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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams (Rembrandt Peale/Gilbert Sullivan) Did you read the exquisite column — “How Two Great Friends Overcame Politics” — from Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal on how Thomas Jefferson and John Adams overcame bitter political division? You’ll want to. Peggy once wrote a book titled Patriotic Grace and here she
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This article is excerpted from LiberatED, a weekly email newsletter where FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald brings you news and analysis on current education and parenting topics. Click here to sign up. As the government steadily assumes responsibility for services previously provided by the private sector, small businesses shutter. It is hard for enterprising
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Dozens of asylum-seeking migrants from Central America walk north before surrendering to the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States from Mexico in La Joya, Texas, May 7, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) The Wall Street Journal reported today on administration planning for the termination of the Title 42 public-health order
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May 1990 appears to have been a bad month for minority race relations in the City of Angels. “Gunfire, fistfights and racial tension erupted almost simultaneously at three Los Angeles-area high schools Tuesday morning,” the Los Angeles Times reported on May 2. A squad of police officers backed by a helicopter descended upon Jordan High
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Despite being neck-deep in multiple scandals, earlier this week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo held a $10,000-a-head fundraiser at the Manhattan Rockefeller Center and managed to raise over a million dollars. Cuomo not only faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, but his actions during the COVID pandemic have also (finally) come under scrutiny. Earlier this year, the media
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The federal government’s sweeping “COVID-19” relief bill gave California’s state government a whopping $26 billion in bailout money. This, combined with the fact that the Golden State was actually doing fine with local tax revenue despite the pandemic, led to something unexpected: California ran a $75.7 billion budget surplus in 2021. Yet despite the government’s
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(Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images) Jason Miller, a former spokesperson for President Trump, has soft-launched a new social-media platform, GETTR. The platform will officially launch on Independence Day, with the goal of creating a space for conservative (particularly pro-Trump) media online. The platform’s style mirrors the traditional Twitter interface while substituting Twitter’s blue theme for a crimson
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When President Joe Biden took office, he ordered a halt to construction of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. The White House’s budget proposal cut funding for Customs and Border Protection, and the Democrats’ funding bill cut it even more. Yet the Democrats’ military spending bill directs hundreds of billions of dollars to “border security”…
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Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams purchased two homes worth a combined $1.4 million following her failed 2018 bid to lead the state, public records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. Abrams purchased the homes despite reporting in a financial disclosure in early 2018 during her gubernatorial campaign that she owed the
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On a beautiful Sunday morning, I was out of town for a business meeting in the city of Santa Barbara, California, an affluent area where the rich and famous live. Demographically, it isn’t exactly Wakanda. Before getting on the 101 Freeway for the long drive back to Los Angeles, I pulled into a gas station
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1. Ex-HHS official Severino predicts decade of religious liberty wins following Fulton ruling — Coverage of the event the National Review Institute did with the Heritage Foundation on Monday You can watch the event here.2. Often women in unplanned pregnancies are fast-tracked to abortion. We believe they deserve better. When a woman has an ultrasound
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) says she doesn’t regret making her comments last month where she equated the so-called “crimes against humanity” by the United States and Israel to “unthinkable atrocities” by the Taliban and Hamas. At the time, the absurd comparison resulted in a much-deserved rebuke by Democrat leaders. “Drawing false equivalencies between democracies like
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas signaled it may be time to end the federal government’s long-standing ban on cannabis. On Monday, the conservative jurist declared that “a prohibition on intrastate use or cultivation of marijuana may no longer be necessary or proper.” Thomas issued his opinion in response to the Court’s decision not to hear
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Then-California attorney general Kamala Harris in 2011 (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) This morning, in the case of Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, Attorney General of California, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down California’s law requiring charitable organizations to disclose their donors, concluding the law “burdens donors’ First Amendment rights and is not narrowly tailored to an
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Like the movement of the ’60s and ’70s, social conservatism is a genuinely countercultural phenomenon, but seems unlikely to achieve the same success. Several months ago I made what I thought at the time were a handful of self-evident observations about the future of the Republican party and its much-abused handmaid, the conservative movement. To
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New York City’s Democratic primary was an absolute debacle as, yet again, the board of election somehow included over 130,000 “sample test” ballots in their preliminary update. Seemingly because this embarrassment happened in their own backyard and to their party, the Wednesday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC really didn’t want anything to do with
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