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On Hard Work Being the Foundation for Progress and Prosperity: |
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"Without labor, nothing prospers." |
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— Sophocles, Ancient Greek Playwright
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— Sophocles, Ancient Greek Playwright
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Posted September 03, 2026 • 09:06 AM
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On the Rise of Antisemitism: |
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"The collapse of the Met Gala's outrageous plan to honor antisemitic fashion designer John Galliano marks an important victory in a major battle. But there is no sign that triumph is at hand in the larger war against the explosion of Jew hatred in America and around the world.
"On the contrary, the outbreaks are numerous and growing in boldness.
"One of the lessons of the Galliano affair is that many of the haters feel safe enough these days to come out of the closet and publicly express their loathing.
"Wherever you look, from politics to the media to the United Nations and now the fashion world, the scourge is shockingly bold in its emergence."
Read the entire articel here. |
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— Michael Goodwin, New York Post
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— Michael Goodwin, New York Post
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Posted September 02, 2026 • 08:01 AM
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Reporting on Democrat Candidate 9/11 Controversies: |
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"As the nation prepares to remember the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Democratic Party is finding itself in hot water over its surging left-wing candidates who have given controversial statements about the attacks.
"The Democrats' Senate nominee in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, has generated the most recent controversy."
Read the entire article here. |
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— Steven Richards, Just the News
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— Steven Richards, Just the News
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Posted September 01, 2026 • 08:12 AM
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On Election Integrity: |
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"The Supreme Court's decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump's March executive order on mail-in ballots gives voters something they are clamoring for: greater confidence in election integrity. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that, by a 52% to 34% margin, likely voters say the government has not done enough to prevent election cheating. Even more striking, voters say by nearly two to one that widespread cheating is likely to affect the outcome of this fall's congressional elections.
"Concerns about November's elections cross political and demographic lines. Majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents expect widespread cheating to affect the outcome, as do majorities across racial groups -- including 75% of Hispanics and 63% of blacks -- and among both sexes and every age group. Only self-identified liberals do not share that concern as a group."
Read the entire article here. |
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— John R. Lott Jr., President of the Crime Prevention Research Center
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— John R. Lott Jr., President of the Crime Prevention Research Center
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Posted August 31, 2026 • 08:15 AM
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On Democrats' Obsession With Remaking the U.S. Supreme Court: |
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"Seven years ago, I warned that Democrats were 'courting disaster' by turning their frustration with the Supreme Court into a campaign to remake it. Their 2020 presidential field was talking about adding justices, limiting their terms, and otherwise changing the rules because Donald Trump had gotten to replace Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. The Democrats' flirtation with blowing up the high court became a full-blown mania after Trump got a third pick, naming Amy Coney Barrett after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death in 2020.
"Six years later, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says 'dramatic Supreme Court reform' is necessary and that Democrats should not 'foreclose' any option. Former Vice President Kamala Harris wants to revisit expanding the Court. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who pitched a 15-member Court during his presidential campaign, now favors 13 seats plus term limits, calling the current tribunal a 'rogue Supreme Court.' Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and ten Democratic colleagues have introduced legislation that would effectively impose 18-year terms, with a new justice every two years. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already introduced articles of impeachment against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito."
Read the entire article here. |
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— Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor of City Journal
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— Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor of City Journal
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Posted August 28, 2026 • 08:27 AM
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Reporting on a Fashion Designer's Creation of Clothing to Hide from AI Surveillance Cameras: |
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"While some privacy advocates are content to saw down camera towers, one artist is pushing back against the panopticon with an unconventional tool: the ugliest aloha shirt you've ever seen.
"Freshly reported by Dezeen, German designer Simon Weckert designed the hideous shirt to be untraceable to AI-integrated surveillance systems. Using a dizzying blend of colors and patterns, the shirt is ugly precisely because it's designed to confuse surveillance algorithms -- as Weckert explained, it's the 'interplay' of ghastly colors and shapes that hide its wearer from detection.
"'AI systems are made of multiple layers and never learned what a human is -- they learned what humans statistically look like in millions of training images,' the designer told Dezeen. 'A "person," for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics -- and that is exactly its weakness.'"
Read the entire article here. |
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Posted August 27, 2026 • 08:49 AM
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On California's New Replacement Tire Efficiency Standards Rule: |
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"Which state has the highest retail tire prices in the country? It's not a data point that anyone, as far as we know, compiles, but artificial intelligence suggests that it's California. What we can be sure about, though, is that in about three years, California drivers will be paying more for tires than they are today.
"Significantly more.
"It won't happen because the tire makers and retailers will suddenly raise prices. It will happen because California's hyperactive government launched yet another new rule last week. Beginning in 2029, all new replacement tires sold in the state will have to be 'at least as energy efficient, on average, as tires sold on new vehicles,' according to the California Energy Commission, which bragged that it had 'approved the nation's first replacement tire efficiency standards.'
"Supposedly the rule will help consumers pocket extra cash due to the tires' low rolling resistance. The CEC estimates the savings will reach $1 billion a year in gasoline and electricity costs.
"Companies that actually make tires and therefore might know what they are talking about say that the savings are a third-rate tall tale. The new compliant tires will cost far more than the few extra dollars each the CEC reckons. During the rule's comments period, Goodyear said prices could spike by hundreds of dollars per tire while the rule will eventually eliminate about 70% of current replacement tire market."
Read the entire article here. |
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— Issues & Insight Editorial Board
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— Issues & Insight Editorial Board
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Posted August 26, 2026 • 09:39 AM
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Reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court's Emergency Decision Regarding President Trump's Mail-In Ballots Executive Order: |
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"The Supreme Court on Monday handed an initial win to the Trump administration in its effort to implement an executive order aimed at limiting who can receive mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
"At issue are provisions that seek to create a federal list of eligible voters and order the U.S. Postal Service to deliver ballots only to eligible voters.
"The justices, divided 6-3, granted an emergency request filed by the government that blocks a Massachusetts-based judge's ruling from June that prevented key aspects of the executive order from being put into effect this year in California and 22 other states that had challenged it.
"The court also granted a similar application filed by Alabama and 11 other states."
Read the entire article here. |
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— Lawrence Hurley, NBC News
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— Lawrence Hurley, NBC News
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Posted August 25, 2026 • 09:33 AM
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Reporting on Documents Suggesting the FBI May Have Misclassified Information to Hide Biden Family Crimes: |
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"Documents recently obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, included an anomaly in the classification coding -- one that indicates FBI agents intentionally misclassified information to conceal evidence of Biden-family corruption.
"On Monday, Grassley highlighted the discovery in a letter he penned to Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, about misconduct he has uncovered related to 'Operation Round River.' 'Round River' was the name of the investigation run out of FBI headquarters, in conjunction with the Foreign Influence Task Force ('FITF'); an investigation whistleblowers claim sought to 'improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.'
"As The Federalist previously reported, Grassley revealed FITF used the investigation 'to seek out CHS holdings at FBI Field Offices across the country relating to the Biden family and falsely discredit them as foreign disinformation.' And 'at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden.' Sources familiar with Round River also told The Federalist 'that the investigation sought to scuttle any investigative leads into Biden family corruption by discrediting it as Russia disinformation.'
"In his Monday letter, Grassley revealed that the records related to Round River also showed the intelligence community 'used its resources to downgrade allegations of criminality relating to the Biden family apparently without sufficient investigation.' And notwithstanding the lack of an appropriate investigation, the intelligence community created a list of supposed 'conduits' of disinformation related to evidence implicating the Biden family in Ukrainian corrupt -- a list that included then-Attorney General William Barr."
Read the entire article here. |
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— Margot Cleveland, The Federalist
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— Margot Cleveland, The Federalist
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Posted August 20, 2026 • 08:43 AM
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Reporting on Angie Nixon's Surprising Senate Primary Win in Florida: |
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"Angie Nixon's stunning Florida Senate primary win on Tuesday gave the Democratic Socialists of America its biggest statewide breakthrough yet: For the first time ever, a DSA member won a major-party nomination for statewide office.
"Why it matters: The breakthrough -- the biggest upset in modern Florida Democratic politics -- was also stunning because Republicans have spent years making opposition to socialism central to their political brand in the state.
"Nixon, a Jacksonville state representative and former union organizer who joined DSA during the campaign, beat former Trump impeachment witness Alex Vindman. The scale of the upset was extraordinary: Nixon won by double digits despite raising just $975,000 to Vindman's $16.3 million in President Trump's home state."
Read the entire article here. |
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— Andrew Pantazi, Marc Caputo and Holly Otterbein, Axios
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— Andrew Pantazi, Marc Caputo and Holly Otterbein, Axios
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Posted August 19, 2026 • 09:34 AM
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