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9 Past Climate Change Forecasts
“‘The trouble with almost all environmental problems,’ says Paul R. Ehrlich, the population biologist, ‘is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. … We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.’” —The New York Times, 1969…. -
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Refuting Big Lie the Left Tells About Pro-Lifers
“It’s … hard to take seriously Republicans’ passionate pleas for this body to defend the existence of an unborn fetus when they seem to care so little about many of the existential threats that are posed to every American after they are born. … It seems that after birth, life matters a little bit less to some… -
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We Don’t Have a ‘Mass Incarceration Problem’ in America (and Other Myths About Police and Crime)
The tumultuous summer of 2020 prompted Americans to question our country’s criminal justice system. Fueled by the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, political leaders and the media used these examples and others to attack police, prosecutors, and the rule of law. Today, we know they peddled a false narrative. Unfortunately, we’re seeing the… -
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New York Times Columnist Gets First Freedom Wrong
In her recent guest essay in the New York Times, former Times reporter and columnist Linda Greenhouse accuses Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito of weaponizing religious liberty. In reality, Alito merely issued a plea that religious liberty is provided “special protection” promised by the Constitution. It appears Greenhouse actually believes religious liberty should be relegated… -
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Former Texas Mayor Acquitted in Voter Fraud Case
A Texas jury acquitted a former mayor on 12 counts of election fraud in connection with what prosecutors said was a ballot harvesting ring. After six hours of deliberation Thursday, a Hidalgo County jury acquitted former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina, The Associated Press reported. Molina was found not guilty of one count of organized fraud… -
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The Media Bias Fight in Britain
Whenever conservative media watchdogs aspire to an argument seeking to expose and correct the distortions of the liberal news outlets, they receive the argument of hypocrisy. “You can’t complain about bias,” they say, “because you’re awfully biased yourself.” This would be a more impressive argument if one was a mirror image of the media, insisting… -
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A Modern, Americanized Version of a Maoist Struggle Session
Arguing for keeping “presentism” out of history seems like a straightforward argument from an acknowledged history scholar, right? Wrong. Not these days. The president of the American Historical Association, James H. Sweet, published an essay last week arguing that scholars should bar “presentism” from history. Sweet’s column in the American Historical Association magazine, Perspectives on… -
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DC Delays School Vaccine Mandate After Daily Signal Report
Fewer than 24 hours after The Daily Signal reported that the District of Columbia would not offer remote learning and planned to bar unvaccinated students, many of whom are black, from attending school in person 20 days after school started on Monday, the city abruptly announced it was delaying the policy until next year. DCist reported that… -
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To Help Biden, FBI Interfered With 2020 Election
As if the FBI’s reputation were not already in tatters, we have yet another bombshell, courtesy of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, about FBI malfeasance during the 2020 election. It turns out that the FBI used its previously concocted Russia hoax as an excuse to pressure Facebook to censor the factually correct Hunter Biden laptop… -
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What Released Affidavit Reveals About FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that on Aug. 8, the FBI took the unprecedented step of executing a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago. Despite claims by some that they have “seen no evidence that there was any political motivation” behind the raid, many remain skeptical—especially given… -
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There Should Be a Republican Tsunami This Fall. But Will It Happen?
The late spring scenario of a massive GOP win—in historic proportions analogous to 1938, 1994, or 2010—is said now to be “iffy.” The left boasts that it now has a chance at keeping the House, with even better odds for maintaining control over the Senate. Polls are all over the place. Now they show generic… -
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Children’s National Hospital Operator Says Hospital Provides Hysterectomies for Minors
A recorded call with Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., indicates the hospital provides “gender-affirming hysterectomies” for 16-year-olds and younger patients, although the hospital is denying it does. The call was recorded by Chaya Raichik, who is behind the popular Libs of TikTok Twitter account. In the call to the Children’s National Hospital, Raichik, who… -
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Lessons From Biden’s Reckless Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Ploy
President Joe Biden’s new plan to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 annually is at once a dereliction of constitutional duty, a crass political gambit in the lead-up to a contested midterm election, and a morally perverse value judgment that lavishes the regime’s insular, well-heeled voting base… -
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US Foreign Aid for Removing Land Mines Works Well, but Aid Allocations Need Review
The recent decision by the Biden administration to drop anti-personnel land mines from the U.S. arsenal was a serious mistake. It will not save lives. Indeed, it will likely cost lives—both of U.S. military personnel and of the civilians our military seeks to protect. But there are aspects of U.S. land mine policy that work… -
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A Vote-Buying Scheme for Affluent Millennials
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” That’s what it says right there in the Constitution. And yet, without any legislation, President Joe Biden now promises to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loans per borrower ($20,000 for Pell Grant borrowers), limited to those with annual… -
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Taking Mask Off Science Driving COVID-19 Responses as Schools Reopen
Despite the evidence, back to school means back to masks again for some children this year, and parents and educators still don’t have evidence that mask policies keep students or teachers safe. Rather, the experience of the past two years has taught us that teacher unions and other education interest groups, not science, are driving… -
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Biden’s Spendy, Bloated Government Corrodes Our Economic Freedom
America’s economic freedom is in growing peril. That was one of the core findings of The Heritage Foundation’s 2022 Index of Economic Freedom, published in February. The annual global benchmark report, which compares countries’ economic governance and competitiveness, underscored the urgent need for America to change policy course. The latest index reported that the U.S…. -
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Biden’s Move to Fortify DACA Program an Unlawful Quasi-Amnesty
As if the American people needed further evidence of the misplaced priorities of the Biden administration, there’s more. While the economy continues to tank, inflation continues to rise, and national security and public safety are threatened by intentional erosion of any semblance of border security or rational immigration policy, the administration has taken yet another… -
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‘Zero Sincerity’: Father of Marine Killed During Afghan Retreat Doesn’t Trust Team Biden
Today, Aug. 26, marks one year since an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. service members and about 200 Afghans outside the international airport in Kabul. Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, one of the 13 service members who died, was only 20 at the time of the fatal attack. His widow, Jiennah Crayton, also known… -
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Facebook Suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story After FBI Warning
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview released Thursday that Facebook suppressed the New York Post’s report about Hunter Biden’s laptop after the FBI warned the tech giant about misinformation. Asked by podcast host Joe Rogan about Facebook’s approach to the Hunter Biden report, published in October 2020, Zuckerberg said, “The background here is…