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opinion
CNN Dumps Stelter and ‘Reliable Sources’
In June, Axios media reporter Sara Fischer implied CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter could be on the chopping block, as new CNN CEO Chris Licht promised to give the network a less partisan tone. From my distant perch, I dismissed that out of hand—and turned out to be wrong. NPR’s David Folkenflik reported Licht… -
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How Rising Prices Are Affecting Young Adults
While younger people have been less affected by the COVID-19 virus and have even benefited from some of the pandemic’s effects on the economy, they haven’t been spared the costs of rising prices. And younger Americans will bear the greatest consequences of the government spending spree that’s propelling inflation. Destructive policies have hit all ages… -
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Examining How COVID-19 Lockdowns So Easily Curbed American Freedoms
Americans still remember how the COVID-19 pandemic led not only to the loss of lives, but the loss of livelihoods. As businesses closed, the government grew in power and Americans’ liberties shrank, contends journalist Cheryl Chumley, author of the book “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom.” “It was alarming to me how… -
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Consequences of Political Activism Are No Longer Only One-Sided
Conservative states have a warning for corporations that have “gone woke”: The consequences of political activism are no longer one-sided. This month, West Virginia declared it would no longer do business with five Wall Street banks over the companies’ anti-coal or anti-fossil fuel policies. “You have your right to be able to boycott the fossil… -
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CDC Misunderstands Why People Hate It, Attempts to Reorganize Anyway
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is suffering from a legitimacy crisis. With that in mind, the CDC is attempting to recuperate its image and attempting to fix some of the perceived issues that plagued it during the pandemic. In a Wednesday statement, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said, “My goal is a new, public… -
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Conservatives Shouldn’t Apologize for Healthy Skepticism of Big Government
“Conservatives need to get over their allergy to government action.” That was the headline on an opinion column by Henry Olsen last week in The Washington Post. Olsen is not alone among conservatives in thinking so. Across much of the right today, there’s more openness to having government do more in the economy. Olsen observes that there… -
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Pro-Abortion Vandals Strike Pregnancy Center in Massachusetts
Vandals painted pro-abortion messages late Wednesday or early Thursday at a pro-life pregnancy center in Massachusetts. The vandals splattered red paint across the white exterior of Bethlehem House Inc. Pregnancy Care Center in Easthampton, 99 miles west of Boston. A vandal used black spray paint to write this message on the ground outside the pro-life… -
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‘Civil War’ Porn
As President Joe Biden’s polls stagnate and the midterms approach, we are now serially treated to yet another progressive melodrama about the dangers of a supposed impending radical right-wing violent takeover. This time, the alleged threat is a Neanderthal desire for a “civil war.” The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the… -
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Inflation Reduction Act Increases Washington’s Power
In January 1925, President Calvin Coolidge addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington. In his remarks, Coolidge said, “The chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing, and prospering in the world.” On Tuesday, President Joe Biden returned from vacation to sign the misnamed… -
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Census Bureau Admits Overcounting 7 Blue States, Just 1 Red State
In a shocking report, the U.S. Census Bureau recently admitted that it overcounted the populations of eight states and undercounted the populations of six states in the 2020 census. All but one of the states overcounted is a blue state, and all but one of the undercounted states is red. Those costly errors will distort congressional representation… -
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Inflation Reduction Act Is the Problem, Not the Solution
A central pillar of the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act is $80 billion going to the IRS to hire some 87,000 new agents, doubling the current force, to chase down U.S. taxpayers who allegedly are not meeting their tax obligations. The rationale is we have a large national budget deficit—that is, government is bringing in less… -
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Dumb Question: Is the Pro-Biden Spin Getting Out?
Anyone who reads or watches the badly named “mainstream media” knows it carries all the echoes of a Democratic Party messaging service. It’s so efficient that it goads itself into providing happy news for President Joe Biden. For example, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter tweeted, “Congress is passing major, and often bipartisan, bills. Biden is… -
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Left Pushes Radical Sex Ed Curriculum
The school board for Wauwatosa, Wisconsin will consider a “Curriculum Revision proposal” to radically reshape its “Human Growth and Development” curriculum (essentially, sex ed) into a tool for radical, gender ideology indoctrination. A Human Growth and Development committee comprised of “parents, teachers, school administrators, pupils, health care professionals, members of the clergy, and other residents of the… -
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How America’s Unsecured Border Contributes to Fentanyl Crisis, Deaths
Drug overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45. A total of 91,799 deaths from drug overdoses occurred in 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Opioid drugs, such as fentanyl, were involved in 68,630, or 75%, of these overdose deaths. “It’s undisputed that the leading cause of deaths… -
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How Education Freedom Could Solve Our Crisis
Arizona is leading the way in education freedom. Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, just became the first governor to sign into law universal education saving accounts for every student in Arizona. Education saving accounts give parents access to tax dollars for their child’s education. Instead of tax dollars automatically going to public schools in a… -
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School Choice Advocate Corey DeAngelis Explains Why Freedom Is Winning Education Revolution
More parents than ever are taking their kids out of failing public schools and educating them in the way that benefits them most, whether that’s in a private or charter school, or through homeschooling. In the vanguard of the fight to achieve school choice across the nation is Corey DeAngelis. DeAngelis is a senior fellow… -
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3 Previous Presidential Records Act Controversies
Although an FBI raid on the home of a former president had been unprecedented until this month, clashes over compliance with a law called the Presidential Records Act are nothing new. The 1978 law, signed by President Jimmy Carter, was in response to fallout from the Watergate scandal, when former President Richard Nixon tried to… -
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Aren’t We Better Than Minneapolis Teachers Union’s Racist ‘Fire Whites First’ Policy?
A teachers union in Minneapolis recently struck a deal with the city’s school district that explicitly targets whites for firing. Under the new contract negotiated by the union, Minnesota-based outlet Alpha News reported Sunday, “If excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the [Minneapolis… -
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The Democrat Push to Redefine Infertility
The Democrats continue to weaponize the administrative state, from the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago to the vast expansion of the Internal Revenue Service. Shortly after Congress voted, with no Republican support, to expand the IRS by 87,000 new employees, Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Judy Chu of California introduced a bill to use the IRS… -
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Was Iran Behind Attempt to Kill Salman Rushdie in America?
The shocking attempt to murder writer Salman Rushdie last Friday in New York wasn’t just a criminal attack on the author but probably also an Iranian-inspired (and possibly Iranian-directed) act of terrorism. Rushdie, after publishing the controversial 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses,” was targeted for death in a fatwa (or Islamic edict) issued in February…