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Why Obama and Clinton Tweeted About ‘Easter Worshippers,’ Not Christians
Sometimes, a few sentences tell you more about a person—and, more importantly, an ideology—than a learned thesis. That is the case with tweets from Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama two days ago in response to the mass murder of more than 300 Christians and others in Sri Lanka. Their tweets are worth serious… -
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What Social Security’s Shortfall Means for You
Workers and retirees have long been warned that Social Security’s trust fund will run out of funds sometime in the future, and that the program has many trillions of dollars in unfunded obligations. But what does this year’s 2019 Trustees Report, revealing $16.8 trillion in unfunded obligations over the next 75 years and insolvency in… -
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Elizabeth Warren’s Debt ‘Cancellation’ Plan Would Make College More Expensive, Not Less
Elizabeth Warren wants free college for every American. But what the Massachusetts senator doesn’t seem to realize is just how much more costly college would get if her “free” proposal passed. Shortly after Valentine’s Day in 1987, Education Secretary William J. Bennett wrote a now-famous op-ed in The New York Times titled “Our Greedy Colleges.”… -
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This Supreme Court Case Threatens the Left’s View of Group Identity, Victimhood
Oral arguments heard at the Supreme Court Tuesday were ostensibly about whether the 2020 census could include a question about citizenship. But don’t be fooled. The reason this case rocketed to the Supreme Court and has been so hotly contested is that the debate hinges, at bottom, on two starkly different visions of America. In… -
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Liberals Are Using Rep. Ilhan Omar as an Excuse to Chill Speech
Democrats have spent the past two-plus years accusing the president of the United States and his allies of seditiously conspiring with our enemies to destroy “democracy.” For the most part, this fairytale has been cynically deployed by politicians to undermine the legitimacy of a Republican presidency, yet millions of Americans now believe their votes were… -
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College Refuses to Back Down After Protests Over Pence Speaking
What’s so controversial about an evangelical college inviting an evangelical leader to speak? Absolutely nothing—unless that leader is Vice President Mike Pence. Apparently, there isn’t anywhere the former Indiana governor can go these days without generating debate—including a Christian university in his own home state. But is the protest on Taylor University’s campus real—or just… -
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Arizona Case Shows the Difference Between Campus Free Speech and Harassment
Three Arizona students may soon learn a valuable lesson: There’s a difference between exercising your free speech on campus and blocking someone else’s attempt to do the same. In March, three University of Arizona students shouted down a group of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, and then chased them to their cars, hurling insults… -
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Podcast: The Strange Terrorist Attack in Sri Lanka
Did other, bigger terrorist groups help a relatively small group in Sri Lanka pull off the sophisticated attack that left nearly 300 dead Sunday? Why did the terrorists target hotels and Christian churches, when there was no recent history of Muslim-Christian fighting in Sri Lanka? And how come some government officials knew about a possible… -
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4 Things to Expect From Trump and Congress in the Wake of the Mueller Probe
Despite special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings in his final report, congressional Democrats want to continue investigating—and even consider impeaching—President Donald Trump. The Mueller report, issued last week, concluded that neither Trump nor his campaign conspired with Russian operatives in meddling with the 2016 presidential campaign. However, it left a murkier picture on the question of… -
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Embarrassing Gaffes Continue to Show Media’s Ignorance of Religion
It’s become increasingly clear that many in our nation’s elite media know little to nothing about religion—Christianity in particular. This is a disturbing trend for the future of our country. A long list of theological gaffes by The New York Times over the years was recently catalogued in an insightful New York Post editorial by… -
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Supreme Court to Hear Cases Involving Firings of Gay, Transgender Employees
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear three cases centered on whether federal law against discrimination in employment applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. After hearing Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, the high court will decide whether the words “because of … sex,” found in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,… -
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Trump Might Release His Health Plan Soon. Here Are 7 Ways to Make It Succeed.
News reports suggest that President Donald Trump is planning to release a health care reform plan soon. That’s good news. Republicans may have failed to pass reforms in 2017, but health care nonetheless remains a major concern for Americans. In fact, it was the No. 1 issue in last year’s midterm elections. Since the failed… -
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Ukrainian Voters Elect an Untested Comedian to Be President, Rebuking the Post-Soviet Political Establishment
KYIV, Ukraine—Comedian and political dark horse Volodymyr Zelensky won Ukraine’s presidential election by a landslide on Sunday, dealing a blunt rebuke to the country’s post-Soviet political establishment. “I promise I will never let any of you down," Zelensky said during a Sunday night victory speech. Sunday’s runoff election followed a first round vote in March,… -
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On Earth Day, Gloomy Predictions Haven’t Come to Pass
This Earth Day, it almost feels like we should be carving some turkey. Why? Because we have a lot to be thankful for since the first Earth Day event occurred 49 years ago. We should be thankful that the gloom-and-doom predictions made throughout the past several decades haven’t come true. Fearmongering about explosive population growth,… -
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Mueller Report Clearing Trump Should Prompt Congress to Halt Endless Investigations
The report by special counsel Robert Mueller released Thursday by Attorney General William Barr confirms that Barr was completely accurate when he told Congress in March that Mueller found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the Trump election campaign and Russian officials. The second half of the nearly 450-page report also confirms Barr’s legal… -
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Banning Fetal Tissue Research Isn’t Bad for Science. It’s an Opportunity.
Indiana lawmakers banned the use of aborted fetal tissue in research in 2016. But soon after, the law was blocked by a federal court after Indiana University sued, claiming the law was unconstitutionally vague and unduly burdensome. But in a surprising turn of events, last month, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the… -
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George Washington University Students Far From Consensus on Changing ‘Colonials’ Mascot
The Student Association at George Washington University has called the school’s nickname and mascot, the Colonials, “extremely offensive” and has urged that it be changed, but it’s not at all clear how widespread support for the move is among the broader student body. A recent referendum question asking GW students whether the university should… -
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A Teen Refugee’s Flight to Freedom From Communist Cambodia
For six years, the only luxuries Bopha Sayavong dreamed of were peace, quiet, food, and shelter. It wasn’t until she landed in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a refugee from communist Cambodia on Oct. 31, 1981, that she began to imagine the luxuries freedom would bring. Even after arriving in the U.S., though, life was not… -
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Pompeo: Easter Attacks in Sri Lanka Show ‘Brutal Nature of Radical Terrorists’
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said several U.S. citizens died in the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. Terrorists killed over 200 people and wounded 450 others in Sri Lanka using coordinated explosive attacks on churches and hotels. Bombs erupted in churches in Negombo, Colombo, and Batticaloa and in the hotels Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand…. -
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We Hear You: Absorbing the Loss of Notre Dame Cathedral
Editor's note: The burning of Notre Dame Cathedral affected many in The Daily Signal's audience, and featuring some of those responses seems appropriate this Easter. Don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: More than 850 attacks on Christian artifacts or churches in France in 2017, as Kate McKenna notes in her…