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opinion
Eliminating Filibuster Would Allow Left to Accomplish Extreme Agenda
Most of what you’ve heard about the left’s extremist agenda is true. It hasn’t been exactly quiet about it. The radical left, which is now setting the agenda for the incoming White House and at least one chamber of Congress, is intent on imposing a government takeover of the health care system, implementing the job-killing… -
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Hack of US Agencies, Fortune 500 Firms Highlights Need for Cybersecurity
Russians are the prime suspects in a major hack this month against U.S. computer networks, compromising the data of the departments of Commerce, Treasury, and Homeland Security, as well as a number of Fortune 500 companies, in one of the largest reported cyberattacks ever. The full scope of the hack will not be known for… -
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The World Trade Organization Gets It Wrong: It Is Not the Government’s Job to Pick Innovators
The World Trade Organization has released a new report that offers recommendations to world governments on how to stimulate innovation in digital economies. Regrettably, the policy recommendations are heavy on big government intervention and ignore a fundamental principal of free-market economics: that governments should first and foremost get out of the way of competitive entrepreneurial… -
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Media Will Treat Biden Very Differently Than Trump
For four years, we heard that President Donald Trump is a threat to freedom of the press. The Washington Post signaled its own faux bravery by adopting the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” at the top of its masthead. CNN began running commercials about facts being facts, and apples being apples rather than bananas (unless,… -
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FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Home Coronavirus Test
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter, at-home coronavirus test Tuesday. The test, developed by the Australian company Ellume Limited, is a rapid antigen test that can deliver results in approximately 20 minutes, and works on any patient older than 2 years of age, the FDA said in its announcement. “Today’s authorization is a major… -
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Eulogy for My Dad, Walter Williams
In the late 1980s, when telemarketing was at it is peak, a company called our home during dinner. I picked up the phone and handed it to my dad. This is what we heard him say: “I’m not interested.” “No. No, thank you.” “Well … I’m not ever going to die.” And then he hung… -
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The House Voted a Year Ago to Impeach Trump. Here’s What You Need to Know About That.
Dec. 18 will mark one year since the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Looking back, what happened “behind the scenes” of the impeachment proceedings? Fred Lucas, the chief national affairs correspondent for The Daily Signal and author of “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,” joins “The… -
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How Conservatives Must Counter the Media’s Left-Wing Election Advocacy
While there’s little doubt that left-leaning bias is rampant throughout much of the political media, is that bias powerful enough to swing a presidential election? According to a survey of those who voted for Joe Biden in November, it made a big enough difference to hand six swing states to the former vice president. Unfortunately,… -
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New Leadership Is Exactly What Voice of America Needs
Voice of America is under new leadership starting this week. Author and veteran broadcaster Robert Reilly became the new director of the U.S. government’s flagship broadcast network—commonly known as VOA—on Monday as part of a desperately-needed cleanup. Reilly’s appointment was made public in a statement by Michael Pack, the CEO of the U.S. Agency for… -
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Washington Archdiocese Takes DC Mayor to Court Over 50-Person Mass Restrictions
The D.C. mayor’s office is only a half-mile from the National Archives. If Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser ever made that trek, she might have a better grasp on the U.S. Constitution. It’s right there for everyone to read, including the First Amendment, which warns leaders like her against infringing on the free exercise of religion—something… -
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McConnell Calls Biden ‘President-Elect,’ Hails Harris as First Female Veep
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday congratulated “President-elect Joe Biden” in a Senate floor speech, asserting, “the Electoral College has spoken.” McConnell, R-Ky., delivered his remarks one day after the Electoral College voted 306 to 232 to declare Biden the official winner of the presidential election. However, President Donald Trump hasn’t conceded the race,… -
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Judge Sullivan’s Long Overdue Dismissal of Flynn Case Reveals His Bias
Federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan last week finally got around to doing what he should have done months ago. Sullivan officially dismissed the Justice Department’s case against Michael Flynn, but only after President Donald Trump had pardoned him the day before Thanksgiving. It never should have taken this long for Sullivan to dismiss the case,… -
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Colorado Church, Bars State From Restricting Worship
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Tuesday that a federal court must reexamine Colorado’s coronavirus restrictions on indoor religious services. In an unsigned decision, the court threw out a federal district court’s ruling that had rejected High Plains Harvest Church’s challenge to the state’s restrictions on houses of worship, according to the Star Tribune. The decision comes… -
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How the Chinese Communist Party Robs Children of Their Religious Faith
The U.S. State Department on Dec. 7 designated China a “country of particular concern” for its systematic, egregious, and ongoing violations of the religious freedom of its citizens. The Chinese Communist Party has rightly been under scrutiny for its persecution of religious groups, including the internment of Uighurs in concentration camps in Xinjiang and the… -
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Rogue US Attorneys Coming to a City Near You?
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…. -
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The Rich History of Jewish Prayer on the Floor of Congress
Between policy debates and competing political agendas, Congress is not exactly known for being a place of peace, except when members pause for a moment of prayer before each session. Today, Howard Mortman, director for communications at C-SPAN and the author of the book “When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers… -
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The Media’s Hunter Biden Failure
It isn’t that the alleged exploits, profits, and questionable business deals involving Hunter Biden and his father, Joe Biden, were not known for most of this election year. Much of mainstream media either ignored it or put it down as right-wing extremism. Until now. We’ve recently learned that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware is… -
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Gov. Northam, It’s Not Up to You to Tell People of Faith How They Can Worship
During a press conference Thursday, Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., took it upon himself to tell the faithful not only how they should worship, but also shamed them for wanting to worship with fellow believers. “The holidays are typically times of joy and community. We gather together, we celebrate our faith, and we celebrate with family,”… -
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3 Things to Know as 2020 Election Challenge Moves to Congress
After their party’s presidential nominee lost in the Electoral College, some House members lined up to object to and challenge the results during the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes. House Democrats made 11 objections. In each case, then-outgoing Vice President Joe Biden—presiding over the session in his role as… -
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Northam Shames Churchgoers
While California, New York, and other states have gone off the deep end on coronavirus restrictions, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has been unusually quiet. That changed Thursday, when the radical leader broke his silence with a slew of new rules. And, like every other liberal leader, he didn’t mind shaming churches in the process. “This…