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Former DNC Chief Gets Pushback on Claim of Scant Alarm Over Biden’s Debate Performance
CNN host John Berman on Monday refuted Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s assertion that it’s just “elites” who are worrying about President Joe Biden’s debate performance. Biden, during his Thursday debate with former President Donald Trump, spoke with a raspy voice and trailed off, prompting concerns about his age and fitness for office. Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared to attempt… -
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‘No More Souters’: Strategies for Conservative Success on Judicial Nominees
The current Supreme Court term is now over, but conservatives have already suffered notable defeats in cases involving Big Tech censorship and free speech, states’ lawful ability to proscribe abortion, the ubiquity of the abortion pill (mifepristone), the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the possibility of a future wealth tax, and taxpayer responsibility… -
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BREAKING: First Democrat Lawmaker Calls on Biden to Exit 2024 Race
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, is calling on President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. Doggett is the first elected Democrat to call for Biden to step aside from the race after most Democrat leaders—including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and former President Barack Obama—publicly supported Biden… -
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FBI Whistleblower–a Democrat–Calls Out Politicized Targeting in Security Clearances
An FBI supervisory special assistant—and registered Democrat—filed a whistleblower complaint that notes the bureau was pushing politics as part of decisions on security clearances. He says that after he disclosed the FBI’s improper suspension and revocation of other employees’ security clearances, the FBI retaliated and suspended his security clearance. On Tuesday, he sent a disclosure… -
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Rising Trend of Classical Education Offers Hope for Civic Renewal
As we celebrate our independence on the Fourth of July, Americans would do well to reflect upon what’s necessary for a nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, to long endure. A free people requires an education in the civic knowledge and virtues necessary to preserve liberty…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: Poll Reveals Gender Divide on Proposal to Include Women in Military Draft
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Most women in the U.S. oppose a recent proposal to include women in a potential military draft, a new poll finds. A national survey by Scott Rasmussen, shared exclusively with The Daily Signal, found that 22% of female respondents “somewhat oppose” drafting women and 36% “strongly oppose” it as Congress weighs… -
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You Can Challenge Old Regulations Before the Government Sues You, Justices Rule
Certain that bureaucrats know best, the modern administrative state has long labored to snuff out challenges to its actions. So, when Corner Post—a convenience store and truck stop in North Dakota—challenged a federal rule governing fees for debit-card transactions shortly after it opened for business, but years after the regulation had taken effect, the government… -
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AOC Aims to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Over Presidential Immunity Ruling
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., says she intends to file articles of impeachment against Supreme Court justices. The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Trump v. United States that presidents have immunity from prosecution pertaining to “official acts” taken in office. Afterward, Ocasio-Cortez said in a post on X that she intends to file articles of impeachment against the justices and… -
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Angel Studios’ New Film to Hit Big Screen July 4th
It’s a story that needed to be told, says “Sound of Hope” writer and producer Rebekah Weigel, because Possum Trot is not just another small Texas community near the Louisiana border, but a town that chose to live out God’s command to care for the orphan. “This is such an amazing story,” says Weigel, an… -
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FACT CHECK: Biden’s 5 Lies About the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Trump’s Immunity
On Monday, President Biden delivered a surprise four-and-a-half minute address condemning the Supreme Court’s decision in Donald Trump v. The United States released that morning. Special prosecutor Jack Smith has alleged that Trump conspired to overturn the 2020 presidential election by “spreading knowingly false claims of election fraud.” Trump’s legal team argued that the allegations… -
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Peruvian Lawmaker Honors American Pro-Life Group’s Global Work
A Peruvian lawmaker recently honored a pro-life organization from the U.S. with a prestigious award for its work to limit abortions in Peru. Peru was the first country visited by South Carolina-based Pro-Life Global in its summer tour of Latin America, and it trained over a hundred young, pro-life activists there. At the end of… -
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Pennsylvania Lawmaker Proposes Tax Fairness for Faith-Based Health Care Sharing
A House Republican has introduced a bill designed to achieve tax fairness for ministries that share health care costs. A member of the House Ways and Means health subcommittee, Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., is the sponsor of the Health Care Sharing Ministry Tax Parity Act, which he introduced last Monday. Kelly’s bill would allow members… -
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The Supreme Court Is Not Red v. Blue
The United States Supreme Court has been lauded by such diverse members as conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist and liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the “crown jewel” of the Constitution for its power of judicial review. The court should be venerated not because of the happenstance of personalities or ideological persuasion but because of… -
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Supreme Court Gives Ominous Forecast for State Laws Regulating Social Media
The modern public square is private. That paradox is the lesson handed down by the Supreme Court in NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice, two cases in which the world’s largest social media empires challenged state laws in Texas and Florida that curtailed their practice of online content moderation. Just a few terms ago,… -
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Why 3 Liberals Dissented From Supreme Court’s Trump Immunity Ruling
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson issued dissents Monday in which they vehemently object to the court’s 6-3 opinion in the presidential immunity case brought by former President Donald Trump. The majority of the high court held that presidents are entitled to “absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive… -
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A Great Day for Trump at the Supreme Court
In what is undoubtedly one of the most significant constitutional decisions it has ever issued with respect to the separation of powers and the powers of the presidency, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision Monday saying that former presidents are entitled to broad immunity from criminal prosecution after they leave office for acts committed… -
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Dems’ Civil War Over Housing Comes to Head After San Francisco Forced to Allow More Construction
Pro-housing Democrats won a victory Friday in San Francisco after state authorities declared the city had not met its housing permitting goals in 2023, triggering a law some city Democrats opposed that will expedite approval of new builds, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. San Francisco’s sluggish approval of new projects triggered SB 423, a California… -
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France’s Right Notches Massive Wins in Key Elections Against Macron’s Liberal Wing
France’s premier right-wing party won massively in the country’s first round of snap elections on Sunday, delivering a blow to President Emmanuel Macron’s liberal coalition. The right-wing National Rally party won 33% of the votes in the parliamentary elections across France on Sunday, leaving Macron’s Renaissance party with only 21% of the votes, according to The Wall… -
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Monkeypox: House Investigators Find NIH Hiding Risky Viral Gain-of-Function Research
Can there any longer be any doubt? The behavior of senior officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the powerful federal agency formerly run by Dr. Anthony Fauci, is intolerable. And the performance of the Department of Health and Human Services in response to legitimate congressional inquiries has been abysmal. The latest… -
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Majority of Voters Want to Ditch Biden After Disastrous Debate, Poll Shows
The majority of voters want to see President Joe Biden replaced as the Democratic nominee following his debate performance Thursday night, according to a Morning Consult poll. After the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle since the primary season, Biden’s performance against former President Donald Trump left many major Democrats scrambling to soften the blow….