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Trump Juror Dismissed After Prosecutors Question His Honesty on Arrest Record
A juror on former President Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York City was dismissed Thursday after prosecutors raised concerns that he may not have answered truthfully to all questions as part of jury selection, according to multiple reports. Prosecutors questioned whether the man, an IT consultant who was one of seven jurors sworn… -
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Planned Parenthood Checklist: More Abortions, Less Actual Health Care, More Tax Dollars Than Ever
Planned Parenthood’s 2022-2023 annual report is out. Unlike last year’s annual report, now we’re finally able to see how the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade is affecting Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers and bottom line. Spoiler alert: Abortions and government funding are at all-time highs. Actual health care for things such as cancer screening… -
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An American Foreign Policy That Benefits America
In his latest book, “The Last Best Hope,” political risk analyst John Hulsman offers a succinct, understandable guide to uniting the disparate wings of conservatism behind a realist foreign policy. While pitched at the interested layman rather than foreign policy nerds, Hulsman’s vignettes might even teach the most savvy readers a new thing or two…. -
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House Democrats Vow to Codify ‘Rights’ to Trans Surgeries, Hormones, Puberty Blockers
House Democrats released an agenda Thursday that includes a vow to codify a right to so-called gender-affirming care—transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers. The promise came within the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ agenda, which House Democrats first shared with NBC News. That agenda includes a slew of left-wing interests, including promises of a higher minimum wage… -
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Biden Mustn’t Encourage Illegal Mass Migration From Haiti
“It’s better to be the United States’ enemy than its friend.” Foreign officials tell me this is their perception under the Biden administration, which has a strange habit of appeasing our adversaries while holding our allies to impossible standards. It’s bad foreign policy, plain and simple. Moreover, it’s encouraging chaos in our own region of… -
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A Story of the Soil and the Soul
Hard work, passion, virtue, and true grit earmark the American heartland. Anecdotes, generation-spanning farm families, and crop innovations speak volumes. They are all children of agriculture. Farming teaches faith in God, food cultivation, animal husbandry, the value of love, the richness of relationships, and the growth of character. Farming offers time for reflection—an Aristotelian balance… -
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Biden’s Global Pandemic Agreement Empowers WHO, China, Conservatives Warn
Congressional Republicans are calling on President Joe Biden to abandon plans for a pandemic treaty that would strengthen the World Health Organization, citing that global body’s numerous failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., backed by about half of all Senate Republicans, signed a letter to Biden urging him to withdraw from two… -
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Republican Opposition to Ukraine Funding Now at 66%
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—New polling conducted this week sheds light on the contentious foreign aid bills currently under review by the House of Representatives, revealing widespread disapproval among American voters. With the House gearing up for pivotal votes on the foreign aid bills in the upcoming days, the survey conducted from April 16-18 reveals… -
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Examining the High Costs and Questionable Gains of ‘Green’ Policies as Earth Day Approaches
As we approach Earth Day, it is time to evaluate how green policies have performed. One such policy is the New Jersey bag ban, which was ostensibly designed to tackle plastic pollution, requiring stores over 2,500 square feet in size to replace disposable plastic bags with reusable ones. The ban bag is an example of… -
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The Kill Switch
Soon the government might shut down your car. President Joe Biden’s new “bipartisan infrastructure law” gives bureaucrats that power. You probably didn’t hear about that because when media covered it, few mentioned the requirement that by 2026, every American car must “monitor” the driver, determine if he is impaired, and, if so, “limit vehicle operation.”… -
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Google Fires Dozens of Employees Following Israel Contract Protest
Google fired over two dozen employees for holding sit-in protests over the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel. Protesters occupied multiple offices in Seattle, New York, and California, with signs that read “No more genocide for profit” and demanded that the company end its contract with the Israeli government for cloud and data services. Nine employees were… -
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California’s High-Speed Rail Project Far From Finished, but It Is Putting Money in Unions’ Coffers
Democratic officials are throwing billions at California high-speed rail projects that have yet to be built, funding thousands of jobs specifically for union members. Despite funding initially being approved by a referendum in 2008, the California High-Speed Rail project currently has less than a quarter of its expected length under construction and was initially supposed… -
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Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Allowing Boys in Girls Sports
What does it take for a federal court to reach the outcome it wants—instead of the outcome that the law demands? Apparently, just some creative judicial gymnastics. That’s what happened Tuesday with a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit when it overturned a lower court decision and struck… -
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3 Levels of Response: How Israel May Strike Back at Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will make its own decision on how to respond to Iran’s missile and drone attack last weekend. Leaders from the U.K., Germany, France, and America have urged Israel to practice “restraint” in considering a response to the 300 drones and missiles fired by Iran. During a Cabinet meeting… -
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What’s Riding on a Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Case Before Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court will determine the fate of a major Jan. 6 Capitol riot-related case. The ruling could affect hundreds of people who were in the Capitol that day in 2021, and at the center of the case is the applicability of a federal statute. The Justice Department has been using a statute enacted in… -
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Republicans Slam Democrats for Dismissing Mayorkas Impeachment Case
The Senate voted along party lines Wednesday afternoon to dismiss the House’s impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Within a few hours, congressional Republicans’ yearlong effort to investigate and hold President Joe Biden’s appointee accountable for the crisis of illegal immigration at the southern border ended. “Democrats concluded that Joe Biden and Alejandro… -
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Missouri AG Predicts ‘Negative Findings’ in Probe of Planned Parenthood’s Transgender Business
Planned Parenthood has refused to produce records that could prove it has irreversibly harmed children without parental consent as part of its booming transgender business, possibly in collusion with the Biden administration, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey revealed this week. Numerous transgender clinics in Missouri, including those affiliated with Planned Parenthood, have failed to comply… -
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Don’t Look to Baby Boomers for Wisdom About Romance
Where are our wise elders? Reality TV stars Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, who charmed Americans on “The Golden Bachelor,” announced Friday that their marriage was over, just three months after 7 million watched their emotional wedding. “I truly thought it was going to last forever,” Nist wrote of her marriage in an Instagram post… -
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Biden Is Building a Military Based on DEI and Wokeness. It Needs Merit and Preparedness.
The military is rightly understood as an apolitical institution, managed on the basis of merit, yet accountable at the highest level to democratically elected civilians. The Biden administration has demonstrated, however, the extent to which military affairs are enmeshed with politics, to the detriment of national security. Conservative groups and elected officials have caught on… -
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This Soros-Funded DA Faces Recall Vote as Crime Ravages Blue County
An effort to recall a progressive, George Soros-funded district attorney in California has received enough signatures from voters to advance amid an upswing in crime, officials say. Organizers seeking to oust Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price collected 74,757 verified signatures in support of their effort to hold a recall election, over 1,000 more than…