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Woke Reviews of Pixar’s ‘Luca’ Attack Male Friendship
“Luca,” a new animated film from Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios, has charmed viewers with its coming-of-age tale about two sea monster boys living on the Italian Riviera, who spend a summer forming a deep and powerful bond of friendship. But some woke film critics, who insist on reading LGBTQ undertones into the perfectly innocent film,… -
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Trump’s Lawsuits Against Big Tech Will Go ‘All the Way’ to Supreme Court, Backers Say
Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuits against censorship by Big Tech companies likely will reach the U.S. Supreme Court, the leaders of a public policy group backing the legal action say. “Ultimately, we are going to take [the case] all the way,” Brooke Rollins, president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, said in a… -
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On ‘The View,’ McCain Shone as Rare Journalist Who Asked Liberals Tough Questions
Meghan McCain is leaving “The View.” One assumes that regular readers of editorial pages and political magazines aren’t exactly the prime audience for a daytime television show. And one also assumes that a not insignificant number of Republicans aren’t fans of McCain because of her sharp criticism of former President Donald Trump. Yet I think… -
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Rubio, Hobby Lobby Face Criticism After Sharing Bible Verses
What’s wrong with good old-fashioned “God and country” patriotism and referencing the Good Book? Apparently, it’s so offensive some won’t stand for it. Exhibit A is the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s criticism of Hobby Lobby for something it has done since 1995, which is run a full-page ad in newspapers on Independence Day. Sunday’s ad was titled… -
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Florida’s DeSantis: America’s Great Right Hope
Democratic Govs. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Gavin Newsom of California, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan shatter everything they touch. Ron DeSantis, conversely, seems to get everything right. The Florida Republican has emerged as America’s governor. “We’re standing with our folks. We’re going to do the right thing. We leaned into it, and we stood strong,”… -
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New Social Media Platform Gettr Says No to Cancel Culture, Yes to Free Speech
Amid the debates over Big Tech companies and censorship, a new social media platform has emerged to champion free speech. The platform Gettr officially launched July 4 with a mission of “fighting cancel culture, promoting commonsense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas,” according to the platform’s website…. -
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The Costs of Biden’s Big Government
It is one of the unfortunate ironies coming out of the Biden administration that, with all the obsession about so-called equity, policies it is putting forth will only hurt the very low-income Americans it pretends to want to help. The Biden administration is growing government at a record pace. If what it wants is opportunity… -
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San Francisco Political Leaders Out of Touch as City Descends Into Lawlessness
If you don’t like the explosion of violent crime, you’re a racist. That’s the message sent by a top aide to the San Francisco district attorney to a self-described “Democrat” who had said on Twitter that the jump in crime had made people afraid for their lives and dubious about the city’s future. The Democrat… -
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Economist Sowell’s Long March From Marxism to Free Markets—With a Little Help From His Friends Friedman and Hayek
The following is the second of three excerpts from Jason Riley’s new book “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell,” about the iconoclastic economist. The book is available here. When Thomas Sowell arrived at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1959 to begin his Ph.D. studies, economist Milton Friedman had been on the faculty for… -
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‘Minneapolis Effect’ Caused Last Year’s Spike in Violent Crime
The spike in violent crime last year was a serious departure from recent crime patterns over the last several decades. In fact, 2020 was likely the deadliest year for gun-related homicides since 1999. According to the Gun Violence Archive, more than 19,000 people died of gun violence in 2020. This spike was particularly acute in major cities across… -
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El Salvador Is the First Country to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender
El Salvador passed a new law last month that makes bitcoin national legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar. This means Salvadorans can pay their taxes in bitcoin and use it for any debt or purchase. While this is the first time a country has made a cryptocurrency legal tender, El Salvador continues a long tradition of governments recognizing that currencies freely chosen by the people are often better than the government’s product. Political leaders should return to that tradition by embracing innovations in currency, payments,… -
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It’s Insane That Psaki Is Suggesting Republicans to Blame for Defunding Police
Most of us recall as children getting into a dispute with another kid and then blaming him for starting a fight. When Mom approached, you said, “He hit me first.” The other kid denies it and accuses you of hitting him first. As adults we become more sophisticated when lying. That’s why White House press… -
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Academics Rush to Defend Teacher Who Taught ‘Pornography Literacy,’ Showed First Graders Cartoon About Masturbation
Academics rushed to defend a former teacher at an elite New York City school who taught “pornography literacy” to high schoolers and showed first graders a cartoon about masturbation. Justine Ang Fonte taught sex education at Dalton School in Manhattan for nine years, The New York Times reported, developing K-12 curriculums for students and speaking and… -
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How One Man Leads the Charge Against Woke School Boards
When it comes to fighting back against woke indoctrination and critical race theory in schools, Ian Prior is perhaps the happiest of warriors. Prior is executive director of Fight for Schools, an organization dedicated to exposing bad actors in the public school system in Loudoun County, Virginia, and mobilizing parents to improve education for their… -
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I Could Lose Everything After ‘Devastating’ End to 8-Year Court Battle Over Same-Sex Wedding, Florist Says
When the Supreme Court announced July 2 that it had declined to take up florist Barronelle Stutzman’s case, it left her on the losing side of an eight-year court battle. In 2013, one of Stutzman’s longtime customers asked her to design floral arrangements for his same-sex wedding. She told him that because of her religious… -
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Paying Lip Service to Liberty While Imposing Radical Gender Ideology
Schools should be places where students enjoy free speech to express and hear different ideas in pursuit of truth. But in Virginia’s Loudoun County and other school districts across the country, school boards are shutting down debate before it even happens by requiring affirmation of an individual’s self-asserted gender identity. “I support differing opinions and… -
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US Response to Cyberattacks? It Must Be More Than Just Biden’s ‘Off Limits’ List
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a mid-June summit in Geneva, after which Biden told reporters, “I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off-limits to attack, period—by cyber or any other means.” The president said he handed over a list of 16 areas of critical infrastructure that are… -
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Supreme Court Denies a Woman’s Free Exercise of Christianity
Can Barronelle Stutzman, a Christian, run her flower shop in keeping with her faith? The Supreme Court—with determinative votes cast by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh—has effectively decided she cannot. “My faith is a part of every aspect of my life,” Stutzman said in a sworn statement presented… -
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Around Independence Day, Media Targets Patriotic Displays
Independence Day is supposed to be a day of national unity. President Joe Biden proclaimed: “The Fourth of July is a sacred day in our country—a day of history, of hope, remembrance and resolve, of promise and possibilities.” Liberal Biden voters in the media did not concur. These are the people who refuse to wear… -
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Case of Christian Florist Shows Faith Is Under Attack in US
Is there anyone who can say what is always right and always wrong and present an unchanging standard by which all behavior can be judged? I raise the question in light of last week’s non-ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined for a second time to hear an appeal from a flower shop owner…