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Democrats Refuse to Deal as House Republicans Deliver a Pro-Growth Bill to Reduce Spending
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., released text April 19 of legislation dubbed the Limit, Save, Grow Act. The bill, a focus of internal negotiations among House Republicans, would provide an increase in the federal debt ceiling lasting into next spring in exchange for a package of reforms aimed at lowering future deficits and boosting economic… -
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Happy 75th Birthday to Israel
Israel celebrates 75 years of independence this week. The reemergence of an independent Jewish state came nearly 1,900 years after the Romans’ obliteration of the political autonomy of the Jewish nation. Following the Romans’ destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., Jews ultimately scattered across the globe—forced to disperse not only by the Romans, but… -
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New Book Pulls Back Curtain on Public Schools’ ‘Mediocrity’ Sending Parents, Students to Exits
Connor Boyack and Corey DeAngelis’ new book, “Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools Are Failing Today’s Students,” provides a concise explanation for why Americans have begun abandoning the woefully inept public school system. Forty chapters rife with examples of failure paint the American public school system as a catalyst for the exodus to alternative options. Case… -
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What Are Illegal Chinese Communist Government Police Stations Doing in the US?
The Chinese Communist government has been caught operating approximately 100 overseas police stations in at least 53 countries—including at least seven illegal police stations throughout the United States. If it sounds shocking, it’s because it is. A foreign adversary, intent on exerting its influence throughout the world and undermining the United States’ position as the… -
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Fact-Checking 4 Claims From Biden’s Reelection Announcement
President Joe Biden launched his reelection campaign early Tuesday with a factually challenged video that focuses heavily on accusations against Republicans. The 3-minute video with Biden’s voice-over opens with scenes of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, then shifts to a pro-abortion protester in front of the Supreme Court holding a sign saying “abortion… -
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Maybelline Gets Burned by the Latest Round of Dylan Mulvaney Boycotts
While Anheuser-Busch reels from the backlash over its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, another brand is jumping feet-first into the fire. Over the weekend, media personality Oli London retweeted a post of Mulvaney “getting glam” with Maybelline, which has apparently joined the ranks of companies like Nike who think the best way to sell products to women is… -
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How a President Nikki Haley Would Seek to ‘Find a Consensus’ on Abortion
If elected president, Nikki Haley says she would strive to “find consensus” on the issue of abortion. “Pro-life political leaders and candidates must not put up with being demonized,” the former South Carolina governor said. “We should call out the extremism of the Left,” Haley said, adding: We don’t need a president who endangers lives… -
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A Christian College Becomes Bastion of Student-Led Censorship
Free speech and free inquiry are in bad shape on college campuses. You might hope that things would be better on avowedly Christian campuses, but if Whitworth University is any indication, they aren’t. On April 12, Whitworth’s student government voted 9-4 to deny a conservative group’s request to invite Chinese dissident Xi Van Fleet to… -
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Rep. Dan Bishop Sounds Off on Latest Hunter Biden Laptop Cover-Up Revelations
Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, testified that Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who at the time was a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, “played a role in the inception” of the Oct. 19, 2020, letter from 51 former intelligence officials suggesting that “the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a Russian… -
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11 Instances of Defensive Gun Use Dramatize Wisdom of Second Amendment
In recent decades, gun control advocates increasingly have tried to rewrite history by asserting that the Second Amendment—despite its plain text—never was supposed to protect a “right of the people” to keep and bear arms, but rather grants to state governments only the authority to maintain militias. The latest purveyor of this objectively false narrative… -
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Biden, Harris Meet With ‘Tennessee 3’ to Push Gun Control
President Joe Biden met Monday with three Tennessee state legislators at the White House, two of whom were temporarily expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives after staging a raucous protest in the chamber. Their colleagues expelled state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they interrupted a legislative session by shouting through a bullhorn…. -
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Kamala Harris Claims Trump ‘Broke’ Border and Biden Is ‘Attempting to Fix It’
Border security experts say Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that the Trump administration “dismantled” and “broke” America’s immigration system is nothing more than deflection. “This is an example of what is known in psychology is deflection—blaming others for what you yourself have done,” Andrew Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for… -
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Read Tucker Carlson’s Speech Delivered After Last Fox News Show
The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech delivered Friday night at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala celebration at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, by now-former Fox News talk-show host Tucker Carlson. It’s followed by a short dialogue between Carlson and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts…. -
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Heritage President Kevin Roberts Responds to Tucker Carlson Leaving Fox News
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts expressed shock Monday at the news that Fox News had parted ways with prime-time host Tucker Carlson earlier in the day, and reiterated his offer to give Carlson a job if he needs one. Roberts also noted that Carlson spoke at Heritage’s 50th anniversary gala Friday… -
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Republicans Need to Stop Being Cowards on Abortion
How many voters know that the Democratic Party supports legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, on demand for virtually any reason? How many voters know this position aligns with only six other countries in the world—three of them, not incidentally, being North Korea, Vietnam, and China? How many voters know that Democrats want… -
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Heritage Research on Rogue Prosecutors Cited by GOP House Members at NYC Crime Hearing
Manhattan’s rogue prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, has become a household name from his indictment of former President Donald Trump. And on April 17, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing in New York City to highlight Bragg’s soft-on-crime approach and relied in part on The Heritage Foundation’s “rogue prosecutor” research to rebut claims made by the… -
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‘Unprecedented’: Biden Evacuates Sudan, Marking Third US Embassy Withdrawal. 16,000 Americans Left Behind.
The U.S. military evacuated official personnel from the embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday as civil unrest, crime, terrorism, and armed conflict plague the country. However, State Department officials indicate that because of the violence, the U.S. government might not help to evacuate as many as 16,000 Americans who remain. “That the U.S. was unprepared and… -
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GOP Introduces Bill to Address ‘One of the Greatest Security Threats Facing the American People,’ Rep. Mark Green Says
After more than 5 million illegal alien encounters along the southern border since President Joe Biden took office, “it is clear this administration does not have operational control,” the head of the House Homeland Security Committee says. Because of the ongoing crisis at the southern border, which Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., calls “one of… -
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Here’s an Agency That, Despite Its Name, Does Anything but Protect Consumers
The recent security breach at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows the problems with the administrative state, but the threat that the CFPB and similar bureaucracies pose to consumers runs much deeper. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created under President Barack Obama in 2010 to regulate consumer affairs, reported to lawmakers March 21 that a… -
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In Zeal for Transgenderism, Washington State Muscles Parents Out, Gets Control of Their Kids
Update: Gov. Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, has signed into law Senate Bill 5599. According to the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Marko Liias, a Democrat, SB 5599 “allows licensed shelters to contact the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in lieu of parents in certain additional instances, like when a young…