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What Merrick Garland Gets Wrong About US Elections
Partisan, political, designed to inflame. That’s what Merrick Garland’s recent speech on voting rights was. It certainly was not objective, measured, and deliberate—the kind of speech you expect from an attorney general. What’s worse, his central assertion—that state efforts to improve the integrity of the election process will make it “harder” for eligible citizens to vote—is demonstrably false…. -
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As Rebellion Against Critical Race Theory Grows, Left Turns to Denial, Dismissal
Americans are waking up to the threat posed by critical race theory, which is often presented behind a cloak of secrecy and the banner of social justice, and across the country, they are now fighting back. The Biden administration may have reversed former President Donald Trump’s ban on critical race theory and so-called anti-racist training… -
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Weak Rule of Law Is Holding Back the Armenian People
Armenia and Azerbaijan made international headlines in September 2020 when violence erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region of southwestern Azerbaijan that claimed independence in 1992. After six weeks of fighting and more than 5,000 deaths, both former Soviet republics established a truce in November 2020. If Armenia hopes to recover from this conflict, it must address significant… -
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A Pastor’s Prescription for Overcoming Victim Mentality
Last August, as Americans watched the fallout from a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis., pastor James E. Ward Jr. found himself in a position to help. The victim, Jacob Blake, had been shot seven times in the back in an encounter with police. Violence erupted in Kenosha. Ward, pastor and founder of INSIGHT Church in… -
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Since the First Juneteenth, Black Americans Have Struggled to Participate in Elections. Now, We Must Defend Election Integrity.
On the 156th anniversary of Juneteenth, protecting the integrity of an electoral system that black Americans have struggled so hard to participate in is more important than ever. Here is what thought leaders and black Americans have to say about defending election integrity in America. Curtis Hill: On Juneteenth, We Must Commit to Protecting the… -
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Why Juneteenth Should Serve as Reminder That ‘Family Matters’
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, but it would take nearly two-and-a-half years for all American slaves to be notified of their freedom. On June 19, 1865, Union troops, led by Gen. Gordon Granger, arrived in Galveston, Texas, to tell the African-American slaves they were free. A portmanteau of “June”… -
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14 States Side With Christian Wedding Photographer Against NY’s Public Accommodations Law
Nebraska’s attorney general has filed an amicus brief on behalf of 14 states in support of religious freedom in the workplace in a case out of New York state. New York’s public accommodations laws are so restrictive, the lawsuit asserts, that they prohibit a Christian photographer from even explaining on her own website that her… -
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How Zuckerberg Money Could Have Led to Biden Victory in Texas
Texas lawmakers passed a law restricting use of private money for election administration almost two months after research showed that at least $36 million in grants financed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had the potential to alter the state’s political landscape dramatically. Though prompted by the Zuckerberg grants, the new Texas law likely will prevent… -
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2022 Budget: Early Signs Defense Is Not a Biden Administration Priority
When the Office of Management and Budget released its 2022 budget request, President Joe Biden stated, “Where we choose to invest speaks to what we value as a Nation.” On that basis, the Biden administration does not value United States armed forces. Biden’s budget reflects more interest in an unprecedented expansion of the federal government… -
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New Jersey School District Eliminates Holidays’ Names to be ‘Inclusive’
A New Jersey school district has voted to eliminate “the names of all religious and secular holidays from the school calendar … opting for the more generic description ‘Day Off,’” reports the Washington Times. You can guess the reason. They used those increasingly popular words — “inclusive” and “equitable.” No more Christmas, Hanukkah, Memorial Day,… -
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13 Examples of How Miami’s Police Chief Is Wrong on Defensive Gun Use
Whenever criminals harm someone with firearms, many gun control advocates use the violence as an argument to disarm ordinary, peaceable Americans. Indeed, this is precisely what happened May 23 after two groups opened fire on each other outside a crowded strip club in Austin, Texas, fatally wounding one bystander and injuring 13 others, most of… -
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Exposing Media Bias Is a ‘Bad Faith’ Argument?
The arrogance of the liberal media can be measured by their dismissal of all conservative criticism as “bad faith” attacks on the press. Assuming that conservative critics are dishonest and disreputable cynics is a common trope of CNN’s Brian Stelter when liberal journalists become mired in scandal. In a June 15 “Academic Minute” podcast, Marist… -
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Mysterious Origins of COVID-19 Raise Alarming Possibilities
For over a year, the American establishment and media have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Then, suddenly and without apologies for their past demagoguery, “journalists” and “experts” conceded that the Wuhan lab may well have been the most likely genesis. Why the… -
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Democrats’ Bad-Faith Attacks on Election Integrity Are Failing in Court
A recent legal proceeding in Florida proves the cheap, theatrical partisanship driving nationwide Democratic attacks on election integrity. Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC, sued the state of Florida, claiming it made voting-by-mail too difficult. One of the plaintiffs, a Yale graduate student, was asked in a deposition to explain why returning his ballot was… -
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Critical Race Theory Is Antithetical to Christianity, Black Pastor Says
Critical race theory is absolutely contrary to Christianity, says pastor, educator, and author Voddie Baucham Jr. “The idea that people would be oppressors based solely on their ethnicity and that you would condemn people as irredeemable sinners based solely on their race or ethnicity, that would be completely, completely counter to a typical truth, the… -
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NPR’s Ritual Shaming of Tom Hanks
Few movie stars have been more exalted than Tom Hanks. You’d never expect a guy with his nice-guy branding to get a strong slap in the face in the political arena. But Hanks penned a “guest essay” for The New York Times lecturing on racism, which opened him up for a shaming from the left…. -
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The Myth of Republican Obstructionism
The political media have spent the entire Joe Biden presidency up to this point pressuring holdout moderate Democrats to join the left’s efforts to destroy the legislative filibuster. One way they do this is by cobbling together revisionist histories that cast Republicans as uniquely obstructionist and undemocratic. CNN’s White House correspondent John Harwood lays out… -
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Debunking 2 Myths About Capitalism
Everywhere, people trash capitalism. But what they think they know about capitalism is usually wrong. My new video debunks some myths about capitalism. “No one ever makes a billion dollars,” complains Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “You take a billion dollars.” In other words, capitalists get rich by taking money from others. That’s nonsense, and Myth No…. -
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UN ‘Political Declaration’ on HIV/AIDS Prioritizes Sexual ‘Rights’ Over Sexual Health
Negotiations at the United Nations on a “political declaration” on HIV/AIDS ended in controversy last week as nations clashed over a “human rights” approach to preventing spread of the AIDS virus. Championed by UNAIDS, the U.N. entity tasked with combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic, this rights-based approach prioritizes the advancement of controversial sexual “rights” at the… -
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In Third Obamacare Decision, Supreme Court Doesn’t Decide Whether Its Constitutional
The Supreme Court handed down its decision Thursday in California v. Texas, the third challenge to the Affordable Care Act, colloquially called Obamacare. The high court held that the various states and individuals who brought the suit did not have standing to challenge the law. The mandate and the rest of the act survive. Importantly,…