Publication: Washington Examiner

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Every year, the Heritage Foundation ranks countries around the world on their economic freedom. It’s a kind of capitalism index .  But analysis shows that the most economically “free” countries also register the highest scores on Yale University’s EPI environmental index.

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Indoor mask mandates are not fascism, but it is dangerously authoritarian for governments to arrest people for maskless outdoor picnics. Surely there’s an acceptable (if not entirely happy) medium whereby some people accept a bit of discomfort while others allow a realm for private choice amid uncertain and competing risks.

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The Biden administration is willfully dooming thousands of its citizens to die at the hands of the Taliban. That’s America last.

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It is long past time for American politicians to adopt the Asian cultural model of resignations, as a matter of honor, for gross failures or derelictions. A “culture of shame ” would do much to restore faith in our institutions by reasserting a sense of personal responsibility to a political culture most see as being more about personal aggrandizement. In Biden’s case, there is more than enough to be ashamed of.

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All U.S. allies should be aware: America does not have their back.

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When he first took office, President Joe Biden reportedly told his advisers he wants to be the next Franklin D. Roosevelt. But less than a year into his presidency, with an economic crisis mounting and a foreign policy humiliation stinging, it is clear Biden is just like Jimmy Carter, but worse.

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The fact that millions of fans may listen uncritically to the pro-abortion opinions of Simone Biles and others should concern us…That’s why it’s important to have celebrities such as Kanye West, Tim Tebow, and Nick Cannon, who have massive platforms and have spoken out against abortion over the years.

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As usual, many media outlets jumped on the false narrative that a Colorado Rockies fan was shouting the N-word at a game. Their eagerness to smear a random man as a racist based on unclear audio should not be forgotten. The Rockies investigated the claim and determined that the fan had actually been yelling out the name of the team’s mascot, Dinger.

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The state still has some work to do to boost its vaccination rate, but to claim that this recent spike proves DeSantis has been a failure is just not true. He’s been much better than most state leaders, and he has the numbers to prove it.

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The Senate infrastructure bill spends too much money, adding too much debt, for too many unnecessary projects while using too many budgetary gimmicks to claim it is “paid for” when it is not.  All of that is before considering that Democratic leaders want to treat it as a package deal with an even more bloated and irresponsible social spending bill.

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It cannot be easy to lead the agency that handles infectious diseases in the midst of an international pandemic. Still, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should at least be able to prove she is up to the task. Dr. Rochelle Walensky has repeatedly proved herself unfit and unreliable. She needs to go.

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Biden vowed that he would pick a female vice president, pigeonholing himself into having limited options for his running mate. There are plenty of women out there who would make great vice presidents. However, Biden selected Kamala Harris, and his party may pay for that.

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The CDC guidance isn’t just disastrous public policy that disincentivizes vaccination — it’s also based on bogus science. The crux of the new guidance rests on a single Indian study on coronavirus transmission among vaccinated hospital workers. Not only is the study not properly peer-reviewed, but it also models the effect of vaccines not even authorized in the U.S. 

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Given that President Joe Biden has won strong approval ratings on his handling of COVID-19, both he and the narrow Democratic congressional majorities have a lot riding on the trajectory of the virus over the next few months.

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Credibility is an essential component of any successful public health campaign. As federal officials push for everyone to get vaccinated and avoid infection by the delta variant, they cannot afford to rely on those who have forfeited the public trust. For that reason, it is time to fire Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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The NBA has bled regular and casual viewers thanks to its progressive political turn. Whether the league can entice them back by taking a more apolitical turn is anyone’s guess. But given the league’s decadelong ratings decline, it would surely be worth a try.

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Sports Illustrated did something new and outrage-inducing this year to get attention for the dying publication’s swimsuit issue. This time around, one of the three covers will feature Leyna Bloom, a biologically male, 27-year-old transgender woman.

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The hostility toward the vaccine hesitant makes much more sense once you understand why there are still so many in the vaccine-hesitant camp. They’re not all conspiracy theorists, and they’re not morons. They’re people who have been let down and lied to by public health officials, and the concerns that have arisen from this breach of trust are legitimate.

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The pandemic was exploited by proponents of big government and used to usher in unprecedented restrictions on individual freedom, mind-boggling levels of government spending, and an expansion of the welfare state that would make FDR blush. And, now, even with huge swaths of the public vaccinated and case counts and deaths a tiny fraction of what they once were, some power-hungry government officials aren’t willing to let this crisis end. 

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Biden is supersizing the entitlement state of America at a pace that makes LBJ’s Great Society initiatives seem like a fiscal bargain. By the way, that was the infamous War on Poverty that spent more than $5 trillion over the next 25 years, and as the old saying goes: We fought a war on poverty and poverty won.

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Before this era of all-out leftism among Democrats, their party’s politicians used to show proud anti-communist colors. Today, it takes more courage for Biden to do the right thing than it did for JFK. He must tell his party’s radicals, people who still romanticize mass murderers such as Castro and Che Guevara, to pound sand.

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While we all debate what critical race theory is and whether lawmakers should ban it from public schools, every honest person should agree on one thing: This theory is behind the curricula in school districts all over the country, shaping the minds of unsuspecting, malleable children.

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Avenatti’s rise and fall is yet another mark against a media that are already struggling to be taken seriously by a distrusting public. Newsrooms willingly latched on to the attorney because they latched on to anything in the Trump era that stood upright and said, “The president is bad.”

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For an individual who relied so heavily on garnering attention, both positive and negative, this descent into relative obscurity could prove fatal to the former president’s political clout.  Becoming the speaker of the House provides an answer to that threat.