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Bring Back Karens

It is no coincidence that since Karens have been silenced, our public spaces have deteriorated, and our politics have become less constructive.

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Carrie Lukas

Antifa Networks Panic After Trump Administration Sanctions Their Secret Tech Collective

This move by the U.S. State and Treasury Departments is the first sign they understand how to address the unique challenge of far-left terrorism.

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Kyle Shideler

The ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Is About California’s Descent Into Belligerent Impotence

It's not a smart threat, it's not a terribly plausible threat, but it's a threat: Don't you dare to report on people who have a corrupt patron-client...

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Chris Bray

Exclusive: James Talarico, Dogged By Voter Fraud Accusations, Says Voter Fraud Is ‘Non-Existent In Texas’

The Texas Democrats' nominee for Senate may need look no further than his mirror for examples of election fraud .

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M.d. Kittle

After Climate Activism Scandal, 25 State AGs Push Feds To Suspend Grants To National Science Org

'Organizations that abuse taxpayer money to prop up political causes for the benefit of donors should not receive federal agency grants.'

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Shawn Fleetwood

Weirdly, Lindsay Clancy Feminists Stop Pretending They’re Just Like Men

Hormone science is another biological reminder that women and men are created in beautifully distinct but complementary ways.

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Elle Purnell

Opposition To Data Centers Isn’t What The Tech Right Thinks It Is

It’s not the data centers themselves that people fear, it’s the AI revolution they will enable. That’s what no one wants to talk about.

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John Daniel Davidson

How China’s Attempt To Ban A Book Backfired

Emily Feng’s 'Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China,' has become an important book for understanding China's...

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Helen Raleigh

Virginia AG Launches Office To Protect Illegals And Bureaucrats From Federal Accountability

On the same day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a successful operation to arrest more than 1,300 illegal aliens throughout...

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Breccan F. Thies

Altadena’s Post-Fire Rebuild Proves You Can Have Woke Or Effective Leaders But Not Both

Barger speaks bluntly about the quality of the state's insurance commissioner. 'When you politicize an office like this,' she says, 'this is what you...

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Chris Bray

The Lindsay Clancy Case Exposes Big Pro-Life’s Woke ‘Second Victim’ Lie

The second-victim narrative offers absolution without confession, forgiveness without repentance, and empathy without judgment.

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Dusty Deevers

How The Trump Administration Should Reform SBA Lending To Empower Entrepreneurs

It would only take a few small changes to help make the American dream achievable for more small business owners.

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Mark Mazman

Suburbs Import Policies That Ruined American Cities And Expect Different Results

Why should America’s most successful suburbs take their cues from cities struggling to preserve the very qualities suburban families value?

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Alvin Lui

Judicial Activism Sabotages Trump’s Efforts To Keep Migrants From Sponging Off Taxpayers

One Biden judicial appointee just thwarted the State Department to reopen America's borders to nationals from 75 countries.

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Samuel Kimzey

Democrats’ Racial Grievances Are Just A Cynical Grift

The hypocrisy of Wasserman Schultz shifting districts to represent a majority-minority district was not lost upon black Democrats.

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Casey Chalk

Laughter Of Recognition Echoes From The Realest Spy Novel In Years

Sam R. OYKEN's 'The Pickle Factory,' is a wildly original, very funny, and sadly accurate satire of the CIA.

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J. Michael Waller

Dolly Parton Proved Artists Don’t Need Vulgarity To Be Successful

It’s not hard to see that as America’s culture has become coarser, so too has its music. Scroll through some of the top songs in the country and...

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Shawn Fleetwood

Judge Halts Another Democrat Scheme To Rig State Congressional Maps

A Maryland judge has enjoined the state's Board of Elections from pushing out a ballot question drafted on the back of a broken law.

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M.d. Kittle

US Sanctions Foreign Tech Group For Providing Infrastructure For Left-Wing Domestic Terror

The A/I Collective website is open about its desire for unrest and the destruction of Western civilization.

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Breccan F. Thies

America Is Becoming An Empire Of Fraud and Shameless Crony Grifting

You look at the decline of American institutions, and the widespread spiral into debt and financial instability, and wonder how it's all happening.

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Chris Bray

Age As Gracefully As Dolly Parton

Can’t say that I was a fan of Dolly Parton, given that I can only name three of her songs — “9 to 5” is a good one — but what I know for...

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Eddie Scarry

Dolly Parton Was The Ultimate Southern Woman

Dolly was strong and feminine in equal measure, and the people she loved were no doubt her greatest pride.

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Elle Purnell

Former AGs Blast DC Bar’s ‘Disciplinary Jihad’ Against Jeff Clark

A coalition of former attorneys general blasted the D.C. Bar’s “disciplinary jihad” against former Trump Justice Department official Jeff Clark...

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Shawn Fleetwood

Hasan Piker’s Mocking Of Charlie Kirk Is Part Of The Left’s Assassination Prep Campaign

Laughing at Kirk's murder reinforces this idea that murdering a conservative is a joke, isn't that important and signals to the next radical that...

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Brianna Lyman

Dolly Parton’s Greatest Legacy Is Her Family

Sticking with your blood isn’t always easy, but as Parton noted in her song ‘Family,’ it’s what we’re called to do.

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Jordan Boyd

Panamanian Trial Could Reveal Key Facts About Iran Terror Network Targeting Americans

Panamanian authorities have a 1994 bombing’s suspected Iranian-backed Hezbollah mastermind in custody, with a trial ensuing soon.

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Todd Bensman

South American Trial Could Reveal Key Facts About Iran Terror Network Targeting Americans

Panamanian authorities have a 1994 bombing’s suspected Iranian-backed Hezbollah mastermind in custody, with a trial ensuing soon.

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Todd Bensman

5 Ways The Right Can Start Fixing The Student Loan Crisis Without Punishing Taxpayers

We need to do something to bridge the gap back to the American dream for college grads.

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Mark Mazman

Racism Isn’t Fueling Power Outages In Gary, Indiana. Incompetent Black Leaders Are

It is not racism preventing Gary from thriving. It is apathy, political thievery, and race obsession.

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Kira Davis

America Can’t Make Shared National Treasures Like Dolly Parton Anymore

Where the pop stars of today see an audience to be lectured, Parton saw people to be entertained, comforted, and loved.

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Madeline Osburn

SCOTUS Asked To Inject Dose Of Clarity Into Vaccine Mandate Jurisprudence

'Everybody should want to control their own medical decisions when it doesn't affect anyone else. The court should clarify that is the law as it now...

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Shawn Fleetwood

Trump Endorsement Brings ‘Very Nice Lady’ Victory In South Carolina Senate Runoff

Darline Graham secured the GOP nomination for the Senate seat her late brother, Lindsey Graham, long held.

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M.d. Kittle

Fauci’s Egomania Destroyed Lives Both On A Large Scale And On A Personal Level

It's clear that Fauci was driven by his own selfish interests.

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Margot Cleveland

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Continues Legacy Of Literacy

'The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.'

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Breccan F. Thies

Dolly Parton Wrote America’s Best Love Song

“I Will Always Love You” isn’t just her most popular song; it’s her best. And it’s one of our best too. Life treated her kind.

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Emily Jashinsky

We Chased A California Paper Trail To Show What Happens A Few Years Before A Nick Shirley Moment

'We did not (and currently do not) have a person by this name (Katheryn Nguyen) working at the CVS Health Foundation and have no record of either this...

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Chris Bray

Dolly Parton’s Catalog Is More Than Just Catchy Tunes

Parton's legacy is hard to put together in words. The thanks she's owed for her contributions to music history cannot be measured.

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Brianna Lyman

Pastor: The ‘Sin Of Empathy’ Plagues Lindsay Clancy’s Fangirls

Lindsay Clancy supporters believe the 36-year-old mother and killer of her three children is herself a victim. That's 'untethered empathy.'

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M.d. Kittle

Uthmeier Demands Florida Bar Dismiss ‘Meritless’ Complaint Against DHS Attorney

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is demanding that the state bar dismiss a “meritless” complaint filed by left-wing activists against a...

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Shawn Fleetwood

Trump’s ‘Largest Single Mass Revocation Of Visas’ Is Why Midterm Turnout Matters

Giving Democrats power to stop Trump's efforts to crackdown on immigration writ large isn't proving a point to Trump, it's sacrificing America's...

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Brianna Lyman

How Leftist Nonprofits Connected To Republicans And Judges Enable Crime Sprees In Red States Like Oklahoma

For the left, the relevant question when it comes to criminal law is not whether punishment works to deter criminals or protect the public; it is...

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James Silberman

NYT Legal Loss Underscores SCOTUS’s Need To Fix Defamation Doctrine

The legal reasoning behind New York Times v. Sullivan is as thin and weak as the paper it’s printed on.

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George M. Perry

Treasury Dept. Closes More Loopholes That Gave Illegal Aliens Your Tax Dollars

We are witnessing a well-coordinated, multi-pronged strategy targeting the incentives that draw illegal aliens to the United States.

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Samuel Kimzey

Declassified Docs Show Deep State Letting Chinese Espionage Slide If It Helps Democrats

Declassified documents reveal a broader reluctance among institutions to address Chinese influence operations targeting Democratic officials.

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Helen Raleigh

Cartels Are Exploiting Mexico’s Cattle Trade As Americans Pay More For Beef

Traffickers use falsified paperwork and black-market identification tags to launder smuggled animals into legitimate Mexican commerce.

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Ammon Blair

The Lindsay Clancy Case Should Make Pro-Lifers Rethink Absolving Mothers Of Murder

The growing calls for compassion and not punishment for Lindsay Clancy should force conservatives to confront their own history of excusing women who...

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Kayla Suderman

Lindsay Clancy’s Pro-Abortion Fans Care More About Her Circumstances Than Her Children

The Clancy case raises a larger moral question: What happens when circumstances become the rationale for defending the unthinkable?

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Jeannie Deangelis

USPS Voter Data Rule Puts Pressure On Courts To Lift Injunctions Before Election Day

It is unclear how the appeal process will turn out, but the rule gives states 30 days prior to the Nov. 3 election to notify USPS if they plan to...

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Breccan F. Thies

Exclusive: USDA Bureaucrats Bemoan Move To Red States, In-Person Work To Run Food Welfare Programs

'Washington bureaucrats are eager to work from home, as long as home isn’t a red state where the people they serve live,' said FGA's Amelia Kuntzman.

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Shawn Fleetwood

Men, Get Ahold Of Your Lindsay Clancy-Supporting Girlfriends And Wives Before It’s Too Late

No man who knows such a woman can afford to be quiet about the misplaced support of a child murderer. The safety of children everywhere is at stake.

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Eddie Scarry