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    House’s Bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act Rightly Rebukes Biden’s Pentagon Budget
    The House’s July 14 vote to approve the annual defense authorization bill represented a bipartisan repudiation of the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2023 defense budget request. The National Defense Authorization Act authorizes funding levels for defense programs, such as research, procurement, and even pay rates for U.S. troops. Despite growing partisanship and division within the…
    Conner Bolanos | Frederico Bartels
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    Defending Marriage Is ‘Social Justice for Children’
    As the U.S. Senate debates the “Respect for Marriage” Act, a social scientist said politicians must understand that preserving the time-honored definition of marriage is necessary to establish “social justice for children.” The House of Representatives passed the misnamed bill, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and define marriage as any union “valid in the…
    Ben Johnson
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    The Left Is About to Pay for Its Energy Insanity
    Most politicians and activists have strong views on every political issue. Those views grow from their fundamental political philosophies and beliefs. The best politicians know how to balance their political ideals with a keen watch on how they affect the lives of everyday Americans—those who voted them into office. Go too far with your ideological…
    Neil Patel
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    How China Is Chief Beneficiary of ‘Marxist Hurricane’ Sweeping South America
    Colombians last month elected a far-left former terrorist as their new president. Gustavo Petro, a Marxist ideologue who was a part of the M-19 guerrilla organization, is the most recent in an ever-expanding list of far-left leaders winning elections in South America. He is set to take office Aug. 7. Traditionally, Colombia has been a staunch…
    Timothy Doescher | Luke Posegate
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    5 Takeaways From Senate Judiciary Committee’s ‘Post-Roe America’ Hearing 
    As the Biden administration scrambles to respond to the Supreme Court’s landmark June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on the legal landscape following the ruling.    Senators heard testimony from several witnesses, including Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, a Democrat; Denise Harle, senior counsel and director of the Center for Life…
    Douglas Blair | Evalyn Homoelle
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    Facts of Uvalde Shooting Violated All 4 Steps of Effective School Security
    Information about what happened before and during the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has changed continually. The bottom line is that it’s not a happy story, but confirms that school security is still a work in progress. Having a plan is better than not having one. Absent good implementation, practice, and real rehearsals, however,…
    Steven Bucci
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    Democrats Cynically Cite Veterans Benefit Increase to Urge More Spending Elsewhere
    The Senate last week passed an amended version of the Honoring Our PACT Act. The bill, likely to pass the House, represents the largest expansion of benefits for veterans in decades. In a crass display of political opportunism, however, congressional Democrats are claiming that increasing spending on veterans justifies spending increases for unrelated nondefense programs….
    David Ditch | Frederico Bartels
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    Social Security Disability Program May Appear ‘Solvent,’ but It’s Bad Deal for Workers, Poor Program for Individuals With Disabilities
    Unlike Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program for retirees, which has a highly predictable financial outlook, the financial well-being of Social Security’s Disability Insurance program varies widely from year to year. Drastic yearly swings in its projected solvency occur because the system hasn’t stuck to its mission of providing benefits for people who are…
    Rachel Greszler
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    Social Security’s Unfunded Obligations Getting Worse
    Our Social Security program is running dry. Policymakers have no plan to fix it, and generations of Americans have been duped into believing it’s a good deal. Social Security was established to prevent older Americans from living in poverty once they’re unable to work, but the program’s unchecked expansions have made that outcome anything but…
    Rachel Greszler
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    Why Corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance Enforcement Is Self-Reinforcing Scam
    When the left tries to impose its policy visions on others, often the only winning move is not to play its game. But when it comes to “ESG,” bureaucrats and billionaires have figured out how to force the rest of us to play along. ESG, which stands for environmental, social, and governance, is a nebulous…
    GianCarlo Canaparo | Louis Pham
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    Homeland Security Issues Another Security Bulletin to Drive Narrative
    Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued the sixth National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin of the 17-month-old Biden administration on June 7. With a new bulletin every three months, Americans should ask: Are the threats facing America changing that rapidly, or is the administration using the bulletin as a tool for some other purpose? Timing is…
    Lora Ries
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    Connecticut to Hire ‘Misinformation’ Specialist to Police Internet
    Connecticut is hiring a “misinformation” specialist to police the internet ahead of the midterm elections, according to the state’s budget statement. The position of a misinformation “security analyst” was proposed by Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill to combat election misinformation that she said has “undermined public confidence in the fairness and capability of election…
    Carl DeMarco
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    Biden Administration Implements a Racial Spoils System
    The Biden administration is doubling down on the color-conscious policies that were the hallmark of its first year in office through a series of “action plans,” which it released through every executive bureaucracy last month. Only this time, in a bid to avert legal reversals, the administration is concealing its racial spoils system under bureaucratic…
    David Ditch | Mike Gonzalez | Hans von Spakovsky | Erin Dwinell
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    Reducing Black Americans to Racial Labels Enables the Left’s Agenda
    I am so pleased and proud that the first annual edition of the “State of Black America” (Encounter Books), published by my organization, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, in conjunction with the Claremont Institute, has just been released. CURE was founded to provide a platform for an alternative vision of what “black America” is…
    Star Parker
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    Did Law Enforcement Wait Too Long to Attack Uvalde Shooter? Security Expert Weighs In
    Editor’s note: Since this interview was recorded additional information has come out about the law enforcement response to the shooting, including that children called 911 from within the school. “The on-site commander, the chief of the school district’s police department in Uvalde, Texas, believed at the time that [the shooter] was barricaded inside and that…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Biden Response to Texas Shooting Typical of  ‘Lifetime Politician,’ Ben Carson Says
    President Joe Biden’s immediate response to the school shooting in Texas is typical of “someone who’s been a lifetime politician,” former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says.   “Rather than emphasizing the terrible tragedy, what’s happened to those families, what’s happened to that whole community, how this is going to impact the lives of those…
    Virginia Allen
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    Calling Us Terrorists Wasn’t Enough: NSBA Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents
    Parental rights in education is not domestic terrorism. Any organization that says otherwise should have no influence over public policy whatsoever. And yet, in a first draft of a letter to President Joe Biden, the National School Boards Association requested the Army National Guard and military police to monitor parents in school board meetings. Why?…
    Nicole Solas
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    Homeland Security’s Rebooted Disinformation Plan Is No Better Than the First
    Constitutionalists, free-speech lovers, and sane people alike cheered upon hearing the announcements that the Department of Homeland Security was disbanding its nascent Disinformation Governance Board and the board’s designated head, Nina Jankowicz, was resigning. The reasons why are obvious: The federal government has no business determining what is truth, it is nowhere near the mission…
    Lora Ries | James Carafano
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    Mayorkas’ ‘6 Pillars’ Border Security Plan Is Delusional
    As May 23 neared, when border agents’ Title 42 public health authority to quickly expel illegal aliens was due to expire, U.S. Customs and Border Protection already had seen predicted increased numbers of illegal aliens. Even the Biden administration admitted that “migration levels will increase.” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a 20-page memo April…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Psychologist Explains Long-Term Effects of Masking, Social Distancing on Kids
    A great deal of psychological development occurs in the early years of a child’s life. So, what happens when that development is interrupted by a global pandemic? How do things such as social distancing and mask-wearing affect our children long term?  “Part of the way that babies stimulate themselves when they are out in the…
    Virginia Allen
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