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opinion
YouTube’s Concerning Suppression of Conservative Speech
Dear Mr. Brin: Fifty years ago this week, when I was a 21-year-old college senior, I was in the Soviet Union, sent by the government of Israel to smuggle in Jewish religious items and smuggle out names of Jews who wanted to escape the Soviet Union and could then be issued a formal invitation to… -
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Weapons Displayed at China’s Military Parade Should Be a Wake-Up Call to US
China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1 in typical fashion—with a military parade. Some of the new weapons on display that day provide cause for serious concern among U.S. policymakers. China showcased its new stealthy bat-winged unmanned aerial vehicle—the Gongji-11. But more significantly, it displayed… -
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Texas Officer Aaron Dean Charged With Murder After Killing Black Woman in Her Home
A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer resigned and now faces charges after shooting a woman in her own home, Fort Worth Police Chief Edwin Kraus told reporters Monday. Officer Aaron Dean, who is white, shot and killed 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, who is black, at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday while she was looking after her 8-year-old… -
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How Congress Shackles the Executive and Undermines President’s Accountability to People
This summer, Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill to restore the “original understanding of the president’s constitutional power to remove his subordinates.” As I wrote in a recent First Principles essay, this is a good thing. The power of presidents to faithfully enforce the law by removing principal officers in… -
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A Day to Remember Lost Little Ones
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan dedicated October as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Since then, over a dozen states and the House of Representatives have marked Oct. 15 as a special day of remembrance for infants lost prior to birth. This is undoubtedly a good thing, yet there remains a general silence and lack… -
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In Trump Fact Check, CNN Fact-Checker Leaves Out …the Facts
CNN’s fact-checking unit reached out last week to The Heritage Foundation for analysis of President Donald Trump’s recent comments about the U.S. military’s munitions stockpile at the time he took office. Bewilderingly, the fact-checker for the cable news pioneer then ignored those facts. Some 24 hours and multiple emails after the initial request, CNN published… -
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The New York Times Is Wrong. The Rich Pay More Taxes Than You Do.
By almost every measure, the U.S. has one of the most progressive systems of taxation in the world, in which high-income people pay the highest tax rates. Everyone agrees on this basic fact, except The New York Times. Using data from a new book by Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the Times claims… -
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How Trump’s New Executive Orders Protect the Public Against the Administrative State
Washington may be burning with talk of impeachment, but President Donald Trump is not fiddling. He’s continuing to deliver valuable results on regulatory reform. On Oct. 9, he issued two executive orders (here and here) that protect the public—the people, their employers, and their communities—against unknown agency interpretations of the law that could cost them… -
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Trump Executive Order Could Save Taxpayers Billions
It’s rare to find good news when it comes to the federal government’s fiscal health. The national debt is now a staggering $22.8 trillion, the current fiscal year deficit is likely to exceed $1 trillion, and annual federal spending increases far exceed economic growth even during good years. All this makes the latest executive order… -
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After Getting Kicked Off Campus, This Christian Group Got Justice
In a significant win for religious liberty, a federal court last month ruled that a state university in Iowa can’t require a Christian student organization to have non-Christian leaders. The court ruled that the university had discriminated against the Christian group and that top university officers, including the vice president, must pay out of their… -
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A Democrat Explains Why She’s Pro-Life
Earlier this year, Sen.-elect. Katrina Jackson spoke at the March for Life. Now the Louisiana politician joins the podcast to share why she is pro-life, and what she thinks about the left and pro-lifers. Read the lightly edited interview, pasted below, or listen on the podcast: Plus, we talk to Ken Oliver of Texas Public… -
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The Deep State Plot Against Trump
As a nation we marveled at Dr. Martin Luther King’s moral reasoning; it helped overcome a deep sense of inertia among the largely conservative civil rights establishment that favored incrementalism rather than rebellion. King countered that the system of oppression was so entrenched in American society that no legal action would effectively challenge its injustice. As a… -
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Turning Generation Z Into Faith-Filled Leaders
Culture is constantly changing ,but there are principles of truth that never change. It is those principles which the Imago Dei Leadership Forum seeks to empower young people with so they can be leaders who influence culture. John Murray, founder and president of Imago Dei Leadership Forum, joins The Daily Signal podcast to offer advice… -
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A New Dark Age: California’s Blackouts Are Self-Inflicted
California, the richest state in the nation—and one that’s often portrayed as the progressive harbinger of the future for the rest of the country—has been hit with its latest Third World-style disaster. On top of high poverty rates, skyrocketing homelessness, rising crime, and the return of medieval-sounding diseases, the state—specifically, the San Francisco Bay Area—has… -
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Trump Announces $50 Million for Christians, Other Minorities in Syria
After facing criticism from Christian leaders over his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, President Donald Trump defended the decision in front of a largely evangelical crowd Saturday. “This week I directed $50 million to support Christians and other religious minorities in Syria. I did it on Friday,” Trump said during his remarks at… -
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Forged by the Sea, and Centuries of Devotion to the American People
“The Navy has both a tradition and a future—and we look with pride and confidence in both directions.”—Adm. George Anderson, 1961 Sunday, Oct. 13, marks the 244th birthday of the United States Navy. The Navy has evolved significantly from its colonial seafaring roots, but its spirit of service to the nation remains. The colonial militia… -
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Immigration Judges Need 2 Tools to Cut Caseload
The U.S. Justice Department announced Oct. 10 that the nation’s immigration judges resolved 275,000 immigration cases in fiscal 2019. That’s the second-highest number of cases resolved in a single year in the immigration courts’ history. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the backlog of cases is now over 1 million cases, and… -
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Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants
Many of the stories about the gods and heroes of Greek mythology were compiled during Greek Dark Ages. Impoverished tribes passed down oral traditions that originated after the fall of the lost palatial civilizations of the Mycenaean Greeks. Dark Age Greeks tried to make sense of the massive ruins of their forgotten forbearers’ monumental palaces… -
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Meet 3 Abortion Survivors With Stories of Dignity and Forgiveness
Three abortion survivors told their stories of forgiveness and the dignity of human life Friday at a gathering of social conservatives, offering an emotional look at the consequences of abortion. The panel discussion, called “Aborted on Our Birth Days: They Say We Don’t Exist,” featured Melissa Ohden, founder of the Abortion Survivors Network, and fellow… -
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‘Godlessness and Big Government Go Hand in Hand,’ Allie Beth Stuckey Tells Social Conservatives
The politics of millennials spring from their worldview, podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey told social conservatives Friday in Washington. When people reject belief in God, Stuckey told the crowd at the Values Voter Summit, they usually embrace belief in government. “I have never seen someone move to the left politically and become stronger theologically,” the…