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Dana Milbank’s Uncivil War on GOP ‘Destructionists’
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was sounding the alarm in multiple national TV and radio interviews: The rage-filled tone of pro-Trump commentary after the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago was going to lead to violence, possibly catastrophic violence, like the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, which killed 168 Americans. In… -
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IRS Hiring Spree Is Biggest Expansion of Police State in American History
The Democrats’ new reconciliation bill isn’t just going to be the largest-ever expansion of a government agency. It’s going to be the largest expansion of the domestic police state in American history. Only a statist could believe that a federal government, which already collects $4.1 trillion every year—or $12,300 for every citizen—supposedly needs 80 battalions… -
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Female Athletes ‘Clear Losers’ in Biden’s Title IX Rule Change, Protesters Argue
Protesters rallied in the nation’s capital Thursday to challenge the Biden administration’s proposed new rules for enforcing Title IX’s anti-discrimination provisions that would change the definition of “sex” to include “gender identity.” A legal advocacy group called Stop Abusive and Violent Environments organized the rally at the Eisenhower Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. Congress… -
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China Is Infiltrating Kids’ Video Games With Propaganda and Spyware
While many are rightfully concerned about the growing influence of video-based social media platform TikTok and the Chinese government’s ability to harvest incredible amounts of user data from it, China’s largest social media and video game studio, Tencent, has quietly been acquiring a commanding stake in the most popular video game companies around the world,… -
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American Stasi
Monday’s shocking images of police sirens blaring outside Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s magnificent Palm Beach, Florida, estate, will not soon be forgotten. Much has already been said and written about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago that precipitated those sirens: “outrageous,” “unprecedented,” a “crossing of the Rubicon” moment. Regrettably, all of that is true. The… -
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Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania Are America’s Willing and Like-Minded Allies
Following in Lithuania’s decisive footsteps, Estonia and Latvia have just forsaken China’s decade-old initiative for engaging with Central and Eastern European countries. In 2012, China launched its so-called 17+1 Initiative, an attempt to expand its business and investment opportunities in 17 countries in Eastern and Central Europe. Billing the initiative as a diplomacy vehicle for… -
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The FBI Has Become Dangerous to Americans
The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI’s deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump—an historical first. A massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump… -
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Europe’s Descending Into Climate Lockdowns. Will America Be Next?
If energy is life and the lack of energy is death, then Europe’s dismantling its own energy security is the equivalent of civilizational suicide. Europe is once again on the brink of lockdowns—though its goal this time around is not to “stop the spread” of a virus. This time, European Union members, and even the U.K., are… -
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What About Democrats Who ‘Deny Elections’?
After the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference convention in Dallas, CNN published a video with the following headline: “Election deniers take over CPAC after primary victories.” In a recent appearance on CBS, Rep. Paul Kinzinger, R-Ill., who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and serves on the House Jan. 6 committee, said: “The… -
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Fact-Checking Team Biden on Who Those 87,000 New IRS Agents Would Audit
The Biden administration has promised not to raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 a year. And despite estimates from official congressional scorekeepers that the Schumer-Manchin-Biden tax increase indeed would raise taxes on those Americans, the administration has doubled down on the claim as a final vote nears on Democrats’ bill. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen… -
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Rapper Zuby Urges Young to Stay Positive Because America Worth Saving
When you turn on the TV these days, you’re bombarded with negative stories and talking heads claiming America is a no-good, very bad place. It can be hard to grow up in an environment where it seems like everyone thinks America’s best days are behind her. Many young Americans believe such dark prognostications about the… -
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Why China Owning US Land Is Bigger Deal Than You Might Think
A senator from Alabama is sounding the alarm that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to overtake the United States not only militarily, but also economically, as Beijing continues to purchase U.S. land. “The problem is … they’re just not trying to take us over militarily. They’re trying to also get real, real involved economically in our… -
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Beijing’s Economic Problems Complicate Its Designs on Taiwan
As China continues military drills near the island of Taiwan, the tense security environment brings up a question: Is China going to invade Taiwan soon? Fortunately, China’s current economic mess says it’s not likely. A few weeks before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China reported a sharp economic slowdown to 0.4% growth in… -
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Garland Says He Approved Search Warrant for Trump Raid
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that he signed off on the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, but provided few more details other than to announce that the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the search warrant. “I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in… -
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Leftist Judges Declare Bees Are Fish to Get Them Endangered Status
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. Not to be outdone, three liberal judges in California said, “Let bees be fish,” and they were fish (for all relevant legal purposes, at least). What a remarkable superpower liberal judges have to redefine reality with a word or two! How did they do it?… -
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Western Elites Blame the People for Resisting Failed Green Policies
Europe is in a world of hurt when it comes to energy. News outlet Die Welt reported last Sunday that the German government was preparing to deal with backlash from angry citizens who will need to deal with a massive energy crisis come winter. According to the outlet, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told news broadcaster… -
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I Lost a Child to Miscarriage. New York Times Essay Likening Miscarriage to Abortion Is Despicable.
Pro-abortion advocates are trying to muddy the definition of an abortion with muddy and obtuse moral reasoning. On Aug. 2, The New York Times published an op-ed by law professors Greer Donley and Jill Wieber Lens, co-authors of a forthcoming law review article, “Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, & Subjective Fetal Personhood.” Their New York Times essay… -
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Biden Administration Extends Attack on the Free Market in New Rules on Student Debt
Instead of addressing the college debt crisis, the Biden administration has proposed new rules designed to punish for-profit colleges and stick taxpayers with billions of dollars in debt forgiveness. Taxpayers deserve accountability from the Department of Education, not carrots and sticks that interfere with a free marketplace for higher education. The rules, proposed last month,… -
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Biden Executive Order on Abortion Access Is Misleading and Full of Misinformation
After the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden directed his administration to find ways to provide increased access to abortions. That includes potentially funneling taxpayer dollars to transport women and girls who live in states with stricter abortion laws across state lines into states with more lenient ones. Biden’s… -
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Biden Administration Cherry-Picks Data to Dodge Troubling Economic Numbers
With all the Orwellian doublespeak emanating from Washington these days, it is important to take everything you see and hear with a grain of salt. This even goes for talking points that are supposedly quoting official data, like the last monthly employment report from the Labor Department. While the Biden administration was quick to highlight…