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Tim Ryan, Who Twice Voted for Unlimited Abortion, Now States He Is Against Late-Term Abortions
Tim Ryan now says he is against most late-term abortions, despite having voted for and repeatedly touted his support for legislation allowing unlimited abortions. “I don’t think we should have abortions later in the term unless there’s a medical emergency,” he told Fox News hosts Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier. “I think we go back… -
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Why International Climate Summits Are Doomed to Fail, Part 1: Aspirations Untethered From Reality
First of two articles Representatives from some 190 countries will meet in Egypt for two weeks starting Nov. 6 to “[deliver] for people and the planet” at COP27, the U.N. Conference of the Parties annual summit on climate change policy. The predominant message at these climate conferences is one of “catastrophic” global warming necessitating policies… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Midwife Conference Bans Pro-Life OB-GYNs Amid Threats to Decertify Those Who Spread Abortion ‘Misinformation’
Medical organizations in the birthing field have vocally endorsed abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. A prominent group of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists found itself excluded from a national midwifery conference over its views on abortion, The Daily Signal can exclusively reveal. The pro-life group is also raising… -
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7 Facts Biden Ignored About Social Security in His Speech to Florida Retirees
President Joe Biden claimed that Democrats will protect Social Security and that Republicans threaten its future in a speech Tuesday in Hallandale Beach, Florida. But the “reality” Biden portrayed is misleading and undermines Social Security’s future. Social Security’s future is not secure. The program is running out of time and money, and recent increases in… -
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Critical Facts Ignored in the Climate Change Debate
Many Western countries are enacting policies to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to less reliable and costly “green” energy sources (mostly wind and solar) while ignoring the critical benefits that hydrocarbons provide. The outcomes will be nothing short of calamitous for more developed countries as their energy industries are… -
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Skipping Hillary’s Latest Vast Conspiracy Theory
One of the dominant themes in current liberal messaging is that democracy is “endangered” by waves of “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” But aren’t liberals occasionally guilty of uncorking wild conspiracy theories that don’t turn out to be true? An obvious sore point is the liberal notion that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to… -
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Why the Legacy Media Is Panicked About Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
It has now been a week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth is still audible across the legacy media landscape. In one sense, that’s rather shocking: Why, precisely, should members of the media be so apoplectic about a billionaire taking over a social media company from other millionaires,… -
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Inconvenient Facts About Electric Cars
Electric cars sales are up 66% this year. President Joe Biden promotes them, saying things like, “The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified,” and, “There’s no turning back.” To make sure we have no choice in the matter, some left-leaning states have moved to ban gas-powered cars altogether. California Gov. Gavin… -
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‘It Just Kept Happening’: RNC Sues Google Over Email Censorship
Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, joined Tony Perkins on “Washington Watch” this week to discuss the legal action the RNC is taking against Google’s purported censorship of their account. She claimed that their emails would go from 90% deliverability to 0% in the last four days of every month for the past… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Claudia Tenney Demands Transparency on Planned Parenthood’s Massive COVID-19 Loans
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is calling on the Small Business Administration to explain why it forgave $67 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans to Planned Parenthood affiliates—loans that these abortion clinics should never have gotten in the first place. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, Tenney and her Republican colleagues told Inspector… -
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Elon Musk Bought Twitter for $44 Billion. Now What?
It finally happened. After months of “maybe, maybe not,” Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. Now the question is, what happens next? In the past, Musk said he thought Twitter should follow the same free speech guidelines that exist within America’s public square, says Jake Denton, a research associate with The Heritage Foundation’s Tech… -
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6 Heavily Hispanic Battleground House Districts to Watch
America’s election landscape is changing, and Latino voters may be one of the central reasons. Since the most recent midterm elections in 2018, Hispanic Americans have become the fastest-growing ethnic group among the country’s electorate, according to the Pew Research Center. There are estimated to be 34.5 million eligible Latino voters in America this year. … -
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Martha’s Vineyard, While Touting ‘Humanitarian’ Response, Quickly Decided to Ship Illegal Aliens to Mainland
Immediately after the arrival of about 50 illegal immigrants from Venezuela, Martha’s Vineyard officials pushed a public image of a humanitarian response from the affluent island resort off the coast of Massachusetts. However, internal emails reveal officials’ intent to ship the migrants off the island to a military base on the mainland shortly as soon… -
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‘Extreme’ California Proposition Allows for Unlimited Abortions, Pro-Life Opponents Warn
A proposition put forward by California Democrats would allow abortions at any time and for any reason, pro-life advocates are warning, emphasizing that the media and Democrats are downplaying such concerns because Californians do not support late-term abortion. Proposition 1, titled the “Constitutional Right To Reproductive Freedom,” is a legislative constitutional amendment that would change… -
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DC Council ‘Beginning to Recognize Irrationality’ of Kicking Kids Out of School Over Vaccine Mandate, Ted Cruz Says
The District of Columbia Council voted Tuesday to push the city’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for students ages 12 and older to next year. The district currently mandates that eligible students must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 3, or else be barred from attending school. D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson, an independent, joined by Chairman… -
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Biden Administration’s Electric Vehicle Gambit Is Enormously Expensive—and Illegal
Congress has repeatedly rejected radical climate change policies that would increase the price of energy. Now, President Joe Biden is circumventing the legislative branch by moving to force people into using electric vehicles. This plan would impose the costliest regulatory burden ever inflicted on the public. The vast majority of people don’t support phasing out and eventually banning… -
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Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act Is About Protecting Minors, Experts Say
The battle over “gender transitions” for minors is playing out in dozens of American states. Some states are seeking to ban cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, hopes to make his state a “magnet” for minors seeking those interventions. Arkansas state Rep. Robin Lundstrum, a Republican, introduced the Save Adolescents From… -
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Author Explains Why ‘Race Does Not Exist’
“Strictly speaking, race does not exist,” Fe Bencosme says. Bencosme, author of the new book “You Are Not Your Race: Embracing Our Shared Humanity in a Chaotic Age,” says she knows her writings on race will offend people, but the reality is “there’s no black race, there’s no white race, there’s no yellow or red… -
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China’s Growing Political Autocracy Limits Its Economic Prospects
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attempt to build a more socialist economy with excessive Communist Party control contradicts more market-oriented reforms China has tried to implement since the late 1970s. On October 16, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party reaffirmed Xi’s control over the country and his party for a third term and,… -
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The Left’s Need to Control All Information
Entrepreneur Elon Musk is taking over Twitter and the Left is melting down. On Thursday, Musk officially completed his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant. He immediately began to shake up the company and fired four key members of upper management. The firings included Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Chief Legal Officer Vijaya…