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What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Jan. 6
The events of Jan. 6, 2021, are often portrayed by Democrats and their friends in the media as an insurrection. It’s a loaded word meant to imply that protesters were mounting an organized rebellion against the U.S. government. That description might fit the left’s narrative of what happened on that day in Washington, but it’s… -
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‘You Are on the Losing Side of History’: Meet Mom Fighting Schools’ Mask Mandates
Watch the video, above, of Virginia mom Merianne Jensen, whose powerful speech about masks at a school board meeting went viral, or read the lightly edited transcript below. To see somebody, just a plain old simple mom, getting up and calling out the superintendent, I think that resonated with parents. People all over the country… -
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Sen. Ron Johnson Asks ‘Full Accounting’ of Biden Family’s Chinese Business Deals
Americans need a “full accounting of Biden Inc.’s financial entanglements” with China, said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who helped lead an earlier probe into the international business deals of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. A newly published book, “Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” by Peter Schweizer, asserts that five… -
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Russian Appeasement Was a Left-Wing Monopoly
One way of understanding the 2009-2014 Obama administration policy of “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is to recall two iconic incidents. The first was the 2009 “reset.” Then-newly appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she would pursue a “reset” détente with Russia. America would relax the prior Bush administration’s mild ostracism of Russia… -
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Los Angeles Times Slams ‘Vitriol in Politics’—After Hiring Vitriolic Columnists
There’s an old joke about the convicted defendant who, after killing his parents, asked the judge for leniency because, after all, the murderer is now an orphan. A recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times is not quite the same. But it’s close. Here’s the headline: “The Vitriol in Politics Is Driving Good People Out… -
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Will Democrats Ever Learn?
President Joe Biden’s latest attempt to modify Senate filibuster rules is abysmal and politically naive, and it demonstrates his shortsightedness and failing political acumen. In simple terms, a Senate filibuster is a procedural tool that opponents of a proposed legislation can use to prolong debate on a bill by indefinitely holding the floor of the… -
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By Design, Biden’s Border Crisis Actually His Biggest Success
PARK CITY, Utah—President Joe Biden’s no-border policy has detonated an explosion of illegal-alien apprehensions and got-aways at the southern “frontier.” Millions of Americans consider this one of Biden’s biggest failures, surpassed only by his utterly calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan. However, this fiasco is Biden’s finest hour. After 11 months, Biden’s “border” remains wide open, if… -
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Biden’s Latest Proposal Would Force Insurers to Pay for Gender ‘Transition’
President Joe Biden has sought to inject gender ideology into our laws since his first day in office. He might prefer a massive bill like the Equality Act that elevates the categories of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to status of race and sex. But that effort has stalled in the Senate. So, for now,… -
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The Cancel Culture Double Standard
Whoopi Goldberg, suspended for two weeks by ABC for her comments about the Holocaust, had an opinion. She, like many people these days, is unable to properly contextualize history or see it outside her own contemporary leftist worldview. But Goldberg is a talk show host with no power. No one is really “hurt” by her… -
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Biden’s Anti-Crypto Scaremongering Threatens to Impose Surveil-and-Control on All Americans
Inflation makes governments rabid. They lash out for scapegoats to blame for policymakers’ failures. Having failed to convince the American people that greedy meatpackers and grocery stores are causing inflation in everything from used cars to houses to gasoline, the administration and Congress are now going after Americans who use cryptocurrencies with tools that could… -
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Lebanon’s ‘Great Denial’ Must Be Reversed, but Time Is Running Out
“Lebanon’s deliberate depression is orchestrated by the country’s elite that has long captured the state and lived off its economic rents.” Very unfortunately, but precisely, that sentence in a recent World Bank report summed up the root cause of Lebanon’s tragic economic downfall. The Lebanese people have been suffering as the direct consequence of government… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Prohibited From Practicing Medicine Over Vaccination Status Sues Rhode Island
A doctor prohibited from practicing medicine because of his vaccination status is suing Rhode Island to regain his ability to practice. The Rhode Island Department of Health ordered oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Stephen Skoly to cease his critical surgical care on Oct. 1, 2021, after the state denied his medical exemption to the COVID-19… -
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4 Things to Know About Dark Money Interests Behind Biden’s Supreme Court Choice
Before becoming a White House official helping President Joe Biden pick his first Supreme Court nominee, Paige Herwig was a founding member of a legal group—bankrolled by a liberal political consulting firm—that drafted a list of possible justices for the Biden campaign. Herwig’s presence on the White House legal team is just one example of… -
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South Dakota’s Noem Indignant After State Lawmakers, Pro-Life Group Stop Her Heartbeat Bill
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sharply criticized state lawmakers for denying the introduction of her pro-life bill—a bill lawmakers fear could affect the outcome of the state’s major legal battle against Planned Parenthood. South Dakota’s House State Affairs Committee declined Wednesday to allow the governor’s draft bill, modeled after widely discussed Texas legislation banning abortions… -
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California Tries and Fails Again to Create Government-Controlled Health Care System
California’s “progressive” legislators recently tried, and once again failed, to establish “a single-payer” system of state-controlled health care. The California bill, AB 1400, would have abolished virtually all private and employer-sponsored health insurance, and would have replaced it with a state-run system promising universal coverage, including for illegal immigrants. Among other things, the measure would… -
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Biden Officials Brief Senators on Russia’s Confrontation With Ukraine
Top Biden administration officials gave a classified briefing to senators Thursday about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. The briefing came a day after President Joe Biden ordered almost 3,000 U.S. troops to shield Poland and Romania, two allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Ukraine is not a NATO member, though it would like… -
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National Debt Reaches New Heights Thanks to Ever-Expanding Government
The Treasury Department announced Tuesday that the total national debt had surpassed $30 trillion for the first time. Just two years ago, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the nation would not reach this mark until the end of 2025. Thanks to our ever-expanding federal government, we reached the $30 trillion mark nearly four years… -
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‘This Is Bigger Than Sports’: As Olympics Near, NBA Star, Lawmaker Speak Out Against China
As the world awaits the start of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Friday, a Texas congressman and pro-democracy activist Boston Celtics basketball star Enes Kanter Freedom are speaking out on China’s human rights abuses. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said the U.S. has to ensure its athletes’ safety and send China a stronger message…. -
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Lockdowns Did Little or Nothing to Stop Deaths From COVID-19, Study Shows
A Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis released in January found that lockdowns across Europe and the U.S. reduced the COVID-19 mortality by 0.2%. The researchers’ analysis of “lockdown measures” included school closures, business closures, bans on international travel and internal movement, and other nonpharmaceutical government mandates such as mask mandates. The study also found that shelter-in-place orders were ineffective,… -
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NBC Sitcom ‘American Auto’ Mocks Woke Advertising Panic
In our new era of woke corporations, one obvious manifestation of their fear-based behavior arrives in TV advertising. They struggle to hit all the “right” notes to avoid controversy. NBC is airing a new big-business sitcom called “American Auto,” and on Jan. 25, it skewered all sides as the fictional auto company tortured itself about…