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China Is Poisoning America With Fentanyl
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of fatal drug overdoses. In 2017 alone, 49,000 Americans lost their lives to fentanyl. What is the source of the synthetic opioid, abuse of which leads to this senseless loss of life? China is the principal culprit. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has identified China as the primary source… -
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Fires Back at Fellow Democrat: ‘I Should Not Be Expected to Have Allegiance’ to Israel
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said Sunday that she is “expected to have allegiance” to Israel, in response to criticism from Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., who said Omar “continues to mischaracterize support for Israel.” Omar on Wednesday slammed “the political influence in this country that says it is OK to push for allegiance to a foreign… -
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Kudos to Dianne Feinstein for Asserting Adult Privilege
Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write: Dianne Feinstein was right. A small group of middle and high school children from the San Francisco Bay Area visited the Democratic senator from California last week to demand she support the “Green New Deal,” a collection of environmental policies even some Democrats find too extreme,… -
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New EPA Chief Implementing Trump’s Energy-Dominant, Environmentally Friendly Agenda
Andrew Wheeler was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wheeler previously served as deputy administrator before stepping into the role of acting administrator in July 2018. He visited the Conservative Political Action Conference last week and spoke to The Daily Signal. A lightly edited transcript is below. Rob… -
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Podcast: The Fight That Broke the Democratic Party
On today’s podcast we feature an interview with Jon Ward, a political reporter in Washington who wrote the new book “Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party.” Ward chronicles the fight between President Jimmy Carter and Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1980, recalling how Kennedy’s primary campaign against Carter paved… -
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We Hear You: ‘Abortion Is Not the Answer, Adoption Is’
Editor’s note: The renewed public debate over late-term abortion and efforts to legalize abortion up to the point of birth has put pro-choice advocates on the defensive, our mailbag indicates. Don’t forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: As a retired registered nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit who attended a… -
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Trump Vows to Cut Funding to Colleges That Don’t Protect Free Speech
President Donald Trump prompted a thunderous chant of “USA, USA” from an audience of conservative activists Saturday when he announced actions to protect free speech on college campuses. Trump made the announcement after inviting Hayden Williams, 26, who says he was assaulted for his beliefs Feb. 19 at University of California, Berkeley, to come onstage… -
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How America’s Wealthy Often Become the Biggest Welfare Recipients
When I hear “welfare payments,” I think “poor people.” But America’s biggest welfare recipients are often politically connected corporations—like America’s sugar producers. The industry gets billions of dollars in special deals while deceitfully running ads that say, “American farmers don’t get subsidy checks.” That ad confused me. If they “don’t get subsidy checks,” then what… -
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17 Takeaways From America’s Biggest Conservative Conference
The Daily Signal was at all three days of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest annual national gathering of conservative activists, in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, and we’ve rounded up some of the highlights of our coverage. Vice President Mike Pence Speaks Out Against the ‘Culture of Death’ “Life is winning in… -
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The Green New Deal: The Left’s Phony Attempt to Co-Opt Trump’s Labor Populism
The florid Green New Deal proposed by newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been widely panned by critics on both the right and the left–but perhaps most notably by Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. What many critics of the deal fail to note, however, is that the supposed “New Deal” is the… -
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Kamala Harris Is Wrong. Keep the World’s Oldest Profession Illegal.
Sen. Kamala Harris thinks that prostitution should be legal. Prostitution, the California Democrat said in a recent interview with The Root, are relations based on consent, and “when you are talking about consenting adults, I think that … we can’t criminalize consensual behavior, as long as no one is being harmed.” A grocer willingly sells… -
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Conservatives on Why ‘America First’ Doesn’t Mean ‘America Alone’
Does the slogan “America first” also mean “America alone?” That was the question asked Friday during the Conservative Political Action Conference, following President Donald Trump’s second summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Among panelists discussing Trump’s “America first” foreign policy were Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,… -
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Van Jones Rejects ‘Sellout’ Label, Credits Trump for Helping Achieve Prison Reform
Van Jones, a former Obama administration official and leading commentator on the left, responded Friday to liberal critics who call him a “sellout” for agreeing to talk about prison reform at a major gathering of conservatives. “If you’re on Twitter calling me a sellout for working with Trump on criminal justice reform, here is what… -
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These 2 Senators Don’t Want Taxpayers Paying for ‘Plush’ Pensions for Wealthy Lawmakers
With the federal debt now over $22 trillion, does it really make sense to provide “plush” pensions to federal lawmakers—many of whom are millionaires in their own right? Freshman Sens. Mike Braun, R-Ind., and Rick Scott, R-Fla., don’t think so, and they’ve introduced the End Pensions in Congress Act, legislation to phase out congressional pensions. … -
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Cruz Says He Pushed Colleagues to Fund Wall Before Democrats’ Takeover
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Friday that he urged the Trump administration and his fellow Senate Republicans to make a strong push for the border wall while the GOP still controlled both chambers of Congress. “What I urged my colleagues, and I urged the president and I urged the vice president, and I urged the… -
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Conservative Activist Describes Being Assaulted at UC Berkeley
This transcript is from a Thursday recording of The Daily Signal Podcast at the Conservative Political Action Conference and has been edited for length and clarity. The full interview is available on the podcast here. Katrina Trinko: We’re here at CPAC and with me is Hayden Williams. You might have heard about him in the news coverage this week. He was at University of California, Berkeley last… -
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Pence: Democrats Embrace ‘Infanticide and a Culture of Death’
Vice President Mike Pence used an appearance Friday at an annual gathering of conservatives to call out Democrats for advancing a “culture of death” in recent actions on abortion. “Life is winning in America. For all the progress we’re making, tragically, at the very moment more Americans are embracing the right to life, leading members…