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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… -
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‘Groundhog Day’ Report Calls Out Biden’s Recycling of Obama Personnel
President Joe Biden not only has recycled personnel from the Obama administration, but in some cases the Clinton administration, notes a new report from Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind. Braun’s report, released Wednesday and titled “Joe Biden Groundhog Day: How the Swamp Keeps Coming Back, Again and Again,” characterizes 19 individuals as “bureaucrats who keep popping… -
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Abraham Accords Are Yielding Concrete Forward Steps, More Can Follow
For the first time ever, this week, Israel’s president made a visit to the United Arab Emirates. President Isaac Herzog traveled to the UAE and met with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. This is the direct result of the U.S.-negotiated Abraham Accords, which have been paving the way for previously… -
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No Surprise: Study Finds Enhanced Jobless Benefits Prolong Unemployment
If common sense and reports from thousands of employers weren’t enough, a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper found conclusively that paying people not to work during the COVID-19 pandemic was why many of them remained unemployed. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, except that last year, major news reports were saying… -
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There Is No Salvaging Congress’ Current Effort to Compete With China
The House of Representatives is considering the America COMPETES Act, a 3,000-page House response to the Senate’s United States Innovation and Competition Act. The $318 billion bill’s ostensible purpose is to address the wide-ranging challenge that China poses to America’s homeland, economy, global interests, and values. The bill does everything imaginable but make America more… -
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Change the European Chessboard on Russia
In 1977, Jimmy Carter went to the University of Notre Dame and told America that we were beset by “an inordinate fear of communism.” By the end of his presidency, as Soviet tanks rolled through Afghanistan and Cuban proxies ravaged Africa, Carter said he was wrong and immediately put into production the B-1 bomber, the Abrams tank, and the… -
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Why Planned Parenthood Is Pushing Chemical Abortions
This year is arguably the most significant year in the fight for life since Roe v. Wade made abortion legal across America in 1973. The federal right to abortion could be overturned this summer by the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If the court overturns Roe v. Wade, abortion rights… -
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How America Is Doing 1 Year Into Biden’s Presidency
President Joe Biden has been in office for just over a year, and Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., says the nation would be better off without him at the helm. If Biden “went home, back to Delaware to his beach house … and never came out, the country would be much better off,” Good says. “Everything… -
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Trans Health Association Recommends Mental Health Assessment Before Teens Transition. The New York Times Isn’t Convinced.
In an incredible twist, The New York Times appears to at least kind of acknowledge the idea that transgender teens may “need therapy before hormones,” a concept that conservatives have been warning about for years. In a recent article, the newspaper of note says, “Clinicians are divided over new guidelines that say teens should undergo… -
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LA Train Robbers Are Latter-Day Jesse and Frank James
Jesse James was one of the first bandits to hold up a moving train. Unlike the Hollywood lore, however, nobody chased trains on horseback and jumped on board. Instead, near Adair, Iowa, in 1873, James and his gang loosened a section of track on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. They used a rope… -
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Universal Pre-K: Another Progressive Bad Idea
With Democrats’ multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better initiative hitting a wall in the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden has suggested that components of the bill be advanced separately. One of these components is a plan for government-funded universal pre-K schooling. It would fund school for some 6 million children ages 3 and 4. Federal funds would… -
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Proposals Rejecting Critical Race Theory See Through Radical Talking Points
Radical activists are not above intimidation. Consider the nation’s largest teachers union, which recently pressured social media companies to reconsider allowing posts that oppose critical race theory. In its announcement to tech companies, the union couched its bigoted worldview as benign, claiming critical race theory is spread not at the K-12 level, but through “graduate… -
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Workers of the World Unite, and the Left Hates It
The workers are uniting against government mandates and the left now calls it fascism. What began as a GoFundMe campaign for Canadian truckers who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 mandates for cross-border travel turned into a massive “Freedom Convoy” that drove across Canada and into the capital, Ottawa. Left-wing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau… -
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Meet the Georgia State Representative Fighting to Keep CRT Out of Schools
As critical race theory continues to attract national attention, one Georgia lawmaker is trying to pass legislation to ensure it stays out of the Peach State’s schools. On Jan. 14, Georgia state Rep. Brad Thomas introduced a bill to ban concepts like critical race theory and The New York Times’ 1619 Project from being taught in schools. “The legislation… -
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Is Biden Complying With Court Order to Bring Back ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy? Not So Much
President Joe Biden is committing the biggest scofflaw since the Chicago cops partnered with Al Capone during Prohibition. Paying lip service to a judicial order to reinstitute the “Remain in Mexico” program to help to stem the flood of illegal migration, while thousands of illegal aliens enter the country every day, the Biden plan for… -
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Decline of San Francisco Proves Leftist Policies Fail
San Francisco’s liberal mayor declared a “state of emergency” to try to deal with the city’s “nasty streets.” How did it get so bad? Journalist Michael Shellenberger’s new book “San Fransicko” argues that it happened because of progressive ideas. “The town I love is sick,” says Shellenberger in my new video. >>> Former Soros activist… -
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‘This Place Is Supposed to Be Open’: Bar Owner Emotionally Shares Why He’s Defying DC’s Vaccine Mandate
The Big Board was pretty packed Tuesday night for a bar without a liquor license in a city that loves its booze. Multiple Republican members of Congress and a slew of their staffers showed up to support the D.C. bar and restaurant, located at 421 H St. NE, mere hours after the city’s Health Department… -
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Read the Powerful Words of Bar Owner Risking It All to Stand Up to DC Vaccine Mandate
Eric Flannery, a military veteran, is on the cusp of losing his business. In his Washington, D.C., bar, The Big Board, Flannery has a strict “everybody is welcome” policy. He’s not demanding to see vaccination cards, as the District of Columbia now requires bars to do, and he’s not forcing his team to wear masks…. -
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Whoopi Goldberg Says Holocaust Wasn’t About Targeting Jews. Here’s Why That Matters.
Former award-winning actress and highly decorated blowhard Whoopi Goldberg this week made a fool of herself. This came as no surprise; Goldberg does that quite regularly on “The View.” The good news for Goldberg is that no one notices: Trying to identify which fatuous host takes the cake for most imbecilic comment on any given…