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Lia Thomas Says ‘Trans Women Are Not a Threat to Women’s Sports’
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas defended his participation in women’s sports in his first TV interview. “Trans women are not a threat to women’s sports,” Thomas told ABC News and ESPN in an interview that aired Tuesday. “Trans women are a very small minority of all athletes,” Thomas, who competed in women’s swimming during his time at… -
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Biden’s Inflation Plan Filled With Inaccuracies, Warped Analysis, and Flawed Solutions
President Joe Biden’s “plan” to fight inflation inaccurately described current economic conditions, misassigned blame for the current turmoil, and misdiagnosed the solution. Here is the first problem with his plan: The president obscured economic conditions at the start of his term—claiming that “the recovery had stalled and COVID was out of control.” In actuality, the… -
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The Loving Lie: Debunking the Fearmongering About Overturning Roe v. Wade
There’s a lot of fearmongering these days about what the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion potentially overturning Roe v. Wade would mean if it is, in fact, issued. Believe none of it. Serious and principled legal minds like professor Akhil Reed Amar of Yale and professor Sherif Girgis of Notre Dame have already… -
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Social Media Is Hurting Kids, but a Fix May Be on Horizon
The Big Tech problem is a moral crisis first. As Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts wrote last month: Big Tech is the enemy of the people not merely because they have taken advantage of our free-market principles. They have earned this untoward distinction because of what Big Tech does to us in our relationships with… -
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Refusing to Prosecute Those Protesting at Supreme Court Justices’ Homes Is Inexcusable
One of the strengths of America is our legal system in which we settle our disputes peacefully in courts. We do this without the type of violence, intimidation, and threats against judges that occur in too many other countries around the world. We take for granted that judges in our country can do their jobs… -
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Canada Plans Complete Freeze on Handgun Ownership
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation to freeze handgun purchases and a “buy back” of military-style semi-automatic firearms Monday, according to a press release. The legislation would prohibit future sales and importation of handguns, require all long gun magazines to be altered to hold no more than five rounds, ban sales and transfers of… -
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San Francisco’s Language Policing
Not content to strip schools of “offensive names” or revel in its feces-filled sidewalks, San Francisco has yet again proven why it’s one of the most insane cities in America by engaging in some pointless language policing. The San Francisco Unified School District announced last Wednesday that it would no longer use the word “chief”… -
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Biden Administration Implements a Racial Spoils System
The Biden administration is doubling down on the color-conscious policies that were the hallmark of its first year in office through a series of “action plans,” which it released through every executive bureaucracy last month. Only this time, in a bid to avert legal reversals, the administration is concealing its racial spoils system under bureaucratic… -
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House Republicans Ready for New Scrutiny of Biden Climate Goals, Green Foreign Agents
House Republicans will reactivate investigations into the relationship between hostile foreign governments and activists who oppose American energy production if their party regains a congressional majority in November, congressional sources and policy analysts say. As rising gas prices and inflation bedevil consumers, Congress should devote more time and attention to “anti-energy campaigns” that undercut America’s… -
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Movie ‘Capitol Punishment’ Tells Stories You Won’t Hear From Jan. 6 Committee
During the month of June, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., plan to hold six public hearings on the events that took place on Jan. 6. Two of them are even scheduled during primetime TV in an effort by Democrats to maximize their attempt to frame what happened that day at the U.S. Capitol. But there’s another… -
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People Need to Start Using ‘Their Brains’ About Abortion, Ben Carson Says
A little bit of logic and brain power might go a long way in solving the controversy over abortion, Ben Carson says. “I wish people would just take a step back from all this emotional rhetoric, and just use their brain, and look and see what is in that mother’s womb,” Carson, a renowned… -
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The Lie About Trump That Just Won’t Die
In Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, protesters peacefully gathered to support and oppose the removal of a Confederate monument in the public square. A white supremacist intentionally drove his car into the protesters, killing one and injuring five. Then-President Donald Trump, during a press conference about the tragedy, said: “I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different… -
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See What Happens to Abortion State by State If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, an unborn baby in Alaska still could be aborted up to the moment of birth. But in Tennessee, the life of an unborn child would be protected from the moment of conception in almost all circumstances. How could two states in the U.S. treat their unborn… -
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The Difficult Search for Answers After Uvalde
I find myself shaken and stricken after the latest mass shooting, the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, that saw 19 children and two teachers slain in cold blood, more so than I did after other mass shootings in recent years. Part of that is biographical: As an ex-Texan, the son of an elementary school… -
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‘The Simpsons’ Rails Against Capitalism
Fox’s cartoon “The Simpsons” just concluded Season 33 on May 22 with a rip-roaring attack on capitalism and how the middle class has been shredded. It starred a singing janitor played by actor Hugh Jackman and a professorial cameo by socialist Robert Reich, who was once Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor. Before we get into… -
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Remembering America’s Fallen This Memorial Day
Many Americans today cannot explain the origins or reasons why we commemorate Memorial Day, though they know it involves a long weekend and hot dogs. The significance of the national holiday is lost amid the distractions of daily life. It’s often associated more with barbecues, swimming pool openings, and summer weather than any deeper meaning…. -
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China, Russia Again Block UN Action on North Korea
True to form, Beijing and Moscow on Thursday again protected Pyongyang from additional international punishment after the North Korean regime’s repeated violations of U.N. resolutions. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield proposed additional sanctions in response to North Korea’s spate of missile launches, which she characterized as “a grave threat to international peace and… -
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Reducing Black Americans to Racial Labels Enables the Left’s Agenda
I am so pleased and proud that the first annual edition of the “State of Black America” (Encounter Books), published by my organization, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, in conjunction with the Claremont Institute, has just been released. CURE was founded to provide a platform for an alternative vision of what “black America” is… -
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Pelosi Should Convert to the Pro-Life Cause
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has developed a habit of invoking her Catholic faith—and often describing herself as a devout Catholic—whenever she is called upon to discuss her support for the deliberate killing of unborn children. On Jan. 22, 2015, a reporter for CNSNews.com, where I am the editor, asked Pelosi about the humanity of a… -
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The Trouble With Do-Somethingism on Guns
Before we even knew how the killer of 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, had obtained his guns, Sen. Chris Murphy was engaging in his customary performative emotionalism on the Senate floor, literally begging Republicans to “compromise.” Compromise on what exactly? Murphy has never once offered a single proposal…