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    Singapore, With the World’s Freest Economy, Stands as America’s Indispensable Foreign Policy Partner

    Singapore shines again. The small but vibrant entrepreneurial nation leads global economic freedom rankings for a fourth consecutive year, as reported by The Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, just out. Since the 2020 edition of the index, when Singapore outperformed Hong Kong, this highly capable Asian country has continued to demonstrate its sound…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    10 New Cases of Vote Fraud Again Demonstrate Imperative of Election Security

    Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to reflect that Kathy Funk was charged with, not convicted of, felony ballot tampering charge. This article has also been corrected to remove references to Funk filing a false police report and breaking into Township Hall, and to reflect that Funk previously worked for Genesee County. In the latest…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘This Is War,’ Mother of 2 Sons Killed by Fentanyl Testifies, Telling Congress to ‘Do Something’

    Rebecca Kiessling struggled to speak as she told members of Congress about the deaths of her two adult sons, who were both killed by fentanyl in 2020.   “You talk about welcoming those crossing our border seeking protection—[but] you’re welcoming drug dealers across our border, you’re giving them protection. You’re not protecting our children,” Kiessling…
    Virginia Allen
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    Discredited Research Cited in Legal Briefs for Supreme Court’s 2 Racial Admissions Cases

    Sometimes a narrative is just too good to give up, even when the facts don’t support it. This seems to be the reason why some supporters of racial preferences in college admissions keep citing bad research in legal briefs before the Supreme Court.   In the two cases challenging the race-based admissions practices of Harvard…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    DHS Flouts Law on Student Visas, and DC Circuit Judges Yawn

    For yet another example of how out-of-control federal bureaucrats think they can stretch the law beyond recognition to meet their policy preferences, look no further than a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The F-1 student visa program that allows foreigners to enter the country and study…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Let’s Swap Racial Preferences for Ability, Skill in College Admissions

    College admissions officers who use racial preferences when approving applications are “minimizing the very nature of what we send our children to postsecondary education for,” says Stephen Gilchrist, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. “I’m concerned that we have a lot of academically gifted students in this country who need to be…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    Pfizer Quietly Alters Racially Discriminatory Scholarship Eligibility After Lawsuit 

    Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has changed the application requirements for one of its fellowships after a nonprofit group’s lawsuit, which faulted the program’s “blatant racial discrimination” against white and Asian American applicants.   “Do No Harm is pleased that Pfizer recognizes its blatant racial discrimination is unlawful and immoral,” Do No Harm board Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb said in…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital Hires Gender Clinic Social Worker for ‘Revenue’ 

    A Philadelphia children’s hospital cited “potential revenue” as a reason for hiring a gender clinic social worker in 2018, Pennsylvania mother and activist Megan Brock told The Daily Signal.    Emails, which Brock obtained, show correspondence between former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine and Dr. Rollyn M. Ornstein, an adolescent medicine specialist at Penn State…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’: Cybersecurity Expert Raises the Alarm About China’s Cyber Actors

    FBI Director Christopher Wray is re-upping concerns over how “non-Chinese companies operating in China” are treated, specifically noting that “the Chinese government takes advantage of its laws and regulations to enable its stealing.” A Heritage Foundation expert highlighted these concerns, warning of China’s cyber actors as “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Wray zeroed in on…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Young Americans Are Losing Their Minds. The Social Left Is to Blame.

    This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that our nation’s young girls are in a state of absolute emotional and mental crisis. According to the CDC, 57% of high school girls said they were depressed in 2021, compared with 36% in 2011; 30% said they had considered suicide, compared…
    Ben Shapiro
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    China ‘Brazenly Pushing Limits to See How Far They Can Go,’ Homeland Security Panel Chairman Says

    High-ranking House Republicans and a defense expert are continuing to sound the alarm after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon about what’s at stake for the United States’ relationship with the communist nation.  “China is brazenly pushing the limits, to see how far they can go. President [Joe] Biden’s administration has consistently…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Government’s Divisive Racial Categories in Census Should Put Conservatives on Notice

    Conservatives haven’t been as interested as progressives are in capturing the federal bureaucracy, or at least they’ve been much less successful. That goes double for the Census Bureau, whose committee on race long has been the plaything of sociology professors and affinity groups. For this reason, rank-and-file conservatives may not grasp the importance of the racial…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Could Airbnb’s Ban on This Conservative Filmmaker’s Parents Be a Preview of Chinese-Style Social Credit System?

    Woke corporations are seemingly testing the waters for a Chinese-style social credit system in the United States. On Tuesday, conservative filmmaker and journalist Lauren Southern wrote on Twitter that her parents had been banned from housing-rental provider Airbnb solely because of their connection to her. “My parents just got banned from Airbnb for being related…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Biden Had Little Time for Border Security in State of the Union Speech

    One lousy minute—at most. That’s the time President Joe Biden devoted to the topic of border security and immigration in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. Those of us paid to analyze and write about it were hoping for more. After all, about 5 million people have attempted to illegally enter our country in…
    Simon Hankinson
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    • News

    4 Reasons Why Republicans Call for Impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

    Rep. Andy Biggs and a group of fellow Republican lawmakers say it’s time to impeach and remove Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the crisis of illegal immigration at the southern border.   “It’s clear Secretary Mayorkas has committed high crimes and misdemeanors,” Biggs, R-Ariz., recently said in a prepared statement calling for Mayorkas’ impeachment….
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden Was Right: Children Aren’t ‘Baggage.’ He Should Tell That to Advocates of Commercial Surrogacy

    President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address got one thing right on Tuesday night: Children are not “baggage.” Of course, the context was a complaint about airline companies’ hidden fees that limit a family’s ability to travel. “Baggage fees are bad enough. Airlines can’t just treat your child like a piece of baggage,” the…
    Emma Waters
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    Within Ranks, Trust in Our Military Declines Amid Politicization of National Defense

    Service members increasingly are concerned with the growing politicization of the U.S. military, recent polling shows. In October, The Heritage Foundation established an independent panel to address political practices or policies within the Pentagon that hinder the operational effectiveness of the armed forces. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.) As part of its…
    Jack Kraemer
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    How the Left Still Managed to Racialize Tyre Nichols’ Death

    It became national, indeed, international news that five Memphis police officers grabbed, punched, beat, pepper-sprayed, and stun-gunned a black suspect named Tyre Nichols, who later died at the hospital. A picture of him in his hospital bed showing his swollen, battered, and bloodied face went viral on social media. The city police chief, a black…
    Larry Elder
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    • News

    86 House Democrats Vote Against Resolution Condemning Socialism

    The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism on Thursday, with nearly all Republicans and half of the Democrats supporting it. H. Con. Res. 9, a resolution "Denouncing the horrors of socialism," passed 328 to 86, with 14 Democrats voting present, and six members (three Republicans and three Democrats) not voting. "This was…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Disregard for American National Security’: House Panel Seeks Details of Kerry’s Secret Climate Talks With China 

    The House Oversight and Accountability Committee wants more information about Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry’s negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party over an international agreement.  President Joe Biden named Kerry, a former U.S. senator, as his special presidential envoy for climate.  Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, served as secretary of state during President…
    Fred Lucas
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