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Trump deals a heavy blow to DEI — hopefully it’s lethal

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Emma Fuentes

Trump’s decision about Mount McKinley reflects a return to American tradition

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Emma Fuentes

The real controversy at the National Cathedral was the service

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Emma Fuentes

Trump begins a slow government withdrawal from abortion promotion

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Emma Fuentes

Is Donald Trump the second coming of Andrew Jackson?

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered...

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Conn Carroll

Citizens United’s gift to free speech

Citizens United’s gift to free speech

Tuesday marked 15 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in  Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The decision affirmed...

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Joe Bartozzi

Pennsylvania begins new era of conservative governance

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Salena Zito

The United Nations continues to aid terrorists

The United Nations continues to aid terrorists

The United Nations‘s continued ties to terrorism in Gaza should be more than enough proof that the organization is a net negative for the world....

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Zachary Faria

Trump moves toward elimination of DEI policies

President Donald Trump promised he would put an end to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies in his pre-inauguration rally last Sunday....

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Zachary Faria

Virginia bishop speaks out against Trump IVF mandate

When an Alabama court last year ruled against an in vitro fertilization clinic that carelessly allowed the destruction of frozen embryos, it set off...

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Zachary Faria

House intelligence chairman determined to get to Havana syndrome truth

House intelligence chairman determined to get to Havana syndrome truth

The new chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is committed to uncovering the truth behind a mystery that has befuddled...

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Zachary Faria

Killing telework will bleed taxpayers dry

President Donald Trump just signed an executive order banning federal telework, while Republicans in Congress have turned federal telework into a...

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Zachary Faria

What is behind the simmering information war on polling

A few days before November’s presidential election, Ann Selzer, then considered the gold standard of polling in politics, released a highly...

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Salena Zito

Make federal buildings beautiful again

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Marco Rubio’s road to MAGA

When Marco Rubio was announced as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, it turned more than a few heads. A faction of the MAGA movement...

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Conn Carroll

The demographics of gun owners are changing

The 119th Congress is one of the most diverse delegations in the history of the U.S. One-quarter of the members are people of color, and it...

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Joe Bartozzi

Doug Collins will restore America’s promise to veterans

Voters sent a clear message to Washington in November: They’re tired of bloated federal bureaucracies that have lost sight of their mission. They...

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Sen. Kevin Cramer

Four years ago, Biden was ‘concerned’ about last-minute presidential pardons 

Four years ago, Biden was ‘concerned’ about last-minute presidential pardons 

By now, you’ve probably heard about former President Joe Biden’s pardons during the last hours of his presidency. The 46th president granted...

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Tom Rogan

In denying John Bolton security, Trump breaks inaugural free speech pledge

In denying John Bolton security, Trump breaks inaugural free speech pledge

In his inaugural address on Monday, President Donald Trump rightly pledged to “bring back free speech to America.” Trump continued, “Never again...

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Tom Rogan

Trump was right — bluntness not betrayal

It may seem euphemistic to describe President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address as “uncompromising.” It will have struck many as merely...

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Hugo Gurdon

No, Elon Musk did not perform a Nazi salute

Benjamin Franklin once said in an 18th-century letter to French physician Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, “Our new Constitution is now established and has...

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Trump fails the youth by saving TikTok

It has been the hope for a couple of months that the inauguration of President Donald Trump would dispel leftism from the collective consciousness....

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It might be good to be as bored as the Vance children

Vice President J.D. Vance’s three young children were a delight to see at inaugural events yesterday. More than charm, though, they are a glimpse...

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Trump’s national security immediate to-do list

President Donald Trump has returned to the White House with a long national security to-do list. It starts with shoring up the U.S.-Mexico border...

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Hugo Gurdon

Kamala Harris would be a unique disaster as California governor

Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s incompetence isn’t going away any time soon. Nor, likely, is the disastrous governance of California...

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Zachary Faria

The new future swing states Republicans can compete in

It was a combination of Democratic incompetence and Republican success that won President Donald Trump his way back to the White House. This is...

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Zachary Faria

Is Keith Kellogg to Trump 2.0 what Michael Flynn was to Trump 1.0?

On Election Day in 2016, Gen. Michael Flynn penned an opinion article in the Hill. It represented a complete about-face for a man who made his...

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Zachary Faria

Trump’s inauguration offended all of the worst people

Patriotic people of all stripes have plenty to celebrate after President Donald Trump completed the greatest comeback in U.S. political history...

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Zachary Faria

If tax cuts expire, Hispanic families will pay the price

Soaring inflation fueled by out-of-control government spending has put a terrible strain on family budgets over the past few years. This drove...

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Zachary Faria

What pro-lifers must demand from RFK Jr.

It’s no secret the pro-life movement has taken it on the chin over the past year. The latest punch is the nomination of arguably pro-abortion Robert...

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Tim Chapman

How Trump can permanently fix the student loan program

Even before he took office, President Donald Trump was already securing major policy wins. Trump’s election induced the Biden administration to...

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Tim Chapman

Trump’s blanket Jan. 6 pardons undermine the rule of law

The prosecution of some protesters who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was obsessive and political. Some pardons of nonviolent offenders were...

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The Biden Crime Family cashes out after 52 years of trading on the family name

After more than half a century of brandishing the Biden family moniker to trade access to the federal government in exchange for cash, the Biden...

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Trump’s strong hint of coming CIA covert action against Mexican drug cartels

President Donald Trump strongly hinted that the United States will engage in violent action against the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico. In...

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Tom Rogan

Biden double-taps the constitutional order on his way out the door

The most gobsmacking line of historical revisionism written about Joe Biden’s norm-decimating tenure in the White House was published by the...

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Tom Rogan

The decade-old Hunter Biden scandal the media ignored

Lost in all of the recent coverage of the expansive and legally questionable pardon granted by former President Joe Biden to his son, Hunter Biden,...

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Tom Rogan

Democrats backing Biden’s ’28th Amendment’ have lost all credibility

Democrats backing Biden’s ’28th Amendment’ have lost all credibility

Any Democrat or liberal group that indulged former President Joe Biden‘s attempt to amend the Constitution unilaterally should never again be...

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Tom Rogan

Trump’s revolution of common sense

President Donald Trump signed over 200 executive orders on Monday, his first day in office. “With these actions, we will begin the complete...

monday 3

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The cynical strategy behind Biden’s 28th Amendment

The cynical strategy behind Biden’s 28th Amendment

Why would former President Joe Biden, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the American Bar Association, and Georgetown Law all torch their credibility...

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Salena Zito

On Biden’s last day, one final act of dishonesty and corruption

Dishonest. Deceptive. Manipulative. Corrupt. There may not be four better words in the English language to describe the presidency of Joe Biden...

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Christopher Tremoglie

Linda McMahon can transform education through school choice

As President Donald Trump’s nominees are considered by the U.S. Senate, families are ready to see education secretary nominee Linda McMahon step...

monday 3

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Christopher Tremoglie

On Day One, Rubio should reverse Blinken and Power’s Azerbaijan cowardice

Just five days before Azerbaijani forces invaded Nagorno-Karabakh and drove away its population of 120,000 indigenous Armenians, acting Assistant...

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Christopher Tremoglie

The Left’s toxic ‘safetyism’ trap

Progressive insanity is running amok in Massachusetts — again. This time, a local politician who identifies as “nonbinary,” neither male nor...

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Christopher Tremoglie

The strange convergence of Donald Trump and Martin Luther King Jr.

Jan. 20 marks an unlikely pairing: President-elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration and the nation’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day....

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Christopher Tremoglie

Here’s why Anthony Fauci needed a pardon

President Joe Biden, in an extraordinary move, granted former federal health official Anthony Fauci a pre-emptive pardon. While Fauci faces...

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Tom Rogan

‘In America, impossible is what we do best’

PITTSBURGH — Despite a ceremony held in the center of wealth and power, Monday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump as the 47th president of...

monday 20

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Salena Zito

Trump’s unique opportunity this Inauguration Day

Donald Trump’s inauguration today at noon will be historic for many reasons, including that he will be the first president since Grover Cleveland...

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California’s laws are killing the environment

The irony of California’s onerous environmental regime is that the state’s burdensome laws are damaging the very environment they are meant to...

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Zachary Faria

With Andrew Tate, the enemy of your enemy is not your friend

Leftism is eager to destroy norms, from gender roles to traditional definitions of masculinity and femininity. But these assaults do not mean...

19.01.2025 5

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Kimberly Ross

Joe Biden’s pardon frenzy

Joe Biden’s pardon frenzy

JOE BIDEN’S PARDON FRENZY. With inaugural crowds gathering in Washington, D.C., the hours of Joe Biden‘s presidency are ticking down to noon...

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Ron York

The frights of climate catastrophe in the disco era

“Y.M.C.A.” is back and badder than ever. President-elect Donald Trump helped to resurrect the 1978 disco icon. Yet some in the media are not...

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Anthony Sandar

Increase H-1B visa fees to support American students

The United States is a great place to be talented, but a poor place to develop your talents. The combination of tax and regulatory policies, access...

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Anthony Sandar

DEI’s obscene price tag

The misnamed project of diversity, equity, and inclusion has certainly had a chilling effect on free expression on college campuses, but its price...

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