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WARNING: ‘Don’t Let Your Child Fall Prey to a Manufactured Identity Crisis’
Virginia mom Merianne Jensen became a voice for parental rights and common sense when she asked a simple question during a local school board meeting in 2022. “If masks work, why don’t they?” Jensen asked the school board in Prince William County, Virginia. A video of the incident went viral, launching Jensen into the position… -
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New Feature: The BorderLine / This Week, We Look Inside Biden’s Bogus Illegal Immigrant ‘Visa’ Program
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. ———————————————————- As the Biden Border Crisis rages on,… -
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America’s Drift Toward ‘a Country I Do Not Recognize’
If there is one overriding theme of the Biden years, it is the systematic degradation of American freedom, pushing the lives and freedom of private citizens aside as government expands and takes over. This is done under the rubric of the Left that “government knows best.” Day by day, we are becoming what the late… -
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25 Governors Demand Transparency From Biden on Impacts of Border Crisis
Twenty-five Republican governors, led by Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., condemned President Joe Biden Tuesday for his persistent inaction at the southern border and his incentivizing of illegal immigration. The governors are demanding transparency on the impacts of the border crisis, including where the government is relocating illegal aliens within the U.S. and how the federal government… -
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NYC Leaders Ignore Illegal Alien Crisis, Continue to Push Maoist Cultural Revolution
The revolution continues in New York. As illegal immigrants flood New York City, the City Council remains hard at work ensuring that every once-venerated symbol of America is stripped from public places. On Tuesday, the New York City Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights held a hearing to discuss the removal of historical statues… -
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The Right Should Not Fund Its Own Demise
The American Right needs to revitalize itself after a generation of decay where the Left took control over most of the corporate sector, the military, and the press, according to a Claremont Institute expert on American political thought. That decay has resulted in corporations pushing racial division and leftist ideology after the Right gave corporate… -
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7 Takeaways From Merrick Garland’s Testimony to House Panel
Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to answer questions on a wide range of matters Wednesday in sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. Garland testified that he couldn’t remember whether he talked to FBI personnel about the investigation of first son Hunter Biden and didn’t know how many confidential informants entered the Capitol during the riot… -
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Lawmakers Aim to Put Price Tag on ‘Financial Costs of Mayorkas’ Open Border’
Members of Congress sought Wednesday to calculate the immense financial cost of the border crisis at a hearing held by the House Homeland Security Committee. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has “implemented a radical agenda at the expense of the safety, security, and economic well-being of all Americans,” committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said, adding… -
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Woke Duke Energy Jacks Up Electric Rates to Pay for ESG, Zero Carbon Mandates
Duke Energy has thrown consumers under the proverbial (electric) bus to make their operations carbon neutral by 2050. As a result, electricity prices in North Carolina may increase by 19% over the next three years. The company’s president, Lynn Good, receives more than $20 million annually in compensation financed in part by ensuring that consumers lower… -
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4 Things a Continuing Resolution Must Have to Get My Vote
With the start of fiscal year 2024 just days away on Oct. 1, and with no federal budget approval in sight, a continuing resolution again will regrettably be necessary. But any such continuing resolution cannot just perpetuate the status quo ante. To get my vote, it needs to include four things: funding to secure the… -
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Schumer Folds in Abortion Military Battle Ahead of Tuberville’s Planned Procedural Maneuver
After insisting for months that Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville was solely responsible for the delay in approving senior military promotions, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer finally folded Wednesday and began to set up votes on three military officers. The news will likely be seen as a win for Tuberville since it demonstrates that the… -
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Garland Blames Trump for Stalled Hunter Biden Probe
Attorney General Merrick Garland tried to blame the Trump administration Wednesday for allowing the statute of limitations to lapse on potential tax charges against first son Hunter Biden. But when Garland said so during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was having none of it. At several points during the hearing,… -
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Pennsylvania Students Protest Pro-Trans Bathroom Policy
High school students in the Keystone State are protesting transgender ideology in their bathrooms. Hundreds of students in the Perkiomen Valley School District north of Philadelphia staged a walkout on Friday, in response to the school board allowing students who identify as transgender to use whichever bathroom they like. A policy barring students who identify as transgender… -
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YouTube’s Unfair Preemptive Strike on Russell Brand
The Times of London and Britain’s Channel 4 issued a scathing expose about actor and comedian-turned-podcaster Russell Brand. Brand began his career as a comedian and MTV host. In 2004, he joined “Big Brother’s Big Mouth” on Channel 4, and then transitioned into acting and voice-overs. In 2013, he went political; by 2020, he had… -
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Virginia Tech DEI Director’s Effort to Oppose Pro-Youngkin School Board Candidates May Have Crossed a Line
A diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at a leading university in southwestern Virginia may have violated her school's policy by using work email to forward a message slamming conservative school board candidates as "hateful" and urging readers to canvass for the candidates' opponents shortly before early voting begins. One school board member targeted in the… -
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Biden’s UN-inspired UN Speech
If a teacher were grading President Joseph Biden’s third speech to the United Nations, he would earn a mediocre “meeting expectations.” He delivered the speech somewhat competently by his standards, clearing that exceedingly low bar. However, Biden seems to think, mistakenly, that his speech was the rallying call of a statesman: I spoke before the… -
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Hundreds to ‘March for Martyrs’ in DC in ‘Solidarity With Persecuted Christians’
Hundreds are expected to join the “March for the Martyrs” in Washington, D.C., next week as they peacefully march in solidarity with persecuted Christians around the world. On Sept. 30, the nonprofit organization For the Martyrs will host its annual march to raise awareness about increasing persecution of Christians across the globe. The 2023 march… -
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Is Mayorkas’ Impeachment Still on Table? Why Rep. Mark Green Isn’t Saying
Who is responsible for the illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border? That’s a question currently being investigated by the House Homeland Security Committee, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is atop the list. “I think very clearly, Secretary Mayorkas has chosen to totally disregard the laws passed by Congress,” says Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn.,… -
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Here’s Another Way the Biden Admin Might Push Illegal Student Debt-Shifting Scheme
It’s clear that the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Joe Biden’s student debt bailout attempts has motivated his administration to find new ways to bypass Congress and the American people. That’s because the Biden administration wants to fulfill a campaign promise to its left-wing political base ahead of the 2024 election cycle. This time, the administration appears to be… -
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CALLING HIS BLUFF: Tuberville Tests Schumer by Forcing Senate Vote on Military Officer
Sen. Tommy Tuberville is planning to force his Senate colleagues to vote on Gen. Eric Smith’s promotion to U.S. Marine Corps commandant—a new tactic in the Alabama Republican’s monthslong dispute with the Defense Department over its taxpayer-funded abortion policy. At a meeting Tuesday with his Senate Republican colleagues, Tuberville secured the backing of at least…