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opinion
We Should All Know the Name Henrietta Lacks
On a hot summer day, Aug. 1, 1920, a woman named Henrietta Lacks was born in Roanoke, Virginia. Though blessed with the gift of life, she was not blessed with the fruits of good fortune. At the tender age of 4, her mother died while giving birth to her 10th child. Not too long after,… -
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‘The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness’: Understanding Race, Gender, and Oppression
The satire site The Babylon Bee presents “The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness,” a tongue-in-cheek guide to the far left’s obsession with intersectional insanity. You can order a copy here. Check out the first excerpt here, and read on for more from chapter one. Intersectionality Take a look at our handy chart here in order… -
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How Racial Preferences Pigeonhole Minority Lawyers
How would you feel if your business forced you to do something based solely on your race? For some minority lawyers, that’s a reality. Racial preferences from clients take minority lawyers away from cases they’d prefer to work on, all to fulfill a quota. GianCarlo Canaparo, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation (of which… -
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In Loudoun County, Pence Calls for School Officials to Resign Over ‘Cover-Up’ of Sexual Assaults
On the heels of a student walkout, former Vice President Mike Pence traveled Thursday to Loudoun County, Virginia, to praise concerned parents and students—and to call for school officials to resign over their “cover-up” of recent sexual assaults in county schools. “School board members and anyone responsible for this tragedy and cover-up should resign immediately,”… -
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Rise in Kidnappings and Lawlessness in Haiti Highlights Need for Security Response
The recent kidnapping of 17 missionaries—16 American, one Canadian, and five of them children—and a local driver in Haiti has drawn international attention to the epidemic of escalating violence and lawlessness the Haitian people have been suffering for years. Coming on the heels of the July assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the intensifying criminal activity is undermining what little… -
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Why Congress Shouldn’t Rush to Enact Poorly Conceived New Taxes to Fund Spending Spree
In ongoing discussions with House Democrats about their ever-evolving plan to expand the role of government in American life, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly told her members: “There is no bad decision.” With trillions of dollars at stake, bad decisions are inevitable if Congress rushes through a poorly vetted plan to pay for its buffet… -
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‘There Is No Rational Debate’: Loudoun County School Board Chair Trashes Parents
Brenda Sheridan, chair of the Loudoun County Public Schools board, criticized parents protesting the use of critical race theory in schools, claiming “[t]here is no rational debate” on the issue. Sheridan made the comments during an interview with Chuck Todd during the Oct. 27 episode of “Meet the Press Reports,” a weekly podcast. “I’ll echo that we… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers, Ambassadors Commemorate Global Declaration Challenging ‘Right’ to Abortion, Upholding Role of Family
Lawmakers, ambassadors, and embassy officials gathered Thursday in Washington to commemorate a pro-life, pro-family international declaration signed by the United States during the Trump administration. President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of the United States from the Geneva Consensus Declaration almost immediately after he succeeded Donald Trump as president Jan. 20. Speakers at the gathering… -
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Punishing Achievement Punishes Everyone
This week, Democrats settled on an area of apparent commonality: the desire to eat the rich. According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, “Senator [Ron] Wyden and the Senate Finance Committee … would impose a tax on unrealized gains on liquid assets held by extremely wealthy individuals, billionaires.” While Yellen refused to call this a “wealth… -
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‘One China,’ 2 National Days, and 152 Warplanes
From Oct. 1 to Oct. 10, the world witnessed the full extent of the divergent paths China and Taiwan are on. Those 10 days saw differing understandings of Chinese history and national values communicated in speeches, op-eds, ceremonies, and military incursions. If the gravity of the situation in the Taiwan Strait wasn’t clear before, it… -
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Amid Controversy Over Virginia Public Schools, Religious Private Schools See Surge in Enrollment
As the Fairfax County Public Schools system reports dwindling school enrollment, leaders at religious private schools across Northern Virginia say they are only growing. “This year alone, I can point to at least four families … who have either relocated to the area from other states or who have moved from very progressive public school… -
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What’s in Third Version of Biden’s Big Government Spending Bill
Nov. 4 Update: What’s in the Third Version of Biden’s Big Government Spending Bill? Congressional Democrats have released a third version of their big government socialist Build Back Better Act. Compared to the previous draft, the newest version adds another 450 pages, resulting in a 2,135-page plan for a reckless tax and spending spree. We… -
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Democrats’ Proposed Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains Likely Unconstitutional
Democrats have proposed partly funding some of their multitrillion-dollar spending plan with a tax on the “unrealized capital gains” of anyone who makes more than $100 million per year or is worth at least $1 billion. That proposed tax is likely unconstitutional. To understand why, we first must understand how such a tax would work…. -
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‘The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness’: Understanding Intersectionality and Identity
The satire site The Babylon Bee presents “The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness,” a tongue-in-cheek guide to the far left’s obsession with intersectional insanity. You can order a copy here. Below is an excerpt from the first chapter. Intersectionality and Identity Let’s get started, class. Check your privilege at the door, because it’s time for you… -
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China’s Surveillance State Has Killed Privacy
The Chinese Communist Party’s system of mass surveillance is like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel, destroying any semblance of privacy in the country for both individuals and businesses. In a recent international incident, popular job networking site LinkedIn shut down operations in China after the strain of working with the authoritarian government became… -
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Some Women Are Choosing Sterilization as Birth Rates Continue to Fall
Sterilization is not something you often hear about women choosing, but that may be changing. The recent piece “First Comes Love. Then Comes Sterilization.” by Suzy Weiss on the “Common Sense With Bari Weiss” Substack tells the story of four women who have been, or plan to be, sterilized. For reasons including past trauma or… -
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4 Reasons Why Liberal Politicians Should Abandon Federal Takeover of Paid Family Leave
Paid family leave is something almost everyone wants, and it’s important for workers to be able to take time off when a family or medical need arises. The great news is that paid family leave is on the rise, with the percentage of workers with access to paid family leave shooting up by 64% over… -
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4 Points to Understanding How Many Americans Are Stranded in Afghanistan
The State Department’s admission that three times as many Americans remain in Afghanistan as officials originally estimated marks the most recent controversy resulting from President Joe Biden’s hasty withdrawal of troops. The botched pullout ending America’s longest war was punctuated early on with a terrorist bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members at the airport… -
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6 Takeaways From Merrick Garland’s Senate Testimony on Activist Parents and Other Issues
Attorney General Merrick Garland stood firm at a Senate hearing Wednesday on his memo directing the FBI to look into parents who speak out at local school board meetings. Garland faced some tough questions from Republican senators, mostly on treating dissenting parents as “domestic terrorists” but also on FBI abuses in the past and on… -
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There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, but Biden Says Free Community College?
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ free community college plan will increase costs for both students and taxpayers. Fortunately, the Biden-Harris promise of free community college appears less likely to make it into the final version of the Build Back Better Act, the $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend plan currently under debate in Congress. The…