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Author Explains How the Left Took Over America’s Classrooms
Education expert David Goodwin says conservatives have a long way to go in taking classrooms back from the pernicious ideological influence of the Left. Goodwin, co-author of “Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation,” shared his perspectives on the education culture wars with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. “We’re going to have… -
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US Ally Paraguay Stands Firmly With Israel, Taiwan
Reconfirming that his country would be relocating its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a July 17 speech, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña underscored that “Paraguay has always been a great friend of Israel, we always say that it fills us with pride to have been the decisive vote for the creation of… -
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US Households Lose More Than $15,000 a Year, Thanks to Biden Admin Regulations, Report Says
Federal regulatory costs tax the average American household more than $15,000 per year under the Biden administration, according to a Competitive Enterprise Institute annual report released Tuesday. Households pay an average of $15,788 in hidden regulatory costs, according to the annual report, written by Clyde Wayne Crews and titled “Ten Thousand Commandments.” That’s more than… -
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VICTORY: California Dad Wins Custody of Son, 4, Over Mother Who Sought to Raise Him Nonbinary
Harrison Tinsley, now has full custody of his 4-year-old son, Sawyer, after a long legal battle prompted by his ex-girlfriend’s efforts to raise the boy nonbinary. “I know he’s a boy,” says Tinsley. “He wants to be a boy. He adamantly expresses that. If you say anything to the contrary, he gets very upset, and… -
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Biden’s 18-Year Term Limit for Supreme Court Equals Half the Time He Was in Senate
President Joe Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate, argues that half that time—18 years—is long enough to serve on the Supreme Court. Biden’s long-shot package of proposed Supreme Court reforms comes under six months before he leaves office and almost three years since a presidential commission made some of the same recommendations. Vice… -
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Biden Backs Supreme Court ‘Reforms’ Aimed at One-Party Rule
If Democrats win big in November, you should probably expect them to seek to pack the Supreme Court with their partisans. President Joe Biden endorsed a Supreme Court “reform” plan in an op-ed column for The Washington Post on Monday. The plan was also endorsed by the acting president—er, I mean Vice President Kamala Harris…. -
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WATCH: Liberal Blitz to Call Conservatives ‘Weird’ Backfires
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine the media’s exceptionally awkward honeymoon with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and how overplaying its hand by obscuring videos and policies from the current vice president’s previous campaigns may cut the celebration short. Voters probably retain a longer memory than many in the media… -
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Biden Admin Suggests Spending $78 Trillion to Achieve Net-Zero Global Carbon Emissions
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said during a speech in Belem, Brazil, on Saturday that the price tag for a global transition to a low-carbon economy amounts to $78 trillion in financing through 2050. Yellen said that in order to achieve the goal of net-zero global carbon emissions, there would need to… -
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4 Charts Provide Crucial Context as America’s Debt Hits $35 Trillion
While America’s attention has been focused on the presidential election, one of the greatest challenges facing the nation has continued to worsen. On Friday, the gross federal debt hit $35 trillion. For perspective, that amounts to about $267,000 for every household in the country. Unfortunately, not only has the debt soared to such an incredibly large number,… -
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Billionaires Bankrolling Kamala Harris’ Tough-on-Crime Campaign Wanted to Defund Police, Install Soros Prosecutors
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign reportedly seeks to frame her as a law-and-order candidate, however, the deep-pocketed donors propelling her candidacy have a history of supporting efforts to reduce the power of law enforcement. Harris’ close advisers have settled on a strategy of highlighting the vice president’s career as a district attorney… -
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Will Thais Allow Themselves to Become Guinea Pigs for a Central Bank Digital Currency?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. It’s official: Universal basic income will be the Trojan horse they use to replace the dollar with a government-run surveillance crypto-token, or central bank digital currency. Last week, Thailand’s left-wing government announced a program to give free money… -
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Comer Anticipates Proposals for Secret Service Reforms From Task Force on Trump Shooting
The bipartisan House task force charged with investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump likely will lead to significant legislation, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says. Comer’s oversight committee has jurisdiction over the Secret Service, which is under scrutiny for what some call catastrophic security failures at the former president’s July 13… -
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SPLC ‘Labeled Us Anti-Ourselves’: Gays Against Groomers Founder Responds to ‘Hate Group’ Smear
MILWAUKEE—Jamiee Michell, a lesbian who founded the organization Gays Against Groomers, finds it ironic and “hilarious” that the Southern Poverty Law Center brands her openly LGBTQ group an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” “It classifies us as an anti-LGBTQ hate group, which is the most ironic and hilarious thing ever because everybody in our organization is gay… -
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Parents Outraged School District Forces Children to Room With Trans Students on Overnight Trips
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Students in a Southern California school district could be forced to choose between rooming with a transgender-identifying student or missing out on an overnight school field trip. If parents complain about their child rooming with a transgender-identifying student of the opposite biological sex, staff in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District listen… -
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Biden Isn’t Running Again, but House Investigates Who’s Running Government
President Joe Biden is out of the running for a second term, but Congress still wants answers about who’s been running the executive branch and the “cover-up” of Biden’s cognitive condition. “We’ve identified the four people in the White House who we believe were the primary parties involved in the cover-up, three staffers as well… -
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A Look at Kamala Harris’ Record
With some hard work, pluck, the right boyfriend, and a bit of genetic luck, Vice President Kamala Harris has found her way onto the presidential ballot without having to secure a single primary vote. Don’t tell me the American dream is dead. Sure, Harris is a demagogue who speaks in cringy, swirling, impenetrable platitudes. And… -
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Doctor Familiar With Trump’s Wound Disputes FBI Director’s Questioning of Whether Bullet Caused It
Editor’s note: The FBI says former President Donald Trump was struck in the right ear July 13 by a bullet or a piece of one, moving to clarify what happened after nearly two weeks of conflicting accounts, The Associated Press reported shortly after 7 p.m. Friday. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a former… -
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The Bloodless Coup of Joe Biden Will Not Work Out Well for Democrats
The Democratic Party ruling class’ bloodless coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, who also happens to be the nominal sitting president of the United States, is one of the most astonishing political developments of my lifetime. Joe Biden, though clearly physically and mentally impaired, has sought the presidency for quite literally longer than… -
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‘Zero Tolerance’: Republican Files Bill to Deport Pro-Hamas Migrants After DC Riot
House Republicans are promoting a bill that would make foreign students who support terrorist organizations ineligible to remain in the U.S., a response to pro-Hamas protesters who brought chaos to Washington, D.C., Wednesday. Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., introduced a bill Thursday directing U.S. officials to deport any foreigner on a student visa who “has participated… -
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WATCH: ‘Kamala’s Baggage’ on ‘The Tony Kinnett Cast’
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we ford a river of radical statements from the de facto Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris. From retiring carefully chosen terror terms and buddying up with a corrupt union president to plagiarizing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harris leaves no baggage uncarried. Hudson Crozier, a…