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    Ocasio-Cortez’s Met Gala Fashion Statement Is Reminder to Stand Against Socialism
    A "who's who" of entertainment and society gathered in New York City on Monday night for the annual Met Gala. From entertainers and artists such as Rihanna and Justin Bieber to Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, the red carpet oozed with notable celebrities.  Among the elite crowd was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans
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    The Enduring Path to Financial Health: Graduate, Work, Marry, and Have Children
    The basic path to financial health in this country has been revealed once again by the Census Bureau’s annual report on income and poverty, which was released this week. What did it show? People who graduate from college, get a job, get married, and have children generally earn more money than those who do not….
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Democrats Spend Big, and We Pay, for Their Socialist Dream
    In 1983, Tom Cruise starred in the film “Risky Business.” It’s about wealthy parents in Chicago who go on vacation and leave the house under the stewardship of their high school-age son.   In short order, the boy throws a wild party, and the rest of the film is about the chaotic fallout. It’s the…
    Star Parker
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    Judicial Philosophies Not Same as Political Parties, Justice Barrett Argues
    Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, saying she worries that the court increasingly is being portrayed to the public as a partisan institution, emphasized that justices must be “hyper-vigilant” that they don't let personal biases affect their work. “My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pentagon Inspector General to Review Vetting of Afghan Refugees
    The Department of Defense Inspector General’s Office will review how Afghan evacuees were vetted before leaving their country and upon arrival in the U.S. The evaluation will look into the biometric screening process, the handling of individuals flagged as “security risks,” and the management  of “individuals’ ingress and egress to a DoD-managed facility when screening/vetting…
    Jennie Taer
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    Sensationalizing Jane Austen
    Jane Austen fans are loyal. If something claims an Austen affiliation, we will read it, watch it, or buy it. There are dolls, candles, artwork, coasters, jewelry, mugs, and tote bags. We even have Austen Band-Aids (so her words can literally soothe our injuries). So when PBS produced a series based on Austen’s unfinished novel “Sanditon,”…
    Brenda Hafera
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    Biden’s Unity Purge of Military Advisory Boards
    “For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward.” President Joe Biden spoke these words when he was inaugurated on Jan. 20. But Wednesday, in the…
    Mike Howell
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    Longhorns’ School Song ‘Racially Offensive,’ Students Claim in Lawsuit
    Students at the University of Texas at Austin filed a lawsuit alleging a “hostile environment” for black students because of the school’s alma mater song, which they claim is racist, The Texas Tribune reported. A group of anonymous students, along with the Texas and University of Texas at Austin chapters of the National Association for…
    Kendall Tietz
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    Remembering 9/11: A Pentagon Nurse’s Story
    Suzanne Bucci arrived at the Pentagon early on Sept. 11, 2001, for a job interview. She hoped to work as a nurse there while her husband, Steven Bucci, was serving as military assistant to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.  Bucci had not completed the interview process before hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans
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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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