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6 Big Takeaways as House Panel Retraces Trump’s Steps During Capitol Riot
“The dam has begun to break,” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., asserted early in the eighth hearing held by the House panel investigating the Capitol riot 18 months ago. The hearing’s focus Thursday night was on what Donald Trump did and didn’t do at the White House for about three hours as rioters breached the Capitol… -
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Taiwan’s Ambassador Affirms Confidence in US Help as China Threat Grows
Taiwan’s ambassador to the U.S., during a roundtable discussion Wednesday with House Republican leaders, said she is confident America would assist the island if it were attacked by China. “We take the United States’ commitments to Taiwan seriously, and these commitments have been made over the past many decades through the Taiwan Relations Act and… -
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Medicare Savings Should Be Used for Improving Medicare, Not Funding Obamacare
Attention, seniors! Here is a simple proposal: Every dime of potential budgetary savings in the Medicare program should first be plowed back into the Medicare program to help ensure its solvency or secondarily be earmarked for debt reduction. Under no circumstances should Medicare be milked as a cash cow for other government programs, whether… -
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With CHIPS on Table, Leave It to Congress to Drop Ball on Semiconductor Subsidies
In honor of this week’s baseball All-Star Game, Congress and the Biden administration look poised to take a swing at the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has begun the process of advancing a bipartisan technology research and development package through the Senate, whose hallmark is… -
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‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Blackwashed to Avoid ‘Another Bunch of White People on Screen’
Not content to ruin just one story from the “A Song of Ice and Fire” universe, HBO has decided it is going to take another piece of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy magnum opus and drive it into the ground. This time, by being racist. Coming soon to a TV screen near you is “House of… -
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What You Need to Know About Biden’s Climate ‘Emergency’
In a speech Wednesday in Massachusetts, President Joe Biden announced that he would use yet more executive action in a bid to push his radical climate agenda, despite recent checks on unilateral presidential action by Congress and the Supreme Court. The administration is aiming to overhaul the energy sector and the American economy to achieve… -
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Reducing Patient Access to New Medications Is the Left’s Latest Medicare Price-Fixing Scheme
As negotiations on their tax and spending bill continue, Senate Democrats are working on a legislative proposal to have the government fix the prices of Medicare prescription medications. Though the details of the 190-page amendment differ in certain respects from earlier versions, the indisputable result would be the same: reduced patient access to prescription drugs. Like… -
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‘Queer All School Year’: Los Angeles School District Forces Gender Theory Into Classroom
The largest public school district in California is teaching a curriculum promoting transgenderism and gender theory to children, according to public documents. The Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity department at Los Angeles Unified School District is using presentations, training programs, and clubs to instruct K-12 students on gender identity, according to public documents, first reported by… -
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The Media Secretly Hated Biden All This Time?
Did you ever read a column and think, “You must be joking”? That was my reaction to Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. on Tuesday trying to explain “How media coverage drove Biden’s political plunge.” Bacon tweeted it this way: “One of the biggest challenges for Biden has been facing a mainstream media looking to… -
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Why Are Blacks Still on Board With Biden?
New polling from Pew Research and from The New York Times/Siena College, released a few days apart, cast similarly dismal pictures regarding the popularity of President Joe Biden. Overall approval for Biden from Times/Siena College stands at 33% and from Pew 37%. However, both polls show approval for the president much stronger than the national… -
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UPenn’s Nomination of Lia Thomas as NCAA ‘Woman of Year’ Is Insult to Real Women
It’s not bad enough that Lia Thomas bested female competitors throughout this past swim season. Now, the University of Pennsylvania has nominated the transgender swimmer to be the NCAA’s “Woman of the Year.” As colleges and universities across the country were sending in their nominations to the NCAA for its annual Woman of the Year… -
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George Soros and the Leftist Takeover of 18 Spanish-Language Radio Stations
A group associated with far-left billionaire George Soros is taking over 18 Spanish-language radio stations, including the iconic conservative talk station Radio Mambi. “It’s a stab in the heart of the community,” says Lourdes Ubieta, a former host at Radio Mambi. Radio Mambi gained a reputation “as a station that serves the Cuban exile community,”… -
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House-Passed ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Isn’t About Marriage. It’s About Complying With Woke Ideology.
In an alarmist overreaction to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, congressional liberals this week passed radical legislation mislabeled as the Respect for Marriage Act. Although the bill’s final passage would threaten civil society and fundamental American freedoms, conservatives should see this development for what it really is: a publicity stunt. Its goal? Take the… -
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Border Mess Seen as Factor in Lax Response to Texas School Shooting
Illegal immigration has consequences for so many aspects of our society, from public health to health care to economics and so much more. Its greatest impact may be on law enforcement and public safety. It turns out that the mess at the southern border, which has been a problem from almost the moment President Joe… -
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House Democrats Ride ‘Minibus’ to Inflation, Economic Ruin
Against the backdrop of a contracting economy and falling real incomes, the House majority is trying to increase federal spending over the next decade by $1.7 trillion—imposing a cost burden of future taxes and inflation that would be equivalent to more than $13,000 per household. As a first step, the House’s Democratic majority has decided… -
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How Big Tech Plans to Keep a Grip on Local Elections Amid Funding Bans
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he has sworn off bankrolling local election administration, but other Big Tech executives are positioned to play a role in running future elections. The Center for Tech and Civic Life distributed $350 million in Zuckerberg-funded election grants to localities in 2020 to promote mail-in voting, drop boxes, and other projects…. -
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Sen. Rand Paul Blames Biden, Democrats as Inflation Hammers Small Businesses
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says he is furious with the Biden administration and congressional Democrats for crippling and killing small businesses. “Small businesses are struggling. And right now, the Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress want to add a special tax onto corporations,” Paul said in an interview with The Daily Signal. “Two-thirds of the businesses… -
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What Congress Shouldn’t (and Should) Do About Cost of Insulin
Many diabetics have seen their out-of-pocket costs for insulin increase significantly in recent years, and for some, those costs have become unaffordable. In response, members of Congress from both parties are looking to “do something.” However, “doing something” is not necessarily the same as enacting an effective solution. Indeed, when Congress enacts badly designed “solutions,”… -
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Singer Natasha Owens Overcomes Depression to ‘Stand for Life’
Natasha Owens fought anxiety and nerves as she stood backstage, praying she would not trip and fall in front of the crowd in her cowboy boots. She hadn’t sung solo on a big stage before, let alone for 10,000 people. The opportunity to open for popular Christian musician Michael W. Smith on Oct. 3,… -
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Here Are the 47 House Republicans Who Voted to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Forty-seven House Republicans voted Tuesday in support of a Democrat-backed bill to codify same-sex marriage into federal law. The bill, dubbed the Respect for Marriage Act, passed the House of Representatives 267 to 157. All 220 Democrats voted in favor. Seven Republicans abstained. The Respect for Marriage Act would formally repeal the 1996 Defense of…