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State Department Adds Pronouns to Employee Email Address Lines: REPORT
The State Department has added pronouns to employees’ email address lines, The Daily Signal has learned. One signature viewed by The Daily Signal inaccurately identified a man with “She/Her/Hers” pronouns. It is unclear exactly when or why the policy was enacted. Associated Press reporter Matt Lee flagged the occurrence during a Thursday briefing with deputy… -
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Heritage Foundation Launches Petition to Support Sen. Tuberville’s Fight to End Military’s Paid Leave, Travel for Abortions
As Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s, R-Ala., public fight to reverse a Department of Defense policy that unilaterally expanded abortion in the military enters its 12th week, a burgeoning grassroots movement is blossoming in support of the senator’s stand, and a growing number of fellow lawmakers on the Hill are also voicing their solidarity. On Thursday, The… -
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Blinken, Austin Fail to Submit Reports on Taiwan as Required by Congress
Republican senators are sounding the alarm over the Biden administration’s apparent failure to follow requirements of the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act. The law is part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Dec. 23. Among other things, the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act requires Secretary of State Antony… -
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‘I Would Like to Have My Job Back’: School Counselor Sues After Being Fired for Disagreeing With Transgender Policy
PENDLETON, Ind.—An Indiana school district violated a guidance counselor’s right to free speech by retaliating against and ultimately firing her for saying parents should know about their teenage children’s interest in “transitioning” to the opposite sex, the former counselor argues in a lawsuit filed Thursday. Alliance Defending Freedom, a law firm that protects religious liberty… -
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Democratic Attorney General Targets School for Policy Notifying Parents If Their Child Tries to Change Their Gender
New Jersey’s attorney general filed a civil rights complaint Wednesday against Hanover Township Board of Education challenging a policy that advises educators to notify parents if their child is transitioning genders at school. The Hanover Township Board of Education adopted a “Parental Notice of Material Circumstances” policy on Tuesday that requires educators to “say something to the… -
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Joe Biden, Habitual Racialist Demagogue
The most recent liberal ABC News/Washington Post poll showed President Joe Biden’s approval rating at 36%—the lowest in history for a president at this point in his first term. Biden’s low popularity is no mystery. He inherited energy independence, affordable gas prices, historically low interest rates, low inflation, calm overseas, a low crime rate, and… -
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How Forge Leadership Network Is Training, Mentoring Young Conservatives
Adam Josefczyk, the co-founder and president of the Forge Leadership Network, says the network, which was founded in 2015, “exists to mentor, train, and connect the next generation of conservative leaders” who are 18 to 25 years old. “We equip them in timeless principles, practical skills, and the legislative process in order to help them… -
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Conservative Senators Stop Weaponization of Child Abuse Bill Against Parents Opposed to Abortion, ‘Transgenderism’ for Children
In a rare show of bipartisanship last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill to combat child sexual abuse material online and establish reporting requirements for online platform providers. The bill also reactivated a decades-old provision obligating certain organizations and professions to report suspected child sexual abuse. But it wasn’t just the bipartisanship of… -
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It’s a Gloomy Outlook for Jobs Under Biden. Here’s the Formula to Change That.
Artificially inflated by unsustainable government policies, the labor market has been incredibly strong for workers since the COVID-19 pandemic. But the tide could soon turn as bad labor policies and an unfit nominee to head the Department of Labor coincide with the Federal Reserve’s drastic actions to curb inflation caused by out-of-control federal spending. Before… -
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Gun Control Advocates Claim Initial Victory in Illinois, but Here’s Why They’ll Likely Lose the War
The Supreme Court declined to intervene Wednesday in an important Second Amendment case challenging Illinois’ new restrictions on gun owners. But no, it’s not time to panic. The battle isn’t over. Not even close. Earlier this year, Illinois enacted a law prohibiting civilian sales or transfers of many types of commonly owned semiautomatic rifles, based… -
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Durham’s Damning Report Assails FBI Leadership, Media for Enabling Hillary Clinton’s Alleged Russia Hoax Plan
Special counsel John Durham’s long-awaited report was, as one would expect, as meticulous as it was damning in its findings of fact. He concluded that there was no basis to immediately launch a full-fledged investigation against Donald Trump; that the FBI failed to follow up on intelligence reports that Hillary Clinton had approved a scheme… -
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Biden, Schumer ‘Backed Off Their Idea’ to Not Negotiate, McCarthy Says
President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., “have finally backed off their idea that they won’t negotiate” on the debt ceiling, according to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. “They finally backed off the insane, un-rational, un-sensible idea that you just raise the debt ceiling,” McCarthy said at a joint press conference on Wednesday with… -
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4 More Companies Go ‘Full Bud Light’ in Their Support for Transgenderism
While major banks downgrade Anheuser-Busch’s stock and Bud Light becomes a corporate punch line, a quartet of CEOs seems all too happy to join them. As the beer company implodes under the weight of a national boycott, its cautionary tale seems lost on four companies who’ve decided to follow transgender advocacy straight to financial insolvency. Who are… -
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‘PBS NewsHour’ Is Pro-Democrat Spin Hour
PBS has an undeserved reputation for trustworthiness. The latest annual YouGov poll on trust in media found the most trusted channel is The Weather Channel, because there’s only so much spin you can put in your weather forecast. But coming in second was PBS, with 30% more people finding it trustworthy versus untrustworthy. Right below… -
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This School District Teaches Middle School Sex Ed Based on Planned Parenthood Guide
Warning: This report includes graphic language and references to such language, which some readers may find offensive. A Virginia school district is using a teacher’s guide for middle school sex education, co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood, that promotes student “role-plays,” urges normalizing of certain behavior, and refers to sterilization as “permanent birth control.” The teachers guide… -
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School System’s Decision Against Flying ‘Pride’ Flags Outside Buildings Angers LGBTQ+ Activists
School board meetings in one New Jersey district have turned into a toxic fiasco as LGBTQ+ protesters screamed and cursed at board members over a policy to fly only the American and New Jersey flags in front of schools. The last two scheduled school board meetings of the Westwood Regional School District in Bergen County,… -
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WATCH: FBI Shows Up at Childhood Home of Pro-Life Activist
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Two agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited the childhood home of a pro-life activist and told the woman's mother that they wanted to speak with her, according to footage obtained by The Daily Signal. Elise Ketch is a member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, a group of mostly… -
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How We Can Truly Honor Our Officers During National Police Week
I was proud and moved to participate in opening ceremonies at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., commemorating National Police Week. President John F. Kennedy signed the proclamation in 1962 designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and establishing the week in which this occurs as National Police Week. It seems… -
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Robust One-Nation Conservatism Is What Woke Globalist Elites Fear Most, Heritage Foundation President Tells London Conference
Cultural crises and crumbling Western institutions can only be remedied by a broader conservative movement that remains focused on the renewal of national identity and the ultimate ends of its policy means, the president of The Heritage Foundation told a London audience Tuesday. Heritage President Kevin Roberts spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in London… -
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The Worst Political Scandal in American History?
This week, special counsel John Durham released a 316-page report detailing the origins of Operation Crossfire Hurricane—the FBI’s investigation into supposed connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. The report is an astounding expose of corruption and collusion—not between former President Donald Trump and Russia, but between the Hillary Clinton campaign, friendlies at…