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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 | Zach Watson
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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 | Matthew Samilow
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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 | Frederico Bartels
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    Federal Judge Halts Arkansas Ban on Sex-Change Procedures for Minors
    A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the enforcement of a highly publicized Arkansas law banning sex-change procedures for minors. Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, otherwise known as the SAFE Act, prohibits physicians from performing sex-change procedures, such as using puberty blockers or doing “top” and “bottom” surgeries, on minors. U.S. District Judge Jay Moody…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Nominee Faces Pushback Over Stonewalling Senators
    After his March 2 Senate committee confirmation hearing, Rohit Chopra appeared to have a “reasonably assured path forward” to becoming the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Suddenly, however, Chopra’s prospects look a bit different. As Government Executive reports, several current and former employees of the bureau allege that the Biden administration is…
    Norbert Michel
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    Biden Administration Needs to Take the Kid Gloves Off When Reacting to China’s Cyberattacks
    The United States, along with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and NATO, on Monday formally attributed a series of malicious cyberattacks to China. This includes the March cyberattack that targeted Microsoft’s Exchange Server software, carried out by a Chinese-based hacking group known as Hafnium. This formal attribution is part of a broader condemnation of…
    Dustin Carmack
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    Democrats Openly Assault Honest Elections, Ohio’s Top Election Official Says
    The partisan divide in Washington is clear on a bill in Congress to eliminate most state voter ID laws while nationalizing election laws, but bipartisan consensus exists among local election officials, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says.  “I can tell you in Ohio, as I talked to election officials—men and women that actually work…
    Fred Lucas
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