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Coach Joe Kennedy Resigns After First Football Game Back Following Court Win; Lawyers Cite ‘Retaliation’ Against Him as Reason
After a Supreme Court victory and being reinstated to his football coaching position, Joe Kennedy has submitted a letter of resignation to the Bremerton School District in Washington state. “We have come to learn of serious allegations of retaliation against coach Kennedy by the Bremerton School District,” Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel at First Liberty… -
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Sean Spicer Explains Why DC Journalists Actually Support Restricting White House Press Access
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre resumed her regular briefings last week after a light schedule in August. But missing from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room were some of the 442 reporters who lost their credentials because of the Biden administration’s new rules restricting press access. The decision to remove these reporters—including The… -
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‘Wake Up’: Congressman Warns of ‘Genocide,’ ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Against Christians in Armenia
Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith called on his colleagues Wednesday to recognize that 120,000 Armenian Christians living in Nagorno-Karabakh are facing extinction. “Delay is denial,” Smith, who chaired the emergency congressional hearing on Nagorno-Karabakh as co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, said in a statement to The Daily Signal. “The Biden Administration must… -
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The Poignancy and Power of ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Was Never Political
American songwriting, whether it is folk, rock, or country, has a long history of featuring lyrics and music about the things that inspire the writers. In 1970, after one singer had been performing onstage for only a few months, Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert came across him quite by accident. And the experience floored… -
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House Finds ‘Evidence of Collusion’ Between Biden’s VP Office and Hunter’s Business Partners
House Republicans are noting apparent “collusion” between Hunter Biden’s business allies and then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office regarding the handling of messaging about Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, and citing a key date for evidence. Records obtained by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee show that on Dec. 4, 2015, a Biden family business associate suggested… -
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Massachusetts’ Religious Bigotry Leaves Foster Kids Without Homes
Religious freedom, Congress said unanimously in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Today, however, an obsession with gender ideology is driving governments to ignore the First Amendment, defy clear Supreme Court precedent, and even violate their own laws and regulations to root out those with the “wrong” religious views about… -
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‘Neurological’: Rand Paul Questions Doctor’s Diagnosis of Mitch McConnell
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has questioned the credibility of a doctor’s notes asserting that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is in good health, according to comments reported by Politico on Tuesday. McConnell, age 81, has faced several public health scares in 2023, the most recent being when he froze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky… -
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JRR Tolkien’s Message for the Modern World
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of “The Lord of the Rings,” calls us to be heroic and to sacrifice for one another, according to the author of a new book on Tolkien’s “Sanctifying Myth.” “I’m very glad when I look at the numbers of how many books of Tolkien’s still sell and that almost anything that is… -
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‘No Evidence’ McConnell Suffered Stroke or Seizure in Latest Freeze, Doctor Says
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did not suffer a stroke or seizure after his latest freeze in public, according to a doctor’s note released by his office on Tuesday and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. McConnell, R-Ky., 81, froze during a press conference in Kentucky on Aug. 30 and was unable to continue… -
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FBI Greatly Undercounts Active-Shooting Incidents Stopped by Armed Citizens
Americans are constantly debating policing and gun control. But to discuss these issues, we have to depend on government crime data. Unfortunately, politics has infected the data handling of agencies such as the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, the CDC became the center of controversy when it removed its… -
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From One Unapologetic Media Hoax to the Next
Joe Biden lied repeatedly when he claimed he knew nothing of his son Hunter’s influence-peddling businesses. The president further prevaricated that he had no involvement in Hunter’s various shakedown schemes. Yet, the media continued to misinform by serially ignoring these facts. Had journalists just been honest and independent, then-candidate Joe Biden might have lost a… -
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Yes, Washington Is a Gerontocracy. And It’s Our Fault.
For the second time in recent months, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze in the middle of a press conference, staring off in silence before being saved by an aide. The episode was widely covered by the establishment media—and fairly so, considering his position and power. It would be nice, and ethical, if the same… -
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NEVER AGAIN: No Return to Arbitrary COVID-19 Lockdown State
Never again. That should be the unflinching answer to the growing calls in some circles to bring back mask mandates and lockdowns amid the current COVID-19 variant wave. Don’t think there aren’t some circles that aren’t deeply invested in returning to the medical lockdown state. President Joe Biden has requested additional funding for a new… -
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COVID-19 ORIGINS: Experts Consulted by Fauci Suddenly Changed Their Minds
More revelations concerning the initial responses of top officials at the National Institutes of Health about the origins of COVID-19, which killed an estimated 1.1 million Americans, keep dripping out of the federal bureaucracy. Top officials’ initial narrative hardened into a stubborn insistence on natural origins for COVID-19. However, most leading virologists consulted by Anthony… -
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What Big Labor Doesn’t Want You to Know This Labor Day
This Labor Day, the Biden administration and Big Labor will no doubt tout the alleged successes of President Joe Biden’s “whole of government” push to increase unionization in the workplace and unions’ modest successes in breaking into a few big corporations. But those stories will also leave a lot out. They’ll leave out the side… -
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‘The Labor Market Is Weakening,’ Head of Job Creators Network Says of August Jobs Report
The U.S. unemployment rate increased in August, reaching the highest number since February 2022, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Friday. "There’s no question about it now: The labor market is weakening," Alfredo Ortiz, chief executive officer and president of the Job Creators Network, said in a statement. "August marks the third… -
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Democrats Are Shoving a Religion Down Students’ Throats and Seeking to Keep Parents in the Dark
This week, the top law enforcement officer in America’s most populous state took a school district to court for the alleged crime of notifying parents when their kids claim to identify as transgender. That school district has gone out of its way to promote mental health and suicide prevention, and it has resources devoted to… -
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Biden’s MIA Presidency
The basement campaign turned into the vacation-home presidency for President Joe Biden. Typically, a president’s vacation schedule is little more than a partisan football. Almost every modern president has been criticized by opponents for spending too much time away from the White House. It’s generally not a big deal. Being the commander in chief is… -
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In the Last Days of Summer, Government Comes for the Ice Cream Trucks
This Labor Day, people all over the country will be savoring the last days of summer with ice cream. But some New York City politicians want to eliminate even that small sweet treat. What does New York have against ice cream? Already home to crazy ice cream rules that prohibit folks from enjoying the summertime… -
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DC-Area Local Governments to Federal Employees: Get Back to Work
Amid reports that COVID-19 is rising again, and additional lockdowns could be returning, local governments in the heavily blue-leaning cities and counties surrounding Washington, D.C., chided federal agencies for allowing employees to ditch the office. Local government employees for the District of Columbia, as well as suburbs in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland, have mostly…