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Heritage Action President Calls on House Speaker to Prioritize Border Security in Spending Fight
Heritage Action for America President Kevin Roberts called on House Speaker Mike Johnson to prioritize securing the border and reject additional spending for Ukraine without a “plan that defines the end goal in Ukraine,” in a letter released Tuesday. A $106 billion supplemental spending bill proposed by the White House in October includes around $61… -
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Biden Admin’s Woke, Wasteful Infrastructure Add-Ons Inflate Costs
This holiday season, millions of American families are still struggling to make ends meet due to the ravages of inflation. The cost of basics, such as food and family homes, have spiked since January 2021, meaning that real wages have dropped by thousands of dollars per year. At a time when responsible adults are carefully… -
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4 Key Takeaways From FBI Director Chris Wray’s Senate Testimony
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, fielding topics from border security and China to the Hunter Biden investigation. Wray’s testimony came as the FBI faces continued scrutiny by a House investigation into “weaponized” government under the Biden administration. Here are key takeaways from Wray’s appearance. 1. ‘Hiding Behind the Skirts… -
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‘Have You Apologized?’ Congressman Grills DOJ Official About Targeting of Catholic Father Mark Houck
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy grilled the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice on Tuesday over the DOJ’s targeting of pro-life activists like Catholic father Mark Houck. Kristen Clarke, who oversees investigations into violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, came before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution… -
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Transgender Activist Threatened to Target Christian Girls in Bathrooms and Rape Them to Death
“Transgender” people pose no threat to girls in girls’ restrooms, they say. Gender ideology is not a threat to Christianity, they say. The rhetoric of “trans genocide” does not inspire hatred or violence, they say. One grand jury indictment debunks that entire narrative, however, and news about it appears to have gone under the radar…. -
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‘Are You Going to Fire These People or Not?’ Hawley Demands Answers on FBI Catholic Memo
FBI Director Chris Wray admitted to Sen. Josh Hawley that he has not fired anyone at the FBI’s Richmond office over the memo urging the FBI to investigate “radical traditional Catholics.” “You haven’t fired anybody,” Hawley, a Missouri Republican, said to Wray in a Senate hearing Tuesday. He pressed Wray on the FBI Richmond office’s… -
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America Must Confront China for Ramping Up Belligerence in South China Sea
Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week told the communist regime’s coast guard simply to enforce maritime law, but we all know what that really means—and it has nothing to do with upholding the rule of law on the high seas. Chinese vessels collided last month with a Philippine resupply boat and a Philippine coast guard… -
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STACKED DECK: The ‘Jan. 6 Jurisprudence’ About to Be Unleashed on Trump in DC
Defense attorneys have coined the term “January 6 Jurisprudence” to describe the treatment received by the more than 1,200 defendants arrested so far in connection with the events of Jan. 6, 2021. This carve-out legal system involves the unprecedented and possibly unlawful use of a corporate evidence-tampering statute; excessive prison sentences and indefinite periods of pretrial… -
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California Mom Urges Supreme Court Review After Child Lost to Suicide
A California mother who lost her daughter to suicide after transitioning and was removed from her custody for not supporting her gender identity filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case from another mother in Indiana facing the loss of custody for not supporting her daughter’s gender transition. Abigail Martinez… -
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Car Dealers Flash Stop Sign on Biden’s ‘Unrealistic’ Electric Vehicle Mandate
“Mr. President, it is time to tap the brakes on the unrealistic government electric vehicle mandate.” That’s the pointed message a whopping 3,882 automobile dealers from coast to coast sent in a joint open letter to President Joe Biden made public last week. We couldn’t have said it better—or more succinctly—ourselves. The auto dealers’ nine-paragraph letter explains—more… -
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‘Distraction From Our Core Mission’: Lockheed Martin Doesn’t Deny Flying Trans Flag in HQ Lobby
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: One of the leading global security and aerospace companies in the United States featured a prominent transgender flag in the lobby of its headquarters, according to a photo obtained by The Daily Signal. That photo, taken in mid-November during National Transgender Awareness Week, shows the lobby of Lockheed Martin’s corporate… -
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2 Months Into War: Here’s Where Israel-Hamas Fight Stands
Dec. 7 will mark two months since Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 240 others hostage. Fighting between Hamas and Israel resumed Friday after the release of about 100 hostages during a weeklong cease-fire. As Israeli troops advance in Gaza, they are “constricting the size of ground they don’t control,” defense expert Robert… -
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How Does Israel’s 10/7 Crisis Compare?
Israel is engaged in one of its most challenging international crises since at least the Yom Kippur War of 1973. On Oct. 7 (henceforward referred to as 10/7), Israel suffered the worst terrorist attack in modern history in proportion to the number of its inhabitants. As U.S. President Joe Biden said, 10/7 was like 9/11… -
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GOP-Led States Demand Major Firms Stop Backing Efforts to ‘Debank’ Conservatives
Nearly two dozen state attorneys general signed onto a letter Wednesday demanding major firms that provide voting advice to corporate shareholders stop backing efforts to “debank” conservatives. Republican Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led 22 other state attorneys general in sending a letter to the two companies that control 97% of the proxy advisory services market, Institutional… -
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Biden’s Border Crisis Hits Chicago Hard, by Invitation
CHICAGO—“Right-wing extremism” in America has targeted cities run by Democrats such as himself, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said last week. “And quite frankly,” Johnson added Tuesday, conservative extremists “have been quite intentional about going after Democratically ran [sic] cities that are led by people of color.” Johnson’s claim is absurd on its face, but to… -
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Biden’s Press Sec Cites Hatch Act in Dodging Reporter’s Question on 2024 Election
The House last week moved to repeal an executive order by President Joe Biden that critics say could cause federal employees to violate a law prohibiting partisan politicking on the taxpayers’ dime. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre alluded Monday to the law, the Hatch Act, in avoiding an answer to a reporter’s direct question…. -
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Trump Files Intent to Appeal Reinstated Gag Order
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to appeal a decision reinstating a gag order that was put in place to prevent him from discussing members of the judge’s staff during his civil fraud trial, according to court documents. The order, which prohibits Trump from publicly commenting about members of Judge Arthur Engoron’s staff, was temporarily lifted on Nov…. -
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Facing Loss of State Funding, Radical Maryland Group Backpedals on Ferocious Support for Hamas
Trouble is brewing in the deep-blue state of Maryland, where Democratic state senators are discovering that—gasp!—an “immigrant advocacy” group they have coddled for decades is really full of Hamas supporters who compare Palestinian terrorists to the experience of Hispanics in the Old Line State. The group is CASA de Maryland. State lawmakers have been forcing weary taxpayers to underwrite… -
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Teacher Shortage? For Decades, Public Schools Have Enjoyed Hiring Sprees
Pop quiz time. “Teacher shortages have gotten worse.” True or false? False. And yet, that sentence was part of a recent Washington Post headline. And it’s far from uncommon. In fact, public schools have been on a hiring spree for decades. It began with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society and has continued to the present… -
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China-Linked Company Directly Paid Joe Biden, Latest Released Bank Records Show
A Hunter Biden business entity tied to China made direct monthly payments to Joe Biden in the months leading up to the former vice president’s announcement that he would run for president in 2020, according to newly released subpoenaed bank records from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The monthly payments came from Owasco PC,…