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opinion
False Positives for Genetic Disorders in Prenatal Testing Unacceptably High
Advocates for life were surprised to see The New York Times give substantial attention earlier this month to a serious issue that the abortion industry would rather ignore: Noninvasive prenatal screenings that look for signs of genetic disorders are often wrong. The New York Times’ analysis reported that positive results on prenatal genetic screenings can be wrong up to 85%… -
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School Choice Is Best Antidote to Critical Race Theory
Glenn Youngkin in November was elected Virginia’s governor partly because he promised to ban the teaching of critical race theory. Critical race theory argues that every American institution upholds white supremacy. Before Youngkin’s surprise victory, the media mocked him for complaining about critical race theory. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said it isn’t even taught in public… -
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Why Voter ID Requirements Make Sense
A young man who looks like a teenager walks into a liquor store and pulls a bottle of cheap whiskey off a shelf. He puts it down at the checkout counter and pulls out his wallet. The clerk at the counter looks at him skeptically. “Can I see your ID?” he asks. “Yes,” says the… -
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The Great Re-sorting Is Here
This week, the incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams—the supposed rational corrective to uber-radical outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio—announced that he would allow legislation to proceed allowing local voting for 800,000 noncitizens. The same week, the Legislature in California took up a bill that would establish single-payer health care in the state, paying for… -
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Education Secretary Allegedly Solicited Letter From National School Boards Association Comparing Parents to Domestic Terrorists
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona allegedly solicited the National School Boards Association letter comparing parents to domestic terrorists, according to emails obtained by Parents Defending Education. “Chip [Slaven, then-interim executive director of the National School Boards Association] told the officers he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by… -
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I Lost My Job as United Pilot for Refusing Vaccine for Faith-Based Reasons
For many Americans who, like myself, have decided not to take the COVID-19 vaccine for religious or medical reasons, staying true to our decision can mean being singled out and rejected by family, friends, and even employers. For me, it meant being placed on indefinite, unpaid leave from my job as a pilot for United… -
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How Kazakhstan’s Unrest Threatens America’s Interests
It’s a country few Americans have heard of, but Kazakhstan is going through political unrest that should make everyone sit up and take notice. With Russians on the doorstep and a bevy of strategic resources on the line, there’s a lot at stake. “[Kazakhstan] has about 40% of the world’s uranium. It has lots of… -
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Fact-Checking 6 Claims From Biden’s Voting Rights Speech
President Joe Biden made a plea Tuesday in Atlanta for Senate passage of two bills designed to expand the federal government’s role in state and local election laws, looking for another legislative success—after passage of an infrastructure bill—as he approaches one year in office. Biden and fellow Democrats have sought to frame the bills as… -
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4 Takeaways From Heated COVID-19 Senate Hearing Featuring Another Fauci-Paul Clash
Senators heard from top Biden administration officials Tuesday about the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the omicron variant rages amid a shortage of tests for the disease. The hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee included another verbal battle between Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of… -
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Is Stagflation Returning in 2022?
During the late 1970s, American families experienced stagflation—a combination of economic stagnation and significantly higher inflation. By the summer of 1980, unemployment hit 7.8% and the economy was actually shrinking. On the year, inflation spiked 12.3%. Some fear that today’s slowing economic growth (2.3% annualized last quarter) and the steepest price hikes in 40 years… -
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High School Lesson Plans Tell California Students They’re Inherently Privileged If Male, Cisgender, White, Christian
A school district in La Quinta, California, said it is taking “corrective” action over ideological lecture materials that tell high school students they are inherently privileged if they are Christian, straight, or male. Following requests for comment from The Daily Signal, Desert Sands Unified School District public information officer Mary Perry said “the lesson was… -
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Federal Government Wants Racial Qualifications Added to COVID-19 Treatments
Are you ready for woke death panels? The federal government currently controls the market of monoclonal antibodies that are used to treat cases of the coronavirus and regulates the supply allocated to the states. Monoclonal antibodies are effective treatments and in some cases are literal lifesavers. Some state leaders, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, have… -
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BREAKING: Biden Administration Making Lists of Religious Vaccine Objectors
A tiny administrative agency in the District of Columbia announced a new policy Tuesday that will likely serve as a model for a whole-of-government push to assemble lists of Americans who object on religious grounds to a COVID-19 vaccine. The Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia—a federal independent entity that assists officers in… -
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More School Choice Needed as Teachers Unions Force More COVID-19 School Closings
For the third straight day last week, the Chicago Teachers Union canceled classes, choosing to return to virtual learning and citing dangers from the omicron variant as its excuse. To many, this is seen as nothing more than a teachers’ strike and power grab executed by a union that historically supports Democrat politicians. Democrats send… -
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Congress Must Strike While Iron Is Hot to Preempt Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
The danger of the newly completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline to trans-Atlantic security is a rare issue of bipartisan agreement. Many in Congress recognize that the pipeline is neither economically necessary nor geopolitically prudent. If it becomes operational, Nord Stream 2 will increase European dependence on Russian natural gas, thereby magnifying Moscow’s ability to use its… -
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Sotomayor’s Ignorance of COVID-19 Facts
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ludicrous claim before her Supreme Court peers during Jan. 7 oral arguments that 100,000 children were “in serious condition” from COVID-19, when 3,000 would have been more accurate, is far more than just an embarrassment to the justice. How could such an ill-informed person be a justice of our highest court? What else… -
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Where Former Soviet Republics Stand Economically, 30 Years After Demise of USSR
On Dec. 25, 1991, the once seemingly invincible Union of Soviet Socialist Republics fell when Mikhail Gorbachev, then-secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, transferred his presidential powers to Boris Yeltsin, the leader of the new Russian Federation. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Russia were on… -
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Joe Rogan Is the Media Figure America Needs Right Now
Joe Rogan is a podcaster, Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator, comedian, and one of the most important figures in America right now. Many people know Rogan as the host of the massively popular “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, a show that draws in millions of listeners each month and features guests from Kanye West to Mike Tyson…. -
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Facebook Censors Pro-American Children’s Books as ‘Disruptive Content’
Writer, commentator, and editor Bethany Mandel only wanted to provide alternatives to the woke books being provided to children in school. So she was shocked when Facebook took down her page advertising such alternatives due to “disruptive content.” “There was no warning,” Mandel says of Facebook’s action. “They told us that our ads were low… -
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Can Congress Overturn Electoral College Results? 4 Things to Know About 1887 Law
Members of Congress attempted to disqualify state Electoral College votes in four of the past six presidential elections using an ambiguous 1887 law. None of those objections, made in joint sessions of Congress since 2001, were successful in reversing a presidential election result. The election objections that stand out in history came last year, preceded…