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Why Free Market Policies Are Key to Empowering Women
Most people agree that women deserve the chance to advance up the economic latter. The real question is, how can that be achieved? What many don’t realize is that women’s advancement doesn’t require gender quotas or affirmative action. What’s needed, above all, is free market policies that allow women to make their own choices. Ivanka… -
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As CNN’s Acosta Returns, White House Seeks ‘Decorum’ for Press
CNN reporter Jim Acosta is back in the White House, and the Trump administration is working on rules for “decorum” during press conferences. “People have to behave. We’re writing up rules and regulations,” President Donald Trump told reporters Friday afternoon, when asked about the court ruling. He said other reporters were treated unfairly, “because you… -
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In a War With China, the US Could Lose
Two separate government commissions issued reports this week, and each highlighted the growing threat stemming from the People’s Republic of China. The National Defense Strategy Commission is a congressionally mandated panel comprised of both Republican and Democratic officials, charged with examining the new U.S. national defense strategy, which came out in 2017. The national defense… -
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‘It’s Your Right to Go to the US’: What I Saw When I Visited the Migrant Caravan
MEXICO CITY—The migrant caravan has its own de facto government, and on this night the travelers from Central America gathered at the behest of a few leaders to discuss issues of the day as well as the big picture—such as what route to take to the U.S. border. “It’s your right to go to the… -
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She Opposes Israel at Every Turn. Now, She’s Going to Congress.
Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress, is a new kind of politician. She’s telegenic, ideologically progressive, widely celebrated by a media that’s obsessed with identity politics. She’s the kind of politician who can openly side with Hamas against Israel or spread “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”-style… -
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22 Photos of California’s Devastating Fires
California continues to be ravaged by wildfires. In Northern California, 63 have died and as many as 600 are missing due to the Camp Fire, which isn't close to being contained. Meanwhile in Southern California, two-thirds of the Woolsey Fire is now contained, but three have died as a result. Here's a look at the… -
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A Voluntary Civic Oath May Keep Our Society Both Civil and Free
Few of these protesters fear any legal consequences when they violate the law. Nor do those who disrupt public officials at restaurants, stalk them on their way to work, or post their private information on the internet. Yet most Americans are tired of hearing the lame excuses that the protesters’ supposedly noble ends justify their… -
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EU Risks Dangerous Blowback by Undermining Iran Sanctions
Since the election of President Donald Trump, the European Union and the United States have increasingly disagreed on Iran policy. The divergence widened in May with Trump’s announcement that the United States was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement. Washington has since reimposed nuclear sanctions on Iran in two rounds in August and November. Meanwhile, the EU… -
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Judge Rejects Bill Nelson’s Push for Recount Deadline Extension, Calling Florida a ‘Laughingstock’
A federal judge rejected a push by Democratic Florida Sen. Bill Nelson to extend the machine recount deadline in a Thursday ruling and labelled Florida a “laughingstock” because of its election failures. “We have been the laughingstock of the world, election after election, and we chose not to fix this,” U.S. District Judge Mark Walker said… -
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After Doing ‘More Than Anyone’ for Veterans, Trump Vows He’s Not Finished
Toppling the bureaucratic stronghold at the Department of Veterans Affairs and expanding education opportunities and mental health treatment for former soldiers, sailors, and airmen are among the achievements President Donald Trump touted Thursday. After visiting Marine barracks in Washington earlier in the day, the president returned to deliver remarks at the White House. “We will… -
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The FDA Cracks Down on E-Cigarettes
More than 3.6 million middle and high school students were current e-cigarette users in 2018, a “dramatic” uptick that ended years of decline in overall youth tobacco use, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published in a survey Thursday. The FDA released the e-cigarette portion of its National Youth Tobacco Survey early as it cracks down on… -
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Poised to Head Senate Judiciary Committee
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is poised to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee following the announcement on Friday that Chairman Chuck Grassley will be heading the Senate Committee on Finance instead. “I very much appreciate Senator Grassley’s leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee,” Graham said in a statement. “He chaired the committee with a steady hand,… -
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Trump Is Losing His Top Regulatory Reformer. Here’s How He Can Keep the Progress Going.
Neomi Rao, the Trump administration’s regulatory “czar,” may soon have a new job. On Tuesday, she was nominated to fill the vacant seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals left by now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Rao is a good choice for the D.C. Circuit, considered the second-most important court in the land. Her… -
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Podcast: The Consequences of the Sexual Revolution Continue
On this week’s “Problematic Women” edition of The Daily Signal podcast, we cover the “sex recession,” the fanfare surrounding former first lady Michelle Obama’s new book, and the absurd new ad promoting gender-neutral clothing. Plus: We cover a heartwarming push from the Down syndrome community. We also cover these stories: Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., says… -
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House GOP Urged to Use Lame-Duck Session to Fund Border Wall, Make Good on Other Promises
Conservative Republicans are calling for a busy lame-duck session of Congress between now and Jan. 3, when Democrats will retake the majority in—and control of—the House. “Republicans still have an opportunity to do what we said,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said in a statement provided to The Daily… -
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Washington State, ACLU Aren’t Letting Up in Crusade Against Florist’s Religious Liberty
How would you like to attend a political rally featuring President Donald Trump? How about one featuring former President Barack Obama? Even better—why don’t you attend both? You get to help decorate the stage. You can even create a banner setting forth that party’s platform. Given our polarized political climate, it’s a safe bet that… -
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Children With Down Syndrome Are Applying to Be on the Endangered Species List
Get ready to watch one of the most heart-wrenching pro-life ad campaigns you’ve ever seen. It’s called “Endangered Syndrome,” and in it, children with Down syndrome dress up as endangered species—pandas, polar bears, and lions. Why? Because like endangered animals, in many parts of the world, children with Down syndrome are becoming critically endangered, if… -
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Rubio Promotes ‘Dignified Work,’ Decries Universal Basic Income
“America’s not an economy, it’s a nation of peoples and families and communities, and our economy works for the people, not the people for the economy,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said as keynote speaker of the Antipoverty Forum hosted by The Heritage Foundation on Thursday. The foundation’s annual forum invites policy experts and practitioners to… -
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Gov. Cuomo’s Shameless War on the NRA
Recently released documents from a lawsuit involving the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point are casting more light on federal financial regulators’ unlawful shakedown of disfavored businesses and their financial institutions. The documents also show how tempting and easy it could be for state bureaucrats to launch similar operations, so long as their legislatures empower them… -
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UN Committee Wants to Make Abortion and Assisted Suicide a ‘Universal Human Right’
The United Nations Human Rights Committee drafted a memo saying that abortion and physician-assisted suicide should be universal human rights. The memo, or “general comment” on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, calls for abortion to be decriminalized everywhere. Nations and states should “not introduce new barriers and should remove existing barriers [to…