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You Might Be Safer in Afghanistan Than in Nation’s Capital
“I don’t want to get killed in front of my wife and kids.” That was what Nasrat Ahmad Yar reportedly said to a friend about why he wanted to leave his home country of Afghanistan. On July 3, Yar was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., while finishing a late-night shift working for the ride-sharing company… -
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US-S. Korea Ties ‘Deeply Rooted in Shared Values of Freedom, Democracy, Rule of Law,’ Seoul Envoy Says
As the United States and South Korea mark the 70th anniversary of their alliance in the Indo-Pacific, The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday hosted a panel discussion on the alliance’s future. The panelists emphasized the importance of the trilateral alliance among the United States, South Korea, and Japan in the face of threats from North Korea… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Pew Backs Away From Crackdown on ‘Payday Loans’ After Conservative Group’s Reports
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Pew Charitable Trusts appears to have backed away from touting affordable small loans and attacking "payday loans"—often the only form of banking available to many Americans—after a conservative group released two reports undermining Pew's central claims. "A consumer credit crisis is looming: inflation is up, there are no more savings,… -
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What Biden’s Top Military Pick Has to Say About 18-Year-Old Woman in National Guard Required to Shower With Males
An 18-year-old woman in the South Dakota National Guard was required to shower with biological men during basic training, but was afraid to complain about the situation, Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said Tuesday at a Senate hearing. The hearing held by the Senate Armed Services Committee was to consider President Joe Biden’s nomination of Air… -
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A Case Study in Hollywood Hypocrisy: How It Deals With Stars From the Left and Right
As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the superhero movie “The Flash,” it is hoping you forgot all you’ve heard about the star, Ezra Miller. Or, at the very least, Hollywood hopes you forgive him quicker than the conservative actors it has canceled. You may know Miller, 30, as Patrick from the 2012 young… -
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The ‘Banned All Over’ Book Antifa Gave Me
The light turned green and I joined what looked like a group of high school students on the crosswalk across North 12th Street in Philadelphia. As I reached the other side of the street in front of the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, the venue for Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit, I was approached by… -
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Transgender-Identifying Man Beats Out Women to Win Netherlands’ Miss Universe Pageant
She is beauty, she is grace, and “she” is actually a “he.” This variation of William Shatner’s song in the movie “Miss Congeniality” may have come to mind Saturday, when transgender model Rikkie Valerie Kollé, a biological man, was crowned Miss Universe Netherlands Kollé, 22, is the first transgender woman to win in the 94-year… -
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Cycling Competition Creates Third Category for ‘Transgender’ Athletes
An American cycling competition created a third division for “transgender” cyclists on Friday after a male recently won a cycling event in the women’s division. In June, Austin Killips, a man who identifies as a transgender woman, competed in the nearly 140-mile Monuments of Cycling’s “Belgian Waffle Ride,” a grueling one-day cycling event that mirrors… -
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Bud Light in a Hole, but Still Digging
More than three months later, the makers of Bud Light still don’t “get” it. And neither, apparently, does its transgender former “spokesmodel” Dylan Mulvaney. Anheuser-Busch is flailing—and mostly failing—in its efforts to win back Bud Light’s disgruntled, largely blue-collar customers repulsed by Mulvaney, a social media “influencer” whose transgender base comprises an estimated .003% of… -
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Social Media Censorship BACKFIRES: Biden Admin Flags Itself, Pro-Ukraine Accounts as Russian Disinformation, Docs Reveal
Using the power of the federal government to pressure Big Tech into censoring "disinformation" is a modern Pandora's box. Sure, the Biden administration may decrease the influence of its critics—in an astonishing violation of the First Amendment—but it also enables bad actors to weaponize this very tool against the U.S. government itself, in an utterly… -
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Fauci Prompted ‘Cover-Up’ to ‘Disprove’ COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory, House GOP Report Says
A new report by the House of Representatives' Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic alleges then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci prompted an effort to suppress the theory that the coronavirus emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China. Fauci on numerous occasions prompted researchers to author a paper intended to… -
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Sotomayor’s Staff Leaned on Colleges, Libraries to Buy Her Book Ahead of Speaking Gigs
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s taxpayer-funded staff frequently pushed colleges and libraries to purchase her books ahead of speaking engagements, according to The Associated Press. Supreme Court staff often assisted with arranging speaking engagements designed to promote Sotomayor’s books, which have earned the justice a minimum of $3.7 million since she took her seat on the bench… -
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Law Banning ‘Gender Transition’ of Minors Sees Initial Win in Federal Court
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled Saturday in favor of a Tennessee law protecting minors from “gender transition” surgeries and hormone treatments. The 2-1 decision reversed the district court’s statewide preliminary injunction. The decision both allows Tennessee’s law protecting minors to remain in effect while the lawsuit proceeds and signals that… -
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ORDER UPHELD: Judge Blocks Biden Admin’s ‘Orwellian’ Collusion With Big Tech to Suppress Free Speech
UPDATE July 11, 2023: Judge Terry Doughty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Monday rejected the Biden administration's motion for a stay of his historic July 4 preliminary injunction preventing the administration from pressuring Big Tech to censor Americans. Two days after Doughty issued the injunction, the Biden administration… -
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How This Accountability Group Exposes Biden Admin’s Woke Policies
The Biden administration’s embrace of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives—or DEI—represents an effort to “create equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity,” an advocate of conservative reforms says. Tarren Bragdon, president and CEO of the Foundation for Government Accountability, says the Biden administration has taken actions to “use the power of the federal… -
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UN Report Castigates Religion for Stymieing the Sexual Orientation-Gender Identity Agenda
Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the United Nations’ independent “expert” on sexual orientation and gender identity, capped off “Pride Month” in June with his annual report to the Human Rights Council. The report addressed the conflicts between religious freedom and the rights of LGBTQ+ people to be “free from violence and discrimination.” Spoiler alert: Religious freedom loses. Madrigal-Borloz, a… -
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Fauci, Other NIH Officials May Have to Pay Back Year’s Salary
Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the highest-paid employee of the federal government, might have to pay back his salary for his final year at the National Institutes of Health, based on a congressional committee’s finding that he wasn’t legally appointed by the Biden administration. Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced Monday that they… -
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The Destructiveness of Black Lives Matter 10 Years Later
Next week marks a decade since Black Lives Matter began disrupting our lives. The media doesn’t mention the group much anymore, mainly to avoid embarrassing evidence of its corruption. But BLM has changed the nation in profound ways, perhaps permanently—and continues to do so. This transformation of America was deliberate. The nation’s newspapers robotically speak… -
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Bidens Do the Crimes, but Not the Time
The family that skates together stays together. The influence-peddling, money laundering, and foreign shakedowns encircling Hunter Biden, his uncle Jim, and The Big Guy in the Oval Office have received considerable attention, at least in the conservative media. But even Fox News addicts would be stunned by how many Bidens have T-boned into the law and… -
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State AGs Warn Target of ‘Concerns’ Over Pride Merch for Kids
A group of seven state attorneys general sent a letter to Target on Wednesday warning the retail giant that its Pride clothing line collection may be in violation of state child-protection laws. The letter comes in the wake of public outrage that swelled in May when it was discovered that Target began selling, among other controversial items, “tuck-friendly” swimwear…