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State Officials Share Wins on Life, Election Integrity, Education
OXON HILL, Md.—After participating in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court case that overturned the Roe v. Wade abortion decision, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the credit goes to the entire pro-life movement. “We did this together,” Fitch told the crowd at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration event on Thursday…. -
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Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Would Pose Greatest Threat to America, Says JD Vance
OXON HILL, Md.—American foreign policy should promote our national interests, but the president’s progressive politics isn’t allowing that to happen, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said Thursday at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit. Vance said that although the greatest threat facing America is a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, President Joe Biden is sending U.S…. -
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Even Trump-Hating Liberal Lawyers Are Trashing Alvin Bragg’s Feeble Indictment Attempt
Conservative legal experts have convinced a lot of folks that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Donald Trump was deeply flawed and that he’s unlikely to win a conviction on the merits. Numerous potential liberal prosecutors looked at the case but turned it down on the grounds that it couldn’t be won,… -
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Here’s How You Can Help a Future Conservative President Take Down the Deep State
The next conservative president will face a monumental task keeping his promises to the American people in the face of a hostile entrenched bureaucracy, but a coalition of conservative leaders and former political appointees has compiled a game plan to equip him or her to restructure the federal government to make it more cost effective,… -
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Liberals’ Real Grievance Against Clarence Thomas
We’ve seen this rodeo before. The infamous Anita Hill affidavit and accusation of sexual harassment lodged against then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991. Thomas denounced then-Sen. Joe Biden’s sexual harassment hearings as a “high-tech lynching.” Nominee Thomas was confirmed as a justice to the Supreme Court by a… -
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Education Reform Group, Communism Watchdog Receive Heritage Foundation Innovation Prizes, Among Others
The Heritage Foundation awarded five organizations a prize for innovation on Thursday during its 50th anniversary celebration. The Heritage Innovation Prize is an annual award given to successful nonprofits in regard to research, litigation, education, outreach, or communications. Each year a group of recipients is selected and up to $1 million in prize money is… -
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Sen. Tim Scott Exposes Left’s ‘Blueprint of How to Ruin America.’
OXON HILL, Md. — A “blueprint on how to ruin America” is competing against a “new American sunrise,” Sen. Tim Scott said Thursday. The South Carolina Republican stepped from behind the podium and walked around before the front row of his audience at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration. (The Daily Signal is the news… -
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Can Biden Not Tell a Boy From a Girl?
“She is the first woman in history to win the 100 and 200 meters in back-to-back Olympics.” That is how USA Today summarized the performance of Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Jamaican sprinter who dominated women’s track events in the COVID-delayed 2021 Olympics. Thompson-Herah won a third gold medal in Tokyo that year as the first runner… -
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Mike Lee Slaps Prince Harry for Lectures on US Democracy
OXON HILL, Md.—Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, used Prince Harry’s remarks on American politics to tear into the bureaucracy that has turned the once-limited U.S. federal government into a ravenous behemoth. Speaking at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit, Lee began by praising the “limited government, free markets, [and] individual liberty,” which he called “absolutely… -
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Win for the Patriarchy: Not 1 Democrat Votes to Protect Girls’ Sports
Not a single Democrat in the House of Representatives voted to protect women’s sports. Talk about being on the wrong side of history. “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., passed the House Thursday in a 219-203 vote. The legislation would require that “school athletics comply with… -
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‘Rising With Courage and Vigor’: Kevin Roberts Lays Out Plan to Win Culture War
OXON HILL, Md.—The 2024 presidential election may be conservatives’ last chance to save America, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Thursday. Roberts opened The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit. He discussed the Left’s attack against America’s founding principles and how the Right can fight back and win the culture war. (The Daily Signal is… -
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Bias by Omission: What Washington Post Editorial Left Out of Attack on DeSantis
Liberal media bias comes in two often-concomitant forms: Acts of omission and acts of commission. An April 13 editorial in The Washington Post, “Freedom is under assault in Ron DeSantis’s Florida,” serves up some of both, but most egregiously the former. The bias by omission begins with the editorial failing to mention the fact that… -
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Ralph Yarl Case Highlights the Left’s Favorite Lie
This week, a 16-year-old boy named Ralph Yarl—black—accidentally rang the doorbell of an 84-year-old white man, Andrew Lester. According to reports, Lester then shot Yarl twice through the door, wounding him in the head and the arm. According to Clay County prosecutor Zachary Thompson, “I can tell you there was a racial component.” This fact… -
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Overturning Roe Has Made the Battle to Protect Life Harder, Sidewalk Counselor Says
The fight to protect life is, in some ways, even more challenging today than it was a year ago, Brian Westbrook says. The Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, was a major victory for life, according to Westbrook, founder and executive director of the… -
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Trusting God While Running Small Businesses, Female Entrepreneurs Share Their Stories
Being a business owner is not always as glamorous as it looks, but it is highly rewarding, say entrepreneurs Hope Harvard and Macy Maxson. Harvard, founder of the makeup company Hope Beauty, was eager to find a new purpose after working in the Trump administration. The South Carolina native says the idea for a makeup… -
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Opposing Porn in School Makes You Part of New ‘Uptown Klan,’ SPLC Researcher Says
Do you think parents should have a say in their children's education, that kids shouldn't be judged according to the color of their skin, that parents should know if their children say they identify as transgender, or that books with explicit sexual images should be removed from school libraries? If so, you represent a threat… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Next President Must Prioritize Competing With China in Reforming Intel Agencies, Project 2025 Urges
The next president must press the intelligence community to modernize to meet the threat of China and keep politics out of the spy agencies, conservative leaders say in an extensive new report laying out the framework for every federal agency. “Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise,” the work of The Heritage Foundation and conservative… -
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‘Leading the Way’: Mississippi Governor Signs 8 Pro-Life Measures Into Law
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed bills on Wednesday strengthening the state’s adoption system, increasing support for pregnancy resource centers, and protecting foster children. “Mississippi led the way to overturn Roe. Now, we’ll lead the way in supporting moms and babies,” the Republican governor told The Daily Signal, referring to Roe v. Wade, the 1973… -
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Here’s the Problem With Biden’s Wanting to Ban Cars That Don’t Run on Batteries
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has announced an aggressive new auto tailpipe emissions rule that would ban most new cars and trucks that don’t run on batteries. In exchange for reductions in CO2 and other tailpipe emissions, the EPA plans to take away Americans’ freedom to choose our cars. It also touts the benefits… -
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Democrat Blocks Sen. Mike Lee’s Resolution Honoring Heritage Foundation at 50
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., objected Wednesday evening to a Senate resolution honoring The Heritage Foundation on the leading think tank’s 50th anniversary. The commemorative resolution brought to the Senate floor by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, violates a committee policy, Durbin argued in blocking immediate adoption of the measure as part of a procedural courtesy called…