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For 50 years, the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which invented a fictional “right to abortion,” prevented most efforts to protect human lives before birth. Last year’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization corrected that egregious error, lifting that impediment to pro-life efforts in state legislatures and Congress. Pro-abortion forces,…
First, Whole Foods closed and now Starbucks is shuttering a slew of locations in San Francisco. The Seattle coffee giant announced Tuesday that it would close seven of its 59 locations in the city, effective Oct. 22. The city’s “doom loop” is speeding up. Starbucks didn’t mention crime in its official reason for leaving the…
Does anything compare with having the peace of mind of knowing that your child is safe, happy, and learning during the school day? While a parent is working, knowing that your child is getting the care and attention he or she needs while apart from the family is invaluable. Many early-childhood education and care providers…
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services, argued Tuesday before the Supreme Court, is nominally an industry challenge to the bureau’s payday-lending rule. But the challengers’ effort to invalidate that rule has called into doubt the constitutionality of the bureau’s independent funding scheme. Thus, the issues the court must decide are: (1) whether the…
This week, Republicans and Democrats got together to avert a government shutdown. Too bad. There’s so much that ought to be shut down. Useless Cabinet departments, for example, like Housing and Urban Development, Labor, and Agriculture. Agriculture employs almost 100,000 people. Why? Independent farmers grow our food. They don’t need a giant department. Let’s get…
America’s financial mismanagement has gotten so bad that some say our country’s decline is now inevitable, drawing parallels to the Roman Empire’s collapse. That comparison is unfair for two reasons. First, Rome had good roads that lasted over a millennium. Second, and more seriously, America has changed course before and hopefully still has time to do so…
New leadership is needed in America, says Spencer Chretien, associate director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, also known as Project 2025. “We see every day the effects of the current administration, whether it’s the open southern border, rampant inflation, a woke and weaponized government, foreign policy disaster,” he says. “And we need new leadership…
A political earthquake happened Tuesday night. The fallout from Saturday’s unsatisfying status quo budget deal came swiftly as the House voted to oust the speaker in the middle of a term for the first time in U.S. history. Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was deposed by eight Republicans who voted with Democrats to remove him. The vote was…
Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave—nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read—and rose from slavery to become, along with Abraham Lincoln, the greatest orator of his time and one of the wisest and most eloquent writers in U.S. history….
The national crime wave has crashed into Congress. A House Democrat was the victim of a carjacking in Washington, D.C., on Monday night. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was reportedly carjacked by three men brandishing guns. The incident took place in the Navy Yard section of the city, just blocks away from the Capitol. This is…
The phrase “Climate change denier” has wormed its way into the modern lexicon to shame those who have a different view of the science supporting—or not—the idea that the world is in danger of burning up in weeks, months, or years. (They can’t seem to decide on the timing.) There is another form of denial…
Congress has averted a government shutdown—for now. The continuing resolution passed Saturday keeps government agencies funded at current levels until Nov. 17. The bill passed 335-91 in the House and 88-9 in the Senate. But it’s a short-term fix, and lawmakers remain on a tight deadline to finish passing 12 annual appropriations bills. Republicans continue…
In President Joe Biden’s America, if you disagree with transgender orthodoxy, you might not be able to run a business. Federal law prohibits harassment on the basis of sex in the workplace, and under Biden, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission aims to weaponize that law against employers who believe that biological sex can’t be altered…
As I walked out of the movie theater with my wife, Haley, after watching “Sound of Freedom,” my mind returned to the powerful rallying cry of the film: “God’s children are not for sale.” The movie is based on the actions of former Department of Homeland Security investigator Tim Ballard, played by actor Jim Caviezel,…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom engages with a considerable amount of conservative media daily and has called for Democrats to “infect” it in order to persuade voters. “The California governor consumes more right-wing media than most people who aren’t either retired or named Donald J. Trump,” said reporter Max Tani in a piece for the news…
“You’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus—and you’ve got to make it stop,” activist Mario Savio said during the Berkeley, California, counterculture protests of the 1960s. On Saturday, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., a socialist member of “the squad” in Congress, appeared to…
Last year, Congress passed a law to protect pregnant women from employer discrimination, and Democrats insisted the law could not be used to force employers to provide leave for abortions. “Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act … the [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] could not—could not—issue any regulation that requires abortion leave, nor does the act…
It has been no secret that America, Germany, Austria, and Europe in general are currently confronted with major economic problems. All are experiencing inflation and minimal economic growth. Purchasing power is decreasing, and the balances on accounts and savings books of average citizens are dwindling. The problems started long ago and are political in nature….
The Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty “hate groups” or “antigovernment extremist groups,” placing them on a map alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. Many of the SPLC’s targets have sued for defamation, but almost every lawsuit…
The budget showdown on Capitol Hill has been put on pause. On Saturday, just hours before the government shutdown deadline, Congress by a bipartisan vote passed a continuing resolution. It passed by a tally of 335-91 in the House and 88-9 in the Senate. President Joe Biden signed the bill on Saturday night. The bill keeps agencies…