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No One Should Be Surprised by the Depraved Radicalism on College Campuses
- The Left’s radical alphabet soup—DEI, CRT, BLM, ESG, etc.—that has high positions at elite institutions are Marxist groups or concepts dedicated to societal destruction, not reform.
- Pushing “decolonization” is not a metaphor. It means real destruction for an end goal.
- That’s why Americans are seeing campus protests accept the rapes of Jewish women, beheading of babies and other barbarity as justified (or worse unproven) for the sake of “decolonization.”
- Colleges and universities handed the keys to the likes of Hamas sympathizers long ago. Even if these radical ideologies recede, it will take years to fix these institutions.
- One way to begin is by defunding higher education schools that refuse to policy the behavior of faculty, staff, and students when they engage in unscholarly and monstrous behavior.
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Democratic Governance Can Get Messy
- It’s been two weeks since the U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove Kevin McCarthy from his position as speaker—a historical first. The search for his successor continues.
- Stronger leaders understand that the American people are sick and tired of business as usual. They are looking for bold leadership and systemic change. It is why many members of Congress are standing up in unprecedented ways to change how Washington works.
- We should be grateful for those members who are taking back the power of their offices in order to represent the interests of their constituents, no matter how chaotic it may seem.
- The next Speaker of the House must unite conservatives behind policies that secure the border, cut spending, and put American families at the center of their decisions.
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Big Box Retailers Pocketed Free Checking Account Perks - Now They Want Your Credit Card Rewards
- If Big Box retailers get their way through the Orwellian-named Credit Card Competition Act, credit card users will be paying more in fees and higher interest rates while earning fewer rewards as merchants try to shift their costs onto you.
- The Credit Card Competition Act would arbitrarily force dozens of the leading credit-card issuing banks to add at least one alternative interchange platform to process the credit transactions.
- This congressional interference in the credit card would result in diminished proceeds distributed to your bank for credit card rewards programs, fraud prevention, and customer support.
- This is crony capitalism at its worst. This meddling at the behest of big box retailers amounts to more than just cost shifting - it results in higher total costs and diminished service. This is one so-called reform that should come back “declined.”
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