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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s visit to Washington in late April will provide an opportunity for the U.S. to affirm and strengthen its bilateral relationship with an important ally. The Biden administration should receive Yoon with all the trappings of a state visit, the highest-level visit by a head of state, and Congress should…
Monuments and memorials by nature long have stood, quite literally, in the public square. But within a few short years, radicalized Americans have turned on these taciturn forebears like Moses on the golden calf. The year 2020 witnessed great anguish on this subject among part of the U.S. population. Realizing that our nation was dotted…
Another year, another Black History Month that ignored black American heroes in favor of stirring up racial division. Public libraries in Indianapolis; Chicago; New York City; Los Angeles; Seattle; Cincinnati; Washington, D.C.; Miami-Dade County; Memphis, and hundreds of other places around the country use February’s Black History Month as a progressive political soapbox rather than…
No one can say “parents’ rights” aren’t popular in North Carolina, with state lawmakers introducing more than one proposal this year to advance them. But there are stark contrasts between the competing pitches to empower parents. One bill reinforces the idea that children belong to parents first. The other is declaring open season on the…
The Left’s outright lies about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suggest that they fear him and aim to sandbag him through their usual methods—rampant deceit and racial division. First, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” concocted an elaborate fiction in which DeSantis, a Republican, supposedly arranged for Palm Beach County seniors to receive COVID-19 vaccines through Publix, as a payoff for the grocery chain’s $100,000 donation to his reelection campaign. This pay-to-play…
As the border crisis rages, each state feels its own financial and human toll from the influx of illegal aliens who get help from the Biden administration to make their way into the interior of the United States and into every congressional district in the country. This is Part 2 in a series about the…
Jessa Duggar Seewald, known for her role on the popular TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” is receiving some backlash after sharing about a recent miscarriage. Around Christmas, Seewald miscarried what would have been her fifth child. “At that moment, I was just in complete shock,” she said in a recent YouTube video. “I…
Iowa is one of six states suing the Biden administration over the president’s plan to forgive billions in student loan debt. “Canceling student loan debt is not legal,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says. “In order for that to happen, something would have to pass the House, the Senate, [and] be signed by the president….
President Joe Biden claims women need abortion to be successful in his 2023 Women’s History Month Proclamation. “[D]espite significant progress, women and girls continue to face systemic barriers to full and equal participation in our economy and society,” Biden’s proclamation, released Feb. 28, reads. “Last year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping away a constitutional…
A Democratic mayor in a big, blue city with escalating crime, civil dysfunction, and a crumbling economy lost an election Tuesday night. Can you guess what her excuse for defeat was? I’m sure you can guess. It was racism and sexism that brought down Chicago’s black, lesbian mayor—who won her initial election with more than…
Singapore shines again. The small but vibrant entrepreneurial nation leads global economic freedom rankings for a fourth consecutive year, as reported by The Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, just out. Since the 2020 edition of the index, when Singapore outperformed Hong Kong, this highly capable Asian country has continued to demonstrate its sound…
Long-awaited congressional investigations into COVID-19 are underway, with results so far that are wide ranging and informative. Among those testifying during the initial inquiry under the House’s new Republican leadership were Dr. Lawrence Tabak, acting director of the National Institutes of Health; Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and…
A character in Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, “The Sun Also Rises,” explains how he went bankrupt: “Gradually and then suddenly.” Americans who have fallen deep into credit card debt or had to rely on high-interest, payday loans probably can relate. As a borrower’s debt mounts and his credit score is downgraded, creditors demand higher and…
The Supreme Court heard two cases Tuesday challenging the Biden administration’s claim that it could use a law meant to provide relief to first responders and military personnel after 9/11 to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt for over 40 million borrowers. The administration has relied on an emergency-powers law called the HEROES Act,…
Despite Iran’s bad behavior at home and abroad (including its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine), the Biden administration seems blissfully unconcerned about the threat posed by the Islamist regime to our national security interests. Indeed, President Joe Biden himself called the cornerstone of U.S.-Iran policy—the Obama administration’s flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—“dead” in a video…
In 2019, the Trump administration issued a regulation empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to robustly enforce federal conscience-protection laws. But now, the Biden administration is proposing to gut those rules, which would ultimately leave people more vulnerable to being forced to participate in controversial procedures that violate their conscience. Here’s what you…
Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to reflect that Kathy Funk was charged with, not convicted of, felony ballot tampering charge. This article has also been corrected to remove references to Funk filing a false police report and breaking into Township Hall, and to reflect that Funk previously worked for Genesee County. In the latest…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio—The Biden administration’s slow response to a Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern freight train derailment and subsequent ecological disaster will have long-range consequences for the residents of East Palestine and potential political consequences for the Democratic Party. I learned this during a visit to the town last week, where I also documented former President…
An energy expert is sounding the alarm over the Chinese Communist Party’s dominance of African minerals. “It’s such an important topic because President [Joe] Biden and the governor of California, Gov. [Gavin] Newsom, have the goal of having all new vehicle sales in the United States battery-powered electric by 2035. So if we’re going to…
In 2020, if you thought it was possible COVID-19 came from a lab in China you were labeled a conspiracy theorist, a peddler of misinformation, “bonkers,” and a racist. Facebook and other social media removed the lab leak claim from their apps or slapped “misinformation” labels on it. Facebook did so in lockstep with the…