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New Founding Builds a Commercial and Cultural Network to Fight Wokeness
Woke corporations are increasingly embracing the left’s political agenda and taking aim at the values we as conservatives cherish. So what can we do about it? Matt Peterson is cofounder of New Founding, president of New Founding Media, and host of “The Matthew Peterson Show.” He’s fighting back against woke corporations and joins “The Daily… -
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DeSantis: Purpose of Education Is to Educate, Not ‘Indoctrinate’ Kids
ORLANDO, Florida—Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke about how important it was for parents to reclaim their rights in education, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve seen over the last few years in our country how important policy is, both good and very bad,” DeSantis said at a Heritage Foundation event Friday in Orlando. “There may be no… -
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California Dream Could Become a Nightmare
“Well, they’re out there a-having fun In that warm California sun.” —1964 song by The Rivieras California has become an example of what a state looks like when it is controlled by a single party—in this case Democrats—who are trying to impose a green energy secular religion on their people. State officials have banned the… -
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Biden Education Department Declines to Explain 160,000 ‘Missing’ Public Comments on Redefining ‘Sex’ in Title IX
As the clock ticks down on the public comment period for the Department of Education’s proposed rule change to Title IX, inconsistencies have emerged on the total number of comments already submitted. Politico reported Tuesday that the Regulations.gov website tracking the total number of publicly submitted comments had logged over 349,000 comments. But by Friday, three days… -
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The 5 Most Unserious Things Biden Said in His Gun Control Speech
President Joe Biden recently gave a speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, touting his “Safer America Plan” and a gun control bill he had signed into law. For many American gun owners, these speeches on preventing gun violence so obviously have become stump speeches for gun control that they no longer tune in, unable to bear cringey… -
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Senator on Democrats’ Same-Sex Marriage Bill: ‘We Have to Fight Back on This’
Passing a bill enshrining same-sex marriage in national law would put the existence of religious nonprofit ministries at risk and send “a pretty strong message that religious beliefs don’t matter,” a Republican senator has said. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed Wednesday to bring a bill decreeing that all 50 states must recognize same-sex marriages to… -
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California Legislature Passes Bill Giving State Custody of Out-of-State Minors Seeking Trans Surgeries
On Aug. 31, the California state Senate passed a bill that would allow courts in California to take custody of minors from out of state who come to the Golden State seeking gender transition surgeries and cross-sex hormones, even if these actions go against the wishes of the minors’ parents. Legal experts and children’s advocates warn that… -
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Karine Jean-Pierre’s ‘Election Denier’ Double Standard
The central hypocrisy of President Joe Biden’s indictment of the “MAGA Republicans”—as well as the Nancy Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6—is all the evidence of liberals and Democrats being “election deniers.” Democracy is crumbling when Republicans question election results, but everything Democrats say and do should be categorized as exercises in idealism. In Tuesday’s Biden… -
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New Disease Erases Democrats’ Memories of Their Post-2016 Attack on Democracy
Strategic amnesia is a new syndrome that lets Democrats forget their being guilty of the same behavior for which they demonize Republicans—especially when the GOP is innocent as charged. Strategic amnesia is, essentially, what happens as psychological projection ripens over time. Strategic-Amnesiac-in-Chief Joe Biden embodied this neurosis during the Snarl Heard ’Round the World—his corrosive,… -
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Reflections on Calm Before Storm of 9/11—and Peace of Providence After
Sept. 11, 2001, dawned in Washington as the most beautiful day of that year and one of the most beautiful days I have ever experienced. I left my home in Northern Virginia early that morning. The route to the White House was always inspiring because of its historic evocation along the way—driving around the Lincoln… -
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After 5 Red States Passed ‘Voter Suppression’ Bills, Voting Turnout Boomed
A left-leaning New York think tank sounded a familiar warning about Arizona’s “voter suppression bills” being “dangerously close to becoming law.” The Brennan Center for Justice added in a press release that Arizona was “taking center stage in the relentless effort to rein in voter participation in the name of ‘election security.’” Pending bills, the… -
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Orthodox Jewish Schools Share Priorities of Most Americans, Regardless of What NY Times Says
The New York Times is once again preparing to release a hit piece on Orthodox Jewish schools, also known as “yeshivas.” The attack comes just before a key state Board of Regents meeting, apparently timed to support a push to regulate the content of instruction in those schools so that it’s “substantially equivalent” to that… -
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The World Wants No Part of Woke, but It’s Glad We Do
The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgender females. Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But some consider it racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarcerations deter crime. Major U.S. downtowns almost overnight went from mostly safe and clean to terrifying and… -
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Welcome to Two-Tiered America
Last week, this column focused on the eye-opening recent revelations from Missouri and Louisiana’s lawsuit, still ongoing, that exposes the depth and breadth of the collusion between the Biden regime and the oligarchs of Big Tech. Those lightly redacted documents, made public via a Twitter thread from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, shine a spotlight… -
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Our Elected Representatives Are Terrible Stewards of Taxpayer Dollars. Here’s a Better Path Forward.
The shopping spree is a fun concept. The winner of a game show or sweepstakes gets five minutes to race through a store piling high a shopping cart with all the goodies they can get their hands on. Inevitably, the prizewinner gravitates toward the big-ticket items to get the most bang for someone else’s buck…. -
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What I Noticed Was Missing at James Madison’s Montpelier Home
In the past few months, I have written much about James Madison’s Montpelier, our fourth president’s home and now museum. A great deal of my writing has been descriptive, detailing the exhibits at Montpelier and evidencing whose influence has been impactful. I piled fact upon fact, relying on research and primary sources and letting much… -
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Welcome to the Green New Deal, California
If California, our most populous state, were its own nation, it would rank as the world’s fifth-largest economy and boast the highest average household income (outside a handful of “countries” like Monaco or Luxemburg). And, yet, the governor is begging its citizens to stop using their appliances, turn off their lights, and keep their thermostats… -
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Democrat Mom Accuses Educators, Therapist of Driving Her Autistic, Gender-Confused Child to ‘Catastrophic Ruin’
After educators and a therapist drove her high-functioning autistic, gender-confused daughter to a mental breakdown, a California mother is speaking out about the “trauma” and “catastrophic ruin” that gender ideology has caused her family. Vera Lindner (not her real name) says she worries that other parents’ children will be led down a path of delusion. … -
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Without Religion, New Book Contends, Conservatism Doesn’t Exist
Conservatism has a long and storied history. It evolved with various times and places, and adapted to fit the needs of rising generations. But one thing has remained consistent in conservatism throughout the ages, says Yoram Hazony, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. Conservatism and religion are… -
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Catholic Group Calls for Probe of Justice Department Official for Anti-Religious Bias
Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, on Thursday sent a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz calling for an investigation of a department official for apparent anti-religious bias. As The Daily Signal first reported on Monday, Eric P. Bruskin, assistant director of the commercial litigation branch in the Justice…