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Black Lives Matter Comes Out in Support of Cuban Regime, Blames America for Its Problems
Black Lives Matter supports the communist Cuban regime and the bad things happening in Cuba are surely America’s fault. That’s the message of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, one of the largest BLM organizations in the country. In a statement on its official Instagram account on Wednesday, Black Lives Matter castigated the United… -
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Chicago Schools to Give Free Birth Control to Fifth Graders
Chicago Public Schools’ top doctor, Kenneth Fox, has been a pediatrician for 30 years. As Chicago schools move to make condoms available to students in the name of “prevention,” Fox is leading the way. According to an article in the Chicago Sun Times, Fox believes, “Young people have the right to accurate and clear information to… -
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Democratic Party Won’t Admit It’s Become Party of Wealth
How often during the last year of wokeness have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their various pathologies and oppressions? University presidents with million-dollar salaries virtue signal on the cheap their own sort of “unearned white privilege.” Meghan Markle and the Obamas, from their plush estates,… -
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Another School Falls to Woke Culture by Erasing Its Catholic History
California schools are obsessed with race. One school district in the Bay Area has enforced mandatory, critical race theory-based “ethnic studies” lessons beginning in preschool. In another district, a San Diego high school principal and school board skirted the law in their rush to erase California history and the legacy of a Catholic saint after… -
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Republicans Didn’t Vote to Defund Police, ‘Fact-Checkers’ Grudgingly Admit
Here’s an easy test to see whether fact-checking websites can make any claim to being “independent” and nonpartisan in tone: Biden staffers claimed Republicans “defunded the police.” That’s a bald-faced lie. On the June 27 “Fox News Sunday,” White House aide Cedric Richmond claimed that because Republicans uniformly voted against President Joe Biden’s massive American… -
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Our Government Spent $19,762 Per Person Last Year. That Compares to $780 Back in 1920.
Two years after World War I ended—in fiscal year 1920—the federal government spent approximately $6,358,000,000, according to Historical Table 1.1 published by the White House Office of Management and Budget. At the same time, the government collected approximately $6,649,000,000 in taxes—and ran a surplus of $291,000,000. When that federal spending of $6,358,000,000 is adjusted for… -
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‘Subverts the Right and Duty of Parents’: Bowser, DC Sued for Allowing Children to Get Vaccinated Without Parental Consent
Multiple parents have filed lawsuits against Washington, D.C., for allowing children to receive vaccines without parental knowledge or consent. In a lawsuit filed Monday by the Children’s Health Defense and Parental Rights Foundation against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, four parents call for a preliminary injunction prohibiting D.C. from enforcing the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of… -
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As Unions Go Woke, PRO Act Forces Dissenters to Pay Dues
Los Angeles school teacher Glenn Laird has been a union stalwart for almost four decades. He served as a co-chair of his school’s delegation to United Teachers Los Angeles—the second largest teachers union in the country—and proudly wore union purple on the picket line. But Laird is now suing to leave United Teachers Los Angeles and… -
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Research Used to Justify California’s ‘Equity’ Math Framework Doesn’t Add Up
The push to create “equity” and more “social justice” in public schools in California, America’s largest state, rests on this basic premise: “We reject ideas of natural gifts and talents,” declares the current draft of the California Math Framework, which also states that it rejects “the cult of genius.” Informed by that fundamental idea, the 800-page… -
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How Transparent Is China’s Government? Here’s What We Know
The Chinese Communist Party, which has ruled China for 100 years, remains highly secretive in its policies and actions. Fortunately, sources outside China’s government have provided the world with a great deal of information about what is really happening within the communist regime. Compiling what we do know about the Chinese Communist Party, The Heritage… -
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Zaila and the Bee
By any standard, Zaila Avant-garde is a remarkable 14-year-old girl with a positive and compelling outlook on life. Zaila (her father reportedly changed her surname from Heard in honor of jazz legend John Coltrane) recently won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, the first African American to win the highly competitive spelling contest. She told reporters… -
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Is America Facing a Women’s Employment Crisis?
Vice President Kamala Harris has called the situation a “national emergency,” but is it really? Right now, America has a record number of jobs available. “Help Wanted” signs are everywhere. Yet, the labor participation rate remains low, and women in particular are slow to return to the workforce. Since February 2020, more than 1.6 million women… -
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Pence Slams American Companies, Celebrities on Support for China
Former Vice President Mike Pence, in a major speech Wednesday on China, said that the communist regime is a more serious threat to the United States than the Soviet Union during the Cold War. “In many respects, Communist China poses a greater challenge to the United States than the Soviet Union ever did throughout the Cold… -
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Why Repealing the Hyde Amendment Will Kill Black Lives
The Hyde Amendment is under attack. Before President Joe Biden even took office in January 2021, leading Democrats announced their plans to upset decades of bipartisan consensus and fight to repeal the Hyde Amendment. As Biden pursues his policy agenda this year, activists and Democratic legislators have only sharpened their calls to action, decrying the… -
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Admission Fraud Shows Why Colleges Should Reward Hard Work, Not Race
Meritocracy ensures the proper functioning of our systems and institutions. Throughout history, various civilizations have concluded that merit-based systems best contribute to the flourishing of a society. Both the imperial and post-Mao Chinese states, as well as the United States, are clear examples. It is difficult to dispute that these nations both rose to prominence… -
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What China Hides About Its Economy
Unreliable statistics, mounting debt, and nonperforming loans are just a few underlying characteristics of China’s economy. For years, China has tried its best to hide and shadow its unsustainable economic practices from its people and from the world. Research suggests that it has been overstating gross domestic product numbers for the past decade. It’s important… -
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It’s Not Racist to Support Election Integrity Laws
Earlier this month, when I heard that the Supreme Court had struck down a lawsuit claiming that Arizona’s election laws were a form of racist voter suppression, I happened to be standing where civil rights leaders long ago gathered to talk about the very issue of fighting for the right to cast their vote without… -
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Court Declares Laws Banning Handgun Sales to People Under 21 Unconstitutional
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that federal laws banning firearms dealers from selling handguns to customers under the age of 21 were unconstitutional. The United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said in the decision that there was no reason to treat the Second Amendment any differently from other constitutional rights citizens… -
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Bogus Claims and Political Perfidy From So-Called Poor People’s Campaign
The Poor People’s Campaign has announced a “season of nonviolent, moral direct action,” targeting the U.S. Senate with disruptive activities every Monday, now through Aug 2. According to the campaign’s co-chair, the Rev. William Barber II, “The Senate must end the filibuster, protect and expand voting rights, and pass a minimum wage of $15 an… -
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What Foreign Dissidents Understand About the American Flag
Thousands of Cuban dissidents marched Sunday against the repressive communist tyranny that has subjugated the Cuban people for three generations. They chanted “Libertad!” and called for the end of the regime. And they carried aloft a symbol of freedom: the American flag. This isn’t a rarity. It’s a common sight among protesters for freedom worldwide….