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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently declined to decide, prior to the November election, issues related to mail-in ballots in the state. It rejected a request by left-leaning groups to force counties to count mail-in ballots that lack a date or have an incorrect date next to the voter signature on the return envelope. That simple… Continue reading PA Supreme Court Effectively Preserves Requirement to Date Mail-Ins

When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime. But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that… Continue reading Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats

American journalism has experienced a spectacular collapse in the last 25 years – daily newspaper circulation has declined from over 60 million subscribers to just over 20 million. And the trend is accelerating: According to the Pew Research Organization, the average monthly number of unique visitors to the websites of the country’s top 50 newspapers plummeted 20% in one… Continue reading Buying the News: How Leftwing Donors Are Taking Over Local Journalism

Feeling down about the state of American politics? Citizen Nation, a four-part documentary series premiering on PBS this week, provides a dose of civic inspiration that will leave you feeling optimistic about the future of our democracy. Produced by the nonprofit RetroReport, Citizen Nation follows several groups of teenagers over ten months across eight states as they prepare… Continue reading Citizen Nation: An Intimate Look at Students and Teachers

Although the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Congress last month that it had $4 billion in its Disaster Relief Fund, officials also warned that the Fund could have a shortfall of $6 billion by year’s end, a situation FEMA says could deteriorate in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. While FEMA is expected to ask Congress for new… Continue reading Untapped Relief: FEMA Is Sitting on Billions of Unused Disaster Funds

By Lee Fang, RealClearInvestigationsOctober 3, 2024 “A bun in the toaster oven,” a woman exclaims off-camera, handing an ultrasound image to family members who erupt into tearful emotion over the news. “Oh my God!”  The touching baby announcement video then gets down to business as text appears on the screen amidst the ongoing celebration, suggesting the best way… Continue reading Nondisclosure: Vaccine Ad Blitz Sidestepped Transparency Rules

In the years before the Civil War, slaveholders were the greatest threat to free speech in the United States. White Southerners used state laws, a congressional gag rule, suppression of the mail, and physical violence to silence abolitionist speech because they believed it was dangerous. In 1830, for example, Louisiana penalized anyone using “language in… Continue reading Why Slaveholders Restricted Free Speech

Over the past several years, I’ve watched with sadness as the reputation of medical science has taken it on the chin. The pandemic polluted the public’s opinion of the purity of science and nobility of medicine. Worst of all, science was taken hostage as much as truth was. True scientists and honest doctors, asking important… Continue reading From Controversy to Cutting-Edge: The Fountain of Youth

By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsSeptember 29, 2024 As most public schools struggle to recover the profound learning loss tied to the pandemic, students in Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District are racing ahead, leaving the dark days of COVID behind.  Boulder Valley’s notable 2024 test scores, which easily surpassed its math and reading marks in 2019, are not… Continue reading Education’s Bottom Line: Schools Embrace Business Principles to Measure Performance