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Go Green, Go Nuclear
This Thursday, Earth Day, politicians and activists will shout more about “the climate crisis.” I don’t think it’s a crisis. COVID-19, malaria, exploding debt, millions of poor children dying from diarrhea—those are genuine crises. But global warming may become a real problem, so it’s particularly absurd that Earth Day’s activists rarely mention the form of… -
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Another Mass Shooting and Questions That Still Go Unanswered
The first question most people ask after mass shootings like the one last week at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis in which a 19-year-old male murdered eight people before taking his own life is: “How did he get the gun?” He was known to authorities. A gun he previously owned was seized because he was… -
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The Watchdogs Nap for Biden
President Joe Biden averaged a 56% job approval rating from his inauguration through March, according to Gallup, about the same as the ratings of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and much higher than former President Donald Trump’s (42%). One factor in that approval might be the tone of press coverage. Rich Noyes… -
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Equality Act Endangers Survivors of Abuse
What do you get when you cross then-Sen. Joe Biden’s 1994 “Tough on Crime” bill with President Joe Biden’s 2021 Equality Act? Answer: spikes in sexual assault in women’s shelters, prisons, and jails. The so-called Equality Act would allow any person of any age, at any time, to declare what gender they are for any… -
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Why China Will Remain a Challenge Whether Its Economic Reform Policies Succeed or Fail
A former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund recently warned that China would face huge structural problems in its economy as Beijing falls back on its old playbook to try to grow its economy. We can’t disagree with this timely, candid assessment by former IMF senior economist Zhu Min. “In 2021, structural reform… -
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The Bigotry of No Expectations
Editor’s note: This column was filed before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. We all know what’s coming. In Minneapolis, in anticipation of the jury’s verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the alleged murder of George Floyd, everything is… -
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Sin of Planned Parenthood Is Abortion, Not Margaret Sanger
The president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Alexis McGill Johnson, has used The New York Times as a confessional to fess up to the racist history of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger. “We must reckon with Margaret Sanger’s association with white supremacist groups and eugenics,” she writes. Sanger’s involvement with the notoriously racist eugenics… -
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Takeaway From Chauvin Trial: Where Do We Go From Here?
Most criminal defense attorneys will tell you that a quick decision from the jury is generally bad news for their client. That held true on Tuesday when the jury in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial reached a relatively quick verdict, finding him guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in… -
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Why This Former Lawyer Would Have Argued ‘Very Differently’ If He Had Represented Derek Chauvin
Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of murder. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. For three weeks, jury members listened to attorneys’ arguments during the trial in… -
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EXCLUSIVE: California Warns BLM Co-Founder’s Nonprofit Over Late Financial Filings
California officials have issued three warnings to a nonprofit group started by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors that it has failed to file required financial disclosures. In September and again in February and March, the California Attorney General’s Office notified Cullors’ organization, Dignity and Power Now, that it was delinquent in filing the financial… -
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6 Key Points From Senate Democrats’ Hearing on ‘Jim Crow 2021’
Liberal star Stacey Abrams said she supports voter ID, two senators debated the history of the Jim Crow era, and a Democrat secretary of state pleaded for his party not to pass a federal takeover of elections. These and other interactions occurred Tuesday at an eventful Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that the Democrat majority titled… -
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Fact-Checking 3 Claims From Senate Hearing on Voting
Voting rights and election integrity have become significant issues in 2021 as Democrats in Congress attempt to pass a sweeping federal election overhaul bill at the same time as many states pursue election integrity laws. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, controlled by Democrats, held a hearing on state election integrity laws provocatively titled “Jim… -
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South America Has an Opportunity to Choose Freedom Instead of More Failed Socialist Regimes
The world witnessed two presidential elections in South America on April 11. One of them gave the victory to Guillermo Lasso, now president-elect of Ecuador. In Peru, an election that featured a total of 18 candidates is now going into a runoff election between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Castillo. Both of these elections will have… -
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Senate Hearing Pushes Odious ‘Jim Crow’ Comparisons to Cement Liberal Power
Having been caught exaggerating and misrepresenting Georgia’s new election integrity law, Democrats have decided to double down and throw the weight of the U.S. Senate behind their dishonest and offensive propaganda campaign. In a hearing hyperbolically titled “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,” the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday became… -
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71% of Amazon Workers Reject Union, but Liberals’ PRO Act Would Undercut That Right to Choose
Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted 1,798 to 738 against unionizing under the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Even amid an outpouring of celebrity and politician visits to Bessemer to promote the union’s message, workers at Amazon overwhelmingly decided that it was better for them, their families, and the Bessemer community to… -
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Read Rep. Burgess Owens’ Explanation of Why Georgia Law Isn’t at All Like Jim Crow Laws
Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, condemned recent attacks on Georgia’s election law that characterized it as a “Jim Crow” measure. Read the lightly edited transcript, below, or watch the video above. Thank you, Chairman [Dick] Durbin, Ranking Member [Chuck] Grassley, and the members of the committee for the… -
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Pelosi Defends Maxine Waters’ Call for Protesters to ‘Get More Confrontational’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the call by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., for protesters to “get more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted of killing George Floyd. Pelosi added that Waters’ comments, made Saturday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, did not amount to inciting violence and that Waters should not apologize for them…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: 21 Black Leaders Denounce the Left’s Lies About Georgia Election Law
Twenty-one civil rights leaders and prominent black conservatives defended Georgia’s new election law in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, rejecting opponents’ comparisons to Jim Crow laws. “It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law simply have no idea what the law is,” the black leaders write in the letter,… -
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What to Expect at Senate Panel’s Hearing on Election Integrity Law Cast as ‘Jim Crow’
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss a purported “assault on the right to vote.” The hearing, dubbed “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,” comes as the far left continues to criticize Georgia’s new election integrity law. Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost the 2018 governor’s… -
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Woke Corporations Adopt Hypocritical Playbook on China
It appears that much of corporate America has picked up the fine and proper art of virtue signaling that is so fundamental to the modern woke elite. Much has been said about how many corporations have stepped in to publicly denounce Georgia’s voter integrity law and have become “woke” on many other issues. A Yale…