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4 Issues to Consider as the US and Its Indo-Pacific Allies Meet to Counter China
Over the weekend, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan, and the U.S. will gather in Wilmington, Delaware, for the fourth in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit. As China continues to enflame tensions in the South China Sea and along the China-India border, here are four items that the Quad should prioritize during their meeting. Maritime Security China’s… -
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Why Is China Taking Such a Keen Interest in the Bahamas?
More than 8.5 million American tourists visited the Bahamas in 2023. The Caribbean nation offers pristine beaches, rich history, incredible water sports, delectable cuisine … and some very serious interest from the People’s Republic of China. Chinese interest in the Bahamas recently made headlines after a hearing in which the commanders of U.S. Southern Command… -
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Virginia School District Refuses to Give Public Records to Teacher It Opposed in Election
A public school teacher in Fairfax County is suing her school district for withholding public records mentioning her name. Julie Perry, a history teacher at Centreville High School in Northern Virginia, filed a Freedom of Information Act request on May 29 for emails from Assistant Superintendent Penny Gros because she felt like her job was… -
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Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?
In Aug. 2012, a left-wing MSNBC aficionado named Floyd Lee Corkins armed himself with a handgun and extra magazines. He drove to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the socially conservative Family Research Council, planning to shoot it up. Corkins, who later cited the Southern Poverty Law Center for the proposition that the FRC is an… -
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Voters Don’t Want Harris’ or Trump’s Campaign Policies
Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday’s front page, has any proposals to cut the rapidly increasing national debt. Instead, both are proposing to hand out goodies to strategically positioned voters. Harris, with an eye on polls showing young voters not as pro-Democratic as in… -
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Stunning Costs of Biden-Harris’ ‘America-Last’ Border Policies—Part 2: The BorderLine
Last week, I looked at the effects of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policy on crime and jobs. This week, I want to look at its increasingly devastating effect on public housing and public services and how that affects everyday Americans. Since January 2021, the administration has used a variety of quasi-legal fudges to treat millions… -
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Reasons Young Women Embrace the Left Don’t Reflect Well on These Women
Last week, The New York Times featured an article headlined “How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal.” According to every poll, since 2016 there has been an unprecedented political/social gender gap between young American women and men. Here is how the Times reported it: In 2001, young men and women had similar… -
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Kamala Harris’ Non Sequitur on Energy Independence
We don’t want to be dependent on foreign oil, and we should invest in diverse forms of energy. That’s what we heard from sitting Vice President Kamala Harris in the most recent debate spectacle. Her exact words: “My position is that we have got to invest in diverse sources of energy so we reduce our… -
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Another Month, Another Trump Assassination Attempt
This week, a would-be assassin aimed a rifle at Donald Trump through the fence at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. A Secret Service agent saw the man and shot at him; he was later arrested. The alleged shooter has a long record of clear-cut, left-wing hatred: He has opined that… -
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Families Left Heartbroken as China Ends International Adoptions
China recently ended most international adoptions, leaving hundreds of families devastated as all pending applications are suspended. As of Aug. 28, the Chinese government ceased foreign adoptions in order to be “in line” with international trends, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told Reuters. The ban affects all international adoptions except for cases where parents are… -
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Russian and Chinese Military Activity Near Alaska Is ‘Becoming More Frequent,’ Gov. Mike Dunleavy Warns
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The U.S. military is responding after Russia and China increased their military activity near Alaska. The U.S. military deployed 130 Army airborne soldiers with mobile rocket launchers earlier this month to the Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. The action comes after Russia and China conducted joint military exercises close to Alaska. “There’s been naval… -
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FACT CHECK: Did 2 Women Die Because of Georgia’s Abortion Law?
The pro-abortion lobby and legacy media are lying to you again. This week, shocking headlines portrayed the deaths of two women incorrectly, blaming a new Georgia law that had nothing to do with their tragic deaths. Here’s what really happened: Amber Nicole Thurman died after she took the abortion pill, deregulated by the FDA (with… -
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EXCLUSIVE: North Carolina School District Spends $3K for ‘Implicit Bias’ Training
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A school district in North Carolina spent more than $3,000 on two hours of training in “implicit bias” for its school board members last year, according to documents obtained by Parents Defending Education through a public records request and shared with The Daily Signal. The Wake County Public School System gave… -
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PolitiFact Throws Its 200th ‘Pants on Fire’ Tag at Donald Trump
Kamala Harris consented to a puffball panel discussion with the National Association of Black Journalists on Sept. 17, and it was announced that PolitiFact would engage in live “fact-checking.” Its Twitter feed then displayed 14 checks on Harris’ answers. The first one was labeled “False,” and all the rest of them were “True,” “Accurate,” or… -
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‘Classic Union-Busting Behavior’: Laid-Off SPLC Employees Reveal Internal Dissension at Far-Left Smear Factory
This summer, the Southern Poverty Law Center laid off about a quarter of its staff, and former SPLC employees revealed more information about those layoffs this week, accusing the organization of “classic union-busting behavior.” Former employees of the SPLC’s education arm, Learning for Justice, published an open letter Tuesday outlining their experiences in the lead-up… -
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WATCH: Harris Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we take a closer look at the fake high of the U.S. stock market after a slight rate reduction from the Federal Reserve. At last, we scrape the bottom of the barrel in this election cycle as both candidates pull out all of the stops for… -
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Did Elite Colleges Lie to the Supreme Court or Are They Breaking the Law Today?
When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its monumental decision in 2023 telling colleges and universities that “yes,” they did have to comply with the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment in their admissions policies, the question immediately arose of whether they would comply or cheat. With the latest admission numbers from schools such as… -
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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD: Speaker Johnson’s Next Move in Spending Fight
It’s back to the drawing board for House Speaker Mike Johnson. On Wednesday, the House failed to pass the continuing resolution spending bill, with the SAVE Act attached, that would have funded the federal government beyond the end of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 and through March. Wednesday evening’s vote failed 202-220. Three Democrats—Reps…. -
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Biden-Harris Price Controls Causing Senior Drug Prices to Skyrocket
If there’s one axiom, we all know about Washington, D.C., is that it’s full of well-intentioned policies and unintended (read: harmful) consequences. A recent reminder of unintended policy consequences is the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. The IRA was passed in August 2022, and according to its champions in Congress and the White House, it was… -
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ABC News May Have ‘Inappropriately Influenced’ Harris-Trump Debate, Senator Says
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., has accused ABC News of partiality and left-leaning bias during the recent presidential debate, saying that Kamala Harris’ campaign may have “inappropriately influenced the proceedings” against Donald Trump. In a letter Wednesday, the senator demanded that ABC release all pre-debate communication and coordination with the Harris campaign, saying the public…