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opinion
Congress Killed Silicon Valley Bank
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has unified Americans with a shared anger. Everyone—left, right, and center—knows that something is wrong. Executives sold off millions of dollars of stock before the crash, the bank paid out bonuses as it was collapsing, and the Federal Reserve created a brand new program (once again, Washington, D.C., is deciding… -
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DEI Takes America’s Eyes Off Prize
Focus. That’s the one thing that too many American institutions cannot do these days. Companies, government agencies, and professional groups neglect their basic duties. Instead, they chase the shiny objects of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, and search relentlessly for racism under every rock. Yesterday’s managers have become today’s magpies. What could go wrong? Everything. … -
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Progressive College Recruits Students From DeSantis-Aligned Florida School; Board Member Slams ‘Political Indoctrination’
A board member at The New College of Florida where Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed new board members has responded to a progressive college’s active recruitment of students from New College. Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, is publicly offering New College students the opportunity to transfer, offering to match tuition and transfer credits. “It’s incredibly important… -
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Latest Border Encounter Numbers Expose Biden’s Ports of Entry Bait-and-Switch
As expected, the Biden administration has started using its port parole program shell game to feign “lawfulness” and distract from the true numbers of illegal aliens entering the U.S. each month. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Wednesday reported the lowest number of southwest land border encounters since January 2022. Taken at face value, that… -
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Will Teachers Unions’ Political Contributions Prevent School Choice in Pennsylvania?
A well-funded network of government unions stands in opposition to parents, students, and lawmakers eyeballing education reform in Pennsylvania. Until recently, they have cowed and cajoled elected officials into stalling some of the more audacious legislative initiatives. But in the aftermath of the COVID-19 shutdowns and a critical court ruling, the atmosphere may be ripe… -
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Implicit Racism Taints Abortion Advocates’ Call to Kill Unwanted Babies
The lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of abortion drugs is about more than a technical issue of administrative law. It also reveals a lot about how abortion advocates view their fellow human beings. In this case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, medical associations argue that the FDA did not meet legal… -
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Male Athletes Say Men Competing in Women’s Sports Is ‘Lose-Lose’ Situation
Unafraid of backlash, retaliation, or cancellation, three accomplished male athletes are denouncing the discriminatory policies that allow males who identify as “transgender women" to compete in women’s sports. They say that biological differences in the sexes pose far too many competitive advantages for men and those policies blur the lines between male- and female-only spaces,… -
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This Action Moves Biden’s Heat on Natural Gas to Front Burner
Natural gas is coming under fire. Again. Localities across the U.S. are pursuing bans on natural gas appliances under the banner of fighting climate change and meeting the Biden administration’s lofty aspirations of net-zero emissions. Most recently, the San Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted to adopt new rules that phase out certain… -
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Senate Democrats’ Fickle Love-Hate Relationship With ‘Blue Slips’ on Judicial Nominees
With the 118th Congress underway, the Senate’s process of evaluating President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations has resumed. This means that, joining death and taxes on the certainty list, is pressure for the majority to rig the process by abandoning the “blue slip” process that gives deference to senators in whose state a judicial nominee would… -
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What Ex-State Department Official Would Have House Committee Ask TikTok CEO
Keith Krach, former undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment in the Trump administration, is adamant about what questions he would have lawmakers ask TikTok’s chief executive officer, Shou Zi Chew, during Shou’s appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23. “Well, maybe the first thing I’d ask him… -
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Are We the Byzantines?
When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its… -
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From ‘Greed and Ego’ to Prison and a Second Chance
I took a flight from Los Angeles to Minneapolis and was picked up at the airport by a black driver. His name is Davis. He looked mid-20s, but it turned out he was 39. He was charming, soft-spoken, friendly, and became talkative once he realized I wanted to talk. During the drive to my hotel,… -
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Biden Tries to Boost Pay for Federal Bureaucrats by Highest Rate Since Carter
President Joe Biden’s $7 trillion tax-and-spending plan would boost pay for federal bureaucrats by 5.2%, their highest raise in decades and more than private sector employees have gotten. The proposed 5.2% hike for government workers contrasts with private sector employees, who earned an average pay raise of 4.4% from February 2022 through February 2023, according… -
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A Chance for Real Change
When the history books look back on 2023, the biggest American news story may be something that’s getting little attention right now: the school choice revolution. This year, Iowa, Utah, and Arkansas have passed massive school choice bills, giving parents access to state education funding for their children and letting them decide if they want… -
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The Most Important Founding Father You May Not Remember
Thursday is the birthday of the most important Founding Father Americans may not even remember. He doesn’t have a musical written about him. He doesn’t have an HBO series. But he is one of the most significant Founders in the history of the United States. Thursday is the 272nd anniversary of James Madison’s birth. More… -
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Police Lt. Explains How Cartels Are Taking Advantage of Biden’s Open Border Policies
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz.—Worms crawled out of a small hole in the front of a carpet shoe that was used by a cartel member likely only weeks before. Dropping the piece of camouflage fabric the cartels use to make their tracks less visible to Border Patrol, I scanned the small parcel of desert that was covered… -
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If You’re Woke and Go Broke, Should Taxpayers Pay Your Bills?
It’s feeling like 2007 all over again as Silicon Valley Bank and other financial institutions are going belly up and asking for bailouts from the federal government. President Joe Biden insists that he won’t be bailing out Silicon Valley Bank, but he certainly is. The bailouts are coming. They’ve already begun. The official reason for… -
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19 ‘Freedom-Loving States’ Form Anti-ESG Alliance
A group of 19 Republican governors from "freedom-loving states" announced an anti-environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, alliance on Thursday. "This month, Congress exercised its powers under the Congressional Review Act to disapprove of the Department of Labor Rule relating to 'Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights,’" the governors' joint statement… -
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‘Restorative Justice’ Is Killing American Classrooms
As record numbers of fistfights are erupting amid a behavior crisis in the American public education system, more schools are attempting to use restorative justice—even though that process often makes behavioral problems worse. Restorative justice is a remediation theory that suggests students respond better to affirmation-based conversations in which an adult de-escalates any problem situation… -
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Forget Statehood: Congress’ Quashing of DC’s Pro-Crime Bill Shows City Incapable of Self-Governance
What do you do when carjackings are surging in your city? For local leaders in Washington, D.C., the answer is clear: Reduce the penalties for carjackings, of course. It’s pure genius. In November, the D.C. Council passed the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, which was vetoed by Mayor Muriel Bowser. The Democratic mayor’s veto…