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Can Biden Cancel Student Loan Debt? Here’s Why It’s a ‘Major Question.’
Although the Biden administration has announced its student loan “forgiveness” program, the specifics of the plan’s implementation remain murky. However, what is crystal clear is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement just last year that “the president can’t do it.” “So that’s not even a discussion,” Pelosi told reporters, adding: “The president can only postpone, delay,… -
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Minnesota Proposes to Require Teachers to Use Critical Race Theory. Here’s What Parents Need to Know.
Parents are spreading “disinformation and hysteria around critical race theory,” a former teacher recently told NPR. “Teachers can barely afford the resources for their own curriculum [so] it’s laughable that they’d shell out money [to teach] a college course,” he said. College, of course, is the place where radical activists claim that critical race theory… -
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Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?
It may be one of the most surefire findings in all of social psychology, repeatedly replicated over almost five decades of study: American conservatives say they are much happier than American liberals. They also report greater meaning and purpose in their lives, and higher overall life satisfaction. These links are so solidly evidenced that, for the most part, modern… -
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Michigan’s Secretary of State Fights to Keep Dead on Voter Rolls
In an order that illustrates the bizarre views of controversial Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a federal court has turned down Benson’s motion to throw out a lawsuit filed against her for refusing to remove almost 26,000 dead voters from Michigan voters rolls. In mid-September 2020, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (of which I… -
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CRT Infects Military Academies, Medical Schools, Bill Jacobson Says
Critical race theory has marched its way through many of America’s educational institutions. Angry elementary school parents noticed during the pandemic that their kids’ teachers were more inclined to teach them that white people were evil than to teach them to read. Unfortunately, critical race theory—which views everything through the lenses of race and oppression—also… -
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California Dreamin’—A No-Choice Nightmare That Benefits China
California is at it again. This time, the state Air Resources Board has issued a regulation banning the sale of new gasoline- or diesel-powered cars in just 12 years. Golden State motorists would find their options limited to cars propelled by electricity or hydrogen fuel cells. California can do this only if President Joe Biden… -
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China’s Secretive Work in Biotechnology
While U.S. intelligence toils to identify the exact origins of the SARS-COV2 (COVID-19) virus in China, there are other good reasons to be concerned about Chinese work in biotechnology that could be used against us and our allies in a crisis or conflict. Indeed, the State Department’s recent report to Congress on arms control, nonproliferation,… -
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Who Has the Worst Election Laws? These 10 States, According to Scorecard
Hawaii may be paradise for vacation spots, but the Aloha State comes in last place in a ranking of all 50 states based on the strength of their election laws. Going into the midterm elections Nov. 8, the nominal battleground state of Nevada comes in second to last in laws promoting clean and honest elections,… -
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Voters in These 4 States to Decide Abortion Law at Ballot
Voters in at least four states will have the opportunity in November to decide what to do about abortion. Voters in California, Kentucky, Montana, and Vermont will decide abortion-related ballot initiatives during midterm elections Nov. 8. Michigan voters also may weigh in. “Constitutional ballot initiatives are notoriously confusing and complicated,” Mallory Carroll, vice president… -
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9 Past Climate Change Forecasts
“‘The trouble with almost all environmental problems,’ says Paul R. Ehrlich, the population biologist, ‘is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. … We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.’” —The New York Times, 1969…. -
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Refuting Big Lie the Left Tells About Pro-Lifers
“It’s … hard to take seriously Republicans’ passionate pleas for this body to defend the existence of an unborn fetus when they seem to care so little about many of the existential threats that are posed to every American after they are born. … It seems that after birth, life matters a little bit less to some… -
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We Don’t Have a ‘Mass Incarceration Problem’ in America (and Other Myths About Police and Crime)
The tumultuous summer of 2020 prompted Americans to question our country’s criminal justice system. Fueled by the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, political leaders and the media used these examples and others to attack police, prosecutors, and the rule of law. Today, we know they peddled a false narrative. Unfortunately, we’re seeing the… -
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New York Times Columnist Gets First Freedom Wrong
In her recent guest essay in the New York Times, former Times reporter and columnist Linda Greenhouse accuses Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito of weaponizing religious liberty. In reality, Alito merely issued a plea that religious liberty is provided “special protection” promised by the Constitution. It appears Greenhouse actually believes religious liberty should be relegated… -
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Former Texas Mayor Acquitted in Voter Fraud Case
A Texas jury acquitted a former mayor on 12 counts of election fraud in connection with what prosecutors said was a ballot harvesting ring. After six hours of deliberation Thursday, a Hidalgo County jury acquitted former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina, The Associated Press reported. Molina was found not guilty of one count of organized fraud… -
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The Media Bias Fight in Britain
Whenever conservative media watchdogs aspire to an argument seeking to expose and correct the distortions of the liberal news outlets, they receive the argument of hypocrisy. “You can’t complain about bias,” they say, “because you’re awfully biased yourself.” This would be a more impressive argument if one was a mirror image of the media, insisting… -
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A Modern, Americanized Version of a Maoist Struggle Session
Arguing for keeping “presentism” out of history seems like a straightforward argument from an acknowledged history scholar, right? Wrong. Not these days. The president of the American Historical Association, James H. Sweet, published an essay last week arguing that scholars should bar “presentism” from history. Sweet’s column in the American Historical Association magazine, Perspectives on… -
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DC Delays School Vaccine Mandate After Daily Signal Report
Fewer than 24 hours after The Daily Signal reported that the District of Columbia would not offer remote learning and planned to bar unvaccinated students, many of whom are black, from attending school in person 20 days after school started on Monday, the city abruptly announced it was delaying the policy until next year. DCist reported that… -
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To Help Biden, FBI Interfered With 2020 Election
As if the FBI’s reputation were not already in tatters, we have yet another bombshell, courtesy of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, about FBI malfeasance during the 2020 election. It turns out that the FBI used its previously concocted Russia hoax as an excuse to pressure Facebook to censor the factually correct Hunter Biden laptop… -
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What Released Affidavit Reveals About FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that on Aug. 8, the FBI took the unprecedented step of executing a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago. Despite claims by some that they have “seen no evidence that there was any political motivation” behind the raid, many remain skeptical—especially given… -
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There Should Be a Republican Tsunami This Fall. But Will It Happen?
The late spring scenario of a massive GOP win—in historic proportions analogous to 1938, 1994, or 2010—is said now to be “iffy.” The left boasts that it now has a chance at keeping the House, with even better odds for maintaining control over the Senate. Polls are all over the place. Now they show generic…