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What the Polls Actually Say: Only 1 in 3 Americans Support Roe v. Wade
Following the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—a case that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade—a blizzard of news stories declared that support for Roe—the deplorable 1973 decision that imposed a radical abortion regime nationwide—is overwhelming and unshakable. What these reports and the polling they cite… -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Conservatives Float Plan to Balance Budget in 7 Years
House conservatives say they’ve crafted a plan to rein in government spending and balance the federal budget in seven years. The budget proposal from the Republican Study Committee would reduce mandatory spending by $11.86 trillion over 10 years while lowering nondefense discretionary spending by $3.64 trillion. The U.S. government faces a budget deficit of $3.1… -
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Rep. Kevin Hern Presents a GOP Budget to Fix America
As Americans watch their government leaders spend more and more, the average citizen is struggling to pay for food and gas. It seems that the Biden administration is more concerned with placating a base of radical leftists than crafting a federal budget designed to help everyday Americans. To Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., the government needs… -
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Problematic Women: We Can’t Find Baby Formula, but We Can Define a Woman
On this week’s “Problematic Women” podcast, we discuss the new documentary from The Daily Wire, “What Is a Woman?” We also review what’s behind the Biden administration’s baby formula shortage, which is still ongoing, and one of our co-hosts’ appearance at the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit. Finally, we’ll break down the Women’s Bill… -
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‘We Will Win’: America’s Policy Must Take on China, Heritage President Tells House GOP
National security threats posed by China should be considered by America’s leaders as they determine details of public policies, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Wednesday in remarks to House Republicans. “The Chinese Communist Party, as you know, as your constituents know, is the existential threat to freedom in this world,” Roberts told members of… -
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Congress Ignores Pressing National Business While It Obsesses on Jan. 6
As the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol starts public hearings, we must ask what motivates those on the committee. Is the sole concern the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States? Or is it to get media to attack and… -
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House Committee Discusses Gun Control
House Democrats are considering a series of gun control bills in response to the recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the shootings and brought witnesses—from parents to students to experts—to give testimony. The House Oversight Committee chair… -
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Why Corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance Enforcement Is Self-Reinforcing Scam
When the left tries to impose its policy visions on others, often the only winning move is not to play its game. But when it comes to “ESG,” bureaucrats and billionaires have figured out how to force the rest of us to play along. ESG, which stands for environmental, social, and governance, is a nebulous… -
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How Vocational-Technical Schools Are Helping Students Achieve the American Dream
The Pioneer Institute is out with a new book, “Hands-On Achievement: Massachusetts’s National Model Vocational-Technical Schools,” which finds that vocational-technical high schools have lower dropout rates and on-par test scores with traditional high schools. The Boston-based think tank also makes the case that these high-performing schools in Massachusetts should serve as a national model, both… -
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Homeland Security Issues Another Security Bulletin to Drive Narrative
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued the sixth National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin of the 17-month-old Biden administration on June 7. With a new bulletin every three months, Americans should ask: Are the threats facing America changing that rapidly, or is the administration using the bulletin as a tool for some other purpose? Timing is… -
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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…