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opinion
Biden State Department’s Outrageous Betrayal of Nigeria’s Suffering Christians
For Christians, Nigeria long has been one of most violently abusive countries in the world. At the same time, the country persists in mistreating atheists and other religious groups as well as nonradicalized Muslims. But Christians, in particular, continue to suffer brutal abuses, massacres, and terrorism. Genocide Watch has reported that in Nigeria, more than 6,000 Christians… -
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Republican Women Offer Real Solutions for Empowering Women in Need
Many of today’s young families do not remember the 1970s—its wrap-around-the-block gas lines or spirit-crushing inflation. But they are beginning to understand why it is considered one of the low points in the American economic psyche: because history is coming close to repeating itself. Today, the cost of food at home is up 13.1%. Groceries… -
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What’s Really Behind Biden Administration FCC-Approved Sale of Spanish-Language Radio Stations
By greenlighting the sale of 18 Spanish-language radio stations to a group linked to billionaire George Soros, the Biden administration is handing millions of unwary listeners over to far-left activists. The reason? Hispanics continued their overall migration toward the Right in November’s midterm elections, an evolution that shatters the Left’s playbook. The Left, thus, has a two-pronged response to… -
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‘What Else Are They Willing to Lie About?’: Indiana School Compels Staff to Hide ‘Gender Support Plans’ From Parents
An email unearthed by parents at an Indiana high school has revealed a districtwide support plan for students undergoing gender transition and a policy to withhold and hide information from students’ parents. An Aug. 16 email sent by a counselor at Pendleton Heights High School in Pendleton, Indiana, informed teachers that a student had changed… -
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5 Reasons I Moved From New York to Florida
“Why, after three decades of life as a New Yorker, did you move to Florida?” I’m often asked this question with a mix of wonder, as if I’d just traveled across Mongolia on horseback, tainted by Upper East Side disdain (“Did you retire early?” How was the hurricane?” etc.). For background, I first came to… -
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Supreme Court Hears Graphic Designer’s Case in Major Free Speech-Gay Rights Battle
The Supreme Court is weighing in on a free speech case that could affect millions of Americans. The high court heard oral arguments Monday for a case involving Colorado graphic designer Lorie Smith. Smith does not want to be forced to create custom wedding websites for same-sex weddings, but a Colorado public accommodations law would… -
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ACLU Now Sides With Government Against First Amendment Rights
The American Civil Liberties Union is a leftist organization, not one that defends free speech. That’s what was revealed in an op-ed by David Cole, the ACLU’s legal director, published Monday in The New York Times in reference to the Supreme Court case called 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. In July 2021, the 10th U.S…. -
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Kansas Law School Silent After Diversity Committee Demonizes Christian Law Firm, Spurring Top State Judge to Resign
A justice on the Kansas Supreme Court resigned from his teaching position at the University of Kansas School of Law after an administrator tried to convince students to cancel an event featuring a senior lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and a school diversity committee condemned that Christian legal organization as a purveyor of "hate… -
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From Plummeting Test Scores to Woke Curriculums, Ben Carson Addresses America’s ‘Crisis in Classroom’
There’s a “crisis in the classroom,” and American children are paying the price, say Armstrong Williams, host of “The Armstrong Williams Show,” and Dr. Ben Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon and former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It’s “very concerning in our society today, as you see the dumbing down of our… -
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Twitter Execs Didn’t Have a Good Explanation for Censoring Hunter Biden’s Laptop, New Emails Reveal
After Twitter CEO Elon Musk teased a massive reveal Friday afternoon, journalist Matt Taibbi released a Twitter thread revealing the confusion at the social media company after it censored the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. Taibbi’s Twitter thread, which Musk retweeted, revealed that Twitter’s top… -
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Elon Musk Should Tell EU Censors to Get Lost
If Elon Musk truly believes that Twitter is a front in the “battle for the future of civilization,” he has a chance to prove it. The Biden administration has already threatened to investigate Musk on multiple occasions, which isn’t surprising considering its unprecedented antagonizing about free expression. Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts… -
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What Democrats Are Trying to Pass Before Their House Majority Ends
Democrats are in a mad scramble to push through unpopular legislation before the clock strikes midnight on the 117th Congress. The lame-duck session is the period between November’s congressional elections and the convening of the new 118th Congress on Jan. 3. With some Republican help, Democrats in the Senate passed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act,… -
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Returning to Pre-Trump ‘Dead Consensus’ GOP Would Be Big Mistake
In the aftermath of the Republican Party’s recent midterm elections debacle, Right-liberal sharks are circling. These devoted acolytes of what a prominent 2019 First Things manifesto called the American Right’s “dead consensus” think they see blood in the water. Indeed, the “dead consensus” Praetorian Guard has apparently decided that now is the time for a… -
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Far-Left Protesters Disrupt Pro-Life Banquet for DC Pregnancy Center Attacked by Vandals
Organized far-left protesters repeatedly disrupted a pro-life banquet on Thursday hosted by a pregnancy resource center that was vandalized with pro-abortion sentiments this summer. The incident is part of an ongoing effort by leftist protesters to pressure and intimidate pro-life advocates who offer women alternatives to abortion. Since the May leak of the draft opinion… -
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If You Really Wanted to Destroy US, You’d Do These 10 Things
First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand. Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the Strategic… -
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Amid Rise in Number of Gender-Confused Children in Maryland Schools, Parents Need Bill of Rights
If Maryland parents and lawmakers don’t act now, special-interest groups and radical gender activists will get what they want—namely, parents being removed from decision-making about their children’s education and well-being. In the past two years, Maryland’s largest public school district, Montgomery County, saw a purported 582% increase in students self-reporting as identifying as “gender nonconforming”… -
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Lila Rose Shares Why Abortion Supporters Want a Culture of Consequence-Free Sex
Live Action Founder and President Lila Rose started her undercover work as a teenager, posing as an underage victim of sexual abuse seeking an abortion — but with a camcorder hidden in her blouse to document her conversations with Planned Parenthood workers. Her undercover videos captured the attention of the nation, if not the world, prompting… -
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What George Will and Karl Rove Get Wrong About Populist Conservatism
Are modern conservatives just unthinking rubes who want to be angry? That was the tenor of a discussion Wednesday on the “future of conservatism” featuring former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove and columnist George Will, who announced that he’d left the Republican Party in 2016. The event was sponsored in part by the Lyndon… -
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Democrats’ ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Myth Debunked Again in Georgia Runoff
For James Newton, an African American voter in Atlanta, early voting is a tough sell. “I always vote on Election Day. I like the excitement of it,” Newton told The Daily Signal after voting at a church on Election Day in November. “For me, it’s like showing up to a ballgame. You want all the… -
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4 Charts Expose Feds’ Hypocrisy: Cracking Down on Taxpayers While Own Improper Payments Go Unchecked
The Inflation Reduction Act gives the IRS an additional $80 billion to hire 87,000 more agents with the hope of bringing in about $200 billion in additional tax revenues over the next 10 years. But in 2021 alone, the federal government spent $279 billion of taxpayers' money on improper payments. This glaring double standard—cracking down…