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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A video went viral Monday showing a family being temporarily booted from a Spirit Airlines flight over alleged mask violations, sparking outrage on social media as a flight attendant was seen noting that the couple’s 2-year-old was not wearing a facial covering while she was eating. The airline said the situation had nothing to do
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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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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas participates in taking a new family photo with his fellow justices at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 1, 2017. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Today Justice Thomas appended an intriguing concurrence to a short decision concerning whether President Trump had violated the First Amendment by blocking a limited
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If you can believe it, Multnomah County’s pro-antifa District Attorney, Mike Schmidt, has actually decided to do his job. Though Schmidt has dismissed most of the charges against the rioters over the last year, a grand jury has returned a 28-count indictment against Malik Fard Muhammed for his role in multiple riots last fall. This
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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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Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has come out swinging back amid the Department of Justice’s investigation into allegations that the congressman engaged in sex trafficking of a minor, penning an op-ed saying that he is “not a monk” but also “certainly not a criminal.” What are the details? In a piece published in The Washington
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas raised eyebrows over a statement appearing to warn social media companies that their rights to censor objectionable speech might be curtailed soon. Thomas made his thoughts known in a 12-page concurrent opinion on a Supreme Court decision that considered whether former President Donald Trump had acted unconstitutionally when he banned
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CBS had quite an Easter weekend. We might call it another “Fairness Is Overrated” Weekend. CBS “News” lurched from an embarrassing article that brazenly touted “3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s new restrictive election law”…to pandering to Hunter Biden and his family….to slamming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a coronavirus exploiter. It was a
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President Joe Biden began his presidency with an inaugural call for national unity. Since that time, his greatest legislative achievement is a COVID-19 relief package that passed without a single Republican vote. Given the disagreement and disarray among Republicans today, it’s amazing Biden could come up with something Republicans would agree unanimously to oppose. The
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WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 09: Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) during a House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing with members of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee on Capitol Hill on December 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Army has fired or suspended 14 leaders at Fort Hood following an investigation into the death of Specialist
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Asylum seeking migrants from Central America await transport after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States in Texas, March 12, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) The authors of a Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog post arguing that “the migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border is actually a predictable pattern” stand by their argument —
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For those who haven’t been following this saga, a recap. Alison Collins was the Vice President of the San Francisco school board. She supported the board’s effort to rename schools (based on shoddy research) and also voted to end selective admissions at San Francisco’s Lowell High School. Importantly, Lowell’s strict admissions had led to it
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It's a course they use to teach in school, these days I'm not so sure but the Left have seemed to master it so we better be careful of the titles they use, references to other laws and the hidden intents they instill in their Bill writing. A law they propose will have you think
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