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opinion
Justice Department’s Lawsuit Against Georgia Is Completely Partisan
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, headed by new, radical Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, filed a lawsuit on June 25 against Georgia. The Justice Department claimed the state’s recently enacted election reform law, SB 202, violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it discriminates against black Georgia voters. The complaint reads like a press… -
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Biden’s Hypocritical Efforts to Stem the Wave of Violent Crime Fall Far Short
There’s good news, and there’s bad news. The good news (which really is also bad news) is that the Biden administration has finally been forced to acknowledge and admit that the surge in violent crime—especially the surge in homicides in many cities—is a problem. It shouldn’t be shocking that a 24% increase in homicides during… -
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Biden Wants to Make Catholics Pay for Murder
St. John Paul II—speaking for the Catholic Church—stated plainly that abortion is murder. “The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved,” he wrote in “Evangelium Vitae.” “The one eliminated is a human… -
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‘No One Comes Through the Border Illegally Without the Cartels’ Authorization’: How Biden’s Policies Feed a Criminal Monopoly
Mexican criminal cartels—not U.S. border communities, nor illegal immigrants—are the beneficiaries of President Joe Biden’s open border policies. Biden’s neglect of border security is feeding the money-making machine of the Mexican cartels, a criminal enterprise that exploits immigrants by taking their money—and sometimes their lives. “[The cartels] have the northern border of Mexico sealed,” Jay… -
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Twitter Takes No Action Against ProPublica Story on ‘Illegal’ Tax Leaks Despite Censoring Hunter Biden Coverage
Twitter took no action on a ProPublica story published Tuesday based on the “illegal” leak of confidential tax information of the nation’s wealthiest people that was shared widely on its platform. Twitter’s inaction on the tax leak story comes after the social media network outright blocked users in the run-up to the 2020 election from… -
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Pervasive Corruption, Lack of Economic Freedom Pose Bleak Future for Russians
In a recent commentary, “When the former Soviet Union nearly became a democracy,” former Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf offered some timely observations on the Russian economy. Middendorf noted: We know that Russian progress with market-oriented reforms has been uneven and often reversed at the urging of those with an interest in maintaining the status… -
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Blame Criminals, Democrat Left for Today’s Crime Surge
Today’s explosion in violent crime parallels the return of 1970s-style inflation and gasoline lines. Wide ties and polyester slacks can’t be far behind. Criminals themselves are the root cause of crime—now and forevermore. But the thugs’ enablers, and sometime cheerleaders, are the root cause of nearly every contemporary American malady: the Democrat left. Liberal Democrats… -
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Violent Crime Keeps Surging as More on Left Admit It’s Foolish to ‘Defund Police’
It looks as if the surge in violent crime of 2020 is holding steady and perhaps escalating in 2021. Numbers on violent crime from cities around the country have jumped by historic and unprecedented rates in the past year. This surge is returning many of America’s cities to violent crime rates not seen since the… -
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‘We Have the Support of the President.’ For These Americans, Human Trafficking at the Border Is a Form of Political Activism.
An increasing number of U.S. citizens—who consider themselves “political activists”—are taking money from Mexican cartels to receive illegal immigrants into the U.S. from the Mexican border and smuggle them into the interior of the United States. They do so believing that President Joe Biden condones their actions, thanks to his administration’s rhetoric and policies on… -
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More Economic Freedom in Balkans Requires Reducing Government Corruption
The U.S. sanctions recently slapped on Albania’s former prime minister for corruption represent the latest in a string of events highlighting shortfalls in government integrity in the Balkans. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained that Sali Berisha, Albania’s prime minister from 2005 to 2013, was “involved in corrupt acts.” Blinken specified “misappropriation of public… -
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The Hunter Biden Omission Perseveres
Right now we’re getting a feeling that echoes the feeling from last fall, a sense that every new piece of investigative journalism on Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop will be ignored by the “mainstream media.” To be fair, when they didn’t ignore the story back then, they constantly implied it was a Russian disinformation plot. On… -
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Colombia Is Being Threatened by Leftist Violence. Biden’s Silence Is Deafening.
Colombia, one of the United States’ oldest and most reliable allies in the hemisphere, has been rocked by political violence in the past few months aimed at destabilizing the country. As the Center for a Secure Free Society reports, the government of democratically elected President Ivan Duque has been targeted by the same violent, narco-funded,… -
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Biden’s Border Policy Is an Economic Boon for Cartels, Assault on American Communities
President Joe Biden’s border crisis is routinely promoted by his administration and the leftist media as “an immigration system” that is “humane, orderly, and safe.” But on the U.S.-Mexican border, the harsh truth is that Biden’s “system” has led to booming business for the human and drug traffickers of the Mexican cartels. In Cochise County,… -
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Biden Unwisely Rescinds One of Trump’s Criminal Justice Reforms
President Joe Biden has been moving at breakneck speed to undo every policy of his predecessor that he can, but he seems not to be giving any thought to whether the underlying policy is good. If former President Donald Trump made it, Biden will unmake it—even if he later has to remake it, as in… -
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Trump Antagonist Opposes Arizona Election Audit as Justice Department Official
A foe of former President Donald Trump is leading the Biden Justice Department’s push to discredit or halt an election audit in Arizona’s largest county—an issue that is heating up this week. Pamela S. Karlan, principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, warned the leader of the Arizona state Senate… -
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How Biden’s Open-Border Policies Are Worsening Scourge of Human Trafficking
One of my top priorities as state attorney general of Missouri has been to combat human trafficking. We have organized a number of operations to fight human trafficking with an unprecedented level of coordination among local, state, and federal law enforcement that have rescued victims and led to the arrest of traffickers. Further, through our… -
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I Spoke With Residents at the Border. American Citizens Are Paying Criminal Costs Because of Biden’s Policies.
The flood of illegal immigrants from across the southern border is only one of many threats to America’s national security that have increased recently, thanks to the Biden administration’s contempt for the rule of law. The administration’s actions at the border have left federal and local law enforcement, large-scale ranchers and small businesses, and families… -
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Biden Must Protect US Citizens From International Criminal Court
Almost 250 years ago, America’s Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence, cataloging the ways that King George III had infringed upon American liberties. King George’s offenses included “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” Back then, the king presumed to have the authority to seize American colonists and prosecute them… -
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Did Hunter Biden Violate Law in Buying Handgun? 3 Big Questions
Hunter Biden, the president’s son, seemingly faces no legal consequences for a possible deception during a background check while buying a gun. It’s not clear whether the younger Biden broke the letter of federal gun law, although several legal experts and commentators say the question warrants an investigation. Biden bought a .38-caliber revolver in Delaware… -
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Left’s Hidden Agenda in New Hate Crime Bill
The Senate is expected to vote soon on a bill touted as targeting hate crimes against Asian Americans. The legislation, authored by Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., had not initially received widespread conservative support. >>> Update: The Senate passed an amended version of the bill Thursday afternoon by a surprisingly unified…