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‘Did Not Align With Our Mission’: Catholic University Fires Professor Who Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Catholic University confirmed to The Daily Signal that it has terminated the contract of the professor who invited a self-declared “abortion doula” to speak to students about coaching women through abortions and “pregnant men” through a “seahorse birth.” Catholic University President Peter Kilpatrick announced to students on Jan. 30 that… -
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Surfing Brand Meets Wave of Outrage for Replacing Star Athlete With Trans Surfer
Live by the transgender mob, die by the transgender mob. That message should’ve already made its way to most corporate board rooms, but a few stubborn holdouts seem determined to find out the hard way. Rip Curl is the latest brand to stick its toe in the unfriendly waters of the LGBT debate with this… -
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3 Steps Biden Should Take After Iran-Backed Militants Kill 3 US Soldiers
President Joe Biden says the U.S. “shall respond” after a drone attack Sunday left three U.S. Army soldiers dead and more than 30 others wounded at a base in Jordan. Iran-backed militias were reported to be responsible for the deadly drone attack, and in response, Robert Greenway says, the U.S. needs to make Iran “feel… -
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BREAKING: Biden Education Department Met With SPLC Before Center Put Parental Rights Groups on Its ‘Hate Map’
A high-ranking official at the Department of Education under President Joe Biden met with representatives of the Southern Poverty Law Center a year before the center put parental rights groups, including Moms for Liberty, on its “hate map” alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, according to documents obtained by The Oversight Project. The department… -
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Dems’ Energy Permitting Reform Bill Includes Billions for Eco-Activist Groups
A Democrat-backed permitting reform bill unveiled in December would hand out billions in grants for eco-activist nonprofits to conduct environmental reviews on green government projects. Nonprofit organizations, localities, and Native American tribes would be able to apply for $500 million in grants each fiscal year starting in 2024 through 2029, as a part of the Clean Electricity… -
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The Defense Department’s China Military Power Report: The Threat Is Worse Than Advertised
The Defense Department’s latest annual “China Military Power Report” gets a lot right. It accurately identifies the scope of China’s global ambitions and many of the structural changes being implemented by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to make China the preeminent military power in Asia and the Pacific. Even so, the report appears to undersell the threat posed… -
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US Should End, Not Pause, Funding for UN Aid Agency Tied to Hamas
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has finally admitted what has been obvious for years: at least some of its employees support or are members of terrorist groups such as Hamas. Evidence provided by the Israeli government that show the relief agency’s employees participated in the horrific Oct. 7 terrorist attacks… -
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Heritage’s One-of-a-Kind Election Fraud Database Hits 1,500 Cases
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, the only such database in existence, now contains over 1,500 proven cases of election fraud. The sampling of cases vary from lone wolves stealing one vote to conspiracies that stole many votes, defrauding citizens and candidates of honest elections and sometimes changing the outcome of an election. (The Daily… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Illinois, Chicago Leaders Say What Biden Won’t on Illegal Immigration, Emails Show
President Joe Biden has said he wouldn’t call the situation at the southern border a crisis, but officials in Chicago—host to this summer’s Democratic National Convention—appear to differ. Chicago city officials, as well as Cabinet secretaries and senior staffers for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, routinely refer to a “crisis” in emails and other… -
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Yet Another Example of Why Taxpayers Shouldn’t Fund One-Sided, Woke Public Broadcasting
A conservative president or Congress that does not defund public broadcasting does not understand what the moment requires—or, in the parlance of the day, they don’t know what time it is. Across the board, government must stop funding services set up with taxpayer money ostensibly to serve all Americans, but which cater only to one side. NPR is a prime… -
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Christian, Jewish Leaders Condemn Ongoing Political and Spiritual ‘Persecution’ of Paivi Rasanen
An interfaith coalition has offered prayers of solidarity to two evangelical Christians facing their third trial for declaring that homosexuality violates the Bible, a position prosecutors call “war crimes and crimes against humanity.” Despite two unanimous acquittals, Finland’s state prosecutor has taken an elderly member of Parliament and a Lutheran bishop before the Supreme Court… -
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Leaked Messages Reveal E. Jean Carroll Allegedly Supported Christine Ford to Protect Roe v. Wade
E. Jean Carroll, who just won $83.3 million in damages in her defamation trial against former President Donald Trump, allegedly said that she supported Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh out of a desire to protect Roe v. Wade. Tara Reade, the woman who accused President Joe Biden of… -
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VA Hospital Plans to Ramp Up Sex-Change Surgeries, Double Down on Gender Ideology, Documents Show
A Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Seattle requested more than $600,000 in fiscal year 2023 to build and staff a surgical facility for performing gender-transition surgeries, although the VA has yet to approve such procedures, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The facility has offered hormone therapy, minor surgeries, hair removal,… -
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Strive Offers Investors Alternative to ESG-Driven Companies
In the investment and financial services industry, the dominant players like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard are beholden to stakeholder activism, which drives them to a greater focus on leftist ideas like DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—and ESG—environmental, social, and corporate governance. Strive takes a different approach. It’s focused on maximizing value for investors—and it’s having… -
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2 Articles of Impeachment Filed Against Mayorkas
The House Homeland Security Committee on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “His lawless behavior was exactly what the Framers gave us the impeachment power to remedy,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said of Mayorkas. The two impeachment articles “lay out a clear, compelling and irrefutable case for… -
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Biden Doesn’t Have Any Legal Authority to Seize Control of Texas National Guard
Texas Democratic politicians, such as Rep. Joaquin Castro and failed gubernatorial and Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, are urging President Joe Biden to seize control of the Texas National Guard, which Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has mobilized to help secure the Texas border. Abbott did so in the face of the deliberate and intentional inaction by… -
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School Choice Revolution Empowers Homeschoolers, Too
A school choice revolution is sweeping the nation. Ten states have passed universal education choice initiatives in the past two years. In addition to private school tuition, most of these new programs allow families to use their children’s taxpayer-funded education dollars to cover certain homeschool expenses. The loudest and most influential pushback against school choice comes from… -
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SHOCKING: Catholic University Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’ Who Coaches ‘Pregnant Men’ Through Giving Birth
A self-declared “abortion doula” spoke this week to Catholic University of America students about her experiences coaching women through delivering or aborting babies, as well as coaching “pregnant men” to deliver in what she called a “seahorse birth,” according to audio of the class lecture obtained by The Daily Signal. A Catholic University nursing student described… -
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: The Cost of Unchecked Illegal Immigration on Americans—The BorderLine
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ——————————————————— “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” used to… -
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Crime Rates Are High, No Matter What the Media Say
As the old saying goes, you reap what you sow. It seems that liberal politicians who sowed the specious seeds of their version of “criminal justice reform” in blue cities across the country now don’t like their crop: high crime rates. Gallup polls show that 63% of Americans think the crime problem is “extremely or…