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Voter Fraud Cases Emerge in Battleground States of North Carolina, Georgia
Two states seen as possible battlegrounds for the November presidential election had major revelations of alleged voter fraud within a week’s time. The Georgia secretary of state’s office announced Tuesday that about 1,000 people voted twice in the state’s June primary, with charges likely to follow. They were referred for possible prosecution. Just six days earlier,… -
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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Resist Governor’s Executive Actions on Climate Change
If Pennsylvania joins a multistate agreement that restricts carbon dioxide emissions, the commonwealth could jeopardize its position as an energy producer and exporter without achieving discernible environmental benefits, according to elected officials who are resisting executive actions to address climate change. The state Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to prohibit Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat,… -
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Despite Pushback, Sen. Ted Cruz Is Right About Abortion Drug
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, recently tweeted a piece from National Review reporting that he and other Senate Republicans had asked the Food and Drug Administration to remove the abortion pill mifepristone (also known as RU-486 or the brand name Mifeprex) from the market. Cruz made additional comments in his tweet that sparked outrage. Many accused… -
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Restoring a Culture of Life: How the Administration Is Prioritizing Life and Conscience Rights
This article is an excerpt from the 2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration. It looks back at the policy decisions made by the Trump administration over the past four years. You can purchase your copy of Mandate 2020 here. Since publication of the last Mandate, the Trump administration has taken… -
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The State of Race in America Today and Yesterday
In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. For black people, the socioeconomic progress achieved during my lifetime, which started in 1936, exceeded anyone’s wildest dreams. In 1936, most black people lived in gross material poverty and racial discrimination. Such poverty… -
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Leftists Blame America. Decent People Blame Themselves.
As long ago as the 1970s, I came to a major realization. While watching fellow students at Columbia University demonstrate not just against the war in Vietnam but against America—”Amerika,” as many spelled it, the “imperialist,” “colonialist,” “mass-murdering” country—I kept wondering what made these people so hostile to the freest country in human history. Then,… -
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Trump Puts Fed Wokeness to Sleep
President Donald Trump took another step toward fulfilling his promise to “drain the swamp” on Friday when he authorized Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to ensure that federal agencies no longer hold “woke” reeducation trainings. The memo directs agency heads to “cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive,… -
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Disney Threatened to Pull Out of Georgia Over Abortion Law, but Filmed in Region Where Chinese Uighurs Are Imprisoned
Disney is facing criticism for filming where China’s Uighurs are allegedly being interned more than a year after CEO Bob Iger suggested the company might be forced to cut ties with Georgia after the state passed an anti-abortion law. In the credits for the live-action version of “Mulan,” Disney thanked a Chinese agency called Turpan Municipal Bureau… -
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New Report Shows Why Congress Must Address National Debt
The Congressional Budget Office released an update to its federal budget projections—the first full update to include effects from COVID-19. While the federal government’s finances were already grim in January despite several years of solid economic growth, this updated report details how things have gone from bad to worse. First, the deficit for 2020 is… -
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How US Marshals Rescued 39 Missing Children in Georgia
The U.S. Marshals Service found 39 missing children in Georgia over two weeks in a mission called Operation Not Forgotten. The rescued children “were considered to be some of the most at-risk and challenging recovery cases in the area,” the agency said. How did Georgia state officials work with the Marshals Service to rescue these… -
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Looking Back: Reclaiming Educational Excellence
This article is an excerpt from the "2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration." It looks back at policy decisions made by the Trump administration over the past four years. You can purchase your copy of "Mandate 2020" here. Since publication of the last Mandate for Leadership, the Trump administration has… -
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Your Right to Vote Is Sacred. Don’t Give It Up.
The right to vote is among the most sacred rights we have as Americans. It is fundamental to our democracy. I’m old enough to remember when the mantra about elections was “every vote counts and every vote must be counted.” Now, we keep hearing that election fraud is nothing to worry about so long as… -
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DC’s Opportunity Scholarship Program Giving Students Access to In-Class Education
For many children living in the District of Columbia, the new school year begins much like the last one ended—at home. The unexpected onset of the coronavirus pandemic initiated an abrupt transition to crisis online learning. While some children perform well in their virtual classrooms, not all children respond the same. For instance, although D.C…. -
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6 Persistent Myths About Socialism, Debunked
A frightening 70% of millennials say they would back a socialist candidate for office. Today, we are seeing many socialist ideas gaining traction, such as “free” college tuition, government-run health care, and a guaranteed income even for able-bodied people who don’t work. While we can blame some of the attraction on socialism’s false promises of… -
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Trump Bans ‘Divisive, Un-American Propaganda Training’ for Federal Workforce
Highly paid consultants spouting toxic racist concepts meant to transform society, and ignobly masking them as “anti-racism” training, are to be shown the door of the federal workforce, and hopefully out of corporate America one day, too. And all courtesy of Donald Trump and his Office of Management and Budget director. Yes, that same Donald… -
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Trump Expands Drilling Moratorium From Florida to South Carolina, Georgia
Before expanding a moratorium on offshore drilling Tuesday near the coasts of Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia, President Donald Trump invoked the legacy of another brash New Yorker known for rattling the political establishment during his presidency. Trump’s order extending the drilling moratorium came a month after he signed the Great American Outdoors Act, which… -
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Under Jihadi Siege, Christians in West Africa Are Praying for a Miracle
“One evening in late June, gunmen stormed a village in northern Burkina Faso,” the The Washington Post reported, “and ordered people who had been chatting outside to lie down. Then the armed strangers checked everyone’s necks, searching for jewelry. They found four men wearing crucifixes—Christians. They executed them … .” Burkina Faso is one of several vulnerable African… -
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Expect Chaos for the November Election
It’s becoming increasingly clear that we should conduct the November election in as normal a manner as possible. We should have as many of our regular polling places open as we can—and we should resist the ongoing push to have an all-mail election or a massive increase in absentee balloting with an elimination of the… -
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The Future of America’s Shopping Malls
Retail plays a significant role within the nation’s economic health. About 17 million Americans work for brick-and-mortar stores, according to Abby Jagoda, vice president of government affairs at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, which specializes in owning, developing, and managing retail assets. And despite the narrative that retail is dying to e-commerce, she says, sales at physical stores have… -
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Some Schools Don’t Want You to Know What They Are Teaching Your Kids. That’s a Problem.
Six months into the pandemic, some traditions will still not be upset by a virus. As approximately half of K-12 schools are only offering online instruction, parents will still know little, if anything, of what their children are being taught in school except by accident—or unless they ask. Recent fallout from such asymmetric information comes…