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Biden’s COVID-19 Bill Would Squander Hundreds of Billions on Bailouts of Pension Funds, Blue States
It’s increasingly clear that the Biden administration’s nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package would appease special-interest groups rather than address the needs of those who actually need relief. While about $1 trillion still sits unspent from previous relief bills, Biden’s bailout legislation would fulfill Democrats far-left wish list. Among the many things that are unrelated… -
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Transparency Still Needed for China’s Influence on US Universities
The way President Joe Biden handles U.S. relations with China will be closely watched and judged. In the early going, the president seems to want to stay on a course framed by the recognition that we are once more in an era of great-power competition. For that, the Biden team should be praised. However, it’s what the… -
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$1.9 Trillion ‘COVID-19’ Bill Would Pay for Abortions and Intersectional ‘Art’
Two years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $25,000 grant to a group called Fresh Meat Productions, which is based in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco congressional district. This taxpayer-funded grant, according to the National Endowment for the Arts, went to “support a national tour of ‘Boys in Trouble,’” which it… -
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‘Fact-Checking’ Powers Leave Biden and Cuomo Unchecked
CNN host Brian Stelter asked a big question on his Sunday show: “What’s the future of fact-checking now that [Donald] Trump is out of office?” He proclaimed it was “fraught with complexity, and allegations of bias and shouts of false equivalence.” This is not complex. In 2016, a Rasmussen poll found that only 29% of… -
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After Growing Up With Divorce and Same-Sex Parents, Author Promotes Traditional Families
The narrative that a child only needs love and safety to thrive is being challenged by Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us, a nonprofit organization that promotes social policies to protect the rights of children. In her new book “Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement,” Faust argues that a… -
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How ‘Equality Act’ Would Impose Transgender Ideology on Everyone
If legislation now before Congress—H.R. 5, dubbed the Equality Act—becomes law, it would add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As panelists at a Heritage Foundation event explained, not only has a radical, but increasingly normalized, gender ideology caused harm, it also soon could become mandated through… -
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3 Highlights From House Hearing on ‘Disinformation and Extremism’ in News Media
A House subcommittee held a virtual hearing Wednesday on how to weed out what Democrats call “disinformation and extremism” in the media. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., and Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., chairman of the communications and technology subcommittee, organized the hearing. “The prolonged severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and the… -
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Website Tracks Which Colleges Embrace Training in Critical Race Theory
It takes only a few clicks to see that critical race theory is influencing hundreds of college campuses and universities across America. A new website called Critical Race Training in Education allows users to quickly access information about more than 230 schools and the ways in which those schools are instituting critical race theory on… -
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Will Catholic Schools Survive COVID-19?
With schools across the country now approaching a full year of state-mandated closures, it’s important to remember the long-term effects that the lockdown has had. Catholic schools in some parts of the country saw their enrollment figures drop dramatically, and at this point it’s not clear if they will ever bounce back. A new report… -
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Will Presidential Impeachment Become New Normal?
When the House impeached Donald Trump in late 2019 on ambiguous charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, many legal experts expressed concern about normalizing impeachment—previously a very rare procedure. “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,” my 2020 book, outlines how Trump was the first president impeached on… -
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UN Human Rights Council Should Condemn Nicolas Maduro, Not Give Him a Platform to Speak On
The United Nations Human Rights Council opened its 46th regular session on Monday. The first day of the session included an address from Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, commemorating his regime’s anniversary as a council member. Maduro and his regime have a record of human rights violations that goes from incarcerating innocent citizens and political dissidents… -
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Authoritarian Left on the March
This week, Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., sent out a series of letters to America’s largest communications corporations: AT&T, Alphabet Inc., Cox Communications, Dish Network, Comcast, Apple, Amazon, and others. Their letters demanded answers from these corporations on one simple topic: Why would these platforms continue to allow the dissemination of “misinformation”… -
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FCC Chair Stays Mum on Efforts to Deplatform Conservative Networks
On Monday, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent out two letters: one urging cable and streaming providers to deplatform three conservative news networks, and another calling on President Joe Biden to make Jessica Rosenworcel the permanent chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission. Rosenworcel would seemingly have some say over the… -
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Schumer and Pelosi Would Deny Americans Freedom of Conscience
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were ferocious advocates of religious freedom—when the question revolved around consuming peyote. In the 1980s, as the Supreme Court’s summary would later explain in the case of Employment Division v. Smith, a “private drug rehabilitation organization” in Oregon fired two employees “because they ingested peyote.”… -
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How Biden, Trudeau Can Improve US-Canada Relations
In his first bilateral meeting with a foreign leader since taking office, President Joe Biden met virtually with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday. Borrowing and reciting each other’s political catchphrases—“America/Canada is back” and “Build back better”—the two politicians talked about their priorities, among them fighting climate change and racial inequality. Their joint statement,… -
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Meet George Gascón, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Los Angeles
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to crime victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series focused on prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Fairfax County, Virginia, and potential U.S…. -
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Raised Democrat, Rep. Lauren Boebert Discusses Her Conversion to the Right
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was raised in a Democrat household and was on welfare before her journey to becoming a conservative member of Congress. “I was raised in a Democrat household. I was stuck under failed policies that put us into a cycle of poverty with no incentive to get out. At 11 years old,… -
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6 Highlights From Congress’ First Hearing on Capitol Riot
Former and current officials responsible for securing the U.S. Capitol fielded questions Tuesday from senators about how the Jan. 6 rioters could have breached the building. Two Senate committees held the first such oversight hearing about a mob’s ability to storm the Capitol, apparently to prevent a joint session of Congress from counting and certifying… -
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In Disappointing Debut by Biden, G-7 Barely Mentions Bad Actor China
President Joe Biden spoke to a hastily thrown together virtual meeting of the Group of Seven last week. Given the short duration of Friday’s summit and its lack of any real substance, it seemed to have been organized for the sole purpose of giving the new president a platform from which to proclaim to the… -
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Abuse of Women in Sports Under the Guise of Trans Rights Deserves a #MeToo Moment
Perhaps the biggest triumph of the #MeToo movement was that it empowered women to speak openly about sexual abuse without fear of social or career repercussions. The left praised this achievement with slogans such as “We will not be silenced.” Time magazine dedicated its Person of the Year issue in 2017 to “The Silence Breakers”…