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opinion
Superhero Obama Fights ‘Online Lies’?
The New York Times sounded a little giddy on the front page of its “Business” section April 21 with the headline “Obama Joins Fight to Curb Online Lies.” This spin strongly suggests former President Barack Obama never lies. He’s a valiant warrior against lies. That came after a badly disguised press release at CNN.com on… -
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Biden’s Failures Highlight How Federal Government Is Too Big
Candidate Joe Biden promised to solve our problems and restore faith in the American government. Today, he is one of the least popular presidents in history. And CNN’s John Harwood, perhaps the most sycophantic flunky of the Democratic Party not on the company payroll, says that Biden is a victim of circumstances, facing problems that… -
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High Gas Prices: The Pain Is the Point
By early April, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. had reached $4.23, up more than 78% in the 14 months since President Joe Biden took office. It’s a political albatross around his neck, but it’s one that his policy team has deliberately placed there. If the president wants to blame… -
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Taxes Are 1 Plague That Won’t Pass Over Your Home
As millions of Jews continue to celebrate Passover, a holiday dedicated to the achievement of a free society devoted to the God-given rights of all people, this week also marked the left’s favorite holiday—Tax Day. Tax Day represents more than the left’s desire to endlessly take the fruits of our labors and expand the government. Its tax plans are designed… -
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Biden Projects Weakness in Response to Putin’s Nuclear Saber Rattling
In the latest episode of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber rattling, Russia conducted the first test of its new giant intercontinental ballistic missile, which the West has code-named “Satan.” This advanced missile, which Russia announced it had tested Wednesday, can reportedly carry up to 10 nuclear warheads at once or even a hypersonic vehicle that could maneuver at… -
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NBA Player Enes Kanter Freedom Stands Tall for Justice
Although he gained initial attention for speaking out against the genocidal Chinese Communist Party, pro basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom has been a human rights advocate for nearly a decade now. Freedom says he believes that due to his status as a famous athlete, having played for five NBA teams, he has a responsibility to… -
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Trump Says Biden Has Done More Damage in Year Than 5 Worst Presidents Combined
Reviewing the nation’s challenges Thursday night in a speech to a Heritage Foundation audience, former President Donald Trump said America faces a historically rough period. “You could take the five worst presidents in American history and put them together, and they would not have done the damage that Joe Biden has done in one year,”… -
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Washington Post’s Past Racism Detailed in Book on End of World War II
It turns out that The Washington Post embraced some forms of “cancel culture” at least as far back as 1945. In one case, the Post supported a college that was closing a student newspaper for publishing what the newspaper characterized as a “highly explosive” piece in support of racial integration. The Post also warned in… -
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Biden Administration Should Lose Its Mask Mandate Appeal
The Justice Department has filed what hopefully is a doomed appeal of a federal judge’s order Monday vacating the federal mask mandate for airline, train, and bus passengers. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of Florida ended what had become a severe (and unjustified) annoyance to travelers, judging by the cheers that erupted on flights… -
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Tidal Wave Nears Border, but Team Biden Goes Full Steam Ahead
A disaster is looming. President Joe Biden appears to be going full steam ahead on ending Title 42. This is the health policy, created in the 1940s and implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under President Donald Trump, that allowed the swift deportation of illegal immigrants during the pandemic to prevent the… -
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Elon Musk Could End Twitter’s Suppression of Conservatives
The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, recently purchased a 9% stake in Twitter, the social media platform that permanently banned former President Donald Trump and that conservatives accuse of suppressing their content. Musk’s purchase made him Twitter’s largest shareholder, and he vowed to take it over, possibly to turn it into a private… -
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Biological Sex Isn’t Up for Debate
Regardless of what the mainstream media and Democrats might want you to think, no one can change their biological sex, regardless of the hormones or surgical procedures that they might undertake to attempt to do so. We are at a moment in time where up is down and down is up, and it’s a dangerous… -
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Largest State Library Association to Host Drag Queens at Annual Conference
Librarians across Texas on April 25 will be attending a conference hosted by the United States’ largest state library association, which is set to feature drag queens at its events. The Texas Library Association’s annual conference will include drag queens as “featured speakers,” according to the conference program. Justin Dwayne Lee Johnson, who goes by the stage… -
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3 Colleges Get Their Just Deserts
When the Soviet communists’ hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered at the Kremlin for the last time on Dec. 25, 1991, some said that the last refuge of Marxism was in the academic institutions of the West. They were right. That totalitarian ideology has infected American colleges and universities and other institutions that are purveying cancel culture,… -
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Record Taxes Aren’t Enough for Biden
As Americans filed their federal tax returns this Monday, President Joe Biden’s White House put out a statement promoting his plan to increase taxes. It adopted Biden’s typical class-war rhetoric, claiming to protect the incomes of middle-class Americans, while increasing taxes on corporations and the “rich.” “President Biden’s plan would give tax relief to tens… -
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No More Liberal Moderators Tilting Debates
The Republican National Committee made a bold decision that the media elites treated like an anti-democratic outrage. The RNC pulled out of the allegedly bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. This decision is not an outrage. It’s long overdue. The Democrats are allergic to doing any primary debates on Fox News. It’s only in the last… -
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Free at Last
“And they’re off,” as the callers of horse races say, but in this case, it means the government will no longer enforce mask mandates on airplanes, trains, buses, subways, and other forms of public transportation. U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a judge for the Middle District of Florida, said the rule exceeded the… -
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Motherhood, Career, Homeschooling: Is It Possible to Do It All?
Being a wife and mother while working full time is a lot. Add homeschooling to the mix? Now you have entered superhero status in our book. Marguerite Bowling, a senior communications manager at The Heritage Foundation, is actually no superhero, but she and her husband are committed to their children’s education and upbringing. When Bowling… -
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Americans’ 3 Big Concerns Are Inflation, Immigration, and Incompetence, Rep. Mike Johnson Says
Americans are worried about “three I’s” right now: inflation, immigration, and general incompetence, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., says. Citizens across the country are “deeply concerned about grocery prices and the price of fuel to fill up the gas tank,” Johnson says. “And they see the wave of illegal migrants coming over the border, and they… -
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Florida Follows the Science With New Guidelines on Transgender Treatment for Kids
Finally, someone actually cares about the children. The Florida Department of Health released new guidelines Wednesday about treating gender dysphoria in children. Unlike the recent guidance from the Biden administration, Florida’s guidance doesn’t promote aggressive medical interventions for minors who are struggling with gender dysphoria. Instead, the state’s guidance states: • Social gender transition should…