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A Government ‘Shutdown’ Isn’t Really a Shutdown
The current battle in Congress over the continuing resolution to fund the government is a fight worth having to stop the bloated spending of the federal government—spending that increases our unsustainable, monumental debt;…
ADF Urges Disney to Evaluate Potential Religious Discrimination
Religious liberty law firm Alliance Defending Freedom will meet with The Walt Disney Co. in early January to question its collusion with a now-defunct advertising giant known to censor news outlets and personalities. The…
High Court to Decide If Medicaid Patients Can Sue for Abortions
A case just taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court—Kerr v. Planned Parenthood—might just be the sleeper hit of the October 2024 term. At issue is public funding for abortion, something that pro-life states have been keen to…
The Sequel Rips the Heart Out of Gladiator
Are you not entertained? But is that really why you are here? The genius of the 2000 movie “Gladiator” wasn’t just the music, the acting of Russell Crowe, or the ancient Roman setting. The movie had all of these things in…
When a Judge Rules Race as Legit in Naval Academy Admissions
Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, even though the Supreme Court last year expressly forbade the use of race in college admissions in two related cases, Students for Fair…
The Dumbest Fallacy in Foreign Policy
Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a combination of three forces. First, Israel’s military utterly eviscerated Assad’s foreign military…
Conservative Member Calls For New Path on Spending Bills
After the second must-pass bill to fund the government failed in the House of Representatives Thursday night, a conservative member who voted against the spending bill called for a new path forward. Republican and Democratic…
Tucker Carlson Probes Tom Homan on Alejandro Mayorkas
During the Obama administration, Alejandro Mayorkas and Tom Homan had a positive working relationship. Not so much now. Mayorkas, then director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Homan, then associate director…
IRS Whistleblowers’ Court Filing Rips Smear by Hunter’s Lawyer
The drama and legal saga adjacent to Hunter Biden’s conduct isn’t over yet. Lawyers for the two IRS whistleblowers in his tax evasion case contend it would be bad news for future whistleblowers if their defamation case…
Trump-Endorsed Government Funding Bill Fails in House
Hours after President-Elect Donald Trump endorsed a new bill to fund the government, the House of Representatives took the first of multiple expected votes on the bill. The House first voted on whether to suspend the rules…