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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… -
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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…