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opinion
Churches Across the Country Attacked
It looked like something out of a 2015 news report—a picture from ISIS, maybe, torching its way through Mosul. But the charred pews and collapsed roof were not the work of Islamic terrorists, but America’s own. Over the weekend, the rioters, the same ones who wanted us to believe their cause is justice, came for our churches—using… -
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New ‘Baby-Sitters Club’ Series, Aimed at Kids, Features Transgender Storyline
There’s an entire generation of moms today who wouldn’t think twice about sitting their kids down in front of Netflix’s new “Baby-Sitters Club” show. And that, experts warn, is exactly the problem. Like so many other women, they’re expecting the same innocent storylines they came to love from Ann Martin’s books in the ’80s and… -
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A Fatal Conceit in Miami
MIAMI—The on-again, off-again opening and closing of restaurants in Miami has angered restaurant owners in the area. Last week, 30 of them gathered to protest the latest shutdown order by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, a Republican. Nick Sharp, who owns three restaurants, said of the mayor’s latest closure order: “It’s moronic. It’s idiotic. It… -
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Religious Liberty Is Important, but It’s Not Enough
The past two weeks brought welcome rulings from the Supreme Court on religious liberty. We should celebrate these victories, because religious liberty is an authentic natural and human right. But it’s not enough. And even the best of religious liberty wins can’t adequately contend in a proxy war over substantive issues. We must do more politically to… -
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4 Things to Know About the Mob Violence in Portland
Residents of the Portland area have “become accustomed to chaos,” says William Deatherage, 22, a recent college graduate who has lived in a suburb of the Oregon city since he was 5 years old. “It’s safe during the day, but with all the litter and graffiti and statues torn down, I don’t even like to… -
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Don’t Fall for Cuomo’s Gaslighting on Coronavirus
On March 25, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made one of deadliest mistakes of the coronavirus crisis, signing an executive order forcing nursing homes in his state to accept patients who tested positive for the coronavirus. Around 4,800 New Yorkers died from COVID-19 in those nursing homes from March to May—approximately 25% of all fatalities… -
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Dismantling Student Loan Program Best Path to Fight ‘Leftist Indoctrination’ on Campus
Americans should demand better from their universities. Recent riots and vandalism taking place across the country have caused many to scrutinize what students are being taught in colleges. That scrutiny has even reached the White House. President Donald Trump tweeted out a possible answer July 10 to the growing tensions and illiberal civic education in… -
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Vandalizing American History: A List of 113 Toppled, Defaced, or Removed Statues
The list of American statues and other monuments that have been toppled, decapitated, defaced, or removed since the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis grew longer almost daily through June and July. The pace of such incidents then slowed, but continued to occur into October. A mob cheered as it pulled down a… -
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McCarthy Unveils Bill to Protect Statues and Deny Funds to Cities and States That Don’t
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Thursday the introduction of a bill intended to protect statues and monuments from damage and destruction by protesters and vandals. The California Republican’s legislation would withhold some federal funds from state and local governments whose officials fail to act to protect the monuments from the vandalism. “Public monuments are… -
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Costa Rica Leads Traditional 5 Spanish-Speaking Nations of Central America in Economic Freedom
With a score of 65.8 in The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom, Costa Rica is the most economically free country in the traditional five-nation Central American bloc. It is ranked 12th among the 32 countries in the Americas region, and is the 68th freest in the world. It came as no surprise, then,… -
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How Greater Economic Freedom Elevated Colombia
Colombia in late April became the 37th nation to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, successfully completing an accession process that began in 2013. Although that multilateral organization is far from perfect, as several Heritage Foundation papers have noted, it remains the most significant international organization promoting the values of economic freedom. Colombia’s… -
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Sen. Josh Hawley Asks Attorney General to Look Into Investigation of Gun-Owning Couple
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., urged Attorney General William Barr on Thursday to launch a civil rights investigation into the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office that is “threatening to prosecute” a couple that defended their home with firearms. In a letter to Barr, Hawley wrote that Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s decision to investigate lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey was an… -
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House Panel Forgets ‘Water’s Edge,’ Again OKs Partisan Defense Bill
The House Appropriations Committee approved its fiscal year 2021 funding bill for the Department of Defense on July 14 on a straight party-line vote of 30 to 22. If last year’s defense budget cycle teaches us anything, it is that this level of partisanship is a path for failure. In 2019, the House Armed Services… -
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Attorney General Says Hollywood ‘Kowtowing’ to China, Warns US Executives Against Acting as Chinese Foreign Agents
Attorney General William Barr said Thursday the Chinese government has achieved a “massive propaganda coup” by shaping the content coming out of Hollywood, while warning U.S. business executives against acting as agents of the communist regime in possible violation of foreign lobbying laws. Speaking at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Barr offered a sober… -
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Halle Berry’s Transgender Role ‘Canceled’ by LGBTQ Intolerance
Hollywood star Halle Berry recently revealed another crack in the armor of the transgender movement, however unwittingly. In a July 4 Instagram Live chat with hairstylist Christin Brown, the Academy Award-winning actress said she would cut her hair for her next film project—as a transgender character. After receiving criticism on social media, simply for explaining… -
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11 Incidents in Which Lawful Gun Owners Made a Difference
As the Supreme Court continued its decadelong silence in protecting the Second Amendment, Americans last month nevertheless proved that they understand the importance of the right to keep and bear arms. The FBI conducted a record-high 3.9 million background checks for firearms sales and transfers in June. The previous record of 3.7 million was set… -
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New York City Eliminated Its Anti-Crime Unit. Violent Crime Has Surged.
New York City has seen a 53.5% increase in shootings and a 27% increase in killings this year, according to GianCarlo Canaparo, a legal fellow with The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. The New York City Police Department disbanded its plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit amid calls to defund the police in the wake of the killing of George… -
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Save This Emancipation Monument, Save American Ideals
The debate now surrounding the Emancipation Monument that stands in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., is a critical discussion in which I believe all Americans of goodwill and those who want racial harmony should engage. The memorial shows a standing President Abraham Lincoln with the Emancipation Proclamation in his right hand and Archer Alexander, the… -
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Nick Cannon’s Anti-Semitism Symptomatic of a Deeper Problem
The recent surge in anti-Semitic outbursts from entertainment figures—most recently Nick Cannon—is troubling to people of goodwill. As a Hollywood actor and entertainer who has starred in more than two dozen films and scores of television shows, Cannon is a high-profile cultural influencer. On a podcast released June 30, he chose to use his wide-reaching… -
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Judicial Council Rightly Rebukes Judge Lynn Adelman for Law Review Diatribe
Federal district court Judge Lynn Adelman had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day late last month when the Judicial Council of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided to publicly admonish him for his intemperate 35-page article, “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy,” which personally attacked Chief Justice John Roberts, President Donald…