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Michigan Public Schools Admit Teaching Critical Race Theory
State governments in places like Florida, Virginia, and Arkansas are leading the fight against the use of race and sex to divide the country. These are welcome steps. But on the other side of the ledger, you have states like Michigan. There, the public schools are going in exactly the opposite direction. Take Detroit, for… -
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State Department Fund Offers $1.5 Million Grants to Promote ‘LGBT Inclusion’ Around Globe
A State Department initiative offers $5 million in taxpayer funds to be divided among qualifying LGBT organizations across the world. The State Department’s $25 million Global Equality Fund invited projects led or supported by LGBT organizations and communities to apply by March 1 to win awards between $750,000 and $1.5 million. The agency will allocate a total of… -
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It’s Time to Put Away Our Phones
Next time you go to a restaurant, take a look around the room. Chances are half the people will be sitting in silence staring at their phones. This includes people there with their friends and family. We are so used to this that we’ve grown numb to it, but it’s horrible. What’s the point of… -
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Time for House to Join Senate, Reclaim Congress’ War Powers
The Senate voted overwhelmingly, and on a bipartisan basis, last week to repeal the obsolete 1991 and 2002 Iraq Authorized Use of Military Force resolutions by a vote of 66-30. That is sound policy, as I previously wrote here. It’s time for the House of Representatives to debate the Senate-passed repeal, and while doing so, keep… -
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Did Biden Try to Block Chinese Spy Balloon From Compromising US Military Secrets? Experts Demand Answers
A defense expert and an Asian studies expert are reacting to NBC News’ exclusive reporting that the Chinese spy balloon that traveled across the U.S. earlier this year collected intelligence from numerous U.S. military sites, although the Biden administration attempted to prevent the espionage from happening. The balloon, first detected Jan. 28, was controlled by… -
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A University Gets Free Speech Right … Mostly
Students are proving that they learned their social justice lessons well, as shout-downs of conservative campus speakers at universities like Stanford demonstrate. But when students demanded that state-funded George Mason University cancel Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin as this year’s commencement speaker, the university refused. The university president defended the decision to host Youngkin because, in… -
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Racist Left Screams Quiet Part Out Loud
The Left loves to accuse whites of “implicit bias” and even “unconscious bias.” White people, they claim, are prejudiced, largely without knowing it. Apparently, white racism is now so subliminal that one needs a CT scan to find it. But for old-fashioned, out-in-the open racism, look to the Left. The same people who demand “Diversity! Equity! and Inclusion!” also… -
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Liberal Media Champion Leftist Crusaders Against ‘Book Bans’
The Left is in an uproar. Parents opposed to their indoctrinating ways are forming a resistance movement. One uproar is over books—assigned books in the classroom and available books in the school library. Disagree with the content of the books? You’re for “book bans.” Technically, this is accurate inside the school, but the leftist press makes it sound like you’re banning books… -
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Youngkin Signs Bill Ensuring Equal Status for Virginia Churches
On March 26, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, signed HB 2171 into law. This new statute ensures that houses of worship are not subject to unequal restrictions compared to those placed on other businesses, organizations, and activities in the commonwealth of Virginia. In sharp contrast to the limit of 10 people imposed on “nonessential” gatherings such as churches by… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers Move to Defund Law the Biden DOJ Weaponized Against Pro-Life Protesters
FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is leading lawmakers in calling for defunding the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, The Daily Signal has learned. In a letter sent to the drafters of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024, lawmakers asked that language… -
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Energy Expert Stresses Need for More Pipelines After Train Derailment
An energy expert says the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, underscores the need for more pipelines to transport potentially hazardous substances. “This recent rail accident in East Palestine in Ohio has shown us that we need more pipelines to carry these potential dangerous chemicals, rather than using road and rail,” says Diana… -
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Does Charlotte Clymer Know God Better Than the Bible and 2,000 Years of Christian Tradition?
Transgender activists aim to police the speech of Americans—particularly when it comes to preferred pronouns, but some of them do not extend the Almighty the same courtesy. Charlotte Clymer, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, recently took to MSNBC to claim that conservatives “cynically weaponize” and “exploit” the deaths of children by… -
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Parents Bill of Rights Aims to Remind School Boards Who’s in Charge of Kids’ Education
Last week, I had the honor of helping pass HR 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act, in Congress. Parents have a right to guide their child’s education and to know what’s being taught in the classroom, as moms and dads are reminding school boards across the country. Our legislation puts parents in the driver’s… -
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21 State AGs Warn Top Asset Management Firms About Woke Investing
Pushing back against politicized investing, 21 state attorneys general signed onto a letter late Thursday warning 53 top asset management companies about the legal perils of focusing on environmental, social, and governance standards, known as ESG. The attorneys general’s letter is addressed to financial management firms—including BlackRock, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs—that oversee a total of… -
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When Will US Education Department Address Anti-American and Antisemitic Biases in Foreign Language Study Programs?
American interests require experts on international subject matter. We need diplomats, analysts, and spies with expertise in particular languages and cultures. But Congress made a mistake when it entrusted U.S. universities with millions of dollars to produce these experts—people who are supposed to be trained to serve U.S. interests but who often end up working… -
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There Are No Banned Books
While checking out the “banned and challenged” display at my local Barnes & Noble recently, I was reminded that the entire kerfuffle is a giant racket. For publishers and booksellers, “banned” books are likely a money-making racket. Virtually every allegedly “banned” book on the display table is already a massive (sometimes generational) bestseller. Not that… -
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Social Security Trustees Forecast Significant Deterioration, 23% Benefit Cuts in Just 10 Years
The Social Security trustees released their annual report Friday, noting significant deterioration in Social Security’s financial well-being. Here’s what Americans need to know. Social Security will be broke within a decade. Politicians have no credible plan to fix it. And the longer they wait—choosing to vilify their colleagues instead of working with them—the higher the… -
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From Stanford to Israel, Mobocracy Triumphs Over Deliberation
The very notion of republican self-governance, which has been a core tenet of Western civilization since the demise of the great monarchs of Europe, depends upon the willingness of citizens to debate and deliberate the most pressing issues of society. Sadly, high-profile recent examples, from the tony terrain of Stanford University all the way to… -
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Violent Antifa Agitators and Transgender Activists Shut Down Students for Life Event at Virginia University
Violent transgender activists and Antifa agitators interrupted the final Students for Life “Lies Pro-Choicers Believe” Tour at Virginia Commonwealth University on Wednesday and shut the event down. Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins’ and student ambassador Isabel Brown’s speaking tour concluded at the Richmond, Virginia, public university in violence as police arrested protesters… -
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For Left, Political Ends Justify Violent Means
A transgender Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three 9-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school. Supposedly, she left behind her a manifesto justifying her mass killing. As of this writing, law enforcement officials have declined to make the document public. Yet in about a nanosecond after the news was disclosed,…