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opinion
One Female Powerlifter’s Fight to Defend Women’s Sports
Beth Stelzer walked into her first powerlifting match expecting to encounter a room full of individuals who were there to support strong women. Instead, a biological male who “identified” as a woman distracted from the competition by protesting throughout the event because he was not permitted to compete with the women. As a result of… -
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As Teen, Byron Donalds Was Mugged at Gunpoint. He’s Now in Congress.
Freshman Rep. Byron Donalds was a businessman before he served in the Florida House of Representatives and now in Congress, where he arrived in January. Donalds grew up in a single-parent household and says his mom made sacrifices to make the American dream possible for him. “Growing up in the inner city, a lot of… -
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4 Highlights From Senate Hearing on Liberals’ Equality Act
Supporters and opponents argued in a Senate hearing Wednesday over a bill that would make gender identity and sexual orientation protected characteristics under federal civil rights law. The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., spent over three hours listening to witnesses’ testimony and arguments for and against the legislation, called the Equality… -
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Violence Is Out of Control in Portland. Maybe Defunding Police Wasn’t Such a Great Idea.
The city of Portland, Oregon, is a mess. This week, the city witnessed a telling, if predictable, incident. Police had removed a fence erected around the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse because it became a “symbol of divide” between law enforcement and the community, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Rioters then descended on the… -
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House Democrats Ignore GOP Calls to Investigate Cuomo Nursing Home Scandal
Some House Democrats have called for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign over allegations of sexual harassment, but aren’t willing to investigate his role in COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes. Cuomo’s fellow Democrats seem to be trying to “change the narrative” on the governor to avoid talking about the state’s nursing home deaths, said… -
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He Was Murdered Over a Lie: What the Killing of Samuel Paty Means for Free Expression
Samuel Paty was decapitated on Oct. 16, 2020, outside the middle school in a north Paris suburb where he had taught history and civics for five years. The murderer, a radical Islamist terrorist, acted because Paty had supposedly shown his class images of the Prophet Muhammad from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a… -
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Don’t Let the Department of Defense Become the Department of Distraction
One of the fundamental roles of a leader is organizing people—knowing how to direct people’s efforts and where to allocate resources. Failing to establish clear priorities leads to wasted effort or, worse, mission failure. A famous maxim warns leaders: “If everything is important, nothing is.” No one should envy the job of Lloyd Austin, President… -
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How Equality Act Could Become Classroom Bully With Biased, Unscientific Curriculum
The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings Wednesday on the so-called Equality Act, a piece of legislation unparalleled in its hostility to religious liberty and that elevates sexual orientation and gender identity to protected-class status alongside race, sex, and national origin in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Equality Act also expands the definition of… -
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Biden Suggests Openness to Restoring Traditional Filibuster, Requiring Continued Speaking
President Joe Biden suggested that he would support changes to the Senate filibuster Tuesday evening, saying that he would back an earlier rule that required objecting lawmakers to be on the floor. “I don’t think you have to eliminate the filibuster,” Biden said in an interview with ABC News. “You have to do it what it used… -
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Congressman Proposes Sending Troops Stationed at Capitol to Southern Border
National Guardsmen stationed at the Capitol building should instead be sent to address the “humanitarian crisis” at the southern border, a Republican congressman said Tuesday. The Guard Our Border Act would reassign 95% of the National Guardsmen stationed at the Capitol building to the southern border since the U.S. Capitol Police said Monday that there… -
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Top Democratic Election Lawyers Sanctioned for ‘Misleading’ Conduct
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order sanctioning lawyers at Perkins Coie—the Washington law firm that represents Democratic candidates, as well as prominent Democratic political organizations—for filing a “redundant and misleading” motion in the court in an election case out of Texas. Among the specific lawyers named in the March 11… -
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Conservative Lawmakers Reject Democrats’ Bid to Revive Earmarks
Conservatives say that congressional Democrats’ bid to revive legislative earmarks must be fought “100%” by Republicans. “Earmarks are about power, waste, and corruption,” Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., said in a statement provided to The Daily Signal. If Democrats want to refill the D.C. swamp with porkbarrel earmarks, then Republicans need to draw a clear line… -
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Biden’s Illegal Immigration Agenda Creates Another Child Smuggling Crisis
Having been involved in public policy for nearly four decades, I’ve all too often seen the unintended consequences of liberals’ misguided compassion. And long before getting involved in public policy, I experienced those consequences myself as a black child living in a housing project in the 1950s. Now, I’m watching that misguided compassion wreak havoc… -
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The Human Need to Feel Important—and How Government Squelches It
If one were to draw up a list of human needs, food and shelter would be at the top. With great respect to Freudians, sex would not be No. 2. The need for meaning would be second only to the need for food. That meaning is more important to happiness than sex is easily shown…. -
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Biden’s Military Declares War on Tucker Carlson
President Joe Biden’s military last week declared its first war … on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson had committed the great sin of pointing out the oddity of the fact that the Biden White House had been promoting brand-new uniforms for pregnant soldiers, rather than America’s military efficiency in the face of a rising… -
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The History Behind the ‘Woke’ Invasion of Big Business
Why is corporate America increasingly stepping in to support “woke” social justice causes? “These corporations are part of a movement that has been going on in the West and in this country in particular for the last roughly 100 years to move the culture very consistently and very aggressively to the left in order to… -
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Fact-Checking DHS Chief’s Dishonest Statement on Border Crisis
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas released a factually challenged and misleading statement Tuesday about the crisis on the border. As specialists in immigration policy at The Heritage Foundation, we’re going to correct the record here on eight of Mayorkas’ erroneous claims in a comprehensive response. (The last name after each section identifies which of us… -
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Universal Periodic Review Reflects ‘Deficiencies’ of Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council is scheduled to adopt the outcome of its review of the United States’ human rights record on Wednesday. This will be the third time the United States has undergone this process, known as the universal periodic review, through which U.N. member states have their human rights practices examined, field… -
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More Evidence Emerges That the Media Is on Team Biden
Just over three weeks before Election Day 2016, Chris Cillizza, now with CNN, infamously tweeted, “Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don’t root for a side. Period.” No doubt he really believed it, as do many journalists who truly feel they are treating their stories’ subjects fairly. But as a group, their overall… -
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House Duo Target 3 Books of ‘Poison’ on Navy’s Reading List for Sailors
Two members of Congress are asking the Navy to pull three books promoting identity politics and wokeness from its official reading list. The books teach young sailors that they’re being asked to fight and possibly die for “a systemically racist country,” the lawmakers say. The books—“How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi; “The…