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After Tracking Trump ‘Falsehoods,’ Washington Post Says It Won’t Do the Same for Biden
The Washington Post will have a lot more time on its hands now that President Joe Biden has been sworn in. According to the paper’s spokesperson, it can call off its whole fact-checking operation. Apparently, it’s not necessary now that its preferred party is in office. The Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott reached out to the… -
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China’s Economy Is Mostly Unfree and Likely to Stay That Way
The People’s Republic of China often pays lip service to reforming its bloated, inefficient state-owned enterprises. Unfortunately, reforms rarely pan out. When China began to emerge from the dark ages of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s, progress in reforming state-owned enterprises, particularly in the form of consolidating state control of large state-owned enterprises… -
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Biden’s Refugee Policy Will Serve the Interests of the United Nations, Not America
It does not take a political science degree to know that with Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States, things will be very different from the last four years. Much of what the Trump administration had done in tax, energy, health care, and immigration policy, as well as how former President Donald… -
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What’s Next for 1776 Commission and the Fight to Preserve US History
One of President Joe Biden’s very first executive actions was to disband the 1776 Commission and remove the commission’s report from the White House website. Mike Gonzalez, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow and member of President Donald Trump’s Advisory 1776 Commission, joins the show to explain the purpose of the new report and why Biden… -
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‘Uncle Tom’ Blacklisted by Hollywood
Actor Ben Affleck once explained why he found it difficult to watch Republican actors on screen. “It’s … hard,” explained Affleck, “to get people to suspend disbelief. … When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or we… -
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Don’t Rush to Failure on Iran Nuclear Negotiations
President Joe Biden has signaled his willingness to revive the flawed 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Doing so would reward a hostile dictatorship that has repeatedly reneged on its nonproliferation obligations and pocketed past concessions without moderating its aggressive foreign policy. The U.S. cannot afford to return to the… -
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Exclusive: House Freedom Caucus Chairman Reintroduces 3 Pro-Life Bills
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, reintroduced three pro-life bills Thursday, a day after President Joe Biden was inaugurated the 46th president of the United States. “The next four years of the Biden administration will bring out the worst abortion policies and edicts that our nation has experienced since the Roe… -
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In the Last House Race Undecided, the Republican Leads by 29 Votes
The only remaining congressional race still not certified will have to wait until at least Jan. 27—and even after that, legal appeals will likely ensue. Republican Claudia Tenney currently leads Democrat Anthony Brindisi by 29 votes in the race in New York’s 22nd Congressional District. But late Wednesday, a state judge ordered the Oneida County… -
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What You Need to Know About the Arrest of Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny returned to Russia from Germany on Jan. 17 and was arrested at the airport upon arrival. Navalny, a leading Russian political opposition figure, had been recovering in Germany since late August, when he was poisoned with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent, in Tomsk, Russia, in an assassination attempt. The reason for his return… -
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A Rash Decision to Rejoin the World Health Organization Before Securing Reforms
Last year, President Donald Trump decided to halt United States funding to the World Health Organization and withdraw from the organization based on its inept response to COVID-19 and its obsequious failure to confront China over its lack of transparency and cooperation during the outbreak. President Joe Biden, in one of his first actions, reversed… -
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Senate to Consider Amnesty and Open Borders with DHS Secretary Vote
United States senators will soon have a chance to support or oppose massive amnesty for illegal aliens and open borders policies. These policy decisions will permanently alter the nation’s sovereignty and security. This opportunity is in the form of the confirmation vote for the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. The Biden administration has promised the largest amnesty for illegal aliens in American… -
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Virginia Values Act Makes Everyone Who Disagrees a Bigot
A federal court in Virginia last week held a hearing on a wedding photographer’s lawsuit challenging a state law that he says requires him to participate in same-sex weddings against his personal Christian beliefs. Lawyers representing photographer Bob Updegrove asked the court Friday to stop enforcing the law while his lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General… -
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7 Executive Actions on Abortion, Gender Identity We Can Expect From Biden
With Joe Biden’s inauguration as president this week, discussion of what to expect in his administration has been obscured by ongoing debate over the election itself. Since it passed Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, Congress has shown a reluctance to make significant reforms in health policy. Major changes have been the result… -
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Here’s What We Can Expect From a Biden Administration
Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. Eager to implement his agenda, Biden signed a number of executive orders after he was sworn into office, beginning the process of undoing some of former President Donald Trump’s legacy. Jessica Anderson, director of Heritage Action for America, joins the “Problematic Women” podcast… -
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Will Biden Place Political Correctness Ahead of Military Readiness on Transgender Policy?
At his Tuesday confirmation hearing, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be secretary of defense, retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, asked about service by transgendered people in the military, replied that if “you are fit, and you’re qualified to serve, and you can maintain the standards, you should be allowed to serve.” That is indeed the correct… -
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San Francisco Area Doctors Call for Reopening California Schools
Thirty doctors and other health care professionals at the University of California at San Francisco have published an open letter calling for the reopening of California’s public elementary and secondary schools by Feb. 1 or “as soon as possible.” “Teachers and other school staff are key players in this process and should be viewed as… -
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It’s Fake News That the 1776 Commission Report Whitewashes America’s Past
The newly formed President’s Advisory 1776 Commission just released its report. The group was chaired by Churchill historian and Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn. The vice chair was Carol M. Swain, a retired professor of political science. (Full disclosure: I was a member of the commission.) The unanimously approved conclusions focused on the Declaration… -
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3 Productive Ways to Use Your ‘Stimulus’ Check
Editor’s note: This article was updated March 24 using new information about the “stimulus” package passed two weeks earlier by the House of Representatives. The U.S. government is not exactly an exemplar of fiscal responsibility. The national debt has topped $28 trillion and continues to climb every day. The government added another $1.9 trillion to… -
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Twitter Permanently Bans Trump. Why Do Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Harry Reid Get a Pass?
Twitter explained why it decided to permanently ban President Donald Trump: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them—specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter—we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Trump gave a long,… -
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The Connection Between Porn and Human Trafficking
Pornography usage is increasing all over the world. It is estimated that 79.5% of women and 98% of men have watched porn. But why is this an issue, one might ask? Pornographers are just sexually liberated people, right? Unfortunately, many people featured in porn are being sex-trafficked, and viewers are unaware that the people they…