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opinion
Woke Brands Back Off Pride Month as American Fury Grows
For most CEOs, Pride Month couldn’t have come at a more inopportune time. As companies like Target, Bud Light, and others desperately try to control the flames burning down their brands, this annual test of LGBT loyalty is putting most businesses in a position they’d rather not be in: outraging an already agitated consumer base or ticking… -
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D-Day May Not Be an Official Holiday, but It Deserves Reverence Akin to That of Memorial Day
On rare occasions, history records an event so extraordinary in its scope and significance that it serves as a reference point for everything that follows: the survival of nations, whether people are free or enslaved, and whether opportunity or despair will be the lot of the average man or woman. Such events determine the path… -
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Mike Pence Files to Run for President, Joining Crowded Field
Mike Pence, who served as the vice president of the United States in former President Donald Trump’s administration, has filed paperwork to run for president. Pence enters an already crowded field of GOP candidates: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Trump have all… -
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Pride Is 1st of 7 Deadly Sins. Arrogance in Pushing Sexual Politics Abroad Could Be 8th.
I learned over a two-decade diplomatic career serving on four continents that whatever the relative size and power of our countries, even our allies don’t like to be preached to. Countries we were attempting to win over—or for whose affections we were competing with China and others—are even more sensitive. What makes sense is to… -
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ORWELLIAN: Associated Press Forbids Even Discussing Transgenderism as an Ideology
Forget debates over bathrooms or pronouns. The Associated Press recently released new guidelines suppressing the very concept of transgenderism as an ideology that can be debated, while forcing that ideology on reporters in the name of promoting good journalism. The AP is the most common stylebook among journalists and news outlets on the Left and… -
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Leftist Hypocrisy: Failing to Criticize Environmental Disaster of Biden’s Open Border
Today is World Environment Day, the U.N.’s “Day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.” Trees will be planted, oceans will be filtered of plastics, many will choose to ride their bikes rather than drive their cars, and streaming platforms will suggest climate-related documentaries. However, none of these things addresses a truly… -
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Nikki Haley Dodges on Heartbeat Bill
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley would not say whether she would sign a bill banning abortions of babies who had a heartbeat, pointing instead to President Joe Biden’s administration’s extreme positions on abortion. While her reference to the Biden administration’s extremism may have been an attempt to follow the messaging strategies of top pro-life groups, Haley… -
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How Do Conservatives Connect With Black Voters Who Distrust Them? Star Parker Has the Answer
ORLANDO, Fla.—Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, says more conservatives can learn how to reach the nation’s black community, which so often views the Right with suspicion. “They can come around CURE, because that’s specifically the role that we believe we play in the conservative movement,” Parker told… -
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COMPROMISED: SPLC Whistleblower’s History Makes Groundbreaking Defamation Case Even Stronger
In order to win a defamation lawsuit, the person suing must convince the court and ultimately the jury that the slanderer didn't just publish something false, but that he did so even while suspecting that the attack was false. Immigration enforcement activist D.A. King's lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center made it to the… -
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President Biden Signs Debt Ceiling Bill Into Law
President Joe Biden signed the debt ceiling bill into law on Saturday a week after reaching a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. “No one got everything they wanted, but the American people got what they needed. We averted an economic crisis, an economic collapse. We’re cutting spending and bringing the deficits down at… -
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‘Incredibly Unjust’: Elon Musk Supports Girl Who Spoke Out Against Trans-Identifying Student
Billionaire Elon Musk weighed in Saturday on the story of a Vermont family who spoke out against a biological male using their daughter’s locker room. Musk, who owns Twitter, called the Orange Southwest School District Board’s decision to punish Travis Allen and Blake Allen “incredibly unjust” as he responded to a tweet from Riley Gaines,… -
opinion
Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?
Conservatives and traditionalists are often exasperated at the ongoing woke cultural revolution in their midst. How can America be turned upside down, as it is, when there is little public support for the things happening around us? They don’t see much backing for the current border policy and illegal immigration, yet it continues. Conservatives feel… -
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‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgery Leaves People Lonelier and Depressed, Study by Transgender Surgery Department Chairman Finds
The head of a facility that carries out so-called “gender-affirming care” has published a study confirming that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether. “In our study, the level of life satisfaction in transgender people was not increased in transgender people who had… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Children’s Choir Director Responds After Capitol Police Claim They Did Not Stop Kids Singing the National Anthem
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Footage shows a Capitol Police officer directing someone to interrupt a children’s choir singing the national anthem in the U.S. Capitol, yet the police claimed that they did not stop the singing. The man who conducted the choir that day tells The Daily Signal that the Capitol Police’s claim is an outright lie. “I… -
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MLB + LGBTQ = SNAFU
The Toronto Blue Jays’ Anthony Bass is really sorry. You see, Major League Baseball teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers will honor men in nun costumes who hand out condoms and simulate sex on crosses. That’s just “inclusivity.” Orthodox Christians with opinions, on the other hand, will be compelled to engage in ritual public humiliation… -
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DC Mayor Sought Control of National Guard Months Before Migrant Crisis
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser attempted to take control of the District of Columbia National Guard last year, with the stated goal of addressing a surge in illegal immigrants from Texas and Arizona, by pressuring the White House. However, Bowser and the city government left leaders of the D.C. National Guard in the dark about the… -
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Pro-Lifers Should Get Involved in Foster Care, 2 Moms Urge
If pro-life Americans truly value the dignity of human life, they must become more involved in the foster care system, two foster moms say. Kimberly Henkel and Tori Hope Petersen discussed how pro-lifers should defend and protect the lives of foster children in a Zoom webinar Wednesday titled “No Child Left Behind: The Urgency of… -
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Law School Commencement Speech Is No Place for Far-Left Diatribe
Education ought to be the bedrock for fostering critical thinking and providing a landscape for the exploration of diverse perspectives, rather than serving as an incubator for extremist ideologies. That essential ethos of education, unfortunately, is under threat, exemplified recently by the graduation speech of City University of New York law graduate and soon-to-be lawyer,… -
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Space Command’s Move to Alabama in Jeopardy After Biden Visit to Colorado
President Joe Biden appears increasingly likely to overrule the military’s decision to move U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama. Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, a Republican, shared details of his private meeting Thursday with Biden before the president spoke at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony just north of the Colorado city. “As a… -
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End American Gerontocracy
President Joe Biden’s viscerally jarring fall on Thursday in Colorado Springs, while on stage dispensing diplomas to new U.S. Air Force Academy graduates, underscores a terrifying reality: The octogenarian denizen of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, palpably in the throes of debilitating mental and physical senescence, is not well. The sight of the commander in chief physically…