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New Zealand’s Step in the Right Direction
In April, New Zealand announced it aimed to nearly double defense spending to reach 2% of its gross domestic product in the next eight years—a step that marks a major shift in New Zealand’s national security strategy. While a member of the Anglosphere “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance, New Zealand has not sufficiently funded its defense…Adam Kurzweil -
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NATO Can Do More and Better
NATO plays a crucial role in our nation’s defense—and there’s a strong case to be made for increased defense spending by all NATO allies. Those are the points Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, made in his recent testimony before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Europe Subcommittee. Gardiner is right:…Anthony B. Kim -
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‘Worse and More Violent’: LA Riots Escalate
UPDATE: Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said in a Sunday evening press conference that the violence was “getting increasingly worse and more violent.” “This violence that I’ve seen, it’s disgusting,” McDonnell said, according to Fox News. “It’s escalated now, since the beginning of this incident. What we saw the first night was bad. What…Tyler O’Neil -
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Human Rights Campaign Causes ‘Great Harm’
Why does Uber make videos where people say, “I’m non-binary or genderqueer”? And why does Lockheed Martin fund floats at pride parades? Because companies want to raise their score on the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index.” Equality is a good thing. I support human rights. But the Human Rights Campaign? That’s something else. “They…John Stossel -
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‘Gold Cards’: How Trump Wants to Eliminate National Debt
If previous statements from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick remain true, then the United States could roll out its “gold card” program soon—an unprecedented initiative to sell US residency to wealthy clients in order to raise revenue. To be sure, there has been much talk of these gold cards, but with no implementation to date. If…George Caldwell -
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Federal Immigration Database Reveals How Many Noncitizens Potentially Voted in Texas
Just two weeks after the Trump administration released federal immigration data to states, Texas identified 33 potential noncitizens who voted in the November 2024 election and referred them for criminal investigation. The state is only in its “early stages” of analyzing data, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson said, so this could be the first…Fred Lucas -
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Media Shows Sympathetic Views on Antisemitic Terrorist
Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colorado, who were remembering the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. At least one of Soliman’s victims was a Holocaust survivor. Soliman and his family had come to the United States on…Erick Erickson -
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Meet the Companies Helping to Trans Kids and Hide It From Parents
It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral…Suzanne Bowdey -
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Friends With Benefits: Stacey Abrams Funneled $20 Million to Her Lawyer
A nonprofit founded by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams to protect voting rights paid more than $20 million to a lawyer who is a close friend and helped set up two of her private businesses, according to tax and state incorporation filings and other records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Abrams’ Fair Fight Action redirected the tax-exempt donations…Paul Sperry -
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Texas Is First State to Authorize Statue on Capitol Grounds Honoring Pregnant Mother and Child
Texas will erect the Texas Life Monument, a statue honoring mothers and the sanctity of life, after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a resolution Tuesday authorizing the monument be built. The legislation passed with a large majority of support in the Texas Legislature. According Tim Van Dohlen, co-founder of the St. John Paul II Life…Quinn Delamater -
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Harvard Is the Enemy
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump correctly assailed elite universities like Harvard as controlled by “Marxist maniacs and lunatics.” He received a popular mandate to take them down. They deserve it. The bill of indictment against Harvard is long. It is teaching students to hate America, to become modern-day Benedict Arnolds. It is teaching…Armstrong Williams -
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How Democrats Can Stop Alienating Young Men: Some Unsolicited Advice
Last November, Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris among young men 18 to 29 years old, racking up about 56% of their votes according to the Associated Press. That represents a huge decline from 2008, the climax of the Barack Obama coalition, when the Democrat candidate won 62% of the young male vote against GOP…Josh Hammer -
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Religion Without Faith Will Never Bring Fulfillment
In the introduction of his 1984 book, “The Naked Public Square,” then-Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus wrote about the relationship between religion and politics in society, Politics and religion are different enterprises, and it is understandable that many people would like to keep them as separate as possible. But they are constantly coupling and getting quite mixed up…Timothy Goeglein -
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The New Politics of Metropole vs. Heartland
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France’s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’’ election last month. And maybe in Poland and South…Michael Barone -
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Modern Feminism Gets a Whole New Meaning Under the Trump Administration
It’s ironic, isn’t it? The modern feminist movement began as a cry for liberation—yet in recent years, it seems to have circled right back to restriction. The script has flipped, and instead of championing real choice, mainstream feminism is now dictating which choices are acceptable, rewarding women not for excellence but for optics. Many women…Hannah Brusven -
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Got Whole Milk? Senate Panel Moves to End Low-Fat Only Rule in School Lunches.
The Make America Healthy Again movement claimed another win this week when the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would once again allow whole and reduced-fat milk to be served in school cafeterias. “I’m encouraged to see the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act advance. This common-sense, bipartisan…Jacob Adams -
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How Trump’s Administration Has Protected Whistleblowers Bullied by Biden’s
When Dr. Eithan Haim blew the whistle on illegal sex-change procedures for minors at the Texas Children’s Hospital, the Biden administration weaponized the Justice Department to silence him, plunging Haim and his wife into than $1 million in debt. By contrast, had Haim shed light on the gender transitions that violated Texas law under the…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Italian Referendum Would Speed Up Path to Citizenship
Italians are heading to the polls Sunday for a two-day referendum on whether to accelerate the citizenship process and change labor laws—proposals opposed by the country’s conservative prime minister. As immigration concerns mount across Europe, the citizenship question would usher in a sweeping change in Italy by cutting in half the required period of residence…Lorenzo Prieto -
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The Partisan Media Hate Any Praise of Trump’s Broad Media Access
Jack Blanchard at Politico’s Playbook newsletter made the leftists angry by praising President Donald Trump’s energetic availability to the press. While CBS star Scott Pelley wailed at a college commencement that they are “the fierce defenders of democracy,” “the seekers of truth” and “the vanguard against ignorance,” Trump grants them access. Blanchard wrote on May…Tim Graham -
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CBS Errs as It Airs Radical Professor on ‘Misinformation’
The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Donald Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been “misinformation research,” in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods. In the Joe Biden years, “misinformation” experts at major universities worked with the federal government and…Tim Graham