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NPR Allows Its Reporters to Engage in Direct Activism
The thin veil over National Public Radio’s commitment to objective journalism has been lifted. NPR has announced a new ethics policy that allows its journalists to “participate in activities that advocate for ‘the freedom and dignity of human beings’ on both social media and in real life.” National Public Radio, an organization partially funded by… -
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Texas Man Gets 11 Years for Buying Homes, Cars With $25 Million in COVID-19 Relief
A man from Coppell, Texas, has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for running a fraudulent scheme to receive about $24.8 million in forgivable loans from the Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic, the Justice Department announced. Dinesh Sah, 55, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money-laundering offenses, the Justice… -
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Delta Variant of COVID-19 Soon Will Be Gone, Former FDA Chief Predicts
Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, predicts that the surge of the Delta variant of COVID-19 across the U.S. will last just a few more weeks. Speaking on CNBC, Gottlieb questioned whether new masking guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the right call, and reminded viewers that… -
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‘Communism Taking Root in America,’ Critical Race Theory Foe Warns
About 350 concerned residents crowded into a church in Georgetown, Delaware, on Thursday evening to hear from a panel of experts about critical race theory—one of whom likened its spread throughout American culture to Mao Zedong’s communist Cultural Revolution in China. “Today, communism is taking root in America,” speaker Xi Van Fleet said. Critical race… -
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Amid Union Pushback, Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rules Face Legal Challenge Over Coercion
President Joe Biden touts the support of the business community for his COVID-19 vaccine policy, but leaders of organized labor, which the president identifies as his political base, aren’t happy. Requirements that both federal employees and the employees of federal contractors “attest” to their vaccination status and regularly submit to testing if not vaccinated could… -
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Sen. Mike Enzi Focused on ‘What You Can Get Done,’ Not Disagreements
Mike Enzi was a conservative in ideology and temperament, a soft-spoken son of the West who shunned partisan vitriol and sought compromise on policy, but never on principle. Enzi, a longtime U.S. senator from Wyoming, died July 26 from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident near his home in Gillette, Wyoming. He was 77. Michael… -
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Woodson Center Celebrates 40 Years of Transforming Poor Neighborhoods as Founder Announces Retirement
The life-changing impact that Robert Woodson has had on the lives of countless individuals and communities was highlighted Thursday evening during a 40th-anniversary celebration of the center named for him in Washington, D.C. One after another, the grassroots leaders and individuals who have been touched by Woodson’s work at the Woodson Center thanked the civil… -
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Whistleblowers Say Officials Ignored Need to Buy Underwear for Detained Children at Border
Federal officials ignored requests to buy underwear for migrant children detained at the Fort Bliss emergency intake site near El Paso, Texas, according to a whistleblower complaint filed by the Government Accountability Project. Two whistleblowers reported gross mismanagement of the Fort Bliss facility and harm to unaccompanied migrant minors. The whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein, an official… -
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Ocasio-Cortez, in Leaked CNN Interview, Says She Feared Being Raped During Capitol Riot
Portions of a leaked CNN interview published by an independent investigative media outlet show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., saying she thought she was going to be raped during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. In the video clip published by Project Veritas, Ocasio-Cortez tells CNN’s Dana Bash that she is a survivor of sexual assault,… -
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What Conservatives Don’t Understand About the Black Community
As a graduate of Oral Roberts University, I was blessed to spend a lot of time with Oral Roberts himself. Roberts repeatedly told me, “Go into every man’s world and meet them at the point of their need.” He was referring to Christians evangelizing throughout the world. We Christians cannot wait for people seeking God… -
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Senate Republicans Demand New Hearing for Biden ATF Nominee Over ‘Racist’ Remark
Every Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee signed a letter Thursday demanding a new hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives following allegations that the nominee made a racist comment while working at the agency around 2007. The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported June 22 that… -
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Corporations Mum on Stiffing GOP Candidates, but Not Democrats, Who Questioned Election
Corporations were silent on why they chose to suspend political contributions to Republicans, but not Democrats who have objected to election results. More than 15 major United States-based companies that announced they would suspend giving money to members of Congress following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot didn’t respond to requests for comment from The Daily Caller News… -
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How Biden White House Got Border Crisis Wrong as ‘Seasonal Migration’
Border officials reported an increase in the number of encounters with migrants at the southern border in June, out of line with the Biden administration’s attribution to seasonal migration and historical trends showing a decrease in encounters after May. The number of encounters at the southern border was “somewhat overstated” due to pandemic-related expulsions allowing… -
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Critical Race Theory Mutilates Centuries-Old Legacy of Interracial Cooperation
Far more than a mere slap in the face, critical race theory is a brass-knuckled beat-down of white and black Americans who bravely have battled slavery, Jim Crow, and other forms of anti-black racism. Since Democrat-fueled, state-mandated segregation ended in 1964, even more white and black Americans have labored to advance the latter’s freedom, prosperity,… -
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News Outlets That Criticized Trump for Targeting Reporters Mostly Silent About ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN strongly objected and protested when the Trump administration obtained reporters’ phone records as part of an investigation into the leak of classified information. Yet those same news organizations aren’t willing to stand with popular Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who the National Security Agency “unmasked”… -
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Don’t Believe a Man Can Be a Woman? Prepare to Be Labeled an Extremist
The Biden administration, Democrats in Congress, and their media elite seem to be deeply obsessed with redefining American society and civil rights law by promoting policy and legislation that give credence to the claim that “gender identity” is fluid and subjective. But the insanity doesn’t stop there. It seems they won’t be happy until you… -
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Hero at Las Vegas Shooting on Mission to Protect Second Amendment
On Oct. 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from high above the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, ultimately killing 60 and wounding more than 400. The crime, in which another 456 persons were injured, remains the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. But out of this tragedy comes a story of true… -
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Journalist Scorned on Twitter for Suggesting ‘Porn for Children’
Writer Flora Gill sparked a backlash Thursday by advocating “porn for children” where “no one gets choked.” “Someone needs to create porn for children. Hear me out,” Gill tweeted. “Young teens are already watching porn but they’re finding hardcore, aggressive videos that give a terrible view of sex. They need entry level porn! A soft… -
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Carl Levin, Record-Setting Senator From Michigan, Dies at 87
Former Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, a Democrat who served 36 years and rose to chair the Senate Armed Services Committee, died Thursday at the age of 87. The Levin Center at Wayne State University in Detroit announced his death Thursday night, describing him as “a dearly beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle, and life-long public servant.”… -
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America Must Address Its Other Epidemic: Fentanyl Overdoses
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a record 93,331 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2020. Some 75% of them involved opioids, the latest sobering statistic in the United States’ 2 decades old opioid epidemic. Overuse and misuse of prescription opioids, and later heroin, drove the first two waves of the epidemic….