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NY Cardinal Praises Cathedral’s Handling of ‘Sacrilegious’ Funeral for Trans Prostitute
Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, addressed the outcry following a “sacrilegious” funeral held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral last week, in which wildly dressed transgender activists celebrated the life of an atheist, trans-identifying male prostitute. “I think our cathedral acted extraordinarily well,” said Dolan, as he discussed the incident with Father Dave… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Life Diaper Company Pushes Atlanta to ‘Make More Babies’ in Massive Billboard
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Pro-life diaper company EveryLife is launching a campaign message Wednesday to those in Atlanta through a towering billboard that reads “Make more babies.” EveryLife, which describes itself as “America’s leading pro-life diaper company,” is pairing the billboard message with a post on X (formerly Twitter) from the social media platform’s owner,… -
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The Climate Conundrum of Project Tundra: More Emissions Than Solutions
A “green energy” project in rural North Dakota is yet another such initiative that misses the mark. Despite the Energy Department’s admission that the Tundra Project would emit three times more carbon dioxide than it captures, a department grant worth up to $350 million is going to this proposed carbon capture and storage endeavor. The… -
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‘Outrage’ That Once Fueled Democrat Voters Is Slowly Fading as Another Trump Election Looms
Liberal voters are expressing a sense of fatigue in their ongoing resistance against former President Donald Trump as the 2024 election approaches, The New York Times reported on Monday. Fury propelled voters to cast ballots against Trump in the 2020 presidential election and Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections, according to Democrats the Times spoke to. However,… -
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ORWELLIAN: Transgender Efforts to Silence Biological Truth Reach the State Department
Someone needs to tell the Biden administration that George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” isn’t an instruction manual. The administration, and the Left more broadly, has adopted a form of totalitarian “newspeak” that aims to make criticism of transgender orthodoxy unthinkable by eliminating gendered words from the English language. This echoes the totalitarian government of “Nineteen-Eighty-Four,”… -
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The Pandemic Treaty That Won’t Prevent a Pandemic
If a “pandemic treaty” fails to account for the dismal international response to COVID-19 and isn’t focused on preventing future pandemics, is it really a “pandemic treaty”? Yet that’s the current state of a draft “pandemic treaty” being negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization. The failures of the international health system’s response… -
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Report: Abraham Lincoln Pardoned Biden’s Great-Great-Grandfather
President Joe Biden’s great-great-grandfather received a pardon from President Abraham Lincoln in 1864, according to The Washington Post. Biden’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Moses Johnson Robinette, was convicted of stabbing a fellow Union Army employee, the Post reported. Robinette allegedly stabbed John J. Alexander, a civilian brigade wagon master, after he was confronted for allegedly making an inappropriate… -
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Biden Traps Veterans on VA Plantation
Democrats constantly crow about their faith in “the right to choose.” But that applies to little beyond abortion. Any woman who chooses to buy a gun or send her child to a charter school should expect “pro-choice” Democrats to stand in her way. Democrats crave control and uniformity, even when it comes to medical care… -
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A Troubling Moral Relativity Hangs Over Israel-Hamas Conflict
The moral confusion of our time is not new. Almost 3,000 years ago, the Prophet Isaiah lamented, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” But at the start of the 20th century, a new… -
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Don’t Be Fooled: This Bill Is Mostly Ukraine Aid
The U.S. military needs to husband its resources so that it has the ability to protect America’s core national security interests. Because of the unparalleled extent of the challenge posed by China, U.S. defense spending must be focused on the Indo-Pacific. The National Defense Strategy identifies China as the primary threat to U.S. national security… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Teacher’s Assistant Sues Union, School District for Illegally Withholding Dues From Her Paycheck
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An Ohio teacher’s assistant who helps special needs students is suing her school district and former union because the district withheld union dues from her paycheck even after she left the union and formally asked it to cease taking her money. “Using the coercion of government to take money from a… -
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Texas vs. Biden: Lone Star State’s Battle to Secure the Border
When it became increasingly clear that the federal government was not going to stop the flow of illegal aliens across the border, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began taking strategic action. “You look at the results, and they speak for themselves,” Brent Smith says of what Abbott has done to slow the flood of illegal crossings. … -
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In Chicago, Violent Criminals Go Free While This Man Languishes in Jail
A nasty divorce case has put a man behind bars for 18 months in Chicago’s Cook County Jail despite what he says is a clean criminal record. Thanks to a law first proposed by Illinois’ black lawmakers after the George Floyd protests of 2020, thousands of dangerous inmates are being released onto the streets of… -
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral Breaks Silence After Transgender Activists Hold Irreverent Funeral for Atheist Prostitute
Transgender activists mocked Catholic saints and repeatedly celebrated “whores” during a funeral Thursday for a transgender-identifying prostitute and self-professed atheist who went by the name Cecilia Gentili. The Archdiocese of New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal as to why St. Patrick’s Cathedral hosted the funeral, “an… -
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Texas High School Refuses to Remove ‘Adult’ Library Books Before 22 Years of Review
A high school principal in Texas slow-walked a review of nearly 200 books in the school library that parents flagged for sexually explicit material, setting a timetable of 22 years to reconsider them, according to documents and emails obtained by The Daily Signal. Parents in Llano, Texas, told The Daily Signal that they began expressing… -
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Partnership With ADL Compromises FBI’s Integrity and Fairness
Most Americans recognize that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a far-left, dark-money behemoth with assets of nearly a quarter-billion dollars. The once-respected FBI is now viewed as being similarly politicized. Overall support for the agency has nose-dived to only 37% among the general public and a meager 17% among Republicans. Yet few Americans realize how closely the ADL works with… -
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Fani Willis’ Father, Former Governor Take Stand in Trump Disqualification Case
The father of embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand Friday, testifying that he backs up her story about storing cash at home, listens avidly to conservative talk radio, and knew about COVID-19 well before most other Americans. Willis is defending herself from accusations that her affair with the man she hired… -
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‘Easy Vote’: House Passes Bipartisan Rebuke of Biden Admin’s ‘Radical’ Natural Gas Restriction
The House passed a bill Thursday that would effectively lift the Biden administration’s pause on new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. The lower chamber passed the “Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act,” introduced by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, by a 224-200 bipartisan vote, with nine House Democrats crossing the aisle to join Republicans in… -
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Comer: ‘30 Million Reasons’ Biden Impeachment Probe Will Continue Despite Indictment of Informant
President Joe Biden called Friday for the House to shut down its impeachment inquiry into alleged influence peddling after the indictment of an FBI informant who said Biden might have accepted $5 million in bribes while vice president. Special counsel David Weiss, appointed to investigate the financial activities of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, secured… -
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Delaware’s Loss Is Texas’ Gain: Musk Moving SpaceX’s HQ to Lone Star State
Elon Musk announced Wednesday that SpaceX is moving its state of incorporation to Texas from Delaware, a move hailed by the Lone Star State’s governor. The decision followed a recent ruling by a Delaware judge that sided with a Tesla shareholder’s lawsuit challenging Musk’s $56 billion pay package as being excessive. Musk is the CEO…