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- Jury verdict against oil industry worries critics, could drive up energy costsProponents say the payments are overdue, but critics say the lawsuits will hike energy costs for all Americans and are wrongly supplanting the state and federal regulatory framework already in place.
- Two U.S. border inspectors charged with allegedly accepting bribesThe inspectors allegedly waived people in without documents
- Texas Senate passes bill to prohibit sex changes on birth certificatesThe Texas Senate passed a bill to prohibit individuals in Texas from changing their biological sex on their birth certificates in most cases. It was filed after some judges and school officials appear to be circumventing state law that bans biological men and boys from
- American military base retailers would exclude 4 hostile nations under proposalU.S. Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., also wants to terminate existing contracts with companies untruthful about foreign ownership; require national security review of on-base retailers with foreign ties; and be sure future retail agreements on military bases have transparency and oversight.
- Hockey Immortality: Alex Ovechkin surpasses Wayne Gretzky to become NHL’s all-time scorerRussian-born star, known as the ‘Great 8," scored for his Washington Capitals in the second period of a game against the New York Islanders.
Real Clear Politics
- Tariffs About a LOT More Than Reducing Trade DeficitPULSE POINTS:
What Happened: President Trump imposed a 10% blanket global tariff and additional reciprocal tariffs this week, aimed at reshaping both the U.S. and global economies-not just fixing trade deficits.
Who's Involved: President Donald J. Trump, his economic team (including chief economic advisor Stephen Miran), and U.S. importers/exporters. Global trading partners are watching closely.
Key […]
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Dennis Prager
- The Democrats’ 2020 Victory Was a Blessing in DisguiseI never imagined I would think, let alone write, that the Democratic Party’s victory in 2020 was a blessing. But for those of us — meaning, it is now clear, a majority of us — who regard the Left as an entirely destructive force in America as it is everywhere else in the world, 2020 […]
- Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral RealmIt may be impossible to overstate the damage done to morality by the Democrats and other leftists calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi and declaring him “Hitler.” Asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN if she believes Trump is a “fascist,” Kamala Harris said, “Yes, I do.” With regard to calling Trump “Hitler,” Newsweek’s […]
- The Secular Keep Me ReligiousI have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my — or any — religion doesn’t make sense, I don’t accept it. That’s why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is titled “The Rational Bible.” This strikes more than a few religious people as problematic, since many […]
- Israel Made the West. Israel Is Saving the West.It is a truism that the West was formed by Athens and Jerusalem — meaning the rational thinking introduced by Greece and the moral and religious thought introduced by Israel. Of the two, Jerusalem’s contribution was the more enduring. Relatively few Westerners read Aristotle and Plato. Virtually every citizen of the West — even the […]
- People Hate Those Who Fight Evil Far More Than Those Who Are EvilI realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school. I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil. What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to […]