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A good guy with a gun apparently stopped an active shooter in Las Vegas on Friday, almost certainly saving lives after a helmeted man opened fire with a rifle in a building lobby. But you probably didn’t hear about it. Why not? Normally, this type of defensive gun use would garner significant media attention and…
Unfortunately, a majority of the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision Tuesday by Chief Justice John Roberts failed to prevent a liberal state court’s interference with the authority of a state legislature under the U.S. Constitution to set the rules and draw the maps for federal elections. The decision will, as Justice Clarence Thomas correctly…
The Supreme Court will soon rule on a pair of cases that could put an official end to affirmative action in college admissions. If that happens, it will be a massive victory for the notion of merit, not identity, being the basis for success in this country. However, the larger fight against racial preferences is…
With the Supreme Court set to release a potentially monumental decision as early as this week ending racial preferences in college admissions, professors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education organized an alumni event on “Anticipating a Post-Affirmative Action World: Insights and Strategies for the Future.” Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, only two minutes of…
The Wagner Group, mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, revolted against the Kremlin over the weekend after its leader claimed the Russian military killed 2,000 of its fighters in Ukraine. Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation, explains that “the Wagner Group is essentially a private paramilitary…
Scandal allegations are piling up for President Joe Biden. What’s the White House response been? Let them eat “Pride” cupcakes. Instead of answering difficult questions, White House staff decided it’s time to ignore or outright mock journalists looking for answers. White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates tweeted out a picture of “Pride” rainbow cupcakes…
The Biden administration is making clear once again whom it fears the most. It is not China, Russia, or, needless to say, Republicans. No. Enemy No. 1 is America’s mothers and fathers. They stand athwart the administration’s mad dash to remake America, yelling, “Stop!” This much can be gleaned from recent events. First is last week’s announcement that Randi Weingarten,…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 6 informed us that former Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, his department’s first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer, was leaving the post. Blinken credited her with “a series of other concrete, systemic accomplishments in [diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility].” We now have a two-year track record to assess the “concrete…
The Biden administration’s release Friday of a declassified nine-page intelligence report does not address COVID-19’s origins as either a Chinese lab leak or a natural occurrence. It does repeat previous reports showing divisions within the intelligence community on the key issue of COVID-19’s origins. Solving the mystery of COVID-19’s origins will depend on the…
As the United Nations recognized World Refugee Day on June 20, the Biden administration used the fig leaf of refugee policy to distract from the millions of illegal aliens flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border under its parole programs. The U.N. recognized World Refugee Day with a statement estimating that there are 35.4 million refugees and…
Violent criminals are being given a “slap on the wrist” and released back onto the streets in eight cities across America, says author Charles “Cully” Stimson. Between the “defund the police” movement and the election of “[George] Soros’ bought-and-paid-for rogue prosecutors, crime exploded,” says Stimson, co-author of the new book “Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros…
Michigan is on the rise once again. When we think manufacturing, we think Michigan. As one of America’s leading manufacturing states, it stands in the top third for economic outlook among all the United States, and it’s leading America’s industrial renaissance. Unfortunately, some Michigan lawmakers are pursuing a series of so-called green legislative efforts that…
Freedom and liberty. What is meant by these terms? Both refer to the quality of being free. But to be “free from” what and “free to do” what? Freedom and liberty are the first principles of conservatism and the last principles of the radical, progressive, socialist, Marxist, leftist (Democrat) ideology. I could ask 10 individuals…
In what only can be described as a bizarre and disturbing turn of events, after a five-year investigation the Justice Department this week announced a plea agreement with Hunter Biden, the troubled son of President Joe Biden. Under the deal, the president’s son would plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay…
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court failed to honor the right to life, the most basic human right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, in its Roe v. Wade decision. Since then, the political Left and the radical abortion industry have attempted to sell young women on the idea that killing babies in their wombs…
When it comes to our immigration laws, the Supreme Court issued two important decisions on Friday, one that benefits the enforcement of the law and one that, unfortunately, does not but instead will allow the Biden administration to continue to endanger public safety due to, as Justice Samuel Alito said in his dissent, its “federal…
American families must find ways to pinch pennies every day, especially in the face of massive inflation since the start of the Biden administration. In contrast, the federal government has just reached the shameful milestone of $32 trillion in gross debt, or more than $245,000 for every household in the country. That's the result of…
One year ago, on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court righted a grave wrong by overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States. In its Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, the court said that Americans can protect unborn life at any stage through “their elected representatives … in…
Is “cisgender” about to be relegated to the dustbin of history? The term, which has relentlessly been popularized by gender ideologues and their liberal media allies, refers to a person “whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned to them at birth,” as the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBT activist group, puts it in…
In today’s America, it sure is nice to be a Biden. Presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden’s transparently sweetheart plea deal consummated this week with his daddy’s Justice Department encapsulates, in many ways, the two-tiered system of justice that conservatives have been decrying at least since then-FBI Director James Comey let then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton off…