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Why Aren’t US Attorneys Investigating Voter Fraud Allegations?
None of the U.S. government’s top 93 prosecutors appears to have looked into allegations of voter fraud in states across the nation, Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakovsky says. In an interview with EWTN’s “News Nightly,” von Spakovsky responds to Attorney General William Barr’s assertion to The Associated Press that the Justice Department hasn’t… -
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CDC Tells Americans to ‘Stay at Home and Not Travel’ for Christmas
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discouraged Americans from Christmas travel due to the coronavirus pandemic during a telephone press conference Wednesday. “We did put out a message to postpone and stay at home […] around Thanksgiving and we’re putting out the same message: The best thing for Americans to do in the upcoming… -
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Austin Mayor Flies Private to Cabo San Lucas, Films Himself Telling Citizens to ‘Stay Home’
The mayor of Austin, Texas, flew private to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where he filmed himself telling citizens to “stay home.” Austin Mayor Steve Adler hosted 20 guests at an outdoor wedding and reception for his daughter at a hotel in downtown Austin in early November, the American-Statesman reported. The following day he boarded a private… -
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Education or Indoctrination? ‘Anti-Racist’ Teaching Sweeps K-12 Schools Targeting ‘Whiteness’
The notices to parents began arriving fast and furious in the weeks after the death of George Floyd in late May. In dramatic, urgent language, K-12 schools across the country—both public and private—professed solidarity with Black Lives Matter and vowed to dismantle white supremacy, as they scrambled to introduce anti-racist courses and remake themselves into… -
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Farewell to Economist and Teacher Walter E. Williams, My Best Friend
Walter E. Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read Walter Williams’ syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the classroom. Walter, a professor of economics at George Mason… -
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Trump Won His Other Campaign—to Destroy Media Credibility
Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some degree, rediscovered concepts such as fairness and perspective, AWOL the last four years. Two weeks after the election, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof haltingly, grudgingly, and reluctantly,… -
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Problematic Women: How 1 Woman Took on the Soviet Union in Afghanistan
Joanne Herring, a longtime political activist and philanthropist, deserves a great deal of credit for helping break the back of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Herring, who became politically engaged in the Middle East in the 1970s, saw that the Soviet Union was seeking to take over Afghanistan to ultimately gain control… -
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Woke Culture Comes for America’s High Schools
High schools across America are embracing a woke curriculum. Charles Fain Lehman, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says he is troubled by a trend in education of embracing wokeness above reason and fact. Lehman, who is also a staff writer at The Washington Free Beacon, joins the show to discuss his recent article “American… -
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Why Do Progressives No Longer Defend Free Expression?
A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art, music, and literature to allow nudity, profanity, sexuality, and anti-American boilerplate. Now? The left is Victorian—increasingly puritanical, regressive, and hypersensitive. Even totalitarian censorship and book-burning have weirdly become part of… -
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Nikki Haley Criticizes Biden’s OMB Pick, Neera Tanden
Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley criticized former Vice President Joe Biden’s choice of Neera Tanden to serve in his administration. “Tanden has shown bad judgment in the past. She said that @realDonaldTrump is ‘part of [a] conspiracy against [the] US’ & has a track record of disparaging Rep Senators,” Haley tweeted Tuesday…. -
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Election Came Under ‘Coordinated Assault and Siege,’ Trump Says
President Donald Trump told Americans why he has not conceded the election in an unprecedented video message late Wednesday afternoon that he said “may be the most important speech I’ve ever made.” “The constitutional process must be allowed to continue,” Trump said in the speech recorded at the White House as his reelection campaign pursued… -
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3 Keys to What’s Next in Probe of Why FBI Investigated Trump
The appointment of John Durham as special counsel likely means his probe of potential misconduct by FBI and other government officials in beginning the Trump-Russia investigation will continue well into 2021, regardless of who the president is. One former FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, already has pleaded guilty to making false statements to obtain a warrant… -
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Leftist Politicians’ Hypocrisy Demonstrates Shallowness of ‘Party of Science’
States around the country are heading into the second wave of pandemic lockdowns, but many Americans may not be so keen on complying this time around. Progressives and Democrats are apparently the most eager to shut everything down to stop the spread of the coronavirus, even though this policy stance ignores what science is telling… -
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Hit on Scientist Highlights Concerns About Iran’s Nuclear Program
There’s plenty of debate about the daring killing last week of the infamous Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who some consider to be a leading figure in Iran’s nuclear program. Less debatable is that Fakhrizadeh’s killing on the streets of Iran is almost certainly tied to deep, ongoing concerns about the direction of Iran’s nuclear… -
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Left Pegs Israel as Villain in Assassination of Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist
I always thought no one—including Israel—could pull off something as incredible as the raid on Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. To remind readers what happened that day: A week earlier, on June 27, two Palestinian terrorists and two German terrorists hijacked an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris with 248 passengers on… -
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The Dangers of Joe Biden’s Extreme Abortion Agenda
In the aftermath of a singularly high-stakes election, as President Donald Trump fights to ensure that every legal vote is counted, former Vice President Joe Biden claims to want to unify our nation and even “heal” our collective soul. There is ample reason for skepticism. By all indications, Biden and Kamala Harris have not changed… -
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Naming Durham as Special Counsel Will Make It Harder for Biden to End Russia Hoax Probe
Congressional Democrats weren’t happy to learn Tuesday that Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham as a special counsel in October to continue investigating the origins of the now thoroughly discredited Trump-Russia “collusion” probe into the 2016 presidential election. Barr has extended the protection of Justice Department regulations to Durham. These regulations will make it difficult for a new… -
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How a Congressman’s Brush With Abortion Spurred His Reverence for Life, Adoption
Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., likely would not be alive today were it not for adoption. An appreciation of adoption runs deep in the family. Schweikert’s father was adopted, as was the congressman, his two siblings, and his own young daughter. Schweikert’s personal experience with adoption led him to be a fierce advocate for children in… -
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Barr Appoints Special Counsel to Continue Investigation Into Origins of Trump-Russia Probe
Attorney General William Barr designated U.S. Attorney John Durham in October as special counsel for the Justice Department, allowing him to continue his investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Barr revealed the decision in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. The move seemingly… -
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UK High Court Rules Children Under 16 ‘Unlikely to Be Able to Give Informed Consent’ to Puberty Blockers
A United Kingdom high court ruled Tuesday that children under the age of 16 are “unlikely” to be mature enough “to be able to give informed consent” to puberty-blocking drugs. “It is highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under would be competent to give consent to the administration of puberty blockers,” three senior judges said, according…