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The Chinese Know We’re in Cold War II. It’s Time for Us to Understand the Same.
This week, the Chinese government announced its fierce opposition to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., visiting Taiwan. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that China was “fully prepared … If the U.S. is bent on going its own way, China will take firm and strong measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial… -
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New School Model Combines Virtual Reality With Classical Education
Classical education is a trusted model of learning. Virtual reality is a new technology still being fully developed. Despite the view of some that the two could be in conflict with each other, Erika Donalds disagrees. “Classical education … is content-based, and [virtual reality] is the perfect way to deliver that content,” says Donalds, president and… -
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7 Takeaways From Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy Speech
Former President Donald Trump focused mostly on fighting a surge in crime and keeping Americans safe but veered into other topics Tuesday in remarks packed with policy proposals that topped 90 minutes. “We need an all-out effort to defeat violent crime in America and strongly defeat it, and be tough and be nasty and be… -
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How Gender Ideology Cost a Chicago Mother Custody of Her Child
Jeannette Cooper never imagined she’d lose custody of her only child. A Chicago resident and lifelong educator who spent her entire adult life surrounded by children, Cooper considered herself a loving and responsible mother. After she and her husband divorced in 2015, she won custody of their daughter six days and seven nights a week. … -
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School Meals Bill Serves Up 2 Unappetizing Helpings of Left’s Agenda
The House Committee on Education and Labor is expected this week to consider legislation known as the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act. HR 8450 is a far-left wish list, seeking to expand welfare for all through universal free school meals and trying to use the school meals programs as a pretext to push far-left environmental,… -
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Will Lower Courts Duly Follow the Supreme Court’s Lead in Abortion Cases?
The general has sounded the retreat. Will the soldiers follow? That is the question raised by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the Supreme Court declared that the federal courts should retreat from their invasion of the democratic provinces of legislatures on the issue of abortion. But will the lower courts obey? One appellate… -
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Amid Record Illegal Immigration, Mayorkas Insists Border Is ‘Secure.’ What Would Unsecured Look Like?
Millions of people have illegally crossed the southern border into the United States in the past few years, but the Biden administration says everything is fine, with “nothing to see here.” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas even said last week that the southern border is “secure.” With scant evidence or justification, he’s been repeating that… -
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OK, Groomer: Phrase Calling Out Predators Banned on Twitter
Editor’s note: This commentary, originally published March 23, has been updated to reflect Twitter’s suspensions of James Lindsay and the parents’ rights organization Moms for Liberty, as well as Twitter’s new policy surrounding the word “groomer.” Of the many topics the radical left has sought to render verboten, there is none more contentious than gender ideology. At… -
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‘Elmo Wants to Be an Upstander to Racism’: ‘Sesame Street’s’ Racial Justice Curriculum Begins With Infants
The nonprofit behind the iconic children’s show "Sesame Street" has created a “racial literacy” curriculum to expose young kids and their parents to key tenets of “anti-racist” ideology. “Coming Together” by Sesame Workshop began in 2020 and is made up of videos, handouts, and children’s books for parents to teach their kids the “ABC’s of racial… -
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China Is US’ ‘Toughest Adversary,’ GOP Congressman Says
A Florida congressman is warning that China is the most formidable adversary the U.S. has ever faced, because it’s the first one to have an economy comparable in size to America’s and a navy that’s larger. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., issued the warning about Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party on Monday in a panel discussion at the America First… -
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Monkeypox’s Inconvenient Truth
As the Biden administration considers declaring monkeypox a public health emergency, an epidemiologist says the easiest way to combat its spread is to discourage the practices of “aggressively hypersexualized gay men.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the U.S. has 2,890 diagnosed cases of the virus, which causes sores and open lesions on the… -
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Sex and Gender Matter. Writer-Academic Abigail Favale Explains Why.
When political leaders can’t define what a woman is, society has a problem. The radical left has detached sex and gender from “material reality,” says Abigail Favale, author of the book “The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory.” Removing fact and biological reality from sex has led to a “subtle denigration of … the female… -
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Polygamy Seen as Possibility Under House-Passed Marriage Bill
House Democrats, with the assistance of 47 Republicans, last week passed legislation under which the federal government would recognize any marriage if it is legally performed in any of the 50 states. The bill also would allow the nation’s attorney general to file civil action lawsuits against states that refuse to recognize marriages in other… -
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Congress’ Vote on Delphi Pensions Bailout Shows Problem With Putting Unions Above Law
Congress is set to vote this week on HR 6929 to retroactively bail out the pensions of about 20,000 former Delphi auto-parts employees who had their pensions reduced beginning in 2009. This proposed bailout, the Susan Muffley Act of 2022, is different in a number of ways from the recent no-strings-attached $97 billion bailout of… -
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New HHS Rule Would Force Insurers to Pay for Children’s Sex Changes
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new rule Monday that would force insurance providers to pay for breast removal and other transgender surgeries, including for minors. The proposed rule change by the federal agency concerns Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, a section of the law… -
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Gavin Newsom: OK for California, Too Wacky for America
Democrats coalesced behind the presidential nomination of Joe Biden after Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses, briefly becoming the Democratic Party’s front-runner. Fearing Sanders could not beat President Donald Trump, Democrats quickly united behind the more electable Biden. But compared to “democratic socialist” Sanders, is California Gov. Gavin Newsom, on policy, really any different? Newsom… -
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House’s Bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act Rightly Rebukes Biden’s Pentagon Budget
The House’s July 14 vote to approve the annual defense authorization bill represented a bipartisan repudiation of the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2023 defense budget request. The National Defense Authorization Act authorizes funding levels for defense programs, such as research, procurement, and even pay rates for U.S. troops. Despite growing partisanship and division within the… -
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Fighting to Reclaim Comic Books From Woke Left, New Comic Lands First Punch
As consumers of pop culture are increasingly aware, the world of comic books and superheroes has gone woke. Superman no longer fights for “the American Way,” and Captain America’s archnemesis, Red Skull, is now a Jordan Peterson analog. For the fans who just want a good story free from the political moralizing the left foists… -
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How CHIPS for America Act Chips Away at America’s Economic Freedom
Congress and the Biden administration are gearing up a bloated Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, but the CHIPS for America Act runs the real risk of chipping away at America’s economic freedom and competitiveness, rather than enhancing it. The Senate is scheduled this week to vote on the bill, whose price… -
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A Company Flees Illinois for Florida, Showing Red States’ Appeal
In late June, Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker traveled to New Hampshire to be the keynote speaker at New Hampshire’s Democratic Party state convention. Officially, he was there to “help other Democratic governors get elected” and to lobby for Chicago as the site of the party’s 2024 presidential convention. Unofficially, there was buzz that Pritzker…