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Biden Administration Indicts Doctor Who Blew Whistle on Gender Treatments for Minors
UPDATED: JUNE 7 The Biden administration has indicted a doctor after he blew the whistles on sex change procedures for minors. U.S. marshals visited Dr. Eithan Haim’s home this week and summoned him to appear in court. Haim is facing four felony counts of violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as… -
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Heritage Foundation President Unleashes Fiery Pro-Life Speech
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts encouraged America’s pro-life activists not to be downtrodden by recent pro-life losses, but to continue to fight on. “Democrat leaders are crowing, while too many Republican leaders are cowering from the fight,” Roberts declared in his recent speech at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, D.C. The conference was dominated… -
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Biden Appears to Contradict His Homeland Secretary on Border Security
There seems to be at least one impenetrable barrier connected to this country’s southwest border. It’s the one that stands between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and an accurate assessment of what’s actually happening there. In September 2020, the last month of that fiscal year, the U.S. Border Patrol encountered 54,771 aliens trying to illegally… -
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6 Big Failures of Biden’s Presidency
The state of the union is feeble. That’s what many Americans believe as President Joe Biden is set to make his fourth, and perhaps final, State of the Union address Thursday evening. Regardless of what he says in the speech, the reality of Biden’s tenure is that the American people are not only uneasy but… -
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Taxpayers to Pay $3M for Mayorkas Impeachment Defense
The Department of Homeland Security so far has spent $3 million of taxpayer money to defend embattled Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas against impeachment by the House of Representatives, according to documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The DHS contract with a law firm was to cover the cost of a failed attempt to stave… -
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Congressman to Bring Abortion Survivor to State of Union Address in Response to Pro-Abortion Biden Guest
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Bob Good is bringing an abortion survivor and pro-life activist to the president’s State of the Union address as his guest on Thursday night. The Virginia Republican’s choice of guest is a response to President Joe Biden’s guest, Kate Cox, the woman at the center of pro-abortion uproar in recent… -
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School Choice’s Texas-Size Victory
Republican primary voters in Texas sent a clear message on Super Tuesday: “We want school choice!” The Texas House of Representatives last year failed to pass a school choice bill even after Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, repeatedly called the lawmakers back into special session. Twenty-one Texas House Republicans joined with all House Democrats to… -
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Ads Target Biden Admin’s Efforts to Curb New Gas-Powered Vehicles
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers trade association released two new advertisements on Wednesday about the Biden administration’s efforts to drive gas-powered vehicles off the roads and replace them with electric vehicles. The ads, which are part of the association’s “seven-figure issue campaign raising awareness” in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, aim “to inform… -
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State of Delusion: Biden’s Address Will Expose Wide Divide Between President and Reality
President Joe Biden on Thursday night will address a joint session of Congress and the American people to persuade voters that his many failures are actually successes. Don’t buy it. He will continue a campaign of gaslighting around his administration’s increasingly dangerous border catastrophe, his unaffordable and anemic economy, and his disastrous foreign policy that… -
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Critics of ‘Banning’ Books Are Wrong: They’re Not All Suitable for Kids
Our English teachers taught us to use extreme caution before writing a word such as “always” or “never.” Such totalizing words are rarely accurate, since most principles have exceptions. But you won’t see this advice applied by critics of “book bans,” who tend to speak as though no book chosen by a school librarian is… -
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Democracy-Denying Democrats Lose in Court, Go Bonkers
The pro-Biden media perpetually pat themselves on the back. They are a gift to the people, the essence of democracy, as in, “We inform the voters and then we expect the voters to make smart choices” (the ones we recommend). But when journalists lose, they have a disturbing tendency to argue democracy lost. On Monday,… -
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Clarence Thomas, Liberal Racism, and the Ongoing Denigration of Black Conservatives
Presidential candidate Joe Biden stirred up controversy during the 2020 campaign, when, in an interview with a black radio host, he said: “If you have a problem figuring out if you’re for me or Trump, you ain’t black.” Biden got pushback on this, but he captured a pretty common view among liberals: that liberalism is… -
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Christian Who Survived Assassination Attempt in Communist Romania Issues Dire Warning About Erosion of Parental Rights in the US
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—A Christian who faced persecution for her faith in Communist Romania in the 1980s and barely survived an assassination attempt orchestrated by dictator Nicolae Ceausescu warns that the undermining of parental rights in the U.S. today echoes Ceausescu’s totalitarian government. “It’s the same system that the socialists use in order for parents to be… -
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Liberals Explore Other Ways to Disqualify Trump After Supreme Court Shoots Down Colorado’s Ballot Ban
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision Monday shut down state efforts to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot but left a few options open for Democrats seeking to disqualify him, which some began exploring soon after the ruling dropped. Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin already said he is working on a bill that would create a… -
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Pro-Life Tragedy: France Embeds Abortion in Constitution, Other Nations Will Follow
In an overwhelming 780-72 vote, the French parliament has just enshrined a “right” to abortion in the nation’s constitution. It is the first country in the world to do so. Why? Was there a push to outlaw abortion, which has been legal in France since the 1970s? Was there an effort to lower France’s gestational… -
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Attempt to Ban Iconic V-J Day Photo at VA Underscores the Left’s Hypocrisy
The double standards of the Left never cease to amaze and disgust. The Left’s latest “target” is the iconic V-J Day photo of a kiss captured on Aug. 14, 1945, by Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. The Department Of Veterans Affairs was reportedly discussing the banning of the Victory Over Japan Day kiss photo from all… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Florida Health Agency Responds to WPATH Files Exposing ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Florida agency that crafted a rule to prevent Medicaid from funding experimental transgender medical interventions responded Tuesday to the release of internal documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Journalist Michael Shellenberger on Monday night released a report, “The WPATH Files,” through his nonprofit, Environmental Progress. In the… -
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Jason Kelce’s Retirement Speech Emphasizes Value of Marriage, Family
Philadelphia Eagles star center Jason Kelce on Monday tearfully announced the end of his NFL football career with a tip of the cap to his fulfillment in marriage and fatherhood. Kelce reflected on his 13 years in the NFL—all spent with the Eagles, including a win in Super Bowl 52 in 2018—and the enduring support… -
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COLLUSION: Rhode Island School District Sends 8,800 Pages of Emails to SPLC, Docs Show
When concerned mom Nicole Solas requested all emails from her Rhode Island school district to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the request turned up more than 8,000 pages of communications, and the district told her it would cost $6,629.25 for it to process the SPLC documents. A brief refresher: The SPLC began as a civil… -
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‘Let the Reckoning Begin’: Detransitioners Vindicated by Expose of WPATH Experimentation on Minors
Detransitioners have been trying to warn the public that so-called gender-affirming care—transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers—is both experimental and dangerous, especially for minors. Now, thanks to the efforts of journalist Michael Shellenberger, we know that World Professional Association for Transgender Health doctors and medical experts pushing these practices were well aware of the experimental…