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    House Republicans Probe EPA Official’s Ties to Chinese-Controlled University

    Republican members of a key House committee are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency provide records related to a political appointee’s continued ties with a university controlled by the Chinese government. Christopher Frey, the deputy assistant administrator of EPA for science policy who was appointed in early February by President Joe Biden, disclosed in his…
    Andrew Kerr
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    Something Terribly Wrong in Top Ranks of US Military

    It’s the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. President Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies and much of the country. In the hours after the horrific deaths of 13 service members, we have been reassured by our military…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Corporate ‘Racial Justice’ Programs Don’t Work

    According to a new report from The Washington Post, America’s corporations have committed at least $49.5 billion to the cause of “racial justice” since the George Floyd murder last year riveted our national attention on race. This amounts to a little over $1,100 for every black man, woman, and child in America. Or, from another…
    Star Parker
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    Politicians Should Never Force Anything Into Our Bodies

    Politicians love force. The idea of leaving us alone to make our own decisions goes against their nature. To be sure, civilized society sometimes needs government force: police to punish killers, soldiers to protect us from foreign invaders, environmental police to stop my smoke from flowing to your lungs… But the political class always goes…
    John Stossel
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    Pediatricians Sue Biden Administration for Requiring Doctors to Perform Trans Surgeries Against Beliefs

    Medical professionals are suing President Joe Biden’s administration over a mandate requiring doctors to perform transgender surgeries in violation of their religious beliefs or medical judgement. Represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, the American College of Pediatricians, the Catholic Medical Association, and an OB-GYN doctor specializing in adolescent care filed suit in the U.S. District…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Joe ‘Diplomacy Is Back’ Biden Takes Wrecking Ball to US-UK ‘Special Relationship’

    “We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,” President Joe Biden pledged in his Jan. 20 inaugural address. He announced on Feb. 4: “America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.” Despite such loud promises that he would make America’s alliances great again, Biden’s initially foolish, now fatal, Afghan catastrophe has atomized U.S. international ties as…
    Deroy Murdock
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    How Chaos at Border Fuels Opioid Crisis

    The crisis at the southwest border continues to spiral out of control with U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently announcing a record 212,672 migrant encounters in July. The over 1.3 million encounters thus far in fiscal year 2021 is a stark reminder that the free-for-all along the border continues to rage unabated. >>> Watch: [The…
    Scott Erickson
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    Watchdogs Sound Alarm as Rep. Ilhan Omar Continues to Evade Financial Disclosure of Reportedly Lucrative Book Deal

    Multiple watchdog groups said Rep. Ilhan Omar may have violated federal law for failing to mention any income received from her critically-acclaimed 2020 memoir in her latest financial disclosure report filed on Friday. Omar, D-Minn., reportedly signed a deal worth up to $250,000 for her memoir “This Is What America Looks Like” in January 2019, around the…
    Andrew Kerr
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    Remembering and Appreciating Donald Kagan, Yale Professor, Scholar, and Mentor

    Donald Kagan, who taught history and classics at Yale University, and was widely revered as one of the university’s finest teachers and the nation’s greatest scholars, died on Aug. 6. Kagan was the author of many books, and had a wide influence on the understanding of history and hence on the making of U.S. foreign…
    Ted Bromund
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    ‘Unsustainable’: Homeland Security Chief Warns System Inadequate in Border Crisis

    Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that the U.S. immigration system “isn’t built” to handle the border crisis, according to a leaked audio recording of his visit last week with border officials provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Border officials are taking care of families and children who arrived unlawfully instead of patrolling in…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    By Relocating ‘Racist’ Rock, University Fancies Itself a Social Justice Warrior

    It’s not just racist birds. Now woke activists are triggered by racist rocks. The University of Wisconsin-Madison moved a 75-ton boulder Friday that had been placed on campus a century ago to honor geologist and educator Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, the school’s president from 1887 to 1892.  The university relocated Chamberlin Rock, as it is called,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Look Who’s Pushing Socialist, Racist, Gender-Fluid Education

    Parents concerned about the leftward tilt of K-12 schools should take a close look at an international organization that is influencing education systems worldwide. In 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, announced its educational goals for the world in a document titled “The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030.” Among…
    Kimberly Ells
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    He Grew Up in Soviet Union, Now Teaches Young People Grim Truth About Socialism

    Growing up in the now-defunct Soviet Union was not easy for Zilvinas Silenas or his family.  “Government basically brainwashes you from a very early age, and government thinks you are disposable,” Silenas says of living under communism.  After leaving Russia and spending four years attending a “very left college” in America, Silenas says he became even…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden Wants to Cut Funding for ‘Border Security Assets and Infrastructure’ by 96%

    President Joe Biden has now revealed there is at least one area in which he is a fiscal conservative: When it comes to providing the infrastructure needed to secure the border, he wants to spend far less than the government currently spends. His administration has presented Congress with a Department of Homeland Security budget proposal…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Journalism Groups Won’t Condemn NSA ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson

    Most journalism advocacy groups, while boasting of defending a free press, declined to express concern about a government spy agency’s “unmasking” of Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson. The Daily Signal got mixed results last week when it asked CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post for comment on journalist-commentator Carlson’s treatment by…
    Fred Lucas
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    Getting Nuclear Posture Review Right Is Critical for US Defense

    The Pentagon has finally kicked off its Nuclear Posture Review, a comprehensive assessment of U.S. nuclear capabilities and strategy, which will be conducted over several months. But already, President Joe Biden faces pressure—both from within the administration and from some in Congress—to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy. Just last…
    Patty-Jane Geller
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    Biden Administration Sues Texas Over Governor’s Order Restricting Transportation of Illegal Immigrants

    The Biden administration filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas challenging Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order targeting the transportation of migrants spreading COVID-19 in the state, according to court documents filed Friday. Abbott, a Republican, announced restrictions on the ground transportation of illegal migrants in federal custody who could spread COVID-19 around Texas communities…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    Whistleblowers Say Officials Ignored Need to Buy Underwear for Detained Children at Border

    Federal officials ignored requests to buy underwear for migrant children detained at the Fort Bliss emergency intake site near El Paso, Texas, according to a whistleblower complaint filed by the Government Accountability Project. Two whistleblowers reported gross mismanagement of the Fort Bliss facility and harm to unaccompanied migrant minors. The whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein, an official…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    America Must Address Its Other Epidemic: Fentanyl Overdoses

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a record 93,331 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2020. Some 75% of them involved opioids, the latest sobering statistic in the United States’ 2 decades old opioid epidemic. Overuse and misuse of prescription opioids, and later heroin, drove the first two waves of the epidemic….
    Alexander Phipps
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    Some No-Cost Ways for Congress to Make Pentagon More Effective

    It is easy to complain, much harder to offer solutions. Congress loves to criticize the Pentagon’s wastefulness, even though lawmakers create some waste by imposing overly prescriptive rules such as “use it or lose it.” The “use it or lose it” phenomenon occurs at the end of every fiscal year, when the Defense Department rushes…
    Kaitlyn Romaine
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