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opinion
Overturning Roe v. Wade Would Be Neither Radical Nor Conservative. It’s Just Right Thing to Do.
In a New York Times column published Tuesday, Bret Stephens argued that while Roe v. Wade was “ill-judged” when decided in 1973, overruling it today would be “a radical, not conservative, choice.” His premises and conclusion are both wrong. In a 2005 interview, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated, “I do not think the Constitution,… -
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Biden Administration Sneaks Unlawful Immigration Benefits Into Ukraine Aid Request
President Joe Biden recently sent an emergency supplemental funding request to Congress for $33 billion in aid to Ukraine. However, the administration used the opportunity to sneak in unlawful immigration benefits for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian, Afghan, and Russian immigrants—paid for by the American people and at the expense of lawful applicants who have… -
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‘Fact-Checkers’ Bored by Biden’s Outbursts
President Joe Biden can say the craziest things, and we know that the liberal “fact-checkers” are very likely to look the other way. Some of these fact-mangling gaffes might be called “senior moments.” At a Lockheed Martin plant in Alabama on May 3, Biden suggested we were sending missiles to Russia. “Before Russia attacked, we… -
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Left’s Attack on Conservative Justices Is Attempt to Delegitimize Supreme Court
The left’s attacks on American institutions accelerated this week with the shocking leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The substance of the draft opinion is an outstanding constitutional analysis by Justice Samuel Alito of why it is appropriate and necessary to overturn Roe v. Wade to be… -
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Democrats Quietly Scrub Abortion Bill Language Saying Men Can Get Pregnant
The latest version of the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would effectively make abortion a statutory right, scrubbed references to transgender and nonbinary people’s pregnancies as well as language related to “reproductive justice.” Earlier versions of the bill used language tying race and transgenderism to the issue of abortion in its nonbinding “Findings” section. Sen. Richard Blumenthal,… -
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To Defeat Mobocracy, Justices Must Plow Ahead and Overturn Roe
The scandalous leak of a full draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s five-justice-strong majority opinion in this term’s marquee Supreme Court case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is an event without precedent in the court’s history. If Alito’s coalition holds, the leaked majority opinion, a February-dated first draft whose authenticity has been confirmed by Chief… -
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Somalilanders’ Quest for Independence Isn’t ‘Neocolonial’ Plot. It’s Self-Determination.
Salon.com ran a piece recently warning that the American right is “waging a stealth, neocolonial assault on Somalia.” The supposed “assault” is a growing campaign within the U.S. and elsewhere to recognize Somaliland’s independence from Somalia. The author, Mohamoud Gaildon, included as evidence a report that I wrote back in October. Gaildon’s piece is an… -
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The Best Mother’s Day Gift: Overturning Roe
There is a universal truth felt deeply by every mom, found somewhere at the convergence of joy, pride, and heartbreak. The truth is our babies are not really our own. They are ours to raise, guide, care for and cherish—and above all, to love always—but they are unique persons, bearing the image of God, called… -
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Biden White House Refuses to Condemn ‘Disgusting’ Efforts to Intimidate Supreme Court Justices
White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to say if President Joe Biden condemned efforts to intimidate Supreme Court justices by posting their addresses online and protesting outside their homes. A left-wing group called Ruth Sent Us published the home addresses of the court’s six conservative justices online, called them “extremist,” and on Tuesday announced a May 11 protest outside their… -
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Democrats Blitz Supreme Court, Demand Court-Packing
An ominous-looking fence has been erected outside the Supreme Court building’s perimeter. It seems there could be violence in the wake of a leaked opinion from Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. But riots, as awful as they are, aren’t the greatest threat to the Supreme Court. The policy the Supreme Court is reviewing is a… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Team Biden Prescribes Use of Singular ‘They’ in ‘Gender Inclusive’ Policy
A division of the Labor Department charged with overseeing benefits for American workers is telling employees to use the words “they,” “them,” and “their” to describe individuals as part of “Gender-Inclusive Language Policy,” The Daily Signal has learned. “The policy encourages the use of the singular ‘they’ and its variations where applicable, encourages the use… -
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Woman Who Survived 2 Abortion Attempts Shares Her Message to Pro-Choice Activists
Denisha Workizer was in her 40s when she learned her mother had tried to abort her not once, but twice. With the Supreme Court apparently set to overturn its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, Workizer says, she wants pro-abortion activists to consider that we “empower women by empowering life.” “It’s not empowering for a… -
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Adoption Provides Actual ‘Choice’ in Abortion Debate, Advocate Says
If you visited the Supreme Court in the days following the leak Monday night of a draft majority opinion in the abortion case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, you would have seen many signs saying, “My body, my choice.” Choice means options, and it implies empowerment. But that isn’t the message of… -
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Reddit Censors Forum That Makes Leftists Look Like Nazis
The radical left is driven purely by hate. They don’t try to hide it as they openly scorn straight white men for merely existing. When one forum on Reddit sought to expose that vile hatred from the left, it found itself censored by the platform. The forum, Men Kampf, was temporarily banned from the platform before it was quietly… -
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Losing the People? Then Change the Rules
Court-packing—the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes—used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence. The tradition of a nine-person Supreme Court is now 153 years old. The last attempt to expand it for political gain was President Franklin Roosevelt’s failed effort in 1937. FDR’s… -
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Georgia Leads the Way in Protecting Parents’ Rights
I’ve got Georgia on my mind. On April 28, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law House Bill 1178, the “Parents’ Bill of Rights.” This is a big deal. In addition to providing Georgia parents with strong legal protections to ensure that they are able to 1. know what their children are learning in public… -
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I Had an Abortion. Here’s Why I Want Roe Reversed.
The recent leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court potentially striking down Roe v. Wade is as shocking as it is gratifying. Shocking because, if adopted by the court, the opinion would reverse a horrendous decision America has been suffering under for nearly 50 years. And gratifying because, even though I myself had… -
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UN Exploits Climate Change Concerns to Push Contraception, Population Control
You may have missed this year’s Earth Day on April 22, what with historic inflation and a war in Ukraine vying for media attention. But the grandees at the U.N. marked it as they always do. Every year, they treat the day as part of a larger liturgical season with related solemnities. This makes good… -
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Christian Employers Push Back on Government’s Transgender Procedures Mandates
Now that a Democrat is back in the White House, at least two federal agencies have continued some of the commitments President Barack Obama had made to the transgender community—to the detriment of faith-based employers. The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has committed to continuing a gender identity mandate the department imposed… -
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Biden’s Homeland Security Chief ‘Should Be Ashamed,’ Union Leader Says
McALLEN, Texas—President Joe Biden and his homeland security chief have pushed policies that have made life easier for cartels smuggling drugs and illegal immigrants across the southern border, a top Border Patrol agent in Texas says. Chris Cabrera, who is also spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307, helps patrol the Rio Grande…