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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,… -
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Senate Advances Judge Nominations of SPLC Attorney, Abortion Lawyer, Biden Pick Who Called Voter ID ‘Grounded in White Supremacy’
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee advanced 24 of President Joe Biden's nominees for federal judgeships Thursday, in a move that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, described as an attempt to shield "the proverbial 'worst of the worst’" from "focused public scrutiny." “The Biden Administration is attempting to cram through all their most partisan, controversial nominees at… -
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Former Border Patrol Chief Opens Up About the Horrifying Power Cartels Wield Around the Rio Grande
Whether it’s a family or a single male, the drug cartels play a role in every illegal crossing into the U.S. at the southern border, former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott says. “They’re either directly paying the cartels or the cartels are controlling their movements for another benefit, meaning to systematically overwhelm Border Patrol, create… -
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Whistleblower Pulls Back Curtain on Transgender ‘Treatments’ for Minors
How did we let our children get manipulated and mutilated like this? That’s going to be the question future generations ask about 2023, and the years preceding it, when doctors across America doled out hormones like they were Halloween candy and even in some cases removed minors’ functional body parts. Don’t take my word for… -
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Where Was Nuclear Proliferation in Biden’s Speech? Move Along, Nothing to See Here
The world is an increasingly dangerous place as we limp further into 2023. It is made only more so by the growth of nuclear weapons or technology in the hands of dangerous regimes such as Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. Yet despite this frightening fact, President Joe Biden made no mention of nuclear proliferation problems… -
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Could Airbnb’s Ban on This Conservative Filmmaker’s Parents Be a Preview of Chinese-Style Social Credit System?
Woke corporations are seemingly testing the waters for a Chinese-style social credit system in the United States. On Tuesday, conservative filmmaker and journalist Lauren Southern wrote on Twitter that her parents had been banned from housing-rental provider Airbnb solely because of their connection to her. “My parents just got banned from Airbnb for being related… -
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5 Key Questions in Senate Panel’s Hearing on Chinese Spy Balloon
Questions flew Thursday as the Chinese spy balloon that floated last week above the U.S. was the subject of a hearing by a Senate subcommittee. U.S. officials revealed Feb. 2 that China’s surveillance balloon was flying over the country. Two days later, on Feb. 4, an American fighter jet fired one missile to shoot down the spy balloon… -
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Will Congress Finally Take Back Some Power and End Outdated Iraq War Authorizations?
A remarkable thing happened in Washington Thursday morning, especially given the vituperative atmosphere of politics today. Legislators introduced substantive legislation that is good policy, and a policy that The Heritage Foundation has been advocating for years. A large bipartisan group of 22 Senators introduced legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq Authorizations for the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservatives Call on States to Close Loopholes Allowing Big Money to Bankroll Election Operations
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Conservative organizations are calling for state legislatures to close loopholes regarding private funding of elections, after the same organization that distributed the Mark Zuckerberg election grants in 2020 issued a $2 million grant to a county in Georgia, one of two dozen states to ban private funding of election offices. “States… -
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Biden Had Little Time for Border Security in State of the Union Speech
One lousy minute—at most. That’s the time President Joe Biden devoted to the topic of border security and immigration in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. Those of us paid to analyze and write about it were hoping for more. After all, about 5 million people have attempted to illegally enter our country in… -
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BREAKING: FBI Rescinds Memo Citing Southern Poverty Law Center After Daily Signal Report
The Federal Bureau of Investigation rescinded a report on "radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology" on Thursday, one day after an FBI whistleblower published the document and The Daily Signal reached out to the FBI for comment. Former FBI agents condemned the document for citing the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing smear factory infamous for branding mainstream… -
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Adios, ‘Latinx’: Hispanics Rightly Reject Left’s Contrived Gender-Neutral Label
One of the first things that Arkansas’ new governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, did upon taking office on Jan. 10 was to issue an executive order banning the use of the woke, made-up word “Latinx” in state government business and official documents. Then, on Feb. 1, taking their cue from Sanders, a Republican, five Hispanic Democratic…