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    America Is Building a Military for Optics, Not War
    Millions of Americans became alarmed when they saw a viral video that compared a U.S. Army recruiting advertisement to those made for the Russian and Chinese militaries. The Russian ad featured tough-looking men doing situps, jumping out of airplanes, and cocking rifles on a snow-covered battlefield. The Chinese ad showed infantrymen firing rounds as they…
    Jason Beardsley
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    Biden’s Proposal to Allow IRS to Track Your Bank Transactions Is Dangerous for All Americans
    President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are trying to force financial institutions to report their customers’ account balances to the Internal Revenue Service, thereby invading your privacy and putting more of your financial data at risk. It’s part of a provision in the $3.5 trillion spending bill that should raise the ire of all Americans….
    Scott Zipperle
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    Registering Women for Draft: Empty Gesture Won’t Boost Military Readiness
    Every year for decades, Congress has passed a National Defense Authorization Act. This year will likely be no different, but there’s a provision in this year’s bill that requires young women to register for Selective Service—that is, the draft. Many women already provide for our national defense by volunteering their service. Women serve honorably in…
    James Carafano
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    What Arizona Audit Really Shows—and Why Election Officials Should Be Embarrassed
    Critics of the forensic audit of Maricopa County, Arizona—including local election officials and many reporters—who are crowing that the audit confirms that President Joe Biden won the election in Arizona, either don’t understand the purpose of an audit or are trying to deliberately obscure the most worrying findings in the audit. In fact, by concentrating…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Bill Is a ‘Socialist Wish List’
    Editor’s note: Tim Doescher, host of “Heritage Explains” podcast, talks with Tommy Binion, vice president of government relations at The Heritage Foundation, about the massive spending bill currently being debated in Congress. Read a lightly edited transcript of their interview or watch it: Tim Doescher: We do a podcast. We do this livestream and Tommy…
    Timothy Doescher | Tommy Binion
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    Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Socialist Dream Is Tax-and-Spend Nightmare
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans a vote soon to push Sen. Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion socialist dream budget one step closer to law. The news gets worse from there. Every other detail about this onerous legislation merits scorn, revulsion, and rejection. The so-called Build Back Better budget resolution boasts a $3.5 trillion price tag. Taxpayers should be…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Left Leans Into Champagne Socialism
    “Tax the rich” reads a dress worn by a socialist congresswoman at an exclusive New York City gala that typically costs $35,000 to get into. The now infamous dress worn by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who appears not to understand the irony or really even the definition of irony, was made by a company deep…
    Jarrett Stepman
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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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