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Kamala Harris’ ‘Reproductive Freedom Week of Action’ Is a ‘Lie,’ Pro-Life Activist Says
Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, dubbed last week the “Fight for Reproductive Freedom Week of Action.” Democrats say abortion empowers women, but research shows that most women would have chosen life if they had more emotional and material support, Emily Erin Davis, vice president of communications for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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That ‘White Dudes for Harris’ Zoom Call Was … Weird
The “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom call last Monday night, with some 90,000 registered to participate, was surely a landmark in political history. Nearly 200 years ago, when the Democratic Party was being formed to elect and reelect Andrew Jackson, the entire American electorate, with exceptions, such as black New Englanders, property-owning black New Yorkers,…Michael Barone -
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Secret Service Whistleblowers Say Acting Chief Cut Security Assets
Just days after Ronald Rowe, acting director of the Secret Service, denied playing a direct role in rejecting repeated requests for added security measures and assets to protect former President Donald Trump, whistleblowers came forward to refute those claims. The whistleblowers also blamed Rowe for some security failures that led to the July 13 assassination…Susan Crabtree -
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Harris Recycles the 2020 Democrat Campaign
Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election through a successful tripartite subterfuge. One, Biden never really campaigned. His handlers rightly assumed that the more the public and the media saw a debilitated Biden in the flesh, the less they would want him as president. So, the Biden campaign used the COVID-19 lockdowns to ensure that…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Women’s Group Warns Harris on Potential Josh Shapiro VP Pick
Amid talk of Kamala Harris’ veepstakes, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro faces renewed scrutiny for how he addressed sexual harassment allegations against a key member of his Cabinet. Last year, the Democratic governor’s office paid $295,000 in tax dollars to settle the complaint of an employee there who claimed Shapiro’s legislative affairs secretary, Mike Vereb, sexually…Fred Lucas -
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Over Past Year, Working Age Population Increased by 1.8 Million; Only 1 in 32 Equal New Workers
A smaller percentage of Americans are working today than did four years ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that payroll employment edged up by 114,000 in July as the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%. Aside from the pandemic, the last time the unemployment rate was 4.3% or higher was almost seven years ago, in…Rachel Greszler -
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Legal Group Launches 7 Investigations Into Kamala Harris’ Record of ‘Failure’
A conservative legal organization has launched seven investigations into Vice President Kamala Harris’ record of service in California state government. “The American people deserve to know the facts about Kamala Harris’ time in California government,” a spokesperson for America First Legal told The Daily Signal. Harris, now the presumed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, served in…Virginia Allen -
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New Hate Map Counters SPLC Narrative That Violence Is ‘Exclusively the Domain of the Far Right’
A new nonprofit organization has released a map revealing leftist groups spewing hate and inspiring violence, countering the narrative that all animus and political violence comes from the Right. The map aims to balance the notorious far-left bias of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into…Tyler O’Neil -
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$3 Trillion a Year for Nonexistent ‘Climate Crisis’? Seriously?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says governments will need to spend $3 trillion every year to fight climate change. Bend over and open that wallet wide, here it comes again. Meanwhile, a new peer-reviewed study finds that carbon dioxide…Peter St. Onge -
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Kamala Harris’ Oakland Is a Disaster
The San Francisco Bay Area represents a microcosm of California’s mockable form of untethered-from-reality leftism. That matters for America in 2024. Not only is Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee a Californian, she’s also a product of Bay Area politics. Now that Vice President Kamala Harris has suddenly become that presumptive nominee, it’s worth examining the kind…Jarrett Stepman -
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WATCH: ‘The Olympic Woman-Beating Finals’
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we don our foreign policy glasses and celebrate the freedom of two Americans formerly held as political prisoners in Moscow, while criticizing the potential release of over a dozen Russian hackers and a plea deal for two terrorists involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks. For…Tony Kinnett -
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XX-XY Athletics Brand Owner Goes to Bat to Preserve Women’s Sports
The owner of a new athletic clothing brand says she has seen broad support for protecting the exclusivity of women’s sports from the transgender movement since she began advocating for the cause. Jennifer Sey, who founded XX-XY Athletics earlier this year, explained to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts in an interview why she started the…Hudson Crozier -
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Biden’s Radical Title IX Rewrite Goes Into Effect, but Blocked in 26 States
President Joe Biden’s administration’s rewrite of Title IX went into effect on Thursday, an effort that seeks to allow men in women’s private spaces, athletics, and educational opportunities. The White House did not appear to issue a statement or weigh in on the rule going into effect, nor had Vice President Kamala Harris or Biden…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Olympian Ilona Maher Disrupts Radical Left’s View of Femininity
Ilona Maher has put women’s rugby on the map following her performance on and off the field at the 2024 Paris Olympics, breaking the radical Left’s view of femininity in the process. Chances are, I am not the only American who two weeks ago had never heard of Maher and didn’t even know women’s rugby…Virginia Allen -
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WATCH: What the Media Refuse to Ask Kamala
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we brace for the impact of a major conflict in the Middle East, which may expand into Europe and the open borders of the United States. Don’t expect anyone to ask Vice President Kamala Harris about it; Democrats’ presumptive nominee for president isn’t taking questions from…Tony Kinnett -
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Kamala Harris, Candidate of Myth
So, Kamala Harris is the new Democratic candidate for president. And, we’ve been told, she is incredible. Not merely serviceable, a middle innings relief pitcher brought in when your starter suddenly implodes in the third inning. She is the Mariano Rivera of politics. She’s lights-out. She’s charismatic, fascinating, quick on her feet, charming. She is,…Ben Shapiro -
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Back When San Francisco Wasn’t Liberal—or an Epithet
“She is a San Francisco liberal.” That’s how Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas—who graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law School—described Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview on CNN last week. That description of San Francisco may make sense now, but there was a time when it did not. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower…Terence Jeffrey -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Leaders Urged to Save AM Radios in New Vehicles
In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson and other House leaders on Wednesday, a right-leaning think tank encouraged “prompt House passage” of legislation protecting the installation of AM radios in all new vehicles. Numerous vehicle manufacturers—especially makers of electric vehicles—such as Ford, Tesla, and Volvo, have begun removing AM radios from their new models….Olivia Pero -
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Legal Settlement Exonerates Sailors Kicked Out Over COVID-19 Vaccine
A recent settlement protecting about 4,300 Navy sailors from being negatively affected by COVID-19 policies in the future is the latest example of how the consequences of the pandemic are still unfolding—specifically in terms of how the military dealt with it. An estimated “80,000 to 100,000 service members—both active-duty and reservists … were impacted by the…Sarah Holliday -
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Is Kamala Harris Working With Servile Journalists to Polish the Spin on Their Stories?
It’s funny how journalists admit Vice President Kamala Harris is getting a media honeymoon, and then deny it means anything. Ben Smith at Semafor sent an email noting “Republican fury” at the gushy pro-Kamala bias and claiming, “But who are we, and Republicans, kidding? I wish we had that kind of power. The news media can’t make…Tim Graham