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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,… -
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Indiana Democrats Can’t Read 2-Page Bill Banning Sexual Content in Grades K-3
You’ll never experience such a profound mixture of astonishment and disappointment until you observe hundreds of protesters converge on a statehouse to vehemently protest legislation they haven’t read. Indiana state lawmakers on Monday advanced a two-page bill that, similar to a new Florida law, would ban schools from incorporating lessons or themes with sexual content… -
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Vimeo Restores ‘Affirmation Generation’ Documentary Exposing Transgender Medical Scandal After Daily Signal Report
Following a report in The Daily Signal, the video platform Vimeo quietly restored the account hosting the documentary “Affirmation Generation,” a film exposing the medical scandal of experimental transgender interventions. "Vimeo quietly—without an email reply to my appeal as of Thursday a.m.—has reinstated our film on the original link," Vera Lindner, the film's producer, told The Daily… -
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Let’s Swap Racial Preferences for Ability, Skill in College Admissions
College admissions officers who use racial preferences when approving applications are “minimizing the very nature of what we send our children to postsecondary education for,” says Stephen Gilchrist, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. “I’m concerned that we have a lot of academically gifted students in this country who need to be… -
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Female Leaders, Experts Warn That the Democrat-Led Equal Rights Amendment Will Harm Women
Female leaders and commentators are warning that the Equal Rights Amendment is a Trojan horse of left-wing ideological goals, masquerading under the banner of equal rights for women. Lawmakers will hold a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 28, on how Congress can "enshrine equality in our constitution" through the ERA. Advocates of the amendment have praised it… -
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Education Today Pits Postmodern Anarchy vs. Civilizational Order. Florida Shows What Can Be Done About It.
There is no subject of greater importance—and controversy—today in America than that of education. And nowhere is the clash between civilizational order and postmodern anarchy on greater display than with New College of Florida, a tiny liberal arts college in Sarasota. The New York Times recently described the reaction of “students, parents, and faculty members” to Florida Gov. Ron… -
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National Archives Fires Security Officer Who Ordered Students to Remove Pro-Life Apparel
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The National Archives and Records Administration says it has fired the security officer responsible for telling students that they could not wear pro-life apparel in the museum. On Jan. 20, 2023, the day the national March for Life took place in Washington, D.C., security officers at the National Archives ordered… -
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‘Grave Misuse of Taxpayer Funds’: Education Advocates Slam Virginia County for ‘Transfer of Wealth’ to Nikole Hannah-Jones
Education advocates slammed public institutions in Fairfax County, Virginia, for spending more than $30,000 to bring The New York Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of “The 1619 Project,” to speak at a Black History Month event. During the Feb. 19 speech at the McLean Community Center, Hannah-Jones promoted her book and the New York Times… -
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While ‘WWIII’ Trends on Twitter, God Moves on College Campuses
Russia is suspending the last nuclear arms treaty with America. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are preparing to meet. North Korea is again testing its ballistic missiles. Ukraine has been at war with Russia for a year now. Meanwhile, “WWIII” was trending on Twitter earlier this week. The millennial generation, of… -
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‘Why We Have to Win This War’ Against the ‘Woke Army,’ According to Asra Nomani
Asra Nomani, author of “Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Destroying America’s Freedom” and co-founder of Save Merit, is emphasizing the necessity of “winning this war against the woke army.” “It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of America depends on our winning this war against the woke army,” Nomani says…. -
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Vimeo Removes ‘Affirmation Generation’ Documentary Revealing the Medical Scandal of Transgenderism
The video platform Vimeo locked the account hosting the documentary "Affirmation Generation," a film exposing the medical scandal of experimental transgender interventions. "Our film represents that which is currently being silenced because it's unpopular with the tenets of the mainstream media," Joey Brite, the film's executive producer, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday…. -
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Welcome to Modern Book Burning
In our brave new world, free of religion and intolerance, we don’t have inquisitors to root out heresy. No, we have Inclusion Ambassadors. According to The Daily Telegraph, new editions of children’s books by the late British author Roald Dahl, who authored classics such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “James and the Giant…