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The Cannes Film Festival Meets Jesus: A Flowering of Culture at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention
As a conservative journalist working in the belly of the beast that is Washington, D.C., and mostly focused on shining a light on what's going wrong in America, I find it all too easy to forget that there's a lot going right, especially outside the capital city I affectionately call "Mordor." This past week at… -
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China’s Latest Cyberattack Is an Active Threat to Critical US Infrastructure
Microsoft flagged yet another active threat to U.S. critical infrastructure Wednesday afternoon. The warning lights have been blinking red for some time, and they have signaled a clear shift in the tactics of our adversaries—they intend to disrupt civil society for geopolitical and military gains. Volt Typhoon, a Peoples Republic of China-sponsored hacking group, has… -
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Racist Double-Standard Democrats Malign Tim Scott’s Melanin
Sen. Tim Scott is running for president of the United States. “Love, unconditional love, binds hearts together,” he declared Monday. While Democrats, not surprisingly, oppose the South Carolina Republican on most issues, they refuse to acknowledge that his announcement’s warm reception among Republicans shows that black Americans Have Overcome or, at least, Are Overcoming. Citing… -
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Parents Confirm Whistleblower’s Reports of Horrors at St. Louis Gender Clinic, Josh Hawley Says
ORLANDO, Fla.—Parents whose children have been rushed onto controversial transgender interventions have confirmed the whistleblower’s reports on the St. Louis gender clinic, Sen. Josh Hawley told The Daily Signal just before he gave a rousing speech urging conservatives to defend America’s “ancient faith.” “Listen, what that whistleblower said was that kids were given surgeries that,… -
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Are Walmart Heirs Forsaking the Left? Arts Center They Fund Cancels Drag Shows for Kids
O’Sullivan’s First Law—named after former National Review editor John O’Sullivan, a one-time speechwriter for then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—states that any institution that’s not explicitly right-wing will become left-wing over time. The Walton Family Foundation has proved to be a prime example of that rule. For the past decade or more, second- and third-generation heirs… -
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In Praise of Americans Who Have Given Their All
The war in Ukraine, brutally slogging along some 5,000 miles from the U.S., involves another people but it serves as a reminder to Americans of what it takes to keep one’s country safe, free, and prosperous. It also reminds us that there are dangers in this world that can only be stopped by people willing… -
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Left Seeks to Extend Voting to Prisoners, Noncitizens to Expand Base
Inmate voting, noncitizen voting, and even mandatory voting have been among the initiatives pushed in Democrat-led jurisdictions this year to expand their voting base. “The Left wants to normalize voter classes that nobody took seriously a generation ago—criminals, foreigners—to help them win elections,” J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election… -
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How Black Lives Matter Got Police Violence Wrong
In the early 2000s, the United States enjoyed comparative racial optimism. Majorities of both black and white citizens felt race relations were improving. Even left-leaning NPR highlighted “colorblindness” as an ideal. A generation later, race relations have nosedived. We hear regularly about “systemic racism” and “white supremacy.” Colorblindness now is considered racist. This whiplash may leave many people wondering what happened. The collapse… -
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Why Panicked Left-Wing Ruling Elites Fear Revival of Self-Government
Our corrupted institutions fear that the American people are taking back their birthright—that is, taking back the concept of self-government. A relatively new, but growing media genre highlights that dynamic. Over the past few years, there have been a growing number of national media stories—really, more like partisan exposés, rather than “X, Y, Z happened”—about… -
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Majority of Americans Support Spending Cuts If Debt Ceiling Is Raised, Poll Finds
A significant majority of Americans believe that the U.S. debt ceiling should only be raised if it’s paired with spending cuts, a CNN poll released on Tuesday found. Sixty percent of the poll’s 1,227 respondents answered that “Congress should only raise the debt ceiling if it cuts spending at the same time.” Twenty-four percent of… -
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‘Woke Jesus’: How a ‘Doctrine of Demons’ Is Infiltrating Christianity
ORLANDO, Fla.—A “doctrine of demons” is invading Christian churches across America, twisting the Bible to advance leftist ideologies that divide people, warns a pastor and author of the book “Woke Jesus: The False Messiah Destroying Christianity.” “I think it is a doctrine of demons,” Lucas Miles, pastor of Nfluence Church in Granger, Indiana, told “The… -
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Media’s Coverage of Debt Limit Fight Is Intolerably Dishonest
President Joe Biden, writes Politico’s White House Bureau Chief Jonathan Lemire, “has prioritized deal-making throughout the debt ceiling talks. But with GOP obstinate, Biden is changing tactics.” What in the hell is he talking about, you may wonder. Only last month, Lemire’s publication reported that Biden was “happy to meet” with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy,… -
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The Left Has Pushed the Envelope
The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying. Special counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice. The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in… -
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Supreme Court Acknowledges God Was Right: ‘Land’ Really Is Different From ‘Water’
Michael and Chantell Sackett have waited for well over a decade to learn whether the federal government would allow them to build a home on land they own. (Yes, you read that correctly.) How is that possible in America? That’s easy. America might be “the land of the free” and “the home of the brave”… -
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State Department Partners With Left-Leaning Media in Propaganda Push, Documents Reveal
A State Department agency with a mission of combating disinformation abroad has helped shape coverage by—and in some cases subsidized—U.S. news outlets, according to records obtained by a conservative legal organization. America First Legal says that over 600 pages of documents obtained in a public records lawsuit show the State Department’s Global Engagement Center worked… -
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‘Start Pushing Back’: Lawmakers Slam LGBTQ+ ‘Youth Carnival’ That Bars Parents
A wave of criticism is greeting an LGBTQ+ “Youth Carnival” set to take place in Indianapolis in early June, largely because the event will bar parents from attending. The June 7 event organized by two LGBTQ+ organizations, Indiana Youth Group and Indy Pride, is advertised as providing food, fun, and unspecified entertainment for “youth,” although… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Maine School Board Asks Church What It Believes About Marriage, Abortion, Gender Before Denying Lease
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Maine church that outgrew its meeting space applied with the local school board to lease space at a high school for worship services, but the school board appeared to apply a religious test to the church and negotiations fell through. Now, the church is suing. "Public institutions that seek to… -
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Motor Voter Law 30 Years Later
The National Voter Registration Act turns 30 this week. Most know it as Motor Voter, and no other federal law has impacted American elections more, except perhaps the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After Motor Voter was vetoed by President George H. W. Bush in 1992, President Bill Clinton made it a top legislative priority… -
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Group of House Lawmakers Urges McCarthy to Take ‘3 Specific Actions’ in Debt Ceiling Negotiations
Thirty-five Republican House lawmakers sent a letter on Thursday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., urging three specific actions regarding the debt ceiling as a deal has yet to be reached. “As a result of your skilled leadership since your consequential election in January, Congressional Republicans have not been so united in decades,” the lawmakers… -
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Texas Bill Prohibiting Sexually Explicit Content in Public Schools Heads to Governor’s Desk
A bipartisan bill banning sexually explicit content in public school libraries has passed the Texas Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. HB 900, dubbed The READER Act, specifies what “sexual content” is and prescribes actions by Texas public schools to ensure that children aren’t given access to pornographic, sexually explicit, or…