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opinion
After Pro-Life Movement Suffers Ballot Losses, Its Strategy, Tactics Need to Change
Thousands of members of the pro-life movement will gather in Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 51st annual March for Life. While there is plenty for marchers to celebrate in light of 50 years of hard work that resulted in Roe v. Wade being overturned in 2022, the movement has suffered big losses over the… -
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Back From Israel: Morgan Ortagus Recounts Meeting With Netanyahu, Horror Stories of Traumatized Nation
Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “look like shells of their former selves,” commentator Morgan Ortagus says, following meetings in Israel earlier this month. But Ortagus, who was State Department spokesperson under President Donald Trump, says the weariness extends to the people of Israel, many of whom remain “traumatized” from the Hamas terrorist… -
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Supreme Court Must Answer Whether Judges or Bureaucrats Have Final Word on Federal Law
Will the Supreme Court uphold the Chevron doctrine, under which courts defer to contested interpretations of law by agencies in the executive branch? Or will the high court instruct lower courts to determine the best reading of the law, as they do in virtually every non-agency case? Those are the questions the Supreme Court must… -
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2024 Olympics: Science Supports Excluding Male Athletes From Female Categories
The countdown has begun—only six months until the 2024 Olympic Games. And already we can anticipate the serious challenges that female athletes will face in their quest for success—most critically, including male athletes who identify as women in women’s competitions. Women competed for the first time in the Olympics at the 1900 Olympic Games in… -
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Fauci’s Memory Keeps Failing Him in 14 Hours of COVID-19 Testimony
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who famously claimed to “represent science,” has a monumentally bad memory. In recent and lengthy testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic behind closed doors, Fauci claimed that he “did not recall” over 100 times. In his… -
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Supreme Court Hears Fishermen’s Challenges to Costly Regulatory Authority of Feds
The U.S. Supreme Court took up two cases Wednesday regarding the regulatory authority of the federal government as fishermen argue that government agencies are exceeding their authority by imposing costly mandates. In Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. vs. Department of Commerce, fishermen are challenging administrative law, dubbed “Chevron deference,” that asserts that when a… -
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‘The Lost Boys’: Documentary Looks at Adverse Effects of Transgenderism on Young Men
A new documentary is exposing the horrors that the transgender movement wreaks upon men, as well as the social and medical-industrial conditions that have led to those horrors. The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network released “The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood” this week, featuring interviews with numerous men in both the U.S. and the U.K. who… -
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The Left Feels Threatened by Those Who Tell the Truth
Are conservatives plotting to subvert American institutions? This bold assertion was tucked inside the op-ed that Claudine Gay published in The New York Times the day after she stepped down as Harvard University’s president. Gay made the accusation twice in her op-ed, so it was not a passing fancy. She devoted a full paragraph to the idea, which deserves quoting in full: The… -
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State Lawmakers Are Freeing Colleges From DEI’s Racial Bias
State lawmakers continue to unravel the thread of discrimination leading to university bureaucracies committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This spring, prepare for more legislators to cobble together provisions that protect students and college employees from DEI’s racial bias. Last year, public officials in five states—Florida, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin—adopted proposals that put university… -
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Abortion, Sacred Truths, and Politics
Speaking Jan. 5 in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden said that the 2024 election is about whether “democracy” is “still America’s sacred cause.” But is democracy “sacred”? Is the process by which we make choices “sacred,” or is what we choose “sacred”? This is the time of year we think about the sanctity of… -
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No Crisis at Border, Biden Says
President Joe Biden—wearing a brown leather jacket and a black baseball hat—walked out onto the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday morning on his way to Marine One. He was flying to Camp David for the weekend. But first he stopped to talk to some reporters. “Mr. President,” one of them asked, “would… -
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What ‘Men Can Give Birth’ and Pro-Hamas Ideologues Have in Common
If you say “men give birth,” we all know your position on Hamas. Now, why is that? Why, if a person says “men give birth” or says that men who say they are women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports, can we be virtually certain that the person sides with Hamas in its… -
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Trump’s Lawyers Accuse Jack Smith of Concealing Evidence, Working With Biden Admin
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers alleged Tuesday night that special counsel Jack Smith concealed evidence about his office’s collaboration with the Biden administration. In a 68-page Wednesday filing in the Florida case concerning his handling of concealed documents, Trump’s legal team claimed it obtained heavily redacted documents through a Freedom of Information Act request revealing “politically motivated… -
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DA Fani Willis and the Price of Arrogance and Corruption
It turns out Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may have paid a huge amount of taxpayers’ money to a chief investigator who is also her boyfriend. Further, special prosecutor Nathan Wade was reportedly using the taxpayers’ money to buy Willis gifts and vacations. When the story broke, even The New York Times had to… -
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When Truth Is Lost in Translation: A Cold War-Era Parable for Today
Narratives concerning the marginalized have come to dominate American institutions and popular culture. The plight of a plethora of minorities is regularly alluded to, from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s allusions to America’s “legacy of discrimination” in her dissent of SFFA v. University of North Carolina to the numerous months dedicated to racial and sexual minorities…. -
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USA Boxing’s New Transgender Rule Could ‘Kill a Woman,’ Coach Warns
USA Boxing has changed its rules to allow men who identify as women to compete in the female category, a change that coach Cary Williams warns could be deadly. Even one man competing against women is “all it takes to do damage; that’s all it takes to kill a woman,” says Williams, a USA Olympic-level… -
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Will Education Choice Momentum Continue in 2024?
National School Choice Week begins on Sunday, and this year, there’s much to celebrate. In 2023, the school choice movement made more progress expanding education options than ever before. The Year of Education Freedom saw seven states pass new education choice policies and nine states expand existing choice policies. There are now nine states with… -
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Supreme Court Denies Review in Critical Trans Bathroom Case That Could Have Clarified Title IX
The Supreme Court unceremoniously denied review Tuesday in a case that would have clarified once and for all whether separating bathrooms based on biological sex violates either Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 or the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Now, the nation must wait with bated breath for publication of the… -
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Chicago EV Charging Fiasco Appears to Pierce Proponents’ Claims About Performance in Bitter Cold
Electric vehicle drivers in the Chicago area have recently struggled to charge their vehicles amid frigid temperatures, contradicting the assertions of some EV proponents suggesting that fears about performance in inclement conditions are overblown. Dozens of EV drivers reportedly lined up at EV charging stations to juice up their vehicles in Oak Brook, Illinois, but… -
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1,200 Pizza Hut Drivers Among First Victims of California’s $20 Minimum Wage Folly
My foray into the workforce was a minimum-wage job making pizzas and washing dishes at Pizza Hut. The money I earned supported my spending as a new driver and taught me how to budget and save for the future. And the experience I gained—everything from teamwork to customer service to safety standards—has stuck with me…