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opinion
How Transparent Is China’s Government? Here’s What We Know
The Chinese Communist Party, which has ruled China for 100 years, remains highly secretive in its policies and actions. Fortunately, sources outside China’s government have provided the world with a great deal of information about what is really happening within the communist regime. Compiling what we do know about the Chinese Communist Party, The Heritage… -
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Zaila and the Bee
By any standard, Zaila Avant-garde is a remarkable 14-year-old girl with a positive and compelling outlook on life. Zaila (her father reportedly changed her surname from Heard in honor of jazz legend John Coltrane) recently won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, the first African American to win the highly competitive spelling contest. She told reporters… -
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Is America Facing a Women’s Employment Crisis?
Vice President Kamala Harris has called the situation a “national emergency,” but is it really? Right now, America has a record number of jobs available. “Help Wanted” signs are everywhere. Yet, the labor participation rate remains low, and women in particular are slow to return to the workforce. Since February 2020, more than 1.6 million women… -
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Pence Slams American Companies, Celebrities on Support for China
Former Vice President Mike Pence, in a major speech Wednesday on China, said that the communist regime is a more serious threat to the United States than the Soviet Union during the Cold War. “In many respects, Communist China poses a greater challenge to the United States than the Soviet Union ever did throughout the Cold… -
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Why Repealing the Hyde Amendment Will Kill Black Lives
The Hyde Amendment is under attack. Before President Joe Biden even took office in January 2021, leading Democrats announced their plans to upset decades of bipartisan consensus and fight to repeal the Hyde Amendment. As Biden pursues his policy agenda this year, activists and Democratic legislators have only sharpened their calls to action, decrying the… -
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Admission Fraud Shows Why Colleges Should Reward Hard Work, Not Race
Meritocracy ensures the proper functioning of our systems and institutions. Throughout history, various civilizations have concluded that merit-based systems best contribute to the flourishing of a society. Both the imperial and post-Mao Chinese states, as well as the United States, are clear examples. It is difficult to dispute that these nations both rose to prominence… -
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What China Hides About Its Economy
Unreliable statistics, mounting debt, and nonperforming loans are just a few underlying characteristics of China’s economy. For years, China has tried its best to hide and shadow its unsustainable economic practices from its people and from the world. Research suggests that it has been overstating gross domestic product numbers for the past decade. It’s important… -
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It’s Not Racist to Support Election Integrity Laws
Earlier this month, when I heard that the Supreme Court had struck down a lawsuit claiming that Arizona’s election laws were a form of racist voter suppression, I happened to be standing where civil rights leaders long ago gathered to talk about the very issue of fighting for the right to cast their vote without… -
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Court Declares Laws Banning Handgun Sales to People Under 21 Unconstitutional
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that federal laws banning firearms dealers from selling handguns to customers under the age of 21 were unconstitutional. The United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said in the decision that there was no reason to treat the Second Amendment any differently from other constitutional rights citizens… -
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Bogus Claims and Political Perfidy From So-Called Poor People’s Campaign
The Poor People’s Campaign has announced a “season of nonviolent, moral direct action,” targeting the U.S. Senate with disruptive activities every Monday, now through Aug 2. According to the campaign’s co-chair, the Rev. William Barber II, “The Senate must end the filibuster, protect and expand voting rights, and pass a minimum wage of $15 an… -
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What Foreign Dissidents Understand About the American Flag
Thousands of Cuban dissidents marched Sunday against the repressive communist tyranny that has subjugated the Cuban people for three generations. They chanted “Libertad!” and called for the end of the regime. And they carried aloft a symbol of freedom: the American flag. This isn’t a rarity. It’s a common sight among protesters for freedom worldwide…. -
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What’s Best Thing Most Americans Can Do to Make Country Better?
Some think tank or polling organization should ask 1,000 Americans: What is the best thing most Americans can do to make the country better? Presumably, those most influenced by their schooling and by the media would answer something along the lines of “fight racism” or “work to reduce inequality.” Whatever the specific answer, most young… -
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She Was Imprisoned in Her Native Cuba. Here’s How She Describes Life Under Communism.
Lala Mooney, born in communist Cuba, was imprisoned there at age 19. As protests erupt in the Caribbean nation, Mooney, mother of Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about what life there is like. “At the economic level, we lost everything,” Mooney says. “My mother’s family owned a sugar mill… -
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Fact-Checking 6 Big Claims in Biden’s Partisan-Tinged Speech on Voting
In a major speech Tuesday, President Joe Biden linked voter ID requirements to repressive Jim Crow laws in the South after the Civil War, declaring it’s “not hyperbole” and insisting it’s time to ask: “Are you on the side of truth or lies?” Biden delivered his fiery remarks at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia… -
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Is Kim Jong Un’s Regime on Cusp of Collapse?
Speculation over internal conditions in North Korea and the stability of its regime is even more rampant than usual. Reports of food shortages, a COVID-19 outbreak, and political volatility have fanned much of the speculation. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s recent extended absence from public view simply fueled the fire, triggering renewed rumors of health problems. Still, it never… -
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Hunter Biden’s Art Sales: Ethical Mess Made Worse by White House
Allow me to join the chorus of voices congratulating Hunter Biden for waking up one day recently as an accomplished and commercially successful artist, a sudden event that curiously corresponded with his father’s becoming president of the United States. This is surely a coincidence, and certainly only represents the latest shift in Hunter’s colorful career… -
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Biden’s ‘Competition’ Executive Order Realizes a Central Planner’s Dream
President Joe Biden on July 9 issued an executive order, purportedly to promote competition. The order, though, is yet another far-left directive to promote federal government intervention in the economy, pushing policies that may not even be authorized by Congress and that could trample on states’ rights. It punishes economic success and presumes that when… -
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Governor Says Texas Democrats Who Fled Vote on Election Reform Face Arrest
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says Democrats who fled the state to avoid voting on an election reform bill will be arrested upon their return. Democratic members of the state House of Representatives left Texas to avoid being called to vote Monday on the election legislation. Under state law, two-thirds of House members are required for… -
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Biden on Track to Have Most Expensive White House Staff in US History
President Joe Biden has wasted no time filling out his White House staff, employing 567 people at a projected cost of $200 million over his four-year term. That is compared to the Trump administration, which spent $164.3 million between 2017 and 2020, and the Obama administration spending $188.5 million between 2009 and 2012, both of… -
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De Blasio to Keep Masks in Schools Despite CDC Guidelines
Masks will be required in New York City grade schools this fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday at a press briefing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance Friday that vaccinated students and teachers could go maskless and stressed “the importance of offering in-person learning, regardless of whether all of the prevention strategies…