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    It’s a Strategic Imperative to Manage Our National Communications Spectrum Correctly

    Spectrum, the invisible radio frequencies over which wireless communications travel, is one of the 21st century’s most crucial resources. To protect this finite resource, Congress and the Biden administration should direct the Federal Communications Commission to ensure enough dedicated spectrum to meet surging U.S. demand for wireless. This isn’t government overreach, but prudent stewardship. Spectrum…
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    California Sues Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers for Reversing Abortions

    Have you ever wanted to be a political punching bag? Try opening a pro-life pregnancy resource center in California. Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, announced a lawsuit Thursday against two faith-based organizations, Heartbeat International and RealOptions Obria, that operate pro-life pregnancy resource centers in California and provide abortion pill reversal services. This is not the first…
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    UK Report: Over One-Third of Children on Puberty Blockers Experienced Worsened Mental Health

    New research from the United Kingdom is showing that over a third of children placed on puberty blockers and hormone drugs suffered severe mental health deterioration afterward. A 2011 study conducted at the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service clinic for children reported that children who were put on puberty blockers suffered no adverse mental health…
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    Newsom Vetoes Bill Requiring California Parents to Affirm Kids’ ‘Gender Transitions’

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a state measure on Friday that would have required parents to “affirm gender transitions” for their children or risk losing custody. State Democrats’ bill, AB 957, cleared both the California Senate and the Assembly along party lines two weeks earlier on Sept. 8. AB 957 would have added “gender affirmation”—a…
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    She Wanted to Be a Man From a Young Age and Lived as One for 11 Years. Why Kathy Grace Duncan Detransitioned.

    As a little girl, Kathy Grace Duncan watched her father abuse her mother and vowed she would never be victimized like her mom.  “I didn’t have the tools to realize that my dad was abusive, my mom’s a victim,” Duncan says, “so, my takeaway from that was that women were weak, women were vulnerable, and…
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    American Pandemic ‘Samizdat’

    On May 15, 1970, The New York Times published an article by esteemed Russia scholar Albert Parry detailing how Soviet dissident intellectuals were covertly passing forbidden ideas around to each other on handcrafted, typewritten documents called samizdat. Here is the beginning of that seminal story: Censorship existed even before literature, say the Russians. And, we may…
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    Public Broadcasting Didn’t Serve Public Interest With Shallow Coverage of Garland Hearing

    Attorney General Merrick Garland offered a “fiery defense” in a “grueling hearing” of a House Judiciary Committee “stocked with far-right stalwarts,” as The New York Times described it. The front-page story by Glenn Thrush quoted no Republicans on the cover, just Garland, as Thrush said many Republican “insinuations” against Garland “were not supported by fact.”…
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    How Many Times Does a Court Have to Rule Against Illegal DACA Program Before It’s Terminated?

    Once again, a federal district court has ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals administrative amnesty program—originally implemented by President Barack Obama, terminated by President Donald Trump, and reinstated by President Joe Biden—is illegal. So, how many times do the courts have to strike DACA down before the executive branch finally terminates a program…
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    Fetterman’s Slovenliness Represents Demise of Objective Social Standards

    The U.S. Senate, once known as the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” will now permit its members to grace its chamber floor wearing whatever clothes—no matter how casual or unprofessional—they happen to fancy on any given day. Following Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, D-N.Y., decision earlier this week to have the sergeant-at-arms cease enforcing the Senate’s…
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    Lyft’s Gift to Gender Ideology’s Critics

    Thank you, Lyft. You just made debunking transgenderism that much easier. The rideshare operator recently announced a new policy in certain cities called Women+ Connect, where female and so-called nonbinary drivers can prioritize bookings with female and nonbinary riders. Nonbinary is a made-up term for people who think they’re neither male nor female. The move…
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    Fox News Founder Rupert Murdoch Stepping Down at Fox Corp. and News Corp. at 92

    Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced on Thursday he is stepping down as chair of Fox Corp. and executive chairman of News Corp., Fox News has reported.  Murdoch’s son, Lachlan Murdoch, will become chairman of both companies as the elder Murdoch transitions out of the roles in November. “I am truly proud of what…
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    Garland Won’t Say If Youngkin Right to Pardon Father Charged After Protesting Daughter’s Sexual Assault

    Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to say Wednesday whether Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, should have pardoned a father who was arrested in 2021 when he tried to defend his daughter during a local school board meeting. Youngkin pardoned Scott Smith, who was arrested during a meeting of the Loudoun County School Board on June 22, 2021, where he…
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    Of Course, I Think About the Roman Empire Daily. You Don’t?

    Last week, my wife asked me, “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” Her question didn’t come out of nowhere. TikTok might be a minefield of Chinese cyberthreats, but it has birthed a trend in which women ask men how often they contemplate the glory that was Rome. The trend took off because…
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    Rising Cost of Living Is an Underreported Story Affecting Everyday Americans 

    As the cost of living continues to rise in America, many families are struggling to make ends meet. Inflation and wage stagnation have made it increasingly difficult for everyday Americans to keep up with the rising costs of necessities, such as housing, gas, health care, and food. The severity of this issue is affecting millions…
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    Confirmed: Man Who Raped His 10-Year-Old Daughter Housed With Female Prison Inmates

    The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is housing a man who raped his own daughter in a women's prison because he said he identifies as a woman himself—and the DOC is refusing to offer any kind of insight or explanation on the matter. Mark Campbell is currently incarcerated in Taycheedah Correctional Institution, a women's prison in…
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    Here’s Where to Take Your Kids When Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Go Woke

    As an Eagle Scout, I feel a debt to the Boy Scouts of America, but I also think the BSA abandoned its defining values by embracing transgender ideology. Both the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the USA have embraced far-left social agendas that alienate many of the young families who form their natural constituencies….
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    WARNING: ‘Don’t Let Your Child Fall Prey to a Manufactured Identity Crisis’

    Virginia mom Merianne Jensen became a voice for parental rights and common sense when she asked a simple question during a local school board meeting in 2022.  “If masks work, why don’t they?” Jensen asked the school board in Prince William County, Virginia. A video of the incident went viral, launching Jensen into the position…
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    America’s Drift Toward ‘a Country I Do Not Recognize’

    If there is one overriding theme of the Biden years, it is the systematic degradation of American freedom, pushing the lives and freedom of private citizens aside as government expands and takes over. This is done under the rubric of the Left that “government knows best.” Day by day, we are becoming what the late…
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    NYC Leaders Ignore Illegal Alien Crisis, Continue to Push Maoist Cultural Revolution

    The revolution continues in New York. As illegal immigrants flood New York City, the City Council remains hard at work ensuring that every once-venerated symbol of America is stripped from public places. On Tuesday, the New York City Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights held a hearing to discuss the removal of historical statues…
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    The Right Should Not Fund Its Own Demise

    The American Right needs to revitalize itself after a generation of decay where the Left took control over most of the corporate sector, the military, and the press, according to a Claremont Institute expert on American political thought.    That decay has resulted in corporations pushing racial division and leftist ideology after the Right gave corporate…
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