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    ‘Be Courageous, Speak Out’: Ex-NBC Sportscaster Tafoya Assails Cancel Culture
    Former NBC sportscaster Michele Tafoya spoke out strongly against cancel culture on Friday in remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida.  Tafoya, who retired from NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” after this year’s Super Bowl, said she wanted to add her voice to a world that needs more courage to speak out without…
    Maggie Hroncich
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    Hijacking Christianity: Why ‘Wokeness Is Anti-Gospel’
    At the start of the Cold War, a young Foreign Service officer named George Kennan wrote a lengthy description of the mindset of the Soviet leadership to explain their “uncooperative behavior.” His insights eventually became famous as “The Long Telegram,” and it was critical to helping American leadership understand the worldview that drove the Soviets,…
    Katharine Gorka
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    Florida Gov. DeSantis Says ‘No Substitute for Courage’ in Fight Against Woke Institutions
    This will be the year that America “fought back” against wokeness and authoritarianism, in the words of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. In a speech, which he delivered Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, DeSantis explained how he has helped transform Florida into a bastion of freedom against growing authoritarianism. He also explained…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Woke American Medical Association
    The American Medical Association now tells doctors: Use woke language. It’s issued a 54-page guide telling doctors things like, don’t say “equality”; say “equity.” Don’t say “minority”; say “historically marginalized.” Much of the AMA’s advisory sounds like Marxism: “Expose … property rights … Individualism is problematic … Corporations … limit prospects for good health ……
    John Stossel
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    Even in San Francisco, Voters Fed Up With Woke Incompetence
    San Francisco residents voted to recall three members of the city’s school board on Tuesday—School Board President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga, and Commissioner Alison Collins. The recall effort began in January 2021 after the school board voted to rename 44 schools in the area that honored various American historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Hollywood’s Shameful Love Affair With China
    Throughout our ongoing struggles with China, one key battle appears to have already been won by our adversary: the battle for arts and entertainment. Boasting a population of over 1.4 billion people, many of whom have the financial means to pay for and consume a wide variety of forms of entertainment, their market share for…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Appeals to ‘Cancel Culture’ Have Limits
    The metastasis of the woke ideology, which seeps through our moribund body politic like a cancer, has shocked the conscience of many who still cling to the idea of America as a liberal bastion. One of the woke ideology’s more prevalent symptoms, the phenomenon known as “cancel culture,” has perhaps been disproportionately effective in radicalizing…
    Josh Hammer
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    The Cancel Culture Double Standard
    Whoopi Goldberg, suspended for two weeks by ABC for her comments about the Holocaust, had an opinion. She, like many people these days, is unable to properly contextualize history or see it outside her own contemporary leftist worldview. But Goldberg is a talk show host with no power. No one is really “hurt” by her…
    David Harsanyi
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    NBC Sitcom ‘American Auto’ Mocks Woke Advertising Panic
    In our new era of woke corporations, one obvious manifestation of their fear-based behavior arrives in TV advertising. They struggle to hit all the “right” notes to avoid controversy. NBC is airing a new big-business sitcom called “American Auto,” and on Jan. 25, it skewered all sides as the fictional auto company tortured itself about…
    Tim Graham
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    Lights! Camera! Leftism! How Hollywood Went Woke
    It’s no secret nowadays that Hollywood stars and directors slant left. But Hollywood wasn’t always so woke. Years ago, actors would star in movies celebrating America. So how did we get here? Christian Toto has the answer. Toto is founder of the conservative entertainment site HollywoodInToto.com as well as author of the new book “Virtue…
    Douglas Blair
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    Wake-up Calls Loud Enough Even for America’s Most Woke Mayors
    On June 11, 2020, during the occupation of Seattle’s Capitol Hill by a fashionably diverse crew of BLM radicals, Antifa goons, stoned baristas, and well-intentioned soccer moms, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan proclaimed that the arson, assault, battery, theft, and vandalism that defined the season might well be Seattle’s “Summer of Love.” On June 28, socialist…
    Greg Karraker
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    Wake Up, America: Cultural Marxism Is ‘Identifying’ as Transgenderism
    Parents packed the Dec. 15 school board meeting in Salinas, California, over the revelation that two middle school teachers were coaching students into gender confusion and into an LGBTQ+ support club, also known as Genders and Sexualities Alliances, or GSA, clubs, without parents’ knowledge. One mother testified that the teacher gave a boy’s name to…
    Walt Heyer
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    What’s Driving Media Becoming Woke? Money.
    Years before Donald Trump became president, legacy media was already moving in a woke direction. While no doubt some reporters are ideological, the trend was influenced by the growing prominence of the internet. Online, articles that generated an emotional response became income generators, because they led to readers spending a longer time interacting with the…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Woke Mob Comes for Professor Who Opposes Left-Wing Social Values
    If you don’t agree with the politically correct narrative, you must be destroyed. That’s the attitude elite Western institutions increasingly take with anyone who disagrees with the ever-moving and increasingly radical cultural left. If you have the gall to still be operating within those institutions, you are treated with an even higher level of hate….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Scientists Take a Stand Against ‘Woke Math’
    Saying two plus two equals four may now be problematic. One of the key aspects of the left-wing cultural revolution that’s taken over America’s most powerful institutions is how it injects its politics and ideology into literally everything. That includes science, and now math. Many states and school districts are embracing “woke math” for K-12…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    How Trial Lawyers Team With Leftist Activists to Hurt Consumers
    It’s a topic that few people know about, but that has far-reaching consequences. Trial lawyers across the country are cozying up to the left, advancing their radical agendas while lining their pockets with government money. The result? The average consumer pays the price. “It affects [consumers] in part because you’ve got governments handing out big-deal…
    Douglas Blair
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    Attention, Woke Leftists: Women Don’t Want Men in Restroom Stall Next to Them
    Students attending Chicago public schools can now use whatever restroom they want. The change is being made in an effort to be more “inclusive” and “equitable,” according to Camie Pratt, chief Title IX officer for Chicago Public Schools. “All restrooms are open for use by anyone who feels comfortable,” Pratt said in a recent video…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans
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    How ‘Science’ Went Woke
    “Believe in science.” You’ve probably seen that common—and silly—trope on left-wing political lawn signs. But what does it mean? Science is a method, a tool, but those lawn signs seem to be calling for something else.  The statement instead most likely signifies that one believes in the politically compromised science of institutions promoting ideological outcomes….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Businesses Are Going Woke. Here’s What a Thoughtful Investor Needs to Consider.
    More and more, it seems big corporations and even banks have become tools of the left. Americans have been fired from their jobs, deplatformed from social media, and have even seen their bank accounts closed, simply for not bending a knee to the left. This has prompted many conservatives to rethink where they spend and…
    Christian Mysliwiec
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    Youngkin Win Energizes Parents’ Battle Against Woke Ideology in Schools, Activists Say
    Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory in the Virginia governor’s race has further energized parent activists mobilized against woke ideology in schools, leaders emphasized at a chilly Tuesday morning rally outside the U.S. Capitol.  “You all act,” said Nicole Neily, president of the national grassroots organization Parents Defending Education. “You are not content to just take what…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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