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Banning TikTok Isn’t Racist—It’s Rational

April 5, 2023
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Commentary Congress seems determined to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned video-sharing app that stands accused of being a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The vast majority of Americans, according to recent Pew findings, also support a ban. Some Democrats, however, believe a ban on TikTok would be “racist.” In reality, banning TikTok has…

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Gov. Newsom Neglects State for Presidential ‘Democracy’ Tour

April 5, 2023
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Commentary Do you think COVID-19 is bad? Far worse is Oval Office Fever. And Gov. Gavin Newsom has a bad case of it. That explains his national Campaign for Democracy tour—even as the state he governs continues to deteriorate. It’s paid for by a new Political Action Committee (PAC) using funds he didn’t spend on…

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Veteran Democratic Operative Linked to Restart of Case Against Trump

April 5, 2023
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Commentary Recent press reports show that a veteran Democratic political operative played a large part in restarting the case against Donald Trump that the prior Manhattan District Attorney, the Justice Department, and Alvin Bragg himself previously declined to prosecute. Matthew Colangelo is closely aligned with President Joe Biden and his former boss Barack Obama. Colangelo…

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They Hit the Pause Button and the Music Stopped

April 5, 2023
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Commentary In the great search for metaphors to justify the largest-scale violations of human rights in our lifetimes, the disease managers finally hit on the term “pause button.” We were merely pressing it for a while to get our bearings, un-overload hospitals, gather personal protective equipment, flatten the curve, and generally figure out what to…

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The Warnings Unheeded Now Threaten Our Fundamental Freedoms

April 5, 2023
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Commentary The First Amendment is at a critical juncture. Recent congressional hearings on the Twitter Files brought the matter into full public view. Freedom of speech and of the press are hanging by a precarious thread. Do we want a future in which information flows freely, or one in which an information elite controls those…

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Evaluating Mac Thornberry’s Four Critical Points

April 5, 2023
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Commentary On March 8 BreakingDefense.com published a thoughtful essay by former congressman and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry. Thornberry’s essay had an imposing title: “Four points to understand in order to meet America’s global challenges.” Thornberry named four points he claimed U.S. leaders must recognize if America is to remain “dominant…

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Trump’s Trial Needs to Be Televised

April 5, 2023
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Commentary On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg presented his bag-of-tricks indictment charging former President Donald Trump with 34 counts of false entries in business records. Bragg managed to slice and dice two payments to former hookers into what sounds like a big deal—34 felonies. Don’t be fooled. As former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr,…

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The Source of Our Freedom Is Our Creator, Not Government

April 5, 2023
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Commentary It is a unique and special time now because Christians, Jews, and Muslims all are engaged in major holidays of religious contemplation and renewal. Christians with Holy Week and Easter, Jews with Passover, and Muslims with Ramadan. We’re talking billions around the world. So, although in our time there has been a retreat in…

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DeSantis Wins Over Pennsylvania Grassroots Activists and Leaves No Doubt He’s Running

April 5, 2023
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Commentary CAMP HILL, Pennsylvania—Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) left little doubt during his speech Saturday to Keystone State conservatives gathered for the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference: He is running for the Republican nomination for president. Nothing and no one will get in his way of doing that. “We have a responsibility to preserve what the founders…

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More Dangerous: Humans or AI?

April 5, 2023
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Commentary I was on an Australian TV program last week when the host, a respected and long-serving figure of the conservative media, decided to allow ChatGPT (an AI text generator) to draft the next segment about itself. As he was reading the AI-generated script from the prompter, it sounded perfectly reasonable—albeit hollow and devoid of…

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