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GOP Report Faults Biden’s Policies for Illegal Immigration Surge, Spike in Crime
Eight Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have released a report casting a harsh spotlight on Biden administration policies that they say encourage illegal immigration. The report, “Biden’s Border Crisis: Examining Policies that Encourage Illegal Migration,” concludes that “the illegal migration crisis at the U.S. southern border has worsened under President [Joe] Biden and is the… -
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California Weighs Gender-Transition Bill for Youths Beyond Its Borders. A Former ‘Trans Kid’ Explains.
California is moving ahead with a bill that would offer gender-transition medical treatment not just to in-state children, but also to kids across America. If passed, California’s “trans refuge” bill would allow young people from other states to visit California to receive sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-reassignment surgeries. “What’s happened is that there are… -
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Education Reformers Look to Example of Mary McLeod Bethune
Congressional leaders unveiled a statue of education pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune in a ceremony Wednesday in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. The next day, a Heritage Foundation panel convened to discuss the legacy of Bethune and what her work means today to Americans, as well as the future of education in this country. Bethune, a… -
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New Video of Police Response to Uvalde School Shooting Just Adds to Bewilderment
The newly released surveillance video of police officers responding to a mass murder in progress at a school in Uvalde, Texas, does little to explain or justify the baffling actions of law enforcement. The video, obtained by the Austin American-Statesman, shows the teenage gunman while he was still outside Robb Elementary School, his entry into… -
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‘We, the Undersigned, Condemn Barrage of Racist, Vicious, and Ugly Personal Attacks’ on Clarence Thomas
White progressives do not have the moral authority to excommunicate a black man from his race because they disagree with him. And those—regardless of background—who join in the charade or remain silent are guilty of enabling this abuse. We, the undersigned, condemn the barrage of racist, vicious, and ugly personal attacks that we are witnessing… -
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Heritage Foundation Files Ethics Complaint Against Lawmaker for Smearing Expert Witness on Gun Control
The Heritage Foundation filed an ethics complaint Wednesday against Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., who last month accused a Second Amendment expert with the Washington-based think tank of lying to Congress about the contents of firearms legislation. In the complaint filed with the Office of Congressional Ethics, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts accuses Porter of “knowingly and… -
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Head of Pregnancy Center Rebukes ‘Horrific’ Claims of Sen. Elizabeth Warren
The director of a crisis pregnancy center in Sacramento, California, ripped into “horrific” words from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., during a Fox News appearance early Thursday morning. “Her words are actually horrific,” Heidi Matzke, the executive director of Alternatives Pregnancy Center, told “Fox and Friends First” co-host Carley Shimkus. “Pregnancy centers throughout the entire country… -
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The National Pro-Abortion Echo Chamber
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there was a shocking (if temporary) turn in the news coverage. The anti-abortion victory was so historic that journalists actually interviewed anti-abortion activists to get their reaction to this glorious news. It was different when some scabrous leaker gave Politico a copy of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft… -
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You’re a Scientist? So What?
A caller to my radio show this week, a physician, took strong issue with me regarding COVID-19 therapeutics. He accused me of not believing in science. His last words before we had to go to a commercial break were, “I’m a scientist.” Given that I am not a scientist, he assumed that comment would persuade… -
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Putin’s Trip to Tehran Is Rebuff to Biden
On the eve of President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East, the Russian government announced that President Vladimir Putin would make his own trip to the region aimed at boosting ties with terrorism-sponsor Iran and discussing issues related to Russia’s brutal conflicts in Ukraine and Syria at a trilateral summit with the leaders of… -
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A Servicewoman Questions How She Can ‘Defend Constitution’ With Roe Overturned
A servicewoman took to TikTok after Roe v. Wade was overturned to vent her anger over the decision. “How am I supposed to swear to support and defend the Constitution and a country that treats its women like second-class citizens?” @rahasenfratz said in a 3-minute video. The TikTok user, identified by the New York Post… -
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Former Trump Adviser Warns Against Ravages of Globalism
In the wake of globalization, the industrial base of the country has been hollowed out. Booming towns throughout the Rust Belt began to hemorrhage residents as jobs dried up and were shipped overseas. Americans are beginning to seriously question whether the decision to send manufacturing overseas was worth it. Paige Willey, a former adviser to… -
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What’s Prognosis for America’s Small Businesses? New Poll: Not Good
A new poll released by the Job Creators Network Foundation finds that more than 2 out of 3 small businesses feel negatively about the economy and that nearly 3 out of 4 of them will have to “significantly” raise their prices to offset rising inflation. These disturbing findings come from the Job Creators Network Foundation’s June Small Business IQ Poll,… -
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To These Twitter Know-Nothings, Anne Frank Had White Privilege
The most famous victim of the Holocaust was guilty of white privilege. That assertion was an actual topic of discussion by left-wing activists on social media. “Anne Frank trended on Twitter on Sunday as users on the social media platform debated whether the Holocaust victim was a beneficiary of ‘white privilege,’ advantages that society supposedly… -
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Now at 9.1%, Biden’s Inflation Keeps Getting Worse
The June inflation numbers are a disaster, coming in at a 40-year high of 9.1%. After the Biden administration’s repeated victory laps crowing about “the fastest-growing economy in the world” and how we’re “stronger economically” than ever, the downward spiral is feeding a growing consensus that President Joe Biden and his Democrats in Congress are… -
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House GOP Task Force Aims to Cut Health Care Costs, Boost Patients’ Choices
Everyone agrees: Health care in America is too expensive and too complicated. Democrats want to double down on a centralized, Washington-controlled plan for your health care. We’ve seen the damaging impact that has had on the quality of, and access to, care in socialist countries abroad. Republicans know that to fix the health care system… -
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Border Deaths Surge Under Biden Compared With Trump, Obama
Under the Biden administration, deaths of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 increased by almost 300 from the prior year, and by 200 from the last non-pandemic year, according to a United Nations agency that now classifies the southern border as the “deadliest land crossing in the world.” Moreover, more border deaths have occurred… -
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Most Americans Support Transparency About Post-Abortion Complications, Poll Finds
A new poll revealed that most Americans agree on certain abortion policies. The abortion-related nationwide poll was commissioned from June 3-6 by The American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an almost 50-year-old association with at least 7,000 members. The poll surveyed 1,600 registered voters. Here are three main takeaways from the poll results: Transparency… -
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Library Group Recommends ‘Pronoun Book’ for Infants
“Children’s entertainment” is no longer guaranteed to be appropriate for children. With Disney vowing to promote sexual perversion, and a drag queen story hour targeting children in every city, this conclusion has become increasingly obvious. Yet, somehow, the Association for Library Service to Children has managed (or is it womanaged?) to up the ante yet… -
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Leftist Group Offers to Pay Anyone Who Abets Supreme Court Harassment
You’ve heard of crowdsourced encyclopedias (Wikipedia), crowdsourced donations (GoFundMe), crowdsourced reviews (Yelp), crowdsourced navigation (Waze), and crowdsourced delivery (DoorDash). Now, get ready for … (drumroll please) crowdsourced political harassment! Infuriated by their failure to intimidate the Supreme Court, leftists have attributed the failure—just like communism’s—to insufficient extremism. To atone for their moderation, they are adopting…