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Republicans Might Skip Liberal Interviews? Good
It’s way too early to talk about the 2024 presidential campaign, but it cannot be staved off any more than you can stop Jim Acosta from yelling. Liberals are already alarmed about the press strategy of the Republican contenders. New York Magazine posted David Freedlander’s article “Why Republicans Stopped Talking to the Press.” This headline… -
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FDA Slaps Warning on Puberty Blockers
Puberty blockers earned a warning label from the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month after six minors (ages 5-12) experienced severe symptoms. The puberty blockers in question are known scientifically as “gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) substances.” The minors, who were all biologically female, suffered from symptoms of “pseudotumor cerebri” (tumor-like masses in the brain), including visual disturbances… -
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Fact-Checking 6 Claims About Life After Roe v. Wade
When the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade on June 24, Americans went to their computers to find out what life was going to be like in a post-Roe America. From June 23 to 24, Google trends show a 98% increase in searches for the phrase “abortion rights.” And June 23 to 25 saw a… -
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So-Called Inflation Reduction Act Would Make Stagflation Worse
After more than a year of expressing his concerns about the impact of inflation, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has signed off on a massive tax and spending bill that only would push prices for working families even higher. The deal, which Manchin made with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was reached only hours before… -
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FDA Considers Over-the-Counter Birth Control. Here’s Why It Matters.
For the first time in history, women may soon be allowed to purchase birth control over-the-counter. The Food and Drug Administration first approved the pill in the 1960s, and since then, women have always needed a prescription for birth control pills. But that might be changing. The FDA is considering approving over-the-counter birth control. The… -
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Former Defense Secretary Urges Pelosi to Visit Taiwan, Stand Up to China
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Taiwan next month and Beijing is not happy, threatening “determined and forceful measures” if the trip happens. “[China] will have to take determined and forceful measures to firmly safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity” if the trip proceeds, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, according to the Financial… -
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‘It’s Hurting People’: Sen. Mike Lee Calls for End of Obamacare
A leading conservative senator, blaming Obamacare for skyrocketing health care prices in his state, laid out policy solutions Tuesday to create a health care system that puts Americans and their doctors back in charge. “If you allow the worker to get pretax dollars, get non-tax dollars, and allow the worker to purchase his or her… -
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Conservative Leaders Urge GOP Senators to Reject House-Passed Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Conservative leaders are calling on senators to reject the House-passed Respect for Marriage Act, which aims to codify into federal law the Supreme Court’s 2015 legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. “The Act, which was suddenly rushed through the House without any public hearings or input, is an attack on millions of Americans, particularly… -
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‘Kids Are Off-Limits’: DeSantis Sues Bar That Let Children Attend Drag Shows
Florida is suing a bar that hosted drag shows with children present after investigators found that the establishment was exposing minors to sexually explicit content, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, discussed the complaint and spoke out against sexualized content targeting children during a Wednesday speech in… -
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Why Speaker Pelosi Must Go to Taiwan
Beijing is warning of “serious consequences” and “firm and resolute measures” should House Speaker Nancy Pelosi follow through with her plans to visit Taiwan. The Chinese Communist Party can’t help itself. Like so much of what China has done in the past 10 years or so, these pronouncements only help to bring about the thing… -
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Time to Stand for Parental Rights
Many school districts across the nation are actively resisting curriculum transparency measures and bending over backward to hide the truth about what students are being taught. As parents sound the alarm on critical race theory and gender politics in the classroom, school administrators are doing everything in their power to gaslight them—telling them that these… -
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Chemical Abortion Is Next Pro-Life Battlefield
The Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” returned “the authority to regulate abortion … to the people and their elected representatives.” That effort will be more complicated than when the court took that authority away 49 years ago in… -
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Tunisia Backslides From Arab Spring to Autocracy
Tunisia, the birthplace of the 2011 Arab Spring mass protests that swept North Africa and the Middle East, has entered an uncharted chapter in the country’s already turbulent transition toward democracy. Unfortunately, in moving away from the status of the sole evolving democracy to have emerged from the mass uprisings in the region, Tunisia’s democratic… -
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Iowa School District Allows Students to Spend Overnight Trips With Whichever Gender They Identify With
An Iowa school district policy allows students to spend overnight trips with the students who share their “gender identity.” The discrimination policy at Linn-Mar Community School District in Linn County, Iowa, gives students a Gender Support Plan, which makes “appropriate arrangements” for students in seventh grade or older wishing to change their gender identity at… -
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Failure to Prioritize Arctic Has Left America Vulnerable to Adversaries
The Arctic is a critically important region to the U.S. because of its trade routes and natural resources, yet America is unable to protect its interests there against increasingly aggressive and better equipped adversaries. If left unopposed, countries such as Russia and China will continue to exert their influence in the region and could wrest… -
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4 Compelling Reasons for the Senate to Oppose Redefining Marriage
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation that would repeal the overwhelmingly bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 and codify the U.S. Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges into federal law. Forty-seven House Republicans joined a unanimous Democratic caucus in voting for the bill, leading to speculation… -
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Why My Friends and I Had More Wisdom When We Were 12 Than College Students and Faculty Have Today
The average 12-year-old student at a yeshiva has more wisdom than almost any student at Harvard or most other universities. (A yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish school with an emphasis on religious studies. About half the school day is devoted to religious studies—taught from the original Hebrew sources. This is probably true for many 12-year-olds… -
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Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Byron Donalds Boost School Choice
School choice is the most important domestic policy issue today, Sen. Ted Cruz argued in remarks Tuesday. The Texas Republican, who was joined by Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Kellyanne Conway, former senior counselor to President Donald Trump, noted that a poorly educated child is at a much higher risk of facing poverty, crime, and… -
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GOP Lawmaker Who Won by Whisker Touts Election Integrity, Rips ‘Zuckerbucks’
A New York congresswoman who won election by a razor-thin margin recounted a major voting-related issue still causing her sleepless nights during a panel discussion on Tuesday. “The thing that keeps me up at night right now is this issue of vote-harvesting that happened under Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook billionaire, [who] spent $419 million on… -
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31 States Where Voters Defined Marriage as Union of 1 Man, 1 Woman
The Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the nation is in the news again with the House’s passage last week of legislation codifying that 2015 ruling as part of U.S. law. In the years before the high court ruled in the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, 38 states defined marriage by law as an exclusive union between…