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It may be a fun exercise to dunk on your political, but for the long-term health of our political discourse, it’s much more effective to be kind.

A Catholic university should know better than to promote harmful pseudoscience dressed up as compassionate care.

Rep.-elect Burgess Owens, a former Super Bowl champ who went broke after the NFL, comes to Congress with a nine-word message to inspire others: "If I can do it, you can do it."

Jacobin study finds that Wokeism alienates working class voters outside of metropolitan areas

Beto O'Rourke, the erstwhile congressman from El Paso, Texas, is about to go down in his attempt to unseat Governor Greg Abbott

It looks like the Berners aren’t giving up, even after losing the fight to cheatin’ Hillary! They’re doing something very clever at the convention since it’s being reported …

MADISON — As the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) faces

President Trump congratulated the country after the first coronavirus vaccine was administered in New York.“Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD!” he tweeted. First Vaccine Administered. Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Kaylee Greenlee  Over 1,000 Afghan children were brought to the U.S. without their parents as part of U.S. efforts to evacuate allies after the country

Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams conceded Tuesday's election, but said she "won’t stop running for a better Georgia" despite coming up short.

This is disturbing.

A federal jury in Virginia convicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on eight counts of bank and tax fraud, making him the first campaign associate of President Trump found guilty by a jury as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.

U.S.—After Bernie Sanders praised elements of Cuba's totalitarian regime, the presidential candidate's loyal supporters scrambled to cobble together makeshift rafts so they could paddle over to Cuba to experience the Communist island's renowned literacy programs, medical care, and other social services.Desperate refugees clung to anything tha …

The CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, a voting machine and software company, will answer questions from legislators in ...

Biden claims Americans just don't understand...

Yoel Roth, who briefly assumed fired exec Vijaya Gadde's role as head of Trust & Safety, has left Elon Musk's company, along with other key executives including the chief compliance officer, chief privacy officer, and head of sales.

The 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S. today “crossed our borders like so many before them” yet they don’t have a vote, “but they must have a voice” in the Democratic Party and “our nation,” former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told the Democratic National Convention Thursday night in Philadelphia.

“Wow!!! He’s admitting he BOUGHT those seats! OMG! https://t.co/8TlBRJCLcM”

Supervisors in San Francisco approved a resolution Tuesday condemning the naming of the city's public hospital for Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan.

The latest report by Syndicated Analytics titled “Titanium Butoxide Production Plant Cost: Capital Investment, Manufacturing Process, Raw Materials, Operating

The commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection has reportedly been ordered to quit or be fired. He's arrogantly refusing to step down.

At a Dubai press conference for his latest film, "Suicide Squad," Will Smith discusses Donald Trump, Islamophobia and negative reviews. (Aug. 8) Subscribe fo...

Pope Francis has recommended parents seek psychiatric help for children who show homosexual tendencies, during a press conference on his plane taking him back to Rome from Ireland.

Attorney General Bill Barr said some self-proclaimed "progressives" have become increasingly militant and totalitarian in their collectivist and revolutionary policies. In a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention on Wednesday, Barr said the goal of the progressive movement is to create a permanent coalition of able-bodied citizens dependent on government. ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR: While many factors have contributed to the polarized politics of today, I think one significant reason our politics has become so intense and so ill-tempered is that some in the so-called "progressive" movement have broken away from the fold of liberal democracy to pursue a society more in line with the thinking of Rousseau than that of our nation's Founders. That has played a major role in our politics becoming less like a disagreement within a family, and more like a blood feud between two different clans. Over the past few decades, those further to the left have increasingly identified themselves as "progressives" rather than "liberals." And some of these self-proclaimed "progressives" have become increasingly militant and totalitarian in their style. While they seek power through the democratic process, their policy agenda has become more aggressively collectivist, socialist, and explicitly revolutionary. The crux of the progressive program is to use the public purse to provide ever-increasing benefits to the public and to, thereby, build a permanent constituency of supporters who are also dependents. They want able-bodied citizens to become more dependent, subject to greater control, and increasingly supportive of dependency. The tacit goal of this project is to convert all of us into 25 year-olds living in the government's basement, focusing our energies on obtaining a larger allowance rather than getting a job and moving out. Political philosophers since Aristotle have worried that democracies are vulnerable to just this form of corruption. Probably the greatest chronicler of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, foresaw that American democracy would be susceptible to this evolution. As he described it, our society was vulnerable to a soft despotism wherein the majority would gradually let itself be taken care of by the state - much like dependent children. Yet this process would be slow and imperceptible. The tyranny that results, Tocqueville wrote, "does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces action, but it constantly opposes your acting; it does not destroy, it prevents birth; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, it represses, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupifies, and finally it reduces [the people] to being nothing more than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." It would be totalitarianism beneath a veneer of democratic choice. As Tocqueville summed it up: "By this system the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master and then relapse into it again." Historically, our country has relied on a number of bulwarks against this slide toward despotism, each of which has been essential in preserving the liberty that has defined our democracy. Today, I would like to discuss three institutions that have served this vital purpose: religion, the decentralization of government power, and the free press. The sad fact is that all three have eroded in recent decades. At the end of the day, if we are to preserve our liberal democracy from the meretricious appeal of socialism and the strain of progressivism I have described, we must turn our attention to revivifying these vital institutions.

Former “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe is speaking out against President elect-Joe Biden’s proposal to forgive student loans, saying the debt burden should lie with the borrower, not the taxpayer, and that the real issue is the sky-high cost of tuition and the “preposterous push to peddle a four-year degree to every person with a pulse.”