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The Triumph of Justice Amy Coney Barrett
“There is a tendency in our profession,” Judge Amy Coney Barrett declared at the outset of her Senate confirmation hearing, “to treat the practice of law as all-consuming, while losing sight of everything else.” But, Barrett added in her Oct. 12 opening statement, “I never let the law define my identity or crowd out the… -
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Amy Coney Barrett Joins Supreme Court After 52-48 Senate Vote
Amy Coney Barrett, fresh from a Senate confirmation vote, was sworn in Monday night as the Supreme Court’s newest justice at an outdoor ceremony at the White House. The Senate, in a roll call that began just before 8 p.m., voted 52-48, mostly along party lines, to confirm Barrett as President Donald Trump’s third nominee… -
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YouTube, Vimeo Remove Conservative Entrepreneur’s COVID-19 Video
The online video platforms YouTube and Vimeo have censored a video of “The Bill Walton Show” about the danger of COVID-19 shutdowns for violating standards enforced by each company. YouTube removed the 47-minute video of the program in which Walton interviews Jay Richards, one of three authors of the book “The Price of Panic: How… -
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How ‘Court Packing’ Would Damage Both the Judicial and Legislative Branches
The concept of “court packing” has received a lot of attention recently, and rightly so. That radical move—which Democrats rejected in the 1930s—would permanently damage the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. But it’s even worse than that. The steps necessary to achieve that goal would also permanently weaken the legislative branch. America’s Founders applied… -
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10 Rallies, Protests Slated During Election Week in DC, Park Service Says
The National Park Service has approved one permit for a prayer vigil in the nation's capital next week, which includes Election Day, and is reviewing nine other demonstration requests, a local CBS affiliate reported. The requests include religious gatherings, patriotic events, and free speech demonstrations “against the election results,” WUSA-TV (Channel 9) reported. The National Park… -
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6 Cases of Chinese Infiltration of Universities and Research—and What Trump Is Doing About It
The U.S. government has voiced concerns before about China’s espionage, but the action it has taken to revoke the visas of more than 1,000 Chinese nationals followed numerous examples of the communist nation’s infiltration of higher education. Most of those who lost their U.S. visas in August were graduate students and researchers visiting the United… -
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Lebanon Taps Saad al-Hariri to Return as Prime Minister
Veteran political leader Saad al-Hariri was designated as prime minister for the fourth time on Thursday and faces the daunting challenge of resolving Lebanon’s festering problems. Hariri, who stepped down as prime minister in October 2019 due to anti-government protests over Lebanon’s mounting economic troubles and corruption, pledged to form a government of specialists to push through long-overdue economic and financial reforms. Yet Hariri faces a difficult task in… -
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Hunter Biden Sought to Avoid Registering as Foreign Agent in Chinese Business Venture, Text Message Shows
Hunter Biden suggested setting up a shell company to do business with a Chinese firm to avoid registering as a foreign agent and be able to bid on U.S. government contracts, according to documents from May 2017 obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. A day after sending the message, Biden arranged a meeting between… -
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Man Who Bought Firearms Used in San Bernardino Terrorist Attack Gets 20 Years
A California man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to commit terror attacks and for providing assault rifles used in the 2015 attack in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 dead, the Department of Justice announced. Enrique Marquez Jr., 28, pleaded guilty in 2017 to conspiring to provide material support and… -
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‘Eternal Vigilance’ Required to Maintain Freedom, Author Says
“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance” goes the sentiment often ascribed to Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of those words never may have been more important than today. Navy veteran, physicist, and business consultant Ralph Bayrer, author of the new book “Eternal Vigilance: Guarding Against the Predatory State,” joins the podcast to discuss the future… -
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America Is Drowning in the Lies of the Left
There are conservatives who lie, and there are liberals who lie, but both conservatism and liberalism hold truth to be a supreme value. This is not true for leftism. Truth is simply not a left-wing value. Lying is to the left what breathing is to biological life. That is why the father of modern leftism,… -
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Trump Sparks Coyote Conundrum by Citing Smuggling of Illegal Aliens
Something unexpected happened during the second and final presidential debate Thursday night between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. No one saw this coming. The internet exploded in a frenzied discussion of “coyotes,” with blue-check-marked leftists leading this cultural canine curiosity. The website for the Merriam-Webster dictionary reported a 675% increase in… -
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The Despicable Teachings on College Campuses
The ugliness that we have recently witnessed—including rioting, billions of dollars of property destruction, assaults, murders, and grossly stupid claims about our nation—has its origins on college campuses. Two websites, College Reform and College Fix, report on the despicable teachings on college campuses across the nation. Let us look at some of it. In response… -
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Using COVID-19 to Attack Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Is Beyond Absurd
Olympus has spoken. Michael Gerson, a Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for the George W. Bush administration, has proclaimed that President Donald Trump blinded pro-life supporters into trading mass death at the hands of COVID-19 in exchange for a false promise of lives saved from abortion. In an absurd column in this most absurd… -
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Religious Persecution in China Must Be Called Out
On the matter of religion in China, Beijing has made one thing perfectly clear: No religious group lies beyond the grasp of the Chinese Communist Party. Late last month, the Jamestown Foundation reported on a new Chinese Communist Party program of collectivization and reeducation in Tibet similar to the forced labor campaign being carried out against Uighurs in Xinjiang province…. -
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Top-Down White Penitence Is Shaking Up and Roiling the American Workplace
A white physician working in Raleigh, North Carolina, says he has participated in multiple diversity training exercises—including two in the last two years—without a fuss. But he was taken aback when his employer, Duke University Health System, said this summer it will roll out a comprehensive strategy to purge the last vestiges of racism from… -
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In 2020, a Radical Disruption of American Life
The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting, and protesting—all in a presidential election year—are radically disrupting American habits and behavior. Rents, home prices, and office occupancy rates in major cities, especially on the two coasts, are dropping fast. Techies and young professionals have discovered that they can work from home… -
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The Left-Wing Con of Black Americans
Rapper/actor Ice Cube is on the brink of understanding the left-wing con! He appears on the verge of understanding the fake product that the Democrats and the media have been peddling: that America remains guilty of “systemic racism.” In a video Ice Cube posted on social media, he wondered what blacks are getting in return… -
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Stimulus Spending Benefits Politicians, Not Taxpayers
I recall several presidential elections ago, an elementary school teacher wrote a newspaper column about a mock election he held in his class. Two students were nominated by their classmates, and then they campaigned for their votes. Who won the election? One of the students presented an agenda and reasonably argued for the merits of… -
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Judging Amy: The Left’s Proclivity for Believing and Empowering Women Is Limited to Its Own
“Believe women.” The slogan, born out of the #MeToo movement, was a common refrain during the Senate Judiciary hearings in September 2018 leading up to Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States. Some even inserted an “all” to make it “Believe all women.” Essentially, the message of “Believe women” was to…