Tag: Opinion

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Facts and arguments don’t change minds. Here’s what does

Julian Adorney · December 27, 2023 1:02 pm

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AOC’s moral, religious, and historic Christmas confusion

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2023 12:46 pm

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Terrifying the public about COVID or other health concerns is bad for their health

Timothy P. Carney · December 27, 2023 12:33 pm

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on October 23, 2023 in Washington, DC. During the event Biden spoke on how his administration's "Bidenomics" agenda would invest in technology for people in the United States.

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Is Biden about to suffer President Taft’s century-old fate?

J.T. Young · December 27, 2023 11:49 am

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Startling surprises in latest census numbers

Michael Barone · December 27, 2023 9:21 am

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 18, 2023.

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‘Swatting’ should carry tougher penalties and be vigorously prosecuted

Zachary Faria · December 26, 2023 10:30 pm

In this Dec. 12, 2016 file photo, current United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, clasps hands with U.N. Secretary-General designate Antonio Guterres after Guterres was sworn in at U.N. headquarters.

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Congress should compel current and former UN leaders to explain their failures

Washington Examiner · December 26, 2023 3:12 pm

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Medicaid spending is on the rise — progressive policies are to blame

Sally Pipes · December 26, 2023 3:06 pm

Gov. John Bel Edwards talks about an expected $300 million-plus surplus Louisiana will have from the last budget year, while Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne and Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson listen to his remarks, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La.

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Criminal justice reformers can’t stop misleading the public

Zachary Faria · December 26, 2023 3:04 pm

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Can we stop fetishizing China’s planned economy?

Timothy P. Carney · December 26, 2023 2:53 pm

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, in Durham, New Hampshire. The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 19, declared Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitutionâs insurrection clause and removed him from the stateâs presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nationâs highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.

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Colorado’s partisan Supreme Court strikes again

Jimmy Sengenberger · December 26, 2023 12:06 pm

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt delivers his State of the State address in Oklahoma City on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022.

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Oklahoma is just the latest state condemning DEI

Jonathan Butcher · December 26, 2023 10:39 am