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Voter ID, ‘Billionaire Tax’ and 5 Other Big Midterm State Ballot Initiatives to Watch

It isn’t just Congress that’s up for grabs during the midterm elections. On Tuesday, voters will decide more than 140 proposed measures that could...

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Europe Grovels as China Throws a Tantrum Over ‘Dictator’ Mao Comment

Summary A European soccer star insinuated that Mao Zedong was a dictator, and China showed exactly how a powerful, dictatorial regime operates when it...

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How NYC District Attorneys Help Illegal Aliens Dodge Deportation

Summary President Donald Trump’s deportation policies have been a huge contributing factor to falling national crime rates. But rogue judges have...

27.10.2026 3

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This Is the New York Crime Problem Mamdani Can’t Keep Ignoring

Summary America has seen a significant turnaround on crime. But some statistics hide the continued, and often growing, problems many cities face....

26.10.2026 6

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Trump’s Deportations Are Making America Safer

Summary The restoration of law and order in America is happening in large part because of President Donald Trump, in particular, his insistence that...

25.10.2026 5

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Politicians Will Only Be as Brave as Their Voters

With the midterm elections just weeks away, conservatives are once again asking why so many Republicans campaign as fighters only to govern like...

23.10.2026 8

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Gender Fluidity Fuels James Transarico

What five-letter word starts with a T, ends with an S, and motivates Democrat Senate hopeful James Talarico? Texas is one correct answer. So is Trans....

23.10.2026 10

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The French Riots Have Breached the Media’s Narrative Containment

If you merely paid attention to the legacy media in recent weeks, you’d think that the French riots were only a bit of a scuffle between students...

23.10.2026 7

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Ilhan Omar Investigation Draws Attention to Broad Immigration Fraud and National Security

The Trump administration’s ongoing fraud probe into the refugee and U.S. citizenship approvals of Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., carries much...

22.10.2026 8

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Michigan Deserves Straight Answers From Abdul El-Sayed

In a free country, a man’s faith is his own. No American should have to pass a religious test to hold office. The Constitution forbids it, and...

21.10.2026 4

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Apu Is Back on ‘The Simpsons,’ but Don’t Forget Why He Disappeared

Summary After nearly a decade in cartoon purgatory, “The Simpsons” is resurrecting Apu from the woke graveyard of canceled characters. “The...

21.10.2026 4

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California’s Energy Future Needs the 3 R’s: Reality, Reliability, and Resilience

California’s energy strategy ignores reality and gets the basic energy principles of reliability and resilience wrong. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s...

21.10.2026 4

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Steady on the Edge: Romania on NATO’s Black Sea Flank

As I write, two of my nation’s F-16s have just shot down two jet-powered drones that had entered Romanian airspace over the Black Sea. Our pilots...

20.10.2026 5

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Schumer-Backed Veterans Group Backs Non-Veteran Dems Over Decorated Republican

During his three-decade career as a Marine, Sen. Dan Sullivan lived out the Marine Corps’ motto, Semper Fidelis, “always faithful,” retiring as...

20.10.2026 5

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France’s Multiculturalism Experiment Goes Up in Flames

“French culture doesn’t exist in and of itself; there is no such thing as a single French culture. There is culture in France and it is...

19.10.2026 2

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Fairfax Wants $1,575 to Show Its Superintendent’s Calendar. Prince William Quoted $123.

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) and Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) are the two largest districts in Virginia. Central office...

16.10.2026 7

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Democrats’ ‘Defund the Police’ Problem Is Back

After “defund the police” sparked a political backlash in 2020, Democratic candidates largely stopped using the slogan, but the movement behind it...

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Religious Liberty on Display in Virginia Elections

Catholics in all 70 parishes of the Diocese of Arlington heard the same letter read from the pulpit last month. Bishop Michael Burbidge asked every...

16.10.2026 9

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Trump Brought Columbus Day Back After the Left Tried to Erase It

Christopher Columbus is having a revival thanks to President Donald Trump and the good sense of the American people. This is a remarkable change from...

11.10.2026 8

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Mamdani’s Rage at ICE Over Shooting Is Pure, Dishonest Grandstanding

If you only listened to Mayor Zohran Mamdani you’d think that ICE was just plucking out random New Yorkers to shoot for no other reason than sheer...

09.10.2026 10

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Mamdani’s Antisemitism Plan Should Alarm America

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants everyone to know that his administration is serious about fighting antisemitism. Just don’t ask him to...

07.10.2026 10

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How to Know When a Mexican Migrant Caravan Really Threatens the Southern Border—a Day Sure to Come

Last week saw much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments among American voters and Trump administration officials watching the “Fey Esperanza”...

06.10.2026 10

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California’s Lawsuit Industry Is Driving Businesses Away

When it was reported that Paramount is considering leaving California, many politicians looked for ways to keep one of the largest moviemakers in...

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Nixon’s Realism Returns to America’s China Policy Under Trump

When President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to D.C. last month, much of Washington expected nothing more than political theater. To...

06.10.2026 10

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Don’t Let a Vaccine Become the Only Answer to Lyme Disease

There is a silent, rapidly growing epidemic in the United States, one that my family is no stranger to, unfortunately. Lyme disease enters the body...

05.10.2026 20

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How Mamdani Is Merging Socialist Activists With New York City Government

When Zohran Mamdani said he’d govern New York City as a socialist, he meant it. And the way the mayor is doing that is by merging the Democratic...

04.10.2026 10

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Trump Administration Turns Up Pressure on DEI Admissions at UCLA Law

This is the way to defeat systemic DEI racism. Don’t let up, don’t back down, keep up the pressure. The Trump administration has released another...

02.10.2026 20

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Newsom Signs Bill That Recognizes 2 Muslim State Holidays

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two Muslim holidays into law this week, making California the second state to officially recognize them. On Sunday, Newsom...

02.10.2026 10

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Seattle DEI Case Signals a Major Victory in the Fight Over Workplace Diversity Programs

Another big step was taken to eliminate workplace DEI, and it came via a notoriously left-wing appeals court. On Monday, a three-judge panel for the...

01.10.2026 10

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Jack Smith’s Media Dragnet Gets a Pass From Legacy Press

One of the biggest government attacks on free press occurred under a presidential administration and the legacy media have collectively shrugged. Why?...

30.09.2026 20

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Trump’s Student Loan Rules Finally Hold Higher Education Accountable. The Left Is Furious.

The Trump administration put some reasonable limits on federal student loans, and the Left is having a fit about it. According to a Department of...

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Open Prostitution Booms in NYC. It’s All Part of the Socialist Plan.

Prostitution is openly proliferating in New York City thanks to socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It’s all part of the plan. The New York Post...

28.09.2026 20

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Cornell’s University Reform Report Sidesteps the Real Reason Americans Have Lost Trust in Higher Education

Higher education is suffering through a self-inflicted crisis of declining public confidence. Only now are its faculty members and administrators...

27.09.2026 20

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Mamdani Is Gradually Undermining Public Order in New York City

New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has carefully plucked away another small but significant element of public order. According to the...

24.09.2026 20

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Canada’s MAID Nightmare Gets Even Worse

Canada’s mutually assisted aid in dying, or MAID, program continues to produce the grotesque results that its detractors warned about. The latest...

22.09.2026 20

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Why Higher Education Deserve to Lose Federal Support Over DEI

America’s top universities can’t quit and won’t quit DEI no matter how unpopular it is with the American people. A recent editorial in the New...

20.09.2026 20

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New Documentary Answers the Question UK’s Ruling Class Won’t Ask About Mass Immigration

The West is in a self-inflicted crisis, and the only way to fix it is to recognize the problem. A new documentary created by the Heritage Foundation...

17.09.2026 10

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German Chancellor’s Attack on Free Speech Reveals Europe’s Growing Fear of Dissent

Free speech isn’t just dying in Europe; it’s being ruthlessly strangled by an out-of-touch ruling class that’s desperate to snuff it out before...

16.09.2026 20

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Grad Schools Are Training Activists, Not Teachers

Who is teaching the teachers? Critical theorists, DEI peddlers, and all manner of indoctrinators who have weaponized the American education system to...

09.09.2026 20

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Even After Affirmative Action’s Fall, DEI Thrives at Elite Law Schools

DEI may be crumbling in the federal government and waning in the public esteem, but it is still going strong in elite educational institutions despite...

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Mamdani Turns Rikers Murderer Into Victim in Larger Plot to Abolish Prisons

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonstrated yet again this week how much of his ideology ultimately leads to mass mercy to the guilty and cruelty...

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Every State Can Open Its Doors to Nuclear Energy

States want nuclear energy. That makes sense. They all face the same problem. States need energy now and lots of it. According to one industry...

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You Don’t Have to Help. You Do Have to Police.

I spent 24 years in Enforcement and Removal Operations. Every officer who has worked in an arrest team knows the moment. The target is in custody, the...

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He Can’t Vote for Congress. The Census Still Gives Him a Seat.

A draft rule now moving through the Commerce Department would rewrite how many House seats each state gets, by narrowing who counts as a...

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How to Defend Your Faith

I taught the senior theology course at a Catholic high school for seven years. The course name was “Apologetics.” This term has its roots in the...

24.08.2026 20

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The Unholy Alliance You Weren’t Supposed to Notice

Something unusual happened on Oct. 8, 2023. The morning after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, after women were raped, children were...

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National Media Skip Extreme Pro-Abortion Law in Massachusetts

On Aug. 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the...

23.08.2026 20

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Data Centers, Polling, November Elections, and the Way Forward

Data centers are about as popular as cancer right now, and my latest battleground polling proves it. In Wisconsin, the consummate swing state,...

21.08.2026 30

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Ending the Welfare State as We Know It

President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, otherwise known as welfare reform, into law 30...

21.08.2026 30

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The Bond Vigilantes Are Stirring Again

Bob Woodward is undoubtedly one of the most famous, yet controversial, “journalists” of the contemporary era. Some people–mostly those on the...

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