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opinion
Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Rises Twice as Fast as Wages
Your Thanksgiving Day meal is going to cost about 8% more, nearly twice the increase in average weekly earnings since a year ago. For a family gathering of 10, expect to spend about $85 during President Joe Biden’s first Thanksgiving as president, roughly $6 more than last November, when Donald Trump was president. Ironically, the… -
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6 Takeaways From Emails Revealing White House Role in Targeting Parents Who Disagree With School Boards
The president of the National School Boards Association says that a White House meeting prompted Attorney General Merrick Garland to direct the FBI to investigate parents who disagree with their local school boards over issues such as critical race theory, gender identity, and mask mandates. Members of the NSBA board speculated among themselves that the… -
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Why Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Will Likely Only Worsen Supply Chain Crisis
President Joe Biden on Nov. 15 signed his infrastructure bill, a trillion-plus-dollar handout to left-wing special interests masquerading as a solution to the supply chain crisis he created. The administration is touting the bill as a fix, but the truth is, the bill is at best irrelevant, and most likely will make the crisis worse,… -
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Loudoun County Student Won’t Contest Sexual Battery Charge
A student in Loudoun County, Virginia, pleaded “no contest” to abduction and sexual battery Monday. A juvenile court judge found the same male student guilty of sexually assaulting a different female student in an October case, Fox 5 DC reported. The “no contest” plea in this second case “means the boy is not admitting guilt, but he is not… -
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Senate Turns Long-Overdue Attention to National Defense Authorization Act
Every year since 1961, the Department of Defense has had a National Defense Authorization Act, which sets defense policy and procurement for the coming fiscal year. Some years, the congressional passage of the law is delayed until after the fiscal year has started on Oct. 1. However, this year’s version of the bill has languished… -
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‘I’m Not Anti-Vaccine. I Am Anti-Mandate,’ Says Louisiana Grocer Fighting Biden Decree
President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is an “extreme burden on the American people,” says the grocery store owner at the center of a major anti-mandate lawsuit. “I’m not an anti-vaxxer,” Brandon Trosclair, the second-generation owner of a Louisiana-based grocery store chain, said in an interview with The Daily Signal. “I'm not anti-vaccine. I am anti-mandate…. -
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Consumer Group Exposes BlackRock’s Ties to Chinese Communist Party
Nike, Coca-Cola, and American Airlines are just a few of the companies Consumers’ Research is targeting over their woke business practices. Consumers’ Research, an educational organization seeking to highlight issues concerning to consumers, now has a new target: American investment firm BlackRock and its ties to the Chinese Communist Party. “Where [is BlackRock] investing your… -
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Parent Activists Warn That Fight for Education Far From Over
Parent activists, school board members, and a congressman gathered Monday in Washington to remind Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department that the fight for education is only just beginning. “Whether it’s radical transgender policies in our schools, whether it’s putting masks on our children, which is paramount to child abuse, whether it’s forcing… -
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Florida’s DeSantis Takes Aim at America’s ‘Ruling Class’
ORLANDO, Fla.—President Joe Biden and the “entrenched political class” are ruining America with the help of a corrupt and partisan corporate media, says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who promised to lead the fight against the current regime. In a 40-minute speech Thursday to about 800 conservative supporters of The Heritage Foundation and its grassroots partner, Heritage Action for America, the Florida governor tackled a range of issues… -
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Judge Hears 3 Teachers’ Stand Against Transgender Policy Requiring Them to Ignore Students’ Biological Sex
A Virginia courtroom was the scene of a debate over teachers’ religious and free speech rights Monday as three Loudoun County teachers challenged a school district policy requiring them to call students by their preferred pronouns regardless of biological sex. The policy directly violates the constitutional rights of Tanner Cross, Monica Gill, and Kim Wright,… -
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Only the Rich and Powerful Can Thrive in Lawless San Francisco
In “progressive” San Francisco, safety is for the rich. That’s the reality of what’s happening in the San Francisco Bay Area as bad policy and anti-police attitudes have created a haven for criminality. Like many other urban parts of America, the Bay Area has been hit with a historic surge in violent crime in the… -
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Biden’s Truly Reckless Spending Will Likely Be His Undoing
News flash: Prices are going up. They are going up broadly across many products and services. And they are going up quickly. Inflation is here. It’s already bad, and there are many signs that it could get worse. In the wake of this news, President Joe Biden has announced that he’s committed to continuing… -
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So-Called Meritocracy Isn’t the Problem
In 1958, British sociologist Michael Young coined the term “meritocracy” in his satirical novel, called “The Rise of the Meritocracy.” Its point was simple: When intelligence and effort are selected by any society as the basis for success or failure, those with such merit begin to comprise their own class. That class hardens into an… -
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Left-Leaning Commission Calls on Biden Administration to Develop Strategy to Counter ‘Disinformation’
A commission made up of mostly left-leaning figures recommended Monday that the White House counter the spread of disinformation and “dangerous conspiracy theories online.” The Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder released a number of recommendations Monday, which included calling upon the Biden administration to have an “apolitical team” develop a national strategy to tackle the issue…. -
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Rittenhouse Trial Judge Dismisses Unlawful Weapon Possession Charge
Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed a count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor at the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Monday. Rittenhouse was 17 years old when he carried the weapon in question, an AR-15-style rifle, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020. Schroeder dismissed the charge on the grounds of an exception within… -
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Florida Gov. DeSantis: ‘We Chose Freedom Over Fauci-ism, and We’re Better Off for It’
ORLANDO, Fla.—Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a blistering critique of President Joe Biden and his authoritarian policies, warning Americans they need to fight against the radical left to preserve our freedom. Speaking to roughly 800 supporters of The Heritage Foundation and its grassroots partner, Heritage Action for America, DeSantis took aim at Biden’s recently announced COVID-19… -
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US Engagement With Indo-Pacific Requires Greater Trade, Investment
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai embarks this week on her first trip to Asia in the post. She will travel to Japan, South Korea, and India to hold high-level meetings with trade stakeholders in each country “to discuss the enduring U.S. commitment to the Indo-Pacific region and to strengthen trade and economic relationships with key… -
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How Virginia Blew Up ‘Larry Elder Was Wrong Candidate’ Narrative
After the California gubernatorial recall election, many pundits—as well as my opponent’s campaign manager—pushed the narrative that “Larry Elder was a gift” to Gov. Gavin Newsom. A kinder, gentler Republican, they insisted, one who distanced himself from the loathsome former President Donald Trump, would have made all the difference in the world, despite the fact… -
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Can Americans Exercise Religion in an Execution Chamber?
Dustin Honken was convicted of murdering five people, including two children, and was sentenced to death in a federal court in 2004. Sixteen years later, he was executed. He also received the last rites of the Catholic Church—in the execution chamber—from Rev. Mark O’Keefe, a Catholic priest who accompanied him there. “On the day of… -
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Debunking the American Left’s Biggest Myths About Europe
Remember when Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed to Europe as the solution for America’s problems? “I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway,” Sanders, I-Vt., said during a 2016 presidential debate, “and learn what they have accomplished for their working people.” He’s not alone. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said, “What we…