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Former Thatcher Aide Explains Why Liz Truss Failed as Prime Minister of UK
Liz Truss resigned as prime minister of Great Britain on Thursday after just 45 days on the job. It’s possible that her predecessor and fellow Conservative Party member, Boris Johnson, will seize upon the moment and become prime minister of the United Kingdom again, just months after he resigned from the position, according to The… -
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California’s Economy Looks Headed for Disaster
California officials are sounding the alarm after recent statistics showing that less corporate and start-up activity in the state will lead to a decline in tax revenue, according to a report by Bloomberg News. This year, just nine companies based in California have held initial public offerings, or IPOs, which is when a company first… -
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Texas Lawmaker Predicts Election Audits Will Become as Popular as Voter ID
A Texas state senator who championed legislation to establish election audits in the Lone Star State says he anticipates such audits will become as commonplace and accepted as voter ID. When he traveled to Washington in 2006 to testify in support of voter ID before the House Administration Committee, the hearing room filled up “because… -
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In Europe, Rebellion Against the Elites Emerges as Trend
Giorgia Meloni’s victory in the Italian elections opens a new political outlook in Italy and in Europe, accelerating a trend characterized by the emergence of two increasingly well-defined blocs. On one side, we find a bloc made up of political parties ranging from the Greens and the European radical left to the European People’s Party,… -
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Why Fauci Can’t Whitewash His Disastrous Legacy
This week, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the soon-departing head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, if it was a “mistake” for schools to be shuttered as long as they were during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We should realize, and have realized,” Fauci answered, “that there will be deleterious… -
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America’s Schools Warm to Climate Change, Without Question
Public school districts are adopting curriculums on climate change from well-funded progressive groups casting the issue as a threat to life on the planet that students should respond to through activism. As of fall 2020, 29 states and the District of Columbia had adopted standards that require science classes to teach human-caused climate change as… -
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Study: Gender Transition Surgeries on Minors Accelerate
Over 1,100 adolescents underwent gender transition surgery from 2016 through 2019, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics, the journal of the American Medical Association. No less shocking than the cumulative total is the accelerating rate from year to year. Using data from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample, researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine… -
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Pentagon Establishes Abortion Travel Fund for Service Members, Abortion Providers
The Department of Defense announced Thursday that the Pentagon will pay for service members and their dependents to travel to abort their unborn babies. A Pentagon memo obtained by The Daily Signal says that it will establish “travel and transportation allowances for Service members and their dependents, as appropriate and consistent with applicable federal law… -
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Liz Truss Becomes Shortest-Serving Prime Minister in UK History. Twitter Erupts.
Liz Truss has resigned, just six weeks after she was appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom. “I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party,” Truss said Thursday morning, standing outside 10 Downing Street, the prime minister’s residence, in London. “I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King… -
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‘I Had No Power Over My Kids’ Education,’ Maryland Mom Says After Asking to Opt Her Second Grader Out of LGBT Lessons
An elementary school just outside the nation’s capital touted Gay Pride Month and defined words such as “transgender” in a video sent to students. A middle school in the same school system displays pride flags and “LGBTQ+ stories” in class. A local mom, who wishes to remain anonymous but whom The Daily Signal will refer… -
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Corporate Media Is Trying to Divide Americans
American democracy, we have been told, is in grave peril. It’s a perspective we hear echoed dozens of times per day in the mainstream media: If this next election doesn’t go precisely how our hallowed elitists desire, surely tyranny will follow. As one of those sagacious experts, MSNBC‘s Joy Reid, recently put it on Twitter:… -
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LA City Council or KKK Meeting?
In a leaked tape, three members of the all-Democrat (plus one independent) Los Angeles City Council, along with a labor leader—all Latino—used racist, homophobic, anti-white, anti-Asian, and even anti-Mexican slurs as they plotted to redistrict the city council to increase “Latino power.” LA is approximately 50% Latino, but Latinos control “just” 30% of the 15… -
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Obama’s Government Propaganda on Netflix
Netflix is paying Barack and Michelle Obama millions of dollars to produce shows for them. The latest Obama documentary series is “The G Word.” “G” for government. As Netflix documentaries go, this one is remarkably stupid. It’s big-government propaganda. Obama begins by claiming that he does his own income taxes, saying, “It’s actually easy.” I… -
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These 6 GOP Senators Who Voted to Confirm Mayorkas Won’t Condemn Him After Revelation in False ‘Whipping’ Charge
The six Senate Republicans who voted to confirm Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declined to criticize him after the revelation that he knew Border Patrol agents didn’t “whip” Haitian migrants before he publicly spoke as if they did. Other members of Congress, however, are calling for Mayorkas to resign or be impeached after an explosive… -
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Who Denies Election Results?
A Democratic myth has arisen that former President Donald Trump’s denial of the accuracy of the 2020 vote was “unprecedented.” Unfortunately, the history of U.S. elections is often a story of both legitimate and illegitimate election denialism. The 1800, 1824, 1876, and 1960 elections were all understandably questioned. In some of these cases, a partisan… -
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Ulta Beauty Faces Ultra-Backlash for Giving Platform to Man Pretending to Be Woman
After cosmetics superstore Ulta Beauty released a podcast Oct. 13 featuring a biological male who “identifies” as a woman discussing “girlhood” and “motherhood,” real women are promising to boycott the brand. “I really think more women need to wake up to this nonsense,” wrote one Twitter user. “I think too many of us have stayed… -
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America’s Military Strength Is Declining. Here’s How to Fix It.
The U.S. military not only is weak overall but “at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests,” according to a new report from The Heritage Foundation. On Tuesday, Heritage released its 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength, a document of nearly 600 pages that assesses the strength… -
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A Young Woman Survived an ISIS Attack. Then She Was Euthanized in Belgium.
Seventeen-year-old Shanti De Corte was waiting to board a plane headed to Italy for a school trip in 2016 when an explosion went off in Brussels’ Zaventem Airport. Parts of the airport filled with smoke and panicked people started running before a second bomb went off a few minutes later. Thirty-two people were killed in… -
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PayPal Faces House Inquiry After $2,500 ‘Misinformation’ Fine Controversy
House Republicans are launching an inquiry into PayPal after the payment processing company sparked major controversy for a policy that would fine customers for “misinformation.” The controversy began when news broke earlier this month that PayPal would fine customers $2,500 for spreading misinformation. PayPal quickly retracted the policy, saying it was a mistake that “went… -
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Pence Prescribes ‘Freedom Agenda’ for Conservative Lawmakers After Midterms
Come 2023, former Vice President Mike Pence advised Wednesday, conservative lawmakers need to “flood the zone” with strong policy proposals. “Let’s get this economy back on its feet. Let’s reverse some of this reckless, irresponsible spending by the Biden administration that has been driving inflation,” Pence said during a question-and-answer session with Heritage Foundation President…