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The Pentagon Can’t Afford to Go Green at Warfighters’ Expense
Can the Biden administration have its climate change cake and eat it, too? With a new goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, vast portions of the U.S. economy and the federal government would have to shrink emissions quickly. But pressed by the need to engage in great power competition, the Department of Defense… -
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Biden’s Business Tax Hikes Would Be a Self-Inflicted Mistake for America
As a part of his “American Jobs Plan,” President Joe Biden has proposed massive tax increases on American businesses. This tax hike would reduce wages, cost jobs, harm economic growth, cut investment, and make America less competitive. It would reverse gains achieved by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Congress should reject these tax increases…. -
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Studies Purporting to Show Safety of Telehealth Abortions Are Unpersuasive
Pro-life advocates suffered a policy setback last week when the Food and Drug Administration lifted existing restrictions on telemedicine abortions for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. This past year, groups supporting legal abortion litigated against Trump administration FDA rules, which required that chemical abortions occur under medical supervision. Supporters of legal abortion obtained… -
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Broadcast Network News Covers Biden Positively in Contrast to Trump, Study Finds
The three broadcast TV networks have done an about-face in their coverage of the president since Joe Biden took office, airing mostly positive stories, compared with their mostly negative treatment of his predecessor, Donald Trump, a new study found. During the first 80 days of the Biden administration, the broadcast networks’ evening newscasts gave it… -
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On Earth Day, Let’s Commit to Speeding Up Growth to Clean Up Earth
April brings Earth Day and, for many of us, spring cleaning. The ideal is to combine both of those concepts. We want to celebrate the Earth by leaving it cleaner for future generations. The question is how to get there. Some point to big government solutions, such as the Green New Deal with its regulations… -
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Left’s Hidden Agenda in New Hate Crime Bill
The Senate is expected to vote soon on a bill touted as targeting hate crimes against Asian Americans. The legislation, authored by Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., had not initially received widespread conservative support. >>> Update: The Senate passed an amended version of the bill Thursday afternoon by a surprisingly unified… -
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The Chauvin Verdict and the Damage of Political Theatrics
The guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on all counts was correct, based on the evidence, but the theatrics leading up to that trial and after the jurors had made their decision was outrageous. Demonstrations, riots, and looting around the country since the death of George Floyd had to have influenced the… -
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Democrats Could End Border Crisis Quickly. Instead, They’re Making It Worse.
President Joe Biden inherited the most secure southern border in American history. Under the Trump-Pence administration, we built more than 450 miles of the world’s most robust border wall, reducing illegal crossings by over 90%. We abolished the absurd practice of “catch and release.” We ended asylum fraud through a groundbreaking partnership with Mexico known… -
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CEO’s Attempt to Distance Planned Parenthood From Margaret Sanger Falls Flat
Alexis McGill Johnson is not doing a good job in her new role at Planned Parenthood. McGill Johnson is the most recent “new” CEO of Planned Parenthood. Last week, she took to writing a New York Times op-ed in which she decided to be bold and add Planned Parenthood to the list of woke organizations…. -
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Go Green, Go Nuclear
This Thursday, Earth Day, politicians and activists will shout more about “the climate crisis.” I don’t think it’s a crisis. COVID-19, malaria, exploding debt, millions of poor children dying from diarrhea—those are genuine crises. But global warming may become a real problem, so it’s particularly absurd that Earth Day’s activists rarely mention the form of… -
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Another Mass Shooting and Questions That Still Go Unanswered
The first question most people ask after mass shootings like the one last week at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis in which a 19-year-old male murdered eight people before taking his own life is: “How did he get the gun?” He was known to authorities. A gun he previously owned was seized because he was… -
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The Watchdogs Nap for Biden
President Joe Biden averaged a 56% job approval rating from his inauguration through March, according to Gallup, about the same as the ratings of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and much higher than former President Donald Trump’s (42%). One factor in that approval might be the tone of press coverage. Rich Noyes… -
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Equality Act Endangers Survivors of Abuse
What do you get when you cross then-Sen. Joe Biden’s 1994 “Tough on Crime” bill with President Joe Biden’s 2021 Equality Act? Answer: spikes in sexual assault in women’s shelters, prisons, and jails. The so-called Equality Act would allow any person of any age, at any time, to declare what gender they are for any… -
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Why China Will Remain a Challenge Whether Its Economic Reform Policies Succeed or Fail
A former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund recently warned that China would face huge structural problems in its economy as Beijing falls back on its old playbook to try to grow its economy. We can’t disagree with this timely, candid assessment by former IMF senior economist Zhu Min. “In 2021, structural reform… -
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The Bigotry of No Expectations
Editor’s note: This column was filed before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. We all know what’s coming. In Minneapolis, in anticipation of the jury’s verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the alleged murder of George Floyd, everything is… -
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Sin of Planned Parenthood Is Abortion, Not Margaret Sanger
The president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Alexis McGill Johnson, has used The New York Times as a confessional to fess up to the racist history of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger. “We must reckon with Margaret Sanger’s association with white supremacist groups and eugenics,” she writes. Sanger’s involvement with the notoriously racist eugenics… -
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Takeaway From Chauvin Trial: Where Do We Go From Here?
Most criminal defense attorneys will tell you that a quick decision from the jury is generally bad news for their client. That held true on Tuesday when the jury in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial reached a relatively quick verdict, finding him guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in… -
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Why This Former Lawyer Would Have Argued ‘Very Differently’ If He Had Represented Derek Chauvin
Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of murder. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. For three weeks, jury members listened to attorneys’ arguments during the trial in… -
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EXCLUSIVE: California Warns BLM Co-Founder’s Nonprofit Over Late Financial Filings
California officials have issued three warnings to a nonprofit group started by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors that it has failed to file required financial disclosures. In September and again in February and March, the California Attorney General’s Office notified Cullors’ organization, Dignity and Power Now, that it was delinquent in filing the financial… -
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6 Key Points From Senate Democrats’ Hearing on ‘Jim Crow 2021’
Liberal star Stacey Abrams said she supports voter ID, two senators debated the history of the Jim Crow era, and a Democrat secretary of state pleaded for his party not to pass a federal takeover of elections. These and other interactions occurred Tuesday at an eventful Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that the Democrat majority titled…