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Inside a Pregnancy Center That Pro-Abortion Vandals Attacked
LYNCHBURG, Virginia—Something didn’t feel right to Susan Campbell as she checked the security camera feed from Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center, where she is executive director. It was less than a day since the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending abortion on demand across America. And to Campbell, things seemed a little… -
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Senate Democrats Advance Schumer-Manchin-Biden Tax and Spending Bill
The Democrat-controlled Senate voted Saturday evening along party lines to proceed toward passing a $570 billion tax hike as part of a spending bill packed with costly climate provisions. Vice President Kamala Harris, in her role as president of the Senate, cast a tie-breaking vote just after 7:30 p.m. to make the tally 51-50 in… -
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Taiwan Accuses China of Simulating an Invasion
The Chinese military conducted a simulated invasion of Taiwan on Saturday, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said as China ramped up its largest-ever military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. Chinese naval and aerial war exercises surrounding Taiwan come after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., met with the independently governed island’s president and other Taiwanese leaders, a move China… -
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Biden Tries to Get Americans to Look Away From Troubling Fact in Unemployment Report
With another strong topline unemployment report released Friday, President Joe Biden already is trying to hide behind the fig leaf of low nominal unemployment, but his party can’t hide the deep economic malaise overshadowing most Americans. Sadly, Democrats want to make things worse with a $740 billion tax-and-spend blowout that would kill jobs and do nothing to fight crippling… -
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Stock Buyback Tax Shows ‘Government Knows Best’ Attitude Toward Investing
Congress “invested” in the American economy to the tune of $7 trillion over two and a half years. The result? Inflation is through the roof, the economy is stagnant at best, and more than 60% of Americans now report living paycheck to paycheck. Americans got a lousy return on that investment. Following Congress’ spectacular failure… -
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Undermining Legacy of Jefferson and Madison in Their Own Homes
A new report from Heritage Foundation scholar Brenda Hafera provides unique insights and observations into how the presidential homes of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison mostly are failing to teach accurately what these men achieved to establish our country. George Washington’s Mount Vernon is easily the best of the three, remaining relatively faithful to its former… -
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A Recession by Any Other Name Is Still a Terrible Economy
Having given up fixing the economy, President Joe Biden and his handlers are instead fixing the dictionary. The recent announcement of two consecutive quarters of economic contraction—the traditional start of a recession—is the result of the policies championed by Biden and his allies in Congress. Unprecedented money printing and federal spending make it harder for… -
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Big City Mayors Welcome Illegal Immigrants, Except When They Don’t
This morning, I watched on the news as a busload of mostly young, single men arrived at New York’s Port Authority bus terminal. In the bizarro-world of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 policies, the staff from the nongovernmental organizations that greeted them all wore masks, yet not one of the arrivals did. Maybe, like President Joe… -
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Biden Administration Cancels Routine Missile Test to Appease an Adversary … Again
Deterrence is a better way to prevent hostilities than appeasement. On Thursday, the Biden administration delayed a routine test of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, a system that helps keep America safe by deterring major nuclear attacks on the homeland. The reason behind the delay was reportedly to avoid escalating tensions with China after… -
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It’s Not a Loophole Just Because Democrats Don’t Like It
While peddling the ludicrously named Inflation Reduction Act on CNN this past week, Sen. Joe Manchin claimed that Democrats were merely trying to “close the loopholes and collect the taxes that are owed to the Treasury and the United States people.” In Washington, a “loophole” is a euphemism for a perfectly legal policy that Democrats… -
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‘Can’t Hide the Facts’: Majority of Americans Say We’re in Recession
A majority of Americans believe that the country is currently in the midst of a recession despite the Biden administration’s attempts to redefine the term, an Economist/YouGov poll found. Around 61% of Americans believe that the nation is currently in a recession, according to the poll published Tuesday. The poll reflects Americans’ feeling on the economy amid record… -
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Federal Employees’ Job Satisfaction Surged Under Trump, Slips Under Biden, Survey Finds
Federal employees’ unions decried the Trump administration for its executive orders aimed at improving accountability and integrity within the federal workforce. The American Federation of Government Employees—the largest federal workers union—said the Trump administration’s policies would “cripple,” “purge,” and “dismantle” the federal workforce. But as is often the case, the views of union elites often… -
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America’s Leaders Need to Step Up Before It’s Too Late
The saddest part of the complete breakdown of trust in America is how little its leaders seem to care. There’s been a lot written about the trust freefall. People haven’t trusted politicians for years (U.S. Congress: 18% approval), but now even formerly highly trusted institutions like the church (now at 31% confidence) and the U.S…. -
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Trump’s Pre-Jan. 6 Actions Demolish Democrats’ ‘Coup’ Fantasies
The Stalinist Jan. 6 committee rages on. During Donald Trump’s first two impeachments, his supporters cross-examined witnesses and provided exculpatory evidence. But the recent proceedings of the House special committee investigating the Capitol riot don’t try to be fair to Trump or even curious about his side of the story. Instead, these proceedings are designed to… -
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No Wonder We Lost Trust in the Expert Class
For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively rapid “transition” to “green” energy was the world’s preordained future—regardless of the costs. Accordingly, many European Union governments followed the advice of green experts. They eagerly shut down coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants to transition immediately to “renewable energy.” Most citizens were… -
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Justice Department Attacks Pro-Life States With Bogus ‘Preemption’ Argument
The Biden administration is using a spurious legal argument to crack down on states limiting abortion. On Aug. 2, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the state of Idaho, hoping to undermine its new law prohibiting most abortions by claiming that it conflicts with a federal law regarding medical treatment in hospital emergency… -
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‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Would Leave Americans Poor, Oppressed, Sick, and Dead
Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act bears the fingerprints of Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Their 725-page monstrosity belies its billing, beginning with its fraudulent title. While Americans reel under 9.1% year-over-year inflation, the Inflation Reduction Act neglects the worst price surge since November 1981. The Penn Wharton Budget Model politely… -
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Economy Adds 528,000 Jobs, Double What Predicted, as Unemployment Dips to 3.5%
The U.S. economy added 528,000 jobs in June, according to Department of Labor data released Friday, more than double economists’ projections of 250,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5%, according to the Labor Department’s report, which was also below economists’ predictions of 3.6%, according to The Wall Street Journal. The economy outperformed last month’s high job growth… -
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Documents Reveal Collusion Between CDC, Big Tech During Pandemic
Documents newly obtained by America First Legal Foundation reveal deep collusion between public officials and allies in Big Tech to silence dissenting voices. The documents lay bare efforts by officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to push social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to censor so-called medical misinformation. John Zadrozny,… -
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FBI ‘Aggressively’ Pursuing Hunter Biden Investigation, Director Wray Says
FBI Director Christopher Wray referred to “malign foreign influence with, potentially, public corruption” during a Senate committee hearing Thursday where participants described Hunter Biden’s alleged misconduct in overseas business dealings in a hypothetical manner. When asked specifically about the case of President Joe Biden’s son, Wray described it as an “ongoing investigation that I expect…