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opinion
Costa Rica Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage Via Judicial Activism
Headlines like a recent one in the New York Post said, “Costa Rica latest country to legalize same-sex marriage.” But it wasn’t really Costa Ricans who made it happen. Instead, Costa Rica became—like the United States five years ago—the victim of a multilayer attack of judicial activism. In an interview with the Family Research Council, Jose L…. -
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Attorney General Appoints Federal Prosecutor to Review ‘Unmasking’ of Trump Associates
Attorney General William Barr appointed a federal prosecutor to review so-called unmasking requests that Obama administration officials submitted against Trump associates, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department said Wednesday. Kerri Kupec, the Justice Department spokeswoman, said on Fox News that Barr appointed John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, to conduct… -
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Twitter Official Overseeing Misinformation Efforts Is Anti-Trump Partisan Who Donated to Planned Parenthood
The Twitter official overseeing the tech company’s efforts to combat misinformation is a left-wing partisan who in the past has derided President Donald Trump as a “wretched orange man” and said he donated to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of site security, is the man in charge of the… -
opinion
A Bailout Won’t Help States With No Financial Backbone
At a time when huge spending bills marked “coronavirus relief” are easily passing Congress with little scrutiny, poorly run states are asking unscrupulous members of Congress to slip in taxpayer bailouts to rescue them from years of their own fiscal mismanagement. In response, the House of Representatives on Friday passed a coronavirus relief bill that includes a half trillion… -
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White House Official Explains Trump’s Action Plan to Revitalize Underserved Communities
President Donald Trump met Thursday with national and Detroit-area African American leaders in Michigan to discuss how distressed communities can recover from COVID-19. Ja’Ron Smith, deputy assistant to Trump and deputy director of the Office of American Innovation, traveled with Trump to his Michigan meeting and explained what steps the commander-in-chief is taking to revitalize underserved… -
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GOP Senators ‘Increasingly Concerned’ Surveillance of Trump Associates Began Earlier Than Previously Known
Two Republican senators dramatically expanded their request for so-called Obama administration unmasking records on Tuesday, saying in a letter to the U.S. government’s top spy chief that they are “increasingly concerned” that surveillance of Trump campaign aides began earlier than the FBI has previously acknowledged. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson sent a letter to… -
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Denmark Is Not a Socialist Economic Nirvana
A recent New York Times op-ed observed that “Danes haven’t built a ‘socialist’ country. Just one that works.” A more precise observation would have been that Denmark has built a free-market democracy that works for Danes. Given the fact that America is a much larger and far more diverse and multifaceted nation than Denmark, comparing… -
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Lawmakers Seek Sanctions Against Chinese Communist Party Officials for Human Rights Abuses
Republican lawmakers are pushing for sanctions on Chinese Communist Party officials over China’s “duplicitous, ineffective, and cruel” response to the coronavirus outbreak. Republican Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana, Dan Crenshaw of Texas, and Lance Gooden of Texas sent a letter Monday to Secretaries Mike Pompeo and Steven Mnuchin asking that Magnitsky Sanctions be imposed on seven Chinese… -
opinion
Pulitzer Prize-Winning 1619 Project Set to Advance Socialism Teaching in the Classroom
The Pulitzer Prize Board recently awarded its commentary award to The New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay launching the “1619 Project.” This will accelerate a trend already underway: subjecting schoolchildren to a curriculum that blames slavery on capitalism and whose creator believes socialism offers the best path to racial equity. The overt political nature of… -
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More Economic Freedom Is the Tonic Financially Crippled Greece Needs Most
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic slammed Greece’s economy, the country’s ranking in The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom had lagged far behind most other members of the European Union for many years. Although Greece’s overall economic freedom score increased by 2.2 points in the 2020 edition of the index, it remains ranked 44th… -
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Judge Blocks Kansas From Limiting Attendance at Religious Services
A federal judge blocked Kansas from limiting attendance at religious services during the coronavirus pandemic Saturday. Wichita U.S. District Judge John Broomes blocked an order from Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, limiting attendance at religious services to 10 people or fewer. Broomes’ ruling prevents Kelly’s enforcement of the order as long as pastors and congregations observe… -
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Manipulation Through Racial Hoaxes
We black people are so convenient and useful to America’s leftists. Whenever there’s a bit of silencing to be done, just accuse a detractor or critic of racism. A recent, particularly stupid, example is CNN’s Brandon Tensley’s complaint that the “coronavirus task force is another example of Trump administration’s lack of diversity.” Tensley said the… -
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News Media Needs to Be Saved, Especially From Itself
I confess to a certain self-interest in today’s column. The media, especially newspapers, are in trouble. Conservatives like myself have been relentless in attacking their collective bias over the years, but as more of them fold or reduce staff, it is crucial the institution be saved. Margaret Sullivan, a columnist for The Washington Post, has… -
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Why the Feds Should Social Distance Themselves From an Election Process Takeover
COVID-19—is there anything the coronavirus can’t do? Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., seem to think it should make the feds tell the states how to run their elections. They’ve introduced a bill that would do just that. S. 3529, the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act of 2020, is aptly named because it could… -
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Cuomo: New York’s Social Distancing Efforts Paying Off
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he sees a “positive sign” that social distancing measures are working in New York City to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “The evidence suggests that the density control measures may be working,” Cuomo said at a press briefing about the pandemic in New York. Cuomo said that… -
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Sebastian Gorka Exposes the Great Lie of Socialism
Young Americans are being taken captive by a political ideology that has failed over and over again. “America First” host and former White House aide Sebastian Gorka debunks some myths of socialism and challenges Americans to look honestly at its great lie. Read the transcript, posted below, or listen to the podcast: We also cover… -
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Socialism’s Past
Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., call for socialism has resonated among many Americans, particularly young Americans. They’ve fallen prey to the idea of a paradise here on Earth where things are free and there’s little want. But socialists never reveal what turns out to be their true agenda. Let’s look at the kind of statements they… -
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Judge Lynn Adelman Embarrasses the Federal Judiciary
In a famous “I Love Lucy” episode, Lucy and Ethel get a job at a candy factory and have to wrap chocolates as they come off the assembly line on a conveyor belt. In no time at all, the fast pace overwhelms the hapless duo. Mayhem and hilarity ensue as the two stuff chocolates into… -
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Why ‘Real’ Socialism Leads to Tyranny
“Real socialism hasn’t been tried!” Anyone who’s gone to college in the past few decades has probably heard some form of this phrase to excuse the failures of socialism and distinguish between “nice” socialism and the “mean” socialism of, say, Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Oh, and maybe communist Cuba isn’t all bad, they say. Well, yes… -
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Women’s Economic Empowerment About More Than ‘Seat in the Boardroom,’ State Department Official Says
Women’s economic empowerment is about so much more than women having powerful positions, says a senior government economics and business official. “Economic success for women is about more than having a seat in the boardroom or running our own companies,” Manisha Singh, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, said…