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The National Pro-Abortion Echo Chamber
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there was a shocking (if temporary) turn in the news coverage. The anti-abortion victory was so historic that journalists actually interviewed anti-abortion activists to get their reaction to this glorious news. It was different when some scabrous leaker gave Politico a copy of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft… -
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You’re a Scientist? So What?
A caller to my radio show this week, a physician, took strong issue with me regarding COVID-19 therapeutics. He accused me of not believing in science. His last words before we had to go to a commercial break were, “I’m a scientist.” Given that I am not a scientist, he assumed that comment would persuade… -
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Putin’s Trip to Tehran Is Rebuff to Biden
On the eve of President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East, the Russian government announced that President Vladimir Putin would make his own trip to the region aimed at boosting ties with terrorism-sponsor Iran and discussing issues related to Russia’s brutal conflicts in Ukraine and Syria at a trilateral summit with the leaders of… -
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A Servicewoman Questions How She Can ‘Defend Constitution’ With Roe Overturned
A servicewoman took to TikTok after Roe v. Wade was overturned to vent her anger over the decision. “How am I supposed to swear to support and defend the Constitution and a country that treats its women like second-class citizens?” @rahasenfratz said in a 3-minute video. The TikTok user, identified by the New York Post… -
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Former Trump Adviser Warns Against Ravages of Globalism
In the wake of globalization, the industrial base of the country has been hollowed out. Booming towns throughout the Rust Belt began to hemorrhage residents as jobs dried up and were shipped overseas. Americans are beginning to seriously question whether the decision to send manufacturing overseas was worth it. Paige Willey, a former adviser to… -
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What’s Prognosis for America’s Small Businesses? New Poll: Not Good
A new poll released by the Job Creators Network Foundation finds that more than 2 out of 3 small businesses feel negatively about the economy and that nearly 3 out of 4 of them will have to “significantly” raise their prices to offset rising inflation. These disturbing findings come from the Job Creators Network Foundation’s June Small Business IQ Poll,… -
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To These Twitter Know-Nothings, Anne Frank Had White Privilege
The most famous victim of the Holocaust was guilty of white privilege. That assertion was an actual topic of discussion by left-wing activists on social media. “Anne Frank trended on Twitter on Sunday as users on the social media platform debated whether the Holocaust victim was a beneficiary of ‘white privilege,’ advantages that society supposedly… -
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Now at 9.1%, Biden’s Inflation Keeps Getting Worse
The June inflation numbers are a disaster, coming in at a 40-year high of 9.1%. After the Biden administration’s repeated victory laps crowing about “the fastest-growing economy in the world” and how we’re “stronger economically” than ever, the downward spiral is feeding a growing consensus that President Joe Biden and his Democrats in Congress are… -
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House GOP Task Force Aims to Cut Health Care Costs, Boost Patients’ Choices
Everyone agrees: Health care in America is too expensive and too complicated. Democrats want to double down on a centralized, Washington-controlled plan for your health care. We’ve seen the damaging impact that has had on the quality of, and access to, care in socialist countries abroad. Republicans know that to fix the health care system… -
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Border Deaths Surge Under Biden Compared With Trump, Obama
Under the Biden administration, deaths of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 increased by almost 300 from the prior year, and by 200 from the last non-pandemic year, according to a United Nations agency that now classifies the southern border as the “deadliest land crossing in the world.” Moreover, more border deaths have occurred… -
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Most Americans Support Transparency About Post-Abortion Complications, Poll Finds
A new poll revealed that most Americans agree on certain abortion policies. The abortion-related nationwide poll was commissioned from June 3-6 by The American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an almost 50-year-old association with at least 7,000 members. The poll surveyed 1,600 registered voters. Here are three main takeaways from the poll results: Transparency… -
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Library Group Recommends ‘Pronoun Book’ for Infants
“Children’s entertainment” is no longer guaranteed to be appropriate for children. With Disney vowing to promote sexual perversion, and a drag queen story hour targeting children in every city, this conclusion has become increasingly obvious. Yet, somehow, the Association for Library Service to Children has managed (or is it womanaged?) to up the ante yet… -
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Leftist Group Offers to Pay Anyone Who Abets Supreme Court Harassment
You’ve heard of crowdsourced encyclopedias (Wikipedia), crowdsourced donations (GoFundMe), crowdsourced reviews (Yelp), crowdsourced navigation (Waze), and crowdsourced delivery (DoorDash). Now, get ready for … (drumroll please) crowdsourced political harassment! Infuriated by their failure to intimidate the Supreme Court, leftists have attributed the failure—just like communism’s—to insufficient extremism. To atone for their moderation, they are adopting… -
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Woke Academic Gobbledygook Makes You Rich and Famous
This week, a professor went viral during congressional testimony regarding the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade. During her testimony Tuesday, professor Khiara Bridges of Berkeley Law School refused to acknowledge any value at all in unborn children, instead stating, “I think that the person with the capacity for pregnancy has value and… -
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What’s Ahead for Supreme Court After ‘Blockbuster Term’
Few times in American history has the Supreme Court received more attention than in the past two months. What will history say about this past Supreme Court term? Will we ever know who leaked the draft majority opinion in the Dobbs case? And how is new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson going to change the Supreme… -
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5 Takeaways From Senate Judiciary Committee’s ‘Post-Roe America’ Hearing
As the Biden administration scrambles to respond to the Supreme Court’s landmark June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on the legal landscape following the ruling. Senators heard testimony from several witnesses, including Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, a Democrat; Denise Harle, senior counsel and director of the Center for Life… -
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House’s Annual National Defense Authorization Act Scrum Reflects Best and Worst of Congress
Only one bill in Congress reliably makes it into law every year: the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. The NDAA has passed for 62 years in a row, making it the extreme rarity among bills. It is meant to authorize the funding and provide key policy provisions for our country’s national defense. However, this… -
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4 Takeaways as Jan. 6 Panel Argues That Trump Sparked Capitol Riot
The House panel investigating last year’s Capitol riot argued during a hearing Tuesday that a tweet from then-President Donald Trump was largely responsible for rioters’ violent breach of the building. The seven Democrats and two Republicans on the panel have said that Trump’s use of the phrase “Will be wild” in that tweet sent early… -
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Preferred Pronouns and More: What I Saw at Teachers Union Convention
As a teacher, I attended the National Education Association convention last week, and my worst fears were confirmed. Public schools are no longer a safe place for families who hold traditional values or for families who believe gender (as in male/female binary) is biologically determined. It was also evident that the teachers union is a… -
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The End of the Gas Range and Fireplace? Local Governments Ban Natural Gas
Are you hoping for a shiny gas range in your new home? How about a fireplace as the main attraction of your new living room? If so, don’t move to Los Angeles, because the city is phasing out natural gas hookups in all new residential and commercial buildings effective Jan. 1, 2023. But LA isn’t…