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opinion
‘Bald-Faced Hypocrisy’: Corporate America Grovels to China
Companies tell us they support justice. “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything,” says former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in a Nike ad. “Speak for the people who may not be able to be heard,” says the NBA. “Corporate PR hogwash,” says journalist Melissa Chen in my new video. “Hogwash,” she says, because… -
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CEO’s Rant Emblematic of Why Covenant Between Main Street Consumers, Big Corporations Is Collapsing
Word travels fast in places like Pittsburgh’s iconic small-business district filled with third- and fourth-generation family-owned businesses. The majority of them are centered on two things: relationships and food. Relationships and food, but not politics. At least not usually, thank goodness. The relationships come not just from the generational loyalty of people repeating what their… -
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Report: Ineligible Labor Unions Received Over $36 Million in Federal COVID-19 Relief Loans
Up to 226 forgivable loans totaling more than $36 million were given to labor unions and related organizations that weren’t eligible to receive the loans, according to a new report by the Freedom Foundation, a free market conservative think tank. The loans were administered by the Small Business Administration through the Paycheck Protection Program, which… -
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Left’s Attack on Joe Rogan an Attack on Dissent
Joe Rogan must be stopped. This is the consensus from all of the wisest and most compassionate voices in our society. According to the White House, Spotify should not merely lead off Rogan’s COVID-19-centric podcast episodes with a content warning; according to press secretary Jen Psaki, “our view is that it is a positive step,… -
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Big Tech Censored Dozens of Doctors, More Than 800 Accounts for COVID-19 ‘Misinformation,’ Study Finds
Major technology companies and social media platforms have removed, suppressed or flagged the accounts of more than 800 prominent individuals and organizations, including medical doctors, for COVID-19 "misinformation," according to a new study from the Media Research Center. The study focused on acts of censorship on major social media platforms and online services, including Facebook,… -
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California Schools Can Change Students‘ Gender Categories Without Parent Consent
A Catholic mom in Northern California enrolled her daughter in a public charter school. During her initial Zoom classes, the girl, an incoming freshman who had not yet stepped foot in the school due to COVID-19, was asked her name and “preferred pronouns.” She chose a male name and male pronouns. The school then routinely used this… -
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GoFundMe’s Sordid History of Censorship of Conservative Causes
The popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe has taken down yet another conservative donation campaign. As donations for the “Freedom Convoy” trucker protest in Ottawa, Ontario, reached $10 million on Feb. 4, GoFundMe pulled the plug on it and took the page down, alleging violence and unlawful activity as an excuse. To add insult to injury, the… -
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Meet Sarah Bloom Raskin, Biden’s Latest Anti-Freedom, Anti-Energy Nominee
With all the attention directed to President Joe Biden’s commitment to nominate a black woman to replace retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, sadly lost is what we expect from our court and what we expect from our nation. If we have detached from what our nation supposedly is about, what idea… -
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‘Unsilenced’: New Film Lifts Curtain on Horrors Committed by Chinese Communist Party
Just over 20 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting those in China who followed the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. Today, Uyghur Muslims face imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Chinese government. Tomorrow, more innocent lives will fall victim to suffering at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party if Beijing’s… -
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YouTube Removes, Then Restores, Video of Mom Fighting Mask Mandates in School
YouTube has reversed course after removing a video of a mom calling for the end of mask mandates in her children’s school district. Virginia resident Merianne Jensen last week stood before her local school board and demanded that the elected leaders stop playing “politics with kid’s faces.” “We are forcing healthy children home for exposure… -
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Maduro Carries on Chavez’s Legacy As Venezuela Circles Drain in Downward Spiral
For much of the 20th century, Venezuela was the poster child for the successful South American republic—that is, democratic when its neighbors were despotic, and prosperous when its neighbors were poor. It was the wealthiest Latin American country, and it’s now the poorest, after its adoption of communism and one-man rule. How could a country… -
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Lawsuit Alleges Illegal Tactics in House Democrats’ Climate Probe of Oil Companies
House Democrats are using privately funded staff to investigate oil companies for spreading “disinformation” on climate change, a possible violation of federal law and the chamber’s own rules, a lawsuit alleges. A spokesperson for Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is conducting the yearlong investigation, said the committee has followed all relevant… -
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State Lawmakers Are Combating Racism the Right Way. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Every parent wants to protect their child from prejudice. Yet some activists and writers claim that state lawmakers’ proposals to reject educators’ use of critical race theory in K-12 schools is a “campaign” that “thrives on caricature.” We saw an example of this in a Twitter exchange between the best-selling author Jordan Peterson and the… -
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Student Activists Trying to Cancel Georgetown Law Professor Aren’t Snowflakes, They’re Bullies
A cancel culture incident at Georgetown Law School perfectly illustrates the corruption of elite American institutions and demonstrates the folly of wishing the “culture war” will simply go away. Constitutional lawyer Ilya Shapiro, who for a long time worked for the libertarian Cato Institute, came under fire for a clumsy tweet about President Joe Biden’s… -
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Unmasking CDC’s Latest Mask Study: How Government Gets It Wrong Again
Coming soon to your Twitter feed: another Centers for Disease Control and Prevention poster on the virtues of mask-wearing. “People who reported always wearing a mask in indoor public settings were less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than people who didn’t,*” the poster announces. Astute readers will notice the asterisk (*) in the poster’s… -
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Pennsylvania Power Plant Closures Would Cause Real Harm for Illusory Environmental Gains
Visible from Western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountain ridges are coal-fired power plants—and their plumes of water vapor—that have been integral to much of the regional economy for 50 years. But maybe not for much longer. Three plants east of Pittsburgh directly employ 550 people and support an estimated 8,100 jobs, according to Power PA Jobs Alliance, a coalition… -
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‘Purr-fect’ Press Panders Over Biden’s New Cat
One of the memorable scenes in the 1993 movie “Dave” involved the president and first lady walking their dog in front of the cameras and promptly dumping him on staff when they walked into the White House. Having a pet is an easy way to get positive press that “humanizes” any politician, so almost every… -
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Appeals to ‘Cancel Culture’ Have Limits
The metastasis of the woke ideology, which seeps through our moribund body politic like a cancer, has shocked the conscience of many who still cling to the idea of America as a liberal bastion. One of the woke ideology’s more prevalent symptoms, the phenomenon known as “cancel culture,” has perhaps been disproportionately effective in radicalizing… -
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Florida Lawmaker Considers Bill Cutting Funds for School Districts Requiring Masks
A Florida lawmaker is considering legislation that would cut funding for school districts that implemented mask mandates despite a recent executive order, the Tampa Bay Times reported Monday. State Rep. Randy Fine, who chairs the PreK-12 Appropriations subcommittee, proposed a move that would punish the dozen districts that mandated masks, the Times reported. He said the… -
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Being Young Is Hard. Here’s How She Learned to ‘Make Your 20s Suck (a Little) Less’
Many college graduates enter "the real world” with grand expectations. They have high hopes of landing a stable job with a good salary, forming a strong community of friends, and maybe even meeting a special someone along the way. And why should they not have great expectations for their lives? They have been told to…