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opinion
The Gruesome Premise of a Washington Post Feature
A new Washington Post feature attempts to make a teen couple who had twins after Texas’ heartbeat law went into effect into Dickensian characters, victims of the cruel laws around them. Mom Brooke High, we learn, watched the entire 10 seasons of “Friends” after the family moved to Tampa, Florida, for a military job for… -
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4 Things to Know About Obama-Appointed Judge Presiding Over New Trump Case
The federal judge who will oversee former President Donald Trump’s case in Washington related to challenging the 2020 election outcome has a reputation for being tough on Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants. An appointee of Trump’s predecessor, President Barack Obama, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has ruled against the Trump administration in the past, as… -
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DeSantis Administration Ends DEI Programs at Disney
The governing board of the special district that encompasses Walt Disney World cut all so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the district, it was announced Wednesday morning. The members of the board were all appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. The announcement comes shortly after an internal investigation by the Central Florida… -
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CANCELED FOR ‘HATE’: Tech Company Moves Against Parental Rights Group After SPLC Attack
A technology company has deleted a parental rights group's events on its site after the Southern Poverty Law Center added the group to its "hate map," which plots conservative nonprofits alongside neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. "It is alarming that we live in a time in America where trained Marxists can have an organization… -
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CHILLING: Biden’s DOJ May Be Working With Leftist Group to Silence Parents Again, America First Legal Warns
A conservative group is demanding answers about whether the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden is repeating its 2021 strategy of targeting concerned parents after the Southern Poverty Law Center just added concerned parents to its "hate map." SPLC staff have met with Biden at the White House, and the administration has adopted the… -
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Slaughter of Nigerian Christians Warrants International Attention
“If we keep quiet, we are going to go extinct,” says Catholic Bishop Chipa Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state, Nigeria. In June, the Congressional Values Action Team caucus met with Anagbe and the Rev. Remigius Ihyula who shared their testimonies of atrocities committed against Christians in Nigeria by Islamic extremists… -
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Biden Quietly Acknowledges His 7th Grandchild
President Joe Biden has finally publicly acknowledged the existence of his seventh grandchild. After 5 p.m. on Friday night, People magazine published an exclusive statement from the president recognizing 4-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, the daughter of first son Hunter Biden and ex-girlfriend Lunden Roberts. “Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to… -
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Pro-Life Father Targeted by Biden DOJ Announces Congressional Run
Mark Houck, the father of seven arrested and charged by President Joe Biden's administration for his pro-life advocacy, is now running for Congress. “I am running for Congress to further protect my family, those in the 1st district & the Republic," Houck says on his campaign website. "I will focus on restoring traditional values &… -
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Biden Administration and University Leaders Hold Summit to Strategize Continuing Racial Discrimination
President Joe Biden’s Department of Education is attempting to circumvent the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against using racial discrimination in college admissions. In its ruling, the Supreme Court found that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina had limited the admission of Asian candidates in favor of other “racial groups.” Citing the 14th Amendment… -
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LA Times Columnist Tries Desperately to Lionize Lying Kamala Harris
One of the most annoying ploys of liberal journalists is to advise Republicans that the truly wise path in politics is to surrender to liberals on everything, and the dumbest path is to oppose them emphatically. The latest flagrant example of this is a column in the Los Angeles Times with the provocative headline “Republican… -
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Oil Innovator Notes Importance of Energy Independence to National Security
Harold Hamm, a pioneer in the oil and gas industry, notes the importance of energy independence to national security, especially as it relates to China and Russia. “It should be obvious now with this last example how important our national security is, and energy independence gives us that, and we can’t fritter that away,” Hamm… -
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Surprising What Is—and Isn’t—in 3rd Trump Indictment, Legal Expert Says
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was indicted for a third time, and “it’s striking that there’s really nothing new in the indictment,” Steven Bradbury says. The latest indictment by special counsel Jack Smith is “all based on what we already knew publicly from the work of the Jan. 6 committee and from all the… -
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DC Police: No Active Shooter on Capitol Hill After Shelter in Place
The United States Capitol Police ordered Senate offices to shelter in place on Wednesday due to a “concerning 911 call.” Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Officer Hugh Carew told The Daily Signal around 3 p.m. that “a call came in for an active shooter” but that call “appears to be a bad call.” “No injuries and… -
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Harris Rejects DeSantis’ Challenge to Discuss Florida’s African American History Curriculum
Vice President Kamala Harris has rebuffed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ offer to discuss Florida’s African American history curriculum, which she has been criticizing since late last month. “Well, I’m here in Florida, and I will tell you, there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: There were… -
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NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR: Social Networking App Boots Moms for Liberty Amid Leftist Attacks
The social networking platform Nextdoor bills itself as an app to bring neighbors together, claiming that "connecting with others is a universal human need," but it relies upon the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory, to determine which groups are too "hateful" to be good neighbors. Nextdoor recently banned a Tennessee chapter of… -
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Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind
There’s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see—the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with. You haven’t heard of them. You don’t know their names, but they determine, through methods both direct and indirect, whether you are allowed to be exposed to particular messages. Their… -
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How Unrest in France After Police-Involved Killing Compared With Riots After George Floyd’s Death
Protests and riots erupted following the police-involved fatal shooting of 17-year-old French citizen Nahel Merzouk, who was of Moroccan and Algerian descent, on June 27 in France. Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, says “certainly what happened in France takes us directly back to 2020” after the… -
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Open Borders Creating Bidenvilles of Homelessness. Who Saw That Coming?
A year ago, I wrote about the obvious connection between illegal immigration and homelessness in U.S. cities. Since then, encounters with inadmissible aliens at the border have remained at more than 150,000 a month, often over 200,000. Of these, perhaps half are being released into the country, either under the charade of a “removal process”… -
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Trump Campaign Compares New Indictment With Nazi, Soviet Tactics
A federal grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump—the third so far against the former president—over Trump’s efforts challenging the outcome of the 2020 election. "Today an indictment was unsealed charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding," said… -
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Pivotal Date Approaches as Far Left Battles to Enshrine Abortion Into Ohio Constitution
There's a new frontier for pro-abortion activists post-Roe v. Wade: constitutional amendments that can circumvent state laws and flout even the most pro-life of governors. And with some of the weakest requirements in the country for passing constitutional amendments, Ohio has become the latest battleground. In just a week, on Aug. 8, Ohioans will vote…