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    Cyberattack on Pipeline Shows How Jones Act Is Threat to National Security
    The Eastern European or Russian hacking ring DarkSide’s cyberattack has wreaked havoc on the Colonial Pipeline, which transports a large percentage of the gasoline, jet fuel, and other refined petroleum into several states throughout the southeastern U.S. and mid-Atlantic. News of the pipeline’s shutdown sparked a panic-fueled run on gasoline, and caused gas prices to…
    Patrick Tyrrell | Anthony B. Kim
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    3 Seas Initiative Matters to America’s Security and Economy
    In a recent forum between the U.S. and European Union, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appealed for greater U.S. support for the Three Seas Initiative, commonly known internationally as the 3SI. Morawiecki underscored the importance of the 3SI in the context of further enhancing the transatlantic and strategic relationship: [T]his new dimension, which we have…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    Blacks Don’t Need ‘White Savior’ Politicians
    I recently came across the term “white savior movies.” According to critics, this is a type of film that features a white hero or heroine entering the life of a helpless, troubled, often clueless black person and, as one black critic puts it, “swoops in” to turn his or her life around. In an article…
    Larry Elder
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    Political Correctness Comes to CIA
    The Central Intelligence Agency is always looking to recruit new agents and advertising is one way it has done so in the past. The difference this time is in a newly created series of recruitment videos that reflect the spirit of the age in which we live, rather than appealing to abilities and patriotism. The…
    Cal Thomas
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    Due Process Is Opposite of Social Justice
    It has been two weeks since the conviction of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of George Floyd. The world has moved on. Politicians breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the verdict; the media quickly moved on to its next manipulated data point in favor of…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Former Acting Homeland Security Chief Weighs in on Biden Border Crisis
    Personnel with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and with Customs and Border Protection are being directed by the Biden administration to stop using the terms “illegal alien” and “assimilation.” Chad Wolf, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation and former acting secretary of homeland security in President Donald Trump’s administration, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Arkansas Looks to Protect Religious Liberty in State Constitution
    If you adapted the old advertising slogan for the American company known for its jams, jellies, and preserves, “With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good,” to the American Civil Liberties Union, it might read something like, “If the ACLU labels your action one of the ‘most extreme’ in the nation, it has to…
    Lathan Watts
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    What Is the Freedom of Association and Will the Supreme Court Protect It?
    The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez as well as a related case brought by the Thomas More Law Center, which challenge a California policy requiring nonprofits to disclose the names of their anonymous donors. The policy was initially created by then-state Attorney General Kamala Harris.  The…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Regular Americans Aren’t Going to Fall for Left’s Cynical Politics of Racial Division
    The left and the right have been battling it out for months over who can freak out average Americans the most. Regular Americans were definitely not impressed by the photos of team QAnon in capes and horn helmets posing in the U.S. Capitol. Normal Americans may be mad at Washington, but they love our country…
    Neil Patel
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    Democrat Mayor Joins GOP, Says Former Party About ‘Socialist, Extremist Agenda’
    A Nevada mayor is leaving the Democrat Party and becoming Republican, saying his prior party has “embraced a socialist, extremist agenda.” “Like so many other Nevadans, I registered with the Democratic Party because Democrats seemed to be the party of the working class,” John Lee, mayor of North Las Vegas, writes on his website. “As…
    Steven Hall
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    The Pentagon Can’t Afford to Go Green at Warfighters’ Expense
    Can the Biden administration have its climate change cake and eat it, too? With a new goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, vast portions of the U.S. economy and the federal government would have to shrink emissions quickly. But pressed by the need to engage in great power competition, the Department of Defense…
    Maiya Clark | Ryan Williams
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    EXCLUSIVE: California Warns BLM Co-Founder’s Nonprofit Over Late Financial Filings
    California officials have issued three warnings to a nonprofit group started by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors that it has failed to file required financial disclosures. In September and again in February and March, the California Attorney General’s Office notified Cullors’ organization, Dignity and Power Now, that it was delinquent in filing the financial…
    Fred Lucas
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    South America Has an Opportunity to Choose Freedom Instead of More Failed Socialist Regimes
    The world witnessed two presidential elections in South America on April 11. One of them gave the victory to Guillermo Lasso, now president-elect of Ecuador. In Peru, an election that featured a total of 18 candidates is now going into a runoff election between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Castillo. Both of these elections will have…
    Carlos Ron
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    Teacher Turns Student Questions About ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Into Annual Veterans Tribute
    Harrison Kessel was in eighth grade when he interviewed World War II veteran John Eloff. Kessel was a shy boy who liked history but was intimidated at the prospect of asking a combat veteran to divulge his war stories.  “I was terrified,” Kessel, now a college student, says in a video as he recounts the…
    Virginia Allen
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    2 Students Who Grew Up in Venezuela Warn About Danger of Socialism
    Venezuela once had a vibrant middle class, despite flaws in governance. However, as two students who grew up in Venezuela explained in a Heritage Foundation webinar, embracing the socialist regimes of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro eventually led to utter ruin for all but that country’s elite. Not only was Venezuela impoverished as a whole,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Faucian Bargain’ Does What Media Failed to Do by Examining Influence of Anthony Fauci
    The following is an excerpt from “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History” by Steve Deace and Todd Erzen, published by Post Hill Press. Experts have expertise you and I don’t have, but they’re not necessarily wiser, nor are they any less sinful. Experts are also wrong all the time, because…
    Steve Deace and Todd Erzen
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    Biden Administration’s Social Cost of Carbon and ‘Intergenerational Equity’ Policies Inefficient, Unfair
    Immediately after his inauguration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order reviving the social cost of carbon and the interagency working group tasked with making the social cost of carbon estimates. One of the primary policy tools for imposing climate regulations on the energy sector, the social cost of carbon supposedly measures the cost of…
    David Kreutzer
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    Tucker Carlson Spars With Arkansas Governor on ‘Chemical Castration’ of Minors
    Arkansas just did something historic: It’s become the first state in the nation to enact the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. This much-maligned bill does three things: It protects minors from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or masculinization or feminization surgery (all of which have permanent, life-long effects) until they are adults and can make…
    Quena González
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    ‘Goal Is to Protect Children,’ Lead Sponsor of Arkansas’ Transgender Bill Says
    Arkansas has just become the first state in the country to pass legislation protecting minors from being prescribed puberty blockers or gender-hormone treatments, or from receiving gender-change surgery. Arkansas state Rep. Robin Lundstrum, the lead sponsor for the bill, joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to explain why the passage of the legislation is a victory…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans
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    Arkansas Law Lets Kids Be Kids
    American law, including state law in Arkansas, has a long history of protecting children from themselves and others. The nation’s adults recognize that children are typically incapable of assessing long-term consequences of their actions, weighing risks and benefits, having fully formed identities and understanding of themselves, or even processing information needed to make critical decisions….
    Autumn Leva
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