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Steve McKee: ‘If You Don’t Like Where You Are, You Can Always Initiate a New Turn’
All of us encounter twists and turns every day—whether in our personal lives or at work. Steve McKee’s new book “Turns: Where Business Is Won and Lost” offers a guide for which turns to take to live a better life. McKee, co-founder of the McKee Wallwork marketing agency in New Mexico and author of several… -
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As Evidence of Biden’s Corruption Mounts, Defenders’ Explanations Keep Changing
President Joe Biden’s defenders have been on a wild ride this past year. It began with them arguing that the president knew absolutely nothing about his family’s influence-peddling business to arguing that it’s no big deal that Chinese communist wire payoffs happen to have Biden’s home address listed on them. The quality of the excuses,… -
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Day 1 of Formal Biden Impeachment Inquiry: 7 Big Takeaways
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee held its historic first hearing Thursday in the impeachment inquiry examining the conduct of President Joe Biden. Republicans on the House committee laid out some of the gathered evidence of what they call influence peddling by Biden, son Hunter Biden, and other members of his family. Committee Democrats insisted,… -
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TRANSGENDER INQUISITION: Newsom Weaponizes Schools Against Non-‘Affirming’ Parents
It’s official: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched the transgender inquisition against non-“affirming” parents that I warned about earlier this month. Yet the Democrat found a cunning way to hide it: He made news by vetoing a horrible bill he was expected to sign. When conservatives brand Newsom a radical opponent of parental rights, he… -
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American Sovereignty at Stake in Budget Deal Showdown Over Border Funding
Is the United States still a sovereign country, or not? That question simply can’t be ignored in the congressional budget fight now coming to a head. A short-term budget compromise isn’t going to fix this long-term issue as our border remains a sieve. While Democrats and the legacy media continue to do their best to… -
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DOJ Silent on Pro-Abortion Activist Who Vandalized Pro-Life Center
The Department of Justice will not say why it has not prosecuted a Buffalo woman for vandalizing a pro-life pregnancy center, one of over 200 attacks on pro-life centers and Catholic churches since the leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would be overturned. Forty-year-old Hannah Kamke pled guilty this month… -
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Leaked Messages From UAW Official Reveal a Big Cause of Unions’ Decline
“If we can keep them wounded for months, they don’t know what to do … this is recurring reputations damage and operation chaos.” That leaked statement, first reported by The Detroit News, is not a military tactic nor a hostile takeover plan. Rather, it’s a strategy for wounding and weakening American companies, with collateral damage… -
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What We Saw at UAW Picket Line Outside Ford’s Detroit Plant
DETROIT—Picketers from the UAW continue to protest outside Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant as the employee parking lots here sit empty. The Daily Signal spoke with United Auto Workers picketers outside the Ford plant along Michigan Avenue on Wednesday and Thursday. UAW vans routinely dropped off additional union members to join the strike, and the air… -
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Justice Thomas to Hear NY Gun Rights Lawsuit
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will consider a lawsuit by Second Amendment groups challenging New York’s strict concealed-carry firearm laws. Thomas has scheduled a conference with the full court on Oct. 6 to weigh a challenge to a provision of New York’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act on background checks for ammunition purchases, which went into… -
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How Marxist Left Captured Higher Education
The mission of a university is to discover truth and transmit that essential knowledge to future generations. That has been achieved by what we call in the West the Socratic dialogue—that is, ferreting out what is good, true, and beautiful by testing ideas in an academic setting. None of that is possible in an educational… -
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Time to End the Fed and Its Mismanagement of Our Economy
Every major economic downturn of the last 110 years bears the mark of the Federal Reserve. In fact, as long as the Fed has been around, it has swung the economy between inflation and recession. Yet Americans, surprisingly, have tolerated it. But we shouldn’t expect that to go on forever. We had three central banks before the Fed, and… -
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The BorderLine: Boggled by Biden’s Border Crisis? Relax, AOC Is in Charge
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. ———————————————————- For most of his 50-plus years in politics,… -
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How Border Crisis Became Focus of Federal Spending Debate and What Elon Musk Has to Do With It
The crisis at the U.S. southern border is now being closely linked to Congress passing annual spending bills. Congress has until Saturday to pass the 12 government spending bills for fiscal year 2024, or a short-term funding bill, in order to avoid a government shutdown, but some Republican lawmakers say they won’t support funding the… -
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Biggest Hits, Misses in 2nd GOP Presidential Debate
Seven GOP candidates took to the debate stage Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, for the second Republican presidential debate. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris… -
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7 Key Moments From Second 2024 GOP Primary Debate
Seven Republican presidential candidates on Wednesday night took the stage for their second debate, this time at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Fox News Channel host Dana Perino, Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney, and Univision anchor Ilia Calderon co-hosted the two-hour debate, which often turned highly contentious, with the candidates… -
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‘DISRESPECTFUL’: Ron DeSantis Shoots Down Moderators After Question About Kicking Someone ‘Off the Island’
Fox News Channel host Dana Perino noted that former President Donald Trump enjoys a clear polling lead over his opponents in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, and she urged the GOP hopefuls onstage in California to identify another candidate they would kick “off the island.” “It’s now obvious that if you all stay in the… -
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‘Join the Ultimate Strike Against the Globalist Class’: 6 Takeaways From Trump’s Michigan Speech
Donald Trump was back in Michigan on Wednesday night, speaking to a crowd connected with the automotive industry as the United Auto Workers union continued its strike of the Big Three automakers. Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination again and a rematch with Joe Biden in 2024, made a pitch to a traditionally… -
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BREAKING: DeSantis Will Support 15-Week Federal Protections for the Unborn
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign confirmed to The Daily Signal on Wednesday evening that he will support 15-week protections for the unborn. In audio of the debate following DeSantis’ response to an abortion question, candidate Sen. Tim Scott can be heard asking DeSantis if he would support legislation banning abortions of babies after 15… -
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DeSantis Swings at Trump for Skipping Debate: ‘Donald Trump Is Missing in Action’
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis swung at former President Donald Trump for skipping Wednesday night’s GOP primary debate. “You know who else is missing in action?” he asked, after critiquing President Joe Biden. “Donald Trump is missing in action.” “He should be on this stage,” he insisted. “He owes it to you to defend his… -
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Vivek Ramaswamy Slams Victimhood Mentality, Urges Workers to Picket at White House
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy urged workers to picket in Washington, D.C., in front of President Joe Biden’s White House. Ramaswamy spoke Wednesday evening at the 2024 GOP primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. “I understand that hardship is not a choice,” he said. “But victimhood is a choice. And…