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A vial with the AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in Berlin, Germany, March 16, 2021. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters) While several European governments recently withdrew their authorization for the AstraZeneca vaccine owing to fears of a blood-clot issue, the results of the U.S. trial of this vaccine came in today exactly where you’d have expected them to, given the
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UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 10: Kay Cole James, president of the Heritage Foundation, conducts a discussion on the diversity of thought in the black community, in the Capitol Visitor Center during Black History Month on Monday, February 10, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) I served four years at the Heritage
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In case anyone missed the memo, teachers’ unions are garbage organizations that don’t care about your children. American Federation of Teachers President (AFT) Randi Weingarten is particularly detestable. On Friday, the CDC updated guidance for schools reducing the social distancing recommendation from 6 feet to 3 feet with masks. The original recommendation of 6 feet
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Governor Abbott appeared on Fox and Friends Monday morning and told the co-hosts that he had two items of news to deliver. The topic was the flood of illegal migrants into Texas and the holding facility that the Biden administration is using to house unaccompanied minors in Midland. A Texas state senator delivered troubling news
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The Senate confirmed Democratic Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to lead the Department of Labor in a bipartisan vote Monday evening. The Senate voted 68-29 in favor of confirming Marty Walsh, the current mayor of Boston and former union member and leader. Several Republicans including Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Richard
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(DONGSEON_KIM/Getty Images) Philip Klein noted a few days ago that the nation’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association, urges “the CDC to provide far more detail about the rationale for the change from six feet to three feet for students in classrooms” because they “are concerned that the CDC has changed one of the basic rules
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The Trump administration imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, supposedly to protect U.S. national security, and the European Union and the U.K. imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. whiskey. The Biden administration has so far kept the steel and aluminum tariffs, so the tariffs on U.S. whiskey are staying too. Senate Republican leader pressed the
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Organizers of the 2020 Olympics in Japan, which had been delayed a year due to the pandemic, announced that the games will be closed to international spectators because of ongoing concerns about the coronavirus. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, and the Government of Japan made the decision. Early this year, word
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In 1943, as collectivist policies were ascendant, an extraordinary thing happened. Three women published three books that year that would jolt Americans from their socialist stupor and remind them of the fundamental American values of individual liberty, limited government, free-market capitalism, and entrepreneurship. This Women’s History Month is an ideal time to reflect on how
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The Washington Post was embarrassed when it misquoted Donald Trump in a January “scoop” using an anonymous source. Audio emerged and the Post was embarrassed. Sister Toldjah at RedState provides an opposing example, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied mocking a left-wing activist, and the Times found audio that proved Cuomo was lying. The Times reported with
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On Sunday, after Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly claimed that President Donald Trump left a mess for Joe Biden to clean up, even though the opposite is the case. Trump responded to these claims with a blistering statement. “We proudly handed the Biden Administration the most secure border in history. All
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Senator Roy Blunt is complaining over the potential partisanship of any September 11th-style commission looking into the January 6th riot on the U.S. Capitol. “[Y]ou know, Speaker Pelosi has never suggested after her first suggestion that it would be overwhelmingly controlled by one side that there’d be a bipartisan commission…” The Missouri Republican told NBC’s
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(Nastco/Getty Images) The cause of National Review — and it is that, a cause — is a thing of true consequence and impact and meaning. But from the financial perspective, it is also a thing of great deficit. Many readers understand this is the fate of opinion magazines and websites. Many don’t. As things that
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The Biden administration has awarded an $86 million contract for hotel rooms near the U.S.- Mexico border to house illegal migrants. The overcrowding at the southern border has become so overwhelming that there are no government shelters available for the surge of families crossing over from Mexico. The contract for the rooms is to accommodate
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Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash If individuals, business owners and others would act according to their consciences, the growing number of self-appointed dictators around the country would be stripped of their de facto power. When people stand up for their own Liberty, they are standing up for the Liberty of their fellow citizens as
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