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Impact of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Reaches Ohio
Since the assassination of Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk last Wednesday, touching tributes have poured in from across the nation and the world. However, there’s also been an onslaught of those criticizing the slain political activist. Many supporters of Kirk and his cause have highlighted those who have reacted in such a disturbing way. This… -
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8 People Fired or Put on Leave Over Responses to Charlie Kirk Assassination
Most Americans are expressing horror at the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, but some on the Left have not only refused to lament his death but suggested he deserved it—and many of them have already lost their jobs or have been placed on leave after saying so in person or on social… -
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A Prayer for Our Nation
In the past few weeks, Americans have seen disturbingly violent events from Charlotte and Utah. These attacks have shaken our nation. Each headline carries with it a family changed forever, a life stolen too soon, and a community left to mourn. Every senseless act of violence is a sobering reminder that our world is broken. … -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charlie Kirk Lived Out a Mission Some Conservatives Thought Was Impossible
Great minds have spent generations debating over the most effective ways to win hearts and minds to a cause, but all agree on one thing: If you reach the young, you will determine the course of a nation’s future. Charlie Kirk knew this and lived it. Kirk’s mission to reach young people may have stemmed… -
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New York Times Issued Correction After Making False Claim About Charlie Kirk
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The New York Times issued a correction on Thursday after falsely accusing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk of making an antisemitic claim on his podcast. The New York Times falsely accused Kirk of stating on his podcast in 2023 that Jewish communities are “pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites” that they… -
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Defensive Gun Uses Show Extraordinary Crimes Shouldn’t Erase Rights of Ordinary Gun Owners
After a transgender gunman targeted a Minneapolis Catholic school last month, killing two and wounding nearly two dozen others, gun control advocates predictably doubled down on their constant calls to impose every restriction imaginable on peaceable gun owners. As is usually the case, none of their default proposals would have saved a single life. And,… -
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A Society Paralyzed by the Presence of Evil
This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad in a red hoodie, sits behind Zarutska;… -
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One Thing the Left Can Do If It Wants to Prove It Actually Opposes Political Violence
The Southern Poverty Law Center rightly condemned the horrific assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Wednesday, but if the SPLC is serious in opposing political violence, it should do one better: It should remove Turning Point USA from its “hate map,” which plots Kirk’s organization alongside Ku Klux Klan chapters. The FBI is… -
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FBI Releases Photo of ‘Person of Interest’ in Charlie Kirk Assassination, Asks for Help Identifying
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a photo of a new person of interest in the Charlie Kirk assassination, asking the public for help identifying him. FBI Salt Lake City posted on X Thursday, “We are asking for the public’s help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk… -
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Charlie Kirk, the Man in the Arena
“The more a society drifts away from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” Charlie James Kirk knew the cost of telling the truth. Without fear, he paid with his life. He was 31. On Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 4:40 p.m., President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the “Legendary”…