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opinion
DOJ’s Partisan Shell Game Raises Ethics Issues About Pamela Karlan
As a tenured law professor at Stanford University, Pamela Karlan earned $1 million a year. We now know that she stayed on the Stanford payroll, at that same impressive salary, during the entire 17 months she served as the Justice Department’s principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights. Karlan left her DOJ post on… -
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Woke History at James Madison’s Montpelier Backed by Southern Poverty Law Center
Virginia is for history lovers. George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and James Madison’s Montpelier—a triad of epicenters of our nation’s past—are all within driving distance. Those who own and operate these historic houses have a significant say over how the American Founding is taught. Unfortunately, as described in a new Heritage Foundation report, the… -
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Biden Administration Abandons Biology. What’s Next for Parents?
Lia Thomas was recently nominated as the NCAA “Woman of the Year.” Just one problem: Thomas is male. Yet neither the “progressive media” nor the Biden administration sees this as problematic. Thomas, a collegiate swimmer, declared to be a girl. The “woke” media wrapped him in praise when he exited the pool a Division I… -
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Governors Have ‘Incredible Ability’ to Rescue Education, South Dakota’s Noem Says
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says governors can counter federal overreach in schools and accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of destroying kids’ education. “We can talk about members of Congress eliminating the Department of Education, or reforming it to that level, but governors have incredible ability to make a difference right at home,” Noem, a Republican, said in remarks Wednesday… -
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The Ukrainian Verdun
Five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war is now reduced to one of attrition. The current dirty, grinding slog is fought mostly with artillery and rockets. Everything from Ukraine’s shopping centers to apartment buildings—and the civilians in them—are Russian targets. Most outsiders have already forgotten the heroic Ukrainian winter repulse of the botched Russian… -
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Portland Schools Teaching Young Children About ‘Infinite Gender Spectrum’
A Portland school is teaching children as young as kindergarteners about the “infinite gender spectrum” and gender “colonization,” according to public documents. The curriculum implemented in 2021 at Portland Public Schools in Portland, Oregon, teaches K-12 students that there is an “infinite gender spectrum” and that they can make up their own pronouns, according to… -
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Poll Finds Americans Want Biden to Condemn Pro-Abortion Violence, Harassment of Justices
Most Americans want President Joe Biden and their other elected officials to condemn intimidation of Supreme Court justices and related violence and vandalism in the wake of their overturning of Roe v. Wade, a new poll finds. The poll, released Wednesday by the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative advocacy group, found that 61% of… -
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Ignore the Doublespeak: We’re in a Recession
American families cannot afford what they were purchasing just a year and a half ago. That means a lower standard of living, but don’t expect any sympathy from Biden administration officials. Their focus seems to be on technicalities, not the average American’s cost of living. The latest economic doublespeak from the Biden administration is a… -
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Increasing Assaults on Thomas Jefferson Ignore His Complexity and Contributions to Freedom
Thomas Jefferson is coming under increasing attack, even at Monticello, his former estate, now a museum near Charlottesville, Virginia. The main focus seems to be on slavery, not on Jefferson’s many unique accomplishments. According to the New York Post, “Books by critical race theory proponents Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates enjoy pride of place… -
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Is Texas the Model for Good Health Care Policy?
Health care affects every single American. Republicans and Democrats argue over the best way to provide the essential service to the population. But in Texas, a sweeping series of health care reform bills was able to make their way through the state Legislature. And it was done on a bipartisan basis. Dave Balat, director of… -
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Democrats’ New Proposal Does Nothing to Lower Inflation
The first thing to remember about the reconciliation bill Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer agreed to Wednesday is that, despite its utterly preposterous name, it has absolutely zero to do with inflation. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is crammed with the very same spending, corporate welfare, price fixing, and tax hikes that were… -
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Government Eyes Collecting More Data on Americans to Address Pay Discrimination
The federal government collected data on 100 million Americans from 70,000 employers to prioritize investigations for what a report calls “systemic” pay discrimination. The government also is open to more expansive data collection in the future to address pay disparities. “Is this going to be a smoking gun that definitively answers whether there is pay… -
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Extending Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Would Be Costly, Ineffective
The deal struck by Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia on the so-called Inflation Reduction Act would extend what was sold as a temporary expansion of Obamacare subsidies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extension would be for three years, at a cost of $64 billion. Democrats claim that… -
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Monkeypox Primarily Affects Gay Men. Why Are We Scared to Say It?
Monkeypox seemingly sprung out of nowhere to infect large swathes of the globe, replacing COVID-19 as the malady du jour. Experts say the number of monkeypox cases is severely undercounted, and the World Health Organization just declared the disease a global health emergency. Monkeypox has hit America particularly hard. Our nation has the most recorded… -
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Inflation Reduction Act—or Radical Green New Deal?
Make no mistake, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act unveiled Wednesday by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., will do nothing that its supporters state—in fact, it will do quite the opposite. If passed, the act will increase the prices that Americans pay for energy, make the United States less energy… -
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DC Mayor Demands More Help From Biden to Process Illegal Immigrants
Democrat politicians in the District of Columbia are calling for the Biden administration’s help in responding to an increase in illegal immigrants caused by the busing of thousands of migrants to the nation’s capital since April by the Republican governors of Arizona and Texas. Mayor Muriel Bowser requested mobilization of the D.C. National Guard to… -
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When Clinton, Biden, and Schumer Defended Marriage Against Ted Kennedy
When Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts led the fight in 1996 to stop a federal law that would define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, he faced some prominent opponents in his own party. They included then-Rep. Chuck Schumer of New York, then-Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, and then-President Bill… -
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Associated Press Injects Woke Ideology Into Its Stylebook
Since 1953, the AP Stylebook has been a go-to manual for journalistic grammar and style at most media outlets. It lays out basic rules about grammar, punctuation, phrasing, and the like, intended to have universal applicability. In the past, it was aimed at reducing bias and creating a framework for evenhanded reporting. Those days are… -
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‘Not Safe’: England to Shut Down Only Gender Clinic for Minors While Biden Pushes Child Sex Changes
England’s National Health Service plans to shut down its only youth gender clinic after an investigation found it to be unsafe for children, according to The Telegraph. An independent review found that medical professionals at Tavistock transgender clinic were pressured to unquestioningly affirm children’s gender identities and skip the normal clinical assessment process, prompting the… -
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It’s Time to Set Record Straight on Ectopic Pregnancies and Abortion
The abortion lobby wants women to think that abortion is the best—or even only—option when it comes to lifesaving maternal care. To achieve that, the pro-abortion left continues to spread harmful lies and misleading talking points in public hearings and press releases. Under the guise of a fair and open debate, House Democrats held yet…