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Police Lt. Explains How Cartels Are Taking Advantage of Biden’s Open Border Policies
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz.—Worms crawled out of a small hole in the front of a carpet shoe that was used by a cartel member likely only weeks before. Dropping the piece of camouflage fabric the cartels use to make their tracks less visible to Border Patrol, I scanned the small parcel of desert that was covered… -
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If You’re Woke and Go Broke, Should Taxpayers Pay Your Bills?
It’s feeling like 2007 all over again as Silicon Valley Bank and other financial institutions are going belly up and asking for bailouts from the federal government. President Joe Biden insists that he won’t be bailing out Silicon Valley Bank, but he certainly is. The bailouts are coming. They’ve already begun. The official reason for… -
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19 ‘Freedom-Loving States’ Form Anti-ESG Alliance
A group of 19 Republican governors from "freedom-loving states" announced an anti-environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, alliance on Thursday. "This month, Congress exercised its powers under the Congressional Review Act to disapprove of the Department of Labor Rule relating to 'Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights,’" the governors' joint statement… -
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‘Restorative Justice’ Is Killing American Classrooms
As record numbers of fistfights are erupting amid a behavior crisis in the American public education system, more schools are attempting to use restorative justice—even though that process often makes behavioral problems worse. Restorative justice is a remediation theory that suggests students respond better to affirmation-based conversations in which an adult de-escalates any problem situation… -
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Forget Statehood: Congress’ Quashing of DC’s Pro-Crime Bill Shows City Incapable of Self-Governance
What do you do when carjackings are surging in your city? For local leaders in Washington, D.C., the answer is clear: Reduce the penalties for carjackings, of course. It’s pure genius. In November, the D.C. Council passed the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, which was vetoed by Mayor Muriel Bowser. The Democratic mayor’s veto… -
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Russia Helping China Speed Up Its Nuclear Buildup. US Unprepared to Counter It.
Policymakers are increasingly concerned about evidence of increasing cooperation between the United States’ two greatest adversaries, Russia and China. While recent discussion has focused on China providing Russia with lethal aid to support its aggression in Ukraine, a potentially more dangerous element to this budding relationship has just come into public view: Russian support for China’s… -
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These 12 Defensive Uses of Guns Support Student’s Plea for Armed Self-Defense
After a gunman killed three students last month at Michigan State University, the campus was quickly awash in cries for more gun control. It wasn’t long before the Rock, a campus monument long used by students as a free canvas for promoting school events and social issues, became a focal point of pro-gun control messaging…. -
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Treasury Secretary: US ‘Banking System Is Sound’
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. “banking system is sound” just days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. “This week the government took decisive and forceful actions to stabilize and strengthen public confidence in our financial system,” Yellen said before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. “First, we worked with… -
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Ranked-Choice Voting Is ‘Spreading Like Poison,’ Alaskans for Honest Elections Founder Says
The founder of Alaskans for Honest Elections is speaking out against ranked-choice voting, which he says is “spreading like poison.” “Ranked-choice voting is a whole way that certain people want to redefine how we vote. It’s no longer one person, one vote. It’s a very complicated system where everybody’s thrown into a jungle primary,” Art… -
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Girls High School Basketball Team Banned From Future Tournaments for Refusing to Compete Against Team With Male Player
A Christian school’s girls basketball team has been banned from competing in future tournaments after forfeiting a game against a team with a male student who claims to be transgender. In February, the Mid Vermont Christian School girls high school basketball team pulled out of a game in the girls state basketball playoffs. Head of… -
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Voter Fraud Office Nets 2 More Arrests
Florida continues a crackdown on election-related crime, announcing the arrests of two more individuals Wednesday on charges of casting illegal votes in last year’s election. The Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security, created by legislation that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last April, announced the arrests of 20 convicted felons it said voted… -
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‘We Are Under Siege,’ Texas Sheriff Says of Border Crisis
Kinney County, Texas, is “under siege by illegal aliens and smugglers,” Sheriff Brad Coe testified Wednesday during a House committee hearing. “The number of migrants seen on game cameras … , we’re averaging between 160 and 180 people per night that are going through the county unchallenged,” Coe said during the Homeland Security Committee’s hearing in… -
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Biden Turns Christianity on Its Head
Gender ideology preys upon the young, convincing girls and boys that they were “born in the wrong body” and rushing them onto experimental drugs, hormones, and surgeries that will leave them stunted, scarred, and infertile. Yet the ostensible Catholic who currently occupies the Oval Office not only supports this horror but had the gall to… -
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From Liquidity to Insolvency, Big Government Shows How to Crash Economy
We are in a looming financial crisis, even if we don’t want to see it. Silicon Valley Bank was, according to Moody’s, worthy of an investment-grade rating as of March 8. S&P Global Ratings similarly held a high opinion of SVB. Two days later, SVB was shut down. Immediately, Moody’s dropped SVB into junk territory…. -
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Pro-Trump Super PAC Accuses DeSantis of Violating Florida Ethics Law
Allies of former President Donald Trump accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of violating ethics and election laws through a "shadow presidential campaign," according to a 15-page complaint filed Wednesday. DeSantis has not announced a presidential campaign, though he is widely considered a top contender. NEVER BACK DOWN PAC just launched to encourage DeSantis to run,… -
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‘Antiracist Newsroom’ Is ‘Inclusive’—Except for What It Excludes: Any Pretense of Fairness, Balance
No one today who is a consumer of journalism can claim our national media are strictly, soullessly objective and nonpartisan. But the Left is still on a long march through the media, insisting that any shred of adherence to a notion of objectivity is an embrace of white supremacy. Take a panel discussion at the… -
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First-Year Med Students Told to Call Women ‘People With Cervices’; Professor Slams ‘Anti-Biological’ Lesson
A professor at Indiana University School of Medicine condemned a lesson inculcating gender ideology among first-year medical students as "anti-scientific" and "anti-biological," warning that it would have "very detrimental effects to the health care profession" and stating that he had not heard of any internal discussions about the lesson before professors implemented it. "I did… -
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Silicon Valley Bank—More Government, Less Reality
President Ronald Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” Shock waves are rippling through the country after the announcement of the second-largest bank failure in the country’s history last week—Silicon Valley Bank. This just 15 years after the largest bank… -
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DeSantis Endorsed for President by GOP Congressman: ‘It’s Time’
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, announced Wednesday that he is endorsing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, for president. "It’s time for Ron DeSantis to be President of the United States," Roy, the policy chair of the Freedom Caucus, said in a campaign email obtained by The Daily Signal. DeSantis is considered one of the top… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Senators Introduce Legislation to Terminate Pentagon’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Senate’s first female combat veteran is escalating the fight against the Defense Department’s newly revamped and expansive abortion policies. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, introduced legislation Wednesday along with 35 of her Senate Republican colleagues to halt the Pentagon’s policies. The Defense Department announced Feb. 16 it would provide three weeks…