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Armed Man Arrested Near Brett Kavanaugh’s Home Threatened to Kill Him, Police Say
Police detained an armed man from California early Wednesday morning near the suburban Maryland home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying he threatened to kill Kavanaugh and had a handgun, a knife, and burglary tools. The FBI has taken over investigation of the case and the man was to appear in the afternoon before a… -
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How Ronald Reagan Rescued Bill Clinton’s Presidency
Longtime Democrat William Galston, deputy assistant to Bill Clinton for domestic policy, wrote a recent column for The Wall Street Journal on the performance of the economy during Bill Clinton’s eight years in office. According to Galston, virtually everything Clinton did was a hit. Annual real growth in gross domestic product? It averaged a “robust 3.8%.”… -
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Biden Silent on Slaughter of Dozens at Church in Nigeria
An unknown number of gunmen killed as many as 50 worshipers Sunday during Mass at St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo, a state in southwestern Nigeria. As of Wednesday morning, no group had claimed responsibility for the massacre, nor had President Joe Biden, himself a Catholic, made public remarks on it. The White House did… -
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Team Zuckerberg Masks Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuckerbucks,’ Study Finds
The $332 million that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, provided to a progressive group to help run the 2020 elections was distributed on a highly partisan basis that favored Democrats, according to a new analysis by election data experts. While these “Zuckerbucks” or “Zuck bucks” were touted as a resource meant… -
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The Washington Post Is a Model for Media Malfeasance
The Washington Post has had a rough week. On Monday, the Post suspended one of its reporters, Dave Weigel, for a month without pay after he retweeted a joke last week that some of his colleagues thought was sexist. Felicia Sonmez, the national political reporter at the Post, then tweeted her distaste at the joke,… -
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Recall of Chesa Boudin in San Francisco Shows Rogue Prosecutor Movement for Failure It Is
Chesa Boudin, the rogue prosecutor of San Francisco, was recalled from office Tuesday by voters who were disgusted by his feckless leadership and pro-criminal, anti-victim policies. The recall was organized and funded primarily by liberal Democrats who were fed up with Boudin and his hands-off approach to enforcing the law. Boudin’s recall is significant not… -
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Left Looks for Excuses as San Francisco Recalls Rogue Prosecutor Chesa Boudin
San Francisco’s radical, left-wing district attorney, Chesa Boudin, has been recalled by voters in a stunning rebuke of the anti-police, anti-law enforcement policies he and other rogue prosecutors have pursued in recent years. The Associated Press called the election at 12:04 a.m. ET Wednesday, reporting that early returns showed 61% in favor of recalling Boudin… -
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New Jersey Rolls Include Duplicate, Centenarian, and Unborn Voters
New Jersey resident Patrick DePaola first registered to vote in June 1927. A 50-year employee as a printer for The New York Times, he died at age 105 more than a decade ago, in December 2010. But DePaola, who lived in Bayonne, remains listed as an “active” voter and is among 2,398 registered voters in… -
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Will Congress Ignore Latest Medicare Warning?
Heads up. The Medicare trustees issued their annual report last week, buried under other “important” news from the Department of Health and Human Services—including the announcement of a new Office of Environmental Justice. Apparently, the administration is more interested in advancing its woke ideology than addressing the real and immediate warnings outlined in the Medicare… -
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Here’s Setup for House Panel’s TV Show on Capitol Riot
The House panel investigating the Capitol riot is going prime time Thursday night with a nationally televised hearing packaged as if it were a slick network special. It’s been about 500 days since the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, that saw hundreds enter the Capitol building after others forced their way in. Some intruders apparently… -
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Smithsonian Hosts ‘Age Appropriate’ Drag Queen Show for Kids
The Smithsonian American Art Museum hosted a “Pride Family Day” event over the weekend, featuring what it called an “age appropriate” drag queen show and crafts inspired by the LGBTQ Pride flag for children ages 3 and up. But critics countered that “there is no case” in which such performances “are ‘age appropriate’ for kids,” and condemned… -
opinion
New Charts Reveal Harms of Biden’s Budget-Busting Binge
The harmful effects of excessive government spending have become the most pressing issue for Americans due to the worst inflation surge in decades. Washington’s reckless choice to pump trillions of dollars into the economy is the reason we face more inflation than other top economies around the world. Yet, incredibly, Congress is still planning an… -
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Progressives Have Captured Another Institution: Commencement Addresses
What comes to mind in the month of June? Weddings. Vacations (and how to pay for record high gas prices if you’re driving). Graduations. Time was when many commencement speeches at major universities were about America and its values and what graduates could expect in the future. In recent years, they have become a political… -
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What’s the Metaverse? 3 Things to Know
If the metaverse sounds like something from a science fiction novel, that’s because it is. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel “Snow Crash” tells the story of a young man who delivers pizzas in the real world, but is a warrior prince in the virtual metaverse. But 30 years later, the metaverse is moving from the pages… -
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If Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, With What Do We Pave Road to Heaven?
There is a reason nearly everyone is familiar with the saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” The reason is, of course, that it is true and therefore it helps explain why there is so much evil. Take the 20th century, the bloodiest century on record, in which about 100 million people—all… -
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In Movie, Matt Walsh Reveals How Gender Ideology Mutilates Kids
What is a woman? Seems like a pretty simple question. But in today’s America, the left thinks females aren’t the only ones who count as women anymore. Stories abound of biological males not only invading women’s private spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms, but dominating in women’s sports. All of this comes with the… -
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On ‘Pride Night,’ Rays of Hope in Tampa Bay
After 16 years of Pride Nights, the Tampa Bay Rays probably took their players’ support for granted. Not anymore. Heading into this past Saturday’s game, when the team was supposed to sport rainbow logos, a group of players decided to wear something else on their sleeves: their convictions. The Rays lost the game, but that’s not what… -
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Ocasio-Cortez Pushes Unpopular Latinx Term
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in August 2021, but has been updated to reflect statements by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. Latinx is the word that just won’t die. The word reentered the national consciousness Monday when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attempted to boost the word, and accused people of starting drama over… -
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Funny How Late-Night Comics Don’t Treat Kamala Harris as Laughing Matter
Yes, the real estate mogul no longer calls the White House home, but chances are you’ll hear Donald Trump jokes in any given late-night TV monologue. And they’ll draw satirical blood. That’s all well and good, but Trump no longer lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and he can’t even steer all his favorite GOP candidates… -
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Ilya Shapiro Resigns at Georgetown Law, Citing ‘Untenable’ Status at School
Georgetown law professor Ilya Shapiro resigned less than a week after being reinstated by the school. Georgetown Law School placed the constitutional scholar on administrative leave and subjected him to a four-month “investigation” over a tweet. The tweet, which Shapiro deleted and called “inartful,” opposed the idea that a Supreme Court justice should be chosen…