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Post-Roe, Why We Still March for Life
Friday marks the 50th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. For 49 years, Americans from across the country have traveled to the nation’s capital and called for the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision to be overturned. Now that Roe v. Wade has been relegated to the ash heap of history, it’s understandable… -
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‘Freedom Agenda’ Offers Hopeful Vision for America’s Future
After serving as vice president of the United States, Mike Pence created a new organization dedicated to promoting and defending the policies he championed during his four years in office. To lead this new organization, he tapped Paul Teller, a veteran of Capitol Hill who worked for Pence and President Donald Trump in the White… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Kristi Noem Backs Bill to Protect Minors From Transgender Surgeries and Medical Interventions
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has announced her support for House Bill 1080, a measure which would prohibit controversial transgender medical interventions such as hormones and surgery for minors. “Governor Noem supports this legislation and will be watching as the legislature works through the process,” Ian Fury, Noem’s chief… -
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Arizona Senate Panel Debates Parental Rights’ School ‘Pronouns’ Bill
The Arizona state Senate Education Committee met Wednesday to consider SB 1001, The Given Name Act, a one-page, 21-line bill that states that any individual involved in the Arizona public education system would be required to use the pronoun associated with a student’s biological sex unless the student’s public school or charter school received other… -
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The Benefits of Cultural Appropriation
Can white people enjoy the fruits of another culture? To the modern leftist, the answer is simultaneously yes and no. On the one hand, leftists say white people should be subjected to endless skin-deep diversity in the media. Every TV show, movie, and video game needs to have a mathematically precise percentage of minorities, or… -
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Removing the Confederate Memorial From Arlington Cemetery: What Would Lincoln and Grant Think?
An independent commission is recommending dismantling the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. But before hastily removing this important piece of American history, it would be useful to review its origins, which were, many forget, a part of the strenuous effort after the Civil War to reconcile North and South and reunite the country. That… -
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10 Million 2022 California Ballots Unaccounted For, Report Finds
California may have disenfranchised millions of voters in the 2022 primary and general elections, according to a new report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity watchdog group. The report found that 226,250 mail ballots were rejected for various reasons, while election officials failed to account for millions more. The 2022 midterms marked… -
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Racial Reparations Will Solve Nothing
This week, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released a report calling on the city to pay every black resident $5 million and absolve all of their outstanding personal debt. Its rationale was broad—as it had to be, since California was founded as a free state: “While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally… -
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Colorado Democrats Want to Take Away Taxpayers’ Refunds, Give the Money to Public Schools
Two Colorado Democrats plan to file a bill to redirect a popular taxpayer refund, sending the money to public schools instead. "My feeling is that the voters would prefer to have the services that align with their values, such as making sure our kids get a public education, making sure our teachers get paid," state… -
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Normalcy and Its Enemies
A very American, and very conservative, word may soon find its way back into the political lexicon: normalcy. Its return is required by the times we live in. You can’t beat something with nothing, and so when people ask, “What is your answer to woke?”, the reply may become simply, “normalcy.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis… -
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Christian Philadelphia Flyers Player Refuses to Wear LGBT Pride Jersey, Citing His Faith
A Christian ice hockey player took a public stand for his faith against his team’s embrace of LGBT activism. Ivan Provorov, an ice hockey defenseman and alternate captain for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League, declined to wear the team’s LGBT warmup jersey for the Pride Night Tuesday following the team’s 5-2 home… -
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The New Abortion Battleground
Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, pro-life Americans will March for Life in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands will march, as they have marched since 1973. But this year, it is different. This year, the march will take place, for the first time, in an America where Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the… -
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Do Chinese Donations Explain Biden’s Energy Policies?
With reports that classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania, questions arise about the potential connection between the university’s receipt of $54 million in Chinese donations and President Joe Biden’s promotion of energy policies that are strengthening China’s economy at the expense of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Life Group to Protest CVS, Walgreen Offering Abortion Drugs
A major pro-life group is calling on advocates across the nation to protest outside CVS and Walgreens over the corporations’ decision to turn “pharmacies into abortion facilities.” After the Food and Drug Administration changed regulations to permit women to obtain abortion drugs without first meeting with a physician in person, Walgreens and CVS announced that… -
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FDA Has Made Abortion ‘Wild West’ With Rule Change on Drugs, OB-GYN Says
The Food and Drug Administration has permanently changed its restrictions on abortion drugs. Following an official rule change in early January, women no longer need to see a doctor in person to be prescribed chemical abortion pills. The move, according to OB-GYN Dr. Ingrid Skop, is opening women up to the “Wild West” of abortion. … -
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Mark Houck Lawyers Produce Bombshell Evidence Against DOJ Case
Congress purposefully excluded abortion clinic escorts from Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act protections, attorneys for pro-life father Mark Houck argued in a pretrial hearing Tuesday. Former Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died in 2009, was the chief sponsor of the Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Thomas More Society documents filed… -
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The Biden Classified Documents Fiasco: What Do We Know So Far?
What do we know—so far, at least—about the Biden classified documents situation? The information provided to the public has come from people who work for, or are otherwise close to, President Joe Biden and has been filtered selectively through a media largely predisposed to protect the president. According to Bob Bauer, who is Biden’s… -
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The Real Story Behind Mall Security Asking Man to Remove ‘Jesus Saves’ T-Shirt
Mall security guards at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, ordered a man to remove his “Jesus Saves” T-shirt or leave the mall, footage shows. “I didn’t do anything,” the man, Paul Shoro, told The Daily Signal in a Facebook message on Tuesday. “They forced me to take off my shirt.” The mall later… -
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Court Could Force Justice Department to Release Documents on Biden Voter-Registration Executive Order
A federal court in Florida is considering compelling the Justice Department to reveal more about President Joe Biden’s executive order on promoting voter registration after a mediation hearing this past Thursday. Agencies in the Biden administration have mostly ignored information requests from members of Congress, the media, and watchdog groups about a March 2021 Biden… -
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Team Biden Joins School Library Wars, Launching Federal Investigation
“Whoever succeeds in telling the stories to the children gets to control the future.” That was Kirk Cameron’s answer to people wondering why he’s joined the debate over America’s libraries. As parents everywhere fight to keep graphic content out of their children’s hands, Texas officials are warning the battle is taking an ominous turn. It’s not just the…