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The California Recall: Enter Snoop Dogg and Barack Obama
At one point, polls showed the odds of recalling California Gov. Gavin Newsom looked 50-50. It was at that point that the scared, embattled governor sent out a mayday call to Hollywood and to Democratic outsiders, including former President Barack Obama. The Hollywood Reporter—three weeks before the date of the recall vote—published a piece with… -
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Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Budget Gets ‘F’ for Its Second Grade Math
President Joe Biden, 78, has a 7-year-old’s grasp of basic math. “My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars,” Biden claimed via Twitter on Sept. 25. Regarding this multitrillion-dollar budget, he continued: “And it adds zero dollars to the national debt.” One can imagine a second grader named Joey Biden showing off his new train set and telling his playmates,… -
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National School Boards Association Calls on Biden to Police Parents Using Domestic Terror Laws
A group representing school boards across the country asked President Joe Biden to enforce federal statutes that combat terrorism to address violence and threats directed toward school board members and public schools in a Wednesday letter. A letter from the National School Boards Association asked the Biden administration to use statutes such as the Gun-Free School… -
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The Elitism of the Woke
Epigraph: “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”—George Orwell, “Animal… -
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Democrats’ Spending Bill Unprecedented in Every Way
There was a time not very long ago when political parties never would have entertained the idea of jamming through any massive, generational reform without some form of buy-in from the other party. Today, Democrats argue that the filibuster’s imaginary threat of “minority rule” has compelled them to use (really, abuse) the budgetary reconciliation process… -
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America Is Building a Military for Optics, Not War
Millions of Americans became alarmed when they saw a viral video that compared a U.S. Army recruiting advertisement to those made for the Russian and Chinese militaries. The Russian ad featured tough-looking men doing situps, jumping out of airplanes, and cocking rifles on a snow-covered battlefield. The Chinese ad showed infantrymen firing rounds as they… -
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Why Rachael Rollins’ Nomination to Be Rogue US Attorney Should Terrify Us All
It brings us no joy to say we were right. But we predicted last year that a disaster-in-the-making would unfold if President Joe Biden selected rogue prosecutors from around the country to become rogue U.S. attorneys. Some were specifically floating the name of Rachael Rollins, the rogue Suffolk County district attorney in Boston, as a… -
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Rep. McClintock ‘Terrified’ for Economy as Democrats Push Massive Spending Bills
America’s national debt has topped $28.4 trillion, but Democrats want to raise the debt limit and keep on spending. For months, Democrats have been pushing a $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend bill, but they may have hit a roadblock Thursday. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he can’t support the social welfare spending package. “My top line has… -
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With ‘Pregnant People’ Tweet, Government Promotes Transgender Agenda
Once again, the federal government is caving to political correctness. In a tweet Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared a graphic about the COVID-19 vaccine and “pregnant people.” Pregnancy isn’t hair color or skin color or height or a thousand other attributes that could happen to people of either sex. If you’re… -
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‘Political Star’ Kamala Harris Still Has Fans Among Media and Liberal Activists. But I Repeat Myself.
They say when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When it comes to Vice President Kamala Harris, she can count on energetic admirers in the press who take on the task of making lemonade out of her lemons. Take Washington Post White House reporter Cleve Wootson Jr., who accentuated the positive in a… -
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The Left Is Trying to Bypass Long-Standing Pro-Life Protections in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Congress is currently piecing together a massive $3.5 trillion spending package. The legislation covers a vast range of issues: welfare, immigration, taxes, energy, families, and much more. In its current form, the bill contains a major and divisive change to abortion policy that would reject longstanding policies—which have been enacted on a bipartisan basis and… -
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Democrats Represent the Party of Death, Debt, and Debauchery
After last week’s House vote that saw all but one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and no Republicans vote for the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would establish a federal right to an abortion, the party that once claimed to stand for “the little guy”—the littlest being the unborn baby—has now hit the… -
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After Afghanistan Disaster, Ukrainians Worry About Biden Betraying Them
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered his condolences to the United States after 13 American service members perished in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan amid the chaos of the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal. Many Ukrainians have asked themselves, “If President Joe Biden is willing to leave Americans behind in Afghanistan, what will stop him from abandoning… -
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Biden’s Proposal to Allow IRS to Track Your Bank Transactions Is Dangerous for All Americans
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are trying to force financial institutions to report their customers’ account balances to the Internal Revenue Service, thereby invading your privacy and putting more of your financial data at risk. It’s part of a provision in the $3.5 trillion spending bill that should raise the ire of all Americans…. -
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Allowing Kids to Enjoy Childhood Is One of My Top Reasons for Homeschooling
We are told children grow too fast. If we blink, we’ll miss it. As my eldest turned 11 this week, this realization hits me particularly hard. But I consider myself fortunate to be able to closely grow with my children, because eight years ago I decided to homeschool them. Homeschooling has been such a blessing… -
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‘Big-Government Socialism’ Is at Core of Biden’s Agenda, Pence Says
Former Vice President Mike Pence said the Biden administration’s embrace of “big-government socialism” is reflected in nearly every policy issue coming out of Washington, especially the multitrillion-dollar spending proposal facing a possible vote in Congress this week. At a Wednesday night event celebrating the opening of Advancing American Freedom, an organization Pence founded, the former… -
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Vaccine Mandates Will Worsen Police Shortage as Crime Spikes, Missouri Attorney General Warns
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican, warned that vaccine mandates nationwide could lead to a greater police officer shortage even as crime surges. Schmitt, Missouri’s chief law enforcement officer, said he is worried that mandates will only worsen the wave of police officer retirement triggered by the “defund the police” movement last year. “You’ve got police… -
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Debunking the Left’s Propaganda on Voting
A Senate subcommittee last week held a hearing filled with the same old tiresome propaganda that the left has peddled for a decade to attack commonsense election reforms as a racially motivated plot to “suppress” votes. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth. The subject of the hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s… -
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Puerto Rico’s Minimum Wage Hike Will Only Increase Its Already High Jobless Rate
Puerto Rico’s governor, Pedro Pierluisi, signed a bill on Sept. 21 to increase the island’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $8.50 in 2022, to $9.50 in 2023, and potentially to $10.50 in 2024. That’s like mandating a $16-an-hour minimum wage on the U.S. mainland next year, rising to $20 an hour in 2024…. -
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Registering Women for Draft: Empty Gesture Won’t Boost Military Readiness
Every year for decades, Congress has passed a National Defense Authorization Act. This year will likely be no different, but there’s a provision in this year’s bill that requires young women to register for Selective Service—that is, the draft. Many women already provide for our national defense by volunteering their service. Women serve honorably in…