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America’s Aim in Indo-Pacific Should Be to Advance Economic Freedom
The Indo-Pacific has become an increasingly more dynamic and critical part of the world’s foreign policy chess board. It’s home to at least five of the world’s trillion-dollar economies and hosts more than half of the world’s population in just two of its countries, India and China. Pre-pandemic, the Indo-Pacific was boasting an average economic… -
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Sebastian Gorka on Fighting Back Against Radical Left
“The left is weak. It may not feel like that when you’re being censored on Facebook … but those actions actually evince weakness. When you have to censor people, it means they’re afraid,” says Sebastian Gorka, host of “America First” on the Salem Radio Network and author of “The War for America’s Soul.” “We have… -
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Representatives Go on Offensive Against Pelosi’s Mask Rule, Cite 27th Amendment. Will It Work?
Three House Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after she enforced a mask mandate against them. The three—Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.; Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.; and Ralph Norman, R-S.C.—had fines deducted from their salaries after refusing to wear masks on the House floor. Among their claims is an unusual one: that… -
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Biden Administration Set to Ignore Abortion Transparency Requirement
The public comment period closed on Wednesday for a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would reverse a Trump administration rule regarding program integrity for certain health insurance plans that cover elective abortions. At issue is Section 1303 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. This section of the… -
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Trump Had Plan to Bring Internet to Cuba, Rubio Says
Well before a renewed freedom movement emerged in Cuba, President Donald Trump had a plan to extend internet access to the island nation, Sen. Marco Rubio says. “We were already looking at how to provide internet access,” Rubio, R-Fla., told The Floridian, a news website, in an interview published with video Thursday. “We had made… -
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Biden’s Manufacturing Plan: Wasteful Investment in Industry of Past
President Joe Biden visited an operations facility in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Wednesday to boost his “Buy American” plan and promote American manufacturing. Biden frequently talks about reviving domestic manufacturing, an industry that has sharply declined over the past 40 years. Many would argue that investing in the manufacturing industry would enable job creation for American… -
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House Republicans Slam Treasury Secretary for Avoiding Oversight
Top House Republicans are criticizing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for avoiding oversight while her agency is accused of mishandling billions of dollars of COVID-19 relief funds. The lawmakers, led by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., blasted Yellen in a letter Wednesday for skipping her congressionally mandated testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. Instead of… -
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NIH Gave Millions to Chinese Entities to Study Infectious Diseases
The National Institutes of Health has doled out nearly $46 million in taxpayer funds to 100 Chinese institutions in the form of subgrants since 2011 to conduct research into infectious diseases, drug addiction, mental health, and other scientific fields, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of federal spending data. The National Institutes of… -
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Most States Appeal Antitrust Case Against Facebook
State and territorial attorneys general are appealing a federal judge's dismissal of their antitrust complaint against Facebook. The complaint, filed Wednesday by 48 state and territorial attorneys general and led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, was dismissed in June, along with a complaint brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The attorneys general alleged Facebook illegally… -
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Trump’s Budget Director Demands to Know Why Education Department Promoted Critical Race Theory
A top Trump administration official filed a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday to obtain communications between the Department of Education and a critical race theory activist group whose materials were promoted in a U.S. government guidance book, Fox News reported. Russ Vought, president of the Center for Renewing America and chief of the Office… -
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FCC Commissioner Targets Corporate Welfare for Big Tech
Federal Communications Commission member Brendan Carr says the agency should require Big Tech to fund internet infrastructure, following the introduction last week of a bill requiring the FCC to consider collecting contributions from technology companies. The bill—introduced July 21 by Senate Republicans Roger Wicker, Todd Young, and Shelley Moore Capito—instructs the Federal Communications Commission to… -
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Border Crisis Is No Accident. It’s Biden Making Good on Campaign Promises.
If you wanted to make up something to depict President Joe Biden as the cause of the border crisis, you might invent a scenario in which he was just turning illegal immigrants loose into the interior of the country. Such a situation might easily be dismissed by skeptics as too much of a caricature of… -
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A Message From a Hymn to Young Conservatives: ‘Be Not Afraid’
In these times of extreme polarization, young conservatives are facing increasingly hostile campus climates that mock and shame the traditional principles we hold so dear. We can rise above this challenge by remembering to be not afraid. Also, a phrase from the popular eponymous Catholic hymn “Be Not Afraid” comes from the belief expressed in… -
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Infrastructure Bill Advances in Senate After Overcoming Filibuster
The Senate advanced a bipartisan infrastructure deal Wednesday evening, voting to open debate on the legislation after weeks of tumultuous talks that had at times thrown the entire plan into jeopardy. After last-minute snags over transit funding and other items, key negotiators announced they had reached a deal earlier Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said following the… -
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Biden Border ‘Blueprint’: Unfair, Disorderly, and Inhumane
The Biden administration is hoping that if it repeats the words describing its border process as “fair, orderly, and humane” enough times, Americans will begin to believe it. Never mind what Americans’ lying eyes actually see every day at the border. The administration this week released its “Blueprint for a Fair, Orderly and Humane Immigration… -
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House Republicans Seek to Finish Wall, Hire More Border Patrol Agents
House Republicans will propose legislation Thursday to finish the border wall and hire more officers in response to President Joe Biden’s “destructive” immigration policies, according to a statement provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., and other House Republican leadership announced the Border Security for America Act of 2021, which would require the… -
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Michael Knowles on How Political Correctness Has Upended American Culture
What is political correctness? When did it start to seep into mainstream culture? How is political correctness destroying American society? Michael Knowles, host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at The Daily Wire, joins me on “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss. We also chat about his new book “Speechless.” “This whole culture has been upended,”… -
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Democrats’ Spending Could Cost Taxpayers $5.5 Trillion, Sen. Cynthia Lummis Says
Democrats are trying to push both a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and another $3.5 trillion spending package through Congress. Although the former provides funding for traditional infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, the other and larger package provides trillions of dollars for a laundry list of left-wing priorities, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., says. “They have… -
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‘Cuba Libre’: Why These People Stand for Cuban Freedom
Cuban Americans and their supporters gathered Tuesday for a “Cuba Libre” demonstration on the front lawn of the Capitol to support Cubans’ fight for freedom from communism and demand action by President Joe Biden. “We are demanding that the dictatorship tell us where all the missing people are,” Marta Beatriz Ferrer, whose activist father disappeared in… -
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Study Says European Laws Limit Abortion Earlier Than Mississippi Law Pending at Supreme Court
Most European abortion laws limit abortion earlier than the Mississippi law at the heart of an upcoming Supreme Court case, a study released Tuesday found. The pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute released a comprehensive analysis of European abortion laws Tuesday showing that an overwhelming majority of European countries limit abortions to before 15 weeks. “Mississippi’s law brings the…