Kate Scanlon is a former news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said today she doesn’t know Jonathan Gruber, the man credited with helping congressional Democrats draft Obamacare. “I don’t know… Read More
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Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and the hosts of “Fox & Friends” engaged in a contentious debate about Obamacare yesterday as comments from the law’s architect… Read More
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Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber’s remarks about the “stupidity of the American voter” and a “lack of transparency” as factors necessary to passing Obamacare have spurred… Read More
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Former Sen. Jim DeMint is skeptical that President Obama will be able to work with the new Republican congressional majority. DeMint, now president of The… Read More
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The last continuously serving Vietnam War draftee, who remained on active duty for 42 years, has retired. According to the Army Times, Chief Warrant Officer 5… Read More
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Republican candidate Ed Gillespie trails Democratic Sen. Mark Warner by 16,727 votes in Virginia’s razor-thin U.S. Senate race. It’s so close the Associated Press won’t… Read More
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On Tuesday, Saira Blair of West Virginia became the youngest state lawmaker-elect in the nation. Blair is an 18-year-old freshman at West Virginia University. According… Read More
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Congresswoman-elect Mia Love of Utah’s fourth district is the first black female Republican elected to Congress. During a CNN interview regarding her election, host John… Read More
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A group of Senate conservatives vowed to “use all procedural means necessary” to fight back against President Obama’s use of executive action to grant amnesty… Read More
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In the wave of Republican victories Tuesday, one traditionally Democratic measure succeeded in several conservative-leaning states. Minimum wage ballot initiatives passed in Arkansas, Nebraska and… Read More
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An anonymous Virginia voter has posted a YouTube video of a voting machine selecting the wrong candidate. In the video, the voter attempts to select… Read More
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What makes a midterm election different from a presidential election? Midterm elections obviously differ from presidential elections as the president is not on the ballot,… Read More
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Several celebrities who promised to “Rock the Vote” aren’t voting. Rock the Vote, an organization that seeks to bring Millennials to the polls, recently released… Read More
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What job is most heavily concentrated in your state? A new map from Business Insider uses the newly released May 2013 Occupational Employment Statistics to… Read More
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The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia previewed the new George H.W. Bush Gallery last week and displayed its hallmark exhibition, “Constituting Liberty: From the Declaration to the… Read More
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Half of Hispanics don’t think it matters who controls the senate after the November election, according to a new poll. When asked. “If control of… Read More
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Houston Mayor Annise Parker received a surprise after her order to subpoena the sermons of pastors. Bibles have been sent to her office from all… Read More
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A Massachusetts town might become the first in the nation to ban all tobacco sales, according to the Boston Globe. Westminster, Mass. is a town… Read More
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USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page is the latest in a series of journalists to criticize the White House on transparency. At a White… Read More
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., delivered a speech on Thursday outlining his foreign policy philosophy. Paul, widely regarded as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, delivered his… Read More
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Students in a Nebraska school district have another item they may now incorporate into their senior portraits: their guns. At the request of parents, Broken… Read More
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Next spring, thousands could be cut from Indiana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Indiana has previously waived the federal requirement that SNAP recipients are either employed,… Read More
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If you live in America today and you believe things are terrific, you’re … well … deeply in the minority. According to a new Politico… Read More
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A Sikh woman had an article of her faith taken from her as she entered a federal building–despite having a judge’s permission to bring it… Read More
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Thousands of federal employees are being kept on paid leave for extended periods of time while they are investigated for wrongdoing, according to a new… Read More
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Mitt Romney took a lot of heat on the campaign trail in 2012 for saying that “corporations are people …everything corporations earn ultimately goes to… Read More
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At a Maryland campaign stop Sunday, members of the crowd at a Democratic campaign rally left as President Obama was still speaking. Obama attended a… Read More
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An Oklahoma student has sparked outrage about federal school lunch guidelines after taking a picture of her meager lunch. Kaytlin Shelton’s lunch consisted of a… Read More
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White House reporters are testing a system to circumvent White House involvement in the distribution of press “pool” reports. As The Daily Signal previously reported, Obama… Read More
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Move over, flash mobs. Mass Mobs are here. Inspired by flash mobs, groups of Catholics have started Mass Mobs, an effort to gather the faithful… Read More
