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Allowing Transgender Participants Demeans Womanhood, Pageant Contestant Says
A talented and attractive Miss USA was crowned last week, and she deserves accolades, but we shouldn’t forget that there was a biological man who competed against her and the 49 other young women in the pageant. While conservatives are vocal in speaking out about biological men invading women’s sports, especially with the Olympics having… -
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Housing Costs Drive Inflation, Shocking Economists
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The cost of housing surged in July, accounting for nearly 90% of total inflation, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index data released Wednesday. Shelter costs rose 5.1% year-over-year and 0.4% month-over-month, after rising 0.2% in June, the bureau showed. The 0.4% monthly increase was greater than Bank of America… -
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Why Does Every Leading Large Language Model Lean Left Politically?
Large language models are increasingly integrating into everyday life—as chatbots, digital assistants, and internet search guides, for example. These artificial intelligence systems, which consume large amounts of text data to learn associations, can create all sorts of written material when prompted and can ably converse with users. Large language models’ growing power and omnipresence mean… -
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Federal Trade Commission’s Self-Defeating War on ‘Big Grocery’
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has announced a new investigation into “Big Grocery” to examine the role “corporate greed” has played in high grocery prices. Khan’s investigation is an election-year stunt to blame high prices on progressive whipping boys instead of government failure. If Khan were serious about lowering grocery prices, she would greenlight… -
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Presidents, Power, Faith, and the Boardroom
I’ve spent a lifetime trying to better discern Jesus’ great parable on the organic tension between God and mammon. I am always smitten with Jesus’ admonition that shrewdness matters profoundly in the navigation of life. Having lived my professional life in Washington, D.C., this tension between the world and Providence seems to come to the fore… -
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Recession Fears Loom as Small Business Job Numbers Tank
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Another domino falls for recession as job creation turns negative for small businesses, which employ nearly half of all Americans. In the past year, payrolls for companies with under 50 employees plunged by nearly 100,000, while job trends… -
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States Should Stop Buying Security Scanners From China’s Nuctech
Secure Technology Value Solutions is a company with a boring name and a bland website that is staffed by jovial-looking former policemen and corrections officers. It doesn’t exactly scream “Chinese Communist Party threat,” and that’s precisely the point. Secure Technology Value Solutions is actually a front for Nuctech, a Chinese government- and military-owned company, and… -
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Kamala Harris ‘Owns It as Much as Anybody,’ Texas Lawmaker Says of Border Crisis
Regardless of what federal courts say, Texas needs to remove illegal immigrants allowed into the country by the Biden-Harris administration, Rep. Chip Roy says. “We had six kids who died from fentanyl poisoning in the school district in which my family resides, southwest of Austin, Texas,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Signal at Erick Erickson’s… -
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Kamala Harris’ Record on 3 Big Issues Women Care About
The 2024 presidential election is less than three months away. The first debate between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the current vice president, and Republican former President Donald Trump is set for Sept. 10, but you don’t have to wait until then to know where Harris stands on several major issues on the minds of conservative… -
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Hunter Biden Lied About Lobbying for Foreign Agent to Protect His Father, Prosecutor Says
Hunter Biden received money from a foreign business magnate to influence U.S. policy and lied about the nature of his services for his father’s sake, prosecutors stated in court after years of investigations. Hunter Biden “received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion,” prosecutors say in documents… -
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House Probe of Exit From Afghanistan Lacks Answers and Accountability, Ex-Staffer Says
A House committee is set to release an investigative report on the Biden-Harris administration’s botched exit from Afghanistan, but a former committee staffer contends the probe should have been much tougher. Jerry Dunleavy, a former Washington Examiner reporter and author of the book “Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco,” was on the investigative staff… -
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This Sector Sees Significant Jump in Violent Assaults on Border Patrol Agents
A significant increase in violent attacks on Border Patrol agents has occurred in West Texas in recent years, the head of the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector says. Since Oct. 1, the start of fiscal year 2024, a total of 66 agents stationed in the El Paso sector have been assaulted, according to a press… -
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For Queen Kamala, Media Are Trying to Create ‘Hope and Change,’ Version 2.0
“The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert.” That’s the first line of Time magazine’s adulatory profile of Vice President Kamala Harris, titled “Her Hope,” or in the online version, “The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris.” The cover of the magazine was a glamorized image of Harris reminiscent of posters of President-to-be Barack Obama from 2008. You really… -
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Kamala Harris Gains Americans’ Confidence on Economy, Poll Shows
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Americans trust Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump to handle the economy despite most having a poor view of the Biden-Harris administration’s economic policies, a new August poll finds. By a slim margin, Democratic presidential nominee Harris leads Republican nominee Trump at 42% compared to 41%, despite nearly half of… -
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‘ANTI-SCIENCE’: Former Health Officials Slam FDA Duplicity on ‘Puberty Blockers’ in Light of New Evidence
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Former officials in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration condemned what they described as the FDA’s duplicity in allowing off-label use of so-called puberty blockers while loudly condemning the use of far safer drugs to treat COVID-19. “During the Trump administration, the media… -
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Dissension, ‘Toxicity’ Plagued Trump’s Secret Service Detail Before Assassination Attempt
Rancor, recriminations, and serious formal misconduct complaints have plagued all levels of the Secret Service detail assigned to protect former President Donald Trump over the past year, distracting the team from its core mission of securing Trump from physical harm and preventing an assassination. Trump’s regular detail team, a force of 60 employees—special agents and… -
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The Woke 2024 Olympics: Where Men Were Allowed to Punch Women
This past weekend, two biologically male boxers won gold medals in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. On Friday, Imane Khelif of Algeria won the gold medal in the women’s welterweight division. On Saturday, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won the gold medal in the women’s featherweight division. As reported by Boxing News, the oldest boxing… -
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Gen Z’s Mental Health Is Being Impacted by ‘Decaying Culture’
The family unit, social interaction, and politics are a few of the many variables that impact a developing adolescent. When a child’s family unit is broken, social life is in shambles, or the political public square becomes unavoidable, it can have consequences on who they become as their worldview takes shape. As evidenced by previous… -
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Judges, Not Bureaucrats, Interpret the Law
To hear Vice President Kamala Harris tell it, the Supreme Court’s decision this summer to curb the federal bureaucracy’s authority to interpret vague laws so as to favor giving itself more power threatens everything from clean water and air, accessible health care, and sound financial markets to safe products and worker safety. Well, don’t believe… -
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Modi’s Miracle: Indian Populism Wins Wide Support
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. As anti-elite populism rises worldwide, from the U.S. and Europe to Latin America, the socialists are fighting tooth and nail, using everything from cynical election coalitions in France to outright censorship and jailing dissenters in Britain. But there’s…