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California on Cusp of Censoring Doctors on COVID-19
A branch of COVID-19 fundamentalists has managed to get an extremist bill through the California Legislature that would put doctors’ free speech at risk. The legislation would require the state’s Osteopathic Medical Board to “take action” against doctors deemed to have “disseminate[d] misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the… -
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Biden’s Policies Fueling Illegal Immigration Crisis, Border Patrol Chief Says in Deposition
The border surge of the past 18 months is a crisis of the Biden administration’s own making. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from a video of a July 28 deposition by Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz. The video, which was part of discovery in a lawsuit by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, was obtained… -
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Texas Rangers Only Baseball Team Standing Strong, Refusing to Host ‘Pride Night’
There’s good news, and there’s bad news. The good news is, the Major League Baseball Texas Rangers “have come under enormous fire from powerful LGBT groups for not giving in and having a Pride night,” National Review’s Nate Hochman said on “Washington Watch.” Wait a minute, you’re thinking, that sounds bad. How is that good… -
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Exposing Biden Regime’s Collusion With Big Tech to Suppress Conservative Speech
On Thursday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt unveiled some very interesting documents that his office and the office of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry have received since the two states jointly filed a potentially pathbreaking lawsuit in May. Their lawsuit alleges that various high-ranking Biden administration officials have been colluding, in censorious fashion, with the… -
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Why Medicare Advantage Is the Basis for Medicare Reform
There’s a lot of negative news surrounding the government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Mistakes by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health top that list. But there is also some rare good news on the COVID-19 front. Preliminary research has found that the Medicare Advantage program outperformed traditional Medicare… -
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Who Are You Calling Fascist, Mr. President?
The other day, President Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to “semi-fascism.” This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party’s constituents in this way. Then again, Biden, who once alleged that the chaste Mitt Romney was harboring a desire to bring back… -
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Biden’s Authoritarian Speech: ‘MAGA’ Republican Opponents Are a Threat to Democracy
President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday night that if you oppose him, you are an extremist who hates democracy. Flanked by two members of the military and illuminated on a podium in blood-red lighting, Biden spent half an hour blasting his political opponents in a prime-time address to the nation. Biden, who delivered his rant… -
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House Republicans Ask Zuckerberg for Documents Related to FBI and Suppressed Hunter Biden Story
House Republicans sent a letter Thursday to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg requesting all documents and communications between the FBI and Facebook before the 2020 election. Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and James Comer, R-Ky., ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, led the letter also signed by 33 other… -
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IRS Official in Charge of 87,000 New Agents Played Key Role in Obama-Era Targeting Scandal
House Republicans say they will keep a “watchful eye” on the Internal Revenue Service official tapped to run the centralized office housing 87,000 incoming new agents because she has ties to the IRS’ targeting of tea party groups during the Obama administration. The Daily Signal first reported that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig had appointed Nikole… -
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3 Biden Lies About His Student Debt Bailout Scheme
By my count, there are at least three lies behind President Joe Biden’s “student loan relief” plan: a bald-faced lie, a half-lie, and a lie of omission. First, in its Aug. 24 “fact sheet,” the White House advances the falsehood that college is the “ticket to a middle-class life.” That’s untrue. The ticket to a… -
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Suspended Teacher Who Refused to Use ‘Preferred Pronouns’ Obtains $95K Settlement
“Truth is conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be.” —Noah Webster In George Orwell’s dystopian and now-prescient work of fiction “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the “Party” and its leader, “Big Brother,” devise a diabolically clever tactic to control the thoughts and actions of the proletariat: a new… -
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Europe’s Alarming New Trend: Rapid De-Industrialization
Germany, widely known as Europe’s industrial powerhouse, is now leading the Continent in an alarming new trend—rapid de-industrialization. Astronomical natural gas prices are forcing heavy industries, from smelters to fertilizer plants, to shut down or curtail production. Germany’s fabled “Mittelstand”—the collection of mid-sized firms that form the backbone of its economic might—is buckling under the… -
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Fact Check: Reuters Misled You About Our DC Vaccine Mandate Piece
If you want to know why no one trusts the corporate media, take a look at this new “fact check” from Reuters. In the fact check, Reuters asserts that the claim “‘unvaccinated’ D.C. students will be banned from attending school” is “missing context.” But Reuters’ fact check itself is missing crucial context. The fact check was… -
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Emails Reveal Biden Administration Coordinated With Facebook, Twitter
Dozens of federal officials across multiple agencies within the Biden administration communicated extensively with social media companies to coordinate censorship of information, according to internal documents released by Republican Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana. Officials within the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services… -
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What I Saw as ‘Billboard Chris’ Protested DC Hospital’s Gender Treatments for Teens
Chris Elston stood in the 90-degree heat outside Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., wearing a billboard with the message: “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.” Elston, a Canadian activist known as “Billboard Chris,” travels across North America wearing signs that spark conversation about the harms of gender ideology and gender transition treatments for children and teens…. -
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After Flare-up of Violence, Future of Iraq at Crossroads
“This is not a revolution,” Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr proclaimed this week in a televised address to supporters after two days of the worst violence the country has experienced in years. Weeks of political tension boiled over after al-Sadr’s “exit” from politics announced on Twitter. Explosions lit up the sky, and gunfights took place among… -
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Europe’s Energy Crisis, Explained
Decades of bad policy decisions by European countries combined with Russia’s “weaponization” of its oil and natural gas resources are to blame for Europe’s ongoing energy crisis, one expert in energy security says. Energy prices this week reached new heights. Notably, in one benchmark Monday, Germany’s expected prices in 2023 peaked higher than 1,000 euros… -
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How Texas Is Fighting Chinese Infiltration
A Texas law blocking construction of a Chinese-owned wind farm close to an Air Force base could ripple across state lines to inspire new laws deterring China from burrowing into American infrastructure. The Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act—which became law in June 2021—prohibits companies and other entities from entering into agreements in Texas involving critical… -
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A Media Coach Assesses White House Press Secretary’s Briefing Room Blunders
Being the White House press secretary is a notoriously hard job. The press secretary must be up to date on every policy issue engaging the president and his team. The position requires the person who holds it to be articulate, confident, honest, and transparent, while also keeping sensitive information with care. Unfortunately, current White House… -
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Transgender Movement Is ‘Cult That Has Permeated Our Entire Society,’ Critic Says
The transgender movement is “a social contagion,” says Chris Elston, an activist known as “Billboard Chris.” Elston has drawn international attention for his work to defend children against gender identity ideology. Wearing billboards on his front and back bearing statements like “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers,” he travels throughout Canada and the U.S. having…