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Democracy Is Another Form of Tyranny
During President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, we’ll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our Founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears… -
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What You Need to Know About the Legal Battle Over Equal Rights Amendment
Tom Jipping, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, joins the podcast to explain the Equal Rights Amendment. He also discusses why Virginia technically can’t be the 38th state to ratify it—even though the Legislature claimed Monday to have done so. Listen on the podcast, or read a lightly edited transcript of the interview,… -
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‘Danger, Danger, Danger’: 4 Highlights From Final Day of Defense Arguments in Impeachment Trial
President Donald Trump’s lawyers briskly completed final arguments against removing their client from office Tuesday, taking a fraction of the 24 hours allotted to them in the Senate impeachment trial. Their wrapup Tuesday after less than two hours—following two hours Saturday and eight hours Monday—was a stark contrast from House Democrats’ impeachment managers. The Democrats… -
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Leftist Values Are Causing Young Americans to Be Miserable
I began part one of “Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?” with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people in America (and elsewhere, but I am focusing on America). The rates of suicide, self-injury, depression, mass shootings, and loneliness (at all ages) are higher than ever recorded. It seems… -
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Russia’s Plan to Move on the Arctic
Aggression by Iran and trade with China may dominate U.S. foreign policy headlines, but a plan recently announced by Russia to increase its presence in the Arctic should command our attention. The Northern Sea Route Development Plan—known as Plan NSP—marks a 15-year effort by Russia to strengthen its involvement in the Arctic by focusing on… -
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Why These 8 Americans Attended the March for Life
Tens of thousands of men, women, and children from across the nation gathered in Washington to declare their belief in the sanctity of life and protest abortion as the taking of life. The 47th annual March for Life, like its predecessors, protested the Supreme Court’s landmark 7-2 ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973, which legalized… -
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Trump Offers Middle East Peace Deal: ‘We Have an Obligation to Humanity to Get It Done’
President Donald Trump, rolling out a Middle East peace plan Tuesday, acknowledged that other presidents since the 1960s have tried and failed to reach a lasting deal between Israel and the Palestinians. “I wasn’t elected to do small things or shy away from big problems,” Trump said to applause in the East Room of the… -
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How My Fight for Student-Led Prayer Took Me to the White House
How does a young man find himself standing behind the president of the United States in the Oval Office of the White House? I invited a friend to pray with me. Actually, I invited several friends during my freshman year at Pine Creek High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We had a free period in… -
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Nancy Pelosi Says House Democrats Will Vote to Block Trump’s Travel Ban
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that House Democrats will soon introduce legislation that aims to block President Donald Trump’s ban on several countries. Pelosi revealed in a press release on Monday that Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will introduce and vote on the so-called NO BAN Act, which would limit the White House’s authority… -
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Baby Tinslee Lewis and the Difficult End-of-Life Care Debate
Tinslee Lewis, a very sick year-old baby, is at the intersection of a bitter Texas debate over current law and ethical responsibilities in end-of-life care. Texas hospital officials want to withdraw Tinslee’s life-support—after having given her mother 10 days to find alternate care for the baby, which is what Texas law requires. Trinity Lewis, the… -
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Faulty Assumptions Lead to Fake News About Climate Change
Climate change soon will constitute “a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters,” one government study predicted. By 2020, according to a report on the study in The Guardian, “abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure… -
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Enforce Rule Barring Green Cards for Migrants Using Social Services
The Supreme Court Monday allowed the Trump administration to enforce a new rule that will deny green cards to foreign nationals who use taxpayer-funded social services, lifting lower court injunctions that blocked the change. The 5-4 vote followed familiar ideological lines, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan in dissent…. -
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Podcast: Glenn Beck Discusses Impeachment, the Future, and Our Founding Principles
Today we have an exclusive interview with Blaze Media’s Glenn Beck on a range of topics, including our national debt, the fate of America’s Republic experiment, and traditional values. Plus: We talk about basketball great Kobe Bryant’s legacy. We also cover these stories: Ken Starr, a member of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, told… -
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Virginia’s Recent Extremism a Warning Sign for Other States
The Old Dominion is trending in an ominous direction, and it’s a problem for the whole country. On Monday, the Virginia General Assembly ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. Advocates of the ERA have argued that Virginia is the 38th and final state needed to add it to the Constitution, though the legal argument for that… -
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Under Bolton Shadow, 6 Big Moments From Day 6 of Trump Impeachment Trial
President Donald Trump’s lawyers hit the Senate floor Monday for the second day of defense arguments in his impeachment trial, amid what Democrats called a bombshell from a forthcoming book by the president’s former national security adviser, John Bolton. The Bolton book wasn’t a direct topic during the arguments. But the president’s lawyers addressed the… -
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Be Inspired, Heritage Foundation President Exhorts Young Pro-Life Activists
A personal connection to their cause drives her daily, Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James told a gathering of young, pro-life Americans in Washington. “When you have been at this for 40 years, you cannot imagine the joy of seeing a crowd this size,” James said Saturday to more than 3,000 attendees, most of them… -
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Auschwitz Reminds Us That the Fight Against Evil Is Never Over
KYIV, Ukraine—Monday marks the 75th anniversary of the day Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration and extermination camp. At Auschwitz, the Nazis murdered more than 1 million men, women, and children, mostly Jews, during the Holocaust. I have been to Auschwitz only once. It was a long time ago, in February of 2006…. -
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Trump Administration Takes on California’s Abortion Funding Coercion
President Donald Trump wasn’t the only one making history at this year’s March for Life. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar put an even bigger exclamation point on the day when he broke news at Family Research Council headquarters about new action the agency was taking. After four years of watching California attack its… -
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How Drag Queen Story Hour Expanded Across America
Drag Queen Story Hours started out as niche events on the West Coast, but these events—aimed at children as young as age 3—have spread to libraries and schools across the United States, dividing local communities. These story hours are “just what they sound like,” Drag Queen Story Hour’s official website states: drag queens reading to children…. -
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A California Pastor on Engaging Community, Culture, and Political Discord
The “Bethel effect” is a term used to describe the community impact of Bethel Church in Redding, California. The congregation has gained national and international attention for its hands-on approach to serving the city. Pastor Kris Vallotton joins The Daily Signal Podcast today to explain how and why Bethel Church has chosen to love its…