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Biden Education Department Shared Activists’ Memo on Mobilizing Dem-Leaning Voters
Biden administration officials circulated and discussed a memo authored by a coalition of liberal groups aimed at getting more college students to participate in elections as part of the Education Department’s presidentially ordered voter-registration efforts, newly surfaced emails show. Groups that donated millions to elect Democrats and are funded by major liberal donors submitted a… -
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Heritage Foundation Announces 2024 Innovation Prize Award Winners
The Heritage Foundation unveiled the 2024 recipients of its coveted Innovation Prize, recognizing nine organizations for their contributions to conservative policy priorities. The winners, honored on Monday at the grand opening of Heritage’s new Barb Van Andel-Gaby Center in Washington, D.C., each received a $100,000 award. They join the ranks of more than a dozen… -
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Biden’s Tariffs Are Bad. Biden’s Tariffs Coupled With EV Mandates Are Even Worse.
Not long ago, President Joe Biden promised to transform the American auto industry—”first with carrots, now with sticks,” is the analogy The Washington Post used. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’d trust the president to drive my car much less dictate the future of industrial policy. Yet, Biden implemented draconian… -
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The Left’s Alito Flag Flap Is Their Craziest Attempt Yet to Smear a Supreme Court Justice
The Left is about power and achieving their political objectives by any means necessary. That includes trying to silence or sideline judges unlikely to be on their side. One tactic is demanding that Supreme Court justices unlikely to be reliable ideological allies recuse themselves, or step away, from certain cases. Liberals have come up with… -
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A Signal That Oakland Is Slipping Further Into a Doom Loop
This is such an Oakland story. The city of Oakland, California, known for its extreme leftism, is replacing some traffic lights in the city with a four-way stop sign, according to CBS News The city isn’t taking this step to improve the flow of traffic or anything like that. Instead, city officials decided to remove… -
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US Must Oppose International Criminal Court Bid to Prosecute Israeli Prime Minister, Defense Chief
For more than two decades, supporters of the International Criminal Court have urged the U.S. to ratify the Rome Statute and join the court. But multiple U.S. administrations of both parties refused, concerned that the ICC lacks safeguards against political manipulation and violates national sovereignty by claiming jurisdiction over the nationals and military personnel of… -
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Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case Challenging School District Policy Hiding Students’ ‘Gender Identity’ From Parents
The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider a case challenging a Maryland school district policy that hides information from parents about their child’s “gender identity.” Under the Montgomery County Board of Education’s guidelines, parents deemed “unsupportive” will not be told if their child is undergoing a “gender transition” at school, according to court filings. The justices declined to hear… -
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Federal Judge Blocks Biden ATF Rule Expanding Gun Background Checks
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration from fully enforcing a gun background check rule Sunday night. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the rule covering background checks for firearms purchases April 10, claiming it was based on bipartisan legislation passed in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. United States District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk… -
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Senate Will Try Again to Pass Border Bill, Schumer Says
The Senate will hold a second vote on the touted “bipartisan” border bill this week, more than three months after the bill failed to pass the first time, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday. The bill—which Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla.; Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., originally negotiated—is expected to fail again this week…. -
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Her Daughter Was Harassed By a Boy on the Girls’ Team. Now, She’s Speaking Out to Save Title IX
Abby Cross and her husband went to the leadership of their daughter’s Bridgeport, West Virginia, middle school with concerns over a biological male competing alongside their daughter in athletics. “Nothing changed” for their daughter following the conversation, Cross says. Adaleia Cross, her mom says, has always loved sports and was excited to be a part… -
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Homelessness Surging in Blue City Despite Doling Out Hundreds of Millions
The number of homeless people in San Francisco jumped compared to two years ago, despite the city spending hundreds of millions of dollars to address the issue, city data shows. The total number of homeless people in San Francisco rose 7% to 8,328 in a one-night measurement in January 2024 compared to the same in… -
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Will Democrats Pay a Price for Their Crumbling Lawfare Strategy Against Trump?
President Joe Biden, who wears bespoke sneakers to prevent embarrassing collapses and whose command of the English language rivals that of most kindergartners, is in bad political shape. It is unsurprising that Democrats have resorted to some of the slimiest tactics imaginable to derail President Donald Trump’s comeback bid and push their senile octogenarian across… -
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Federal Appeals Court Rules Maryland Parents Cannot Opt Children Out of LGBTQ Lessons
Despite national attention and thousands of protesting parents, a federal court is refusing to allow parents to opt their children out of LGBTQ courses in school. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided on Wednesday that Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland does not have to allow parents to opt their children out of LGBTQ-themed lessons…. -
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Who Benefits From Destabilization of America?
“Cui bono?” asked the ancients, whose wisdom we’d be foolish to toss aside. For by answering the question “Who benefits?” we may ascertain who is committing the crime that ails us. The crime in question is the mayhem being visited on the college campuses and streets of America. Today the cause is Gaza, but our… -
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Hard to Argue With Logic of 13 Judges Who Say They Won’t Hire Columbia Grads
Is it proper for federal judges to boycott hiring students who attend a particular university? Thirteen federal judges, all of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump, have announced that they are going to do just that. In a May 6 letter to Minouche Shafik, president of protest-rocked Columbia University, the 13 judges referred to… -
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Americans Should Thank a Cop During National Police Week—and the Rest of the Year, Too
This week, Atlanta cops embodied the city’s motto, “Resurgens,” which means “rising again.” Responding to a distress call about an armed man in the Capitol View neighborhood, three cops were shot in the line of duty on May 11. This National Police Week (May 12-18), we should be grateful that it appears that they will… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Attorney Expressed Concerns About Conservative Media Coverage of Biden Admin Persecuting Christians, Pro-Lifers
A federal Justice Department attorney expressed concerns to a Michigan judge about conservative media coverage suggesting that President Joe Biden’s administration is persecuting Christians and pro-lifers for their beliefs. The discussion took place during a March pre-trial conference in USA v. Zastrow, in which the federal government brought Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE)… -
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These 2 Bipartisan Proposals Would Hold Presidents Accountable for ‘Improper’ Payments
Suppose that a typical American family that spends about $73,000 per year was budgeting for next year and realized it spent an increasing amount—$4,600 last year—by sending payments to the wrong people and in the wrong amount. Sound budgeting would say that family should include “improper payments” in its budget. And assuming it doesn’t like… -
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SOCIETAL ROT, Part 5: Allowing Open-Air Drug Markets Is Neither Commonsensical Nor Compassionate
Fifth in a five-part series. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, and part 4 here. Societal rot is a choice. Is it compassionate to let users of marijuana, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, xylazine (aka “tranq”), or fentanyl waste away on the streets of America’s cities? No. Does it make sense to reverse commonsense laws that made… -
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Trump’s Attorney Makes Swiss Cheese Out of Michael Cohen’s Testimony, Raising Questions of Perjury
Former President Donald Trump’s defense attorney rebutted Michael Cohen’s testimony during a brutal cross-examination Thursday, which has legal commentators raising the possibility Cohen again committed perjury. Defense attorney Todd Blanche confronted Cohen on his past lies under oath, including to Congress and a federal judge, asking him whether he took the same oath before testifying…