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Protecting girls remains political winner

National Columnists

Keeping men out of women’s sports is smart policy and smart politics. Just look at what happened recently in Nevada. Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo recently rolled out the Protect Girls’ Sports initiative. As the name implies, he wants to amend the Nevada Constitution to keep biological boys and men from participating in girls’ and women’s sports. While the exact language hasn’t been released, this is fantastic news. In Fall 2024, the University of Nevada, Reno’s volleyball team was scheduled to play against San Jose State. The problem was that the San Jose State team included ...

What you see, hear depends on where you stand

National Columnists

“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” - C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew Let’s start with the shooting of Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent while attempting to drive away from the scene of an ICE operation. Moments after the first videos were available the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz blamed ICE and called the shooting unnecessary. The leftist activist group that Good was reportedly part of is dedicated to tracking and “resisting” ...

$1.5 trillion defense budget is needed

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Finally, the United States will follow through on its NATO commitments. That’d be the cheeky interpretation of President Donald Trump’s announcement, via Truth Social, that he wants the U.S. defense budget to be $1.5 trillion. This would represent a stunning 50% increase over the current budget and put the U.S. right around 5% of GDP, the target level that NATO countries recently adopted at Trump’s insistence. The details and follow-through will matter, but on its own terms, the Trump declaration is of epic significance. Such a historic buildup would meet the moment — ...

Cyberbullying: Getting to heart of matter

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The Associated Press recently reported on the disturbing rise of deepfake bullying that is occurring in schools throughout the country. AI-generated technology allows users to maliciously alter classmates’ images and create videos of them. AP writer Heather Hollingsworth mentions an incident in a Louisiana middle school last year in which AI-generated nude images were created by two boys. Hollingsworth called this “a nightmare for the victims” due to how these fabricated photos quickly circulate across social media and go viral. And it’s not just students that schools have to ...

There are ways to prevent fraud, waste

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Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota Democrat, who might have become vice president had Kamala Harris won the November election, has announced he will not be seeking a third term. The alleged fraud involving day care centers and allegations that federal aid went to outside entities, including China and East Africa, apparently forced his decision. A trial opened last week in Mississippi where it is alleged several nonprofits fraudulently re-directed $77 million in federal money to enrich themselves. We regularly hear complaints of “waste, fraud and abuse” in Washington. Politicians make ...

Maduro is getting what he deserved

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It was almost six years ago — during the COVID-19 pandemic — that then-Attorney General Bill Barr called a “virtual press conference” to announce that the Justice Department was taking action against Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. “Today, I am here to talk about the former Maduro regime and its direct participation in narco-terrorism, corruption, money laundering, and drug trafficking,” Barr said on March 26, 2020. “As you will hear, the Department of Justice is announcing the unsealing of a superseding indictment filed in the Southern District of New York against four ...