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This UN Tobacco Policy Is Backfiring Around the World
Turkey recently became the latest in a slew of countries to adopt mandatory plain packaging rules for cigarettes. This tobacco control measure bans the use of brands or logos on cigarette cartons to supposedly reduce their attractiveness, in an attempt to deter smoking. The United Nations World Health Organization has backed this move, but such… -
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What We Can Learn From Ralph Northam’s Fall From Grace
For all of the light and hope America brings to the world, our experiment in democracy carries moments of darkness and shame. Often the light and the darkness compete for attention at the same moment in time. In 1801, when this young nation shined bright with the peaceful transfer of power from one political party… -
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Baby Killing Is Fine. Yearbook Photos Are the Problem.
Last week, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was hit with a shocking blast from the past: a photo on his medical school yearbook page of a man in blackface and another man in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. Northam quickly apologized for the photo, then said he wasn’t in the photo, and then admitted he had… -
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This New York Scientist Is Treating Human Beings Like Lab Rats
A Chinese scientist caused an international scandal late last year when he edited the genes of a pair of unborn twins, in what became known as the CRISPR scandal. But another scientist in New York is doing something quite similar, without incurring the international backlash. His research is rife with ethical concerns and has the… -
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Virginia’s Attorney General Discloses That He Wore Blackface at College Party
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring shook his state’s already-reeling Democrat power structure Wednesday by disclosing that he wore blackface to a college party in 1980 when he and friends dressed up as popular rappers. In a lengthy statement released by his office and on Twitter, Herring said he was a 19-year-old student at the University… -
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San Francisco’s Liberal Policies Have Made It a Slum
San Francisco is one of the richest cities it the world. It’s given us music, technology, and elegant architecture. Now it gives us filthy homeless encampments. One urban planner told me, “I just returned from the Tenderloin [a section of San Francisco]. It’s worse than slums of India, Haiti, Africa!” So I went to San… -
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Sen. Joe Manchin Explains Why He Stood During Trump’s Call to Eliminate Late-Term Abortions
Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin stood and cheered a call to ban late-term abortions during President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night State of the Union address. Manchin was one of the few Democratic legislators attending the event who applauded the president’s call to action. Republican lawmakers stood and clapped vigorously, while a majority of Democrats remained in… -
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Bernie Sanders Responds to SOTU: Trump Forgot to Mention Climate Change
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders accused President Donald Trump of omitting one “of the most important issues facing our country and the entire world” from the Tuesday State of the Union: climate change. The Vermont senator and self-proclaimed socialist delivered his own response to Trump’s address to the nation after failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams delivered the… -
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The Moral Rot of the Left’s Abortion Agenda
In a November 1789 letter to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy, Benjamin Franklin expressed hope that the new U.S. Constitution would endure, but acknowledged that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” The taxes part isn’t really true today. More than 40 percent of Americans pay no federal income tax, and one-third of them also pay… -
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Stonewalling on Clinton Emails Continues Under Trump, Watchdog Says
Federal bureaucrats, defying President Donald Trump, are resisting requests for information about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account while secretary of state and how that may have compromised national security, the head of a legal watchdog group told The Daily Signal in an interview. Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said Obama administration… -
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Podcast: What Ideas Were Good, Bad in the State of the Union
In today’s special edition of the podcast, The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Harkness sits down with a number of Heritage Foundation scholars to get their take on the policy proposals in President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. We also cover these stories: Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., asked Neomi Rao, a judicial nominee, whether she… -
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Ignoring Biology Doesn’t Make It Less Real
Suppose I declare that I am a king. Should you be required to address me as “Your Majesty”? You say, “Williams, that’s lunacy! You can’t prove such nonsense.” You’re wrong. It’s proved by my declaration. It’s no different from a person born with XY chromosomes declaring that he is a woman. The XY sex determination… -
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13 Fact Checks on the State of the Union Address
President Donald Trump spoke for about one hour and 20 minutes Tuesday night in his second State of the Union address, interrupted–by Fox News Channel’s count—102 times by applause. Trump punctuated his speech by saluting the stories of Americans in the gallery: former prison inmates, World War II soldiers, a Holocaust survivor and a… -
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Fact-Checking 3 Claims Stacey Abrams Made in State of the Union Response
Stacey Abrams, the 2018 Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, gave Democrats’ response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union. Abrams, who lost the governor’s race in November to Republican Brian Kemp, is viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party. Here’s a a look at a few of the facts she stated during… -
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Trump Urges Congress to Pass Late-Term Abortion Ban
President Donald Trump advocated that lawmakers pass a late-term abortion ban in his State of the Union address. “To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking the Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb,” Trump said. “Let us work together to… -
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Trump Honors 3 D-Day Veterans During State of the Union Address
During his State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump honored the service of three veterans who served in World War II. “On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 15,000 young American men jumped from the sky, and 60,000 more stormed in from the sea, to save our civilization from tyranny,” said Trump. “Here with us tonight… -
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Read the Full Text of Trump’s State of the Union Speech
This is the full text of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery. Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, the first lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans: We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential. As we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready… -
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Here’s In-Depth Analysis of Trump’s Policy Proposals in State of the Union Address
President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night, and Heritage Foundation experts weighed in with analysis of the president’s policy proposals. Here’s what they had to say. Immigration Economy Law Defense & Foreign Policy Life Energy & Infrastructure Health Care Education Immigration A Call for Robust Border Security President Donald Trump’s… -
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Exiting the INF Treaty Over Russian Violations Would Send a Signal of US Resolve
On Feb. 1, more than a decade after we now know Russia began developing a banned ground-launched cruise missile, the United States formally initiated withdrawal proceedings from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Russia has been violating the treaty since 2008 and has deployed weapons that pose a serious military threat to America and its… -
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Instead of Criticizing Walmart, Sanders Should Praise the Company for Giving Workers More Paid Time Off
The other day, I gave my 5-year-old daughter a cookie and she complained, “I didn’t want just one.” Walmart—the largest employer in the United States—recently announced that it would provide a new, paid time off bank for workers. It will allow Walmart’s roughly 1.5 million U.S. workers to accumulate up to 48 hours of paid…