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Reputations and Respect Are Earned by Action, Not Talk
At the August 2017 gathering of the Aspen Security Forum, one of the prominent security conferences held annually in the United States, a panel discussed the implications of the Trump administration’s emerging Middle East policies. Since the panel was composed mostly of former Obama administration officials, as you would imagine the group was quite critical… -
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Bolton Says He’s ‘Prepared to Testify’ at Trump Impeachment Trial If Subpoenaed
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday he is “prepared to testify” at the Senate impeachment trial for President Donald Trump if he is subpoenaed. Bolton, who left the administration on Sept. 10, has previously said he would allow the federal courts to determine whether he has to testify to Congress about his White… -
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Court Order Stops Texas Hospital From Removing Baby’s Life Support Against Family’s Wishes
A court order Friday prevented a Texas hospital from removing baby Tinslee Lewis from life support until the court makes a final ruling in the case. The Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth, Texas, granted the baby emergency relief and ordered Cook Children’s Medical Center not to remove Tinslee from life support until the court makes… -
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New Planned Parenthood Report Shows Increase in Abortions
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America aborted 345,672 babies during the 2018 fiscal year, the organization’s annual report shows. Planned Parenthood’s 2018-2019 annual report shows that the organization performed 12,915 more abortions during the 2018 fiscal year than the organization did between 2017-2018. The nation’s largest abortion provider performed 345,672 abortions between Oct. 1, 2017, and Sept. 30, 2018,… -
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Pregnant Michelle Williams Says She ‘Wouldn’t Have Been Able to Do This’ Without Abortion
Pregnant actress Michelle Williams spoke out Sunday night at the Golden Globes saying she “wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose.” The actress, who has a 14-year-old daughter with the late actor Heath Ledger and is expecting a baby with her fiancé and “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail, gave… -
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I Lost My Child Due to a Driver High on Marijuana. Now, This Bill Would Reward Big Pot.
Seven years ago, I got a call every parent fears: I lost my daughter to a driver who was high on “legal” marijuana. With this new pot vaping crisis, I’m worried more parents will lose their children if we don’t stop the growth of the marijuana industry. Across the nation, a growing number of vaping-related… -
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Concealed Carry Law in Texas Prevented Mass Murder
The same weekend that Orthodox Jews in Monsey, New York, were fighting off another knife-wielding anti-Semite thug with chairs and coffee tables—they were fortunate the perpetrator hadn’t brought a firearm, like the killer who targeted a yeshiva in Jersey City only a few weeks earlier—Jack Wilson, a 71-year-old congregant and security volunteer at West Freeway… -
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Trump’s VA Chief Confronts Challenges Facing America’s Veterans
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie brings a personal and family history of military service to his high-profile job—characteristics that have helped him lead a government agency responsible for providing care for approximately 9.5 million of America’s veterans. Wilkie is the son of an Army artillery commander who grew up at Fort Bragg. Today, he is… -
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What History Says About Witnesses at Senate Impeachment Trials
Key Capitol Hill players in the Bill Clinton impeachment are taking a decidedly different view about the Donald Trump impeachment when it comes to witnesses in a Senate trial. The two previous presidential impeachment trials in U.S. history included witnesses in some form. The Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 included live… -
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We Hear You: In Defense of Charter Schools and Parents’ Rights
Editor's note: One of The Daily Signal's new year's resolutions is to inspire you to write us about our coverage and what's on your minds. So drop a line to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Daniel Davis’s podcast interview with charter schools advocate Charles Mitchell (“In Pennsylvania, a War on Charter Schools”) also reflects, although… -
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5 Things to Know About Top Iranian General Killed by US Airstrike
President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike in Iraq on Thursday that killed Gen. Qassim Suleimani, one of the most senior members of the Iranian government. Suleimani, with the rank of major general, headed the Quds Force, the terrorist arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion,… -
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How US Strike Against Iranian General Changes Rules of Game in Iraq, Region
The U.S. airstrike Thursday night that killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Suleimani was a bold and decisive effort to remove a key Iranian military and terrorist leader at a time when Iran appeared to be poised to escalate the crisis in Iraq by plotting an “imminent attack,” according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Suleimani was… -
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Why Ukrainians Are Skeptical About Peace With Russia in 2020
KYIV, Ukraine—This is Ukraine’s sixth consecutive New Year at war. In the frigid steppes of the country’s southeastern Donbas region, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops remain engaged in a defensive, limited conflict against a Russian invasion force. Europe’s only ongoing land war has so far killed more than 13,000 people and casualties still occur… -
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Kurdish Opposition Prepares for War After Iran’s Top General Dies in US Drone Strike
KYIV, Ukraine—After a U.S. airstrike in Iraq killed Iran’s top military commander, members of a coalition of Iraq-based, Kurdish Iranian militias say they are ready to go to war against Tehran. “We accept the U.S. military as a liberation army. In the event of war, we will return to our country and fight with our… -
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J.K. Rowling Is Taking Heat From the LGBT Left. The Reason Should Concern Us All.
Just weeks ago, few could have predicted the fiery backlash that J.K. Rowling, author of the bestselling “Harry Potter” series, would receive from her own fans. Yet just before Christmas, that’s exactly what she received. Why? Because she dared defend a woman who was fired simply for expressing a defense of biological reality. Rowling’s level-headed… -
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Iran’s Top General Is Dead. What You Need to Know.
U.S. forces killed one of Iran’s most powerful men, Qassim Suleimani, early Friday morning in Baghdad. He was leader of the elite Quds Force, the division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that conducts spying and terrorist operations outside Iran, and the order came directly from President Donald Trump. Jim Carafano of The Heritage Foundation… -
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North Korea Starts the New Year With the Threat of a Big Bang
No, North Korea didn’t launch an intercontinental ballistic missile on Dec. 25, as predicted by some observers disturbed by its recent hints about a “Christmas present” for the U.S. But we shouldn’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet. Pyongyang, after all, marked the culmination of its highly anticipated end-of-year deadline with a strident threat… -
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Early Feminists Were Right About Unborn Human Life
Although they were considered radical at the time, American suffragists were unrelenting in their efforts to transform our country’s politics and empower women with the right to vote. The year 2020 marks the centennial of their victory in that battle, and while it is an occasion to celebrate, it is also a reminder that we must continue the… -
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For Israelis, the Term ‘Safe Spaces’ Isn’t Academic
In American academia, a “safe space” is an environment in which a person or an identity group can seek “shelter” from being exposed to perceived criticism, harassment, or emotional harm. But in Israel, a country the size of New Jersey, the term “safe space” has an entirely different meaning. Israelis live in constant fear of… -
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200 Members of Congress Urge the Supreme Court to Reconsider Roe
More than 200 members of Congress urged the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade on Thursday, ahead of a March case concerning the constitutionality of a Louisiana regulation on abortion providers. The lawmakers, who include 39 senators and 168 members of the House of Representatives, filed a legal brief arguing abortion case law is haphazard and…