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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Examining 7 Accusations of Harassment Against Moms for Liberty
Even before the Southern Poverty Law Center, the discredited far-left smear factory, put the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on its "hate map" alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, left-leaning outlets had repeated claims that the parental rights group's leaders had harassed school board members or other moms who disagreed with them. The… -
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Another Government Agency Secretly Plans to Follow Biden’s Election Executive Order
The Biden administration continues to shield from the public its plans for federal agencies to turn out the vote, citing “presidential communications and deliberative process privilege.” Newly released emails, however, demonstrate the focus of the White House and various government departments on registering voters and getting them out. In a response to a request by… -
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Trans Anomaly: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
The vast majority of mass shooters are male, and male biochemistry helps to explain why. Yet the person who opened fire at Nashville’s Covenant School was biologically female. Higher amounts of the hormone testosterone give men larger muscles, more significant skeletal muscle, and a higher percentage of red blood cells. Testosterone also tends to give… -
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How a Rifle Unlocked the Stories of America’s WWII Veterans
Andrew Biggio was excited to show his neighbor, a WWII veteran, the M1 Garand rifle he had recently purchased. The weapon was the most common rifle used in WWII, and Biggio thought his elderly neighbor would appreciate holding the gun. “When I put that rifle into his hands and he raised it into his shoulder… -
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The BorderLine: Senate Hearing Shows—Again—Why Mayorkas Should Be Impeached
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. ———————————————————- At a recent Senate hearing on threats to the homeland,… -
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Here’s Where AP, Reuters, NYT, and CNN Got Their Oct. 7 Hamas Photos and What It Says About Palestinian ‘Civilians’
How did The Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and CNN obtain their photos of Hamas terrorists carrying out their horrific attack on Israel on Oct. 7? What does it reveal about the Gazan “civilians” that Hamas uses as human shields as Israel responded with military force? On Wednesday, a media watchdog called HonestReporting… -
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‘Off-the-Wall Abortion Policies’ Are Actually Common Sense, Widely Supported
Pro-choice Republicans in Congress are back. What had become a dying breed in the past couple of years, Republicans who consistently vote against basic pro-life protections have taken the House appropriations process hostage. This group of about eight to 10 Republicans have now helped to sink two appropriations bills over policies that are commonsense solutions… -
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Arrests ‘Part of the Deal’: Climate Activists Who Struck Degas Exhibit to Return to DC
An extremist climate group that defaced an exhibit on French impressionist Edgar Degas last spring at the National Gallery of Art plans to lead another series of protests in the metropolitan Washington area beginning Friday. And more illegal actions are in the works, the group says. The organization, called Declare Emergency, threatened to continue such… -
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Oregon Training Teachers to Dismantle Racial ‘Systemic Inequities’ in Math Classes
The Oregon Department of Education is instructing teachers on the keys to dismantling “systemic inequities” in the math classroom. High school math teachers should “support equitable discourse and foster positive mathematical identities,” according to a series of teacher training slideshows from the Department of Education reviewed by The Daily Signal. The Department of Education’s Math… -
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Tuberville’s Effort to End Pentagon Abortion Policy Backed by Veterans on Heritage Foundation National Security Team
To mark Veterans Day, six national security analysts at The Heritage Foundation who served in the military released a statement Thursday supporting Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s stand against the Pentagon’s abortion policy. President Joe Biden “is the one playing politics with the military,” longtime Heritage national security expert James Jay Carafano, who signed the statement, told… -
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‘A Man in a Dress’: Glamour Magazine Ridiculed for Trans Model Among Its ‘Women of Year’
Glamour magazine has named a transgender model to its 2023 Women of the Year list, forgoing the requirement of having to be an actual female to receive the award. Geena Rocero is an author and activist. Glamour named six women along with Rocero, including actresses, models, and an abortion-activist doctor, in its Nov. 1 announcement. View… -
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‘Evidence Is Concrete’ in Biden Probe, Rep. Andrew Clyde Says
The Left's evolving defense of President Joe Biden and his family’s business activities speaks volumes about where the congressional investigation that is now an impeachment inquiry is going, says Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga. “If the evidence wasn’t legitimate evidence, they would still be at their very first position,” Clyde, a member of the House Freedom… -
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Mass Pro-Israel Rally to Take Place in Washington
Major Jewish organizations in the United States are organizing a pro-Israel rally to take place in Washington, D.C., next week to condemn the Hamas terror attacks on Israel and to call for the release of the hostages. Organized by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,… -
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15 Reasons Liberal US Jews Shouldn’t Be Shocked by Fellow Leftists’ Siding With Hamas
Left-wing American Jews feel betrayed by the Left. It’s a Left that remains anti-Israel even after the greatest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and even though most Palestinians and their supporters explicitly call for the destruction of the Jewish state: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Progressive American Jews… -
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Fake ‘Emergency’ Spending in Washington Winds Up Costing Us All
It’s bad enough that Congress and the White House are making no serious effort to cut spending these days—something we all wind up paying for, whether we realize it or not. But to keep adding to the deficit? That’s worse. In recent weeks, the Biden administration has submitted two supplemental spending requests to Congress. The… -
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Congress Must End Federal Handouts to Radicalized Academia
In recent weeks, Americans have been shocked by widespread student protests and statements by professors from colleges and universities that support violence against Israel. These incidents highlight that radical ideologies have taken hold of broad swaths of academia. It’s important to counter the toxic pathologies that are opposed to the founding principles of society. However,… -
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Will Merrick Garland’s Justice Department Adequately Protect Jews?
Kristen Clarke, who leads the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, is responsible for prosecuting hate crimes and making sure that school officials don’t discriminate because of ethnicity or religion. This means that Clarke is the official in Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department responsible for policing antisemitic hate crimes and antisemitic discrimination on… -
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USA Today Reveals True Colors With Front-Page Hit Piece on Libs of TikTok
They still call their national newspaper USA Today, but on some days, the front page looks more like “LGBTQIA Today.” The bold top headline for Oct. 6 was “When Libs of TikTok posts, threats increasingly follow.” The author of the story is Will Carless, whose beat is “extremism.” Beware, that beat is almost always just… -
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Whose Baby Is It? The Complications of Surrogacy
You don’t hear too much about surrogacy unless a celebrity is mentioned in the same breath. While women like Kim Kardashian, Rebel Wilson, Paris Hilton, and Chrissy Teigen have made headlines for hiring a surrogate to carry their baby, celebrities are not the only ones opting to use a surrogate. The National Library of Medicine… -
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Candidates and Moderators: Hits and Misses From Third GOP Debate
The third Republican presidential debate was held on Wednesday night in Miami. Five candidates took the stage: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Former President Donald Trump was again absent, choosing instead to hold a…