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After Being Targeted by NBC News, Christian School Refuses to Back Down on Traditional Morality
Grace Christian School “fielded hundreds, probably thousands, of phone calls Thursday, Friday, over the weekend, with just some of the most outrageous things: People threatening to burn my house down, threatening to kill my family,” said Barry McKeen, school administrator and pastor of Grace Community Church of Valrico, Florida, which runs the school. The threats came in… -
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Practical Tools to Protect Your Kids From Woke Agenda at School
It’s back to school time! But preparing for school no longer only means buying pencils and binders and other supplies, it also requires being prepared to stand against the woke ideology that has penetrated classrooms across the country. Parents sending their kids to public school, and even some private schools, need practical tools to equip… -
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Thanks to Biden, Americans Who Never Attended College Still Have to Pay for It
President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is inclusive. Even if you never attended a college course, you still have the opportunity to pay for your fellow Americans’ degrees. Biden announced Wednesday that the Department of Education is canceling $10,000 in student loan debt for Americans earning $125,000 a year or less. Biden also announced… -
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Biden’s ‘Forgiveness’ of Student Loan Debt Isn’t Just a Bailout. It’s a Slap in the Face.
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will launch a massive effort to “forgive” student loan debt for borrowers who still owe. This plan isn’t just a bailout for well-off college degree holders. It’s a slap in the face for hardworking Americans. It’s a slap in the face to the working-class father who dreamed of… -
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Biden Administration Uses Infrastructure Spending for Partisan Political Benefit
Congress voted on a massive infrastructure spending bill last fall. Despite being packed with wins for left-wing interest groups and adding to the spending spree that has fueled devastating inflation, 19 Republican senators crossed over to provide it with far more than enough votes to pass. The Biden administration has predictably used the bill for… -
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Conservatives Sweep School Board Races Across Florida
School boards in five Florida counties flipped to conservative majorities Tuesday with help from the endorsements of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. Miami-Dade County, Sarasota County, Duval County, Martin County, and Clay County held school board elections. The conservative school board candidates in the five counties won their races, resulting in a flip in the… -
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6 Months After Russian Invasion, Christian Aid Group Leader Recounts Death, Destruction He Saw in Ukraine
Dave Donaldson recently returned to the U.S. after his second trip to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion of its Eastern European neighbor. “The city is pretty much obliterated,” Donaldson, co-founder and board chairman of CityServe International, says of the city of Bucha, where Russians are said to have massacred 1,300 people. “It’s like watching a sci-fi film.” … -
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Are We Headed for a Civil War?
I wrote a column in 2011, as the presidential politics of the upcoming year were starting to unfold, with the headline “Why 2012 looks a lot like 1860.” The deep fracturing of the American electorate—remember the tea party?—leading up to the 2012 presidential election was starting to look like what happened in the presidential election… -
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Canada Is Euthanizing Its Sick and Poor. Welcome to World of Government Health Care.
Many leftists tout Canada’s socialized health care system as something America should emulate, claiming government-run health care is more humane. But it seems Canadian officials are more interested in urging doctors to help patients to kill themselves than to treat them. America’s neighbor to the north has some of the most permissive euthanasia laws in… -
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War in Ukraine Shows Why Arms Trade Treaty Remains Bad Idea
The nations that have signed the Arms Trade Treaty are meeting this week in Geneva. In 2016, the Obama administration took the U.S. into the treaty. In 2019, the Trump administration took us out of it. The latter decision keeps on looking better and better. In theory, the Arms Trade Treaty is about requiring nations… -
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Voter Fraud Cases Continue to Occur, Putting Fair and Free Elections in Jeopardy
We recently added nine new cases to the Heritage Election Fraud Database, bringing the total number of entries of proven instances of voter fraud in the database to 1,374. The mounting collection of cases continue to disprove the narrative that voter fraud is not real and that further election integrity measures are not needed. The… -
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Insulin Price Caps Aren’t the Answer
Over the past several decades, the federal government has exercised unprecedented control over aspects of American life that our Founders never intended—including your personal medical decisions. As a life-long job creator and small business owner, I know the dangers of an intrusive government. Regulators in the executive branch don’t know what it takes to develop… -
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Why Biden’s Student Loan Bailout Is Unfair
In unilaterally “canceling” up to $20,000 in student loan debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 annually, the Biden administration on Wednesday put into motion a plan that will further inflate college costs, hinder economic growth, reward upper-income earners, and provide a major handout to woke institutions of higher education. The administration has stuck its… -
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3 Things Pentagon Worries About in Use of Nuclear Weapons
Under the theory of nuclear deterrence, military strategists’ goal is to make use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield untenable by either side and to avoid escalation to full-scale nuclear war. Considering this goal is particularly timely and poignant as Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to rage after six months, China stokes tensions with Taiwan,… -
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‘Widen the Racial Wealth Gap’: Economist Breaks Down Effects of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness
An economics professor from Johns Hopkins University said during a Tuesday CNN appearance that President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt would make the racial wealth gap wider and make inflation worse. “The issue is debt cancellation might reduce the racial wealth gap between two rich doctors, a rich black doctor and rich… -
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New Jersey’s Largest School District Implements Mask Mandate for Entire School Year
The largest school district in New Jersey is going ahead with plans to implement a mask mandate during the 2022-2023 school year, according to district policy. Newark Public Schools in Essex County, New Jersey, is requiring students and educators to wear a mask on all school “locations and grounds” to combat COVID-19, according to the district policy. The school district… -
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Wokeness Is Ripping Through America’s Schools. Here’s How to Protect Your Children From It.
It’s back to school! You bought all the school supplies and new clothes, but what about insulating your children against school indoctrination? Sadly, indoctrination resistance is now part of going back to school so you must stay vigilant and teach your children personal boundaries. Lesson plans about “social identity,” which may be called social and… -
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How Can the Constitution Be Jettisoned? 2 Writers Share Ideas in New York Times
On Friday, The New York Times published its latest op-ed calling for the end of the Constitution of the United States. The authors, Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, teach law at Harvard and Yale, respectively. They argue that the left’s progress has been stymied by constitutionalism itself. “The idea of constitutionalism,” they correctly write, “is… -
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Did American Academy of Pediatrics Just Blink on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ or Bluff?
In its staring contest with human biology, did the American Academy of Pediatrics just blink? For years, the academy has been a booster for the school-to-sterilization pipeline for kids struggling with their sexed bodies—to the dismay of at least some of its 67,000 members. Of course, the American Academy of Pediatrics and other partisans camouflage… -
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Most Americans Support Publicly Funding Pregnancy Resource Centers, Poll Finds
A majority of Americans are voicing their support for maternity homes and pregnancy resource centers three months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a recent poll revealed. The 85 Fund poll, which was conducted by the Creative Response Concepts, or CRC, Research from Aug. 3 to Aug. 7, found…