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opinion
How Pro-Abortion District Attorneys Aim to Derail Pro-Life Laws
In the wake of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade and returning the issue of abortion to the American people and their local elected representatives, a gaggle of leftist district attorneys said they won’t enforce laws enacted to protect the unborn. Some of those rogue district attorneys are from pro-life states and might… -
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Another Year, Another Bloody Summer
The surge in violent crime that began a few years ago continues. It will abate only when Americans demand and get action from local and national leaders. The crime numbers we’ve seen already this year highlight the problem. A serious upswing in violent crime often follows significant anti-police protests and less aggressive policing. Researchers call… -
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China’s Stars Dim for Investors
By strangling the Chinese economy and crushing human rights, President Xi Jinping is rapidly turning China into a bad gamble for Western investors and multinational corporations. China’s dictator has run into increasing, if carefully expressed, criticism from top-profile figures within the Chinese Communist Party—including Premier Li Keqiang—over Xi’s ideological struggle to promote state capitalism alongside… -
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Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams: A True American Hero
America just lost another hero from “the greatest generation.” Hershel “Woody” Williams, the last surviving World War II veteran awarded the Medal of Honor, died June 29. He was 98. Enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1943 at the age of 19, Williams was a demolition corporal when he and his Marine battalion landed on… -
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Why Boris Johnson Resigned and What It Means for Britain’s Future
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday, saying his party had made it clear he should do so. “It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party, and therefore, a new prime minister,” Johnson told a crowd outside the prime minister’s… -
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What Explains the Disappearing American?
“Help wanted” and “Now hiring” signs are everywhere. Flights, construction projects, and health care services are delayed—or unavailable—due to labor shortages. Hourly and monthly wages spiral. There is a growing disequilibrium between the number of available jobs and the declining pool of workers needed to fill them. What’s going on? During the nearly two yearlong… -
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‘Hopeful Sign’: 72% Still Proud to Be American, Poll Finds
A new poll finds that patriotism is alive and well among most Americans, with nearly 3 in 4 saying they are proud of their country despite divisive domestic issues and the findings of other recent surveys. The poll results come amid nationwide controversy in recent months over issues such as record-high gas prices, mass shootings,… -
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Biden’s Twin Dumpster Fires: Raging Inflation and Open Borders
Faced with several serious domestic and foreign policy problems all at once, the Biden administration’s reaction has been so catastrophically incoherent, it’s hard to know whether to blame leftist ideology or just plain incompetence. Inflation hits all of us right now. While the nation is supposed to be grateful for the 16 cents that the… -
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Biden Paints Himself as Savior of Pensions While 401(k)s Tank and Retirees Feel Heat From Inflation
President Joe Biden visited an ironworkers union in Ohio Wednesday, attempting to claim credit for saving workers’ pensions. Meanwhile, Biden ignored that millions of Americans have seen their 401(k)s and other retirement savings falter under inflation and massive market losses. The stock market’s cratering has wiped out some $3 trillion in retirement savings this year, according to the Center… -
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I Know Clarence Thomas. Hillary Clinton Lied About Him.
Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton attended Yale Law School. But they must have skipped class during the lesson in honesty related in “Marmion,” Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, / When first we practice to deceive!” Hillary and Bill Clinton have struggled with the truth for their entire lives…. -
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Biden’s Month of Malfeasance on Energy Production, Prices
While running for president in 2020, Joe Biden famously tweeted that he’d own up to his mistakes. “It’s hard to believe this has to be said, but unlike this president [then-President Donald Trump], I’ll do my job and take responsibility. I won’t blame others,” he wrote. “And I’ll never forget that the job isn’t about… -
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90 Democrat Prosecutors Refuse to Enforce Pro-Life Laws
With the fall of Roe v. Wade, 90 left-leaning attorneys general and district attorneys across the country have pledged to not enforce criminal charges related to laws protecting the unborn. In a joint statement, the prosecutors emphasized that although they have varying personal and moral beliefs on abortion, they are united in the “firm belief that… -
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New York Times Pays for Opposition Research Into Conservative Media
Here’s one easy way to figure out if a newspaper is in the tank for the Democrats: Does it spend money to study how Democrats are being unfairly attacked on conservative talk radio? The answer is “yes” at The New York Times. Its front page on July 5 carried a story titled “Right-Wing Radio Sows… -
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Supreme Court Decisions Will Change Political Landscape
With the Supreme Court concluding one of the most historic and consequential terms in its history, it leaves in its wake consequences and implications for the direction of our country. One very important result may well be a movement of black and Hispanic voters to the right. It is reasonable to conclude that conservatives are… -
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Celebrities Are Saying Only Women Are Women. Is Transgender Movement Fading?
Singer Macy Gray and actress Bette Midler made headlines recently for saying only women are women. The two celebrities made their bold statements—bold for this day and age, at least—over the July Fourth holiday weekend. “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our… -
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What Could Have Prevented Highland Park Mass Shooting?
America recently has suffered through a spate of mass shootings. Most recently, a gunman fired on a crowd of people on the Fourth of July in Highland Park, Illinois. Seven were killed and more than 40 others were injured. Across the country, concerned citizens ask, “Why?” Why does this keep happening and what can we… -
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Political Fallout Over California’s Concealed Carry Data Leak
Tim Sylvester, a self-described gun collector in California’s Central Valley, is incensed by last week’s admission by California’s Department of Justice that it made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners, likely including his own. “It’s a breach of trust,” Sylvester, an almond and grape farmer who taught firearm safety… -
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Tweetstorm Over Disney’s Baymax Shopping for Tampons Reveals Clash of Cultures
In an article for City Journal in March, journalist Christopher Rufo revealed how The Walt Disney Co. had pledged to embed radical sexual politics in its films and TV programming. Left-wing Disney employees announced in a series of meetings that they were going to “change everything from gender pronouns at the company’s theme parks to… -
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Russian Invasion Offered Hard Lesson on Gun Control, Ukrainian Says
Gun control in Ukraine has proved to be highly problematic in the wake of the Russian invasion, a Ukrainian activist told a gathering of journalists and friends of DonorsTrust in Washington recently. Nataliya Melnyk, communications director for the Ukraine-based Bendukidze Free Market Center, said that in Ukraine, before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded, “You… -
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Fact-Checking Clarence Thomas’ Fact-Checkers on Vaccines and Abortion
The mainstream media has attempted to fact-check Justice Clarence Thomas, alleging that in a recent Supreme Court opinion he falsely claimed that COVID-19 vaccines in part were developed using aborted fetal cells. Immediately, many of these fact-checkers themselves were fact-checked because they were wrong to say that Thomas himself made the claim. In his June…