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    ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ of Soft-on-Crime Liberal Politicians Won’t Curb Urban Killing Fields

    Trust in government has been declining since the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. According to Pew Research, only 36% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents and 9% of Republicans and those leaning Republican now trust government. Who can blame them, given the failure of government to perform on many levels? One might think that trust by…
    Cal Thomas
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    Chicago Schools Tell Teachers Sex Is ‘Socially Constructed,’ Tell Them to Hide Students’ Gender Pronouns From Parents

    A Chicago Public Schools training program tells teachers that sex is a “socially constructed” phenomenon and instructs them to hide students’ gender pronouns from their parents, Fox News reported. Chicago Public Schools told teachers that “gender and sex” are social constructs that have been “created and enforced” by society and threatened retaliatory measures if they…
    Kendall Tietz
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    Democrats Rushed to ‘Reimagine’ Policing in Washington State. Now It’s Unsafe.

    SEATTLE—Democrats in Washington state rode the wave of anti-police sentiment after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Their goal was to “reimagine policing,” and it’s exactly what they did.  Consequently, Washington experienced a surge of violent crime. Now Republicans, and even some Democrats, are rushing to fix as much as possible. With total control…
    Jason Rantz
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    Drop in Public Trust in Military Officers Portends Danger

    Gallup recently released a poll describing how American’s confidence in military officers had declined to its lowest level since it began measuring in 2001. The big news was that between 2017 and 2022, Americans who believe military officers possess “high ethics” declined by a full 10 points, down to 61%. An optimist could see this…
    Thomas Spoehr
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    Dismantling 4 Myths About Socialist ‘Paradise’

    Radical progressives are trying to persuade Americans, especially young Americans, that socialism is the solution to America’s socioeconomic problems. They are banking on millennial ignorance of the repeated failures of socialism and the proven ability of free enterprise to produce opportunity and prosperity for the greatest number.  To camouflage their intent, progressives speak of “democratic” socialism. They…
    Lee Edwards
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    Education Secretary Allegedly Solicited Letter From National School Boards Association Comparing Parents to Domestic Terrorists

    Education Secretary Miguel Cardona allegedly solicited the National School Boards Association letter comparing parents to domestic terrorists, according to emails obtained by Parents Defending Education. “Chip [Slaven, then-interim executive director of the National School Boards Association] told the officers he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by…
    Kendall Tietz
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    Abraham Accords Pave Way for Previously Unthinkable Arab-Israeli Defense Cooperation

    On Sept. 15, 2020, President Donald Trump brokered the signing of the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and Israel and Bahrain. This historic achievement creates a pathway for increased cooperation between American, Israeli, and Arab countries on trade and investment while strengthening the abilities of all three to deter…
    Nicole Robinson
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    After Maxwell Trial, Epstein Associates Remain Silent

    Many of those connected with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remain silent in the face of questions after the trial of a close associate, with some entities not even responding to inquiries from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s onetime girlfriend and associate, was convicted on five of six counts in December, including a charge…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Constitutional Peril in Defense Secretary’s Straw Man on Extremism in Military

    After almost a year of work, the secretary of defense on Dec. 20 released a report on findings regarding extremist activities in the U.S. military and actions to be taken to counter them.  After all that’s going on in the world, it must be heady stuff to warrant so much of the secretary’s time. Spoiler…
    Brent Sadler
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    A Challenging 2022 Looms for Pentagon

    With inflation surging and dim prospects for a full-year appropriations bill, 2022 is already shaping up to be a challenging year for the Pentagon. Whether buying supplies for a New Year’s Eve party or filling their gas tanks, Americans are noticing that just about everything is more expensive. So, instead of buying a cashmere sweater…
    Frederico Bartels
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    6 More Items on Our Christmas National Defense Wish List

    Last week, we presented the first half of The Heritage Foundation’s defense center’s Christmas wish list, which you can read here. (The Daily Signal is the multimedia news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) We noted that as we get closer to the holidays and start to finalize the Christmas shopping and decorating for the parties,…
    Thomas Spoehr
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    Salvation Army Should Apologize by Christmas for Racially Divisive Training, Watchdog Demands

    Between now and Christmas, The Salvation Army has an opportunity to restore faith with members and donors who feel betrayed by an internal curriculum drawing on critical race theory and “anti-racism” teachings that they view as divisive and historically inaccurate, a leading critic of the training material says.  Called “Let’s Talk About Racism,” the document…
    Kevin Mooney
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    7 Items on Our Christmas National Defense Wish List

    ’Tis the season of Christmas wish lists and New Year’s resolutions, so there are a few items that The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense would love to see under the tree this Christmas.   As we close out 2021, we see Russian President Vladimir Putin massing more than 100,000 troops across from Ukraine, China…
    Thomas Spoehr
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    Socialism Destroyed His Homeland. Here’s a Venezuelan’s Warning for America.

    Venezuela used to be a thriving and prosperous Latin American nation. Its citizens enjoyed a high quality of life, and immigrants flocked there to better their situation. All of that changed abruptly when socialism took over the Venezuelan government. The once flourishing country quickly became an example for other nations as to what happens when…
    Douglas Blair
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    Congress Is Writing Blank Check for Big Government, Socialist Tax-and-Spend Spree

    Congress has unveiled a new proposal, the so-called Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act, and is promoting it with all the usual talking points that this is just normal legislation keeping the status quo going to obscure its true purpose. In reality, the bill is a blank check that would make it…
    Matthew Dickerson
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    ‘Amazon Bought Twitch for $1 Billion for a Reason’: Why Defense Experts Are Watching Video Game Industry

    From Call of Duty to Minecraft, virtual spaces are where more and more people are spending a good amount of their lives. Facebook’s plan to create a metaverse—a sort of next-generation internet that promises to blur the line between the actual and virtual worlds even further—raises valid concerns. And yet, the demand for virtual environment…
    Christian Mysliwiec
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    Nearly 600 Scientists, Mathematicians Rip California’s Math Curriculum Plans

    Nearly 600 scientists and mathematicians have signed a letter conveying “deep concern” over California’s recent steps to reform its mathematics curriculum for K-12 students that are purportedly designed to close gaps in pupil achievement. “We are deeply concerned about the unintended consequences of recent well-intentioned approaches to reform mathematics education, particularly the California Mathematics Framework,”…
    Bryan Babb
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    Social-Emotional Learning: The Insidious Teaching Tool You’ve Never Heard Of

    What is social-emotional learning? By now, many Americans are aware of critical race theory, which makes race the focus of all aspects of American life. The philosophy categorizes individuals into groups of oppressors and victims, and is currently making its way through the political sphere, the military, and of course, education. But less well known…
    Douglas Blair
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    Salvation Army Conceals ‘Politically Charged’ Racial Teachings During Fundraising Campaign, Nonprofit Group Says

    Rather than rescind racially divisive training material in response to objections from members and donors, The Salvation Army is concealing the internal curriculum during its annual Christmas fundraising campaign while continuing to pursue “politically charged racial ideologies,” an outside group alleges.  A nationwide petition organized by the fledgling nonprofit Color Us United targets The Salvation…
    Kevin Mooney
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    ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ New Way for Educators to Sneakily Indoctrinate Kids

    Social and emotional learning is the latest trend at your child’s school. It sounds beneficial, but that’s a disguise. In truth, social and emotional learning indoctrinates kids with extremist ideas many parents don’t condone. On Nov. 22, the Hartford Courant reported that West Hartford, Connecticut, elementary school parents are in an uproar. They’re complaining that…
    Betsy McCaughey
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