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Libs of TikTok Creator’s New Book Aims to Protect Kids From ‘Predators’ Who Seek to ‘Sexualize Them, Confuse Them About Their Identity’
Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik is set to release a children’s book aimed at protecting children from those who she says want to “sexualize them and confuse them about their identity.” “We need to be proactive in this fight. Instead of reacting to all the new ideas from bad actors who are talking to children, we need to… -
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Want to Protect Life? Oppose Revival of the Equal Rights Amendment
Like the resilient undead, the Equal Rights Amendment is back. This time, the ERA has emerged from its grave in the form of a joint House and Senate resolution to remove the expiration date on the constitutional amendment. (Yes, the one that already expired in 1982.) The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold its… -
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Washington State Teacher ‘Says the Quiet Part Out Loud’ on Parental Rights in Education
A high school teacher in Washington state suggested that schools should hide information about children from their parents, because kids "are not safe in this nation from their Christo-fascist parents." Kelly Love, who appears in Auburn School District's directory as "Karen Love," a teacher at Auburn High School, made the claim Thursday on Twitter. Love… -
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Discredited Research Cited in Legal Briefs for Supreme Court’s 2 Racial Admissions Cases
Sometimes a narrative is just too good to give up, even when the facts don’t support it. This seems to be the reason why some supporters of racial preferences in college admissions keep citing bad research in legal briefs before the Supreme Court. In the two cases challenging the race-based admissions practices of Harvard… -
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US Slips to Worst-Ever Score in 2023 Index of Economic Freedom
The Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, released Monday, offers sobering insights into setbacks to economic freedom across the globe, including, regrettably, here at home. Since its inception in 1995, the index—an annual global study that compares countries’ entrepreneurial policy environments—has measured a nation’s commitment to limited government and free enterprise by evaluating four… -
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Index of Economic Freedom Reveals ‘How Fragile the World’s Economy Has Become,’ Even as Taiwan Rises
Taiwan's economic freedom ranking has risen to an all-time high, according to The Heritage Foundation's 2023 Index of Economic Freedom released on Monday. The index ranks Taiwan No. 4 with an overall economic freedom score of 80.7 and No. 2 out of the 39 economies in the Asia-Pacific region. The region's average overall economic score… -
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Equal Protection Project Aims to Stop Acts of Racism Committed in Name of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’
“The remedy for racism never is more racism.” That’s the guiding principle behind a new initiative called the Equal Protection Project. Through education, investigation, and litigation, the Equal Protection Project is working to expose instances of racism in America, such as a school district in Rhode Island that announced it was holding an event for… -
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Something Worse Likely After Ukraine War
The Ukraine mess is daily looking more like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, a meat grinder that took 500,000 lives. That three-year conflict became a savage proxy war and prelude for the belligerents of World War II. Now, a year after Russia’s invasion, the Ukraine battlefield is proving to be a similar… -
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Ohio Train Disaster Exposes Hollowness, Incompetence of Identity-Obsessed Ruling Class
The massive train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio, created one of the worst ecological disasters on U.S. soil in decades. On top of that, it exposed the looming, pervasive incompetence and callousness of the woke ruling class. A 50-car train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed Feb. 3 near the small town of East Palestine. It… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Did FBI Target Evangelicals, Anglicans Along With ‘Radical-Traditional Catholics’? Pence Group Wants to Know
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Advancing American Freedom, a policy advocacy group launched by former Vice President Mike Pence, is demanding answers from the FBI about its memo urging agents to develop “sources with access,” including in “places of worship,” to probe an alleged relationship between "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists" and "radical-traditional Catholic ideology."… -
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Biden’s Misleading New Asylum Rule Is a Gimmick Atop a Shell Game
The Biden administration’s proposed new asylum rule, “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways,” is an erroneously named gimmick on top of a shell game to cover up bad optics on surging illegal immigration. The Left is wrong to complain about the rule, and the Right is wrong to praise it. President Joe Biden may be happy with… -
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Colorado School District Revises Transgender Student Policy in Face of Parent Opposition
A Colorado school district has agreed to stop concealing the transgender identity of students from parents unless it deems the child to be facing a "safety threat," according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal. The Cañon City school district hosted a Transgender Student Policy Work Group on Nov. 28, at which stakeholders decided schools can only… -
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EXCLUSIVE: This Bill Would Eliminate Biden’s $27B Green ‘Slush Fund’
House Republicans want to roll back a $27 billion “green bank,” the largest grant program in the massive spending bill dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act and passed in August by the Democrat-controlled Congress. Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee under the… -
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Biden Labor Rule ‘Plays Politics With Americans’ Retirement Savings,’ GOP Senator Says
A Republican senator says a Biden administration rule “plays politics with Americans’ retirement savings,” even as some Democrats push legislation seeking to codify that same Labor Department rule into law. President Joe Biden’s environmental, social, and governance rule would allow “fiduciaries to select a fund with a lower rate of return if it supports a progressive… -
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DHS Flouts Law on Student Visas, and DC Circuit Judges Yawn
For yet another example of how out-of-control federal bureaucrats think they can stretch the law beyond recognition to meet their policy preferences, look no further than a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The F-1 student visa program that allows foreigners to enter the country and study… -
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Heritage Scholar Reveals ‘Unusual’ Aspect of China Move on Anniversary of Russia’s Ukraine Invasion
Friday, Feb. 24, marks one year since Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Ahead of the one-year anniversary, Russian President Vladimir Putin met Wednesday with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi. Dakota Wood, a senior research fellow in defense programs at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, says… -
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Local Arizona Leaders Detail Reality of Border Crisis at Hearing Democrats Boycotted
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing at the southern border Thursday focused on the effects of the border crisis on a local Arizona community. “The Biden Border Crisis,” marked the second hearing the committee held on the situation at the southern border this Congress. “It’s about time we told the truth. It’s about time we fix this problem,”… -
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Joe Biden Turns America’s Government Into Wokeness Inc.
As Presidents Day weekend loomed last week, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine designed for the propagation of woke principles. Biden’s so-called Executive Order on Further… -
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Library Features Clarence Thomas Books After Daily Signal Inquiry
Virginia’s largest public library revamped its Black History Month reading list this week to include three Clarence Thomas books after an inquiry from The Daily Signal. The Fairfax County Public Library, which just hosted a taxpayer-funded event for 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones last weekend, originally didn’t feature a single book about the Supreme Court… -
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Gov. Youngkin’s Latest Event Undermines Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Attack
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, on Tuesday joined fourth graders at Fort Monroe outside Newport News, Virginia, hosting an event teaching about the history of the fort, where black slaves fled during the Civil War to become freemen at what became known as "Freedom's Fortress." The Youngkin event came two days after Nikole Hannah-Jones,…