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Why Climate Activists’ Push for Renewable Energy May Backfire
Renewables such as wind and solar are intermittent and largely unpredictable energy sources, with rapid swings in output from one minute to the next. This creates major challenges for operators of the nation’s electricity grid, because supply must equal demand, and the supply “curve” in a given area never tracks the output from intermittent renewable… -
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How to Ensure a Big, Ugly War With Iran
Iran-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times. Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting U.S. forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. In reality, these satellite terrorists are being directed in a… -
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Rip Curl Brand’s Wipeout Over Transgender Surfer Shows Fed-Up Americans Are Winning
It’s been a week to forget for surf company Rip Curl, the latest brand to risk consumers’ wrath with a pro-transgender marketing campaign. Its January post urging people to meet “waterwoman” Sasha Lowerson, a biological man in a bikini, lit a literal fire under fans, who took to the internet to burn everything from surf booties to… -
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Joe Biden Keeps Rewarding the Terrorists
Peace is for suckers. Even as Israelis were rooting out the barbaric child murderers and rapists of Hamas, President Joe Biden was trying to bully the Jewish state into repaying the Palestinians with a new state. Now, the State Department is reportedly fast-tracking recognition of an “independent” Arab state, which not only promises to envelop… -
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The Beltway Judge Hearing Trump Cases and Her Anti-Trump, Anti-Kavanaugh Husband
Washington glitterati assembled at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in October to celebrate federal employees making a difference in government. Hosted by CNN anchor Kate Bolduan, the black-tie affair featured in-person appearances by top Biden White House officials, including Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and Secretary of Agriculture… -
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Biden Needs a Spine, Not New Laws, to Shut Down Open Border
President Joe Biden tells a lot of tall tales about the border crisis, but his claim that he needs the reckless bipartisan immigration bill being negotiated in the Senate to give him the authority to “shut down the border” and he “would use it the day” he signs the bill into law to end the crisis is one of his tallest tales yet. In truth, this deal is a political ploy that would support his open-border policy and fund his unlimited illegal immigration plan. Why is Biden’s claim a tall… -
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Persecution of Christians Worsens Around Globe
Open Doors International, a nonprofit organization that supports persecuted Christians in over 70 countries, has released its annual 2024 World Watch List, which highlights and ranks countries in which Christians face the most severe persecution and discrimination. Each year, the report brings vital attention to brave Christians around the world who suffer because of their faith…. -
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‘Micro’ K-12 Schools Offer Big Solutions for Students
New research estimates that some students’ grades will never catch back up after falling during the pandemic. Recently, some in the mainstream media worried that the federal taxpayer money that lawmakers sent to K-12 schools during COVID-19 may not be enough to help schools turn things around. But public schools—also known as “assigned” schools—had money… -
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Biden EPA Has Acted Like ‘Gestapo,’ Mistreated Ohio Residents in East Palestine Cleanup, House Candidate Says
A Republican candidate for the House of Representatives ripped the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, saying it was “mistreating residents” of East Palestine, Ohio. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he would visit the city where the Feb. 3, 2023, train derailment occurred, fulfilling a promise to visit East Palestine made in March 2023. The derailment caused people to evacuate after chemicals… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Missouri AG Orders School District to Cease Teaching Radical Gender Ideology Without Parents’ OK
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey this week ordered a local school district to “cease and desist” teaching students about human sexuality, including gender ideology, without parental consent ahead of time. In a letter Monday exclusively obtained by The Daily Signal, Bailey also ordered the Webster Groves School District to review all… -
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This Time It’s China Targeting Pearl Harbor, Records Show
By the time police responded to a call shortly before 10 a.m. regarding a Chinese man and woman conducting surveillance near a security entrance of the historic Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, the two fled in what police identified as a 2021 silver Nissan Altima, with unidentified plates. The two suspects had been “capturing digital… -
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Biden v. Texas: What the Border Crisis Looks Like on the Ground in Eagle Pass
EAGLE PASS, Texas—The clothing strewn across the riverbank gives away that Shelby Park on the Rio Grande was a major crossing point for illegal aliens not long ago. But since Texas National Guard assumed control of the park, the crossings have nearly stopped entirely, according to authorities. The Daily Signal visited Shelby Park in Eagle Pass,… -
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Left’s Global Networks Take Aim at Argentina’s New President
Javier Milei is the president of one country, Argentina, which makes him accountable to the world’s 46 million Argentines. But the global Left knows that if Milei’s free-market reforms succeed, its ascendancy might be cut short. That’s why so many leftists supported or even helped plan last week’s massive demonstrations against Argentina’s new elected leader…. -
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‘Black Lives Matter at School’ Week Is a Marxist Attack on the Family, Moms for Liberty Leader Warns
As students across the United States struggle to master basic reading and math skills coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, some schools are dedicating the first week of February to “Black Lives Matter at School” in a “Week of Action.” Tina Descovich, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, urges parents to see whether their school district… -
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What I Saw at America’s Wide-Open Northern Border: The BorderLine
A damaged pickup truck with no lights sped past me in the opposite direction in the middle of Malone, New York, up on America’s northern border with Canada. It was 5 p.m. on a dark winter evening, and the truck was going about 60, throwing off sparks and burning plastic. At least eight police cars… -
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Igniting an Appreciation for Abraham Lincoln in Children
Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president. There is little doubt that he is widely admired for the work he did to end slavery and preserve the Union. But beyond these two important points, most Americans know little else about Lincoln’s life. A 2013 poll by Participant found that… -
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Biden Admin Launches Narcotics ‘Working Group’ With China
The Biden administration has formed a “working group” with the Chinese Communist Party to counter a growing global narcotics and fentanyl crisis, the State Department announced. Multiple U.S. government departments—including State, Homeland Security, Justice, and Treasury—will work with Beijing to counter the global production and trafficking of narcotics, specifically fentanyl, according to a press release Thursday from… -
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It Took 22 Minutes for Revolt After High School Put Tampon Dispenser in Boys Restroom
It only took roughly 20 minutes for a tampon dispenser in a boys restroom at Brookfield High School in Brookfield, Connecticut, to be torn down, according to a report from CT Insider. Principal Marc Balanda sent an email out to students and their families on Jan. 24 and explained that the new dispenser had been… -
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150 Democrats Vote Against Bill to Deport Illegal Immigrants Convicted of DUIs
Some 150 House Democrats voted Thursday against a bill to allow the deportation of illegal immigrants who have been convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol and other drugs. “In the United States, someone dies in a crash with an impaired driver every 45 minutes,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Barry Moore, R-Ala., told… -
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Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs in 2020. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.
Editor’s note: Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, and other Oregon leaders declared a state of emergency for downtown Portland on Tuesday owing to an explosion of fentanyl use in the city. The state of emergency will last at least 90 days. According to The Associated Press, city, county, and state authorities will…