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Biden Nominee at State Runs Center Funded Mostly by That Agency
President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top State Department post runs a private organization that has received tens of millions from the federal agency. Biden’s nomination of Lee Satterfield as assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has prompted concerns about the appearance of a conflict of interest. Satterfield is… -
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Biden Sets Everything on Fire
Joe Biden is the luckiest man to ever assume the presidency. He succeeded an unpopular figure. He was inaugurated just two weeks after the dramatic storming of the U.S. Capitol by extremist Donald Trump supporters seeking to stop the certification of the 2020 election, which was also the beginning of the year after widespread race… -
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Christian College Fights Biden Directive Allowing Men to Live in Women’s Dorms
A small Missouri college is taking the Biden administration to court over a directive that allows biological men who “identify” as women to live in female-only dormitories. The College of the Ozarks, a Christian school with just over 1,500 students, filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration in April after the Department of Housing and… -
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Biden Administration’s New Gender Identity Policy Could Force Health Professionals to Violate Conscience
President Joe Biden’s new policy redefining sex puts doctors at risk, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling told The Daily Caller News Foundation Monday. The Biden administration announced Monday that it would reinterpret “sex” in the context of health care anti-discrimination laws to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” reversing a Trump administration policy that… -
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5 Things You Need to Know About Biden’s $1.8 Trillion American Families Plan
Strong families and hard work have formed the foundation for healthy development, meaningful relationships, and economic well-being ever since America’s inception. Now, President Joe Biden has a new vision: one in which progressive politicians and government bureaucrats sit at the helm of American families, financed through $1.8 trillion in new taxpayer spending. Through a laundry… -
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Devil’s in Details in Biden’s ‘30×30’ Conservation Plan
The Biden administration on Thursday released its preliminary report on the president’s so-called 30 by 30 conservation initiative. Initiated in Executive Order 14008, President Joe Biden directed the Department of the Interior to develop a plan to conserve “at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030” in collaboration with the departments of… -
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Biden’s ‘Infrastructure’ Plan Largely About Leftist Goals, Not Roads and Bridges
Well, they’re at it again. Since the left can’t sell its ideas to the American public honestly, it’s changing the definitions of words yet again to get its agenda passed. This time, it’s the word “infrastructure,” as in President Joe Biden’s recent “infrastructure” bill. Biden used his address to Congress last week to try to sell… -
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Biden’s Era of Big Government
When I began my work 25 years ago, my vision for fixing our poor, broken communities was driven by my belief in America and what made it successful. It’s what I call the three C’s: the principles of Christianity, the virtues of capitalism, and the rule of law outlined in our Constitution. After the civil… -
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In First 100 Days, Biden Shows He’s Divider-in-Chief
The first 100 days of a president’s term can reveal a new administration’s priorities. Unfortunately, the first 100 days of the Biden administration—which the president marked on Thursday, the day after his address to a joint session of Congress—reveal an executive branch determined to advance an aggressively intolerant ideology. President Joe Biden claims to promote… -
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Biden vs. Scott
The contrast between President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress last Wednesday night and the Republican response delivered by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., reminded me of another occasion between one long-winded and another profound speaker. It was 1863 and the nationally known orator Edward Everett was the featured speaker in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the… -
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Media Promotes Fake Narrative That Biden a Moderate
Stephen Collinson is well-known among conservatives as the most hackneyed of the hacks at CNN. The Twitter account called CNN Politics promoted Collinson’s latest online essay with the words “President [Joe] Biden to showcase his moderate radicalism in his big congressional address.” “Moderate radicalism”? Doesn’t that make about as much sense as “quiet loudness”? Collinson… -
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Fact-Checking 7 of Biden’s Claims in His Address to Congress
President Joe Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of a downsized Congress on Wednesday night, nearly 100 days into his presidency. Biden spoke to only 200 masked lawmakers in the spacious House chamber, even though most, if not all, members of Congress have been vaccinated for COVID-19 and federal health guidelines don’t… -
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Biden’s 5 Blunders in Congressional Address
President Joe Biden discussed distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, gun control, taxes, elections, and free preschool in his address to Congress Wednesday. But the president didn’t tell the full story in his remarks. To learn more, check out our video. -
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Unintended Consequences of Biden’s Rescinding of Mexico City Policy
Rushing through policy often leads to unintended consequences. The Biden administration certainly has been rushing to implement executive orders to undo the policies of President Donald Trump. One unintended consequence of those actions is the possibility that your tax dollars are going to organizations that are complicit in coerced abortions overseas. One can only hope… -
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Biden’s Climate Denialism
In anticipation of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, a two-day global gathering of more than 40 world leaders, President Joe Biden declared that the United States had a “moral imperative” to adopt an “ambitious” goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2005 levels by 2030 and 100% by 2050. Such an effort,… -
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The Watchdogs Nap for Biden
President Joe Biden averaged a 56% job approval rating from his inauguration through March, according to Gallup, about the same as the ratings of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and much higher than former President Donald Trump’s (42%). One factor in that approval might be the tone of press coverage. Rich Noyes… -
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Biden Administration Wants Schools to Teach Prejudice. Here’s What Parents Should Know.
President Joe Biden’s administration wants you to know your children are biased, and Washington has a plan to fix them. This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced that officials are preparing to use taxpayer money for K-12 schools to advocate the idea that America is systemically racist, and anyone who thinks differently, children included,… -
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Biden Team Reverses Trump’s Ban on Using Aborted Fetal Tissue for Taxpayer-Funded Research
President Joe Biden’s administration has reversed former President Donald Trump’s ban on using aborted fetal tissue for taxpayer-funded research. The National Institutes of Health announced Friday that “[the Department of Health and Human Services] is reversing its 2019 decision that all research applications for NIH grants and contracts proposing the use of human fetal tissue from… -
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Why the Media Deserves a Failing Grade During Biden’s First 100 Days
President Joe Biden waited longer to hold his first press conference than any other president in the past 100 years. After waiting 64 days, the media had a chance on March 25 to ask the president about his agenda. Tim Murtaugh, communications director for President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, was disappointed by what he… -
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How Biden Administration Redefines Words, Reshapes Facts to Serve Its Purpose
We’ve always known that President Joe Biden has a way of misremembering his own record that is—shall we say—often unrelated to the truth. But Biden and his team have now developed a strategy that purposely redefines words and describes things as they demonstrably are not. And in many cases, the media help them along. The…