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If you consider San Francisco mighty generous for proposing to pay black residents $5 million each in slavery reparations, then you are a coldhearted cheapskate. In fact, one local leader dismisses that hefty sum as “very minuscule.” “I don’t think you can put a figure to taking someone from their country, raping and pillaging their…
Every few days, it seems the U.S. military shoots down another unexplained object drifting over our airspace—and at least one was a Chinese spy balloon. These incidents are also coming on the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, the most destructive fighting in Europe since World War II. Surely, at this critical juncture, the…
Next Friday will mark one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine, a war that many anticipated would end in a matter of days after the invasion. Yet, Ukraine, with the support of America and its European allies, has succeeded in significantly weakening Russia and preventing its victory. For Putin, the…
There never has been a better time to combat the publicly funded racist advocacy that has become prevalent in Texas universities. Entire departments at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas spend millions of taxpayer dollars each year on pseudoscientific nonsense—setting divisive standards that are stoking racial tension instead of easing it. One bill…
Americans seem to be stuck in a cultural rut. In 1981, a mere 16% of the most popular movies in the country were sequels, spinoffs, or remakes of other films. In 2019, that number shot up to 80%. Just this week, multiple outlets reported that Mattel’s Barney, the purple dinosaur from the 1990s, is getting…
Two years ago, 2021 was declared “The Year of Education Choice,” when 19 states enacted 32 new or expanded education choice policies. This year could be even bigger, as more states consider making choice policies available to all K-12 students. In 2021, West Virginia became the first state to enact a publicly funded education choice…
President Joe Biden has a long, well-documented history of telling tall tales. Accordingly, it was not a surprise that his State of the Union address Feb. 7 included many misleading and inaccurate claims. Although a group of experts dissected the speech in real time, one line in particular is worth rebutting at length: In the…
In an interview with The Washington Post’s “fact-checker,” former National Intelligence Director James Clapper contends that the news outlet Politico misled the public about a letter he and 50 other former intel officials signed during the 2020 presidential campaign, warning that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story could be Russian deception. “There was…
A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner suddenly dived just a little over a minute after taking off from Maui, Hawaii. The airliner lost more than half its altitude and came within 800 feet of crashing into the Pacific Ocean…
In the 1968 presidential campaign, third-party candidate George Wallace, the once and future governor of Alabama, proclaimed: “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties.” That might or might not have been entirely true even back then, 55 years ago, but it’s certainly not true today in 2023. The political…
Third of three articles on wildlife trends in America With the incessant warnings of vanishing wildlife, it just might surprise you to learn that many animals in the U.S. are doing quite well. The population and range of most dramatically shrank by the beginning of the 20th century. We had converted forests to fields and fueled…
The Heritage Foundation celebrates its 50th anniversary Thursday, and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts is reflecting on the leading conservative think tank’s success over the past five decades. “There are a lot of ways I would put that, but I think most succinctly it would be [that] Heritage has always been willing without fail to…
Feb. 16 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of The Heritage Foundation. For its 25th anniversary in 1998, Heritage published in book form a collection of essays, “Leadership for America: The Principles of Conservatism,” edited by Heritage founder Edwin J. Feulner. One of those essays is the transcript of a speech delivered 25 years…
Few female athletes have the ear of America, much less the world, in the way Bethany Hamilton does. With more than 1 million followers on Twitter, 2 million on Instagram, and two movies telling her story, when Hamilton speaks, people listen, which is something Hamilton appears to have been counting on when sharing a recent…
President Joe Biden, who attends a Roman Catholic church and identifies as Catholic despite his support for abortion and same-sex marriage, has remained silent after the FBI cited a left-wing smear factory that suggests the Roman Catholic Church holds pernicious views that might qualify it as a “hate group.” The Biden White House did not…
Even if you’ve got the courage to speak up and say the emperor has no clothes, the state of California won’t let you. California’s Civil Rights Department is forcing burger chain Shake Shack to pay $20,000 to a former employee who alleges he faced “misgendering” in the workplace—aka fellow employees refusing to indulge an adult’s…
There’s growing momentum among the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives to pursue the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The secretary has repeatedly ignored the immigration laws he swore to uphold, deliberately instituted policies that have increased the flow of illegal immigrants, made false statements to Congress and misled the public…
As record numbers of illegal aliens continue to flood across our southern border, they are being dispersed into every congressional district in the country, making every state a border state. We’re told they’re merely coming to seek a better life. And while that’s true for many, why do open-borders advocates ignore the enormous toll on…
Balloongate, hullaballoon, blimpacolypse. Whatever you call it, America has been transfixed over the past two weeks by the bizarre spectacle of balloons (or other unidentified objects) entering U.S. airspace. It all started with the massive balloon launched by China and carrying a 2,000-pound, solar-powered box used to spy on sensitive military facilities across the country….
Second of three articles on wildlife trends in America Wildlife has been making the news frequently. A black bear attacked a 10-year-old in Connecticut, other black bears attacked a dog in Pennsylvania, killed a dog in New Jersey, burst through a window in Wisconsin, attacked a man in North Carolina, and attacked a woman in…