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This Is the Fundamental Advantage That China Lacks
The China challenge looms large and shows no sign of stopping. Put simply, China is working aggressively to spread its influence and promote its interests throughout the globe, exploiting nations and flouting individual rights and sovereignty as it does so. And it’s doing a pretty good job. China invests huge amounts of capital into developing countries, with overseas investment and construction exceeding $2 trillion since 2005. Many of… -
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Look Who’s Pushing Socialist, Racist, Gender-Fluid Education
Parents concerned about the leftward tilt of K-12 schools should take a close look at an international organization that is influencing education systems worldwide. In 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, announced its educational goals for the world in a document titled “The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030.” Among… -
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How Giving Promotes Economic Freedom for All Americans
Giving to good causes is key to maintaining America’s free market system, the head of Philanthropy Roundtable says. It’s not the job of government to meet the needs of all Americans, Elise Westhoff, the organization’s president and CEO, says. So “if we have a strong philanthropic sector,” Westhoff says, “I think that allows us to… -
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American Medical Association, Descending Into Wokeness, Calls for Eliminating Sex on Birth Certificates
Another formerly serious institution in America has gone woke. The American Medical Association, a professional association and lobbying group for physicians and medical students, issued a report in June calling for eliminating biological sex on birth certificates. The policy change is being promoted on WebMD social media, which is why it’s suddenly garnering more attention…. -
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Teachers Union Sues Rhode Island Mom for Seeking Records About School’s Critical Race Theory Curriculum
The National Education Association, America’s largest teachers union, is suing a Rhode Island mom for seeking information about what her kindergartener will be taught in school. Both the National Education Association Rhode Island and National Education Association South Kingstown, the union’s local branch, are suing Nicole Solas after she filed public record requests with the… -
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‘He’s a Serial Sexual Predator’: Majority in New York State Assembly Support Impeachment If Cuomo Doesn’t Resign
A majority in the New York State Assembly is in favor of impeaching Gov. Andrew Cuomo if he refuses to resign in the wake of the attorney general’s report concluding he sexually harassed at least 11 women, according to The Associated Press. Of the 150 Assembly members, 86 have expressed support for beginning the impeachment… -
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Olympian Simone Biles Is Only Human. And If You’re Disappointed by Her Decision to Step Down, So Are You.
The reasons surrounding U.S. gymnast Simone Biles’ unexpected withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics, aside from the individual beam competition, remain unclear. First, Biles’ decision was attributed to her mental health and well-being. (Recall: She felt enormous pressure as the “head star of the Olympics,” and has a painful backstory as one of Larry Nassar’s 500… -
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How Critical Race Theory Endangers America’s National Security
I asked my parents about what they would think, theoretically, if I joined the military. As proud Americans with the utmost respect for our armed forces, I figured surely they would not have a problem with this idea. Much to my surprise, the first words out of my mother’s mouth were, “With the way this… -
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Kavanaugh Eats Crow on Eviction Moratorium
Judges can’t avoid politics by playing politics. That might seem like a no-brainer to most people, but some judges can’t seem to figure that out. Exhibit A is Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who’s about to eat his own words from just a month ago. The story starts with the Centers for Disease Control and… -
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Why Massive Informal Economy Is Problematic for the Country
People around the world are hungry for economic freedom. They want the ability to choose how to make a living instead of having the government tell them how to do so. As a result of this desire, a shocking number of people have taken matters into their own hands. A recent International Monetary Fund report… -
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President’s Assassination, Corruption, Gang Violence Accelerate Haiti’s Downward Spiral
The assassination last month of Haitian President Jovenel Moise has made already difficult daily life for Haitians even harder. In the absence of a new (and unlikely) intervention by the Western powers, more violence is likely on the way that will further weaken what little rule of law remains in the Caribbean island country. >>>… -
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Bias by Omission: 1619 Project Ignores Democratic Party’s History of Racism
Democrats who advanced a bill in June to remove statues of white supremacists from the U.S. Capitol ignored a central fact about those figures: All of them had been icons of their party, from Andrew Jackson’s adamantly pro-slavery vice president, John C. Calhoun, to North Carolina Gov. Charles B. Aycock, an architect of the white… -
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Infrastructure Bill’s ‘Unworkable’ Cryptocurrency Surveillance Mandate Must Be Amended
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, introduced a measure into the infrastructure bill last week intended to increase financial surveillance that could backfire and simply drive an entire industry offshore while putting the personal data of tens of millions of Americans at risk. The measure was intended to assuage Republican concerns about the bill’s mammoth price tag,… -
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What ‘The Bachelor’ Franchise Teaches Us About Economics
It’s no wonder why America’s youth are so enamored with the idea of socialism and big government while being vehemently opposed to free market capitalism. In a a survey of teenagers conducted by Junior Achievement USA and the Charles Koch Foundation in 2019, 93% of teens view economics as important, but struggle with grasping the… -
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Former Abortion Clinic Worker Explains Why She’s Now Pro-Life, Fights Pro-Abortion Law
In the 1980s, Kathy Sparks Lesnoff found a job working at an abortion clinic in Illinois. The clinic usually only performed first-trimester abortions, but one day, it made an exception for a woman who came in for an abortion at 23 weeks of gestation. The procedure “was the first time I had seen a 23-week… -
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He Grew Up in Soviet Union, Now Teaches Young People Grim Truth About Socialism
Growing up in the now-defunct Soviet Union was not easy for Zilvinas Silenas or his family. “Government basically brainwashes you from a very early age, and government thinks you are disposable,” Silenas says of living under communism. After leaving Russia and spending four years attending a “very left college” in America, Silenas says he became even… -
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4 Factors to Watch in Cuomo Impeachment Probe
The Democrat-controlled New York State Assembly appears poised to move forward with impeachment proceedings against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, after a scathing report from the state Attorney General’s Office concluded that he sexually harassed at least 11 women in the state workforce. “The independent investigation found that Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women,… -
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Time to Overturn Roe v. Wade
In May, the Supreme Court put abortion on the docket for its upcoming session by agreeing to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The high court’s decision to hear this case registered on the seismometer of every American that carefully follows the abortion issue. It means that Roe v. Wade, which has defined abortion… -
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Biden Wants to Cut Funding for ‘Border Security Assets and Infrastructure’ by 96%
President Joe Biden has now revealed there is at least one area in which he is a fiscal conservative: When it comes to providing the infrastructure needed to secure the border, he wants to spend far less than the government currently spends. His administration has presented Congress with a Department of Homeland Security budget proposal… -
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Shameless Cuomo Brothers Make a Mess
Some thoughts on the media after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a report that found New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and even retaliated against one for going public. No. 1: Isn’t it fascinating how a probe like this can just vanish for months at a time? At the end…