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opinion
Why Parental Authority Is Basis of Civilization
As most Americans now realize, America is experiencing a societal breakdown. This should be obvious to anyone, even those facilitating this breakdown as they openly acknowledge they seek to break down American society. This is a society that teaches its youngest citizens a suicidal lie: that America was founded in 1619, that it was built… -
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China Is Laughing at Us
Europe is rapidly de-industrializing. German factories are going dark. French and Dutch farmers can’t afford to heat greenhouses. Millions of Brits are facing energy poverty. And Americans are still struggling to put food on the table or pay their energy bills. These disasters largely all stem from Western leaders’ devotion to the cult of climate extremism, and the calamitous decisions to replace fossil fuels… -
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Drone Swarms Aren’t Science Fiction. America Must Meet This Threat.
I don’t normally write about anything that is fiction. This is a bit of an exception. Several good novels in the past few years have hinged on the looming technology gap between China and the U.S. with regard to cyberespionage, offensive hacking, and unmanned vehicle capabilities. All of which can be lumped together as military… -
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‘Active Investigation’: DC Police Still Probing Deaths of 5 Preemie-Size Aborted Babies
Six months later, the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., is still investigating the deaths of five preemie-sized aborted babies that pro-life activists say they discovered in boxes outside a D.C. abortion clinic. Pictures purportedly showing the mangled bodies of the five aborted babies have inflamed fears that a D.C. abortionist is performing illegal partial-birth… -
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Winning Italian Party Unfairly Called ‘Far Right’
Unprecedented fall elections in Italy on Sunday led to a significant shift in the government, which will almost certainly see Giorgia Meloni, head of the relative newcomer political party Brothers of Italy, take over as the nation’s first female prime minister. Brothers of Italy won the most seats in parliament, after securing about 26% of… -
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Look Who’s Talking, Justice Kagan
Supreme Court justices return to work next month following a tumultuous last session in which the majority issued some controversial rulings, most notably the overturning of Roe v. Wade.Liberals in general, and Justice Elena Kagan in particular, are upset by the decisions of the conservative majority. Kagan recently spoke at Northwestern University School of Law… -
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Biden’s EPA Launches ‘Environmental Justice’ Office
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Saturday it is launching a new environmental justice office to distribute taxpayer dollars to minority communities that the agency claims are disproportionally affected by climate change and pollution. The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, which will employ a Senate-confirmed director and more than 200 staffers, will be… -
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Growing Up in Foster Care, Tori Hope Petersen Just Wanted the World to Know She Was ‘Not a Bad Kid’
Tori Hope Petersen lived in 12 foster homes before she aged out of the system at 18. As a child, Petersen says she desperately wanted people to stop stereotyping her just because she was in foster care. “I just wanted to show people that I wasn’t a bad kid, that I was good,” Petersen says…. -
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After Being Canceled, She Pivoted to Journalism
Can artistic expression thrive under heavy-handed ideology? That’s the challenge facing artists, writers, and actors in Hollywood and elsewhere who must increasingly toe an extreme, rigid “woke” line to remain employed by culture-making institutions. Libby Emmons, the editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial—a conservative news website based in Canada—explains how she was canceled in the theater… -
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FBI, Justice Department Twist Federal Law to Arrest, Charge Pro-Life Activist
In an early morning raid Friday in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, about two dozen FBI agents with weapons drawn pounded on the door of Mark Houck’s home, where he lives with his wife and seven children. The FBI agents arrested Houck based on a federal indictment. Sounds serious, right? Is Houck a domestic terrorist, an American jihadist, a… -
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Does The Atlantic Think LeBron James Should Be Allowed to Play in WNBA?
A writer for The Atlantic magazine recently used a story about a teenage girl who wanted to play high school football to argue against segregating sports by sex. Maggie Mertens acknowledges sex differences between men and women in sports in her essay. But she claims that “researchers today still don’t know how much of this… -
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Mastriano: Biden DOJ ‘Trying to Intimidate’ Conservatives Through Arrest of Catholic, Pro-Life Father
Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Doug Mastriano warned Monday that President Joe Biden’s administration sought to “intimidate” anyone “on the political opposition” through the arrest of a Catholic, pro-life father last week. Mastriano referred to the early Friday morning arrest of Mark Houck, whose wife told Life Site News that 25-30 FBI agents entered their home around… -
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Biden USAID’s Radical Gender Policy Is Exporting Cultural Colonialism
The leftist ideologues at the Biden administration’s foreign aid agency have just drafted a new policy on gender. The U.S. Agency for International Development is supposed to use U.S. foreign assistance funds to “advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world.” Its stated goals—saving lives, reducing poverty, and helping people progress beyond the need for assistance—are… -
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Second Amendment Isn’t About Deer in Kevlar Vests, Mr. President, as These 11 Incidents Show
President Joe Biden’s most recent speech on gun control showed, once again, that he has little respect for gun owners or the Second Amendment. Consider, for example, where Biden mocked (and not for the first time) gun owners as being afraid of “deer in Kevlar vests” simply because they want to defend themselves and their… -
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‘Abuse of Power’: Lawmakers Tear Into DOJ for Arrest of Pro-Life Father in Front of Screaming Children
Republican lawmakers tore into the Department of Justice on Monday over the sudden and reportedly dramatic arrest of a pro-life father. Members of the GOP reacted to reports that the FBI sent a “25-30 person swat team with guns drawn to target Mark Houck, a pro-life father of seven, for allegedly shoving a guy in… -
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Republicans Must Fight Continuing Resolution Funding for Third Year of Biden-Pelosi Priorities
Conservatives shouldn’t help President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer fund a government that is destroying the safety of our families, the future of our children, and the strength of our economy. From open borders and student debt amnesty to skyrocketing inflation, climate radicalism, and our public education system,… -
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With a Border This Unsecure, Why Wouldn’t Biden Welcome Thousands of Unvetted Afghan Refugees?
The Biden administration has failed significantly in bringing Afghan evacuees into the country after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. According to a new inspector general’s report from the Department of Homeland Security, the administration had no contingency plans to support emergency operations, no proper vetting procedures for refugees, and no standardized policies. Because of… -
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AOC Tweet Shows She Doesn’t Know Meaning of Oppression. Iranian Women Could Tell Her.
On Friday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., offered her thoughts on Twitter regarding the human rights protests currently happening in Iran. Women and likeminded men have taken to the streets of Iran to burn hijabs and protest the current regime’s oppression of female citizens in the name of Islam. These public demonstrations are inspired by the… -
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Jesse Wiese Found God While in Prison. Now He’s Helping Others Become Better Citizens.
Jesse Wiese knows from firsthand experience what life is like behind bars—and what it takes to reenter society. He served seven-and-a-half years in prison for robbery before joining the organization Prison Fellowship and later graduating from law school. Today, he is vice president of program design and evaluation at Prison Fellowship, where he oversees the… -
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FBI Agents Raid Home, Arrest Pro-Life Advocate in Front of Wife and Children
Mark Houck, a pro-life advocate and father of seven, woke up Friday morning to a team of FBI agents raiding his home in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, told Life Site News that 25-30 FBI agents entered their home around 7 a.m. “The kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and…