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6 Takeaways From Day 3 of Judge Jackson’s Confirmation Hearing
On the third day of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearing to serve on the Supreme Court, the judge faced more questions about her rulings in child pornography cases as well as the First Amendment and other matters. On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated Jackson, a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals… -
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11 People and Outlets Censored by Twitter for Questioning Gender Ideology
Of the many topics the radical left has tried to make verboten, there is none more contentious than gender ideology. At the mere suggestion that a man cannot become a woman or that there are only two genders, the Twitter harpies take flight to seek and destroy their target. Twitter is all too happy to… -
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Clarence Thomas Didn’t Get the Ketanji Brown Jackson Media Puffery
The liberal media has treated the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson as a glorious and historic occasion. Nobody needs to care about where she stands on things since she and the media share all the “correct opinions.” The Associated Press issued a story under this tweet: “For Black girls, the possibility of Ketanji… -
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‘Substantive Due Process’ Looms Large in Jackson Hearing
When Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., proved they have something in common in addition to being members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Neither of them was in the hearing room. Yet that did not… -
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Clarence and Ginni Thomas, American Patriots
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is once again in the crosshairs of liberals. This has been going on since his confirmation hearings in 1991, when President George H.W. Bush had the temerity to nominate a black conservative to take the Supreme Court seat of Thurgood Marshall. Thomas’ confirmation hearings provided a laboratory showing how low… -
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The Consequences of Victimhood-Based Education Are Deadly
Last month’s attempted assassination of a Jewish politician in Louisville, Kentucky, by a Black Lives Matter activist has gone largely unreported by the press. The incident and the general reaction to it speaks volumes about the relationship between the U.S. and Israel. The shooter, Quintez Brown, was open about his views. In an op-ed, he… -
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What the Confirmation Hearing Told Us About Judge Jackson’s Judicial Philosophy
“I do not have a judicial philosophy, per se,” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Senate Judiciary Committee last year. This week, the committee held its hearing on her nomination to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and identifying her judicial philosophy and measuring it against how America’s Founders designed the judiciary is necessary for… -
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Denies Connection to CRT. Her Past Says Otherwise.
Under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at her Supreme Court hearing, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ran away from critical race theory as fast as possible. Her record says otherwise, however. The candidate’s past embrace of some of critical race theory’s leading proponents is concerning, and shows that she has so far gotten off easy… -
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‘15 Days’ to 2 Years: How Power Corrupted Our Public Health Bureaucrats
Recently, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced an amendment that would split the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases into three separate agencies, thus eliminating Dr. Anthony Fauci’s longtime job. Paul makes it clear that his priority is not merely administrative reorganization but the removal of the nation’s “dictator in chief” who has exercised “unilateral… -
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How Student Protesters Killed Free Speech at Yale Law School
Free speech is under fire at America’s universities. It’s an open secret that liberals dominate academia and wield their power with impunity on college campuses. But recently, radical leftists have become more brazen with their attempts to silence speech and organizations they don’t like. During a recent bipartisan free speech event at Yale Law School,… -
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A New Way to Fight Woke Corporations
This week, the Walt Disney Co., which has approximately 200,000 employees spanning the globe, decided to radically reshape its politics in response to a tiny contingent of radical activists. According to The Wall Street Journal, Disney CEO Bob Chapek had steadfastly refused to embroil his company in the politics of the various states and countries… -
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Yes, Schools Are Secretly Trying to ‘Gender Transition’ Kids, and It Must Be Stopped
Abigail Martinez called the pain of losing her daughter a pain with no name. “Even when you breathe, it hurts,” she said during an event on radical gender ideology in schools. Her daughter, Yaeli, began struggling with depression in the seventh and eighth grades after classmates criticized her appearance. Abigail described her daughter as a… -
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7 Big Moments From Day 2 of Judge Jackson’s Confirmation Hearing
Senators on the Judiciary Committee got their first chance Tuesday to ask questions of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court. Jackson, a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals since June, fielded questions about her prison sentences for sex offenders, her defense of terrorism suspects, and her personal… -
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Pro-Family Groups Urge Disney to Protect Kids, Stop Pushing LGBT Agenda
As Walt Disney Co. employees staged an all-day walkout Tuesday to protest what they say is the company’s insufficient response to a parental rights bill in Florida, the Family Policy Alliance and the Florida Family Policy Council called on the entertainment giant to stop taking sides on controversial issues and to protect families and children. “As… -
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Movement for Restoring Parental Rights in Schools Represents the Majority
The grassroots parental rights movement is picking up steam, and it’s pushing legislators to act. On Tuesday, the Kansas Legislature passed a “parents’ bill of rights” that would allow parents to “inspect any materials, activities, curriculum, lessons, syllabi, surveys, tests, questionnaires, examinations, books, magazines, handouts, professional development and training materials and any other materials or… -
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Hunter Biden Laptop Revelation Shows War on ‘Misinformation’ a Sham
Nothing makes Washington elites clutch their pearls like the specter of “misinformation.” “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets: Please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that is on your shows,” President Joe Biden said in January, talking about the COVID-19 pandemic. “It has to stop.” Yet when the “misinformation”… -
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Can We Overcome Progressive Left’s Constitution?
One day in 1990, Victor Fuentes dove into the ocean from Cuba and swam 7 miles to the American naval base on Guantanamo Bay, where he would beg for political asylum. He was, as the now-deceased Peter Schramm would have said, “born American, but in the wrong place.” Fuentes arrived in America in 1991 and… -
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The Pandemic Changed How We Work. It’s Time for Labor Laws to Change, Too.
The way we work has always been evolving, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated change. Progress that might otherwise have taken over a decade to achieve was crammed into a single year. With the rapid pace of change, it is critical that labor laws keep up with the times. Fortunately, a group of lawmakers have introduced… -
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Alcohol-Related Deaths Skyrocketed During COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Finds
The number of Americans who died due to alcohol-related causes skyrocketed in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a new study. Alcohol-related deaths rose roughly 25% from 2019 to 2020, according to a March 18 study conducted by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and published in… -
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America’s Caught Between Russia and China Externally and the Left Internally
America is caught between an external and an internal threat. The external is an economically aggressive and America-hating China and a nuclear-equipped, America-hating Russia; the internal is a non-nuclear, America-hating left. (As I always note, “left” is not the same as “liberal”; in fact, leftism poses a mortal threat to liberalism. The greatest contemporary tragedy…