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A Light in the Darkness
The week before Christmas in 2006, on the same day I lost my job, doctors gave my wife six months to live. I had to be the one to break the news to her. I sat in her recovery room following a lung biopsy surgery, waited for her to be awake and aware, and told… -
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Biden, the Invisible President, Lies Without Consequence
Joe Biden may still hold the office of president of the United States, but the media are treating him like he’s anything but a newsmaker. For much of Biden’s presidency, reporters were much more energized to cover the apparent menace of Donald Trump than agitate the officials that were always hiding Biden. Now he seems… -
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Pornhub to Block Access in 13 States as Age-Verification Laws Spread
THE CENTER SQUARE—The pornography website Pornhub soon will be inaccessible in 13 states after lawmakers passed a flurry of restrictions for social media and other internet sites. The bills require certain age-verification measures for websites hosting adult content. A total of 16 states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina,… -
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Biden Oblivious About Leaving Trump an Economy on the Precipice of Disaster
Apparently believing that the more you repeat a lie the truer it becomes, President Joe Biden recently quoted a Time magazine article claiming that “President [Donald] Trump is receiving the strongest economy in modern history.” The Time article was little more than a setup designed to position Democrats to take credit for the inevitable Trump economic boom—as… -
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Defensive Gun Use Debunks Gun Control Ignorance
It’s increasingly clear that gun control activism thrives on ignorance about the nature of crime and the importance of the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, far too many Americans continue to buy hook, line, and sinker into activists’ mischaracterizations of reality. Take, for example, one recent survey that discovered a shocking number of American voters erroneously… -
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Time for Trump to Drop Lawsuits and for the Press to Apologize
Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits brought against Donald Trump, to the great glee of many of his “Never Trump” and Democrat detractors. Some of them had an immediate turnabout effect, especially Manhattan District Attorney Alvin… -
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How the Left Will Defend Its Censorship Regime Against Trump
The reelection of President Donald Trump could serve as a historic turning point for free speech in America. President Trump has said he will investigate censorship practices by the federal government, end the rampant disrespect for First Amendment rights on our college campuses, and take on Big Tech’s Orwellian policing of speech on the internet. If successful,… -
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Who Can Trust White House Reporters Who Hid Biden’s Infirmity?
Even after The Wall Street Journal published a four-byline bombshell detailing how President Joe Biden’s staff energetically hid his ongoing cognitive decline from the public, there wasn’t a single question at the White House briefing. No reporters demanded answers about how they were misled, or complained they were pressured into silence. They mustered that umbrage… -
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Biden Administration Renews ‘Inexcusable’ China-US Deal
China and the U.S. signed a science cooperation agreement this month, an agreement that has been renewed every five years since 1979—yet one expert urges that this time, it’s “inexcusable.” Many conservatives argue that this decision should have been left to the incoming Trump administration, as the inauguration is now only weeks away. However, that… -
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The Vindication of Daniel Penny
It didn’t take long for Daniel Penny, the subway savior who was persecuted by the New York City justice system for having the temerity to help fellow passengers, to be completely vindicated. By trying—and, fortunately, failing—to convict Penny in the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless drug addict with a long rap sheet who yelled… -
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10 New Ideas to Make America’s Economy Great Again in 2025
Here’s my wish list for the incoming Trump administration to make America healthy and prosperous and great again in 2025. 1. Slash Job-Killing Regulations The regulatory state is a $2 trillion tax on the American economy. We all want worker safety, a clean environment, and consumer protections, but in too many cases the costs of… -
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GENDER INDOCTRINATION: 16 States That Force Transgender Lessons on Kids
It’s easy to grow desensitized to the threat of gender ideology in schools. It seems every day there is a fresh new outrage about kindergarteners getting indoctrinated into “trans joy” and school clinics offering transgender “medicine” for minors. President-elect Donald Trump’s historic reelection victory represented a loud rebuke to the transgender movement—after all, one of… -
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Rand Paul’s Report Details $1 Trillion in Gov’t Waste. Here Are the Worst Offenders.
Sen. Rand Paul released a report on Monday outlining more than $1 trillion in government waste from the past year. The 2024 “Festivus” report highlighted various instances of wasteful government spending from the federal government, including a pickleball complex in Las Vegas and a cabaret show on ice. This year marks Paul’s 10th annual report. “This year,… -
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Is DEI Worth Saving?
Is anything worth saving from the State Department’s new but vast diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility apparatus? Executive summary: No. As the summer 2020 high water mark of woke recedes, some U.S. institutions, from big companies to colleges, are gently backing off DEI, at least by name. But not the State Department. On his first… -
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SHOCKER!: PolitiFact Tags Trump for ‘Lie of the Year’ for Seventh Time
Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they’ve singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene. It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: “A lie marked… -
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What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?
In the weeks before his 2016 Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure. No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% approval. His inauguration in a few… -
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How To Get Trump’s Agenda Through Congress
A sweeping election victory on Nov. 5 means Republicans will have control of the House, Senate, and the White House come January. Capturing this trifecta, however, was just the beginning of conservatives’ fight to save the country. Now comes the much harder task: conservatives actually have to govern. Republicans, animated by President-elect Donald Trump’s winning… -
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Biden Admin Rushes to Hire DEI Staff Ahead of Trump Inauguration
Within 10 days of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory, 33 DEI-related jobs were posted by the federal government. Now, with barely a month until Trump takes office, The Daily Wire reported that the feds are “currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,200 employees to work on … [diversity, equity, and inclusion]—employees who would be… -
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Biden Admin Quietly Withdraws Title IX Rule Forcing Schools to Let Boys Compete in Girls’ Sports
The Biden administration withdrew a rule that would have forced schools receiving federal funds to allow boys to compete in girls' and women's sports, if they claim to identify as girls. The withdrawal comes one month before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, and in the context of multiple lawsuits against a previous rule change that… -
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Questioning Vaccines Shouldn’t Be Verboten
In the Harry Potter series, the villain, Lord Voldemort, is known as “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.” There’s a similar sentiment whenever someone expresses a heterodox opinion on vaccines. The long knives are already out for Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. While there are valid concerns among pro-life activists, the most prominent objection is…