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Banning Freelance Work
The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers “recover lost wages.” That’s just nonsense. The new rules will make it harder for some freelancers to support a family. My new video shows how it will also make it harder… -
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Biden Suggests It’s Risky for Him to Secure Border by Executive Orders
President Joe Biden indicated in a new interview that he is considering taking executive action to secure the southern border. “Have you made a final decision on taking executive order in terms of what you want to do at the border? That includes the power to shut down the border, as it was suggested,” Univision’s… -
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Chuck Schumer’s $79 Million Week
Back on May 30, 2023, after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend any limit on the federal debt through all of 2024, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised the deal as an act of “responsible” government. “Again, nobody got everything they wanted,” said Schumer, “but this bill is the… -
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‘Only the Beginning’: European Court Rules Government Protection From Climate Change Is a Human Right
The European Court of Human Rights sided with a group of female senior citizens who had sued its government over its perceived failures to sufficiently address climate change on human rights grounds, according to The Wall Street Journal. A group of more than 2,000 Swiss women over the age of 64 alleged that the Swiss government’s climate… -
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Newly Appointed 4th Circuit Judge Married to Pro-Abortion Christine Ford Lawyer
Recently appointed 4th Circuit Judge Nicole Berner is legally married to the pro-abortion lawyer who represented Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her. The Washington Post describes Berner as “the first openly gay judge and the first labor lawyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for… -
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Biden Says Enhanced Military Alliance With Japan ‘Not Aimed’ at China
Amid increasing suspicion of China’s aggression, the leaders of the United States and Japan are touting an “enhanced” security agreement. “Our alliance we have with Japan is purely defensive in nature,” President Joe Biden said during a Rose Garden press conference Wednesday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. “It’s not aimed at any one nation… -
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‘Why Are You Filibustering?’: Mayorkas Stumbles Over Answer When Asked What Powers He Lacks to Enforce Border
Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, left Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas stumbling during a Wednesday hearing by rhetorically asking him what powers Congress had stripped him of to enforce the border. Mayorkas testified during a hearing of the House Appropriations’ homeland security subcommittee titled “Budget Hearing: Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the Department of Homeland Security.” Cloud… -
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Firing Lies: PBS ‘Documentary’ Tars, Feathers Onetime Host William F. Buckley
In the earlier decades of the Public Broadcasting Service, conservatives could feel that they had some fraction of a platform on William F. Buckley Jr.’s “Firing Line.” That PBS presence no doubt spurred the makers of the “American Masters” series to offer a two-hour program titled “The Incomparable Mr. Buckley.” In the opening credits, they… -
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Arizona Freedom Caucus Leader Slams Republicans ‘Calculated Political Decision-Making’ Following Abortion Ruling
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The head of the Arizona Freedom Caucus condemned the “calculated political decision-making” exhibited by Arizona Republicans who sought to distance themselves from the state’s most massive pro-life victory yet. Some high-profile Arizona Republicans had decried news on Tuesday that the state’s Supreme Court had upheld an 1864 law protecting almost… -
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Education Eclipsed: Unnecessary School Closures Breed Anxious Children
A total eclipse crossed the country this week in a display of natural wonder. Rather than seize the opportunity for an engaging science lesson, hundreds of school districts with several hundred thousand students decided to close for the day, many citing safety concerns that students might accidentally look at the eclipse without proper eye protection…. -
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Biden Education Secretary Refuses to Answer Whether ‘Women Are Physically Different Than Men’
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona repeatedly refused to answer questions on whether physical differences exist between men and women at a Wednesday hearing. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced Monday that only biological females can play in women’s sports at the roughly 240 universities it represents, which lawmakers referenced at the House Appropriations Committee budget hearing…. -
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Biden Admin’s Relentless DEI Push Continues Apace
Presidents used to appoint diplomats to defend the interests of the United States and the public against foreign adversaries. That looks now like a gauzy past. Today, you have President Joe Biden’s appointees, who want to demolish the society they purport to represent. Sadly, this is no exaggeration. On April 2, Secretary of State Antony… -
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DOUBLE STANDARD: LinkedIn’s Woke Content Moderation Hypocrisy
Do you think that the following statements violate LinkedIn’s policy forbidding speech that is based on prejudice, discrimination, or stereotypes about “inherent traits” or religious affiliation? They’re all awful things to say. They’re all based on stereotypes. And they come from ignorance, at best; hatred, at worst. They seem to be forbidden by LinkedIn’s hateful-conduct… -
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Why Is America Stopping Israeli Victory?
On Oct. 7, thousands of members of the terrorist group Hamas and its “civilian” friends broke through the barrier between the Gaza Strip and Israel and proceeded to torture, rape, and slaughter at least 1,200 Israeli people. They burned their homes, killed their children in front of them, and then kidnapped some 250 Israelis back… -
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Trans Juggernaut Hits a Speedbump: Landmark Study Reveals ‘Transgender’ Kids Actually Have Other Mental Health Diagnoses, Instead
It’s been a red-letter week for destroying the gender narrative. And the trans juggernaut just hit another speed bump. Fresh off the heels of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announcing that it would not allow transgender-identified men to compete in women’s athletic events in any of its association’s 239 small private schools, a landmark… -
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Senator Vows to Go Down ‘Screaming and Fighting’ in Mayorkas Impeachment Battle
Two months ago, the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Next week, the Senate will receive the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is expected to dismiss the charges just as quickly as he receives them. “Schumer is going to table it,” Sen. Roger Marshall,… -
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TERRIFYING: The True Force Behind the ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
The foreign policy establishment that once thrived under the control of both political parties has used Big Tech and the Biden administration to codify a “war on wrongthink” that stifles dissent from the elites’ narrative, a journalist and an online censorship analyst warned. “What we’re up against here are not pink-haired, ambi-gendered LGBT-BLM-maximizing identitarian politics… -
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Comer: Accountability for Biden Coming With or Without Impeachment
House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says he is confident that President Joe Biden and his family will be held accountable for overseas business deals that add up to influence peddling. “Impeachment is still on the table,” Comer said shortly after his remarks Tuesday at a government weaponization symposium at The Heritage Foundation,… -
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Tylenol vs. Transgenderism: Schools Need Parents’ Permission for One, but Not for Other?
Schools across the country routinely inform parents—and often must obtain their written permission—about all sorts of things, from a trip to the zoo to taking a Tylenol. A field trip might make Johnny’s day, and a Tylenol might make his headache go away, but they won’t profoundly change the way he understands the world… -
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Arizona Republicans Back Away From the Unborn Following State Supreme Court Ruling
A number of Arizona Republicans are rapidly distancing from the state’s controversial Supreme Court ruling protecting almost all unborn babies from abortions. The state Supreme Court upheld a 1864 law on Tuesday that bans almost all abortions in Arizona, except when the mother’s life is at risk. In a 4-to-2 decision, the court said that…