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‘We Are Charlie Kirk’: Global Tributes, NFL and Cubs Join in Honoring Slain TPUSA Founder
Turning Point USA announced Saturday that it will be honoring its founder Charlie Kirk next weekend with a giant public celebration of his life. “Building a Legacy, Remembering Charlie Kirk” will take place Sunday, Sept. 21, at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, according to Fox News. President Donald Trump said he plans to… -
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Charlie Kirk’s Final Message to Noem Before Assassination Called for Accountability Over Urban Crime
The last thing Charlie Kirk texted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a few days before his assassination was about how he wanted the mayors and governors of cities with high crime to be held accountable for how dangerous they were making it for people to live in those cities. During her appearance on “Sunday Morning… -
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Utah Gov. Confirms Suspected Kirk Assassin Was Living With Transitioning Boyfriend
Much more information about Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin and the weapon used will be released Tuesday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday. “We’re collecting much more, including forensic evidence that is coming back from Quantico, that will help us tie the shooter to the weapon and everything else,” said Cox on ABC News’ “This Week.”… -
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Speaker Calls Out Rep. Ilhan Omar for ‘Playing Into This Characterization of Charlie Kirk That the Left Has Been Advancing’
Rep. Ilhan Omar‘s rhetoric on Charlie Kirk reflects the current mindset of the Left, with many of its members celebrating the assassination of the conservative icon, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “She clearly has no idea what she’s talking about. She has not followed Charlie,” Johnson stated. Omar, D-Minn., has doubled… -
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Abigail Spanberger Caught Up in Defamation Lawsuit After Her Campaign Secretly Wrote Jan. 6 Press Release
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA—Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat nominee for Virginia governor, has been called as a witness in a defamation lawsuit after Democrat operatives said her congressional reelection campaign drafted a 2022 Democratic Party of Virginia press release that claimed a Republican “bloodied and beat law enforcement officers” on Jan. 6, 2021. Thomas Speciale, a retired Army… -
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Academia: It’s Time to Connect Free Speech Attacks and a Free Speech Assassination
In the weeks leading up to Turning Point USA’s “America Comeback Tour,” petitions were gathering in Utah for his two in state visits. One involving the college, Utah Valley University, where Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week, with 1,000 signatures. Another petition for Charlie Kirk’s scheduled visit to Utah State’s campus on Sept. 30 garnered… -
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From Unrest to Resilience: The Remarkable Turnaround Since Summer 2020
What a difference half a decade makes. This summer’s prevailing ethos, zeitgeist, vibe—call it any fancy name you want—was sharply different from the summer, just five years ago, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. Such sudden changes in the moral atmosphere seem to occur every so often. The year 1776, the 250th anniversary of which… -
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Do the Feds Really Need to Own One-Third of All Land in America?
The federal government owns about one-third of America. Since we’re on a path to bankruptcy, it would be smart to sell some unused property. President Donald Trump’s interior secretary says it may be worth as much as $200 trillion. Selling just a fraction of it would reduce our enormous debt. Not just that: Since government doesn’t… -
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Increasing Opportunity, Hope for Our Children
An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ? James J. Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the… -
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The ‘Gold Standard’ of Jobs Data Is Broken—And America Is Paying the Price
On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published a revision of its latest job numbers, a report that shows just how far off its estimates of overall employment were from reality. The latest data just confirms what many already suspected—that the situation is worse than we thought. There’s something incredibly wrong at BLS, and for… -
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One Great Comic and a Bunch of Bad Actors
WASHINGTON—Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a clear view of the “Free Palestine” movement. Speaking at Duke University on Tuesday, he said, “‘Free Palestine’ is, to me, just—you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews,” he said, according to the Duke school newspaper The Chronicle. And: “By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re… -
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A Turning Point
“You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children … I’m trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry,” Charlie Kirk said last week. Now he is dead, assassinated on a college… -
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Kirk’s Killing Was the Ugly, Evil Result of Demonizing Political Foes as ‘Existential Threat’
The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah on Wednesday looked like the opposite of The Washington Post’s motto. It’s “Democracy Dies in Sunlight.” Thousands of people gathered joyfully to hear freedom of speech and saw it end with a bullet to the neck. The dominant media reaction was horror, as… -
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The Martyrdom of My Friend Charlie Kirk
It is difficult enough to write about the most high-profile political assassination in this country since the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy killings of 1968. It is considerably more difficult to do so when the victim was a personal friend. The pain is profound. Charlie Kirk and I had gotten close, and… -
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From Desk to Field: Reassigned Agents Are Catching More Illegal Aliens at Northern Border
The U.S. northern border spans more than 5,500 miles, including Canada’s border with Alaska, making it the longest land border in the world—and historically challenging to patrol. But now, for the “first time in years, we’ve been able to redeploy agents from processing centers back to the field, patrolling the land, and catching illegal… -
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Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Has Long Been Target of Leftist Intolerance, Violence
“We got him.” With those words, Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox announced Friday morning’s arrest of Tyler Robinson, 22, in connection with Wednesday’s assassination of Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk. Local, state, and federal sleuths located the killer just 33 hours after Kirk’s heinous killing at a speech to Utah Valley University in Orem. Kirk’s gruesome death… -
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Meet 3 Trump Nominees Whose Stalled Senate Confirmations Could Benefit From Rule Change
President Donald Trump’s nominees whose Senate confirmations have been blocked by Democrats received new hope this week that they will finally get an up-or-down vote if the Senate modifies its rules. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday discussed how he would be reforming Senate rules to confirm batches of Trump’s appointees, dozens of… -
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To Fight Crime Seriously, We Need a Return to ‘3 Strikes’ Laws
America’s cities don’t have a crime problem. They have a repeat-offender problem. States need to double down on “three strikes” laws. The recent, brutal killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail train by a deranged, knife-wielding man with more than a dozen previous arrests is the wake-up call the country needs. The… -
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The Awful Grace of God
From Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy, and from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr., America’s story has too often been marred by the silencing of visionary voices through violence. Each loss forces us to confront the question of what kind of nation we want to be. Soon after the assassination of MLK in… -
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Missouri Secretary of State Talks Election Integrity
Missouri’s Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins is passionate about election integrity, and he has a clear idea of what it looks like: citizenship verification, hand-counted ballots, clean voting rolls, and absolutely no machines. Hoskins, who formerly served in the state’s Legislature, assumed the office of secretary of state in January—a position that holds wide-reaching…
