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True the Vote Took on the IRS and Won. Its Founder Explains Why It Matters.
On today’s episode of The Daily Signal Podcast, we feature an interview with Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote. She explains how her organization took on the IRS and won an important victory in court. “There is power in speaking out,” says Engelbrecht. “There’s power in telling the truth boldly … even if it… -
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College Costs Are Out of Control. Here’s What Can Be Done.
American colleges and universities are failing in one of their most basic missions: to equip students with the tools they need for a career. Many students graduate ill-prepared to earn a living and pay off the debt they’ve accumulated getting their degrees—40% of those who start college don’t finish within six years. Additionally, students are… -
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3 Years After Brexit Vote, Dire Warnings for UK Economy Have Proved Wrong
Pollsters had heart palpitations in June 2016 as the people of Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. A dismayed media spouted speculative hysteria about the British economy that spread faster than a fire at a match factory. Three years after the June 23, 2016, referendum, however, the establishment in Westminster remains incapable of… -
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What the UK’s Orwellian Gender Policy Gets Wrong About Men and Women
The British government has adopted a concerning new policy regulating speech. The New York Times reports a new policy banning the use of “harmful” gender stereotypes in advertising—yes, private ads. The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority announced last week that it will “ban ads that connect physical features with success in the romantic or social spheres;… -
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Abortion Survivors Deserve a Voice
We can all recognize that neglecting an older child is abhorrent and illegal, regardless of whether or not the parents “want” the child. Why should a live newborn be any different? No human being should be deprived of lifesaving medical care because he or she is unwanted by the people in the room. In 2002,… -
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Supreme Court Misses Opportunity to Stop Congress Outsourcing Its Power
Almost a year ago, we asked, “How much authority can Congress give to the attorney general to effectively write criminal laws?” In Gundy v. United States, a plurality of the Supreme Court has given its answer: as much as Congress wants to give. The plurality opinion, which was written by Justice Elena Kagan, was joined… -
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Vermont Poised to Let Kids, Not Parents, Make Gender Decisions
Most schools can’t give a child an aspirin without getting a parent’s OK. But in Vermont, kids are about to get a whole lot more than Tylenol. Under a new rule, they’ll be able to get entirely new bodies—in some cases, without ever calling home. If you thought the war on parents’ rights was bad… -
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More Than 100,000 Illegal Migrants Have Escaped Border Patrol Agents in 2019
Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost spoke to Congress on Thursday about the immigration crisis, and how it’s keeping agents from apprehending migrants who cross the border illegally. “I have been forced to divert 40% to 60% of Border Patrol’s manpower away from the border as we process and care for nearly 435,000 [families] and children… -
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Fight Against Hyde Amendment Shows Left’s Abortion Extremism
You can debate the merits of the Hyde Amendment—but not the point of it. Unless, of course, you’re Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The freshman Democrat has been wrong about plenty of things, but there’s a difference between being wrong and being outright dishonest. On ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” she managed to be both…. -
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The Problem With Ocasio-Cortez’s Shameful Ignorance of History
“The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is what they are.”—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. In April 1944, two Slovakian Jews named Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz and provided two of the first eyewitness accounts of the horrors of the European concentration camps. Both men had been rounded… -
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What Was Iran Thinking in Shooting Down a US Drone?
U.S.-Iran tensions just reached a new level: Iran shot down an American drone. In today’s episode, we unpack the situation with Tom Spoehr, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense and a former Army general. Plus: Days after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., compared U.S. migrant detention centers to Nazi concentration camps, a Polish… -
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US Sanctions Send Iranians to Northern Iraq Looking for Work and War
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq—When Iran’s economy began to collapse last year under U.S. sanctions, Iranian computer programmer Mohsen Heidari decided to look for work in Iraqi Kurdistan. “It’s impossible to support my family, anymore, living in Iran,” said Heidari, who is from the Iranian city of Kermanshah. “Coming here was my last option,” Heidari said of the… -
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Missouri Abortion Clinic Licensing Fight Due Back in Court
Planned Parenthood and the state of Missouri are still at odds over whether or not the state’s only remaining abortion clinic will be allowed to stay open. The state of Missouri says that it won’t renew the license of the St. Louis abortion clinic after three failed abortions that resulted in “additional surgeries and another… -
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Corruption and Violence Are Crippling Haiti
Haiti is trapped in yet another cycle of violence. In recent months, ongoing street demonstrations protesting government corruption have resulted in a chaotic flurry of vandalism, fires, gunshots, injuries, and death. Blocked roads create difficulties for the distribution of food, water, medicines, and utilities, causing an already-impoverished people even more hardship. This latest round of… -
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Latin America Is Pivoting From Socialism to Freedom
South America’s attempt at a leftist version of the European Union is on life support. The regional grouping, called the Union of South American Nations, was founded in 2008 and funded by Hugo Chavez’s then-oil rich Venezuela. The group aimed at spreading Chavez’s “socialism for the 21st century” throughout South America. In the years since… -
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This New York Man Got Arrested After Defending His Own Home
All too often, advocates of strict gun control promise that more complex and convoluted laws will save lives without imposing a serious burden on the right of law-abiding citizens to exercise their constitutional rights. Their argument simply doesn’t hold up. Their gun control laws fail not only to address how actual criminals get their firearms,… -
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7 Justices Split 5 Ways in Deciding Peace Cross Doesn’t Have to Go
The Supreme Court decided 7-2 Thursday that a 40-foot cross erected on government land in Bladensburg, Maryland, as a memorial to those from that community who died in World War I is not an unconstitutional “establishment of religion.” The influence of this decision on future Establishment Clause cases is unclear, however, because the seven justices… -
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NY County Clerk to Defy State Law Giving Licenses to Illegal Immigrants
Erie County Clerk Michael “Mickey” Kearns said he will not issue licenses to illegal aliens in defiance of a new New York law, according to a local outlet. New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Green Light Bill Monday, which allows illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, WIVB4 reports. Kearns adamantly disapproves of the Green… -
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Peace Cross Honoring War Dead Can Stay, High Court Rules
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Thursday that a cross-shaped war memorial on public land in Maryland doesn’t violate the Constitution. In the case of American Legion v. the American Humanist Association, the atheist group had sued seeking removal of the 40-foot Peace Cross in Prince George’s County—just outside Washington, D.C.—contending that the World War I…