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Biden to Spend $200B on Gender Equality, Climate Projects in Developing Nations to ‘Counter’ China’s Influence
This year’s Group of Seven Leaders’ Summit in Germany was the most critical since the group’s establishment in 1973 in light of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, an underperforming global economy, and many other interwoven global challenges. Yet the outcome of the summit turned out to be second-rate. The most notable, but expensive and potentially… -
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Democrats, Republicans Unite to Defend Women’s Sports From Transgender Athletes
“This issue isn’t a Republican issue, and it isn’t a Democratic issue: This is an equality issue.” These words from Jennifer Braceras, director of the Independent Women’s Law Center, at the recent “Our Bodies, Our Sports” rally in the nation’s capital capture an increasing sense of bipartisan urgency to reinstate equality and safety as biological males… -
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Biden’s Solar Power Scam: How Phony Emergency Declaration Will Help China
When it comes to energy policy, President Joe Biden has become a master of doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. His policies on solar panel production and imports are prime examples. Everyone agrees that we ought to be good stewards of the planet. That’s why it’s critical that we get energy and environmental policies… -
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Post-Roe, Left Suddenly Remembers What a Woman Is
The radical left is in disarray after the Supreme Court decided Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, ruling that there was no constitutional right to an abortion. Angry protesters filled the streets and stormed the conservative justices’ residential neighborhoods, hellbent on getting so-called abortion rights back for … women? That can’t be right. The radical left… -
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Judge Blocks Texas Trigger Law From Going Into Effect, Rules Abortions Can Proceed
A Texas county judge sided with abortion providers and temporarily blocked the enforcement of a pre-Roe v. Wade law Tuesday, allowing clinics to perform abortion procedures in the state. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing a dormant 1925 law that outlawed abortion in Texas to take effect, according to Reuters. However, a Harris County judge halted the enforcement… -
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Biden’s Fairy-Tale View of Land Mines Threatens the Lives of Our Armed Forces
The Biden administration last week announced it would dramatically limit the use of anti-personnel land mines by U.S. forces and destroy the entire U.S. inventory of such land mines, except for a limited number associated with defending South Korea. Although the decision no doubt will be welcomed by the more progressive elements of the president’s… -
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Roe Is Dead, but Abortion Debate Reveals Rot at America’s Center
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling overdue by some five decades, striking down Roe v. Wade (1973) and its constitutionally unsubstantiated “right to abortion.” Writing for the 6-3 majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito stated, “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no… -
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Spain and Morocco Mend Their Relationship While Spain and Algeria’s Splinters
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez recently wrote to Moroccan King Mohammed VI that Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Western Sahara is the only “serious, realistic, and credible” solution to the conflict there. Sanchez’s letter marked a surprising reversal in Spanish policy that has roiled diplomatic relations in the region. Morocco is an important American ally…. -
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Her Pro-Life Center Was Attacked by Pro-Abortion Thugs. She Fears It’s ‘Going to Get Worse.’
Across the nation, pregnancy resource centers are under fire. Pro-abortion radicals are increasingly vandalizing these safe havens for women experiencing unplanned pregnancies, smashing their windows, spray-painting vulgarities on their walls, and even firebombing them. The most recent target of this senseless violence and vandalism by pro-abortion extremists was the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center in Lynchburg,… -
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4 Big Takeaways as White House Aide Testifies on Trump and Capitol Riot
In perhaps the most significant public hearing held so far by the House’s Jan. 6 committee, a former White House aide testified Tuesday that President Donald Trump was aware that protesters at the Capitol had weapons but briefly insisted on going there himself. The House select committee’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., also seemed… -
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New Model Penal Code Is Setback for Victims of Sex Crimes
The American Law Institute last month chose to unravel decades of progress that prosecutors, law enforcement, and victims’ advocates have made in the fight against human trafficking, online exploitation of children, and sexual abuse and assault. The institute did so over the strong objections of those who prosecute sex crimes and those who work with… -
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Supreme Court Upholds Democracy in Dobbs Abortion Decision
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the notorious 1973 decision that wrote abortion rights into law. Critics of the court’s new ruling overlook a crucial fact: By throwing out one of the most anti-democratic court decisions in the past 100 years, the justices have upheld the democratic process. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s… -
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With Roe Reversed, Pro-Lifers Prepare to Help More Women Facing Unintended Pregnancies
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, we in the pro-life movement have a massive responsibility on our hands. It’s time for us to deliver—again. No group is better equipped to support women facing unintended pregnancies than pro-life Americans who’ve labored for more than 50 years to create a life-affirming safety… -
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After Daily Signal Report, Instagram Removes Post Containing Justices’ Home Addresses
The Daily Signal reported on Sunday that the popular social media sites Instagram and Reddit hosted posts listing the home addresses of Supreme Court justices and urging activists to protest at their residences. The next day, Andy Stone, the communications director at Instagram’s parent company, Meta, confirmed that the post on Instagram had been removed. … -
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White House Rejects Blame for 50 Illegal Immigrants Found Dead in Texas
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre rejected criticism Tuesday from Republicans that the Biden administration is to blame for the human smuggling attempt that left at least 50 migrants dead in Texas, insisting that the southern border is “closed.” At least 50 illegal immigrants are dead after an 18-wheeler smuggling them was found Monday night near San… -
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Thomas Fires Warning Shot at Media, Organizations That Lie About Conservatives
President Joe Biden and his liberal compatriots in politics, the media, and social media constantly are crowing about “misinformation.” Although the type of censorship they seem to support is not the answer, reconsideration of the legal standard governing defamation, as Justice Clarence Thomas has urged, might be. The Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in the… -
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Major City to Pay for Travel Costs When Its Employees Seek Out-of-State Abortions
Cincinnati will reimburse government employees who travel to other states for abortions, the city’s Democratic mayor, Aftab Pureval, announced Monday. The policy compensates workers seeking out-of-state abortions and other “eligible medical care” they cannot obtain within an 150-mile radius, WLWT 5 reported. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn the landmark abortion case Roe… -
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After Roe Overturned, These 56 Companies Announce Abortion Benefits
In the 72 hours since the Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling, the Democrats’ hysteria has sucked up most of the oxygen in the room—and that’s just fine with corporate America. While some CEOs have taken their battle stations on the sinking ship of Roe v. Wade, the bigger story might be how many haven’t. It’s been an unusually… -
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Strengthening US Alliance Coordination in Indo-Pacific
The U.S., South Korean, and Japanese trilateral summit on the sidelines of the NATO summit signals progress on several key U.S. objectives in Asia. Washington has long sought improved relations between Seoul and Tokyo to enable focusing on the common Chinese and North Korea threats, as well as both allies assuming a large regional security… -
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Welcome to Post-Roe World. Now, Real Work Begins for Pro-Life Activists.
Roe v. Wade is history. After nearly 50 years and 63 million lives lost, the Supreme Court has ruled that there’s no constitutional right to abortion. But now, the true work of the pro-life movement is beginning. It’s now up to the American people and their elected state leaders whether or not they will be…