North Carolina Republicans amended a bill Wednesday that would prevent educators from teaching critical race theory in the state’s public schools, adding five provisions, the Associated Press reported. Republican Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger added five provisions to House Bill 324 following worries that North Carolina students would be taught CRT in schools, the

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel (Gary Cameron/Reuters) Peter Thiel, the billionaire who co-founded Paypal and has worked extensively in Big Data, has found a familiar target. Thiel has spent $20 million dollars supporting two GOP candidates in the 2022 Senate races, both of whom have targeted Big Tech companies. The latest “Thiel acolyte” to enter the

Big Tech’s war against conservative voices has reached new heights. But MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack team has exposed the left’s  online censorship by amassing 2,500 individual cases to hold Big Tech accountable.  The CensorTrack database has cataloged 2,500 cases of Big Tech silencing conservatives online since March 2020. In that time, Big Tech has

According to a new book by Michael Wolff, Donald Trump said he’s “very disappointed” in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s votes on the court and bemoaned that Kavanaugh “hasn’t had the courage you need to be a great justice.” Trump reportedly expressed his views to Wolff in an interview for his book. Can anyone tell

A California judge ruled that Gov. Gavin Newsom cannot list his Democratic Party affiliation on the upcoming recall ballot since he missed the deadline to register. Superior Court of Sacramento Judge James Arguelles said Newsom will appear on the ballot for the September recall election as an unaffiliated candidate, according to a ruling delivered Tuesday

Bald eagles are back, and they may be gunning for city hall. This past weekend, city hall employees in Neenah, Wis., discovered a heavily dented hood on a municipal vehicle, with a large, dead carp lying on the ground nearby. Jake Prinsen of the Appleton Post-Crescent writes, Police and the inspector found a dead carp

Going into her second day of hero worship toward Texas House Democrats for subverting our democracy, MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid hilariously claimed on Tuesday that the possibility Texas legislators could be arrested was akin to the Fugitive Slave Act and proposed U.S. Senate Democrats refuse to pass an infrastructure package until Senators Joe Manchin

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Thousands of children and families are fleeing the Taliban as the insurgents take over more districts in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The insurgent group has displaced over 5,600 families, mostly from the northern districts of Afghanistan where U.S.-aligned forces were concentrated among the region. The region’s ethnic minorities rapidly fled within the last

Social-distancing dividers in a classroom at St. Benedict School in Montebello, Calif., July 14, 2020. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Time has an article entitled “The Conservative Case Against Banning Critical Race Theory.” Given the conventions of opinion journalism, the first thing a reader would expect from an article with such a title in a national news magazine is

Proving that it is actually possible to practice journalism when dealing with Democrats and voting laws, CBS This Morning’s Ed O’Keefe on Tuesday pressed Texas Democrats who fled the state, meeting them at the airport in Washington D.C. to demand answers. Showing a noted difference from how the network covered the fleeing Democrats on Monday

Joe Biden’s bipartisan deal on the $1 trillion infrastructure bill has been bleeding GOP support since it was announced with much fanfare and ballyhoo at the end of June. Now, as the push to pass the legislation ramps up, it’s an open question whether enough Republicans will support the bill to prevent a filibuster and

California rescinded COVID-19 guidance banning unmasked K-12 students from campuses, within hours of issuing it, ABC News reported. The COVID-19 public health guidance released by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) for the 2021-2022 school year previously “required” students to wear face masks while indoors and said that schools would “exclude” those who refused.

(Maximusnd/iStock/Getty Images) Not the easiest of days for those arguing that the current surge in inflation is “transitory.” Caroline Downey, with some background for NR: The Consumer Price Index, the major inflation metric, surged by 5.4 percent on the year through June, representing the largest year-over-year increase since 2008, according to data released Tuesday by the Department

The media know Democrat-backed critical race theory is unpopular, so they’re trying to define the concept out of existence and make any voter who’s worried about it seem like a misguided conspiracy theorist. They dishonestly insist that critical race theory is a very advanced concept only taught in graduate-level classes, and that it is utterly

This weekend, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on CNN and said local officials should be doing more to mandate COVID-19 vaccines. He added the federal government would not require them. Dr. Fauci asserted the COVID-19 vaccinations are as good as fully approved: “The amount of data right now that shows a high degree of effectiveness and

A serious labor shortage continues to hold the economy back. In the latest jarring example of its detrimental effects, a California restaurant’s candid apology to customers for slow service just went viral.  A popular restaurant in Sacramento County, Taco Loco, posted a sign warning patrons that service may be slower than usual, CBS 13 Sacramento

Opponents of Critical Race Theory protest outside of the Loudoun County School Board headquarters in Ashburn, Va., June 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) I was homeschooled from kindergarten to 12th grade. Like other students, I learned about slavery, Jim Crow, and the myriad other wicked prejudices against black Americans. I did not, however, receive an education

Our great public colleges and universities have created remarkable public goods for the nation. Recommitting to them is essential for the right. Our nation’s public colleges and universities—engines of opportunity, mobility, and knowledge generation—have been the envy of the world for decades. Yet today, many states, often those with Republican-led legislatures, are finding ways to

Trump-hating journalist Julia Ioffe talked to distraught anonymous reporters about how “Democrats have a much thinner skin” and “expect you to be on your side.” They complain that they don’t miss Trump, but Team Biden is so “opaque” and stifling. It’s called “the most boring administration in modern history. You go from a circus with

Mate In Never This one is for the chess fans out there. Or the fans of watching me admit that I’m not very good at something. via GIPHY I love chess. I’ve loved it for a very long time. The problem is that I have never been very good at it. At my best —

Summary: President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing then travel to Philadelphia where he will speak out against Conservative efforts to promote election integrity. President Biden’s Itinerary for 7/13/21: All Times EDT 9:30 AM Receive daily brieifing 1:00 PM Depart White House en route to Philadelphia, PA 2:05 PM Arrive Phildelphia, PA 2:50 PM

Democrat Senator Carol Alvarado speaks to the media alongside other members of the Texas State Senate and Texas House of Representatives following a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington D.C., June 16, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) The Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives are planning to flee the state

Time magazine is still that crazy Trump-obsessed magazine that can’t be objective in any way about the last president. In the July 19/26 issue, the “7 Questions” interview is with CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig, who has a vicious new book on William Barr titled Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor’s Code and

If you need any more proof of how out of touch Hollywood liberals are, I’ve got a story for you. Actor Matt Damon has a new film out called “Stillwater,” in which he portrays an oil rig worker whose daughter gets caught up in a European murder case, which is loosely based on the Amanda

Multiple Republican Latino members of Congress pointed to the diverse roster of conservative candidates on the ballot in 2020 as a major reason why the GOP made gains with the Hispanic community. “The messenger matters,” Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I think it’s so critical that we have, you know,

Nursing student Erika Lohr vaccinates a patient as California opens up vaccine eligibility to any residents 16 years and older in Chula Vista, Calif., April 15, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) After chugging along, all the way to the end of June, the U.S. vaccination effort has slowed considerably in recent days. Just 437,000 shots were administered

These days, as conservatives consider the future from outside the White House, I often hear terms like “new right” or “realignment Republicans.” I have hinted at, or used, the terms myself when writing in The American Conservative and The Daily Caller. President Trump’s upset capture of the GOP presidential nomination five years ago disrupted the

As Dr. Anthony Fauci prepares for another round of Sunday morning network interviews, it would be fun to imagine a news media that actually put Gov. Andrew Cuomo on their Sunday shows and peppered him with skeptical questions. The New York Post ran a story headlined “After $5.1M book deal, Cuomo calls pandemic ‘tremendous personal

An article from our sister site Townhall highlighted a past survey from the Cato Institute that found that nearly two-thirds of Americans are self-censoring their political views out of fear others will be offended by them. The survey from the libertarian think tank found that these fears cross partisan lines. However, while just over half of