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opinion
Social Security’s Financial Time Bomb Is Ticking. Why Doesn’t Congress Hear It?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Social Security is almost out of money. They broke it, we bought it. This comes from the Congressional Budget Office, who just released a new report saying Social Security has just nine years until it runs out of… -
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Since Liberal Media Won’t, Vance Should Ask Walz These 15 Questions in Veep Debate
The bias of the moderators of ABC’s presidential debate three weeks ago against Donald Trump was so blatant that even the opening skit of this past weekend’s season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” skewered it. “I had hoped the takeaway of the debate I moderated would be my striking good looks,” quipped neatly coiffed “SNL”… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Wyoming Doctor Booted From Medical Board for Opposing Transgender ‘Treatments’ Asks Court to Reinstate Him
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Wyoming's governor removed a doctor from the state's board of medicine because the doctor supported a law banning "gender-affirming care" for minors. The doctor is suing, and his lawyers are filing a motion Tuesday asking the court to reinstate him on the medical board. His legal team also revealed that more… -
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Is America Undergoing a Quiet Coup, Courtesy of Wall Street?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the then-chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Simon Johnson, warned that the same dysfunctional policies he saw in basket case banana republics had taken hold in the United States…. -
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‘A Decision You Can’t Take Back’: Mother Warns Against Colorado Law Prohibiting Abortion Pill Reversal That Saved Daughter’s Life
When Mackenna Greene took the abortion pill to end the life of her unborn daughter, she immediately knew she had made the wrong choice. "I'll admit that in the days leading up to it, I was not excited," Greene told The Daily Signal. "I was second-guessing myself. I found myself trying to convince myself that… -
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Stanford Marketing Course Requires DEI Statement Before Student Enrolls
THE CENTER SQUARE—Requiring students to make a DEI statement to qualify for a course is “inappropriate” and could cross the line of compelled speech, according to a Brookings Institution expert. Stanford University is requiring that those applying to enroll in “Global Entrepreneurial Marketing,” a course offered by the Department of Management Science and Engineering, make a statement… -
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John Kerry, Hillary Clinton Are So Done With That Pesky First Amendment
Why is it we hear the loudest shrieks for democracy coming from those who most clearly want to remove all limits to their own power and lord it over their fellow citizens? In just the past few weeks, we’ve seen celebrities and even major political figures on the Left openly call for tyranny. They no… -
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Biden-Harris Justice Department Follows SPLC Script on Noncitizen Voting Cases
The Biden-Harris Justice Department is suing Alabama for removing more than 3,000 noncitizens from voter rolls just weeks after a coalition of left-leaning groups—including the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center—filed a similar lawsuit. Alabama is far from a battleground state, but the Justice Department’s move could have national consequences by setting a legal precedent for… -
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WATCH: Harris Chose Campaign Fundraisers Over Hurricane Survivors
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we explain how the Biden-Harris administration was faced with a dilemma—whether they should put time into hurricane relief or Harris-Walz campaign rallies over the weekend, and then we watch in disappointment as Vice President Kamala Harris chose fundraisers over survivors of Hurricane Helene. In what could only be… -
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How Harris Could Stop Fracking Without Banning Fracking
I believe Kamala Harris. She told a CNN town hall in 2019, “There’s no question: I’m in favor of banning fracking.” But she said in her Sept. 10 ABC News debate against former President Donald Trump: “I will not ban fracking.” That second comment might be the only campaign promise she ever keeps. How could these statements both be true? Harris… -
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Dems Hatch Another Plot to Pack Supreme Court
After suffering a series of losses before the U.S. Supreme Court, leftists in Congress are once again trying to remake the court to suit their own political purposes. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Thursday introduced the Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act, which would expand the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 15 over the next… -
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Biden-Harris Education Department’s Financial Aid Form Failures Have Left Students, Families in Lurch
The U.S. Department of Education had millions of phone calls from families to its call center go unanswered and had technical glitches plague its student-aid application processing. Nearly 75% of calls seeking help went unanswered more than five months, and understaffed call-center representatives told families to “try again later” in what was part of a… -
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‘Unprecedented’: Retired Border Patrol Chief Blows Whistle on How Biden-Harris Admin Hid Border Crisis
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Retired Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott blew the whistle to the Daily Caller News Foundation on what he calls the Biden-Harris administration’s going to great lengths to hide the illegal immigration crisis from the public, just days after a current sector chief made similar claims. Aaron Heitke, a former chief patrol agent for the… -
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Why Are Those Darn Baby Boomers So Rich?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Or, more precisely, why are subsequent generations so poor? This might look mysterious, considering how irresponsible boomers are, compared to their parents. But it turns out the answer’s simple: It’s because they rode the big, beautiful economy they… -
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Did Biden, Harris Know There’s ‘Scant Evidence’ for ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ When They Pushed It on Kids? Group Demands Answers
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have repeatedly supported "gender-affirming care" for "transgender" minors, but the National Institutes of Health has approved multiple research grants acknowledging there is "scant evidence" to support the idea that experimental medical interventions improve the lives of children who identify as the opposite sex…. -
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Lawmakers Push New Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Proposal, Burdening Taxpayers With Billions
After a pause in student loan repayments during the COVID-19 pandemic, borrowers have started paying again. But if history is any guide, some student loan borrowers will pay next to nothing—and after 10, 20, or 25 years, taxpayers, not borrowers, will be forced to pay the outstanding balances. Now, some members of Congress are trying… -
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Faith-Based Groups Better at Solving Social Challenges Than Government, CEO Says
Americans have a responsibility to be civically engaged in their communities and when it comes to solving social challenges, faith-based communities have the best track record, according to Stacy Blakeley, the CEO of The Policy Circle. During a study examining the foster care and refugee crises today, The Policy Circle, a nonprofit dedicated to encouraging… -
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Michigan’s Election Chief Faces Lawsuit for Refusing to Remove Dead People From Voter Rolls. She’s About to Get More Power.
Michigan lawmakers are poised to empower Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson—a Democrat who has faced six separate court orders to enforce election laws—to have more control over elections. A package of four bills dubbed the Michigan Voting Rights Act cleared the Democrat-controlled state Senate and awaits action by the Democrat-controlled state House of Representatives. Critics… -
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Why Are More Young Women Than Young Men Moving Left?
It’s not news that young people are further on the left of the political spectrum than older generations. Of unique interest now is that the movement to the left is more disproportionate among young women than young men. As a nation we should know this is happening and try to understand why. Women, traditionally, have… -
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Kamala Harris Is Keeping Voters in the Dark
“We are not going back,” Vice President Kamala Harris has promised. But where are we heading? And who is being left behind? Concerned Americans asking these questions can find answers at this year’s Climate Week NYC, a gathering of liberal activists and elites who claim that we are heading away from a “fossil-fuel society” and toward a…