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EXCLUSIVE: Missouri School District Offers Coloring Pages on Preferred Pronouns, Gender Expression to Kindergartners
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Missouri school district is providing elementary-school teachers with coloring pages, asking children as young as kindergartners to choose their pronouns and draw the corresponding hair and clothing. Webster Groves School District Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Shane Williamson emailed administrators a resource list of “Gender Identity and Expression Activities”… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Only 3% of Soldiers Who Refused COVID Vaccine Rejoin Army
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—More and more Army soldiers are reenlisting after being discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, according to information shared exclusively with The Daily Signal. The increase comes after Congress repealed the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate and conservative lawmakers applied pressure to Defense Department leaders to be more welcoming of 8,400 service members… -
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Well Done, Dean Nelson
I still remember that fateful day in spring 2005. I was a junior at Liberty University desperately seeking to land a summer internship as part of my graduation requirements. I naively believed that being a religion major would make it easy for me to find a local church to extend an internship to me. It… -
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Vimeo Cancels Conservative Group’s Account, Refuses Refund, After SPLC Attack
The parental rights group Moms for America has faced public attacks, the deletion of its accounts, and threats after the far-left smear factory known as the Southern Poverty Law Center put the group on its “hate map” earlier this year. “I definitely attribute hateful messages, shadow-banning, and outright threats to Moms for America being on… -
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Enjoy the Ride
The driverless car is here! Finally. Google has harnessed artificial intelligence to create a self-driving car it calls Waymo, standing for “Way Forward in Mobility.” Regulators in San Francisco and Phoenix legalized Waymo cars because the robo-cars drive better than people do. They’ve already driven millions of miles on public roads without any fatalities. Not… -
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With Decree to Bus Drivers, School District Puts the ‘Scrooge’ in Christmas Spirit
A local school district in Pennsylvania acted to forbid school bus drivers from putting up Christmas decorations. On Friday, just over a week before Christmas, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, issued a memo to school bus drivers saying: “If you have decorated your bus with anything specific to the Christmas holiday or any other… -
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Here’s How Much Money Biden’s ‘Anti-Fossil Fuel’ Regulatory Agenda Sucks From the US Economy Each Year
The Biden administration’s energy regulations may cost the U.S. economy $100 billion in gross domestic product each year, according to a new report published by the Committee To Unleash Prosperity. The administration has unleashed a bevy of regulations from several agencies that have distorted energy markets and disincentivized long-term investment in fossil fuel production, which… -
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Alleged Child Sex Trafficking Survivor Wins Key Victory in Lawsuit Against Pornhub
A woman suing Pornhub over its alleged distribution of her childhood sexual abuse material has won a significant victory in her lawsuit against the pornography website’s parent company. Judge Scott Coogler from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama certified a survivor of childhood sex trafficking and child sexual abuse material (CSAM)… -
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Universities Symptom of Much Bigger Problem
I have written in the past about the similarities of the stress and tensions in our country today to the stress and tensions that were taking place in the years before the Civil War. A free country will always have debate and differences of opinion. But that debate becomes dangerous and destructive when the differences… -
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This Israeli Community Experienced a Miracle on Oct. 7. Now, It Needs Helping Hands.
The agricultural Israeli community of Ein HaBesor experienced a miracle on Oct. 7. Located just 3 miles from the border with Gaza and home to 320 families, the people of Ein HaBesor were targeted by Hamas terrorists just like so many other communities along the border that day. But miraculously, not a single person from… -
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‘Election Interference’: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump From Ballot
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in an unprecedented 4-3 decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This is a nakedly partisan, anti-democratic decision that ignores the law and prior precedent. Under the text and history of the 14th Amendment, as well… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Shareholder Arrested After Remarks About Gates and Epstein Files SEC Complaint Against Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A government and corporate watchdog group filed a complaint Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission against Berkshire Hathaway in connection with the arrest of the group’s chairman at a shareholder meeting for raising issues linking the names of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Jeffrey Epstein. National Legal and Policy Center… -
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Biden Admin’s Latest Spending Spree Amounts to a Backdoor Ban on Gas-Powered Appliances, Experts Say
The Biden administration announced Monday that it is spending more than $500 million to help state and local governments adopt green building codes, a strategy that amounts to a backdoor attempt to phase out gas stoves and other fossil fuel-powered appliances, energy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of Energy announced that it is… -
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Authoritarian? Conservatives Want to Restore the Constitution. The Left Can’t Handle It.
The Constitution created three branches in the federal government: the legislature to make the laws, the executive branch to enforce the laws, and the judiciary to settle disputes about the laws. Yet the federal government we know and very much do not love doesn’t operate the way the Constitution says it should. Instead, unelected bureaucrats… -
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A Total Meltdown at the Border, Thanks to Biden
President Joe Biden’s administration has set another record. A total of 14,509 illegal aliens were encountered at the southern border Monday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Washington Examiner reported, a record for total daily encounters. This number surpasses a record that was set just last week at a border that has become pure… -
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CDC’s Latest Abortion Numbers: A Sobering Reminder of Monumental Task Ahead
The most recent report on abortion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out and, as usual, it’s grim. The number of abortions rose from 620,327 in 2020 to 625,978 in 2021. The key drivers in this depressing increase are a greater use of dangerous chemical abortion pills and weakened safety protocols governing… -
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Are Hurricanes Really Getting Worse or Is That Really Just Climate Alarmists’ Hot Air?
Climate alarmists, including President Joe Biden, have consistently said that America could look forward to worsening hurricanes and extreme weather, thanks to climate change. In fact, at COP28 in Dubai, there was talk about creating a fund to aid countries incurring damages from hurricanes due to climate change. Don’t take the bait. Such inane… -
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Inside the Federal Probe of Pitt’s Fetal Organ Harvesting Program
A federal probe may reveal violations of law in the University of Pittsburgh’s testing of body parts from aborted babies, according to a pro-life organization monitoring the school’s program. The U.S. government began investigating the University of Pittsburgh’s protocols in its program to harvest fetal organs, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal. … -
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In Liberal Media, Seldom Is Heard a Discouraging Word About Joe Biden
Is President Joe Biden treating the press better than former President Donald Trump did? It’s a low bar to argue he doesn’t describe the media as “enemies of the people.” Is he really treating them as they view themselves—as representatives of the people? Or is he not interested in addressing the people? Are they all… -
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DEFUNDING DEI: Wisconsin Lawmaker’s Tactics Show Way to Kill Radical University Programs
Napoleon said that to master the art of war, you must “read over and over again” the campaigns of history’s most successful generals. The same advice applies if you want to master the art of legislating: You must study the strategies of the most successful legislators. To that end, any lawmaker that wants to thwart…