The New York Times recently posed a question that should never have needed asking in a free country: “Should We Read ‘Huck Finn’?” Their answer, wrapped in the usual hand-wringing about “slurs,” “job-endangering conversations” and the delicate feelings of students, amounts to a soft surrender. Educators are quietly dropping Mark...

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The tragic apparent suicide of Jason Arday should force Western universities to ask an uncomfortable (but morally necessary) question: “What happens when the pursuit of diversity becomes so important that the appropriate standards of achievement, verification and accountability are treated as secondary?” In 2023, Arday was appointed Professor of Sociology...

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An all-time high number of Americans say they smoke marijuana despite their cigarette use matching a record low, according to a Gallup poll out Monday. Of those surveyed, 17% of Americans said they use marijuana, matching Gallup’s record high from 2023. Meanwhile, the estimated number of U.S. adults who reported...

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Military action returned to the Persian Gulf Sunday as American forces attacked Iranian rocket launchers. "I can confirm that earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces ​were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait ​of Hormuz," a U.S....

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Eight years before COVID emerged, a journalist issued a prophetic warning that risky viral research could usher in “doomsday” and damage the reputation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Anthony Fauci groused in an email to an aide about that warning, then instructed the aide to permanently delete the...

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Earlier this month, news broke that a Chinese Communist Party intelligence official now owns a building overlooking the White House. Also this month, the House Select Committee on China released another investigative report on the CCP’s infiltration of American higher education. Somehow, also this month, Defending Education released a report on...

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A conservative advocacy group, in a recent report, accused multiple companies of embracing certain left-wing practices. “7Eleven, Carhartt, DraftKings, Duluth Trading Co, Traeger, Bank of America, BlackRock, and Nike are evidence Woke is still alive and well in corporate America,” Consumers’ Research claimed in a report Friday. The report comes weeks after multiple Democratic...

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The towers are gone in all but memory, but the death brought to New York City 25 years ago on 9/11 continues to impact the city, leaving a trail of victims. As the nation prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, cancer deaths linked to the attack...

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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has given the public another reason to doubt the efforts of COVID czar Anthony Fauci were benevolent, as the former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases repeatedly told recipients of his emails to delete them after reading. In late July, Fauci...

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Unless you'd like to face prison time, do not assault federal officers. That's not a "hot take" or a piece of advice that requires advanced legal training, but common sense that most Americans understand. New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver does not appear to be most Americans and is now...

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A top prosecutor who has worked in New York Attorney General Letitia James' office for two years has alleged he was instructed to target President Donald Trump and his allies with lawfare. New York Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld made the bombshell accusation in an internal email sent Friday morning...

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One person was killed and 15 others were missing after floods raged through the Grand Canyon on Sunday. The flash flood sent boulders into the Colorado River and ruined the only pipeline that provided drinkable water to tourists and residents, the National Park Service said, according to KNXV-TV. Footbridges were...

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A light has shown through in the absolute darkness that was a shooting at a family gathering in Billings, Montana. ABC News reported that eight people, including four children, are dead after 44-year-old Alan Michael Smith opened fire on Aug. 23 during a dinner the group was having. Victims were...

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Federal agents arrested 95 illegal immigrant truck drivers in Arizona this month, and most of them were carrying commercial licenses issued by California. U.S. Customs and Border Protection ran the operation in the Yuma Sector between Aug. 10 and Aug. 14, Fox News reported. All 95 drivers had state-issued commercial...

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Meghan Markle posted family photos from Althorp, the Spencer estate where Princess Diana is buried, and columnist Maureen Callahan called the decision vulgar. The pictures went up on Instagram in July under the caption “Summer Holiday,” Vanity Fair reported. One image showed Prince Harry walking a tree-lined path with Archie,...

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President Donald Trump promised on Sunday that "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission for saying his endorsements this election season have produced "mixed results." Appearing on the Washington, D.C., NBC affiliate WRC-TV over the weekend, Welker acknowledged that Trump will "loom large...

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Alan Smith, a 44-year-old Montana man, slaughtered eight family members including four children during their weekly dinner after being instructed by his parents to move out weeks earlier. Smith then turned the gun on himself. According to a New York Post interview with Brad Ireland, whose two children and ex-wife...

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Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that Democratic Socialists are completely separate from the Democratic Party and hold radical views on many major issues. Emanuel, a Democrat who served in the Obama administration before becoming mayor of Chicago in 2011, appeared on "Fox News Sunday," where...

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Communities that reject data centers are being short-sighted, according to President Donald Trump. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “If they want to be successful and rich,...

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Biden-era issues with air traffic controllers appear to be fading away thanks to President Donald Trump ditching DEI policies. According to Just The News, President Trump has prioritized meritorious applicants in job hiring instead of DEI quotas, which has set air traffic control networks on a path to growth in...

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Former President Barack Obama is returning to the campaign trail ahead of November's midterm elections. "Obama is headlining a fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Monday for his former Attorney General Eric Holder’s organization, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, after Republicans netted at least 10 additional GOP-leaning congressional districts through...

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