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    Feds Hosted Meditation, Massage, and Social Justice Retreat for 450 Employees, Including IRS Workers

    The federal government hosted a “Mindfulness & Resiliency Summit” in August where 450 employees from the IRS and other agencies spent two days receiving new-age wisdom, learning to meditate, and receiving on-site massages, photos of the event and a website show. Participants sat through an hour of talks before taking a half-hour “stretch and self-care…
    Luke Rosiak
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    The Judiciary Loses When Judges Get Political

    Politics is like mud wrestling. No one comes out clean. And as recent comments by Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia show, that holds especially true for judges. Friedman jumped into the political mud pit on Wednesday to wrestle President Donald Trump, saying that Trump’s criticism of…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Young People Might Reject Socialism If They Knew These Facts

    A recent survey conducted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm, found that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist and that 1 in 3 millennials saw communism as “favorable.” Let’s examine this tragic vision in light of the Fraser Institute’s recently released annual study…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Socialism Is Rising and Now So Is Soviet Revisionism

    The collapse of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago was one of the most momentous days in history.  It represented the last gasp of a wicked regime that destroyed the lives of millions, and a new beginning for the many people held under the thumb of communism for generations. It was a triumph of freedom…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Socialism All About Inclusivity and Kindness, These Students Say

    The word “socialism” has left behind its past of breadlines and beatings and has come to mean something like “kindness” for some students at Georgetown University, The Daily Signal found in campus interviews.  Many millennials would agree with the positive feelings these university students have for socialism.  According to a new YouGov survey commissioned by…
    Jackson Elliott
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    Next Generation of Americans Will Embrace Socialism If We Lose ‘War on History’

    As young Americans are losing an understanding of civics and American history, they increasingly embrace socialism. An annual poll conducted for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation again found that the younger generations have a far sunnier view of socialism and communism than their elders. Some of the findings from the YouGov survey, released Oct….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Liberal Policy Failures Are the Reason for Socialism’s New Appeal

    Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed socialist chaos. Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Venezuela are unfree, poor, and failed states. Baathism—a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism—ruined the postwar Middle…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Marco Rubio Says Americans Don’t Need Socialism to Find ‘Dignified Work’

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., criticized both the unrestricted free market and socialism in a speech Wednesday to a business class at The Catholic University of America.  America should work to build an economy where businesses and workers have both rights and obligations to each other, Rubio said.  “Does our country exist to serve the interest…
    Jackson Elliott
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    What This Bipartisan Social Security Fix Tells Us About Prospects for Reform

    Two congressman are pushing proposals to change Social Security benefits for workers who retired with a pension from a government job but were covered only partially by Social Security during their careers. The current approach of the two lawmakers speaks volumes about the political difficulties associated with making even the tiniest, most commonsense reforms to…
    Romina Boccia
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    Trump Judicial Nominee Is Moved to Tears After a Liberal Interest Group Accuses Him of Bigotry

    Lawrence VanDyke, one of President Donald Trump’s nominees for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was overcome with emotion before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as he defended himself against charges that he would treat LGBT litigants unfairly. The American Bar Association issued a scathing review of VanDyke’s nomination on the eve of…
    Kevin Daley
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    Senators Should Ignore Liberal Lawyers Group When Evaluating Judicial Nominees

    The American Bar Association’s ratings used to be—as Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Charles Schumer of New York have often told us—the “gold standard” for evaluating judicial nominees. Now, they’re just fool’s gold. The American Bar Association has given a “not qualified” rating to nine of President Donald Trump’s 211 judicial nominees. Trump…
    Thomas Jipping
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    ‘Gloves Are Off’ With Border Security Under Trump, Top Official Says

    The Obama and Trump administrations couldn’t be further apart on the issue of border security and immigration. One man knows that from firsthand experience. Mark Morgan served as chief of Border Patrol under President Barack Obama, and now works for President Donald Trump as acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Today, Morgan joins…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Building a Movement to Stop ‘Democratic Socialism’

    The rising tide of socialism in America is reaching a critical point as more Americans warm up to the idea of bigger, more intrusive government. A Gallup poll earlier this year found that 43% of Americans say socialism would be a good thing for the country. Other polls show similar findings. The percentages are even…
    Kay C. James
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    These 3 Countries Tried Socialism. Here’s What Happened.

    Socialists are fond of saying that socialism has never failed because it has never been tried. But in truth, socialism has failed in every country in which it has been tried, from the Soviet Union beginning a century ago to three modern countries that tried but ultimately rejected socialism—Israel, India, and the United Kingdom. While…
    Lee Edwards
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    ‘Godlessness and Big Government Go Hand in Hand,’ Allie Beth Stuckey Tells Social Conservatives

    The politics of millennials spring from their worldview, podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey told social conservatives Friday in Washington. When people reject belief in God, Stuckey told the crowd at the Values Voter Summit, they usually embrace belief in government. “I have never seen someone move to the left politically and become stronger theologically,” the…
    Jackson Elliott
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    Sebastian Gorka Urges ‘Backbone’ to Resist Socialism

    If former presidential aide Sebastian Gorka could save only one possession from his house, he would save the crucifix his father carved from a toothbrush while imprisoned under socialism in Hungary. With powerful stories like this about his family’s escape from socialist Hungary and his father’s sufferings in a Soviet prison, the former deputy assistant…
    Jackson Elliott
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    The NBA Proves That Corporate Social Activism Is All About the Dollars

    In recent years, the NBA has become famously political. During the heyday of the Black Lives Matter movement, the NBA permitted players to wear slogan-printed T-shirts in support, and stars like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Paul spoke out loudly on the issue. The Sacramento Kings actually announced a partnership with the local branch…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Harvard Says It Uses Racial Discrimination to Sculpt a ‘Diverse’ Class. This Is a Dangerous Path.

    A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that Harvard University does not illegally discriminate against Asian Americans. The keyword is “illegally.” Harvard does discriminate against Asian Americans in its college admissions process. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs concedes that Harvard follows a “racially conscious” admissions system that gives a plus to black and Hispanic applicants…
    Kenny Xu
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    Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Remarks on Facial Recognition Tech ‘Racist,’ Detroit Police Chief Says

    Detroit’s chief of police is calling out as “racist” and “insulting” a freshman congresswoman’s criticism of his department’s facial recognition system and the personnel who operate it. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said the Detroit Police Department should hire only black people to analyze photos of criminal suspects in the department’s facial recognition system. During a…
    Joshua Q. Nelson
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    Reactions to My Tweet Reveal the Ignorant Brutality of Young Socialists and Communists

    An eye-opening social experiment unfolded on my Twitter feed over the past several days that reveals a lot about America’s new brand of young communists and socialists. Not to bury the lede: Yes, they are still as repugnantly brutal as their predecessors in St. Petersburg and Phnom Penh—but today they add ignorance and infantilism to the…
    Mike Gonzalez
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