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Texas Gets Election Reform Right, ‘Mainstream’ Media Gets It Wrong
The Texas Legislature passed the state’s election reform package, SB 1, designed to protect voters by fixing vulnerabilities in the registration and election system. This happened only when Democrats finally returned to the state after fleeing to the nation’s capital in May to avoid the special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott. This bill’s biased… -
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Left’s Reaction to Texas’ Pro-Life Law Shows It Reveres Abortion
A Texas law that bans abortion when an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detected went into effect Wednesday, outraging abortion advocates nationwide. The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision not to intervene and prevent the Texas Heartbeat Act from being enacted, although it’s already being challenged at the federal level and could be brought again… -
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Left Doesn’t Just Want to Censor You on Social Media. It Also Wants to Close Your Bank Accounts.
When White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that people who spread “misinformation” “shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others,” she revealed the left’s chilling plan for censoring content that goes against the left’s narrative. It is becoming increasingly clear that political leaders on the left and Big Tech are joining arms to… -
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Texas Heartbeat Law Is Now in Effect. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Americans in many states support significant restrictions on abortion. Accordingly, policymakers are working across the country to enact policies that reflect this consensus, rooted in the understanding that life is our most basic human freedom and should be protected in public policy. A recently enacted Texas law that restricts most abortions after a fetal heartbeat… -
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Why US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement in Interest of Both Nations
The case for prioritizing a U.S.-Taiwan free trade agreement remains strong. Consider a recent letter to envoy Bi-khim Hsiao, the top official representing Taiwan in the U.S., in which Democratic Sens. Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Sherrod Brown of Ohio called on Taiwan for more support concerning the ongoing automobile computer-chip shortage…. -
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Democrats Just Revealed They Don’t Understand How Critical Race Theory Threatens Our Military
An amendment rejecting the use of critical race theory in America’s military academies may not have made it out of the House Armed Services Committee, but one thing the spirited debate Wednesday made clear is that Republicans understand the discipline far better than Democrats. Again and again, House Republicans Jim Banks of Indiana, Mike Gallagher… -
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Biden Vows ‘Whole of Government’ Response to Texas Pro-Life Law
President Joe Biden condemned a ruling by the Supreme Court on Texas’ Heartbeat Act on Thursday, saying the court’s decision “insults the rule of law.” The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 late Wednesday night to deny abortion providers’ requests for injunctive relief against Texas’ new law banning abortion after six weeks. The president weighed in on the ruling Thursday morning,… -
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Teacher Who Boasted About Turning His Students Into Revolutionaries Set to Be Fired
The California high school teacher caught on camera boasting about having “180 days to turn them [his students] into revolutionaries” will be fired by the school district, the Natomas Unified School District said in a letter Wednesday. A Project Veritas video caught Inderkum High School AP government teacher Gabriel Gipe on camera explaining his plans to politically radicalize and indoctrinate his… -
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Something Terribly Wrong in Top Ranks of US Military
It’s the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. President Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies and much of the country. In the hours after the horrific deaths of 13 service members, we have been reassured by our military… -
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New School Year Brings New Education Options for Kids and Families
Over a million additional students will be eligible to use private school choice options this school year, thanks to the legislative boom across the country in 2021. Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and curriculum controversies related to critical race theory, 18 states have either expanded or established a combined 28 school choice programs, earning 2021… -
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‘It Feels Like the School Board Is Dividing Us,’ Virginia Mom Says
A Virginia suburb 45 minutes west of the nation’s capital has captured national attention because parents and teachers are resisting a school board that has pushed woke ideas such as critical race theory and gender ideology in the classroom. Shawntel Cooper is one of those Loudoun County parents who decided to take action. In May,… -
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Women ‘Will Be Losing Most,’ Former Afghan Ambassador to US Says of Taliban Takeover
America’s longest war is over. But the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has many Americans questioning the leadership of the Biden administration. It’s estimated that between 100 and 200 Americans and thousands of our Afghan partners remain trapped inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Although the Taliban claims it will respect the rights of women and girls, experts… -
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Ukraine’s Leader Visits White House 2 Years After Trump Asks Him for Probe of Biden
President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a central figure in the first impeachment of Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. Biden and Zelenskyy focused on security against Russian aggression, anti-corruption initiatives, and energy and climate goals, according to the White House. “We have to focus very much now on the security issues, which… -
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Terrorist Groups Are Still Operating in Afghanistan. Does Biden Have a Plan to Keep Us Safe?
“Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history,” President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation on Tuesday afternoon. But is that war over? Biden may have withdrawn the U.S. military from Afghanistan, but terrorist groups intent on attacking the United… -
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Texas Targets Social Media Titans Over Viewpoint Censorship
The Texas state Senate passed a bill Tuesday that aims to curb perceived political censorship by social media companies. The bill, introduced by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, would prohibit social media platforms from “censoring” users based on their viewpoints. “Censoring” includes actions such as removing content, banning users, demonetizing users, and suppressing posts, according to the bill. Users… -
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With Smarmy Interview, Reuters Enhances Aura of Antifa
Reporters like to imagine themselves as the nation’s most powerful defenders of democracy, and on occasion, project themselves as enforcers of political civility. If all that were true, then they might report critically on violent extremists of any ideological stripe who find their joy in bringing anarchy and disorder. Sadly, some violent extremists are more… -
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Corporate ‘Racial Justice’ Programs Don’t Work
According to a new report from The Washington Post, America’s corporations have committed at least $49.5 billion to the cause of “racial justice” since the George Floyd murder last year riveted our national attention on race. This amounts to a little over $1,100 for every black man, woman, and child in America. Or, from another… -
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Office for Civil Rights Sticks Its Nose Unnecessarily Into School Masks Debate
To our knowledge, not a single state, school district, or individual school has banned students from wearing masks in the classroom. Yet, the ever-politicized Office for Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Education has decided to use the heft of the federal government to investigate states that don’t mandate children to wear masks. The… -
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America Must Stand Up for Fundamental Rights of Afghan Women
With the world watching in horror, the hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan resulted in the Taliban’s near complete control over Afghanistan’s population of 40 million. The Taliban is a brutal, repressive, Islamist regime that almost certainly will perpetuate severe human rights abuses against the Afghan population, making its return to power particularly catastrophic… -
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‘I Have 180 Days to Turn Them Into Revolutionaries’: Pro-Antifa Teacher Admits to Indoctrinating Students
A pro-Antifa California public school teacher touted his efforts to radicalize his students through political indoctrination in his classroom in a conversation captured on a video and released by Project Veritas. Gabriel Gipe is an AP government teacher at Inderkum High School in the Natomas Unified School District in Sacramento, California. He described himself as “probably…