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Biden Admin ‘Grossly Misusing Foreign Aid’ to Push Radical Agenda, Former USAID Official Says
President Joe Biden’s administration is “grossly misusing foreign aid,” says Max Primorac, director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. “The Biden administration has subordinated U.S. foreign policy to its radical domestic social agenda and [is] grossly misusing foreign aid as a taxpayer-funded vehicle to promote abortion, gender… -
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Is the Fourth of July a Holy Day?
Is the Fourth of July a holiday? It is, for most Americans, a day off work. For some, it may even be an occasion for a trip to the beach or the mountains. But is it a holiday, or feast day, in the traditional sense of the word? Is it a holy day? In his… -
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Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of ‘Systemic Racism’ in America
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” in order to salvage President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy, this time penned a landmark ruling abolishing something… -
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‘Never Compromise’: DeSantis Slams Rival GOP Candidates for Backing Disney Despite ‘Sexualization of Children’
PHILADELPHIA—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate for president, addressed a packed, cheering crowd Friday at Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit here. In a 30-minute speech, DeSantis rallied to the group’s cause of parental rights, outlining related victories his Florida administration oversaw and tearing into progressives’ actions against families and the U.S. as… -
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BREAKING: Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme Unlawful
The Supreme Court has decided that the Biden administration acted unlawfully when it claimed authority to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans for tens of millions of borrowers. Student loan cancellation is for now a vain hope for advocates who sought to transfer the debts of college-educated Americans to those taxpaying Americans… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Plan
The Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” plan Friday. The nation’s highest court heard arguments in February in two cases: Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion in Biden v. Nebraska, 6-3, striking down Biden’s plan. The court unanimously denied standing in… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Colorado Cannot Force Graphic Designer to Create Art Violating Her Beliefs
The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday that Colorado cannot force graphic designer Lorie Smith to create art that violates her religious beliefs. Smith, who believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman, wants to create wedding websites. But under Colorado’s discrimination laws, if she were to create such wedding websites, she… -
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Teen Mom Says ‘Culture of Death’ Was Her Biggest Struggle in Keeping Her Child
A teen mom opened up about her struggle to keep her son, now 1 year old, at the National Life Day Rally commemorating the one-year anniversary of the overturn of Roe v. Wade. “This culture of death that we’ve created surrounding abortion has not only led people to want to kill their children, to kill… -
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Events and Grievances Besides Taxes Led to Our Revolutionary War
Taxation wasn’t the only reason that America’s 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain, but it was certainly a factor, Hillsdale College’s Bill McClay says. “Americans believed in self-government because they lived self-government,” says McClay, the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in classical history and western civilization at Hillsdale College. The American colonists’ desire to maintain… -
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‘F— You’: Museum Hosting Moms for Liberty Vandalized
PHILADELPHIA—The Museum of the American Revolution was vandalized the night before it was to host Moms for Liberty, a parental rights advocacy organization, after several other organizations had condemned the museum for hosting the group. Vandals spray-painted “F— You” on a mural of George Washington crossing the Delaware River, the plaque commemorating the event, and… -
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Congress Expands Biden Corruption Probe to DOJ, IRS, Secret Service as Hunter Deposed
Amid whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department stymied the investigation of Hunter Biden by federal prosecutors and IRS agents, the president’s son was deposed Thursday in a civil suit regarding his laptop. Lawyers in a defamation suit brought by computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac questioned the younger Biden, who Isaac has said… -
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Unanimous Supreme Court Upholds Employee’s Right to Religious Accommodation
In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the right of an employee to be granted a religious accommodation by his employer unless doing so would substantially affect the employer’s business. In Groff v. DeJoy, the high court reiterated that employees must not be forced to choose between… -
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American Medical Association Compromised by Radical Ideology
The American Medical Association recently passed a series of resolutions in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion that highlight how elite, professional organizations have been deeply compromised by ideology. A report by National Review on Monday noted that the AMA, which accredits medical schools and has enormous power over the medical profession, passed a… -
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With Morale in ‘Tank,’ New Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens Has Work Cut Out for Him
Jason Owens’ greatest challenge as new chief of the U.S. Border Patrol is improving agents’ morale, immigration experts say. Border Patrol agents are “overwhelmed,” Andrew Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Daily Signal. “Improving morale amongst Border Patrol agents” will be Owens "biggest challenge," Arthur… -
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Matt Gaetz: FBI Tries to ‘Placate the Mob’ With Agents Kneeling at BLM Rallies
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said FBI agents appeared to try to “placate the mob” when agents were seen kneeling during the 2020 Black Lives Matter rallies–some of which turned into riots. “In the late spring and early summer of 2020, a nationwide series of violent riots swept across the United States, causing millions of dollars… -
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Supreme Court Declares Racial Preferences in College Admissions Unlawful. Left Melts Down.
The Supreme Court declared on Thursday that racial preferences in college admissions at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and are against the law. The Left isn’t handling it well. What a surprise! The decision is undoubtedly a huge blow to the racial preferences regime… -
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Supreme Court Finally Ends Racist Discrimination in College Admissions
In a decision that will benefit families all across the country and their high school-graduating sons and daughters who aspire to attend college, the Supreme Court has finally fulfilled its duty to uphold the guarantees of equal protection in the 14th Amendment and end the pernicious, morally repugnant racial discrimination practiced by Harvard College and… -
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I Had to Watch ‘White Teachers Are a Problem’ Video. Now I’m Suing My Employer.
I’m a white writing professor, and apparently, that’s a problem. That was the unmistakable message sent to me at Pennsylvania State University—and that’s why I’m suing the school. In November 2020, nearly half a year after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, I was subjected to a video titled “White Teachers Are a Problem” for a monthly professional… -
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Consumer Pushback Against ‘Pride’ Messaging Gets Attention of Corporate CEOs
It was a normal Wednesday commute, crawling across the 14th Street Bridge with thousands of other frustrated D.C. drivers — until out the corner of my eye, I saw the Metro glide across the tracks next to us. There, suspended above the Potomac, were eight cars — all wrapped in transgender and rainbow flags — headed into… -
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Toll of Border Crisis on States, Part 4: New York City
This is part four in a series about the toll that the Biden Administration’s intentional promotion of illegal immigration is taking on the states and the public. [Read Part 1 (national overview); Part 2 (Texas); and Part 3 (Florida).] As the border crisis persists, and illegal aliens disperse into every congressional district in the country, each state is affected by the…