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Hungary’s Wariness of Forced Speech Reflects Post-Communist Ideals
The premium that Hungarians place on free speech reflects an American posture of centuries past. It was the abolition of censorship that Hungarians demanded first during the famous 1848 revolution against the Habsburgs, and it was free speech that they demanded when the 1956 revolution broke out. Indeed, America, whose inaugural constitutional amendment enshrines the… -
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Third-Largest Teachers Union Faces Demise of Its Own Making
In a frantic attempt to preserve its monopoly over the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, attorneys for the Florida union currently representing the district’s 24,000-plus teachers and support staff are relying on a strategy that has the potential to backfire and leave its members without workplace representation altogether. On March 18, United Teachers of Dade, using an… -
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How Biden Stacks Up to Trump on Confirmed Judges
President Joe Biden is on track to match and possibly surpass his predecessor in successfully appointing lower court judges. Biden announced his 47th round of nominees for vacancies on federal district and appeals courts in late March, bringing his total nominations to 229. That’s just 10 fewer nominees than Donald Trump had at this point… -
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Organization That Wants to Cut Carbon Emissions Sues to Close Zero-Emission Nuclear Power Plant
An environmentalist nonprofit that seeks to cut carbon emissions and promote clean energy is suing to stop the Biden administration from funding a zero-emission power plant. The Department of Energy announced in January that it had approved a $1.1 billion credit payment to the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, a nuclear facility on the Central California coast,… -
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Increased Crime Cutting Into Small-Business Earnings, Survey of Owners Finds
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—One-third of small-business owners say increased crime is cutting into their earnings, and 7 in 10 grade President Joe Biden’s performance negatively in terms of helping small businesses, a new poll finds. Pollsters John McLaughlin and Scott Rasmussen conducted the survey, along with the Job Creators Network Foundation in March, among 400… -
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South Africa’s Dangerous Battle Against Israel
South Africa filed a lawsuit Dec. 29 in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, accusing Israel of committing genocide, pointing to the scores of dead Palestinians that have resulted from Israel’s campaign against Hamas. While the case is still pending as of this writing, the court on Jan. 26 ordered Israel to… -
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Ohio Police Arrest Illegal Immigrant, Discover He Was Deported 7 Times, Charge Him With Murder
An illegal immigrant who had been deported over a half-dozen times was charged with murder in Butler County, Ohio, according to local reports. Hamilton Police arrested 48-year-old Fermin Garcia-Gutierrez on unrelated charges on March 16, the Journal-News, an Ohio-based newspaper, reported. Authorities highlighted Garcia-Gutierrez’s record of seven deportations in a Friday press conference prior to the… -
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Judge Denies Trump’s Bid to Toss Georgia Charges Based on First Amendment
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s racketeering case in Georgia declined Thursday to dismiss the charges based on the First Amendment. Trump’s attorneys argued in a December motion that the indictment “directly targets core protected political speech and activity,” urging Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to dismiss the charges as violations of the First Amendment. But… -
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Yikes! Perilous Economy for First-Time Homebuyers
Buying a home is a cornerstone of the American dream, a dream that is further out of reach today for many Americans. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the median sales price of a new, single-family home was $416,300 in May 2023. In 1985, it was $84,300. Yes, income has increased, but… -
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‘Targeting, Surveilling, and Manipulating Americans’: Time for Senate to Pass TikTok Bill, Congresswoman Says
A rare bipartisan agreement has formed in Washington around the social media app TikTok. The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing and is subject to Chinese law that requires companies to make their users’ data available to the Chinese Communist Party. In a 352-65 vote last month that included 197 Republicans and 155… -
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Only Two States in America Have a Majority of Households That Consist of Traditional Families
Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming all share common borders and something else that matters more. According to data the Census Bureau gathered in 2020, these were three of the four states that had the highest percentages of households headed by married couples of the opposite sex. New Hampshire also ranked in the top four. In 2020,… -
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The Cut Flowers Civilization
This week, famed British atheist Richard Dawkins explained that he was a “cultural Christian.” Praising civilization in the United Kingdom, Dawkins stated: I do think that we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer. But there is a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a… -
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Pro-Abortion Ballot Initiative in Florida Aims to Trick Voters With Vague Definition of ‘Health’
A ballot initiative OK’d by the Florida Supreme Court perpetuates abortion advocates’ favored strategy of using vague definitions of “health” to expand abortion on demand. Florida voters will face a referendum measure in November that would allow abortion up to the moment of birth if deemed “necessary to protect the patient’s health” after the state… -
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What the Conservative Defense Budget Would Prioritize
President Joe Biden released his official fiscal 2025 defense budget request in March, and in the document, his administration’s misguided priorities are on full display. While paying lip service to the concept of China as the primary challenge for the United States, the official request fails to align spending with strategy. Most egregiously, the request… -
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Americans Face Higher Costs Under EPA’s Electric Truck Mandate
One week the Environmental Protection Agency comes for our gasoline-powered cars, the next for our diesel-powered trucks. EPA chose Good Friday, when many Americans were preparing to celebrate Easter Sunday (if not Transgender Day of Visibility), to release a new rule requiring that 25% of truck sales be electric by 2032. Practically everything Americans use… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Left-Wing Group Pushed a Policy That Could Shape 2024 Election Outcome—Using Your Tax Dollars
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Documents reveal an organization backed by Obama White House alumni such as Valerie Jarrett and bankrolled by liberal dark money donors advocated using tax dollars to pay college students to get out the vote in the 2024 election, doing so before the Biden administration announced the same policy. The Daily Signal… -
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‘Ridiculous and Laughable’: Subpoenaed CEO Blames Conservative Legal Activist for ESG Probe
An executive subpoenaed in the House’s investigation of companies involved in so-called ESG policies claims conservative legal activist Leonard Leo is behind a “crusade” to stop the corporate practice. ESG is an acronym for environmental, social, and governance practices that promote left-leaning activism among companies and corporations. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating numerous companies… -
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Why Do Only a Third of Americans Now Support Israel’s Right to Defend Itself?
Most recent Gallup polling in March shows that 36% of Americans “approve of Israeli military action in Gaza” and 50% disapprove. Last November, a month after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that claimed the lives of more than 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians, 55% approved of the military action that Israel initiated. What has happened… -
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Automobile ‘Bidenvilles’ Are the New Shantytowns Amid US Housing Affordability Crisis
When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles,” after President Herbert Hoover. Today, Americans increasingly live out of their cars because they can’t afford housing. If history is any guide, will parking lots full of Americans soon be known as “Bidenvilles”? The problem… -
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Biden DOJ Targets Utah Prisons After Trans Prisoner Removes His Own Testicles
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department announced Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit accusing the state of Utah, and its Department of Corrections, of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act in failing to give a man hormones for his gender dysphoria. The prisoner, who identifies as a transgender woman, is said to have requested to…