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How Men Can Play Irreplaceable Role in Creating Culture of Life
Herbie Newell and his staff at Lifeline Children’s Services journey with many women through unplanned pregnancies. Over the years, Newell has come to see that “abortion isn’t about liberating women.” “It is the sexual ‘liberation’ of men,” he recently wrote for The Washington Stand. For too long, the role of men has been ignored or… -
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New York Times Admits That Hundreds of ‘Top Surgeries’ Are Being Performed on Children
The legacy media has changed its mind. We are now informed that life-changing transgender surgeries on minors are real, and that they’re spectacular. Just a month ago, when the Twitter account “LibsofTikTok” revealed videos and audio from Boston Children’s Hospital talking about various transgender surgeries (such as hysterectomies) and “treatments,” legacy media pumped out a… -
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Who Decides What Children Read? Authoritarians Slander Parent Groups as ‘Book Banners’
In a country that protects and praises personal liberty, few charges are more loaded than to call people censors or “book banners.” Those are fighting words. Unfortunately, the American Library Association and PEN America, an advocacy group for literary authors, are casually hurling that accusation against school leaders and parent organizations across the country without… -
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3 Seas Initiative Should Be America’s Transatlantic Partnership for Economic Freedom, Not Woke Agenda
Russia’s war on Ukraine makes the effort known as the Three Seas Initiative “even more urgent,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a recent speech via video to a related summit meeting in Riga, Latvia. The urgency is not only for the initiative’s member nations and partners, Blinken said during his June 24… -
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6 Important Issues at Stake in Appropriations Bills
The government’s fiscal year begins Oct. 1, but as per usual, Congress has failed to complete the annual appropriations process to provide spending authority for federal agencies. Congress will enact a continuing resolution to maintain current spending and policy, and to prevent a partial government shutdown of nonessential programs, but Americans concerned about inflation should… -
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Borrower Sues to Stop Biden’s Unfair, Illegal Student Loan Bailout
Probably the most common legal argument against the Biden administration’s student loan bailout plan is that the federal Department of Education simply doesn’t have the authority to accomplish it. That’s a core argument in a new lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of an employee whose student debt is affected by the… -
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Rep. Jim Jordan: FBI Arrest of Pro-Life Father ‘Consistent’ With DOJ Corruption
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, weighed in Tuesday on the FBI’s arrest of a pro-life father of seven, saying the dramatic arrest is “consistent with what our most recent whistleblower” has told Republicans about the FBI. “It’s just a continuation of this political nature,” the Ohio congressman said in a phone interview with The Daily Signal…. -
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Pro-Life Father Arrested by FBI Pleads Not Guilty
Mark Houck, a pro-life, Catholic activist arrested last week by the FBI, plead not guilty to federal charges on Tuesday related to an October 2021 incident wherein he allegedly pushed an abortion clinic volunteer. Authorities have charged Houck with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which criminalizes the use of force… -
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Contract With America: The Sequel
House Republican leaders have announced a plan they are calling a “Commitment to America” in time for the November election and presumably the presidential contest two years from now. In unveiling the plan, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has the party’s priorities right. The question is whether the Republican Party can survive the familiar… -
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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…