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NEW YORK—It’s that time again for the Left. Another crisis it just can’t let go to waste. The crisis of the day is a series of large-scale forest fires in Canada—at least some apparently started by arson—that caused a huge amount of smoke to descend on the United States. Some areas got hit particularly hard,…
If you’re an affluent American, President Joe Biden—to steal a phrase popularized by our former Emoter-in-Chief—feels your pain. With a stroke of his pen Wednesday night, Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill that promoted fairness by nixing student loan cancellations likely to significantly benefit wealthier Americans. Biden’s student loan cancellation agenda, which he tyrannically muscled in…
Many Americans who don’t follow politics closely have a sense that the status quo of the federal government, built up over time by both parties, is “neutral” and doesn’t heavily favor one side or the other. However, the Left has either created or captured vast swathes of the federal government over the years, meaning that…
Recent disclosures have plunged the FBI back into a storm of controversy due to its abuse of the robust surveillance tool Section 702, with almost 300,000 incidents recorded in 2020 and early 2021. The unsettling instances of misuse encompass searches connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, and the Black Lives…
In an effort to divide the nation that he pledged to unite, President Joe Biden routinely decries "MAGA extremists in the Republican Party." A March 27 White House fact sheet, for example, excoriated "Extreme MAGA Congressional Republicans." Biden's regime-media bodyguards parrot that sentiment. MSNBC warned about House Speaker "Kevin McCarthy's GOP extremism problem," and Clean Technica reported Wednesday night, "Republican Extremism Could Be Major Threat To Home Insurance." Scary! If Biden…
I was part of the last generation of female-only athletes in women’s sports. Discomfort changing in the locker room, missing out on competition opportunities, and facing individuals with anatomical advantages over me were things I never had to consider. I had to worry about the mechanics of the sport, not anatomy. And still, I can’t…
Bill Courtney made his mark in Memphis as the volunteer football coach of the Manassas Tigers and a successful businessman. Now, he’s aiming to reach a much larger audience with the launch of a new podcast called “An Army of Normal Folks.” Courtney’s inspirational message to an underrated high school football team in North Memphis…
The United States spends more than $40 billion a year on foreign assistance. For decades, there has existed in Congress bipartisan support for humanitarian relief and other forms of foreign assistance, but that consensus is now threatened as federal agencies and the nongovernmental aid organizations they work with are increasingly promoting a far-left ideology and…
Legacy media outlets are parroting a leftist group that smeared concerned moms and dads, putting parental rights organizations on a “hate” map alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which gained prominence by suing Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, has long weaponized that history by branding mainstream conservative…
“Greed of the fossil fuel industry” is “destroying our planet,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Young people agree. Their solution? Socialism. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., says socialism creates “an environment that provides for all people, not just the privileged few.” “Nonsense,” says Tom Palmer of the Atlas Network in my new video. Palmer, unlike Ocasio-Cortez…
Left-wing nutballs have had the upper hand in America’s culture wars for a long time. They are hyperaggressive and focused on pushing America in a radical direction. They push their agenda on school boards, in local and national political venues, and on many corporations. To date, resistance has been isolated to a small number of…
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Lawrence v. Texas, found Texas’ anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. This is a free country, the court proclaimed, and individuals can engage in whatever private consensual sexual activity that they wish. But freedom is not the value that LGBTQ activists seek. They will not rest until their values and lifestyle…
June 1 marked the advent of Pride Month—the most important sacrament of the American secular religious calendar. During Pride Month, public schools across the nation teach small children the joys of alternative sexual practices and orientations; corporations plaster their stores in rainbow accoutrements of all sorts; and the federal government of the United States proclaims…
Last month, the University of Southern California’s Hollywood, Health & Society Program published “Trigger Warning: Gun Guidelines for Media,” a series of recommendations for the entertainment industry on how it should portray firearms. Although some of these guidelines offer helpful suggestions, particularly about how the media should deal with the topic of suicide, the publication…
ORLANDO, Fla.—The greatest tool for fighting antisemitism is the Bible, and Jew-hatred is on the rise in the U.S. because Americans are less and less familiar with the holy text, a Christian leader warns. Antisemitism “is on the rise in general,” Luke Moon, deputy director at The Philos Project and leader of Philos Action League,…
Later this week, the U.S. House is scheduled to vote on an important measure that addresses the immense rule-making power of the administrative state and the threat that poses to our Constitution’s structure. The REINS Act, or Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, would help limit Congress’s overly vast delegation of lawmaking…
This one of the saddest of the more than 1,000 columns I have written. I am writing in Budapest after spending four days in Warsaw last week and four days in Munich two weeks before that. To put this in context: I have traveled abroad every year since I was 18 years old—except for 2020,…
The institutional Left senses that its dominance over our societal mores faces a sudden and unexpected challenge. It is responding with predictable derangement. The Human Rights Campaign, a powerful and well-funded left-wing advocacy group, declared a “national emergency” for “LGBTQ+” people on Tuesday. “LGBTQ+ Americans are living in a state of emergency. The multiplying threats…
From the boardroom to the cash register, big businesses have gone woke for “Pride.” But consumers finally seem to have had their fill. In a matter of weeks, Target and Anheuser-Busch lost a combined $40.8 billion in market value over their LGBTQ+ Pride-focused marketing campaigns. Their corporate collapses should be a warning for other businesses:…
This time, they’re coming after baseball. Baseball. Get it? The national pastime. The inner sanctum of homespun goodness. Your last refuge from the crazy. The leftists intent on politicizing everything, changing society, and coercing changed behavior won’t leave you alone, ever, anywhere. If you thought you could ignore this attack on your way of life,…