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opinion
Ben & Jerry’s Exposes True Priorities
Ben & Jerry’s newest flavor is hypocrisy. Axios reporter Alexi McCammond recently conducted an interview with progressive darlings and Ben & Jerry’s co-founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Cohen and Greenfield both touched on the company’s decision to stop selling its ice cream in what they call occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank and… -
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4,676,300 Unborn American Babies Murdered in Pelosi’s First Speakership
During the first four years that Nancy Pelosi served as speaker of the House of Representatives (2007 through 2010), approximately 4,676,300 unborn babies were aborted in the United States, according to estimates published by the Guttmacher Institute. To put that in more precise language, adopting the accurate wording to describe abortion that Pope Francis recently… -
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Seattle School Nixes Halloween Parade for Fear It ‘Marginalizes Students of Color’
A Seattle elementary school canceled its Halloween parade, citing concerns that the annual event “marginalizes students of color who do not celebrate the holiday,” according to KTTH-AM radio talk-show host Jason Rantz. Benjamin Franklin Day Elementary, part of Seattle Public Schools, also said black males do not celebrate Halloween, Rantz reported. The school administration said its… -
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Over 94,000 Illegal Immigrants in Southern Texas Released Into US With Notices to Report, Documents Show
Just over 94,500 migrants who entered the U.S. illegally were encountered by border officials in southern Texas and released into the country with notices to report, according to data obtained by Fox News on Wednesday. The migrants were encountered in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio sectors since March 20, according to Fox News. Notices to… -
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Heritage Foundation Announces ‘DC Outsider’ Kevin Roberts as Next President
Kevin Roberts, a conservative leader with extensive experience in education and public policy, will serve as the next president of The Heritage Foundation, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank announced Thursday. Roberts joins Heritage after serving as president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, Texas, for five years. “While there were many… -
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Transgender Bathroom Policies Open Doors for Sexual Predators
An explosive piece published this week by The Daily Wire shows what happens when crime, liberal school policies, and leftist law enforcement induce a parent’s worst nightmare. In “Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says,” investigative reporter Luke Rosiak reveals a story about a young man who sexually… -
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New Database Documents Campus Cancel Culture
Cancel culture is endemic on college campuses. Every day come stories of professors, speakers, and students who run afoul of the radical left and suffer the consequences. With the frequency of these incidents, it can be difficult to keep track. The College Fix, the news site dedicated to providing a conservative perspective on news from… -
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A Young Survivor Shares Her Story During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Gloria Taylor, a communications manager at The Heritage Foundation, was diagnosed with breast cancer last year at the age of 26. In a matter of days, Taylor went from planning hikes with friends and enjoying her career to being faced with life-altering decisions about her health. Taylor beat breast cancer earlier this year, and now… -
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Virginia School System Deflects Charges It Covered Up Rape of Ninth Grade Girl by ‘Gender-Fluid’ Boy
Loudoun County Public Schools in Northern Virginia is being accused of covering up allegations that a boy in late May sexually assaulted a ninth grade girl in her school’s restroom—the nightmare scenario so often described by opponents of radical transgender school policies. The school system allegedly covered up the incident by transferring the male student… -
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Vaccine Mandates Aren’t Biden’s Only Job-Killing Scheme
Despite $9 trillion in fiscal and monetary stimulus from the federal government, America has an employment problem. The Labor Department estimates that 10.4 million jobs remained unfilled in August, the most recent month for which figures are available, including 1.5 million in health care and social services. That same month, a record-high 4.3 million people… -
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Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Saber-Rattling Is All About Shoring Up Domestic Power
For the last several weeks, tensions have roiled the Taiwan Straits. China has sent ever larger numbers of combat aircraft across the center line of the straits and into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone, compelling their Taiwanese counterparts to respond. The intricate ballet of dispatching multiple types of aircraft from different airbases, coordinating their flight… -
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Economist: Let Life Resume
America remains bound by often extreme pandemic restrictions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends staying 6 feet away from others. In Oregon, everyone must wear a mask outdoors. In parts of the country, 2-year-olds must wear masks. Are such rules necessary? Recently, Denmark lifted all pandemic restrictions. “Go Denmark!” cheers George Mason University… -
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US Should Be Booming. Why Are We Stagnating?
This week, the Biden administration received just the latest slap in the face from cruel reality: An economic report showing just 194,000 jobs added in the month of September, short of the 500,000 jobs forecast by most economists. The unemployment rate dived to 4.8% from 5.2%—not as a result of job gains, but as a… -
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‘Build Back Better’ Plan Would Make Medicaid Bigger With Less Flexibility, Accountability
A lot of transformative health care policy is embedded in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending bill, including continuation of the Biden administration’s campaign to strip away state flexibility and consolidate greater federal control over Medicaid. Medicaid, the joint federal-state program to provide health care services to certain low-income Americans, has seen an explosion in… -
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The Erasure of ‘Women’ Is Escalating
The campaign to erase references to women has reached new levels of absurdity. In just the last few weeks, it’s made forays into social media, medical journals, and even federal legislation. For example, if you’ve spent much time on social media lately, you’ve likely seen the ACLU’s edits of a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg… -
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Schools Group That Urged Attorney General’s Anti-Parent Initiative Has Ties to Democrats, Unions
The National School Boards Association, which urged the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement to investigate parents who speak out on local education matters as potential domestic terrorists, has political ties to the Democratic Party and labor unions. The national association represents members of locally elected school boards, which usually are officially nonpartisan, and… -
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American Principles Project Back on YouTube After Backlash Ends Censorship
YouTube temporarily “terminated” the American Principles Project’s YouTube channel over Columbus Day weekend, contending that the pro-family organization had violated its terms of service by reuploading content from a “previously terminated channel.” Following backlash from conservatives and lawmakers, YouTube reinstated the American Principles Project’s account Tuesday. Google told The Daily Signal that the decision to… -
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Federal Judge Rules New York Must Provide Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that New York must recognize health care workers’ religious exemptions to the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge David Hurd ruled on Tuesday that the mandate conflicts with “individuals’ federally protected right to seek a religious accommodation from their individual employers,” granting a preliminary injunction… -
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Dropping ‘F’ Grades for Kids Creates New ‘Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations’
“Groupthink is the enemy of rigor … what we define to be excellence has become captive to a certain political agenda,” says Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury. Yet, in the name of “eliminating systemic racism,” Sunrise Park Middle School in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, near St. Paul, will no longer hand out “F” grades to students who… -
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In the Fight for Racial Justice, Equality of Opportunity, Not Elitism, Should Be the Goal
The cause of “racial justice” is more popular than ever before. But even its most vocal progressive advocates don’t seem to know what it is they’re fighting for anymore. At the beginning of the civil rights movement, we fought to open doors that had been closed to us by law. We wanted to end the…