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    Hollywood’s Oppenheimer Biopic a Historical Travesty
    Writer-director Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster, the biopic “Oppenheimer,” has grossed nearly $1 billion in global ticket sales, a staggering number including over $320 million from North American theaters and over $600 million internationally. That’s far better box office than other films Hollywood had counted on to offset the devastating, five-month strike by the Writers Guild…
    Allan Ryskind
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    US Naval Academy Is Sued Over Use of Race in Admissions
    A couple of weeks ago, Students for Fair Admissions sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Now, it’s suing the U.S. Naval Academy, claiming the academy’s race-based admissions practices are unconstitutional. The group was already successful in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, in which…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    FAA Should Rely on Ability, Not Race, in Hiring Air Traffic Controllers
    Tragedy nearly struck about six months ago when a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest jet came within 100 feet of each other. An air traffic controller somehow had cleared both planes for takeoff and landing on the same runway at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas. Disaster was averted Feb. 22 only because of the…
    Sean Nation
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    NASCAR Driver Out of Races After ‘Liking’ Insensitive George Floyd Meme
    NASCAR driver Noah Gragson has been suspended indefinitely after he “liked” a meme on Instagram on Saturday that made light of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis while in police custody on Memorial Day 2020. Legacy Motor Club announced Tuesday that it would replace Gragson, 25, in the seat of its No. 42 race car…
    Elise McCue
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    Will Hollywood Learn From Disappointing ‘Barbie’ Payoff for Pandering to China?
    Last weekend, the highly anticipated film “Barbie” made a killing at the global box office. One country where it didn’t do so well, however, was China. That’s unfortunate for the producers, who worked so hard to please Beijing, only to watch the film come in sixth place in opening-day ticket sales in China. Though viewership…
    Megan Litz | Michael Cunningham
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    A Case Study in Hollywood Hypocrisy: How It Deals With Stars From the Left and Right
    As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the superhero movie “The Flash,” it is hoping you forgot all you’ve heard about the star, Ezra Miller.  Or, at the very least, Hollywood hopes you forgive him quicker than the conservative actors it has canceled. You may know Miller, 30, as Patrick from the 2012 young…
    Elise McCue
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    Reading and Math Scores Plummet as Racial and Sexual Activism Replace Academics
    As America’s public education system reports the worst literacy and math performance in decades, its schools dedicate increasingly immense portions of their time to lessons on the supposed virtues of racial and gender segregation. With only eight hours per day and 180 school days per year, one would think that everyone from the newest teacher’s…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Hollywood May Tell You Differently, but Reality Includes These 12 Examples of Defensive Gun Use
    Last month, the University of Southern California’s Hollywood, Health & Society Program published “Trigger Warning: Gun Guidelines for Media,” a series of recommendations for the entertainment industry on how it should portray firearms. Although some of these guidelines offer helpful suggestions, particularly about how the media should deal with the topic of suicide, the publication…
    Amy Swearer | Pierce Sandlin
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    Those Systemically Racial Pulitzer Prizes
    In theory, the Pulitzer Prizes are a celebration of the best journalism in America. But in reality, it represents something entirely different. It rewards left-wing journalists for most effectively thumping the tub for the Left. They call it “[elevating] our understanding of the world.” We’ve entered the third year of the Biden administration, and no…
    Tim Graham
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    Eager Publicists for Racial Reparations in California
    How insanely radical and unjust can blue states get? California’s nine-member Reparations Task Force voted May 6 to recommend that state lawmakers provide billions of dollars in compensation payments to black residents, along with a formal apology for slavery. Why should an 18-year-old white person—or a freshly minted migrant—pay taxes through the nose to atone…
    Tim Graham
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    ‘Model for Rest of the Country’: South Dakota History Standards Scrap Critical Race Theory, Build on Hillsdale Foundation
    While much of the cultural debate about education centers on school libraries removing sexually explicit books, South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem's team has been hard at work crafting new K-12 history and social studies standards that her chief of staff calls a "model for the rest of the country." Noem rejected an earlier effort…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing
    It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining that their campaign to transform society had hit a rough patch. Surely, they couldn’t be serious? Woke orthodoxy is firmly in place in all the cultural centers and even at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Then along…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    San Francisco’s Loony Racial Reparations Proposal Flows From Logic of Woke Ideology
    The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is talking about ideas to bring racial reparations to the Bay Area. The proposals discussed during a recent board hearing, if adopted, would come with a significant financial cost for taxpayers. More on that in a bit. The entire reparations plan is predicated on the idea that black residents…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    If You’re Woke and Go Broke, Should Taxpayers Pay Your Bills?
    It’s feeling like 2007 all over again as Silicon Valley Bank and other financial institutions are going belly up and asking for bailouts from the federal government. President Joe Biden insists that he won’t be bailing out Silicon Valley Bank, but he certainly is. The bailouts are coming. They’ve already begun. The official reason for…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Woke Wrecking Machine
    Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous. Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result, history’s prescription for civilizational decline. If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air-traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, there will be even more…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Woke Education Hurts America on World Stage, Sen. Tommy Tuberville Warns
    OXON HILL, Md.—Wokeness is harming education and making America less competitive on the world stage, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., says.  “I want them to have the opportunity that we had,” Tuberville, a retired college football coach, said Thursday during a forum at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside the nation’s capital.  During the CPAC forum,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Joe Biden Turns America’s Government Into Wokeness Inc.
    As Presidents Day weekend loomed last week, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine designed for the propagation of woke principles. Biden’s so-called Executive Order on Further…
    Ben Shapiro
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    ‘Why We Have to Win This War’ Against the ‘Woke Army,’ According to Asra Nomani
    Asra Nomani, author of “Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Destroying America’s Freedom” and co-founder of Save Merit, is emphasizing the necessity of “winning this war against the woke army.” “It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of America depends on our winning this war against the woke army,” Nomani says….
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Well-Intentioned AmeriCorps Now Rotten to Core After Falling to Woke Left
    AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency that provides stipends for more than 5 million Americans who do volunteer work, misled the public on how much it spends in its grant program.  A program launched under President George H.W. Bush, AmeriCorps was expanded under President Bill Clinton and officially became a corps under Bush’s son, President George W. Bush….
    Roman Jankowski
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    Senate Should Reject Radical Leftist FCC Nominee Sohn
    Even by Washington’s appallingly low ethics standards, Gigi Sohn gives “pay to play” a bad name—even though she would surely deny that was, for all practical purposes, what she was doing. At a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called out President Joe Biden’s nominee to…
    Peter Parisi
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