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Government’s Ham-Handed COVID-19 Messaging Hits New Low
The U.S. government’s inconsistent public messaging on the coronavirus came to a crescendo this week as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly reversed course on the use of masks by vaccinated people. The sudden backtracking follows a pattern of misleading and incoherent government health guidance that has led to a general erosion of… -
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Getting Nuclear Posture Review Right Is Critical for US Defense
The Pentagon has finally kicked off its Nuclear Posture Review, a comprehensive assessment of U.S. nuclear capabilities and strategy, which will be conducted over several months. But already, President Joe Biden faces pressure—both from within the administration and from some in Congress—to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy. Just last… -
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Biden Administration Sues Texas Over Governor’s Order Restricting Transportation of Illegal Immigrants
The Biden administration filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas challenging Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order targeting the transportation of migrants spreading COVID-19 in the state, according to court documents filed Friday. Abbott, a Republican, announced restrictions on the ground transportation of illegal migrants in federal custody who could spread COVID-19 around Texas communities… -
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Pelosi’s Office Silent on Action to Determine Origins of COVID-19
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office would not say whether the House plans to take up a bipartisan bill that would declassify any information regarding the origin of COVID-19. The bill, titled the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2021, passed the Senate through unanimous consent in May. It would require the Office of the Director of National Intelligence… -
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Bloated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staffs Explode Cost of Higher Education
The woke revolution on college campuses is being bolstered by a vast network of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” staffers who gobble up school budgets and enforce left-wing orthodoxy. A recently released paper by Jay Greene, a fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, and James Paul, a doctoral fellow at the University of… -
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Conservative Editor Brings Fresh Perspective to Newsweek
It can be difficult to find common ground in America today. Bitter partisanship feels like the new normal, as liberals and conservatives struggle to find a single topic they agree on. Josh Hammer, opinion editor for Newsweek and host of a new podcast called “The Debate,” decided to do something about it. “Newsweek’s idea here… -
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Ben Shapiro’s Advice for Resisting America’s ‘Authoritarian Moment’
Authoritarianism is all around us. We see it in government, at work, and even in our local communities and schools. What can we do about it? Ben Shapiro, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire, is the leading the charge against authoritarianism. His new book “The Authoritarian Moment: How… -
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NPR Allows Its Reporters to Engage in Direct Activism
The thin veil over National Public Radio’s commitment to objective journalism has been lifted. NPR has announced a new ethics policy that allows its journalists to “participate in activities that advocate for ‘the freedom and dignity of human beings’ on both social media and in real life.” National Public Radio, an organization partially funded by… -
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Texas Man Gets 11 Years for Buying Homes, Cars With $25 Million in COVID-19 Relief
A man from Coppell, Texas, has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for running a fraudulent scheme to receive about $24.8 million in forgivable loans from the Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic, the Justice Department announced. Dinesh Sah, 55, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money-laundering offenses, the Justice… -
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Delta Variant of COVID-19 Soon Will Be Gone, Former FDA Chief Predicts
Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, predicts that the surge of the Delta variant of COVID-19 across the U.S. will last just a few more weeks. Speaking on CNBC, Gottlieb questioned whether new masking guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the right call, and reminded viewers that… -
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‘Communism Taking Root in America,’ Critical Race Theory Foe Warns
About 350 concerned residents crowded into a church in Georgetown, Delaware, on Thursday evening to hear from a panel of experts about critical race theory—one of whom likened its spread throughout American culture to Mao Zedong’s communist Cultural Revolution in China. “Today, communism is taking root in America,” speaker Xi Van Fleet said. Critical race… -
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Amid Union Pushback, Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rules Face Legal Challenge Over Coercion
President Joe Biden touts the support of the business community for his COVID-19 vaccine policy, but leaders of organized labor, which the president identifies as his political base, aren’t happy. Requirements that both federal employees and the employees of federal contractors “attest” to their vaccination status and regularly submit to testing if not vaccinated could… -
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Sen. Mike Enzi Focused on ‘What You Can Get Done,’ Not Disagreements
Mike Enzi was a conservative in ideology and temperament, a soft-spoken son of the West who shunned partisan vitriol and sought compromise on policy, but never on principle. Enzi, a longtime U.S. senator from Wyoming, died July 26 from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident near his home in Gillette, Wyoming. He was 77. Michael… -
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Woodson Center Celebrates 40 Years of Transforming Poor Neighborhoods as Founder Announces Retirement
The life-changing impact that Robert Woodson has had on the lives of countless individuals and communities was highlighted Thursday evening during a 40th-anniversary celebration of the center named for him in Washington, D.C. One after another, the grassroots leaders and individuals who have been touched by Woodson’s work at the Woodson Center thanked the civil… -
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Whistleblowers Say Officials Ignored Need to Buy Underwear for Detained Children at Border
Federal officials ignored requests to buy underwear for migrant children detained at the Fort Bliss emergency intake site near El Paso, Texas, according to a whistleblower complaint filed by the Government Accountability Project. Two whistleblowers reported gross mismanagement of the Fort Bliss facility and harm to unaccompanied migrant minors. The whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein, an official… -
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Ocasio-Cortez, in Leaked CNN Interview, Says She Feared Being Raped During Capitol Riot
Portions of a leaked CNN interview published by an independent investigative media outlet show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., saying she thought she was going to be raped during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. In the video clip published by Project Veritas, Ocasio-Cortez tells CNN’s Dana Bash that she is a survivor of sexual assault,… -
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What Conservatives Don’t Understand About the Black Community
As a graduate of Oral Roberts University, I was blessed to spend a lot of time with Oral Roberts himself. Roberts repeatedly told me, “Go into every man’s world and meet them at the point of their need.” He was referring to Christians evangelizing throughout the world. We Christians cannot wait for people seeking God… -
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Senate Republicans Demand New Hearing for Biden ATF Nominee Over ‘Racist’ Remark
Every Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee signed a letter Thursday demanding a new hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives following allegations that the nominee made a racist comment while working at the agency around 2007. The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported June 22 that… -
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Corporations Mum on Stiffing GOP Candidates, but Not Democrats, Who Questioned Election
Corporations were silent on why they chose to suspend political contributions to Republicans, but not Democrats who have objected to election results. More than 15 major United States-based companies that announced they would suspend giving money to members of Congress following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot didn’t respond to requests for comment from The Daily Caller News… -
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How Biden White House Got Border Crisis Wrong as ‘Seasonal Migration’
Border officials reported an increase in the number of encounters with migrants at the southern border in June, out of line with the Biden administration’s attribution to seasonal migration and historical trends showing a decrease in encounters after May. The number of encounters at the southern border was “somewhat overstated” due to pandemic-related expulsions allowing…