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My mom taught me that saying something you know is not true is a lie. President Joe Biden told some whoppers Thursday night in his State of the Union speech, including several about abortion. Biden, for example, vowed to “restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.” No president, of course, can establish…
I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the intrepid Colonists fought for the then-novel concept of democratic self-government. A cursory glance at Merriam-Webster is instructive. That venerable dictionary defines “democracy”…
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, as delivered Thursday night by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. Good evening, America. My name is Katie Britt, and I have the honor of serving the people of the great state of Alabama in the United States…
Within the span of a few days this week, two award-winning journalists penned fawning articles about an Air Force colonel whose promotion to brigadier general is in jeopardy. Coincidence? Casual readers, who know nothing about Col. Ben Jonsson other than what The Washington Post and Military.com reported, likely would conclude that he deserves the promotion….
President Joe Biden discussed some of the biggest issues on the minds of Americans, from border security to abortion and the economy, in his State of the Union address Thursday night. But what issues did Biden ignore that he should have talked about? Were there any unifying moments? And how did members of Congress in…
“We’re building a clean energy future,” says President Joe Biden. Who is “we”? Well, you pay for it. He and his “green” cronies do most of the building. Lately, they’re pouring more of your money into “renewable energy.” They promise to give us “carbon-free power” from the sun and wind. My new video illustrates some…
The New York City Legislature, following in the footsteps of Washington, D.C., passed a groundbreaking bill into law in 2022. The law would have allowed any lawful permanent resident or green card holder to vote in a New York City election. That law was met with legal challenges as quickly as it was passed, which…
It took Frito-Lay 63 years to build a $13 billion-dollar empire. This week, 50 seconds almost destroyed it. That’s how close the brand came to corporate annihilation after its Doritos team posted a short video with a transgender influencer that makes Dylan Mulvaney look like a youth pastor. Turns out, 24-year-old Samantha Hudson isn’t just…
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…
Female hostages continue to be held in Gaza. Fourteen of them are believed to be alive; five are dead but their bodies haven’t been returned to Israel, according to The Times of Israel. Negotiations are ongoing to free these women and over 100 men thought to be alive as hostages held by Hamas terrorists in…
UPDATED: JUNE 7 The Biden administration has indicted a doctor after he blew the whistles on sex change procedures for minors. U.S. marshals visited Dr. Eithan Haim’s home this week and summoned him to appear in court. Haim is facing four felony counts of violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as…
There seems to be at least one impenetrable barrier connected to this country’s southwest border. It’s the one that stands between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and an accurate assessment of what’s actually happening there. In September 2020, the last month of that fiscal year, the U.S. Border Patrol encountered 54,771 aliens trying to illegally…
The state of the union is feeble. That’s what many Americans believe as President Joe Biden is set to make his fourth, and perhaps final, State of the Union address Thursday evening. Regardless of what he says in the speech, the reality of Biden’s tenure is that the American people are not only uneasy but…
Republican primary voters in Texas sent a clear message on Super Tuesday: “We want school choice!” The Texas House of Representatives last year failed to pass a school choice bill even after Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, repeatedly called the lawmakers back into special session. Twenty-one Texas House Republicans joined with all House Democrats to…
President Joe Biden on Thursday night will address a joint session of Congress and the American people to persuade voters that his many failures are actually successes. Don’t buy it. He will continue a campaign of gaslighting around his administration’s increasingly dangerous border catastrophe, his unaffordable and anemic economy, and his disastrous foreign policy that…
Our English teachers taught us to use extreme caution before writing a word such as “always” or “never.” Such totalizing words are rarely accurate, since most principles have exceptions. But you won’t see this advice applied by critics of “book bans,” who tend to speak as though no book chosen by a school librarian is…
The pro-Biden media perpetually pat themselves on the back. They are a gift to the people, the essence of democracy, as in, “We inform the voters and then we expect the voters to make smart choices” (the ones we recommend). But when journalists lose, they have a disturbing tendency to argue democracy lost. On Monday,…
Presidential candidate Joe Biden stirred up controversy during the 2020 campaign, when, in an interview with a black radio host, he said: “If you have a problem figuring out if you’re for me or Trump, you ain’t black.” Biden got pushback on this, but he captured a pretty common view among liberals: that liberalism is…
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—A Christian who faced persecution for her faith in Communist Romania in the 1980s and barely survived an assassination attempt orchestrated by dictator Nicolae Ceausescu warns that the undermining of parental rights in the U.S. today echoes Ceausescu’s totalitarian government. “It’s the same system that the socialists use in order for parents to be…
In an overwhelming 780-72 vote, the French parliament has just enshrined a “right” to abortion in the nation’s constitution. It is the first country in the world to do so. Why? Was there a push to outlaw abortion, which has been legal in France since the 1970s? Was there an effort to lower France’s gestational…