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opinion
$113.4B vs. $37.8B: Congress Spent 3 Times as Much on Ukraine as on Customs and Border Protection
From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for its response to the conflict in Ukraine as the federal government spent on Customs and Border Protection. Congress approved approximately $113.4 billion in spending related to Ukraine conflict during that period, while the government spent only $37.82 billion on Customs… -
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‘Screaming,’ ‘Barking’: Trans Activist Barrels Into Student Group at Virginia March for Life
An activist waving a transgender flag assaulted pro-life students at the Virginia March for Life on Wednesday, video footage shows. Pro-life Virginians gathered Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia, to march in support of unborn babies and against efforts to expand abortion in the state. Speakers included Winsome Sears, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, Liberty University President… -
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Forget Poland. Who Will ‘Deprogram’ the Radicals at National Public Radio?
One of the grandest fictions of our leftist media is that somehow, championing “social change” is what makes you a “bona fide news organization.” Anyone who resists that siren song isn’t a professional, but a propagandist. One-sided coverage is great—if you’ve picked the right side. On Monday, National Public Radio displayed this fiction with an… -
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Jim Jordan Rips DOJ for Indicting Biden FBI Informant While Letting Steele Dossier Author Off the Hook
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, hinted Wednesday that the Department of Justice is operating under a double standard after it moved to indict an FBI informant who allegedly provided false evidence of corruption involving President Joe Biden, while letting the author of the debunked Steele dossier off the hook. Special counsel David Weiss indicted Alexander Smirnov—who told the FBI in… -
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Ohio Union Violating First Amendment by Taking Dues From Public School Staffer Who Opted Out
Suppose you joined a local gym several years ago, but after a while you discovered that you didn’t like some of the gym’s policies. So, you tell the gym that you no longer want to be a member and ask it to stop taking your monthly membership payments. The gym confirms that you are no… -
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Alabama Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Embryonic Human Life
In a landmark decision, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of protecting embryonic human life from wrongful death. Embryos are created routinely through in vitro fertilization, a process by which ova are fertilized with sperm in a laboratory rather than in a woman’s body. The process of creating and cryopreserving embryos can be… -
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USDA Colludes With Left-Wing Group to Turn Out Voters Under Biden Order, Documents Reveal
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with a left-wing advocacy group to boost voter turnout as part of President Joe Biden’s executive order directing federal agencies to get involved in elections. The USDA worked directly with Demos, a New York-based group that helped draft Biden’s Executive Order 14019, according to records obtained by The… -
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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,… -
opinion
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…