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    Another Alleged Lone Wolf Tries to Take Out Another Anti-Establishment President

    Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. JFK, Ronald Reagan, and now, Donald Trump. The seemingly orchestrated campaign of national collapse our ruling elite is carrying out took a very dark turn over the weekend as yet another alleged lone wolf tried to take…
    Peter St. Onge
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    Lawmakers, Legal Experts Were Skeptical of Legality of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Appointment

    Republican members of Congress and conservative legal experts had long questioned the legality of Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel.  On Monday, federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida tossed out the federal case involving classified documents against former President Donald Trump, determining that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional since he was…
    Fred Lucas
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    Some ‘Affirmative’ Conservative Solutions to Big Tech Dangers

    Machines can’t have the “divine spark” of humans, but Americans can make machines “with our values,” a Heritage Foundation technology expert said last week at the National Conservatism Conference in the nation’s capital. “Conservatives must offer our own affirmative vision for AI,” said Kara Frederick, director of Heritage’s Tech Policy Center, referring to artificial intelligence…
    Olivia Pero
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    Project 2025 Represents ‘Forgotten Americans,’ Reduces Washington’s Influence, Roberts Says

    The real purpose of The Heritage Foundation’s policy and personnel plan for the next conservative president is to speak on behalf of forgotten Americans, Heritage President Kevin Roberts said Monday at the leading think tank’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “You might say that the real purpose of this huge, broad-scale effort,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘REVIVAL OF 1776’: Dismantling Administrative State Will Be ‘Modern Declaration of Independence,’ Ramaswamy Says

    The next president needs to eliminate the federal government’s administrative state, entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Monday at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “We don’t want to replace a left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state,” Ramaswamy said. “We want to dismantle that…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    2 Components Necessary for a Prosperous Society

    The success of America is, at least in part, dependent upon its citizens’ ability to “self-govern,” John Stonestreet says.  “Faith and family are the most obvious” ingredients required for people to be able to govern themselves, says Stonestreet, president of the nonprofit Colson Center and host of the “Breakpoint” podcast.  The Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Colson…
    Virginia Allen
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    Eerie Parallels: Trump’s Shooting Echoes Teddy Roosevelt’s in 1912

    The former president with a larger-than-life personality—out of office for four years and with a long list of enemies—campaigns for another term and has a close call with a would-be assassin.  The former president, despite visible bleeding, not only survives the attempt on his life, but exhibits a strong show of strength, rallying his supporters….
    Fred Lucas
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    Secret Service Director Put Focus on Diversity

    Kimberly Cheatle director of the U.S. Secret Service, has some explaining to do after a gunman nearly completed an assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally Saturday evening in Pennsylvania. As The Daily Signal’s executive editor Rob Bluey wrote, eyewitnesses said they attempted to warn authorities about the shooter on a nearby…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ’Called to Be Distinct’: Southern Baptist Convention Must Withstand Left-Wing Influences, Denominational Leader Says

    The United Methodist Church’s pro-LGBTQ stance might foreshadow a similar future for the Southern Baptist Convention unless Baptists firmly oppose left-wing influences, says William Wolfe, founder and executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership. “I want to side with God’s Word against the world and not with the world against God’s Word,” Wolfe told…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Immediate Termination’: Cotton Calls on Merrick Garland to Fire Kristen Clarke Following Daily Signal Exposé

    Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to fire Kristen Clarke following The Daily Signal’s reporting on her arrest and subsequent expungement. “I write regarding an act of perjury committed by Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights,” he wrote in a letter first published by Breitbart News. “I…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union

    Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as general secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, Brezhnev aged prematurely. Also like them, his disabilities never led to his abdication. By Brezhnev’s late 60s and early 70s, he was too ill to travel abroad…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    It’s Worst of Both Worlds for Biden’s Enablers

    Years ago, a dear friend who worked for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld invited me to join the two of them at a photography exhibit. The secretary needed some assistance, having had shoulder surgery. He was loathe to have a lady carry his briefcase. It became my job. We walked through the exhibit of…
    Erick Erickson
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    Alarming Number of Americans Open to Electoral Cheating

    Based on all the accusations being hurled back and forth over the past eight years, if there’s one thing everyday Americans agree on, it’s the importance of maintaining faith in our elections. Electoral integrity is a foundational block in our republic’s Jenga tower that, if pulled away, will topple it. Unfortunately, that may be just…
    Steve McKee
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    Musk Says He’ll Sue Groups in ‘Advertising Boycott Racket’ Targeting Conservative Media

    THE CENTER SQUARE—Tesla founder and X owner Elon Musk said Thursday that he plans to file a lawsuit against people and organizations working to prevent advertising dollars from going to conservative news media. Musk announced his intention on the social media giant X while sharing video of Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro’s congressional testimony Wednesday on the…
    Dan McCaleb
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    Heaping Scorn on Illiterate Fearmongers With Dr. Kevin Roberts

    While the Left has been perpetuating lies about Project 2025, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts explains what it actually is: a policy document “that the next president of the United States” can use “if he so chooses.”  “What has driven the Left crazy is that the political center Right has never been this organized, we’ve never…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Time to Wave ‘Queer’ Goodbye

    (Warning: This op-ed concerns hate speech, which is impossible to discuss without using it. Reader discretion is advised.) As America hurtles deeper into July, Pride Month shrinks ever smaller in the rearview mirror. This is the perfect time to wave goodbye to the word “queer.” That word is at the heart of the identitarian letters…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Public Confidence in Scientific Institutions Erodes Amid Recent COVID-19 Revelations

    All eyes were on Dr. Anthony Fauci when he testified last month under oath before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Praising him for his leadership, Democrats labeled the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as the victim. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., for example, accused Republicans of wasting…
    Caleb Keng
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    Agitators vs. Legislators: Same Team, Cross-Purposes

    The crowning event at the Highland Games in Scotland is the tug-of-war. Eight brothers in arms square off against eight others across the line, gripping a rope as big as the biceps they wrap around it. I can’t help but think how similar the world of politics is. Those of us who wish to preserve…
    Steve McKee
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    Hawley Presses Ex-NIH Official: ‘Is it ‘Normal’ For Scientists to ‘Pre-Bake the Outcome’ of Research?

    A former National Institutes of Health official testified to a Senate committee on Thursday that the agency did not suppress inquiries into the origins of COVID-19, even as Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questioned her about private emails suggesting otherwise.  Carrie Wolinetz, who was the chief of staff for then-NIH Director Francis Collins during the pandemic,…
    Hudson Crozier
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    How the Radical Left Wrecked the Housing Market

    Home affordability just hit a 17-year low, which means the dream of homeownership remains unattainable for the average person. Amid a cost-of-living crisis, saving enough for a downpayment and then affording a monthly mortgage payment has become a Sisyphean task—and radical leftist policies are to blame. Adding up the monthly cost of principal and interest on a mortgage, property taxes, and insurance…
    EJ Antoni
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