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Appeals Court Steals Show on ERA Amid Senate Panel’s Bid to Resurrect Dead Amendment
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday held a hearing, “The Equal Rights Amendment: How Congress Can Recognize Ratification and Enshrine Equality in Our Constitution.” But even before the hearing could conclude, a federal appeals court ruling threw a monkey wrench into ERA backers’ bid to revive the long-dead 1972 amendment. Advocates of the ERA want… -
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Wyoming LGBT Group Pays Protesters to Rally Against Bill to Bar Biological Males From Girls Sports
A Wyoming LGBT advocacy group offered to pay supporters to travel to Cheyenne to attend a rally Monday at the state Capitol on behalf of biological males being allowed to participate in girls and women’s sports. In a Facebook post, Wyoming Equality offered financial support, including for food, housing, and gas, for those interested in attending the group’s “Let… -
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‘Too Important to Screw Up’: Trump USAID Chief Explains Need for Oversight of US Billions for Ukraine
Aid to Ukraine is an important priority for the United States, and that’s why there must be congressional oversight of it, the former chief of international humanitarian assistance during the Trump administration says. “The response to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, by USAID and the rest of the U.S. government, is too important to… -
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CDC Refuses to Answer House GOP Questions About Codes to Track Reasons Why Americans Turn Down the COVID-19 Jabs
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told The Daily Signal that it "will not be tracking" the reasons Americans give for refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine, after House Republicans demanded answers about a new classification system that tracks the reasons for vaccine refusal. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans told The Daily… -
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Senate Panel Turns to Defunct Constitutional Amendment Phyllis Schlafly Helped Defeat 40 Years Ago
The Equal Rights Amendment has been a topic of debate in the halls of Congress on and off for 50 years. On Tuesday, the controversial amendment will again be up for debate during a Senate committee hearing. Despite the deadline for ratification having expired—depending on who you ask—in either 1979 or 1982, the Senate… -
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Federal Agencies Must Ban Chinese-Owned TikTok, White House Memo Says
Government agencies have less than a month to ban the popular Chinese-owned app TikTok from federal devices, according to an Office of Management and Budget memorandum issued Monday. OMB Director Shalanda Young issued the memorandum for executive departments and agency heads about implementation guidance for banning TikTok on government-issued devices, Reuters first reported. "The Consolidated… -
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Cartels’ Influence Over Border Is ‘Really Frightening,’ Texas Land Commissioner Says
Drug running and human smuggling by Mexican cartels have become tragically commonplace for many Texas communities. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says Texans are deeply frustrated with the situation at their southern border, a situation she describes as “frightening.” There is a “tremendous loss of life with the increase in crime” at the southern border, Buckingham… -
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A Biden Loss in Student Loan Forgiveness Case Would Be Third Defeat in Supreme Court on Executive Overreach
Litigants preparing for oral arguments in the Supreme Court on Tuesday against the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan anticipate victory, based on past high court decisions batting down the administration’s executive overreach. “This really is reminiscent of what we saw with the [ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] eviction program, the [Occupational Safety… -
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The 1 Million Illegal Immigrant Encounters in Past 5 Months Is Equivalent to Population of Biden’s Delaware
More than 1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border just since fiscal year 2023 began on Oct. 1. Fox News reported Saturday that Customs and Border Protection sources confirmed that migrants attempting to cross the border into the U.S. reached 1,008,217 as of Friday. “Of those, 87.8% were single adults,” Fox reported. “Just 328,454… -
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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…