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BUSTED: Why Hunter Biden-Justice Department Plea Deal Collapsed
Hunter Biden and his lawyers walked into a courtroom prepared to enter a plea deal with the Justice Department last week. The deal fell through. President Joe Biden’s son was prepared to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and to lying on a gun purchase form. The DOJ lawyers and the younger Biden’s attorneys… -
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Milton Friedman’s Vision in Education Becomes Reality
On the occasion of his “eleventy-first” birthday, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins famously disappeared. On July 31, we celebrate what would have been the 111th birthday of another man who was diminutive in size but larger than life in spirit: Milton Friedman. Were he to reappear today, he would likely marvel at how much progress has… -
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‘Get the Facts’: Sen. Rick Scott Praises House Approach to Biden Impeachment, Calls for Mayorkas to ‘Resign’
Sen. Rick Scott supports the House investigations of the Biden family, saying, “let’s get the facts.” “I don’t think anybody wakes up any day and says, ‘Oh, gosh, we hope our president gets impeached.’ Nobody wants to do that,” says Scott in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal. The Florida Republican has praise for… -
opinion
Enjoy Your Water Heater—While You Still Can
Ever heard the phrase “Give someone an inch and they’ll take a mile”? Americans gave Joe Biden the Oval Office, and now he is taking away their cars, dishwashers, gas stoves, and, most recently, their water heaters. Biden’s Department of Energy on July 21 released new proposed energy-efficiency standards for water heaters. This is the… -
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2 Non-Woke Companies Offer Job Placement Help for Bud Light’s Laid-Off Employees
After Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch announced Wednesday it would be laying off 350 employees in the face of slumping sales, a pair of self-styled “pro-American” companies offered to help the soon-to-be former employees find jobs in their “network of non-woke businesses.” RedBalloon, an online job board, and Public Square, a company that created a… -
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Upcoming Supreme Court Cases Could Dramatically Rein in Regulatory Agencies
This fall, the Supreme Court will hear several cases affording promising opportunities to rein in the federal administrative state. The court has agreed to decide cases that challenge the practice of federal courts showing judicial deference to agency interpretations of the laws they are charged with enforcing as well as the constitutionality of an agency… -
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Planned Parenthood’s Depraved Marketing Gimmicks
Planned Parenthood’s history of depravity extends long before its representatives brought cards describing sexually explicit terms to a high school event in June, effectively getting the organization banned from Canadian high schools. For Planned Parenthood, nothing is off limits, from promoting abortion gift cards at Christmas to offering free abortions after the 9/11 terrorist attacks…. -
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Human Trafficking: An American Tradition of Silence
In the hushed corners of our society, a sinister industry flourishes, largely hidden and unspoken of. It’s an issue so shocking and perplexing that people tend to ignore it when brought to light. This is the pandemic of sex trafficking and child sex trafficking. One might presume that in a civilized, developed nation like the… -
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Democratic Leaders Tell Biden NYC at ‘Breaking Point’ After Receiving More Than 90,000 Illegal Aliens
New York City is “at a breaking point” after more than 90,000 illegal aliens have arrived in the city since last spring, according to city leadership. A group of 54 NYC Democratic elected officials, including state senators and assembly members, sent a letter to President Joe Biden Wednesday asking him for “help.” “Our City… -
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Senate Passes Defense Spending Bill Without House Amendments on Abortion, Transgender ‘Health’
The U.S. Senate passed its version of the House of Representatives’ military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, on Thursday, but omitting two amendments that the legacy media has spun as Republicans inserting the social issues of abortion and transgender medical interventions into routine legislation. Don’t buy it. The Republicans in the House had… -
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Details of IRS Whistleblowers’ Testimony That Knocked Biden Administration on Its Heels
Last week, IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley and IRS criminal investigator Joseph Ziegler testified in detail about how Justice Department lawyers and FBI officials hindered their investigation of Hunter Biden‘s financial dealings. Based on the preponderance of evidence about these and past abuses, there is no longer any question that the FBI must be reformed… -
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House Won’t Fund Smithsonian’s New Latino Museum Painting Hispanics as America’s Victims
A congressional debate over funding a new Smithsonian American Latino Museum carried on for most of Wednesday afternoon, sometimes passionately, epitomizing a much larger national cleavage over whether America is to be viewed as the land of opportunity or through the lens of oppression, race, and gender ideology. Behind this important national war of ideas… -
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Philanthropist Halts Higher Ed Donations After ‘Radicalized’ Faculty Protest Kirk-Prager Event
Tom Lewis is among America’s most generous philanthropists. Over more than 20 years, his T.W. Lewis Foundation has funded causes helping children and families, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations like The Heritage Foundation. But he’s now taking a different approach with colleges and universities after a controversy at Arizona State University. Lewis pulled his funding… -
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Secret Service Refuses to Hand Over ‘Known Pool of Individuals’ List in White House Cocaine Incident
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Secret Service has refused to turn over the list of individuals who may have accessed the area of the White House where authorities discovered cocaine over the Fourth of July weekend, saying that the record of such a list does not fall under the Freedom of Information Act. This suggests… -
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Bureaucrats ‘Don’t Give a Damn’: Ted Cruz EVISCERATES Chevron Deference in New Supreme Court Filing
Sen. Ted Cruz took aim Thursday at a Supreme Court precedent that empowers the administrative state at the expense of the people's will and the Framers' vision in the Constitution. This Supreme Court doctrine has "played an enormous role in the expansion of the administrative state," Cruz, a Texas Republican, told The Daily Signal in… -
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Lawmaker’s Bill Would Clean Up 30-Year ‘Motor Voter’ Registration Roll Mess
More than 30 years after the federal “motor voter law” passed, foreign nationals and noncitizens have managed to register and vote in U.S. elections across the country, while many states and counties have more registered voters than residents. Now, a House election-reform bill would allow states to require proof of citizenship—which the Supreme Court previously… -
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There Is No Constitutional Right to ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday on “The Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children” and exposed how children are being coerced by adults in positions of authority into life-altering and medically questionable “gender transition” drugs and procedures without anyone having a full understanding of their impact, including the… -
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Kamala Harris’ Smear of Florida’s Black History Curriculum Implodes
A shamefully bogus story promoted by Vice President Kamala Harris has taken an amusing turn. You might call it a “self-own.” First, a little backstory. In January, the Florida Department of Education rejected the Advanced Placement standards for African American history produced by College Board. The department cited a lack of educational value and historical… -
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More Oversight for Ukraine Aid on the Way?
The push for greater oversight of U.S. aid to Ukraine is making progress. Wednesday night, a bipartisan majority of senators—including nearly every Republican—voted to create a lead inspector general for Ukraine assistance. In June, the House of Representatives agreed to a similar measure, establishing a special inspector general for Ukraine assistance as part of its… -
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Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘Unapologetically Pro-Life,’ But Likely Won’t Sign a Federal Abortion Ban
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said last week that he isn't supportive of a federal ban on abortion, and he touted the difference between himself and his fellow Republican candidates on this point. The Daily Signal has learned that the presidential candidate is reportedly discussing with scholars whether federal protections for the unborn would be constitutional….