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We Hear You: How to ‘Wield the Most Effective Weapon Against Tyranny’
Editor’s note: We begin selections from the mailbag this week with a letter from a reader in Georgia that gets at why The Daily Signal exists. See for yourself. Be sure to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thanks to The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation for presenting articles such as Rob Bluey’s… -
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Media Misses Mark on Heather Nauert’s D-Day Comment
Heather Nauert has her history right. The Washington Post and other media outlets have launched a lame effort to undermine President Donald Trump’s new nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The best they could offer to ridicule Nauert, an undersecretary at the U.S. State Department, was a remark she made in June on… -
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Climate Change Alarmism Is the World’s Leading Cause of Hot Gas
Even as anti-gas tax riots raged in France this week, naturalist David Attenborough warned a crowd at a United Nations climate change summit in Poland that “the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” U.N. General Assembly President Maria Espinosa told the media that “mankind”… -
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Time to Restore Respect for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Wouldn’t the world be more peaceful if affirming the dignity of every human being were enough to secure their liberties? Unfortunately, events around the world testify to the fact that a statement of freedoms is not, in itself, a dependable assurance of civil liberties. In 1945, while emerging from World War II, delegates from around… -
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Media Misses: Reporters Make Bush’s Funeral About Trump
The nation has been in mourning this week after the passing of former President George H.W. Bush. But this didn’t stop the liberal media from making the funeral about 45 instead of 41. On three separate occasions, The Washington Post published articles criticizing President Donald Trump’s behavior at the funeral. According to the Media Research… -
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6 Things to Know About AG Nominee William Barr
William Barr is a former U.S. attorney general, an advocate of investigating Hillary Clinton, and a bagpipe player for 60 years. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would nominate Barr, 68, to serve again as attorney general. He previously served in the position from November 1991 to January 1993 under President George H.W. Bush,… -
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Heather Nauert, Trump’s Pick to Succeed Haley at UN, Praised as ‘Capable,’ ‘Well-Informed’
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Heather Nauert is an excellent choice to replace Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, analysts say. “Heather Nauert is capable, well-informed, and articulate,” Clifford May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense Of Democracies, said in an email to The Daily Signal. “She is intimately familiar… -
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Impact Awards Honors Mark Levin, Ed Meese, and Other Conservatives
The second annual Impact Awards, which honors “outstanding efforts of unsung warriors in numerous fields outside of government service,” recognized conservative leaders, including radio host Mark Levin and Edwin Meese III, who served as the nation’s 75th attorney general. “It was the greatest honor of my life to serve Attorney General Meese at the Department… -
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Thinking About What’s Right in America
Amid this holiday season of reflection, I’m thinking about America’s future. A new poll from Gallup serves up some sobering data regarding how young Americans feel about their country. Gallup asked the question, “Do you think the U.S. has a unique character that makes it the greatest country in the world, or don’t you think… -
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These Swing Elections May Not Really Be Wave Elections
BEAVER FALLS, Pa.—Mike Mikus speculates there are a fairly decent number of voters around here who have voted over the past 20 years in turn for Ron Klink, Melissa Hart, Jason Altmire, Mark Critz, Keith Rothfus, and Conor Lamb. That is, they’ve swung their congressional vote from Democratic to Republican to Democratic, and then Democratic… -
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The New Farm Bill Is So Bad That Supporters Don’t Want Its Details Released
The current farm bill process is eerily similar to what happened with Obamacare. In 2010, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., infamously uttered, “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” A recent statement by the ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., regarding… -
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November Sees Slower but Steady Job Growth
After months of explosive growth, the U.S. economy simmered to a somewhat slower pace of growth in the month of November. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the economy added 155,000 jobs in November, well below expert predictions, while at the same time maintaining a 50-year low unemployment rate of 3.7 percent,… -
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Census: Wealthiest Counties All Surround Washington
The five jurisdictions with the highest median income are all suburbs of the nation’s capital, according to numbers released by the United States Census Bureau Thursday. The rankings are a result of a five-year study called the 2013-2017 American Community Survey and measured over 40 features, including housing, demographics, as well as health insurance rates and education levels…. -
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What China’s New Lunar Mission Means for the US
The People’s Republic of China will be launching the Chang’e-4 lunar probe on Friday. This will mark the world’s first mission to land on the far side of the moon. (There is no “dark side” of the moon, Pink Floyd notwithstanding.) The Chinese will be landing at the lunar south pole, in the Aitken Basin,… -
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Christian Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Transgender Student’s New Pronouns
A Virginia high school teacher was sacked Thursday for allegedly misgendering a student, marking the first time in the state that an educator has lost a job for using biological pronouns to refer to a student. The West Point School Board voted unanimously 5-0 to fire Peter Vlaming who teaches French at the school, according to the…