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OK, Groomer: Phrase Calling Out Predators Banned on Twitter
Editor’s note: This commentary, originally published March 23, has been updated to reflect Twitter’s suspensions of James Lindsay and the parents’ rights organization Moms for Liberty, as well as Twitter’s new policy surrounding the word “groomer.” Of the many topics the radical left has sought to render verboten, there is none more contentious than gender ideology. At… -
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‘Elmo Wants to Be an Upstander to Racism’: ‘Sesame Street’s’ Racial Justice Curriculum Begins With Infants
The nonprofit behind the iconic children’s show "Sesame Street" has created a “racial literacy” curriculum to expose young kids and their parents to key tenets of “anti-racist” ideology. “Coming Together” by Sesame Workshop began in 2020 and is made up of videos, handouts, and children’s books for parents to teach their kids the “ABC’s of racial… -
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China Is US’ ‘Toughest Adversary,’ GOP Congressman Says
A Florida congressman is warning that China is the most formidable adversary the U.S. has ever faced, because it’s the first one to have an economy comparable in size to America’s and a navy that’s larger. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., issued the warning about Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party on Monday in a panel discussion at the America First… -
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Monkeypox’s Inconvenient Truth
As the Biden administration considers declaring monkeypox a public health emergency, an epidemiologist says the easiest way to combat its spread is to discourage the practices of “aggressively hypersexualized gay men.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the U.S. has 2,890 diagnosed cases of the virus, which causes sores and open lesions on the… -
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Sex and Gender Matter. Writer-Academic Abigail Favale Explains Why.
When political leaders can’t define what a woman is, society has a problem. The radical left has detached sex and gender from “material reality,” says Abigail Favale, author of the book “The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory.” Removing fact and biological reality from sex has led to a “subtle denigration of … the female… -
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Polygamy Seen as Possibility Under House-Passed Marriage Bill
House Democrats, with the assistance of 47 Republicans, last week passed legislation under which the federal government would recognize any marriage if it is legally performed in any of the 50 states. The bill also would allow the nation’s attorney general to file civil action lawsuits against states that refuse to recognize marriages in other… -
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Congress’ Vote on Delphi Pensions Bailout Shows Problem With Putting Unions Above Law
Congress is set to vote this week on HR 6929 to retroactively bail out the pensions of about 20,000 former Delphi auto-parts employees who had their pensions reduced beginning in 2009. This proposed bailout, the Susan Muffley Act of 2022, is different in a number of ways from the recent no-strings-attached $97 billion bailout of… -
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New HHS Rule Would Force Insurers to Pay for Children’s Sex Changes
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new rule Monday that would force insurance providers to pay for breast removal and other transgender surgeries, including for minors. The proposed rule change by the federal agency concerns Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, a section of the law… -
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Gavin Newsom: OK for California, Too Wacky for America
Democrats coalesced behind the presidential nomination of Joe Biden after Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses, briefly becoming the Democratic Party’s front-runner. Fearing Sanders could not beat President Donald Trump, Democrats quickly united behind the more electable Biden. But compared to “democratic socialist” Sanders, is California Gov. Gavin Newsom, on policy, really any different? Newsom… -
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House’s Bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act Rightly Rebukes Biden’s Pentagon Budget
The House’s July 14 vote to approve the annual defense authorization bill represented a bipartisan repudiation of the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2023 defense budget request. The National Defense Authorization Act authorizes funding levels for defense programs, such as research, procurement, and even pay rates for U.S. troops. Despite growing partisanship and division within the… -
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Fighting to Reclaim Comic Books From Woke Left, New Comic Lands First Punch
As consumers of pop culture are increasingly aware, the world of comic books and superheroes has gone woke. Superman no longer fights for “the American Way,” and Captain America’s archnemesis, Red Skull, is now a Jordan Peterson analog. For the fans who just want a good story free from the political moralizing the left foists… -
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How CHIPS for America Act Chips Away at America’s Economic Freedom
Congress and the Biden administration are gearing up a bloated Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, but the CHIPS for America Act runs the real risk of chipping away at America’s economic freedom and competitiveness, rather than enhancing it. The Senate is scheduled this week to vote on the bill, whose price… -
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A Company Flees Illinois for Florida, Showing Red States’ Appeal
In late June, Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker traveled to New Hampshire to be the keynote speaker at New Hampshire’s Democratic Party state convention. Officially, he was there to “help other Democratic governors get elected” and to lobby for Chicago as the site of the party’s 2024 presidential convention. Unofficially, there was buzz that Pritzker… -
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Defending Marriage Is ‘Social Justice for Children’
As the U.S. Senate debates the “Respect for Marriage” Act, a social scientist said politicians must understand that preserving the time-honored definition of marriage is necessary to establish “social justice for children.” The House of Representatives passed the misnamed bill, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and define marriage as any union “valid in the… -
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The ‘Handshake’ Photo Taken Down at a Congressional Hearing
A congressional hearing on Tuesday was suddenly and dramatically interrupted—by the chairwoman conducting it. Her aim: Abort a Republican congressman’s attempt to present the very first photo of a person who is now 22 years old. The scene was the House subcommittee on oversight and investigations. The title of the hearing: “Roe Reversal: The Impacts… -
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YouTube to Remove Content Promoting ‘Unsafe Abortion Methods’
YouTube announced Thursday it would begin removing content containing abortion misinformation and “unsafe abortion methods.” The move came nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on June 24. “Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe… -
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Freespoke Offers Users a Search-Engine Alternative to Google
Did you know that an estimated 90% of internet search queries are performed by Google? That is an astonishing statistic when you think about one company's market dominance and ability to shape public opinion through search results. It's also highly problematic if you follow Google's pattern of anti-conservative bias and manipulation of its search algorithm…. -
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How Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People?
The president of the United States, equal parts senescent and feckless, garners record-shattering low approval ratings seemingly each week. This week, a new Quinnipiac University survey found that a paltry 31% of Americans approve of the way Joe Biden is handling his job. Among political independents, that number is, somehow, considerably lower: 23% approval, compared… -
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Criticism Dogs Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s Redefinition of ‘Female,’ ‘Male’ to Include Gender Identity
Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary is facing renewed criticism for slipping woke gender ideology into its definitions of “male” and “female.” “Female,” primarily defined in the online dictionary as “of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs,” now includes the secondary definition of “having a gender identity that is… -
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Republicans Used to Defend Traditional Marriage. What’s Changed?
When the Supreme Court delivered its blow to marriage in 2015, burning down three dozen state laws and tearing up 50 million ballots, the GOP’s reaction was straightforward. Outrage. With a handful of exceptions, the response that echoed across the two coasts was a collective “How dare they?” As far as Republicans were concerned, what the five…