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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre resumed her regular briefings last week after a light schedule in August. But missing from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room were some of the 442 reporters who lost their credentials because of the Biden administration’s new rules restricting press access. The decision to remove these reporters—including The…
Just last month, President Joe Biden took a major swipe at America’s energy independence when he declared nearly a million acres of uranium-rich land outside of Grand Canyon National Park off limits to energy development. Turns out that was just the setup jab. The knockout punch is on its way. According to reports, Biden wants…
American songwriting, whether it is folk, rock, or country, has a long history of featuring lyrics and music about the things that inspire the writers. In 1970, after one singer had been performing onstage for only a few months, Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert came across him quite by accident. And the experience floored…
The meltdown in blue cities over the busing of illegal immigrants continues, and it’s causing Democrats serious problems. That’s good, because it’s their fault this is happening. What the media inaccurately call the “migrant crisis” (these are people who have unlawfully crossed the U.S. border, not migrants) is battering so-called sanctuary cities, such as New…
Just because the government raises taxes, doesn’t necessarily mean it will raise more revenues. The Biden administration is discovering that the hard way. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act into law, which included a new tax on companies’ financial statement income, new IRS funding to increase audits, an excise…
Religious freedom, Congress said unanimously in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Today, however, an obsession with gender ideology is driving governments to ignore the First Amendment, defy clear Supreme Court precedent, and even violate their own laws and regulations to root out those with the “wrong” religious views about…
When they engage with the national media, Republicans expect that the exchanges will be skeptical, if not openly hostile. The press works for the Other Party. Democrats expect the media to be the wind beneath their wings, and get upset when journalists don’t help them at every turn. This was underlined on NBC’s “Meet the…
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of “The Lord of the Rings,” calls us to be heroic and to sacrifice for one another, according to the author of a new book on Tolkien’s “Sanctifying Myth.” “I’m very glad when I look at the numbers of how many books of Tolkien’s still sell and that almost anything that is…
Don’t believe the claims by left-wing organizations such as the ACLU that they won a big victory in the recent decision by U.S. District Court Judge J.P. Boulee in their challenge of Georgia’s 2021 election reform bill. In fact, Georgia won a significant victory against those opponents of election integrity when Boulee refused Aug. 18…
“If you’re five-foot-three and you’re 300 pounds, taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds,” opines Oliver Anthony in his No. 1 hit debut country song “Rich Men North of Richmond.” The timing of the song’s release could not have been better: Constituents have undoubtedly raised the issue of how our tax…
In boasting about “Bidenomics” two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into his creepy whispering mode and assured us “it’s working.” Huh? Isn’t a big aspiration of the American dream owning a home? Biden keeps making first-time homeownership harder for young families…
California mom Jessica Konen won a $100,000 settlement from her daughter’s school district, Spreckels Union School District, after Buena Vista Middle School had socially transitioned her 11-year-old daughter, Alicia, without her knowledge or consent. The school district still refuses to admit that it’s at fault. Many are calling this a landmark case, saying it will make…
Americans are constantly debating policing and gun control. But to discuss these issues, we have to depend on government crime data. Unfortunately, politics has infected the data handling of agencies such as the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, the CDC became the center of controversy when it removed its…
Editor's note: This article has been corrected to reflect that we were not able to reach Christine Accurso prior to publication. (We reached out to Ms. Accurso's former place of work and a phone number provided to us.) At the end of this article, we have added Ms. Accurso's full response. This article has also…
Joe Biden lied repeatedly when he claimed he knew nothing of his son Hunter’s influence-peddling businesses. The president further prevaricated that he had no involvement in Hunter’s various shakedown schemes. Yet, the media continued to misinform by serially ignoring these facts. Had journalists just been honest and independent, then-candidate Joe Biden might have lost a…
More than 100 million people. That’s how many people “communism as an ideology has killed,” says Andrew Bremberg, president of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. “I just want that to sink in. That is an incredible number to try to fathom or … imagine,” Bremberg, a former ambassador, says, adding: And that includes not just…
The Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping has oppressed its own people, putting millions of Muslim Uyghurs in slave labor camps, suppressing forms of Christianity outside the state church, and twisting the screws on Hong Kong and Tibet. It has rattled its sabers in the Pacific, stolen U.S. intellectual property with impunity, sent a spy…
For the second time in recent months, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze in the middle of a press conference, staring off in silence before being saved by an aide. The episode was widely covered by the establishment media—and fairly so, considering his position and power. It would be nice, and ethical, if the same…
Never again. That should be the unflinching answer to the growing calls in some circles to bring back mask mandates and lockdowns amid the current COVID-19 variant wave. Don’t think there aren’t some circles that aren’t deeply invested in returning to the medical lockdown state. President Joe Biden has requested additional funding for a new…
More revelations concerning the initial responses of top officials at the National Institutes of Health about the origins of COVID-19, which killed an estimated 1.1 million Americans, keep dripping out of the federal bureaucracy. Top officials’ initial narrative hardened into a stubborn insistence on natural origins for COVID-19. However, most leading virologists consulted by Anthony…