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By my count, there are at least three lies behind President Joe Biden’s “student loan relief” plan: a bald-faced lie, a half-lie, and a lie of omission. First, in its Aug. 24 “fact sheet,” the White House advances the falsehood that college is the “ticket to a middle-class life.” That’s untrue. The ticket to a…
“Truth is conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be.” —Noah Webster In George Orwell’s dystopian and now-prescient work of fiction “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the “Party” and its leader, “Big Brother,” devise a diabolically clever tactic to control the thoughts and actions of the proletariat: a new…
Germany, widely known as Europe’s industrial powerhouse, is now leading the Continent in an alarming new trend—rapid de-industrialization. Astronomical natural gas prices are forcing heavy industries, from smelters to fertilizer plants, to shut down or curtail production. Germany’s fabled “Mittelstand”—the collection of mid-sized firms that form the backbone of its economic might—is buckling under the…
If you want to know why no one trusts the corporate media, take a look at this new “fact check” from Reuters. In the fact check, Reuters asserts that the claim “‘unvaccinated’ D.C. students will be banned from attending school” is “missing context.” But Reuters’ fact check itself is missing crucial context. The fact check was…
“This is not a revolution,” Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr proclaimed this week in a televised address to supporters after two days of the worst violence the country has experienced in years. Weeks of political tension boiled over after al-Sadr’s “exit” from politics announced on Twitter. Explosions lit up the sky, and gunfights took place among…
Being the White House press secretary is a notoriously hard job. The press secretary must be up to date on every policy issue engaging the president and his team. The position requires the person who holds it to be articulate, confident, honest, and transparent, while also keeping sensitive information with care. Unfortunately, current White House…
The transgender movement is “a social contagion,” says Chris Elston, an activist known as “Billboard Chris.” Elston has drawn international attention for his work to defend children against gender identity ideology. Wearing billboards on his front and back bearing statements like “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers,” he travels throughout Canada and the U.S. having…
A lot of people are moving out of California. Over the last two years, California has lost about 300,000 people. Major companies, including Telsa, Oracle Corp., and HP have abandoned California for Texas. With high taxes, lots of regulations, high crime, poor schools, mishandling of the pandemic, and “woke” policies, it isn’t surprising that many…
Victor Madrigal-Borloz may be the most consequential bureaucrat you’ve never heard of. Madrigal-Borloz is the “SOGI czar” at the United Nations. Or, more precisely, he is the U.N.’s so-called independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI. And the Costa Rican lawyer just concluded an official…
The ideological conformity and revolutionary zeal that’s taking over Western institutions threaten to not only “fundamentally transform” society, they threaten to destroy the bedrock of what made us so successful to begin with. Political scientist Walter Russell Mead recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal that campus wokeness is hurting America’s position globally. The increasing…
There’s a long list of reasons why the the Biden administration’s scheme to write off upward of $20,000 per person in student loan debt, announced Aug. 24, is a terrible and corrupt idea: It’s flagrantly illegal and usurps powers reserved for Congress, which even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged a year ago. It’s unfair, especially…
With every passing day, the scope of the Biden administration’s regressive, expensive, unfair, and potentially illegal amnesty for student loan debt becomes clearer. Some 43 million borrowers will be eligible for the loan cancellation, courtesy of the millions of Americans who did not, or could not, attend college. According to the Biden administration, 27 million…
No sooner had President Joe Biden announced his plan for student loan debt forgiveness ($10,000 for nonrecipients of Pell Grants and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients), the president of the NAACP was complaining that it should be more than twice as much. At least $50,000. Brookings Institution scholar Andre M. Perry echoed the sentiment. The…
Contrary to Hollywood, Interpol isn’t an international police force. It’s more like a bulletin board on which police forces around the world post their wanted notices. But Interpol does have problems. And China is among the biggest. The next meeting of the Interpol General Assembly, which makes the final decisions for the organization, is set…
If you never looked at a poll and watched only the network news to stay informed, you might think Joe Biden is a very successful and popular president. That’s not an accident. There’s a lot of well-designed embroidery and energetic omissions. They pretend Biden has never mismanaged anything or caused a single problem in America….
This week, President Joe Biden—in search of a new label to pin on his political opponents after the failure of his “ultra-MAGA” branding, which prompted peals of laughter rather than shudders of horror—landed on a new slur with which to tar those who don’t support his agenda: they are, he said, semi-fascists. Speaking with a…
Another left-wing attempt to rewrite election rules has gone down in flames. This time, liberals attempted to put a measure on the November ballot to gut election safeguards and skew voting rules in the influential swing state. But if the left thought it could buy its way onto the ballot, it was wrong. In its…
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s year-end retirement doesn’t mean he will avoid congressional oversight and accountability, said Steve Deace, author of “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History.” On Aug. 22, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden,…
From the time he was a child, Colin O’Brady knew he wanted to climb Mount Everest. It was a childhood dream that easily could have fallen by the wayside as a result of the demands of adulthood. Today, at the age of 37, O’Brady has climbed Everest not once, but twice. O’Brady’s passion to accomplish…
From kindergarten classrooms to human resources offices to elite academic institutions, pressure is growing for Americans to ignore what’s in front of them in favor of a new version of reality that is more “inclusive” and “updated.” Public discourse now centers on debates about whether men can become pregnant and how to define a woman….