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It’s Not Hard to Tell Good Guy From Bad Guy, as 12 More Defensive Gun Uses Show
In a recent opinion piece in The Kansas City Star, sociology professor and military veteran Doug McGaw argues that the Second Amendment is “a relic of the 18th century” that needs to be repealed. Although McGaw certainly is entitled to his opinion, his “argument” boils down to little more than a litany of common gun… -
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In 24 Hours, RFK Jr. Backtracks on Abortion Limits
Democratic 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked back his position on the unborn on Monday, clarifying that he does not support restrictions on abortion. "I am a firm supporter of the principles laid out 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade," Kennedy said in a statement Monday. "For constitutional and moral reasons, I… -
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The Urgency of the Quantum Computing Race With China
Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster film “Oppenheimer” tells the story of the Manhattan Project director who raced to develop the world’s first atomic bomb before Nazi Germany could. J. Robert Oppenheimer successfully exploited the revolutionary discovery of quantum physics to provide decisive technological superiority to the United States. In an echo of the past, the U.S…. -
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Why Are More Americans Than Ever Committing Suicide?
The New York Post reports: About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which posted the numbers, has not yet calculated a suicide rate for the year, but available data suggests suicides are… -
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8 Democrats Who Have Declared States of Emergency Over Border Crisis
Most elected Democrats across the country have either been silent about or openly promoted the Biden administration’s border policies. But once the effects of those policies were felt at home, putting thousands of illegal aliens in their own backyards, several Democrats have acknowledged there is a problem. Democratic leaders in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York,… -
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House GOP Investigates State Department Grants Promoting Atheism Abroad
The Biden administration, which came under fire earlier this year for an internal FBI memo targeting anti-abortion Catholic activists as “potential” domestic terrorists, is facing new questions from top House Republicans over its decision to fund a program promoting atheism overseas. Rep. Mike McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and… -
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‘It’s Almost Everywhere,’ Scholar Says of China’s Infiltration of America’s K-12 Schools
China’s infiltration of American K-12 schools is “almost everywhere,” according to Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars. “That is, in every state that we’ve looked at, we have found instances of it, but I would say it’s concentrated in the feeder schools to elite education, which means mostly West Coast and East… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Florida Schools See Decline in Teacher Vacancies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Florida schools saw an eight percent decline in teacher vacancies heading into the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year compared to the previous year, The Daily Signal has learned. Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, Jr. will announce Tuesday that Florida schools will have 4,776 total teacher vacancies as students head into… -
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HE’S BACK: Biden Returns to Court Over Exceeding Authority to Cancel Student Debt
The dead and resurrected schemes of the Education Department to cancel student debt are like horror films, only with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in the role of Jason from the “Friday the 13th” series and President Joe Biden as Michael Myers from the “Halloween” franchise. The latest lawsuit to stop Cardona from implementing Biden’s student… -
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A Journalist’s Profile in Courage
Earlier this month, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation sent out emails soliciting nominations for its 2023 Profile in Courage Awards, to be presented Oct. 29 at an annual awards gala. The yearly awards honor “individuals who demonstrate politically courageous leadership in the spirit of ‘Profiles in Courage,’” the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1956 book of the… -
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4 Takeaways From Former FBI Agent’s Testimony on Tipoff in Hunter Biden Case
A key House committee released a 65-page transcript Monday of testimony by a former FBI supervisory special agent who said he encountered obstacles in leading an investigation of Hunter Biden. Restifying to committee investigators behind closed doors July 17, the former FBI agent provided details about December 2020, a month after the last presidential election,… -
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Timeline of Ukrainian Pay-to-Play Scheme Confirms Bidens’ Corruption
The Biden crime family’s multimillion-dollar bribery and money-laundering operation has more moving parts than an 80-year-old grandfather clock. Even news-aholics find it tough to follow this scandal’s interlocking meetings, phone calls, trade junkets, wire transfers, and shady characters with unpronounceable names. As just-appointed special counsel David Weiss soon will learn that, unlike “White House Aides… -
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How the Left Captured the Newest Smithsonian Museums
That leftists have accomplished a very successful march through the institutions is a fact of life. But how did they achieve it? The ongoing saga of the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum can serve as a classic case study of how the Left conquered the commanding heights of the culture. Spoiler alert—here’s how it always happens: Determined… -
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‘Bidenomics’ Has Been a Disaster
After 40 years of “trickle-down economics,” President Joe Biden says, “Bidenomics is just another way of saying restoring the American dream.” It’s not often that a politician openly pledges to bring the country back to a time of crippling inflation, high energy prices, and stifling interest rates. But this president is doing his best to… -
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The Bill Comes Due for Blue Sanctuary Cities
The seemingly low-cost virtue signaling of declaring your non-border city or state a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants has now revealed its hefty price tag. “If we don’t get the support we need, New Yorkers could be left with a $12 billion bill,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday of the now crisis-level… -
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Massachusetts Bars Couple From Foster Care Over Christian Views on LGBT Matters
The state of Massachusetts is barring a Christian couple from fostering children due to their biblical beliefs on sexuality and gender. Catholics Mike and Kitty Burke filed a lawsuit last week in federal court against state officials after they were denied the right to serve as foster parents. During the foster parents screening process, the couple were… -
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Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?
Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public servant—Leo Amery, a polymath and… -
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FBI Veteran Corroborates IRS Whistleblower Account of Investigators’ Tipoff to Hunter Biden
A former FBI supervisory special agent who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation corroborated assertions by two IRS whistleblowers that FBI headquarters tipped off the Secret Service and the Biden presidential transition team about investigative plans, according to a new transcript. The transcript released Monday by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee compounds questionable investigative… -
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VINDICATED: School Board Fails to Sweep Dad’s Rights Under ‘Legal Rug’ After It Had Him Removed From Meeting
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A U.S. district court judge in Texas upheld a father's claims that school board members and police violated his constitutional rights when they forcibly removed him and prevented him from attending school board meetings in 2021. Police removed him after he spoke at a school board meeting, raising concerns about the… -
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Alabama GOP Says No to Teachers Unions’ Money in School-Related Elections
Alabama Republicans have told teachers unions to stay out of their school-related elections. The Alabama Republican Party recently voted to ban GOP candidates for the Alabama Board of Education, local school boards, and county school superintendent from accepting donations from teachers unions. John Wahl, chairman of the Alabama GOP, says the change was needed to…