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Sometimes best friends are hard to come by, and I’ve had more than my fair share of them over the years. My first was Donna Gail Hall. We were in the second grade, inseparable, and competitive for the top grades all through elementary school.
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The reaction to the rescue of four Israeli hostages from Gaza is a microcosm of the past 70 years of this conflict. Every time Palestinians pay the price for acting out in some horrific, irrational, self-destructive, violent way, their defenders want to rewind history to a more convenient moment -- this time to Oct. 6, 2023.
Read moreTyler O’Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
Read moreHans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. J. Christian Adams is the president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights, and a former Justice Department Voting Section attorney.
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The American Energy Institute recently released a paper rebutting an analysis done by the Oklahoma Rural Association (ORA) that claimed Oklahoma’s anti-ESG law, the Oklahoma Energy Discrimination ACT (OEDA), has cost taxpayers money. The main focus of the ORA analysis is the claim that the OEDA has disrupted the bond market in Oklahoma in a way that raises costs on municipal projects resulting in fewer projects and increased taxes for these projects.
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In last week’s European Parliamentary elections, citizens in country after country rejected leftwing policies. Predictably, left-leaning major media outlets across the globe the Associated Press, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vox, Politico, the Guardian -- decried these results as Europe “lurching” to the “far right.” Vox warned that the success of right-wing parties was the result of “increasing authoritarianism and non-democratic trends” throughout the world and warned that these trends were “deeply associated with fascism and Nazism.”
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