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Netflix Movie ‘Cuties’ Depicts Adolescent Girl Who Joins Twerking Dance Group
A new Netflix movie depicts a group of young girls twerking and exploring their “burgeoning femininity.” Scheduled for release Sept. 9, “Cuties” tells the story of 11-year-old Amy, a French girl who “joins a group of dancers named ‘the cuties’ at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity—upsetting her mother and her values in the process,” according… -
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Steve Bannon, Partner Indicted on Charges They Defrauded Border Wall Donors
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and triple-amputee Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage were indicted Thursday for allegedly defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors who donated to their crowdfunded border wall project Kolfage and Bannon raised more than $25 million through their nonprofit group We Build the Wall under the false pretense that all… -
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State Department Official ‘Destroyed’ Records at Foreign Agent’s Request
A former State Department official told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he destroyed records in January 2017, the month President Donald Trump took office, at the request of former British spy Christopher Steele, according to a new report. Jonathan Winer, who served as special envoy to Libya through early 2017, was Steele’s contact at the… -
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Problematic Women: Planned Parenthood Ideology ‘Killing the Family,’ Ex-Volunteer Says
Planned Parenthood is a business. Simply put, America’s largest abortion provider loses profit if young people are not having sex. Monica Cline worked as a “comprehensive sex educator” and volunteer for Planned Parenthood for a decade before walking away to become a specialist in avoiding sexual risk and start an organization called It Takes a… -
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What’s Really Going on With the US Postal Service
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called lawmakers back early to vote on legislation centered on the U.S. Postal Service. Pelosi and the Democrats asked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Postal Service Board of Governors Chairman Robert Duncan to come before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Aug. 24, fast-tracking a hearing originally set for… -
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How America’s Culture Wars Erupted Into Presidential Impeachments
Last year’s impeachment of President Donald Trump was an aberration from past historical impeachments in one major respect, but it fit perfectly in another respect. Unlike the Trump impeachment, the previous two presidential impeachments and one near-impeachment involved allegations of actual crimes. However, what all impeachments had in common is they occurred when the United… -
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Raising a Child in a World Obsessed With Transgender Contagion
In a column this week in The Washington Post headlined “Advice to parents on how to raise a happy and healthy LGBTQ child,” author Steven Petrow writes that only a small percentage of teenagers “identify” as lesbian, gay, or transgender. At the same time, Petrow acknowledges examples of tweens and teenagers struggling with sexual orientation… -
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This Misguided Protectionism Would Harm All Americans, Including Farmers
Driving up food prices is a bad idea any time, especially during a pandemic. Yet a small subset of fruit and vegetable growers are pushing for government action that would do just that, hurting American families and other farmers growing the same exact commodities. Here’s what’s happening. This week, the Office of the United States… -
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Time to Kill the Zombie Iran Nuclear Deal at UN
The United Nations Security Council soon will be plunged into a momentous debate as the Trump administration seeks to kill the 2015 Iran nuclear deal once and for all by invoking “snapback” sanctions. Despite the U.S. withdrawal in 2018 from the the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and… -
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Chinese Hospitals Kill Newborns, Force Abortions to Eradicate Uighurs, Doctor Says
Chinese hospitals kill newborns and perform late-term abortions in attempts to decrease China’s Uighur Muslim population, a former doctor from Xinjiang said. In a Monday interview with Radio Free Asia, Hasiyet Abdulla discussed her 15 years working in Xinjiang hospitals as a Uighur doctor, Business Insider reports. China passed a 2017 law ordering Uighurs and other minorities… -
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‘Great Nightfall’ Provides Extraordinary Overview of Military Challenges Facing America
Americans who want to better understand the complex threats the United States faces might assume that they need to read at least several books to get the full picture. Indeed, the landscape is complicated. The range of threats today includes cyber, space, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence-guided weapons, and robots; not to mention the more traditional… -
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Should America Be Guided by ‘Narratives’ or Truth?
In a recent interview, Attorney General William Barr said of the dominant news media: They are projecting a narrative. When the word ‘narrative’ came into currency, I knew we were in trouble, because the word narrative suggests that there’s no objective truth. There’s no real story of what happened, it’s just everyone has their own… -
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This Mom Created an Education Pod, and You Can Too
For many families, home has become both office and school during the coronavirus pandemic. Parents across America are facing the challenge this fall of managing a full-time job with their child’s education. Memories of a chaotic spring have driven moms and dads to find creative solutions. Education pods are one way families can ensure their… -
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Fact Check: Debunking 10 Myths About the US Postal Service
In 2020, we’re used to seeing falsehoods and misinformation spreading like wildfire online. Typically, they’re linked to breaking news, hot-button social issues, or scandals. The biggest focal point for online political drama today is an unlikely one; namely, the U.S. Postal Service. Representatives from both parties, conspiracy theorists, and even singer Taylor Swift are weighing… -
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Senate Intel Panel Finds ‘Absolutely No Evidence’ of Collusion, Faced Roadblocks
The Senate Intelligence Committee said in a long-awaited report released Tuesday that there is no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election, affirming the findings of other investigations into an alleged Trump-Kremlin conspiracy. The Intelligence Committee's report, which clocks in at 966 pages, also offers a scathing assessment… -
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2 Reports Buttress Trump Policies Banning Abortion Funding Abroad, Fetal Tissue Research at Home
The government issued two reports Tuesday evaluating the Trump administration’s pro-life policies that curb taxpayer funding for abortion-related matters here and abroad. The State Department issued a status report early Tuesday on the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy, which requires foreign nongovernmental organizations getting U.S. taxpayer funding to agree not to perform or… -
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4 States Supporting Private Schools With COVID-19 Relief Lead Way on Education Choice
When COVID-19 brought the school year to an abrupt halt early this year, few anticipated that the global pandemic would be the impetus for private school choice reforms across the nation. As is the case with so many other sectors, many private schools struggled after losing tuition and other funding resources due to the strains… -
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In a Flourishing Society, Should Safety Be a Means or an End?
COVID-19 has shown that many politicians and public figures believe in the ideology of safety over all else. They focus obsessively on keeping us safe, elevate that single idea above its proper place, and force all to bow down to it. Businesses, churches, and schools tout safety as they dramatically change longstanding policies. State governments… -
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In Responding to Coronavirus, We Should Seek to Thrive, Not Just Survive
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a dramatic rise in mental health problems. My own experience attests to this, as the prolonged COVID-19 lockdown led me into a state of clinical depression and anxiety from which I am still recovering. And the data indicate that, unfortunately, my own experience is far from unusual. The Centers for… -
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Why We Don’t Want to Import Weak Intellectual Property Systems
Much ink has been spilled describing the ill effects on innovation from proposed legislation that would import foreign price controls on patented medical treatments. Legislation pending in Congress, supported by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, would mandate creating an International Pricing Index to set the prices paid by the U.S. government for patented drugs and other…