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opinion
California Restaurateur Compares MAGA Hats to White Hoods
Editor’s note: A California restaurateur tweeted this week that he wouldn’t serve anyone who came to his restaurant, Wursthall in San Mateo, if they wore a “Make America Great Again” hat. “It hasn’t happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served, same as if you come… -
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To Anyone Who Thinks the Ralph Northam Controversy Is Insignificant
Controversy erupted this week after Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, not only defended a late-term abortion bill but also insinuated that babies could be left to die after birth. Many Republicans, including President Donald Trump and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, made public statements about the moral repugnance of Northam’s remarks. Through a spokesperson, Northam, a… -
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The Latest Crime News Provides Evidence in Favor of Armed Citizens
As lawmakers around the country moved to impose restrictions on the ability of law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms, some of those same citizens spent the first month of 2019 proving that armed civilians play an important role in defending the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. Gun ownership surveys routinely find that… -
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Doctors Pushed Her to Get Sex Reassignment Surgery. Now, She Knows It Was a Mistake.
Every week, I receive at least one heartbreaking letter of regret from someone who was sexually abused as a young person and later underwent a “sex change” in a misguided attempt to heal the pain. The sex-change cheerleaders in the medical profession routinely diagnose these people with gender dysphoria and rush to administer cross-gender hormones… -
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How Top Think Tanks Are Maintaining Their Influence
The way Americans consume facts and information has been significantly disrupted over the past decade, but think tanks have maintained a place of relevance and influence in policymaking. That’s the conclusion of the University of Pennsylvania’s newly released 2018 Global Go-To Think Tank Index. The annual rankings were unveiled Thursday at the Brookings Institution in… -
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Podcast: How Trump Backers View the President Now
Building a wall on the southern border was President Donald Trump’s key campaign pledge—and his supporters are serious about it. So how do Trump voters view the recent shutdown over wall funding? We talk to Anne Sorock of the Frontier Lab—she’s got some interesting polling data that paints a helpful picture of where the president’s… -
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Pence Praises DEA for Border Security, Weakening Maduro Regime
Vice President Mike Pence vowed Thursday that regardless of what happens in Congress, the administration will secure the southern border—and that includes a wall. After a briefing on drugs at the southern border by senior officials from the Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration, Pence spoke to about 60 DEA employees at the DEA Museum… -
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I’m Asking ‘All 100 Senators to … Be Against Infanticide’: Sasse Reintroduces Abortion Survivors Act
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., is reintroducing the the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in the Senate following New York legalizing abortion up to birth last week and the Virginia Legislature considering a similar bill Monday. “Everybody loves babies and that love has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with just having a… -
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7 Topics Trump Should Address in the State of the Union
President Donald Trump will finally deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Americans can certainly expect Trump to advocate border security, including a wall or fence—and he’ll no doubt tout the terrific success of the economy during his tenure. But there’s also plenty more the president should address in his speech, including these… -
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Why This Planned Parenthood Clinic Manager Walked Away
Annette Lancaster decided she had to leave her job as manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic in North Carolina after a particularly tough conversation with a patient there. Lancaster, 41, says she had been recruited by a headhunter to manage the Chapel Hill clinic after losing her previous job. “The turning point for me was… -
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It’s Time to Make a Trade Deal With China
As American and Chinese delegations wrap up trade talks Thursday in Washington, the official word is that U.S. negotiators have articulated where they want China to make reforms. Unofficially, though, questions remain over how the White House perceives the future of U.S.-China economic relations, and how this might upset trade negotiations. So where are the… -
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After Republican Objects, Democrats Keep ‘So Help Me God’ in Committee Oath
Just 28 days ago, Nancy Pelosi claimed the speaker’s gavel and promised that her House would be “bipartisan and unifying.” What have we seen since? House Democrats are pushing to open the floodgates of millions of taxpayer dollars to pay for elective abortions—even as Pelosi insists that she can’t offer more than a dollar to build a border wall…. -
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Trump Vows to Stop Incoming Migrant Caravan but Says a Wall Would Make It ‘Soooo Much Easier’
President Donald Trump vowed on Twitter Thursday to stop a migrant caravan from entering the U.S. with “more troops” as the group heads north from Central America. “More troops being sent to the Southern Border to stop the attempted Invasion of Illegals, through large Caravans, into our Country,” Trump wrote on Twitter Thursday. “We have stopped the… -
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Trump Calls Democrats’ Religious Bigotry ‘Crisis for Our Country’
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that religious bigotry has become a crisis in the United States. “I think it’s a crisis for our country,” Trump said in response to a question from The Daily Caller referencing attacks on religious freedom. These include attacks by liberals on second lady Karen Pence for teaching art at a… -
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Democrats Want to Close the ‘Gender Pay Gap.’ Here Are 4 Ways Their Proposal Would Backfire.
If a woman performs the same job as a man, she should receive the same pay. That’s common sense. The same goes for people with white skin and brown skin, or red hair or blonde hair, or green eyes, and so on. Pay should be based on one thing alone: the work performed. Period. This… -
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Eliminating Health Insurance Would Make Our Health Care Worse
“For people out there who like their insurance, they don’t get to keep it?” That question was asked not of President Barack Obama, whose false reassurance about Obamacare earned him the dubious distinction of PolitiFact’s 2013 Lie of the Year. Rather, it was asked this week by Jake Tapper at a CNN town hall event… -
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This Democratic Lawmaker Explains Why She’s Pro-Life
“Being pro-life isn’t a party issue, it’s based on a value system. Caring about every stage of life is pro-life.” These are words from Democrat Katrina Jackson, an African-American state legislator from Louisiana who shared her personal story of becoming an advocate for both life and women’s health in an interview with The Daily Signal…. -
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Democrats Used to Put the Nation Ahead of Their Party
One of the few advantages of changing addresses is that you sometimes discover long-forgotten items. In a recent move, I found an old recording that contained an interview of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., by Paul Duke for NBC’s “Today” show. The year was 1968. Richard Nixon had just been elected president. Duke asked… -
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Much Has Changed for the Better Since 2016, Not That Trump Will Get Credit
The news obsesses over the recent government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller arrest, and, of course, fake news—from the BuzzFeed Michael Cohen non-story to the smears of the Covington Catholic High School students. But aside from the weekly hysterias, the world has dramatically changed since 2016 in ways we scarcely have appreciated. The idea that… -
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House Democrats Raise Pay for Federal Employees Disciplined for Sexual Misconduct
The House’s Democratic majority voted Wednesday to give pay raises to federal employees who were disciplined for sexual misconduct. Democrats blocked a Republican measure that would have prevented any federal employee disciplined for sexual harassment or other sexual misconduct from getting a salary increase. House Republicans pushed the measure amid the “Me Too” movement of…