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When the rest of the world lost its corporate marbles, conservatives liked to think that there was one place that would never let them down: Chick-fil-A. As far as they were concerned, the churchgoers’ chicken of choice had been solidly built on Truett Cathy’s strong family values. While other CEOs took their brands in wildly…
The U.S. Department of Education issued new guidance recently, titled “Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools.” But as it did with the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County in 2020, the Biden administration based its guidance on a reading of Supreme Court precedent that misinterprets…
The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retiring. Tae D. Johnson, the deputy director and senior official performing the duties of the director at ICE, will step down from his position at the end of June. “I appreciate his service to the country as a career law enforcement officer,” Tom Homan, the…
The Biden administration is using a Department of Homeland Security anti-terrorism grant program to target Americans with conservative and Christian beliefs. It’s a shocking discovery that came to light in recent weeks thanks to the Media Research Center. The Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program provided $352,000 to the PREVENTS-OH initiative at the University…
I’ve had 24 jobs at last count, ranging from three hours delivering pizza for Domino’s to 23 years as a U.S. diplomat. Now, I finally can add the title of Senior “Far-Right” Fellow to my resume. Of course, that last part is a joke. So is “The Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization,” a diagram displayed by…
Based on reports that more than 80 of the 700 defendants charged in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot had a military background, a popular narrative emerged that the military is riven with extremists. Gripped by the moment, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reacted by ordering a one-day stand-down for the…
For most CEOs, Pride Month couldn’t have come at a more inopportune time. As companies like Target, Bud Light, and others desperately try to control the flames burning down their brands, this annual test of LGBT loyalty is putting most businesses in a position they’d rather not be in: outraging an already agitated consumer base or ticking…
On rare occasions, history records an event so extraordinary in its scope and significance that it serves as a reference point for everything that follows: the survival of nations, whether people are free or enslaved, and whether opportunity or despair will be the lot of the average man or woman. Such events determine the path…
I learned over a two-decade diplomatic career serving on four continents that whatever the relative size and power of our countries, even our allies don’t like to be preached to. Countries we were attempting to win over—or for whose affections we were competing with China and others—are even more sensitive. What makes sense is to…
Forget debates over bathrooms or pronouns. The Associated Press recently released new guidelines suppressing the very concept of transgenderism as an ideology that can be debated, while forcing that ideology on reporters in the name of promoting good journalism. The AP is the most common stylebook among journalists and news outlets on the Left and…
Today is World Environment Day, the U.N.’s “Day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.” Trees will be planted, oceans will be filtered of plastics, many will choose to ride their bikes rather than drive their cars, and streaming platforms will suggest climate-related documentaries. However, none of these things addresses a truly…
ORLANDO, Fla.—Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, says more conservatives can learn how to reach the nation’s black community, which so often views the Right with suspicion. “They can come around CURE, because that’s specifically the role that we believe we play in the conservative movement,” Parker told…
In order to win a defamation lawsuit, the person suing must convince the court and ultimately the jury that the slanderer didn't just publish something false, but that he did so even while suspecting that the attack was false. Immigration enforcement activist D.A. King's lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center made it to the…
Conservatives and traditionalists are often exasperated at the ongoing woke cultural revolution in their midst. How can America be turned upside down, as it is, when there is little public support for the things happening around us? They don’t see much backing for the current border policy and illegal immigration, yet it continues. Conservatives feel…
The head of a facility that carries out so-called “gender-affirming care” has published a study confirming that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether. “In our study, the level of life satisfaction in transgender people was not increased in transgender people who had…
The Toronto Blue Jays’ Anthony Bass is really sorry. You see, Major League Baseball teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers will honor men in nun costumes who hand out condoms and simulate sex on crosses. That’s just “inclusivity.” Orthodox Christians with opinions, on the other hand, will be compelled to engage in ritual public humiliation…
Education ought to be the bedrock for fostering critical thinking and providing a landscape for the exploration of diverse perspectives, rather than serving as an incubator for extremist ideologies. That essential ethos of education, unfortunately, is under threat, exemplified recently by the graduation speech of City University of New York law graduate and soon-to-be lawyer,…
President Joe Biden appears increasingly likely to overrule the military’s decision to move U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama. Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, a Republican, shared details of his private meeting Thursday with Biden before the president spoke at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony just north of the Colorado city. “As a…
President Joe Biden’s viscerally jarring fall on Thursday in Colorado Springs, while on stage dispensing diplomas to new U.S. Air Force Academy graduates, underscores a terrifying reality: The octogenarian denizen of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, palpably in the throes of debilitating mental and physical senescence, is not well. The sight of the commander in chief physically…
At long last, the nightmare of building a dream house is over for Michael and Chantell Sackett. The Supreme Court’s unanimous Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency decision handed down on May 25 marks another important milestone in the court’s continuing effort to correct and rein in the abusive, unlawful overreach of the administrative state. The decision reaffirms…