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Was the Joel Osteen Church Shooter Trans? Police Fail to Clarify
A woman who used male aliases shot two people at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston on Sunday, according to police. Two off-duty police officers fatally shot the suspect, whose gun reportedly bore the word “Palestine,” after she had opened fire in the megachurch. Houston police confirmed to The Daily Signal in a phone call… -
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An Open Border Policy Is Not a Biblical Mandate
When the Supreme Court ruled recently that the federal government could remove razor wire on the border between Texas and Mexico that was put in place by the state of Texas, it set off a legal, political, and even theological debate about the federalism and border policy. Despite the ruling, the state of Texas has said it… -
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Democrats Lavish Illegal Immigrants With Valentines. Citizens Take the Arrows.
They’re just not that into you. Today’s Democrats treat the American people like a spouse who has grown routine, sometimes ungrateful, and decreasingly alluring. And they cannot forgive America for running off for four years with that damn contractor. But Democrats swoon over the 8.8 million illegal aliens who they have helped invade the country on President Joe Biden’s watch. These arrivistes are… -
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2 Hamas Hostages Freed in Dramatic IDF Raid in Gaza
Two Israeli hostages in Gaza were rescued during a raid Sunday in the city of Rafah, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed Monday. IDF troops on the ground rescued the two hostages during a nighttime raid that involved firefights with Hamas operatives and airstrikes across the region, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a public… -
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A Black History Month Tribute to Clarence Thomas
Carter G. Woodson is widely credited with the activism that, in 1926, established a week, and later a month, to focus on the history and contributions of black Americans. In his message on the observance of Black History Month 50 years later, President Gerald R. Ford connected Black History Month to “the realization of the… -
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Conservatives Now Have a Credit Card That Aligns With Their Values
Americans love spending money. Imagine being able to do so and support conservative causes using your credit card. Now you can. Coign is seeking to fill a void in the credit card market by giving conservatives an alternative its competitors, many of which embrace left-wing causes. The credit card has all the features and benefits… -
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VOTER FRAUD ALERT: Georgia Specialist Finds Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2020, 2021, and 2022
An expert in election data asserts that almost 35,000 Georgia voters in 2020 cast ballots from the wrong jurisdictions, but Georgia’s top election official hasn’t responded to his request for an investigation. Mark Davis, president of Georgia-based Data Productions Inc., has pushed for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office to investigate his data since May… -
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Teacher Who Criticized ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Put on Leave by School District
An elementary school teacher who questioned a California school’s spending $250,000 on a teacher training program called “Woke Kindergarten” was placed on leave Thursday by his school district, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Glassbrook Elementary School used $250,000 in federal funds for underperforming schools to pay for training for teachers on how to be “anti-racist” and… -
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With Bipartisan Measure, Congress Could Expand Successful ‘One Door’ Policy on Welfare, Workforce
The federal government has more than 90 welfare and workforce programs spread across dozens of federal agencies, with funding flowing to thousands of state and local agencies and programs. Navigating the web of welfare and workforce assistance can be a nightmare. And, too often, Americans end up trapped in the welfare web instead of being assisted… -
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The Pitfalls of Government-Mandated Car Kill Switches
Should your car decide whether you’re able to drive? That’s not some hypothetical question. In the 2,700-plus pages of the 2021 infrastructure law—a clever misnomer for a trillion-dollar package which added leftist priorities to building bridges—a provision placed a surprising requirement on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency was tasked with developing a… -
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Pulling Dead Bodies From the Rio Grande: The Daily Life of Fire and Rescue on the US-Mexico Border
EAGLE PASS, TEXAS—Pulling “three or four bodies out” of the Rio Grande in one day is not unheard of for Harish Garcia or his colleagues at the Eagle Pass fire station near the border of Mexico, he says. “Before all the immigration started with people crossing and everything, we would still get [dead bodies in… -
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‘Kevin McCarthy Is Plotting His Revenge’: Rep. Eli Crane on ‘The Kevin Roberts Show’
Republican Rep. Eli Crane joined “The Kevin Roberts Show” Wednesday to discuss the southern border, challenging the Republican leadership in the House, and how he feels out of place in Washington, D.C. The congressman told host and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts that the voters of Arizona’s 2nd District picked an uncommon person to represent… -
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Notre Dame’s Silence on Abortion Doula ‘Displays the Rot,’ Catholic Critic Says
The Catholic University of America and the University of Notre Dame both hosted an “abortion doula” on campus, but the two Roman Catholic schools responded to the backlash in starkly different manners. Catholic University fired the host professor within 24 hours of The Daily Signal’s report on an abortion doula’s lecture to one of the… -
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Virginia Bill Abetting ‘Profit-Driven Industry’ of Death, Critics Warn
Critics raised the alarm as the Virginia Senate passed a bill Friday that would legalize assisted suicide, otherwise known as “medical aid in dying.” Based on the bill’s language, it would permit doctors to give their terminally ill patients a “self-administered controlled substance” to end their lives. The bill passed the Senate 21-19. While supporters… -
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How Can Americans Rid Themselves of a Potentially Senile President? Looking at 4 Options
An “elderly man with a poor memory.” That line and many others from special counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents released on Thursday now hang over his presidency. From not remembering when he was vice president to forgetting when his term ended to failing to come up with the… -
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Why Biden Is Threatening to Veto Aid to Israel
President Joe Biden promised to veto any stand-alone aid bill for Israel, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and most House Democrats voted against one. The administration maintains that Israel’s security is so “sacred,” it must be tied to a doomed legislative package containing entirely unrelated issues that deal with border security and Ukrainian aid…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: DC Medical Examiner Confirms It Will Not Immediately Destroy Baby Bodies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The D.C. Medical Examiner will not immediately destroy the bodies of “The Five” aborted babies recovered from an abortion clinic in the nation’s capital, The Daily Signal has learned. The Daily Signal has viewed emails between the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the American Center for Law &… -
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Beware Civics Education’s ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’
Everyone agrees that American students need better civics education. Civic knowledge in America is abysmal. Fewer than half of American adults can name the three branches of government—and a quarter can’t name any branch at all. Likewise, a quarter of Americans couldn’t name any of the five freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment. That’s why… -
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WATCH: GOP Senator Rips Into White House Blackmail on Deportations
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal on Thursday, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., called the White House’s threat to “reduce” deportations of illegal aliens if Republicans didn’t vote for the recent Senate border and foreign aid bill “ridiculous”: I guess we shouldn’t be all that surprised that this White House would do something like… -
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Human Trafficking Connects Super Bowl, Southern Border
A city becomes a prime location for human trafficking when it hosts the Super Bowl, a busy and heavily attended event. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit for the National Football League’s big game. This makes it easier for traffickers to hide the movement and sale of their human wares. Super Bowl LVII, set for…