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    South Africa Denies Elon Musk’s Accusations of Racial Genocide
    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday denied Elon Musk’s claim that white people are being persecuted in that country, calling it a “completely false narrative.” Musk, a native of South Africa, drew attention to a political rally last Friday at which black leaders of a far-left opposition party sang a song that includes the lyrics “Kill…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Faith Narratives Gain Traction in Hollywood With Amazon’s ‘House of David’
    Most people know the story of David and Goliath. It’s an epic tale of a shepherd boy vanquishing a giant with nothing more than a pebble and sling, putting him on a path to become the most famous king of Israel. The story has war, politics, fracturing kingdoms, powerful seers, an underdog hero, and of…
    Jenneth Dyck
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    Republican Race for Virginia Governor Intensifies as Nation Watches
    Virginians are bracing for another onslaught of national politicians and pundits hell-bent to prove during the commonwealth’s upcoming off-year gubernatorial election that Donald Trump’s win in November was either a mandate or a fluke. And for once, there appeared to be a clear, primary-free, path for Republicans in the state to rally early around a…
    Joe Thomas
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  • opinion

    The Ludicrous Reason Hollywood Barred ‘Reagan’ From a Best Picture Nomination
    No conservative could honestly have expected the 2024 biopic “Reagan” to be a viable contender for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars. Ultraliberal Hollywood could never honor a film that dares to depict our 40th president as a hero. But the fact that it’s officially ineligible for nomination because it doesn’t meet new diversity requirements?…
    Ed Feulner
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  • opinion

    When a Judge Incorrectly Rules Race as Legit in Naval Academy Admissions (Part 3 of 3)
    Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, even though the Supreme Court last year expressly forbade the use of race in college admissions in two related cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC?  The answer is "yes," according to U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett,…
    Cully Stimson
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    US Naval Academy on Trial for Unconstitutional Use of Race in Admissions (Part 2 of 3): The Witnesses
    Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, even though the U.S. Supreme Court expressly forbade the use of race in college admissions last year in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC? I believe the clear answer is “no,” as I have argued in this article in the…
    Cully Stimson
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    Tuesday’s Other Big Losers Besides Harris: Hollywood, Liz Cheney, Lawfare
    The Biggest Loser? After Tuesday, it’s not just the title of the long-running reality TV weight-loss show anymore. The biggest loser of the Nov. 5 elections, undeniably, was Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite raising and spending a staggering $1 billion in campaign cash and having the sycophantic support of the Hollywood glitterati, the now-lame-duck vice…
    Peter Parisi
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    Republican on Way to Defeating Incumbent Democrat in Race for Alaska House Seat
    Republican challenger Nick Begich was leading incumbent Democrat Mary Peltola in the race for Alaska’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives by a margin of 50.1% to 44.8% in unofficial results. About 59% of the vote had been counted at 3:30 a.m. ET Wednesday. The Alaska race attracted over $40 million in contributions,…
    Christina Lewis
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    U.S. Naval Academy on Trial for Unconstitutional Use of Race in Admissions (The Legal Arguments: Part 1 of 3)
    Can the United States Naval Academy (USNA) continue to use race in admissions decisions, even though the U.S. Supreme Court expressly forbade the use of race in college admissions last year in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC? I believe the clear answer is no, as I have…
    Cully Stimson
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    WATCH: Presidential Race Heats Up During ‘Brat Summer’ as Harris Finally Agrees to Interview
    Americans over the age of 25 have been thoroughly confused since singer Charli XCX wrote on X “Kamala IS brat” the day President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for president and endorsed his vice president to be his successor.  No, Charli XCX was not calling Harris a brat, but was saying she “is…
    Virginia Allen | Kristen Eichamer | Crystal Bonham
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    Asset Managers Leveraged Red State Pension Funds to Back ‘Racial Equity,’ Climate Agenda, Report Finds
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Several asset managers leveraged Idahoans’ pension funds to support a racial and climate agenda in 2022 and 2023, according to a report from a conservative watchdog group, the American Accountability Foundation. The Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho used six asset managers—Adelante Capital Management, AllianceBernstein, Brandes Investment Partners, Fiera Capital, Longview Partners,…
    Jason Cohen
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  • opinion

    Critical Race Theory Organizers Plot Their Return to the Classroom
    The top practitioners of critical race theory just held a weeklong “summer school” in Nashville, Tennessee, to strategize, assess the movement, and debate how best to proselytize the next generation. It was an instructive six days of revolutionary agitprop. Two things immediately stood out. The first is that, yes, despite its protestations to the contrary, the architects…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Appeals Court Deals Blow to Racial Discrimination by Big Money Corporate Interests
    A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has thrown a wrench into the blatantly discriminatory practices of big-money corporate interests. In American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Management, over a bizarre dissent by a third judge, Judges Kevin Newsom and Robert Luck upheld an injunction against a venture capital fund…
    GianCarlo Canaparo | Hans von Spakovsky
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    How a Family Film Studio Brings a New Vision to Hollywood
    The CEO of a film studio startup said Hollywood’s age-inappropriate content has created an artistic opening for the conservative movement—one that he plans to exploit.   Christian McGuigan, founder of Sycamore Studios, described what he sees as a growing need for “good, true, and beautiful” storytelling in an interview with Heritage Foundation President Dr. Kevin Roberts. …
    Hudson Crozier
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    Some in California Want to Legalize Racial Discrimination—Yet Again
    California Democrats’ incorrigible obsession with racial preferences is the definition of insanity: They keep trying and failing to legalize racial preferences, and yet, they expect a different outcome each time. When will they learn from their failures? Not any time soon. Their futile cycle has restarted with another effort to legalize racial preferences. The California…
    GianCarlo Canaparo | Bethany Huang
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    Is Stanford Still Discriminating on Basis of Race?
    In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court last June banned schools from discriminating on the basis of race in admissions. In response to that decision, many left-wing administrators launched what in an earlier era was called “massive resistance.” For example, University of California-Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and University of Michigan…
    GianCarlo Canaparo | Bethany Huang
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    Challenging ‘Racial Profiteers’
    The national tragedy of more drug overdose deaths, suicides, and homicides won’t be solved “if we have to look at each other through the prism of race,” activist Bob Woodson says. “There are people who are profiting from the grievance of our society, and we must challenge these racial profiteers,” says Woodson, an author and…
    Virginia Allen
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    Navy’s STEM ‘Equity’ Program Prioritized Candidates, Internships Based on Race, Documents Show
    The U.S. Navy approved more than $750,000 for a project that, while purporting to “equitably” increase the number of students interested in serving in the Navy’s STEM fields, prioritized recruiting underrepresented minority students, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) proposed a way to encourage students to pursue…
    Micaela Burrow
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  • opinion

    Judge NFL Coaches on Their Record, Not Their Race
    Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin stormed out of Monday’s post-game news conference when a reporter began to ask about his soon-to-expire contract. Tomlin’s team had just lost to the Buffalo Bills, marking another early exit from the NFL playoffs. The episode elicited plenty of commentary from pundits, including Sports Illustrated’s Michael Rosenberg, who urged readers…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Latinx Engineers and ‘Systemic Racism’: Government Grants Inject Race Into Science, Tech
    The federal government is pouring large sums of taxpayer dollars into pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives—known as DEI—on academic science, technology, engineering, and math programs, or STEM. The National Science Foundation, a government agency, is funding a slate of programs aimed at addressing alleged racism in environmental and civil engineering, making the field of…
    Robert Schmad
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