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Woke Left Pushed to Remove Discipline From Classrooms. Consequences Have Been Tragic, Teacher Says.
Children are always going to misbehave, teacher Daniel Buck says, and that’s why discipline is needed in the classroom. “I think the idea that we’re going to solve misbehavior is kind of utopian,” Buck says, adding that is “what the progressive idea is.” “If we just get the system right, then kids are going to… -
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Raffensperger Calls on Georgia Legislature to Plug Loophole on Private Funding of Elections
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the state legislature should close loopholes on private money funding election offices. “It would be a legislative remedy. We are in session now, so it is something they can address,” Raffensperger told The Daily Signal on Thursday. “We have some election bills right now that are in… -
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Illegal Immigrants Are Now Using the Northern Border, Too
America’s southern border is not the only one experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of illegal migrants attempting to cross into the country. Customs and Border Protection reports record numbers of encounters with illegal migrants at America’s northern border with Canada. “While the southern border garners most of the attention, both of America’s borders… -
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39 States Mandated Masks. Now a New Study Shows Masks Don’t Work.
So, the science wasn’t settled. A new Cochrane Review analysis of masking studies finds that when it comes to an entire population, there’s no evidence to support that masking reduces spread of a disease. Or as the lead author of the analysis, Tom Jefferson, put it in an interview with journalist Maryanne DeMasi, “There’s still… -
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Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital Hires Gender Clinic Social Worker for ‘Revenue’
A Philadelphia children’s hospital cited “potential revenue” as a reason for hiring a gender clinic social worker in 2018, Pennsylvania mother and activist Megan Brock told The Daily Signal. Emails, which Brock obtained, show correspondence between former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine and Dr. Rollyn M. Ornstein, an adolescent medicine specialist at Penn State… -
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Presidents Day Reflections on George Washington’s American Character
Today, we should come to praise the man who could have been Caesar, in hopes that his deeds will never be buried, but remain first in the hearts of his posterity. For, on this President’s Day, friends, Americans, countrymen, we commemorate not just the birth, but also the character, of George Washington. Character was a… -
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Portland’s Problems Are No Mystery. The Problem is Ideology.
“What’s the matter with Portland?” That was the question asked in a lengthy and interesting report in The Los Angeles Times. The piece was enlightening in the sense that it did capture the mentality that has led to the city’s awesome dysfunction. It highlights how despite that dysfunction—rising crime, rampant open-air drug use, and many… -
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How to Make Journalism Less Trustworthy—in One Problematically Easy Lesson
Journalism is on a suicide mission. As America’s mistrust of media lies near all-time lows, my profession’s powers-that-be are doubling down on the partisan, activist reporting that has poisoned our business and the nation’s politics. In a sign of how out of touch these industry bigwigs are with objective reality, they are doing it all in… -
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The Inefficiency of the Left’s ‘Energy Efficiency’ Mandates
President Joe Biden likely had his fingers crossed last month while promising Americans that the administration “does not support” gas stove bans. That’s because this month, his Department of Energy released a proposed rule updating energy efficiency standards with new costly and stringent standards for conventional cooking products—including gas stoves—that would make them unaffordable for… -
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When ‘Pants on Fire’ Fact Checks Are About Biden’s Pants
The so-called fact-checkers are energetic defenders of President Joe Biden—almost like they’re his siblings or his nephews. No cockeyed critique of Biden is silly enough for them to forgo the urgent need to “check.” They’re perpetually poised to pounce! PolitiFact gave us two examples on Feb. 10. Both were “Pants On Fire” warnings, but only… -
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Can States Stop Do-it-Yourself Abortion Pills?
The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown open the once impenetrable blockade on state abortion regulations with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, and now the battle over do-it-yourself home abortions using abortion pills is heating up. Abortion pills are responsible for approximately 50% of American abortions… -
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Straights Need Not Apply: California Teachers Union Discriminates on Basis of Sexuality
The California Teachers Association offers a scholarship limited to LGBT students, though the Biden administration’s Title IX rule change prohibits sexuality-based discrimination. “Self-identified LGBTQ+” union members pursuing a career in public education can apply by May 31, 2023, for the LGBTQ+ Safety in Schools Program to receive a scholarship of up to $2,500,” the scholarship… -
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Foundation That Denied Grants to Organizations Because They Had White CEOs Changes Tune After Daily Signal Report
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation revised the eligibility for its three-year, $300,000 grant to advance “healthy food equity" after The Daily Signal reported on the program's stringent race-based limitations. Under the original rules, some organizations that employ a majority-nonwhite staff and have a majority-nonwhite board of directors were automatically disqualified from the grant because… -
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‘Page Not Found’: Teachers Union Won’t Explain Why It Discarded Presidents Day Curriculum
The National Education Association removed its resources on Presidents Day from its websites in 2020, according to a Daily Signal review of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Three years later, the teachers union still has not updated the page. The resources, last saved on June 17, 2020, included lesson plans celebrating “the lives of George… -
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The Results Are in For Georgia’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Election Integrity Bill: Raffensperger Breaks Them Down
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger argues that the strong midterm election turnout in 2022 vindicates his state’s 2021 election law from the smears that it represented “Jim Crow 2.0.” “We proved that Georgia does not have voter suppression. It’s easy to vote. It’s secure to vote,” Raffensperger, the state’s top election official, told… -
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EXCLUSIVE: St. Mary’s College Says Biological Sex Messaging Does ‘Not Align’ With Its Mission
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, denied the foundation of a Turning Point USA chapter, according to an email from the dean of students, because Turning Point USA’s messaging on biological sex does “not align” with the Catholic college’s mission. Claire Bettag, a sophomore student from Chicago, pushed back… -
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A Greater Paraguay-Taiwan Relationship Matters to America in Holding Back China
“Nowadays our countries are much more than friends; they are partners and strategic allies that share values and the same vision to create a peaceful, democratic, and sustainable world.” These are the succinct words of President Mario Abdo Benítez of the Republic of Paraguay, who is currently leading a delegation to Taiwan on a five-day… -
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Rush Remembered: Longtime Limbaugh Listener Looks Back on Second Anniversary of Talk Radio Titan’s Passing
Today, Feb. 17, marks the second anniversary of the death of talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh, who saved the AM dial from demise with his pioneering national conservative talk radio program. For more than 30 years, Limbaugh informed and entertained millions of fans with his keen political insights and irreverent humor that skewered the Left…. -
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‘Historic’: Board Member Reveals His Vision for New College of Florida Overhaul
New College of Florida needs a reorientation away from diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives back to its original mission as Florida’s premier liberal arts honors college, according to Matthew Spalding, dean of Hillsdale College’s Van Andel School of Government and a trustee of the Florida college. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, appointed Spalding to… -
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Supreme Court Cancels Arguments for Health Measure Limiting Illegal Immigration
The Supreme Court has removed arguments from its calendar for a highly anticipated case on Title 42, a COVID-19 public health measure allowing Border Patrol to quickly expel some illegal aliens. The case was going to be heard March 1. The Supreme Court announced Thursday that the case had been removed from its argument…