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Time for Justice for Pro-Life Prisoners and the DC 5
Can you imagine being thrown in jail for peacefully protesting the deaths of babies in the womb? Well, you don’t have to, because it has happened. Today, the Left’s weaponization of a federal law called the FACE Act has led to exactly that, unjustly persecuting pro-life advocates who are its ideological opponents. But finally, after… -
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Report: Education Department Targets Christian Schools, Career Colleges
THE CENTER SQUARE—A new report highlights a disparity in the Department of Education toward both Christian and career colleges through its Office of Enforcement, an “obscure agency” created during the Obama administration and revived under President Joe Biden. The American Principles Project’s report reveals that “nearly 70% of penalties imposed by the Office of Enforcement have been… -
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Building the Iron Dome
This is an excerpt from Victoria Coates’ new book, “The Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel—and America—Can Win.” President Ronald Reagan’s rationale for launching SDI [the Strategic Defense Initiative] in his 1983 speech could have been written by any Israeli Prime Minister: “I’ve become more and more deeply convinced that the human spirit must… -
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HOSTAGE: Siblings Recount Day Their Sisters Were Taken
The free world is in a fight against terrorism, according to Yarden Gonen, the big sister of Romi Gonen who has been held hostage in Gaza for over 14 months. If action is not taken soon to release her sister and all the hostages still in Gaza, “maybe they won't stay alive, and then… -
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Mitch McConnell Attacks Trump’s ‘America First’ Approach Despite Electoral Mandate
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A notable critic of President-elect Donald Trump appears to be gearing up to oppose key parts of the incoming administration’s foreign policy agenda, despite the electoral mandate of Trump’s “America First” slogan. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is going on offense against Trump’s foreign policy worldview, calling on him Monday in a published… -
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BREAKING: ABC News Publishes False Information About Trump Education Nominee
On Dec. 11, ABC News’ Jay O’Brien reported false information about Linda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. secretary of education, on “ABC News Live Prime.” In the first minute of an eight-minute overview, O’Brien stated that McMahon has no formal education training and little experience: “If she receives Senate confirmation, McMahon, who has… -
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Latest Woke Triumph: Feminist Spelling for Third Graders
The team behind the Scripps National Spelling Bee whacked a hornet’s nest when it identified specific words for potential competitors to ponder. Its list of “50 challenging third grade words” includes giraffe, groceries, and jigsaw. So far, so good. But beneath the “preferred spelling” of women, a permitted option appears: “womyn.” Naturally, this feminist twist… -
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‘DEEPLY DISTURBING’: Biden Pushing Abortion on Black-Majority Country, Sources Say
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Biden administration is pressuring Sierra Leone to pass an unpopular pro-abortion bill before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a former senior U.S. government official who has worked in the West African region told The Daily Signal. It is common knowledge among nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, in Sierra Leone that a… -
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Dem Rep Urges Biden Admin to Be More ‘Forthcoming’ on Drones, Warns How CCP May Be Accessing Backdoor Data
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The top Democratic member of the House committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, urged the Biden administration Sunday on Fox News to be more “forthcoming” with information regarding multiple drone sightings on the East Coast, warning that the CCP could be accessing data through them. In early December, New… -
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Trudeau’s Liberal Government Tears Itself Apart as It Scrambles to Address Trump’s Tariff Threats
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A top official within Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet abruptly resigned, citing growing policy disagreements on how the country should respond to tariff threats posed by President-elect Donald Trump and his “America First” economic agenda. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland officially resigned from Trudeau’s Cabinet on Monday, according to a letter she posted publicly… -
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Proposed Bill Risks $196B Hit to Social Security, Accelerating Insolvency
Lame ducks never make for good policy. Having passed a lame-duck vote in the House, HR 82, the so-called Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 is now set for a lame-duck Senate vote. Despite its name, the Social Security Fairness Act is neither fair, nor accurate, nor fiscally responsible. It violates Social Security’s progressive… -
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Many Unhappy Returns: Journalists Deserve All the Angst Trump’s 2nd Term Brings
The reelection of Donald Trump has created overwhelming angst among the press. With Trump, they have been like the opposite of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme. The media are all the king’s horses and all the king’s men—and they couldn’t tear Humpty Dumpty apart. All their screeching about his menace only makes him successful. Longtime CBS… -
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Free Speech: Why a Tech Titan Backed Trump
Why did Marc Andreessen—inventor of the first internet web browser and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today—switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic Party and back Donald Trump this year? Because, in Andreessen’s view, the Democrats who claim to be the great scourge of “disinformation” are threatening to embed disinformation in… -
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It’s ‘Prime’ Time to Discuss Transgender Medicine as a Nation of Parents, Not Partisans
On Dec. 20, 2022, Brokenhearted Films released the indie documentary “Dead Name” on Vimeo. It lasted there less than 60 days before Vimeo smote us, deplatforming the film after trans-activists raised hell because the film dared to question how a child’s transitioning can impact parents and the parent-child relationship. Vimeo told us, and the world,… -
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No, Billionaires Like Elon Musk Don’t Run American Politics
Some prominent Democrats are suggesting that the U.S. is becoming an oligarchy or kleptocracy, where billionaires like Elon Musk have the real power and essentially elect presidents after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. Billionaires like Musk do play a role in American politics, but it is far more limited than it appears. For every SpaceX founder… -
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It’s Time for a National Conversation About Left-Wing Violence
Even before we knew the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, many leftists were justifying, celebrating, and rationalizing the shooting. There’s a real debate going on in some quarters of the progressive Left over whether slaying CEOs is a bad thing. And it’s unsurprising. Of course, if any… -
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No ‘Buts’ About It: Leftist Democrats Are Wrong in Excusing Violence
Democrats are slowly, but surely, building a permission structure for progressive activists to kill those they determine are bad. From the rise of antisemitism to, now, the killing of an insurance CEO, few Democrats seem capable of condemning violence without adding a “but.” To their credit, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. John Fetterman, both D-Penn.,… -
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Evangelical Christians Carried Trump to Victory. What Nonbelievers Assume About Them Is Often Wrong.
There’s no doubt that President-elect Donald Trump’s victories at the polls are fueled by a stalwart base of support from evangelical Christians. But what many non-Trump voters don’t realize is that American evangelicals don’t fit the stereotypes projected or assumed by many non-evangelicals. Sadly, this causes mistrust, and even disdain, that isn’t warranted and contributes… -
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Why Is American Health Care So Bad?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. How did American health care get so bad? Why do we tolerate a system where you go bankrupt for a hip replacement? Compared to socialized medicine, on almost any metric the U.S. has one of the best medical… -
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‘Gladiator II’ Is a MAGA Metaphor
Hollywood sequels rarely achieve the magic of the original, but “Gladiator II” comes close. Except for the familiar populist framework of a lone man taking on “the system” against all odds, the echoes to the original are sufficiently distant that the new movie feels fresh and original. Plus, it turns out that Ridley Scott’s blockbuster…