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Motorists cross the Second Street bridge during a winter storm in Louisville, Ky., February 15, 2021. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) I see that the pernicious everything-is-everything-and-words-have-no-meaning mentality that leads groups such as Planned Parenthood to tweet things like “Good forest management is reproductive justice” has now reached the word “infrastructure”: Paid leave is infrastructure.Child care is infrastructure.Caregiving
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Alliance for Free Citizens is a new states-based conservative grassroots organization. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, conservatives, nationalists, and populists have found themselves in the political wilderness. With Democrats holding slim majorities in both chambers of Congress and an aging Joe Biden relegating his priorities to his progressive staff, supporters of President Trump
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Unsurprisingly, two episodes on the reaction to the death of George Floyd weren’t enough for BLM activist filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) drama Queen Sugar. The series following a family of black sugar plantation owners in Louisiana is now on its third straight episode recounting the days following Floyd’s death that, as they
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This is your occasional friendly reminder that no, you are not insane. You are not insane to think it’s absurd that Major League Baseball pulled out of Atlanta to protest an election integrity law that is far more permissive than election laws in MLB’s home state, New York, or in Joe Biden’s home state, Delaware. You
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1.  A young man in Cuba commits suicide after being fined 5,000 pesos by the Communist regime for the crime of selling plantains. #Cuba is close to the edge, no matter the well-practiced repression of the state. https://t.co/uVjY10BtQj — Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) April 6, 2021 2. Chinese Christians Held in Secretive Brainwashing Camps A
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A new economic report lambasting President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar infrastructure agenda was shoved under the rug by the ABC, CBS and NBC evening networks. The Tax Foundation released a new analysis March 31 on Biden’s plan headlined “President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Raises Taxes on U.S. Production.” The report summarized that “[t]he proposal’s tax increases on corporations are among the
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The Bloomberging of America My friend and colleague Cam Edwards makes his second appearance on the podcast today. Cam is the editor of our sister site Bearing Arms, which means he is the Mothership’s resident expert on all things 2nd Amendment. It’s no secret that the Democrats have a radical anti-gun agenda and that they
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Hunter Biden’s tell-all, released Tuesday, is anything but.  The president’s son glosses over several controversial topics in the book, including a Justice Department investigation against him, his work for a Chinese energy company linked to the communist party, and a laptop he allegedly dropped off at a repair shop in 2019 and never retrieved.  Biden
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1. As Myanmar’s security forces crush anti-coup protests, more and more children are dying The Myanmar military’s targeting of children, civilians and peaceful protesters, human rights experts say, constitute acts of terrorism, designed to subjugate a population that has risen up against the army’s seizure of power. After an especially bloody weekend, protesters and human
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It was October 30, 2008, days away from the presidential election. Then-Senator Barack Obama was in Columbia, Mo., when he declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” It was terrifying because I knew he meant it. And America truly did emerge from the Obama years transformed—almost unrecognizable. He’d
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I feel like it’s not entirely healthy that an ad consisting of nothing more than search terms can provoke an emotional response. On the other hand, as many others remarked when this spot ran during the Final Four this weekend, the message here is far superior to the CDC’s. Last week Rochelle Walensky’s shop told
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As Alexandra DeSanctis notes, it is disappointing that Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson “vetoed a bill that would ban doctors from performing gender transition surgery or offering puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors.” The law prohibits minors from making all sorts of decisions that adults may make, most of them far less irrevocable than genital
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“Conservatism, Unmasked,” is what at first glance you might have called the Philadelphia Society’s annual national meet-up and gabfest in Fort Worth, held, by long custom, for the not unrelated aims of defining conservative challenges while renewing friendships and vows of common purpose and commitment. Not a face mask did I spot during the late
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Hooman Noorchashm MD, Ph.D., appeared on Tucker Carlson Today to discuss the COVID-19 vaccination. Noorchashm has an impressive resume as a surgeon and medical professor whose life took a tragic turn when his wife passed away from uterine cancer. The circumstances of her illness and death made him aware of how the medical bureaucracy will
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Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, was interviewed on Sunday Morning Futures and made an interesting statement about his recent visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. He said that a Biden administration official instructed the senators in the delegation led by Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz to delete their photos. None of the Republican
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