Ahead of Midterm Election
President Joe Biden touted “progress” in inflation even as one measure of price increases reached a 40-year high. The consumer price index rose 0.4% in September, showing that inflation remained at a near four-decade high of 8.2%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday. “This latest data from the Department of Labor shows… -
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March for Life Announces Major Shift Ahead of 50th Anniversary of Roe
March for Life President Jeanne Mancini announced that the theme of the 2023 march will center on marching into a post-Roe America. “There’s a lot of confusion about the inherent dignity of the unborn child,” said Mancini at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Thursday. “Our enemy is the lie that abortion is good for… -
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Former Trans Teen Launches Organization to Support Detransitioners
Chloe Cole began taking puberty blockers at 13. She was 15 when she had her breasts surgically removed. At 16, she detransitioned. Now, at the age of 18, she has become an activist and leading voice against children and youth “transitioning” to the opposite sex. Cole recently announced that she is launching an organization to… -
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How Likely Is Nuclear War? Expert Explains Threat of Russia, North Korea
Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. How serious are those threats? Is the United States prepared to respond in the face of a nuclear attack? And what role do China and North Korea play in the discussion of nuclear war? “We’ve been hearing threat after threat, nuclear threat after nuclear threat against… -
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On Its 247th Birthday, US Navy Is on Watch 24/7
The U.S. Navy on Thursday will celebrate its 247th birthday, and organizations such as the Navy League will be helping many of us celebrate the day. Unfortunately, all too often, it seems like there’s nothing but bad news out there, making this a good time to reflect on the good news—and there’s quite a bit… -
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Biden’s Inflation Quickly Makes Americans Poorer
The sailor’s lament “Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink” is reminiscent of how most Americans must feel today about their cost of living. For instance, there are plenty of homes and apartments across the country, but good luck finding one that’s affordable—inflation and interest rate hikes under President Joe Biden have made… -
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A Prophecy Comes True on Polyamorous Relationships
In 2015, when a Supreme Court majority ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that “state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution,” I wrote that the high court had an… -
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Biden’s Abuse of Power Causes CBO to Raise Cost Estimate of Private Pension Bailouts by $4.5 Billion
You know the Biden administration’s special-interest giveaways are out of control when an additional $4.5 billion is met with hardly any criticism. The Congressional Budget Office released a report on Sept. 30 that says President Joe Biden’s changes to the rules of a recent taxpayer bailout of select private union pension plans will add $4.5… -
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Election Watchdog Probes Colorado Offer of Voter Registration to 30,000 Noncitizens
An election watchdog group is seeking more information about why Colorado sent 30,000 postcards to noncitizens, inviting them to register to vote. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold admitted Monday that her office sent out the notices and called it an error that she is trying to address. The Public Interest Legal Foundation announced Wednesday that… -
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Physician Assistant Sues Hospital for Religious Discrimination Over Transgender Stance
First Liberty Institute filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a physician assistant who was fired in 2021 from University of Michigan Health-West after she sought a religious exemption from referring patients for sex-reassignment surgeries and hormone interventions. According to a Wednesday press release from First Liberty Institute, Valerie Kloosterman worked at Michigan Health for… -
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PayPal Gives America an Eerie Glimpse Into a Totalitarian Future
Our right to free expression is unquestionably the most significant of all of the liberties that we hold most dear. It is the foundation of every right that we enjoy as Americans and is the reason why society exists in its current form, as well as the reason why it will continue to evolve each… -
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Surprise! New York Times Discovers Biden’s a Liar—but Soft-Pedals It
The New York Times is signaling that it’s not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, it announced his statements are routinely unfactual. He’s a habitual liar. Why is this discovery emerging now? The online headline of its Oct. 11 story was: “Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel.” The subtitle:… -
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A Governor Who Understands That Woke Corporations Undermine American Interests
“ESG is kind of rewriting how you invest. Instead of focusing on value for your shareholders, it’s more of a political agenda.” These are the prudent words of Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt about environmental, social, and corporate governance standards, dubbed ESG, which are nonfinancial yardsticks applied to firms and used by money managers in decision-making… -
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America’s Suicidal Energy Policy Has Very Real Costs
Last week, Saudi Arabia announced, in conjunction with OPEC+, that it would be cutting oil production in the face of dropping prices. That decision came in spite of the Biden White House’s lobbying in favor of increased production, which included a sycophantic visit by President Joe Biden to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In… -
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Warren’s Attacks on Pregnancy Resource Centers Are Uninformed, Cruel
Imagine being a powerful U.S. senator and dedicating yourself to harassing community-based organizations that provide free material, medical, counseling, and other support to pregnant women in need. Imagine making this your priority in an environment where millions of women desire and depend on such help, and giving your tacit approval to a cadre of shadowy groups already inflicting destructive vandalism on those charities. Imagine no more…. -
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14 Ways Marijuana Harms Users
As President Joe Biden pardoned a few thousand people convicted of marijuana possession on Oct. 6, he announced a process that could “expeditiously” remove all federal barriers to “medicinal” marijuana nationwide. Yet a voluminous and growing body of evidence proves that marijuana—especially marijuana containing high levels of THC—causes a host of psychological, physical, mental, and emotional harms, often to… -
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Tulsi Gabbard Didn’t Leave Democratic Party. The Party Left Her.
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party.” That was the message former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a now-former Hawaii Democrat, delivered Tuesday. Her message was clear: The Democratic Party has gone off the deep end of left-wing extremism. In a 30-minute video announcing the launch of her podcast and an accompanying essay on Substack,… -
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Texas Rancher Invites Biden to Visit Besieged Border and ‘See It for Yourself’
DEL RIO, Texas—Bouncing along in an all-terrain vehicle, Laura Allen drove over cacti and dense shrubbery on her 16,000-acre ranch bordering Mexico. She had spotted a large group of vultures and wanted to know what had attracted their attention. Scavenger birds gather around dead animals and dead humans, Allen told The Daily Signal, explaining that she is concerned… -
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Health Groups Demand DOJ Target Transgender ‘Disinformation’; Republicans Warn Against ‘Criminalizing Civic Discourse’
Three national medical organizations sent a letter to the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden, urging the department to "investigate and prosecute" those responsible for an alleged "campaign of disinformation" about controversial transgender medical interventions, which the organizations blamed for an increase in bomb threats to medical facilities. Republican senators responded with their own… -
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Armed and Beltway-ish: More Bureaucrats Than Marines Authorized to Pack Heat
When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., invoked the language of war to warn that “Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you.” A video quickly went viral, racking up millions of views and purporting to…