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Defenders Push Back Against Critics of Country Music Star Aldean’s Small-Town Anthem
A country music star is getting backlash after releasing a music video disparaging riots and rising crime rates. Jason Aldean released a music video last week for his single “Try That in a Small Town,” a song praising the close-knit communities found in (as the title might suggest) small towns and rural areas, while criticizing… -
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‘You’re Going to See More of Tucker’: Biographer, Executive Producer Tease What’s Next for Carlson
The swanky Metropolitan Club in downtown Washington, D.C., might be the last place you’d expect to find Tucker Carlson’s biggest fans. But that’s exactly where they gathered Wednesday night for a party celebrating the forthcoming Carlson biography, “Tucker,” by Chadwick Moore. Carlson was a regular at the club when he ran the Daily Caller with… -
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Harvard Law Professor Forgets Why Judicial Review Exists
G.K. Chesterton, that extraordinary author and philosopher, once told a story about a fence blocking a road. Two people approach it, and the first says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” The second person, however, is smarter and says, “If you don’t see the use of it, I won’t… -
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Nike Ad Touts Rapinoe as ‘American Hero’ as She Advocates for Men Competing in Women’s Sports
Just days before the FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer match was set to begin in Australia and New Zealand Thursday, Nike Football released an ad championing women’s soccer pro Megan Rapinoe—an activist for “transgender” athletes competing in women’s sports—as an “All-American Hero.” In a 1980s-themed animated commercial, Rapinoe is shown as a comic book superhero,… -
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It’s Increasingly Clear Feds Were Protecting Joe Biden, Not Hunter
Two veteran IRS agents with impeccable records have now testified under oath that federal officials not only slow-walked the Hunter Biden probe, but nixed efforts to investigate President Joe Biden’s role in the family business. And though legacy media are conveniently apathetic about the developments, they seem somewhat newsworthy to me. On Wednesday, we learned… -
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Rosas’ 2020 Riot Coverage Changed How Americans View Journalism
Julio Rosas, senior writer for Townhall and the author of “Fiery but Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America,” joined me at the Turning Point Action Conference in Palm Beach, Florida, to delve into the rise of citizen journalism and the necessity of wading into the most dangerous situations to expose the… -
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White House Credentials Rule Change Criticized as Bid to ‘Censor’ Press, ‘Silence’ Critics
The Biden administration’s rule change on White House press credentials is an attempt to censor members of the press, according to lawmakers. “The Biden regime will stop at nothing to silence and censor any and all political opponents,” Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., told The Daily Signal in an email Thursday. “No one is immune from… -
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Newly Released Document Details What FBI Informant Learned of Biden Bribery Charge
When an FBI confidential informant met with Burisma executives in Austria in 2016, he strongly advised them against plans to buy a U.S. oil company – chiefly because the controversial Ukrainian energy firm with Hunter Biden on its board was under investigation in Ukraine. He further suggested that Burisma first spend about $50,000 litigating the… -
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Far-Left Hate Group Attacks Vance Bill, Falsely Claims Kids Can’t Get Trans Procedures
A far-left, pro-transgender group is attacking legislation put forward by Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance that would ban euphemistic “gender-affirming care” for children, such as transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. GLAAD, formerly known as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is a defender of the anti-Catholic “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” a group of… -
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‘Everyone Noticed the Lack of Socks.’ Legacy Media Finally Noticing Biden’s Obvious Signs of Health Decline.
It seems even President Joe Biden’s allies in the media are finally acknowledging his deteriorating condition. Politico ran a piece Wednesday titled, “Biden downplays age talk—but subtle accommodations are being made.” The piece began with, “Everyone noticed the lack of socks.” Yikes. Politico noted how Biden walked across the tarmac to Air Force One on… -
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America Must Reclaim What the Left Has Attempted to Destroy
History remembers Independence Hall for the grave, soul-stirring words written there: “All men are created equal …” “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness …” “We the people …” But it is a pithier, sharper sentence spoken there that distills the challenge before America today. You’ve probably heard the story. At the end of the… -
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Is Biden’s New Student Loan Scheme Any More Legal Than the One Quashed by Court? (Probably Not)
A few weeks after the Supreme Court disabused President Joe Biden of the notion that he could unilaterally cancel $430 billion in student loans, Biden has now announced that his administration will instead cancel $39 billion in student debt held by 800,000 borrowers. Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the resulting cancellations would… -
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Democrats Try to Censor RFK Jr. During Hearing on Censorship
House Democrats attempted to prevent President Joe Biden’s Democrat primary rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from giving public testimony during a hearing investigating government censorship. Kennedy was among witnesses who testified Thursday to the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about collusion between the federal government and Big Tech companies… -
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Europe Demonstrates False Underlying Assumption of Mainstream Environmental Policy
A July 2022 International Monetary Fund working paper found that in Europe, within the prior year, “oil prices had doubled, coal prices tripled, and natural gas prices increased more than fivefold.” Further, about half of all inflation could be linked to this increase in energy prices. And perhaps most importantly, the study noted: “Higher energy prices… -
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Woman at Center of Supreme Court Case Describes Death Threats, Harassment, ‘Doxxing’
United States Supreme Court cases have become fraught with peril for those who differ from leftist ideology: Litigants face potential death threats, protesting, harassment, and "doxxing" (putting their personal information, even their addresses, online to encourage harassment). Justices have faced the same—including at least one attempted assassination. Following the leak of the draft Supreme Court… -
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How the Left Conquered the New York Times
Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Christopher Rufo’s new book “America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.” Communist radical Herbert Marcuse believed that the university could serve as the “initial revolutionary institution” but was not, in and of itself, powerful enough to transform the broader society. The intellectuals could produce knowledge but, left… -
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Massachusetts Parents at Risk of Losing Religious Exemption on Vaccinations of Their Kids
The sun was shining in Boston on July 1 as I sat at a picnic table looking out over Boston Harbor, the very harbor that about 250 years earlier Colonists dumped tea into in protest of British taxes. As a Massachusetts native, I am proud of my state’s history in the fight for freedom and… -
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Deja Vu All Over Again? ‘Biden Malaise’ Evokes Memories of Jimmy Carter Years
President Joe Biden has a lot in common with one of his fellow Democratic White House predecessors, according to columnist and author Kimberley Strassel. In her new book “The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back From Joe Biden’s Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years,” Strassel details the parallels between Jimmy Carter’s 1977-1981 presidency and… -
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GOP Senators Rip Democrats’ Bill They Say Would Eviscerate Supreme Court
A bill from Senate Democrats to be marked up in committee Thursday would destroy the independence of the Supreme Court, a group of Republican senators said at a Wednesday press conference. Six GOP lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee spoke about how the Supreme Court “ethics” bill drawn up by Democrats on their committee would… -
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4 Key Takeaways From IRS Whistleblowers’ Insights on Impeded Hunter Biden Probe
A key House committee heard testimony Wednesday from two IRS whistleblowers who detailed what they said was Justice Department officials’ efforts to slow or impede an investigation of presidential son Hunter Biden for unpaid taxes. Committee Republicans sought to extract as many details as they could from the two veteran IRS employees, while Democrats seemed…