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Pro-Life Group Says Google Banned Its Ads in ‘Dramatic and Unprecedented Move’
The pro-life group Live Action claimed Tuesday that Google banned “all” Live Action ads, accusing the tech company of siding “squarely with extremist pro-abortion political ideology.” “They aren’t hiding their bias anymore,” Lila Rose, Live Action founder and president, said in a statement. “Google’s censorship baldly reveals that the corporation is in the pocket of… -
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The Case for American Femininity
Almost 225 years ago to the day, Abigail Adams counseled her husband to “Remember the Ladies.” Her tone in their correspondence was playful, yet serious. Treat women as friends rather than vassals or else we will “foment a Rebelion,” she teased, or was it warned? She appealed to the principles of equality and consent of the governed… -
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Bradley Prize Goes to Amity Shlaes, Roger Ream, Mollie Hemingway
Author and columnist Amity Shlaes, educator Roger Ream, and commentator Mollie Hemingway are this year’s recipients of the annual Bradley Prize for advancing American exceptionalism. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to that mission, presented the awards Monday night during a dinner and ceremony at the National Building Museum in Washington. … -
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After Biden Abandons Afghan Women, His ‘Women’s Rights’ Rhetoric Rings Hollow
In a bold act of defiance against the Taliban, hundreds of Afghan women took to the streets of Kabul last Tuesday morning, demanding that the Taliban respect their rights. In response, Taliban fighters beat them with sticks and rifles. Validating the fears of Afghan women’s rights activists, the Taliban is showing its true colors after initially reassuring… -
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Climate Change Is Not a Crisis
President Joe Biden contends that the recent hurricanes that hit the United States prove we’re in a “climate crisis.” It’s a “code red” for the world, the president warns. White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy added that climate is now a “health emergency.” It is, no doubt, quite convenient for politicians to treat every… -
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North Korea’s Restarting of Nuclear Reactor Likely Inevitable, Veteran Observer Says
North Korea was likely always going to restart its nuclear reactor, regardless of which presidential administration was in office, an expert on the region told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in late August that North Korea had restarted a plutonium-producing 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon in July, after previously shutting it down… -
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New York Governor Asks Facebook to Censor Pro-Life ‘Misinformation’ About Abortion
New York’s brand new governor wants Facebook to censor pro-life “misinformation” about abortion. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, sent a letter Monday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting that the social media giant increase efforts to censor pro-life “misinformation” in light of Texas’ new law banning abortions after babies’ heartbeats can be detected…. -
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Biden Risks Importing Potential Afghan Terrorists, Predators Into US
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a committee on which I serve. The secretary has a lot of explaining to do. In the past month, we have seen a catastrophic failure of policy in Afghanistan by the Biden administration. Over and over and over again, President… -
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Why TV’s ‘The Office’ Could Never Be Made Today
The left is the dominant force in media today. Leftists control all the levers of cultural power, from the TV writers’ room to the film sets in Hollywood. These leftists use their cultural power to dictate what you can and can’t see. The latest casualty is an episode of the hit sitcom “The Office,” which… -
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Former Wife of Al-Qaeda Operative Speaks Out on Plight of Afghan Women
Yasmine Mohammed was born and raised in Canada, but she lived a life that few Western women could fathom. The daughter of an Egyptian and a Palestinian, she is of Arab descent and was raised Muslim. Forced to wear a hijab and adhere to a strict interpretation of the Islamic faith, Mohammed later escaped a… -
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Hail, Biden!: The President’s Toothless Caesarism
President Joe Biden demonstrated his commitment to “norms” last week by delivering a speech threatening governors, and all who oppose his will, with a unilateral edict requiring COVID-19 vaccinations. As my colleague Fred Lucas reported, Biden “directed the Labor Department to develop an emergency regulation giving the Occupational Safety and Health Administration the authority to… -
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University Professors Ask Justice Department to Stop Looking for Chinese Spies
A group of professors at Stanford University has asked the Justice Department to discontinue a program aimed at combating Chinese economic espionage. The letter, signed by 177 Stanford faculty members from more than 40 departments and addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland, asks the Justice Department to end its China Initiative, a program started in 2018 that… -
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Judicial Philosophies Not Same as Political Parties, Justice Barrett Argues
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, saying she worries that the court increasingly is being portrayed to the public as a partisan institution, emphasized that justices must be “hyper-vigilant” that they don't let personal biases affect their work. “My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of… -
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Pennsylvania Disputes Legal Group’s Finding on ‘Unknown’ Ballots
The office of Pennsylvania’s top election official mocked a conservative legal group’s findings about undelivered and unreturned mail-in ballots in last year’s presidential contest. The Public Interest Legal Foundation last week issued a report asserting that Pennsylvania had 15,175 undeliverable mail-in ballots and 425,606 “unknown” or unaccounted-for ballots. Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by a… -
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Report Cites These Scientific Facts About Unborn Babies at 15 Weeks
A new report from the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute highlights scientific facts about babies at 15 weeks of gestation in the run-up to a monumental and contentious abortion case before the Supreme Court. The report, called "15 Facts at 15 Weeks" and first obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, is intended to help the… -
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Pentagon Inspector General to Review Vetting of Afghan Refugees
The Department of Defense Inspector General’s Office will review how Afghan evacuees were vetted before leaving their country and upon arrival in the U.S. The evaluation will look into the biometric screening process, the handling of individuals flagged as “security risks,” and the management of “individuals’ ingress and egress to a DoD-managed facility when screening/vetting… -
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Retreat From Afghanistan Makes Taliban Best Armed Islamist Group on Earth
When the Taliban assumed control of Afghanistan last month, the group took possession of a U.S.-funded weapons stockpile worth tens of billions of dollars. The U.S. invested nearly $83 billion in bolstering the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, more than $24 billion of which went to funding weapons, vehicles, and other equipment, according to a Special… -
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How Democrats Plan to Hike Taxes to Pay for $3.5 Trillion in Spending
House Democrats will consider nearly $3 trillion in tax hikes over the next decade in an attempt to pay for their $3.5 trillion budget that includes most of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda and would overhaul the nation’s social safety net. The hikes are predominantly focused on wealthy Americans and large corporations. Among the increases… -
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CDC Says Unvaccinated Americans 11 Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19
Unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The study, which examined 600,000 COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in 13 states from April 4 to June 19 and from June 20 to July 17, “found further evidence… -
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House Republicans Push Democrats for Vote on Rent Relief Bill
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee filed a discharge petition in an attempt to force a floor vote on a bill they said would help distribute rental assistance to low-income renters quicker. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., ranking member of the committee, said Democrats forced the hand of Republicans who first introduced the legislation, the Renter Protection Act, in…