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opinion
Could We Still Win a Revolutionary War?
The Independence Day season is a time to ask a hard question. Could the Americans of today have won the Revolutionary War—and would they even have wanted to fight it? Our leaders have plenty to say about freedom, though none say it as well as Thomas Jefferson did in the Declaration of Independence. Yet no… -
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This Scandal Will Lead to the Bidens’ Convictions for Serious Felonies
President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI—under its fourth consecutive weaponized director—are in danger of subverting the American system of law. They are in various ways undermining the tradition of self-reported income tax computation and voluntary compliance. Our tax institutions, of course, are based on the real deterrence… -
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Biden Blows Smoke on Prospects of Wind, Solar Replacing Fossil Fuels
Except for a modest number who go by ferry, almost everybody who travels between Marin County, California, and San Francisco does so by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in some kind of vehicle. They may do it in a car, a truck, a bus, or on a motorcycle—unless they are President Joe Biden. If you… -
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Is Your Connection to Israel ‘More Than Just a Feeling’? This Ancestry Service Can Give You the Answer
ORLANDO, Fla.—An ancestry service based in Israel aims to connect people across the globe, helping them explore their family trees and see whether they have any relatives living in the Holy Land today. “People believe that they have a connection to the Holy Land, and I think one of the things we have now through… -
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Decline in Religion Doesn’t Bode Well for the Republic
Over the last several decades, a growing number of Americans have abandoned their faith — usually Christianity — to join the ranks of the nonreligious. These “Nones” describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.” Some may shrug at this, but you don’t have to be religious to know that this shift doesn’t bode… -
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Let’s Celebrate Brown 2.0, Then Move to Family Formation
By eliminating racial preferences in university admissions, the Supreme Court has finally exorcised a baleful spectrum that has haunted the country for over half a century. We should all take a moment to celebrate this de facto Brown v. Board of Education decision 2.0. We must then quickly pivot to the hard work of removing obstacles to opportunities for everyone…. -
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Indiana Supreme Court Rules Abortion Ban Is Constitutional
The Indiana Supreme Court issued a decision Friday that said the state’s abortion ban was constitutional in a 4-1 ruling, according to the text. Senate Bill 1 was signed into law in 2022 and prohibited abortion with limited exceptions in the case of preventing “serious health risk of the pregnant woman or to save the pregnant… -
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Why Articles of Confederation Failed and Constitution Succeeded
The American Revolution served as a test to see if the 13 colonies could come together to “identity as a people, as a nation,” Richard Reinsch says. The question after the war was “had they actually become in effect one people and no longer 13 separate colonies or even 13 separate states?” After the war,… -
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The Document That Inspired the Declaration of Independence
It’s common for Americans on July 4th to read and discuss the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect on its principles and ideas. Those principles and ideas are often attributed solely — though wrongly — to Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the draft of the Declaration. Jefferson’s draft was modified in two stages: First,… -
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How America’s ‘Indispensable Man’ Led Nation to Victory in Revolutionary War
Many Americans at the time didn’t think it was possible to defeat a military power as great as Britain at the start of the Revolutionary War, according to Paul Moreno. “I think just about any historian looking backwards would say, ‘Yeah, the odds were certainly very overwhelmingly against the Colonists,’” says Moreno, a professor of… -
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Trump Promises to Swing Hammer of Executive Orders on Behalf of Parents
PHILADELPHIA—Former President Donald Trump promised to issue executive orders and ask Congress to pass laws that protect parental rights in a speech Friday evening at Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit here. Trump began by praising Moms for Liberty, a parental rights group that stands up to school boards across America, in the face… -
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FALSE HOPE? Biden Gives Truly Awful Response to Reporter Asking the Obvious About His Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’
If President Joe Biden had any remaining shame, it vanished Friday night. Not only did the president say the Supreme Court misinterpreted the Constitution when it struck down his student loan handout, but he claimed that he never gave any “false hope” when it comes to “forgiving” student debt. Biden spoke at the White House… -
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It’s the First Amendment, Stupid: Supreme Court Holds That Free Speech Prevails in Challenge to Anti-Discrimination Law
A Politico headline said that a recent Supreme Court decision “limits LGBTQ protections” while an ABC News story told us that it was about whether “businesses can refuse to serve LGBTQ+ customers.” The decision today in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis wasn’t about that at all. In this 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that… -
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In Student Loan Decision, Supreme Court Affirms President’s Power Has Limits
Can limits be found even to an emergency? Can the Constitution’s tripartite division of federal powers withstand the blows and novel respiratory viruses that history lobs at us from time to time? Can they withstand the enterprising legal justifications of an administration that lacks the support of Congress? Mercifully, the Supreme Court answered “yes” to all the… -
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Justice Jackson’s Trifecta of Wrong on ‘Research’ on Racial Preferences
In her dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down racial preferences in university admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson managed to pull off a trifecta: She was factually incorrect in describing the results of a study that should not be believed, which wouldn’t provide practical support for her argument even if it were… -
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On July Fourth, Remember Why Economic Liberty Matters for America
I’ve often thought there is something providential about the Declaration of Independence being drafted and promulgated throughout the American Colonies the same year that Adam Smith’s book “The Wealth of Nations” was published. After all, both texts were revolutionary, and both were fundamentally concerned with protecting and promoting liberty. The Declaration of Independence was very… -
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In Hot News, Americans Really Aren’t Beset by ‘Extreme Weather’
“Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard.” That’s the first claim in a Washington Post piece warning about the deadly summer heat—and it is almost certainly false. Similar warnings about the deadly weather appear in virtually every mainstream media outlet. First off, the only reason “extreme” temperature kills… -
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Clarence Thomas Shows How Supreme Court’s Rejection of ‘Affirmative Action’ Is a Fitting Fourth of July Victory
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” On July Fourth, we celebrate much more than our independence from Great Britain. Our Founding Fathers risked their lives and reputations in the American Revolution to establish a government based on universal, permanent principles of justice. At the core of these… -
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Nikki Haley Stresses Accountability in Appeal to Moms for Liberty Summit
PHILADELPHIA—Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, a Republican candidate for president, criticized Republicans and Democrats alike Friday as she called for a new style of leadership in a speech to the Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit here. Haley began by telling the parental rights group the story of her life, how her parents had… -
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What Declaration of Independence Teaches Us About Our Rights, Duties as Americans
If we want to conserve the American nation, then we must begin with the Declaration of Independence. We should be aware of the richness of this document and what it teaches us about our rights and duties as Americans. Contained within it is a clear statement about the principles of politics, lawful government, the self-governing…