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Judge Grants Bail to 2 Men Charged With Duping Secret Service Agents
A federal judge granted bail Tuesday to the two men accused of pretending to be federal agents who allegedly bought off Secret Service officers, CNBC reported. Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, were arrested in Washington, D.C., on April 6 and have been in custody ever since, according to court documents obtained by the… -
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Mainstream Media Cheer When a ‘Fetus’ Dies in Abortion Darkness
Abortions are violent acts ending in death. The badly named “mainstream media” loves them. The Washington Post, which claims to hate things “dying in darkness,” boasted April 10 of a new pro-abortion law passed in Maryland over the veto of Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican. Reporters Erin Cox and Ovetta Wiggins gushed, “The new law… -
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Why Parental Rights Activists Use Term ‘Grooming’ in Support of Laws to Protect Kids
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state’s Parental Rights in Education bill more than two weeks ago, but that hasn’t halted the left’s outrage about it. The bill, signed March 28, “prohibit[s] a school district from encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels,” but the left almost immediately dubbed… -
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It’s Not ‘Putin’s Price Hike.’ It’s ‘Bidenflation.’
This week, America received news of yet another shocking inflation report: Over the past 12 months, inflation has skyrocketed 8.5%, outpacing wage gains by 2.9%. That inflation has flooded every area of American life, from gas (up 48%) to airfare (24%) to furniture (16%) to milk (13%). Inflation is costing the average American family hundreds… -
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Sex-Change Surgeries for Kids: A-OK With Biden
The Biden administration recently sent a letter to the attorney general of each state, warning the top law enforcement officials that they could be violating civil rights law if they don’t comply with “gender-affirming care” procedures for children. But just what is this gender-affirming care promoted by President Joe Biden, and how does it affect… -
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The DC 5: Callousness, Cruelty of Post-Viability Abortion
At the corner of Connecticut Avenue and I Street Northwest in the District of Columbia, residents and visitors walking under the springtime cherry blossoms pass by a beautiful bit of quasi-haiku posted for the city’s “Golden Haiku” contest: First trimester—her new passworda baby’s name A few blocks away, the bodies of 115 nameless preborn babies—a… -
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BLM Global Network Foundation’s Creators Are Not Interested in Black Lives
Black Lives Matter benefits from a vicious cycle that allows the organization to carry on changing America beyond recognition. Large media companies like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TV networks have imposed a news blackout that ensures that BLM supporters ignore its intent and practices. This continues to be the case despite… -
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Captive to Captagon: How This Narcotic Became Scourge of Middle East
Captagon sounds like the name of a substance from a science fiction novel. Originally compounded as a pill to combat narcolepsy and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, captagon (generically known as fenethylline) is a narcotic substance that was banned in the 1980s but has exploded in popularity throughout the Middle East. The $5 billion captagon drug trade is… -
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Kids’ Books in the Woke Era
Bookstores now sell only certain kinds of children’s books. “Go into Barnes & Noble,” says Bethany Mandel in my new video, “and you will be met with a wall of biographies. Probably 27 different books about former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Great. A ton about Kamala Harris. Great.” But where are the biographies… -
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New Biden Immigration Judge Ripped ICE, Trump Border Policies
The Biden administration has appointed an immigration judge in New York with an activist past, including criticizing federal immigration agents as “just guys who are walking around with guns calling themselves law enforcement.” She also routinely used Twitter to attack the Trump administration’s immigration and border security policies, drawing the ire of a top House… -
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Lesson From Tennessee: School Spending Should Be More Transparent, Help Children With Special Needs
Two Anderson County, Tennessee, school employees were indicted in February on charges of stealing $10,000 from a local school. Just weeks after that, the office of the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury announced that the head of the Parent Teacher Association at Kingston Elementary School had misappropriated nearly $20,000, and investigators are reviewing an additional… -
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What the Left Has Done to Women’s Desires
As I’ve documented on a number of occasions, the left ruins everything it touches. There is no exception. From universities to high schools and now including even elementary schools, to late-night TV, to sports, to the arts and, increasingly, science, the left is a destruction machine. And nowhere is this damage more evident or tragic… -
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Inflation Soars to New High of 8.5% Under Biden
A key consumer price metric used by the government to measure inflation soared 8.5% over the past 12 months, the fastest pace of inflation since December 1981, the Labor Department announced Tuesday. The consumer price index increased 1.2% between February and March, the fastest month-over-month figure since 2005, according to the Labor Department report, meaning more bad… -
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Meet Biden’s Second Nominee to Head ATF
President Joe Biden on Monday nominated Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney in Ohio with a record of supporting gun control measures, to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Dettelbach has a history of backing gun control measures, promoting several firearms restrictions during an unsuccessful 2018 campaign to become Ohio’s… -
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Who Suffers the Most From America’s Crime Wave?
Violent crime, like the price of gas, is rising. Not everyone is experiencing this crime wave in the same way. For some, it’s a distant issue experienced by other people somewhere else. For others, it’s a daily life-threatening concern. We parsed the FBI’s crime data from 2011 to 2020 (the most recent data available) and… -
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It’s Not a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law. It’s an Anti-Indoctrination Law.
The radical left just can’t stop talking about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ anti-“grooming” law. The left’s warped worldview prevents them from understanding why DeSantis signed Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill into law March 28, or why parents don’t want their children being indoctrinated into LGBT ideology. The rabid response to the bill’s passage has… -
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At 85, She Has Stood for Unborn Outside Planned Parenthood, at Supreme Court, and Before Congress
For more than 20 years, Eleanor McCullen has taken time every week to stand outside a Planned Parenthood clinic and offer help to women in crisis pregnancies. At the age of 85, McCullen says she has been a part of saving the lives of about 300 babies from abortion. She adds that it’s not about… -
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How Left’s Obsession With Critical Race Theory Hurts Minority Students
The left makes a big deal about teaching race in America. From the 1619 Project to critical race theory, the left claims that America is irredeemably steeped in racism and that race should be the central focus of all aspects of American life. Delano Squires, a homeschool father and scholar at the pro-America education group… -
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Under Top Prosecutor’s Policies, Sheriff Says, ‘It’s Profitable to Do Crime in Los Angeles County’
LOS ANGELES—The policies of Los Angeles’ top prosecutor have created an environment rich for crime, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says. “It’s profitable to do crime in Los Angeles County,” Villanueva, a Democrat, said during a Heritage Foundation event Thursday night in downtown LA focused on District Attorney George Gascon. “We're having people [from]… -
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Political Deck Stacked Against Parents Running for School Board
“I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Those were the famous words of Terry McAuliffe’s failed gubernatorial campaign in Virginia last fall. The past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed just how little control parents have over their children’s public school education. And their powerlessness did not end when…