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The Effect of China’s Authoritarian COVID-19 Lockdowns
The political costs are not clear. Nothing political in China is. But China’s recent trade figures show China is already paying a real price for Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s authoritarian approach to managing the latest COVID-19 outbreak. How he deals with it going forward will have a major economic impact, not only… -
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Military Recruiting Faces Its Biggest Challenge in Years
Since the transition to an all-volunteer force in 1973, there have been years when the military services missed their recruiting goals. These include 1999, 2005, and 2018 when either the economy was booming or casualties in a conflict were perceived high. But according to military personnel officials at a Senate hearing last week, 2022 is… -
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It’s Illegal, but Pro-Abortion Protesters Still Target Justices’ Homes
It’s against the law to intimidate a Supreme Court justice in an effort to persuade him or her to rule a certain way. But that hasn’t stopped some abortion activists from marching to the homes of the high court’s conservative justices to demand that Roe v. Wade stand. Saturday evening, protesters visited the houses of… -
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Reporter Recounts What He Saw Covering 2020 Riots
The corporate media lied that the riots across America during the summer of 2020 essentially were “fiery, but mostly peaceful.” Americans, however, watched in horror as places such as Portland, Seattle, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, burned while radical leftists swarmed the streets. Through it all, though, one journalist braved the mobs. Townhall’s Julio Rosas spent much… -
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What We Saw at Protest Outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s House
Pro-abortion protesters dressed as characters from “The Handmaid’s Tale” marched outside Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Virginia, Wednesday night. The crowd was much smaller than the groups of protesters who marched to the houses of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito on Saturday… -
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49 Senate Democrats Vote for Extreme Abortion Bill
If it was a “show vote,” then it did its job. When Democrats decided to put the most extreme abortion bill ever drafted on the Senate floor, it showed people plenty. If anyone was under the illusion that President Joe Biden’s party was remotely reasonable on the issue of life, they learned pretty quickly that… -
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House Republicans Call for Probe of FBI Raid on Project Veritas
House Republicans are calling for a congressional investigation into the FBI’s raid on and seizure of information from Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe and potentially other government actions against a free press. “I have called for a specific investigation into how some of those tools were used against Project Veritas,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told The… -
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City in Kansas to Remove ‘In God We Trust’ From Police Cars
Last week, during a City Council meeting in Haven, Kansas, council members voted on removing the “In God We Trust” decals from police vehicles. Council member Sandra Williams introduced the measure by emphasizing that she did not think the police department was the proper forum to be talking about God. After a brief discussion, Williams made a… -
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In Doing Business With China, American Companies Subsidize Tyranny
At the White House press briefing last Dec. 6, press secretary Jen Psaki made it clear that President Joe Biden wanted the People’s Republic of China to pay a price for its human rights abuses. He would do so by declining to send any U.S. government officials to the Beijing Winter Olympics, which would be… -
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Feminist Comedians Should Read Before Tweeting
Celebrities are naturally popular on Twitter, but it’s annoying that liberals—who insist they believe in facts and science and experts and nuance—demand exactly none of that from celebrities. A family member asked me for a friendly fact check after former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones had a cow on Twitter over the leaked… -
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Organic Food Promoters Are Wrong on the Science
Activists have convinced Americans that “organic” food is better—healthier, better-tasting, life-extending. As a result, poor parents feel guilty if they can’t afford to pay $7 for organic eggs. This misinformation is spread by people like Alexis Baden-Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association. She says organic food is clearly better: “The nutrition is a… -
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Freedom Is Rooted in Sanctity of Life
In 1955, an unmarried pregnant University of Wisconsin graduate student left her home and traveled to San Francisco to a doctor who took in unwed expectant mothers, delivered their babies, and helped arrange adoptions. The baby son she delivered and put up for adoption grew up to become the legendary business and technology entrepreneur Steve… -
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Janet Yellen Is Wrong. Protecting Life Could Never Damage the Economy.
Life should never be reduced to economics. Yet, in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that could overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion supporters have resorted to shocking claims that limiting abortions will hurt the economy. During a Senate Banking Committee hearing on May 10, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., asked Treasury Secretary Janet… -
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In Los Angeles, a Breakdown of Civilization
What we are witnessing in Los Angeles is a breakdown of civilization, all in the name of so-called social justice. On May 3, an armed man attacked comedian Dave Chappelle—who has drawn the ire of the left for daring to make jokes it doesn’t like about transgender activists—during a live performance at Los Angeles’ famed… -
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Exposing the Left’s Destructive Education Agenda: They’re ‘Coming for Your Children’
Beginning with the 2021 gubernatorial election in Virginia—in which Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe for all practical purposes vowed to keep parents out of the classroom, saying, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach”—parents began to realize the Democratic Party wanted to leave them behind. President Joe Biden echoed that sentiment… -
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Pro-Abortion, Anti-Women Politicians Target Pregnancy Centers
We could be living in a post–Roe America by the time you go on summer vacation, based on the (egregiously) leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, with the official decision scheduled to be announced within the next two months. While many Americans are preparing to better serve women facing unplanned pregnancies, radical pro-abortion politicians are focusing… -
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Democrats’ National Abortion Bill Replaces Word ‘Woman’ With ‘Person’
Democrats’ latest abortion bill does not include the words “woman,” “women,” or “female.” Instead, the bill uses the word “person” to refer to those who bear and give birth to children. The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on legislation called the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is… -
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Democrats Seek to Pass What Could Be World’s Most Permissive Abortion Bill
Senate Democrats are seeking to pass legislation to remove all restrictions on abortion in every state. If they’re successful, America would be one of the world’s most liberal nations in access to abortion, surpassing China. The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that Democrats say would codify the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe… -
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Biden ‘Disinformation’ Board Gives Ammo to Court Action on Big Tech Censorship, Louisiana AG Says
The Biden administration’s formation of a “disinformation” board has sparked momentum for two states to sue the U.S. government, alleging pressure and collusion with Big Tech corporations to censor political content that challenges the government line. “If we would’ve tried to bring this lawsuit two or three months ago, I think they would’ve laughed us… -
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What Should Be Done About Big Tech Censorship? Panelists Disagree
Panelists at a discussion of censorship by Big Tech agreed it was a grave threat to the American republic, but they clashed over what to do about it. “What these platforms are doing is not right,” said Niam Yaraghi, an assistant professor of business technology at the University of Miami and a Brookings Institution senior…