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Eric Metaxas Says America Needs Faith to Thrive
Can a civilization survive without faith? It’s a question many Americans are considering as a wave of secularism sweeps the nation. There are those that push back against the idea that faith and religion should be involved in the political process. They point to the establishment clause in the Constitution that prevents the government from… -
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US ‘Corrupt at a Level Not Seen Before’: Trump’s Home Raided by FBI
Former President Donald Trump said Monday evening his home had been raided by a “large group of FBI agents.” “Nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the United States before,” Trump said in a statement. “After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not… -
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Back-to-School Blues: Droves of Americans Ditching Public School
This summer, students aren’t the only ones dreading going back to the classroom. According to staggering enrollment data, parents appear to have had a case of back-to-school blues over public education since COVID-19’s onset in early 2020. In the past two years, a mass exodus of over 1.2 million students has left the public school… -
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The Left Keeps Injecting Politics Into Movies and TV. This Is Entertainment?
Does watching a leftist activist dressed like an elf lecturing you about feminism for an hour sound like a good time? How about watching “Star Wars” dump on Donald Trump and the MAGA movement? If not, I’d recommend avoiding TV for a while. As much as it seems like parody, these are apparently plot… -
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It’s ‘Not Moral’ to Request Abstinence to Stop Monkeypox: LGBT Activists
New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data confirms that monkeypox overwhelmingly occurs in men who identify as gay or bisexual and who engage in risky sexual behavior—yet LGBT activists have said it is “not moral” to ask men to refrain from sex until the government can get the virus corralled. Virtually all cases reported… -
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Government, Not Investors, to Blame for Affordable Housing Crisis
With so much attention fixed on soaring prices for gasoline and groceries, one can almost overlook the fact that we’re also enduring an affordable housing crisis. The question is, why? Spanning the pandemic era from February 2020 through May 2022, home prices soared 43.5%. Over the past 12 months, home prices are up 19.7%, while residential… -
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Meet the California Gun Law That Copies the Texas Heartbeat Law’s Unique Feature
Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned. In keeping a promise he made last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a bill modeled on the Texas heartbeat law. Their unique feature? Both laws seek to evade pre-enforcement judicial review by eliminating the power of state officials to enforce the law. Both the California and… -
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‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Should Be Renamed ‘Economic Freedom Reduction Act’
On Sunday, all 50 Senate Democrats voted in lockstep to push through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration’s big government tax-and-spending bill that will unambiguously undermine America’s economic freedom. The deal between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., resuscitated key elements of President Joe Biden’s euphemistically named Build… -
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Democrat Defectors Imperil Biden’s Future
President Joe Biden is confronting a record-low job approval rating and a growing calls from within his own party to abandon a reelection campaign. Last week, congressional Democrats from Minnesota and New York cast doubt on Biden’s political future, suggesting it was time for a new generation to step forward. Those public statements came on… -
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Here’s the Truth About What ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Would Do
As Senate Democrats achieve their goal of jamming through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, reality is becoming clear: The bill will likely increase near-term inflation, depress household incomes, and produce the long-term deficits that fuel long-term inflation. Using the Congressional Budget Office’s latest scoring, estimates of the most recent changes, and accounting for very expensive… -
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After Marathon ‘Vote-a-Rama,’ Senate Democrats Ram Through ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Tax and Spending Bill
Pulling an all-night “vote-a-rama” Saturday that extended through the middle of the afternoon on Sunday, Senate Democrats defeated a slew of Republican amendments en route to passing a massive spending and taxing bill. In her role as president of the Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the bill, dubbed the Inflation… -
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Inside a Pregnancy Center That Pro-Abortion Vandals Attacked
LYNCHBURG, Virginia—Something didn’t feel right to Susan Campbell as she checked the security camera feed from Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center, where she is executive director. It was less than a day since the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending abortion on demand across America. And to Campbell, things seemed a little… -
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Senate Democrats Advance Schumer-Manchin-Biden Tax and Spending Bill
The Democrat-controlled Senate voted Saturday evening along party lines to proceed toward passing a $570 billion tax hike as part of a spending bill packed with costly climate provisions. Vice President Kamala Harris, in her role as president of the Senate, cast a tie-breaking vote just after 7:30 p.m. to make the tally 51-50 in… -
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Taiwan Accuses China of Simulating an Invasion
The Chinese military conducted a simulated invasion of Taiwan on Saturday, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said as China ramped up its largest-ever military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. Chinese naval and aerial war exercises surrounding Taiwan come after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., met with the independently governed island’s president and other Taiwanese leaders, a move China… -
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Biden Tries to Get Americans to Look Away From Troubling Fact in Unemployment Report
With another strong topline unemployment report released Friday, President Joe Biden already is trying to hide behind the fig leaf of low nominal unemployment, but his party can’t hide the deep economic malaise overshadowing most Americans. Sadly, Democrats want to make things worse with a $740 billion tax-and-spend blowout that would kill jobs and do nothing to fight crippling… -
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Stock Buyback Tax Shows ‘Government Knows Best’ Attitude Toward Investing
Congress “invested” in the American economy to the tune of $7 trillion over two and a half years. The result? Inflation is through the roof, the economy is stagnant at best, and more than 60% of Americans now report living paycheck to paycheck. Americans got a lousy return on that investment. Following Congress’ spectacular failure… -
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Undermining Legacy of Jefferson and Madison in Their Own Homes
A new report from Heritage Foundation scholar Brenda Hafera provides unique insights and observations into how the presidential homes of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison mostly are failing to teach accurately what these men achieved to establish our country. George Washington’s Mount Vernon is easily the best of the three, remaining relatively faithful to its former… -
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A Recession by Any Other Name Is Still a Terrible Economy
Having given up fixing the economy, President Joe Biden and his handlers are instead fixing the dictionary. The recent announcement of two consecutive quarters of economic contraction—the traditional start of a recession—is the result of the policies championed by Biden and his allies in Congress. Unprecedented money printing and federal spending make it harder for… -
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Big City Mayors Welcome Illegal Immigrants, Except When They Don’t
This morning, I watched on the news as a busload of mostly young, single men arrived at New York’s Port Authority bus terminal. In the bizarro-world of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 policies, the staff from the nongovernmental organizations that greeted them all wore masks, yet not one of the arrivals did. Maybe, like President Joe… -
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Biden Administration Cancels Routine Missile Test to Appease an Adversary … Again
Deterrence is a better way to prevent hostilities than appeasement. On Thursday, the Biden administration delayed a routine test of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, a system that helps keep America safe by deterring major nuclear attacks on the homeland. The reason behind the delay was reportedly to avoid escalating tensions with China after…