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Whatever Happened to Teaching History?
According to a report by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the teaching of U.S. history to American students lags behind all other subject matters. The latest NAEP survey finds that proficiency levels for fourth-, eighth-, and 12th-grade students are in the 20, 18, and 12th percentile, respectively. Part of this, I suspect, is the… -
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Chick-Fil-A to Stop Donating to Charities Criticized by LGBT Activists
Chick-fil-A announced a new initiative Monday that will focus on education, homelessness, and hunger and end 2020 donations to two charities criticized by LGBTQ groups. The chicken eatery chain announced that Chick-fil-A is instituting a “more focused giving approach to provide additional clarity and impact with the causes it supports” by donating to education programs… -
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Trump Suggests He’ll ‘Consider’ Testifying in Impeachment Inquiry
President Donald Trump said Monday that he will “strongly consider” testifying in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. “Even though I did nothing wrong, and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!” the president said in a tweet, referring… -
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Liberals Are Mainstreaming Paranoid Theories About Trump
One of the most durable conspiracy theories of our times finds Vladimir Putin recruiting a billionaire media personality named Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency. In some iterations of the tale, Trump is willingly serving his Kremlin comrades; in others, he is merely the victim of kompromat. In every version, he is an asset of… -
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Top House Republican Demands Information From ABC on Killed Epstein Story
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter Sunday to ABC News demanding answers surrounding allegations that the network killed a 2015 story about dead alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, journalist Megyn Kelly said. ABC News has come under fire after Project Veritas released a video of anchor Amy Robach Nov. 5 complaining that… -
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Nearly 80,000 Illegal Aliens Had Arrest Records Before Winning DACA Approval
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who successfully enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program carried prior arrest records, according to data released by the Trump administration. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services—the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that is tasked with managing the country’s legal immigration system—released a report Saturday detailing the arrest… -
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‘Doing My Duty as Citizen’: Christine Blasey Ford Accepts ACLU Courage Award
Christine Blasey Ford accepted an award for courage Sunday night from the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU honored Ford, who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assaulting her when they were teens, by giving her the Rodger Baldwin Courage Award at the ACLU of Southern California’s Bill of Rights Awards Dinner. Ford works as… -
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Congress Shouldn’t Get Paid Until It Does Its Job. Why This Bill Is a Great Step.
Congress is likely to vote next week on its second continuing resolution of fiscal year 2020. Another continuing resolution will prevent a government shutdown, but there’s not much to celebrate. The fact that a month-and-a-half into the new fiscal year none of the 12 annual appropriations bills have been enacted is a sign of how… -
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New Program Aims to Help Young Adults Grow in Faith, Maturity Before College
Should students go straight to college after high school? Tommy Nelson, senior pastor of Denton Bible Church, would argue no. “If they are Christian kids [in college], they are ganged up upon by their seniors and they’re now in a survival mode. I mean, you lose your faith, you lose your virginity, you lose your… -
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1 Year After Sex Change, This Teen Regrets His ‘Frankenstein Hack Job’
Less than a year after having gender surgery, Nathaniel now says, “This whole thing was a bad idea. I am 19 years old, and I feel as though I have ruined my life.” It’s heartbreaking each time I get a letter from someone who underwent gender-change surgery and regrets it, especially someone as young as… -
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We Hear You: Oberlin College’s ‘Lawsuit Mess’ With a Local Bakery
Editor's note: Welcome back to some of the intriguing missives from The Daily Signal's mailbag. Don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I enjoyed reading the transcript of Rob Bluey's enlightening podcast interview with Cornell law professor Bill Jacobson of the Legal Insurrection website about the judgment in the case of… -
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6 Key Moments From Day 2 of the Public Impeachment Hearings
The Obama administration instructed her on how to respond to lawmakers’ questions about the lucrative employment of Vice President Joe Biden’s son by an energy company in Ukraine, the ousted ambassador to the former Soviet republic testified Friday. Marie Yovanovitch, who was recalled and reassigned six months ago, also said she felt threatened by President… -
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You’ll Be Surprised Who Is Trying to Empower the Deep State at EPA
Some key House Republicans have chosen to support a Democratic bill called the Scientific Integrity Act. That nearly every House Democrat is a co-sponsor of the bill was apparently insufficient warning. Recently passed out of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, the bill actually has nothing to do with what one would reasonably… -
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Trump Impeachment Not Justified by Evidence and Testimony Made Public So Far
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., hasn’t yet produced most of his witnesses in the public impeachment hearings regarding President Donald Trump. But if the State Department’s George Kent and acting Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor are representative of the testimony Democrats are relying on, future historians may label this episode “The Big Impeachment Blowout.”… -
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How Russian Hybrid Warfare Has Weaponized Disinformation
KYIV, Ukraine—As the Russian shells and rockets rained down on them in the frontline town of Debaltseve in February 2015, Ukrainian troops began to receive curious, anonymous text messages on their cellphones. “Your comrades nearby already left their positions, so you should leave yours as well,” one message read. The messages also claimed that Petro… -
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Brett Kavanaugh Lauds Friends, Fellow Justices in First Speech Since Bitter Confirmation
Justice Brett Kavanaugh received heroic accolades at a glittering Federalist Society dinner in Washington’s Union Station on Thursday, where he delivered his first public remarks since his contentious confirmation to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh gave a punchy and light-hearted speech, punctuated in spaces with emotional recollections of his nomination to the high court. “Last year, a… -
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Everything You Need to Know About What’s Happening in Impeachment Process
“Democrats are intent on impeaching President Trump for something. It really doesn’t matter to them what it is,” says Heritage Foundation legal scholar Tom Jipping. He joins the podcast to explain why lawyers, not lawmakers, are doing much of the questioning; what’s next for the impeachment process; and what the main takeaways are from the… -
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Here Are the Backgrounds of 4 Lawyers for Impeachment Witnesses
The lawyer for one of the first witnesses at House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings has a resume that includes the Obama White House, former Vice President Al Gore’s office, and House Democrats themselves. The lawyer for another impeachment witness in the public process raised the specter of impeaching President Donald Trump in 2018, has represented… -
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7 Things to Know About Rep. Jim Jordan as He Leads GOP’s Defense of Trump
As impeachment hearings took the spotlight on Capitol Hill, Rep. Jim Jordan, one of President Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders, is temporarily reassigned to the House committee driving the process, where the Ohio Republican already is questioning witnesses sharply and voicing his party’s frustration with the partisan process. As recently as a week ago, Jordan was…