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Lebanon’s ‘Great Denial’ Must Be Reversed, but Time Is Running Out
“Lebanon’s deliberate depression is orchestrated by the country’s elite that has long captured the state and lived off its economic rents.” Very unfortunately, but precisely, that sentence in a recent World Bank report summed up the root cause of Lebanon’s tragic economic downfall. The Lebanese people have been suffering as the direct consequence of government… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Prohibited From Practicing Medicine Over Vaccination Status Sues Rhode Island
A doctor prohibited from practicing medicine because of his vaccination status is suing Rhode Island to regain his ability to practice. The Rhode Island Department of Health ordered oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Stephen Skoly to cease his critical surgical care on Oct. 1, 2021, after the state denied his medical exemption to the COVID-19… -
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4 Things to Know About Dark Money Interests Behind Biden’s Supreme Court Choice
Before becoming a White House official helping President Joe Biden pick his first Supreme Court nominee, Paige Herwig was a founding member of a legal group—bankrolled by a liberal political consulting firm—that drafted a list of possible justices for the Biden campaign. Herwig’s presence on the White House legal team is just one example of… -
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South Dakota’s Noem Indignant After State Lawmakers, Pro-Life Group Stop Her Heartbeat Bill
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sharply criticized state lawmakers for denying the introduction of her pro-life bill—a bill lawmakers fear could affect the outcome of the state’s major legal battle against Planned Parenthood. South Dakota’s House State Affairs Committee declined Wednesday to allow the governor’s draft bill, modeled after widely discussed Texas legislation banning abortions… -
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California Tries and Fails Again to Create Government-Controlled Health Care System
California’s “progressive” legislators recently tried, and once again failed, to establish “a single-payer” system of state-controlled health care. The California bill, AB 1400, would have abolished virtually all private and employer-sponsored health insurance, and would have replaced it with a state-run system promising universal coverage, including for illegal immigrants. Among other things, the measure would… -
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Biden Officials Brief Senators on Russia’s Confrontation With Ukraine
Top Biden administration officials gave a classified briefing to senators Thursday about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. The briefing came a day after President Joe Biden ordered almost 3,000 U.S. troops to shield Poland and Romania, two allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Ukraine is not a NATO member, though it would like… -
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National Debt Reaches New Heights Thanks to Ever-Expanding Government
The Treasury Department announced Tuesday that the total national debt had surpassed $30 trillion for the first time. Just two years ago, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the nation would not reach this mark until the end of 2025. Thanks to our ever-expanding federal government, we reached the $30 trillion mark nearly four years… -
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‘This Is Bigger Than Sports’: As Olympics Near, NBA Star, Lawmaker Speak Out Against China
As the world awaits the start of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Friday, a Texas congressman and pro-democracy activist Boston Celtics basketball star Enes Kanter Freedom are speaking out on China’s human rights abuses. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said the U.S. has to ensure its athletes’ safety and send China a stronger message…. -
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Lockdowns Did Little or Nothing to Stop Deaths From COVID-19, Study Shows
A Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis released in January found that lockdowns across Europe and the U.S. reduced the COVID-19 mortality by 0.2%. The researchers’ analysis of “lockdown measures” included school closures, business closures, bans on international travel and internal movement, and other nonpharmaceutical government mandates such as mask mandates. The study also found that shelter-in-place orders were ineffective,… -
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NBC Sitcom ‘American Auto’ Mocks Woke Advertising Panic
In our new era of woke corporations, one obvious manifestation of their fear-based behavior arrives in TV advertising. They struggle to hit all the “right” notes to avoid controversy. NBC is airing a new big-business sitcom called “American Auto,” and on Jan. 25, it skewered all sides as the fictional auto company tortured itself about… -
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‘Groundhog Day’ Report Calls Out Biden’s Recycling of Obama Personnel
President Joe Biden not only has recycled personnel from the Obama administration, but in some cases the Clinton administration, notes a new report from Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind. Braun’s report, released Wednesday and titled “Joe Biden Groundhog Day: How the Swamp Keeps Coming Back, Again and Again,” characterizes 19 individuals as “bureaucrats who keep popping… -
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Abraham Accords Are Yielding Concrete Forward Steps, More Can Follow
For the first time ever, this week, Israel’s president made a visit to the United Arab Emirates. President Isaac Herzog traveled to the UAE and met with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. This is the direct result of the U.S.-negotiated Abraham Accords, which have been paving the way for previously… -
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No Surprise: Study Finds Enhanced Jobless Benefits Prolong Unemployment
If common sense and reports from thousands of employers weren’t enough, a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper found conclusively that paying people not to work during the COVID-19 pandemic was why many of them remained unemployed. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, except that last year, major news reports were saying… -
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There Is No Salvaging Congress’ Current Effort to Compete With China
The House of Representatives is considering the America COMPETES Act, a 3,000-page House response to the Senate’s United States Innovation and Competition Act. The $318 billion bill’s ostensible purpose is to address the wide-ranging challenge that China poses to America’s homeland, economy, global interests, and values. The bill does everything imaginable but make America more… -
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Change the European Chessboard on Russia
In 1977, Jimmy Carter went to the University of Notre Dame and told America that we were beset by “an inordinate fear of communism.” By the end of his presidency, as Soviet tanks rolled through Afghanistan and Cuban proxies ravaged Africa, Carter said he was wrong and immediately put into production the B-1 bomber, the Abrams tank, and the… -
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Why Planned Parenthood Is Pushing Chemical Abortions
This year is arguably the most significant year in the fight for life since Roe v. Wade made abortion legal across America in 1973. The federal right to abortion could be overturned this summer by the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If the court overturns Roe v. Wade, abortion rights… -
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How America Is Doing 1 Year Into Biden’s Presidency
President Joe Biden has been in office for just over a year, and Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., says the nation would be better off without him at the helm. If Biden “went home, back to Delaware to his beach house … and never came out, the country would be much better off,” Good says. “Everything… -
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Trans Health Association Recommends Mental Health Assessment Before Teens Transition. The New York Times Isn’t Convinced.
In an incredible twist, The New York Times appears to at least kind of acknowledge the idea that transgender teens may “need therapy before hormones,” a concept that conservatives have been warning about for years. In a recent article, the newspaper of note says, “Clinicians are divided over new guidelines that say teens should undergo… -
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LA Train Robbers Are Latter-Day Jesse and Frank James
Jesse James was one of the first bandits to hold up a moving train. Unlike the Hollywood lore, however, nobody chased trains on horseback and jumped on board. Instead, near Adair, Iowa, in 1873, James and his gang loosened a section of track on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. They used a rope… -
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Universal Pre-K: Another Progressive Bad Idea
With Democrats’ multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better initiative hitting a wall in the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden has suggested that components of the bill be advanced separately. One of these components is a plan for government-funded universal pre-K schooling. It would fund school for some 6 million children ages 3 and 4. Federal funds would…