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Biden Spending Billions on Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Many Americans Will Never Use
It’s winter, with high temperatures well below freezing in Jackson, Wyoming, and barely above freezing in Wyoming’s capital, Cheyenne. Relying only on battery-powered electric vehicles in a cold climate takes courage because car batteries quickly lose their charge when temperatures are low. Yet the federal government wants to spend billions to build charging stations all… -
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Doritos, Coke, and Morning-After Pills All Available From This College’s Vending Machines
Running to a vending machine at 2 a.m. for a Coke or a Snickers bar is a normal experience for any college student, especially during finals week. But food and drink aren’t the only things students can get out of a vending machine now, at least at George Washington University in the nation’s capital. GWU… -
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Anthony Fauci Symbolizes ‘Weaponization of Loneliness,’ Former CIA Analyst Says
Tyrants gain control through weaponizing the fear of loneliness, author and former CIA analyst Stella Morabito says. In America, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the omnipresent voice of the COVID-19 pandemic, is one example of this, she says. “I believe that he symbolizes for our era the weaponization of loneliness,” Morabito, a senior contributor at The Federalist,… -
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Fight for Speaker Pays Off as House Takes Big Step Toward Restoring Deliberative Government
The Republican rebellion over a new House speaker was a good thing, and it looks like it’s already paying off. In early January, a group of 20 conservative House members held up the election of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as speaker of the House, citing several fundamental concerns about how the legislative body functions. These… -
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5 Things to Know About Nancy Abudu, Leftist SPLC Lawyer Biden Tapped for 11th Circuit
Updated May 18: The Senate voted 49-47 Thursday along party lines to confirm President Joe Biden's nomination of Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, for a seat on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Abudu's confirmation to the appeals judgeship, in which Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was the only… -
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Glenn Youngkin Leads Pro-Life Virginians Marching for Life
RICHMOND, Virginia—Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, marched at the very head of Virginia’s first state March for Life post-Roe v. Wade, smiling broadly and chatting with pro-life Virginians around him. “I believe that we are supposed to express our views and the March for Life is a way to express my view that Virginians… -
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4 Takeaways From House Judiciary Committee’s ‘Biden Border Crisis’ Hearing
As fentanyl kills thousands of Americans and illegal immigration continues to increase, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday addressing how Biden administration’s border policies have affected American lives. Representatives heard testimony from several witnesses, including Brandon Dunn, co-founder of the Forever 15 Project; Dale Lynn Carruthers, county judge of Terrell County, Texas;… -
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When Black Police Officers Kill a Black Man, That’s White Supremacy
This week, tape emerged from Memphis, Tennessee, of five black police officers engaging in the beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man. Nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, according to the officers; they ordered him to get on the ground and to give them his hands; he did not comply and instead began… -
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Congress Must Cut Spending to Match Hike in Debt Ceiling ‘Dollar for Dollar,’ Heritage Foundation President Says
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting about the nation’s debt ceiling Wednesday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., it’s clear some negotiation will be required, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts told reporters. McCarthy’s fellow House Republicans’ metaphor is that they will be “using the debt ceiling fight today, this week, this spring, as an opportunity… -
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Why Blue State Politicians’ Tax Cartel Attempt Will Fail
Cartels are groups of organizations that collude with each other to drive up prices, crush competition, and ultimately extort huge amounts of money to redistribute to the cartel members. While the word is often associated with drugs, oil-producing countries, or anti-competitive business practices, politicians from nine blue states are attempting something new in the U.S.—a… -
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3 Food Stamp Reforms to Improve Outcomes for the Truly Needy—and Save Taxpayers Billions
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the food stamp program became (and has remained) bloated, in part because of a potentially illegal double-digit benefits increase by the Biden administration. Additionally, obvious eligibility loopholes remain unaddressed even as millionaires have enrolled. The new Republican-controlled House of Representatives has the opportunity to initiate three specific reforms that would save… -
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Justice Department Searches Biden’s Beach House for Classified Docs, Attorney Confirms
The U.S. Department of Justice is searching President Joe Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday amid the news that Biden kept classified documents from his time as vice president to President Barack Obama, according to a statement from the president’s personal attorney. “Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Pokes Holes in ‘Fatally Flawed’ Study Claiming to Prove Kids Benefit From Transgender Hormones
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals poked holes in a study claiming to prove the marginal benefits of cross-sex hormones for teenagers who persistently identify with the gender opposite their biological sex. The group, Do No Harm, called the study "fatally flawed and borderline unscientific" in a report… -
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Rookie Georgia Police Officer Explains Why He Resigned After Pushback Over Views on Traditional Marriage
What are you willing to give up to stand by your religious convictions? That’s a question Jacob Kersey did not anticipate having to ask himself at the age of 19. Kersey was excited to be a new officer with the police department in Port Wentworth, Georgia, a town of about 12,000 near Savannah. He says everything… -
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Enforcing LGBTQ ‘Pride’ Is Totalitarian
This past Saturday night, the New York Rangers National Hockey League team did something almost unbelievable. Though scheduled to wear LGBTQ “Pride” jerseys during pregame warmups, not one member of the team did so. Another recent example of defying LGBTQ Pride jersey demands in the NHL—which is run by people who are as governed by… -
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The Threat of Woke Corporations and the Response of the Red States
Resistance to environmental, social, and corporate governance investing is taking center stage in a number of Republican-leaning state legislative sessions this year. The question is how red states can prevent asset managers from investing their states’ funds—or exercising shareholder rights (such as proxy voting)—to advance ESG-related political and social goals rather than maximizing returns for beneficiaries. There… -
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Exposing Radical Florida Lawmaker’s Attempted Hijacking of Parental Rights
Legislation introduced in the Florida House of Representatives this month is being touted by its sponsor as a “children’s rights” bill, but it would be more accurate to call it what it is, a “usurpation of parental rights” bill. Characterizing far-left Democratic state Rep. Michele Rayner-Goolsby’s HB 217 as a children’s rights bill is a… -
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What Biden Said When Asked About Catholic Bishops and Abortion
President Joe Biden appeared to deny that the Catholic Church is calling for the end of taxpayer-funded abortion in an exchange Monday. After Biden exited Marine One, EWTN correspondent Owen Jensen brought up the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statements on abortion. “Catholic bishops are demanding that federal tax dollars not fund abortions,” Jensen said to… -
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6 Places Investigators Should Search for More Biden Classified Documents
The classified information from the Obama-Biden administration discovered Nov. 2 at a Biden-friendly think tank in Washington must have been moved there sometime after it opened in early 2018. It’s not clear where the documents were kept after Jan. 20, 2017, when Barack Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, left office after eight years…. -
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Missouri Schools Took Kids to a Drag Show Without Informing Parents. AG Bailey Is Working to Prevent It From Happening Again.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri's attorney general sent a letter to the state's association of school boards, urging it to adopt a resolution mandating that parents and guardians receive advance notice and the ability to opt their children out of sexual instruction, following news that a middle school took students to a drag show without…