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Supreme Court Upholds School Choice, Free Exercise in Maine Case
“The state will take your money, but won’t allow you to use it as you know best,” Amy Carson said, in a stinging rebuke of her home state of Maine last year when legal scholars from the Institute for Justice and First Liberty Institute appealed her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a child’s… -
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12 Examples of Defensive Gun Use to Show CNN That Second Amendment All About Self-Defense
President Joe Biden may assure the American people that his progressive gun control efforts would not “in any way” impinge on the Second Amendment, but other far-left pundits are more honest about their agenda. Bill Press, radio host and former co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire,” recently made headlines with an op-ed published by the cable outlet… -
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What a Post-Roe World Could Mean for Abortion Laws
“We are, apparently, on the cusp of a great achievement. The crowning achievement of the conservative legal movement,” Ed Whelan said in a speech Thursday at The Heritage Foundation, on the pending Supreme Court ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade. “Overruling of opinions that epitomize the worst of judicial activism. Roe, written some 50 years ago,… -
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A Look at Who’s on Biden’s Parents Council
The Biden administration claims it formed the recently unveiled “parents council” to better reflect families’ views in public schools—but its members include Al Sharpton’s community organizing group; activists who lobby to teach “comprehensive sex education,” including gender identity theory, in school; and open borders groups. Supporters of the National Parents and Families Engagement Council, announced… -
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What ‘Men Give Birth,’ ‘Defund Police’ Have in Common
Unless you are brainwashed, you regard the statements “men give birth” and “defund the police” as absurd. Why, then, do leftists (as opposed to liberals and conservatives) say these things and even believe them? I think there are two—related—explanations. One is that the left seeks to tear down every normative institution. If men give birth,… -
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‘This Damn Vacation Is Over’: Clarence Thomas Recalls Grandfather’s Influence
Editor’s note: In these exclusive excerpts from the book “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” out Tuesday, author Michael Pack asks the Supreme Court justice about the influence of his maternal grandfather. Thomas was 2 when his father left the family. The new book is a successor to the 2020 documentary about Thomas with the… -
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Biden’s Budget Deficit Victory Lap Is Unearned and Unjustified
President Joe Biden is taking victory laps for last year’s reduced budget deficit. No one would be happier than me to see this number fall in a significant way. But the decline has nothing to do with the president’s policies, and it changes little about the dangers of our fiscal situation. According to monthly reporting… -
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Concerned Parents: Ask Your Children If They’ve Encountered a Drag Queen at School
The world continues to change, and as a result, so do our social standards and norms. This change has been a part of the human experience and development since the dawn of creation. However, there are certain standards that have remained untouched, such as the protection of our children and the things they should and… -
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Military Readiness Takes Back Seat to Wokeness at the Pentagon
Military readiness appears to have suffered yet another setback in the name of “equity.” Earlier this month, responding to a Virginia lawsuit, the Department of Defense amended its existing policy on service by personnel diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus. Under previous policy, military personnel who were diagnosed with HIV were barred from military deployments… -
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Betsy DeVos: Biden Plans to Radically Change Title IX to Let Biological Men Play Women’s Sports
Betsy DeVos started fighting for education freedom long before arriving in Washington to serve as Cabinet secretary in President Donald Trump’s administration. But what’s happened in the past couple of years—prompted by COVID lockdowns and a parents’ rights movement—has accelerated the opportunity to give students more options and better schools. “Everything we did was focused… -
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Republicans Seek to Force House Vote on Whether Life Begins at Conception
With the Supreme Court expected to soon announce a pivotal decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade, Republican lawmakers are using a procedural tactic to try to force a House vote on recognizing life at conception. “We could put the most benign, most modest life proposal forward and get zero Democrat votes, or we could… -
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If Trump Committed ‘Insurrection,’ Indict Him Already
OK, so indict him already. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on the Senate floor the first day of the televised Jan. 6 select committee hearings, said: “(Former President) Donald Trump was at the heart of a coordinated effort to overturn the 2020 elections, to overturn our constitutional order, and inflict permanent damage upon our democracy.” But… -
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The Effects of ‘Pride’ and ‘Allyship’ on Journalism
It’s June, so we’re receiving relentless messaging about the importance of “pride” for the LGBTQ community. One prominent vehicle was the cover of the “Pride Issue” of People magazine dated June 20, featuring, “Robin Roberts In Her Own Words: Love, Faith, & Breaking Barriers.” Underline the “faith” part. The “Good Morning America” co-host insisted she… -
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‘A Drag Queen in Every School’ Is Modern Left’s ‘Chicken in Every Pot’
For today’s left, it seems that, politically, “A drag queen for every school” has replaced “a chicken in every pot.” Really. Here’s what Michigan’s Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, who is gay, had to say about the trend of bringing drag queen events to schools. “Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,” Nessel… -
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Juneteenth: A Perfect Day to Cheer Black Success
On Monday, America marks our second Juneteenth national holiday. Some will focus on the severe pain and death that slavery inflicted on blacks between 1619 and 1865. It would be far more useful, however, to celebrate so much that black Americans have accomplished since the original Juneteenth liberated the last of some 4 million emancipated… -
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New Museum Bears Witness to Communism’s Horrors, Honors Its Victims
In the heart of Washington, D.C., behind the doors of a building not unlike the others with which it shares a block, lies a most visceral testament to the horrors of communism—a political ideology still all too dominant in the world today. The new museum, from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, has been in… -
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Cryptocurrency Bill Aims to Fix Scattershot Regulation, but Needs Fine-tuning
Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., last week introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, which seeks to remove some of the risk that regulators have created in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency space. The bill aims to more clearly define which cryptocurrencies are securities subject to Securities and Exchange Commission oversight, and which are… -
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Courts to Determine If Schools Can Hide Information From Parents About Their Kids
If you sent your 9-year-old daughter to school and she broke her arm playing on the playground, but the school didn’t tell you, that would be grounds for a harsh conversation with administrators, if not a lawsuit, right? There are school policies and state and federal laws that outline parameters for transparency between parents, students,… -
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New Study, Experts Debunk Trans Activists’ Child Suicide Claims in Puberty Blocker Debate
“Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son?” That’s the question that transgender activists and “gender-affirming” therapists and physicians often hold over parents’ heads when they refuse to allow their gender-dysphoric child to take experimental puberty blockers and long-term cross-sex hormones. A panel of experts spoke on the dangers posed by that “either/or” dichotomy at an event, “The… -
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Transgender Activists Manipulate Parents With Suicide Threats
“Do you want a dead daughter or a live son?” This question, which is really a threat, is the central tenet of the campaign selling gender ideology to parents. Parents are often told that they are putting their gender-nonconforming child at risk of suicide if they don’t medically “transition” him or her to appear as…