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Cancel Culture Comes for All: How 10-Year-Old Tweets Cost This Journalist Her Job
Alexi McCammond, 27, was widely considered an up-and-coming young journalist after her time working as a political commentator for Axios news. She had been hired as the new editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue magazine and was all set to start, before it was revealed that she had made some tweets that many considered anti-Asian and homophobic… -
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For the Left, Bigotry Is a Tool
A white man last week shot to death eight people in Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian American. According to Atlanta police, the man said he was targeting brothels and blamed the women for his alleged sex addiction. The gunman stated that he had visited two of the spas before and had planned to drive… -
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Debunking 6 Myths About the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Congress passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut and reform package in December 2017 that became the subject of heated, partisan attacks. Now, more than three years later, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the subject of countless lingering mischaracterizations that fuel a push in Congress to repeal parts of the law. Setting the record… -
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North Carolina Introduces Bill Banning Biological Males From Women’s Sports
The North Carolina Legislature has introduced a bill that would ban biological males from women’s sports. The Save Women’s Sports Act, filed Monday by North Carolina state Reps. Mark Brody, Pat McElraft, Diane Wheatley, and Jimmy Dixon, seeks to ensure that “women are not forced to compete against men playing on women’s sports teams.” House Bill 358 uses… -
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School Districts Are Hiding Information About Gender-Transitioning Children From Their Parents. This Is Unconstitutional.
American law has long recognized the importance of parental rights. A parent’s right to oversee the care, education, and control of his or her child is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, and was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1923, in Meyer v. Nebraska, and as recently as 2000, in Troxel v. Granville. To raise… -
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‘We Warned Them’: Trump Immigration Official Talks Border Crisis
The Department of Homeland Security said last week that illegal border crossings are on pace to reach their highest level in two decades. On top of that, both Fox and NBC reported that illegal aliens are being released into the U.S. without court dates for asylum request hearings, but on Monday, White House press secretary… -
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The Racist Sound of ‘Whiteness Is a Pandemic’
The Root is obviously a hyperbolically racial magazine, since its slogan is “The Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth.” It’s not surprising that The Root frequently publishes writer Damon Young, author of the memoir “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker.” We’re told he asked important and dramatic questions like “Will this white person’s… -
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Election ‘Safety’ Grants May Have Swung Arizona to Biden, Report Finds
Money from the founder of Facebook touted as being for safe elections during the pandemic may have affected the outcome of the presidential race in Arizona by driving up Democrat turnout, according to a government watchdog report. The grant from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan focused more on “voter education” than… -
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Trump’s Tax Cuts Worked. Tax Hikes Now Will Kneecap Economic Recovery From COVID-19.
Three years after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act took effect, Democrats in Congress are ready to roll back some of the most critical reforms. The business tax cuts have been maligned as contrary to the interests of workers. In reality, the corporate tax cut succeeded at allowing new business investment, creating jobs, raising wages,… -
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Tax Incentives Are No Way to Drive Energy Innovation. Here’s Why.
The best ways to tame environmentally harmful emissions is to allow the private sector to innovate cleaner and more efficient ways to produce, distribute, and use energy. Unfortunately, government subsidies, mandates, and other regulations largely fail to spur such developments, and instead bolster government-favored technologies. The latest example of this is a recent proposal from… -
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How ‘Equal Pay Day’ Compares Apples and Oranges
This year, March 24 marks “Equal Pay Day”—a day that’s supposed to symbolize how far into the new year women must work to earn what men did in the previous year. In 2020, the median earnings of all full-time wage-earning and salaried female workers were 18% lower than males. That would be a problem if… -
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How Robust Education Marketplace Could Combat Learning Loss From COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic drastically changed K-12 education, as U.S. public and private schools complied with state-mandated closures a year ago. As of January, 72% of the nation’s 56.4 million schoolchildren were learning in remote or hybrid models, according to a nationally representative survey of families. Amid ongoing calls from special-interest groups for continued school closures… -
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Democrats’ Operative Got Secret Internet Connection at Wisconsin Election Center, Emails Show
Madison, Wis.—A veteran Democratic operative intricately involved in Green Bay’s November election was given access to “hidden” identifiers for the internet network at the hotel convention center where ballots were counted, according to emails obtained by Wisconsin Spotlight. Green Bay city officials insist the presidential election was “administered exclusively by city staff.” But the emails… -
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2 Massachusetts Towns Create Legal Polyamorous Partnerships
What could the left possibly want after same-sex marriage and transgenderism? Try polygamy. The media laughed off groups like the Family Research Council when we warned about that 15 years ago. Now, a decade and a half later, with American parents in the fight of their lives over girls sports and city councils endorsing three-person… -
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Tucker Carlson Calls Out Gov. Noem Over Bill Banning Biological Males From Women’s Sports
Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested to Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Monday evening that she caved to pressure from the NCAA over a bill banning biological males from women’s sports. Noem discussed South Dakota House Bill 1217, which would ban biological males from participating in women’s high school sports, with Carlson following her Monday… -
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Remembering Pioneering Pro-Life Feminist Physician Charlotte Lozier
This month, when we celebrate women in history, it’s worthwhile to commemorate the March birthday of Charlotte Denman Lozier, a trailblazing doctor, feminist, and moral leader who believed in the value of life at every stage. Lozier lived to see only 25 birthdays, but she made every one of them count. Charlotte Denman was the… -
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Why Someone Hid Accurate Death Count for New York Nursing Homes
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and his administration’s alleged efforts to hide the accurate number of related deaths beg the question: Is the cover-up worse than the crime? The Empire Center for Public Policy, a New York-based research organization, filed a request last summer under the Freedom… -
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How ‘Minneapolis Effect’ Explains Surge of Violent Crime in American Cities
This past year, “defund the police” has been a frequent call from activists seeking systemic reform of the American criminal justice system. It became a popular rallying cry after the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. And Minneapolis is among cities that partially defunded police departments and proactive crime prevention… -
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Cruz Demands Biden ‘Stop Hiding Truth,’ Grant Press Access to ‘Crises at Southern Border’
Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday demanded that President Joe Biden allow the press access to report on what he called the “humanitarian, national security, and public health crises at the southern border.” “Denying the press the ability to observe, film, and report on the conditions at the border is not openness or transparency—it is hiding… -
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Heritage Foundation President, Executive Vice President to Step Down
The president and executive vice president of The Heritage Foundation, Kay C. James and Kim Holmes, jointly announced Monday that they will be resigning from their leadership posts at the Washington-based public policy think tank. “When we came on board as the executive leadership team three years ago, we set several goals and told Heritage’s…