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opinion
California Billboards Don’t Tell the Whole Story
A lot of people are moving out of California. Over the last two years, California has lost about 300,000 people. Major companies, including Telsa, Oracle Corp., and HP have abandoned California for Texas. With high taxes, lots of regulations, high crime, poor schools, mishandling of the pandemic, and “woke” policies, it isn’t surprising that many… -
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UN’s Gender Czar Ends Examination of US With Bleak Report
Victor Madrigal-Borloz may be the most consequential bureaucrat you’ve never heard of. Madrigal-Borloz is the “SOGI czar” at the United Nations. Or, more precisely, he is the U.N.’s so-called independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI. And the Costa Rican lawyer just concluded an official… -
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Twitter Suspension of Libs of TikTok Is Blatant ‘Double Standard,’ Sen. Blackburn Says
Twitter has suspended the Libs of TikTok account, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn says that only further highlights the social media platform’s double standard. “Time and again, we’ve witnessed Big Tech’s double standard against conservatives,” Blackburn, R-Tenn., told The Daily Signal in an email Tuesday. “The Ayatollah is allowed on Twitter without question, but conservatives who… -
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The Trickle-Down Effects of Our Elites Embracing Wokeness
The ideological conformity and revolutionary zeal that’s taking over Western institutions threaten to not only “fundamentally transform” society, they threaten to destroy the bedrock of what made us so successful to begin with. Political scientist Walter Russell Mead recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal that campus wokeness is hurting America’s position globally. The increasing… -
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5 Reasons Biden’s Student Loan Scheme Is Terrible, Corrupt Idea
There’s a long list of reasons why the the Biden administration’s scheme to write off upward of $20,000 per person in student loan debt, announced Aug. 24, is a terrible and corrupt idea: It’s flagrantly illegal and usurps powers reserved for Congress, which even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged a year ago. It’s unfair, especially… -
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4 More Reasons to Be Mad About Biden’s Student Loan Debt Amnesty
With every passing day, the scope of the Biden administration’s regressive, expensive, unfair, and potentially illegal amnesty for student loan debt becomes clearer. Some 43 million borrowers will be eligible for the loan cancellation, courtesy of the millions of Americans who did not, or could not, attend college. According to the Biden administration, 27 million… -
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On Student Debt, More Government Spending Is Problem, Not Solution
No sooner had President Joe Biden announced his plan for student loan debt forgiveness ($10,000 for nonrecipients of Pell Grants and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients), the president of the NAACP was complaining that it should be more than twice as much. At least $50,000. Brookings Institution scholar Andre M. Perry echoed the sentiment. The… -
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US Leadership Needed to Push Back on China’s Abuse of Interpol
Contrary to Hollywood, Interpol isn’t an international police force. It’s more like a bulletin board on which police forces around the world post their wanted notices. But Interpol does have problems. And China is among the biggest. The next meeting of the Interpol General Assembly, which makes the final decisions for the organization, is set… -
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The Media Avoids Every Biden Fiasco
If you never looked at a poll and watched only the network news to stay informed, you might think Joe Biden is a very successful and popular president. That’s not an accident. There’s a lot of well-designed embroidery and energetic omissions. They pretend Biden has never mismanaged anything or caused a single problem in America…. -
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Biden’s New Slur to Tar His Political Opponents
This week, President Joe Biden—in search of a new label to pin on his political opponents after the failure of his “ultra-MAGA” branding, which prompted peals of laughter rather than shudders of horror—landed on a new slur with which to tar those who don’t support his agenda: they are, he said, semi-fascists. Speaking with a… -
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Another Leftist Attempt to Rewrite Election Rules Goes Down in Flames
Another left-wing attempt to rewrite election rules has gone down in flames. This time, liberals attempted to put a measure on the November ballot to gut election safeguards and skew voting rules in the influential swing state. But if the left thought it could buy its way onto the ballot, it was wrong. In its… -
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Fauci, Other COVID ‘Authoritarians’ Will Face Accountability in ’23, BlazeTV’s Deace Says
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s year-end retirement doesn’t mean he will avoid congressional oversight and accountability, said Steve Deace, author of “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History.” On Aug. 22, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden,… -
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Advice From the First Man to Walk Across Antarctica Solo
From the time he was a child, Colin O’Brady knew he wanted to climb Mount Everest. It was a childhood dream that easily could have fallen by the wayside as a result of the demands of adulthood. Today, at the age of 37, O’Brady has climbed Everest not once, but twice. O’Brady’s passion to accomplish… -
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Trust the Science … Except Biology
From kindergarten classrooms to human resources offices to elite academic institutions, pressure is growing for Americans to ignore what’s in front of them in favor of a new version of reality that is more “inclusive” and “updated.” Public discourse now centers on debates about whether men can become pregnant and how to define a woman…. -
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How New Orleans School Vaccine Mandate Is Affecting Students
The District of Columbia has delayed implementation of its controversial COVID-19 vaccine mandate in schools. But New Orleans, which The Washington Post calls one of the few other U.S. municipalities mandating such COVID-19 vaccinations for children, appears to be moving ahead—with a slight bureaucratic caveat. New Orleans requires all students older than 5 attending public… -
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Federal Court Ruling on Gender Identity Upends Civil Rights Law
In a shocking and first-of-its-kind reading of a more than 30-year-old disability law, a federal judge ruled that the distress that results from a person feeling that he or she is the wrong sex is a disability that must be accommodated under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If the opinion is left to stand, it… -
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China’s Heat Wave, Water Shortage Threaten Its Role in Global Supply Chain
A record-breaking heat wave across China is exacerbating underlying issues that threaten its future role in the global supply chain, an Asian studies expert says. China has long struggled with water shortages, food prices, power grid issues, and inflation, all of which have been magnified by the record heat wave the country is facing, says Dean Cheng, a senior… -
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‘Leave Children Alone’: Country Music Singer’s Wife Doubles Down Against Transitioning Kids
Celebrities are fighting about politics again — this time, a country music artist’s wife is in the epicenter of the drama. Brittany Aldean, wife of CMA Award-winning Jason Aldean, mother, and beauty influencer, posted a makeup video on Instagram last week to her audience of 2.2 million followers. “I’d really like to thank my parents for not… -
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Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country
When I was in college, I read a book by George Gilder, one of the wisest thinkers of the last half-century, titled “Naked Nomads,” which had a deep impact on me. It was about single men and all the pathologies associated with them. For example, Gilder drove home the point that the biggest factor concerning… -
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My Baby and I Found Love and Care at This Pregnancy Resource Center
They gave me a truck. They gave me food. They gave me a warm bed. They helped me find a job. They loved me when I felt no one else did. And they asked for nothing in return. One might start contemplating what wealthy relative I stumbled upon to receive such luck and gifts, or maybe what company treats their employees so generously. It…