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Failing to Create Brotherhood of Man, UN Promotes Sex With Children
“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law.” So says a March report released by the United Nations. In simpler terms, the U.N. is saying that minors can consent to sex, and that this is a human right. This tweet… -
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‘They Should Be Worried:’ Teachers Union Attempts to Fight Moms Over Parental Rights Advocacy
A Pennsylvania teachers union conference featured a session on fighting parental rights advocacy. The Pennsylvania State Education Association’s southern region conference last week featured a session on “Combatting Moms for Liberty Attacks on our Teachers and our Schools.” Moms for Liberty is a grassroots nonprofit organization formed by moms who were former school board members… -
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Emissions-Free Electric Vehicles Are a Fantasy
Come 2032, if President Joe Biden has his way, most Americans who want new cars may have to buy electric vehicles. While the administration insists that such a mandate will reduce climate change, the fact is, when adding up the emissions required to produce and power the batteries of electric vehicles, EVs can create more… -
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Projections Show Christian Minority in America by 2070, Leading to Rise of Moral Relativism
A Pew Research Center study shows that since the 1990s, many Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic, or “nothing in particular.” Pew predicts that if current trends of religious disaffiliation continue, Christians will make up less than half of the U.S. population… -
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UN Population Panel Meeting Implodes Over Push for Radical Sexuality Education for Kids
A major United Nations meeting has collapsed because of its promotion of radical sexuality education for children. The 56th session of the Commission on Population and Development concluded April 14 with no negotiated outcome between governments, resulting in the failure of yet another multimillion-dollar U.N. session as a result of vociferous opposition to extreme ideological… -
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Soros Lieutenant Leaving Foundation Post, Claims Credit for Advancing Biden Agenda
The chief of the George Soros-backed Open Society Foundations, viewed as key to advancing the Biden administration agenda, is leaving his post in July. Tom Perriello, a former Democratic U.S. House member from Virginia, has been executive director of the foundations for five years. He is leaving the job and turning it over to the… -
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Medical Schools Look for Activists, Not Healers
What qualities should medical schools look for in future doctors? Probably academic excellence, experience in the medical sector, loyalty to medical ethics, and good interpersonal skills. These are all characteristics that future doctors should have, but they’re not what medical schools now emphasize. Medical schools are looking for social justice zealots to advance the diversity,… -
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Save the Planet, Invest in Fossil Fuels
Earth Day is Saturday! Hooray? “Saving humanity from the climate crisis,” says EarthDay.org, requires us to “push away from the dirty fossil fuel economy.” Sounds logical. But my latest video explains why doing that is cruel to poor people. “Three billion people in the world still use less electricity than a typical refrigerator,” explains Alex… -
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Biden Plan for Health Care for ‘Dreamers’ Called ‘Back-Door Way to Give Taxpayer Subsidies to Illegal Aliens’
President Joe Biden is proposing a plan for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to receive subsidized health care through Obamacare and Medicaid. If the plan is finalized, illegal aliens who were brought to America as children will be eligible for the health care programs. “[M]y administration is announcing our plan to… -
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‘Just the Tip of the Iceberg,’ Expert Says of Secret Chinese Police Stations
The FBI on Monday morning arrested two New York City residents “in connection with opening and operating an illegal overseas police station,” according to a Justice Department press release. Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping were “charged with conspiring to act as agents of the [People’s Republic of China] government, as well as obstructing justice by destroying… -
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EXCLUSIVE: This Department Was at the Center of COVID-19 Overreach. Here’s What a Conservative President Should Do With It
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative leaders and former federal government political appointees has compiled a game plan for the next conservative president to restore the Department of Health and Human Services to a focus on health care rather than forcing a leftist agenda down Americans' throats. From the COVID-19 pandemic to abortion… -
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Abortion Clinic Drops Suit Against West Virginia’s Unborn Child Protection Law
A West Virginia abortion clinic on Monday dropped its lawsuit against the state’s pro-life law. In a federal district court filing, the clinic cited unavailability on the part of its two abortion doctors in seeking a “voluntary dismissal” of the case. The lawsuit was filed on Feb. 1 challenging the Unborn Child Protection Act, a law… -
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Memo to Bud Light Defenders: Choosing Woke Donors Over Americans Is Woefully Foolish
Following the controversial decision by Anheuser-Busch to celebrate Dylan Mulvaney’s gender transition and a subsequent boycott by many Americans disgusted with the brand’s priorities, Donald Trump Jr. called for Americans to stop the “Bud Light boycott” immediately. “I’m not for destroying an American, an iconic company for something like this. The company itself doesn’t participate… -
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The Truth About America’s History of Slavery
A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America. They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that “black slaves built America” and… -
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After China ‘Firmly Opposes’ This Hearing on COVID-19 Origins, Here Are 4 Takeaways
China’s disapproval of a congressional probe and the U.S. government’s role in funding controversial bioresearch were key topics Tuesday as a special House panel dug further into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest hearing by the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic came after the Chinese government issued a… -
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GOP Lawmakers Press Biden Administration Official on Whereabouts of 85,000 Migrant Children
“Please do better,” Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., told a Biden administration official responsible for caring for children who cross unaccompanied and unlawfully into the United States. “I have always promised to hold the powerful to account, regardless of political party,” Porter said during a Tuesday hearing, speaking to Robin Dunn Marcos, director of the… -
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Arkansas Enacts Given Name Act. Here’s What Parents of Schoolchildren There—and Elsewhere—Need to Know.
Arkansas lawmakers delivered a clear message to parents of K-12 students this week: You have the right to know how your child is being treated in school. Lawmakers in New Jersey, California, and hundreds of other school districts across the U.S. operating under policies that do the opposite and allow school officials to hide information… -
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GOP Lawmakers Move Forward on Bill to Secure Border
A group of House Republicans say they have a plan to secure America’s southern border, the Border Security and Enforcement Act of 2023. The bill, when finalized, would grant the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security authority to suspend entry of inadmissible aliens into the U.S. in full or in part for the purpose… -
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What We Know About Latest Leak of Top-Secret Intelligence
A 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard is accused of stealing and releasing hundreds of top-secret documents containing sensitive intelligence on the Russia-Ukraine war and other global hot spots. If convicted, Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira will join such infamous leakers as Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, who in their time caused severe… -
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California Church Faces $1.2M Fine for Defying COVID-19 Mandates, Says Not 1 Case Traces Back to Worship Services
A California Superior Court judge ordered a church to pay more than $1 million in fines for refusing to comply with COVID-19 mask mandates during the pandemic. The church, Calvary Chapel San Jose, slammed the ruling and Santa Clara County's efforts to defend the fines in court, arguing that not one case of COVID-19 has…