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Red States Should Lead Way in Reforming Anti-Marriage Welfare Policies
When conservatives lament the many ways in which the U.S. welfare system discourages marriage and family formation, it’s usually large-scale federal welfare programs such as public housing or the Earned Income Tax Credit that come to mind. Most people probably would not think that state-based welfare programs also contribute to anti-marriage bias, but as our… -
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How Woke Can You Go? Majority-Minority Groups Automatically Disqualified for ‘Food Equity’ Grant If CEO Is White
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is offering a three-year, $300,000 grant to advance "healthy food equity," but many organizations that work to expand access to healthy food in minority populations need not apply. Indeed, some organizations that employ a majority nonwhite staff and have a majority-nonwhite board of directors automatically are disqualified… -
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What the New Document Dump Says About Biden’s VP Papers
One day before Americans were casting their final votes in the midterm elections, officials with the National Archives and Records Administration were negotiating with lawyers for President Joe Biden about collecting boxes of documents from a law office in Boston. It was on Election Day that National Archives officials met with Biden lawyers to collect… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Police Officer Punished for Gay Marriage View Lawyers Up, Demands Apology
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL— A former police officer's lawyers are calling on a Georgia police department to make changes after it placed a rookie officer on administrative leave for using social media to express his views on marriage. “The City of Port Wentworth and the Port Wentworth Police Department should issue a public… -
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Woke Finance Is Hurting Americans. Here’s How the Hoosier State Is Trying to Stop It There.
The Indiana General Assembly will continue consideration this week of a commonsense bill that would help protect Indiana’s economy and retirees from the threat of the woke environmental, social, and governance movement. House Bill 1008’s purpose is simple: Asset managers who invest for Indiana would be required to make investment decisions based on financial factors,… -
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How Ancient Wisdom Can Help Us Tackle Today’s Crises
What can ancient wisdom teach us about today’s crises? According to Spencer Klavan, author of “How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises,” it can teach us a lot. “Whenever you call a book something like ‘How to Save the West,’ you have a certain imposter syndrome, or it’s impossible not to… -
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‘Conservatives Need Not Apply’ Under Biden Administration’s Proposed Hiring Rules
In a move that has gotten little notice in the press, the Biden administration is proposing federal hiring rules that easily could be abused to deny employment to anyone who questions liberal, woke policies, criticizes the government, or belongs to a politically incorrect organization. The vague, nebulous language of the proposed changes in existing government… -
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Doctors at Pediatric Transgender Center Could Lose Their Licenses in Wake of Whistleblower Testimony
Doctors and nurses at a Midwestern medical center that diagnoses children with gender dysphoria and prescribes experimental drugs and surgeries to make their healthy male or female bodies resemble those of the opposite sex in pursuit of a "transgender" identity may lose their medical licenses in the wake of a whistleblower's damning testimony. Jamie Reed,… -
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Another Study Refutes Left’s False Claims Against Voter ID and Secure Elections
Trust the science, we’ve all been told. Well, the science has spoken again: Voter ID laws aren’t discriminatory and don’t suppress anyone’s vote. For years, liberals have peddled fabricated claims about voter ID requirements, asserting that they give an advantage to the Republican Party by “discriminating against African Americans” and suppressing their vote. They pooh-pooh… -
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Don’t Fall for Biden’s Fractured Economic Policy Fairy Tales
Like Nero bragging about rebuilding Circus Maximus after burning it down, President Joe Biden took to the podium Tuesday night to take credit for solving a slew of problems he helped create. At the top of his State of the Union address, the president boasted that he had “more jobs created in two years than… -
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EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Signal Demands Documents on FBI Targeting ‘Radical Traditional Catholics’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Signal filed a Freedom of Information Act request this week demanding that the FBI turn over all documents related to "radical traditional Catholics" and the Southern Poverty Law Center, as news broke that the FBI had published an internal memo about "radical traditional Catholics" citing the SPLC, which brands… -
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Cruz, Other GOP Lawmakers Demand Answers on Smithsonian’s ‘Unjust Expulsion’ of Pro-Life Students
Three Senate Republicans and two House GOP lawmakers are demanding answers from the National Air and Space Museum about its employees’ reported discrimination against pro-life students. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott of South Carolina wrote a letter on Tuesday to the Smithsonian Institution asking it to respond to… -
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Americans Reject Divisive Political Displays at the Super Bowl
The majority of Americans don’t want to see politics at Sunday’s Super Bowl. Polling shows 84% of likely voters said Super Bowl LVII is no place for political demonstrations, according to a Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group survey. Only 10% of those interviewed said they want to see political or cultural statements in the game’s… -
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‘Democrats Should Be Ashamed:’ Youngkin Condemns Removal of Parent From Virginia Education Board
Virginia Democrats who voted to remove concerned parent Suparna Dutta from the state’s Board of Education on Tuesday should be “ashamed,” according to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s office. “In an appalling show of partisanship, Senate Democrats said the quiet part out loud: Parents aren’t qualified to advise on education in Virginia,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter… -
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The Mess of an Address
After listening to the State of the Union address, Americans know why the latest Reuters poll has President Joe Biden at 41% approval. Vice President Kamala Harris polls even lower—despite the obsequious efforts of the most biased media in history that has, in effect, merged with the Democratic Party. The nation was reminded again why… -
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US Must End Reliance on Chinese Pharmaceuticals, Strategic Minerals
Imagine what Joe Biden or a future president of the United States would do if Chinese dictator Xi Jinping dispatched another spy balloon toward America and declared: “If America destroys our peace-loving balloon, we will have no choice but to suspend immediately, and until further notice, all U.S.-bound exports of Chinese-made antibiotics and antibiotic precursor chemicals. We eagerly await… -
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Mark Morgan Tells Republicans to ‘Stop Funding’ Border Crisis
The U.S. House of Representatives must “stop funding” the border crisis, Mark Morgan, former acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner, says. Speaking at a mock impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas hosted by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., on Wednesday, Morgan challenged House Republicans to refuse to pass supplemental spending bills “where 100% of the money you’re passing is going directly… -
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Black Lives Matter at School Brings ‘Trans Affirmation,’ ‘Restorative Justice’ Training to Elementary Classrooms
Black Lives Matter at School is using Black History Month to teach children about gender ideology, critical race theory, and reparations. Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action—Feb. 6-10 this year—began in 2016 to teach “people of all ages to engage with issues of racial justice.” Events and curriculums promote Black Lives Matter's 13 guiding principles… -
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CNN Remains Unreliable Source on Conservatives Being Censored by Big Tech
In the Trump years, CNN oppressively promoted the conspiracy theory of Donald Trump’s “collusion” with the Russian government to get elected in 2016. So, it was heartbroken when Robert Mueller’s investigation ended with a negative verdict: “The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in… -
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Left Claims ‘Systemic Racism’ Incentivizes Black Police to Target Black Communities
Last week we discussed how many on the Left considered the death of a black suspect, Tyre Nichols, following a beating by five Memphis black cops, an example of police anti-black “systemic racism.” Columbia Law professor Kimberle Crenshaw, a proponent of critical race theory, offered this hysterical perspective: “Anyone who knows the history of enslavement,…