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opinion
Marketing Life: A Mother’s Journey From Planned Parenthood to Global Pro-Life Movement
At age 18, Nelly Roach sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic with $246 to pay for an abortion. “I found myself there, as many many people find themselves, in a place where they don't feel that they have any options,” Roach says. Roach was born into a Catholic family on the small island nation of… -
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All We Are Saying Is: Give Pete a Chance
President-reelect Donald J. Trump’s enemies seem overwhelmed by his growing sense of invincibility. Civil lawsuits, criminal indictments, Democrat nominees, media mudslinging, and even a crazed gunman’s bullet bounced right off him. So, Trump’s enemies now aim their fire at his Cabinet nominees. Anonymous rumors and accusations often are the weapons of choice. The Democrat Left’s… -
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5 Ways Biden-Harris Admin Working to ‘Trump-Proof’ Washington
The Biden administration has gone into overdrive securing progressive policy goals from the impending Trump administration 2.0. From confirming progressive judges, to constraining American energy with environmental red tape, to simply spending every last unjustified dollar, the Biden-Harris administration is committed to ensuring its policies carry on into the second Trump administration for as long… -
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Politics of Economic Redistribution, RIP
Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man? Those are questions that Democrats are asking after Vice President Kamala Harris’ decisive, but not landslide, loss to President-elect Donald Trump…. -
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In Transgender Case, Can Supreme Court Cut to the Moral Heart of the Issue?
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in this term’s marquee case, United States v. Skrmetti. The case, out of Tennessee, nominally involves a state law banning minors’ use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for purposes of so-called gender-affirming care—which, stripped of all euphemism, means genital mutilation and chemical castration. And the justices… -
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Political Earthquake: The Multiracial Populist Voters Reshaping the Republican Party
President-elect Donald Trump made stunning gains with black men, Hispanic voters, and younger Americans in the 2024 presidential election, challenging long-held political assumptions. One person saw it coming more than a year ago. Patrick Ruffini, founding partner of Echelon Insights, published “Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP” in November… -
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‘It’s Time to Saddle Up … to Take Our Country Back,’ Heritage Chief Says
“For every American who is discouraged about the American present and the American future, whatever the reason for that is, it’s time to saddle up, because we’re going to take our country back,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts promises. Roberts made that vow in a discussion with Joshua Treviño, chief transformation officer at the Texas Public… -
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Heritage Foundation Ad Buy Backs Hegseth’s Bid for Defense Chief
The Heritage Foundation launched an ad campaign on Friday promoting President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. On Nov. 21, The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America announced the launch of a $1 million campaign advocating for prompt Senate confirmation of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Of that, $50,000 will go toward bolstering… -
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Could Biden Ignore the Law Yet Again to Bring a Million Gazans to the US?: The BorderLine
Imagine seeing this on tomorrow’s front page: Biden Announces New ‘Give It to Gaza’ Parole Program: 1,000 Palestinians per Week to Fly in From Designated Middle East Airports to Chicago, Detroit, and New York. That’s not a real headline—but it could be. “They can’t do that!” you say? Not so. Previous presidents realized they were… -
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House Report Finds (Nearly) Every COVID-19 ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Was True
The most thorough report ever released on America’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic has concluded that virtually everything that would have gotten you banned from social media for spreading “misinformation” was true. After a two-year investigation, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its 520-page report (titled “After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The… -
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5 Reasons DC Shouldn’t Be a State
Many Democrats dream of ways to ensure they never lose power again. This is why they want to eliminate the Electoral College, pack the Supreme Court, and make the District of Columbia a state. As D.C. celebrates 50 years of “home rule,” here are five reasons that autonomy—let alone statehood—isn’t a good idea. 1. The… -
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Appeals Court Upholds Pending Law Requiring Chinese Company to Sell TikTok or Face Ban in US
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a law Friday requiring Chinese internet company ByteDance either to sell TikTok or for the social media platform to be effectively banned in America. The three-judge panel’s ruling paves the way for the law to take effect on Jan. 19, 2025. ByteDance is… -
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Why the Left Is Going Insane Over Trump’s Cabinet Nominees
Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the Left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, D.C./New York political, media, and corporate nexus. But that is precisely the point—to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and weaponized government who are… -
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Major Textbook Publisher Caught Spreading LGBTQ and DEI Ideology in Schools
“Pretty disgusting” and “grotesque.” That’s how a Florida parent described an online session for students on “gender” provided by two K-12 virtual public schools in November—a session that virtual school officials held without first informing parents. These schools’ attempt to sidestep families is just the latest in a long list of examples demonstrating that some… -
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This Labor Leader Isn’t ‘Pro-Worker’ at All
Some union leaders are self-destructive idiots. America’s ports have fallen behind. Not a single one ranks in the top 50 worldwide. A big reason is that dock unions stop innovation. This fall, the International Longshoremen’s Association shut down East and Gulf Coast ports, striking for a raise and a ban on automation. They got the… -
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Cruz Leads Brief to Supreme Court Over Mexico’s Lawsuit Against US Gunmakers
THE CENTER SQUARE—U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, led a bicameral coalition filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting it to uphold American sovereignty in a $10 billion lawsuit brought by Mexico blaming U.S. gun manufacturers for cartel gun violence in Mexico. The bicameral appeal was made in concert with one by a… -
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Why Biden’s Pardon of Son Hunter Miffed the California Judge in His Tax Case
Everyone has heard the old saw “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Well, perhaps we should add judges with life tenure to the list of those we ought not to anger. Just before exiting stage left Sunday for Africa to seek refuge from a hungry press, President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter… -
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Trump Defense Cites Biden’s ‘Extraordinary Condemnation’ of DOJ in Motion to Dismiss NY Case
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden, when he pardoned his son, conceded that his own Justice Department is politically motivated, attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump argue. In their latest motion to dismiss Trump’s New York case, defense attorneys pointed Monday to Biden’s claim Sunday that his son Hunter Biden was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” with political… -
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Arizona Couple Began ‘Transitioning’ Their Child as 1-Year-Old Boy
After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in U.S. v Skrmetti, the case that will determine whether states may ban transgender medical procedures for kids, one mother told The Daily Signal that her child began to transition as a baby. “She knew since birth,” Michelle Callahan-DuMont said of her 10-year-old, a biological male who… -
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In Praise of Giorgia Meloni’s Handling of a Migration Crisis
A continent once widely skeptical of Giorgia Meloni now looks to the Italian prime minister for a solution to the problem of rampant mass migration in Europe. A core tenet of Meloni’s 2022 campaign involved curbing illegal immigration flows to Italy. Italian dissatisfaction with the crisis partially propelled Meloni’s political success, as mass waves of…