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Run-Ins With Wildlife on Rise: How Should Governments Respond?
Second of three articles on wildlife trends in America Wildlife has been making the news frequently. A black bear attacked a 10-year-old in Connecticut, other black bears attacked a dog in Pennsylvania, killed a dog in New Jersey, burst through a window in Wisconsin, attacked a man in North Carolina, and attacked a woman in… -
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House Republicans Subpoena Big Tech to Reveal How the Government ‘Coerced and Colluded’ With Them to Censor Speech
The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed five Big Tech executives to produce documents by late March about collusion with federal government agencies to suppress free speech. “To develop effective legislation, such as the possible enactment of new statutory limits on the Executive Branch’s ability to work with Big Tech to restrict the circulation of content… -
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Young Americans Are Losing Their Minds. The Social Left Is to Blame.
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that our nation’s young girls are in a state of absolute emotional and mental crisis. According to the CDC, 57% of high school girls said they were depressed in 2021, compared with 36% in 2011; 30% said they had considered suicide, compared… -
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Derailment Disaster Highlights Buttigieg’s Incompetence
Sooty plumes of toxic smoke towered stories above the quiet, evacuated village of East Palestine, Ohio, last week as officials tried to contain what might be the worst rail disaster of the decade. As usual, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has stayed as far from the crisis as possible. Approximately 50 rail cars derailed Feb. 3 near the town on… -
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Loudoun County School Board Shoots Down Motion to Release Rape Investigation
The school board in Loudoun County, Virginia, voted on Tuesday night to keep the findings of an independent report on sexual assault private. The report, compiled by the law firm Blankingship and Keith, focused on how the district responded to two sexual assault incidents at Stone Bridge High School in May 2021. The 15-year-old “gender… -
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The Comedy of Liberals Hating Liberal ‘Jesus’ Ads
The high-dollar advertisements on Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl 57 were pretty light and humorous, except for the dead serious, black-and-white messages pushing the message “Jesus: He Gets Us.” This big ad campaign clearly wants to reach young people with Christian messaging in the most contemporary terms, with ads that claim “Jesus was a refugee”… -
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Indian Immigrant Who Was Booted From Education Board, Called ‘White Supremacist’ After Defending Constitution Shares Her Story
Suparna Dutta says she thought the exceptional nature of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence “was common sense,” but her recent experience with the Virginia Board of Education proved otherwise. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed Dutta—a mother, engineer, and Indian immigrant—to the Virginia Board of Education in July. “I was thrilled and very honored to… -
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China ‘Brazenly Pushing Limits to See How Far They Can Go,’ Homeland Security Panel Chairman Says
High-ranking House Republicans and a defense expert are continuing to sound the alarm after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon about what’s at stake for the United States’ relationship with the communist nation. “China is brazenly pushing the limits, to see how far they can go. President [Joe] Biden’s administration has consistently… -
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Catholic Leader Demands Probe Into FBI Memo, ‘Pattern of Anti-Catholic Bigotry’ That Represents ‘The New Inquisition’
Brian Burch, the president of Catholic Vote, is demanding that Congress investigate the recent FBI memo urging agents to probe the alleged nexus between racially-motivated violent extremists and "radical-traditional Catholics," citing the Southern Poverty Law Center. Burch warned against a "pattern of anti-Catholic bigotry" at the Department of Justice that represents "the new Inquisition" against… -
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Encounters of Chinese Nationals at Southern Border Have Spiked. Experts Offer Explanation
Chinese nationals are arriving at America’s southern border in exploding numbers. In January 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says, it encountered 89 illegal aliens from the People's Republic of China on the southern border. That number grew over tenfold last month, to 1,084. A similar increase has occurred in encounters with illegal immigrants from… -
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State Department Grantee Attacks Conservative Media, but Could Get More Tax Dollars
A State Department-aligned agency told The Daily Signal that the money it gave to a “disinformation” nonprofit had nothing to do with that organization’s targeting of conservative news outlets in America. Two agencies aligned with the State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Global Engagement Center, gave a combined $330,000 to the British-based… -
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Three-Day Education Conference Requires ‘Abortion Access’
An education organization has moved a previously scheduled conference in Texas to Colorado, saying it wants to make sure abortion services are available for attendees. The Association for Education Finance and Policy announced in an August blog post that its March conference would relocate from Fort Worth, Texas, to Denver, after claiming it had heard… -
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‘Vanishing Habitats’ for Wildlife Greatly Exaggerated in Push for ‘Biodiversity,’ Biden’s ’30 by 30′ Land Grab
First of three articles on wildlife trends in America. Decades-long mantras about “vanishing habitat” and ever-growing threats to wildlife have long been used to justify locking up more land through federal ownership or other restrictive measures. The perfect example is the Biden administration’s proposal to conserve 30% of the nation by 2030—aka “30 by 30.”… -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Demand Answers on CDC’s New Database to Monitor Why Americans Didn’t Take COVID-19 Vaccine
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—House Republicans sent a letter Tuesday to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding answers about a new classification system that allows the CDC to record the reasons why Americans refused to take one of the COVID-19 vaccines. "Naturally, we are concerned about the federal government gathering data on Americans'… -
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‘Hotter Than Expected’ Inflation Report Due to Opening ‘Pandora’s Box,’ Economist Says
An economist is blaming both Republicans and Democrats for their "overspending" after the federal government revised inflation numbers upward for the January 2023 report on price increases. "Not only was January's inflation number hotter than expected, but the last three months of 2022 were also revised upwards," EJ Antoni, a research fellow for regional economics… -
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Banning Chinese Citizens, Entities From Buying US Farmland Should Be Bipartisan Issue
While the military is focused on foreign objects flying over American and Canadian territory, a more disturbing threat to our national security is occurring on the ground. Federal, state and local governments are behind in their response to the acquisition of American land by people and companies associated with the Chinese government. The Department of… -
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Defense Expert Provides Chilling Insight Into US-China Relations After Spy Balloon Incident
More than three decades ago, the U.S. faced the threat of the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Now, the U.S. might be facing a situation with China that could be more dangerous than at any moment in the Cold War, in the wake of the shooting down Feb. 4 of a Chinese spy balloon… -
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Axios Story on Abortion Pills Describes Ending Unborn Life as ‘Care’
An Axios reporter described abortion drugs as “care” in a news story published last week, apparently doing so with the approval of the news website’s editors. “40 million more women would lose access to abortion care if a federal court revokes the use of a key drug in medication abortions, data from the abortion rights group… -
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Government’s Divisive Racial Categories in Census Should Put Conservatives on Notice
Conservatives haven’t been as interested as progressives are in capturing the federal bureaucracy, or at least they’ve been much less successful. That goes double for the Census Bureau, whose committee on race long has been the plaything of sociology professors and affinity groups. For this reason, rank-and-file conservatives may not grasp the importance of the racial… -
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4 Things to Know About the Senate Probe That Inspired the House Weaponization of Government Investigation
The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which had its first hearing last week, is modeled largely after a similar Senate committee that investigated U.S. intelligence agencies during the mid-1970s. The Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities was better known as the Church committee, named…