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Abortion Fight Must Be ‘Solved Politically,’ Pro-Life Organization Says
A national conservative organization’s leader says a major takeaway from Indiana’s recent abortion ban is that the only way to win the abortion fight is for pro-life Americans to get involved politically “I think the big lesson for the abortion fight is that this has to get solved politically,” Terry Schilling, the president of the… -
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Ahead of Midterms, 14 States Improve Election Integrity Laws
With primaries underway and with midterms and other fall ballot contests looming, multiple states are demonstrating a commitment to ensuring that their elections remain worthy of public confidence. Since 2021, The Heritage Foundation has been tracking the content of every state’s laws (plus the District of Columbia since it casts three electoral college votes for… -
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The Atlantic’s Catholic Fearmongering
I had no idea that when I walk my dog, rosary in hand, I’m wielding an “extremist symbol.” Yet according to a recent article in The Atlantic, I might as well be brandishing a swastika or other hateful symbol. “The rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or ‘rad trad’) Catholics,” writes Daniel Panneton…. -
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God Still Isn’t Dead
The cover of Time magazine dated April 8, 1966, asked readers: “Is God Dead?” In the 56 years since, so-called experts have proclaimed the impending death of religion and of God in American society. Yet despite their yearly doomsday predictions for God, he still is alive and well in America. All that has changed are… -
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Tucker Carlson: Biden Is Using Law Enforcement to Cling to Power
Fox News host Tucker Carlson eviscerated the Biden administration Monday night for using law enforcement to target its political adversaries, most recently with the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. “This could get very bad, very fast and the Biden people know that perfectly well,” Carlson told viewers. “They know what could happen… -
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Greta Van Susteren Shares What You Need to Know About FBI Raid on Trump
Many questions remain unanswered since the FBI’s Aug. 8 raid on the Florida home of former President Donald Trump. “First of all, make no mistake about it. There are rules that the president is not supposed to keep records,” veteran journalist and lawyer Greta Van Susteren says. “The public records—I’m talking about the non-classified ones—do… -
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The Mar-a-Lago Raid: What Happened and What’s Next
Well, it was quite a week! On Aug. 8, roughly 30 federal agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of former President Donald Trump – an unprecedented action. While Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray have acknowledged approving the filing of the search warrant application–which was approved by a… -
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Biden’s Archivist Pick to Take Helm During Firestorm Over Trump Raid
President Joe Biden’s nominee to the usually obscure and apolitical office of archivist of the United States comes as the agency she hopes to lead is in the middle of the biggest political story in the country. On Aug. 3, Biden announced the nomination of Colleen Shogan to head the National Archives and Records Administration. … -
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Inflation Reduction Act Shows Far Left’s Extremism and Elitism
Last Friday, the House passed the misleadingly named “Inflation Reduction Act,” a massive tax and spend bill that illustrates just how extreme and out of touch the left has become. The vote was along party lines, as it was in the Senate, with no Republicans voting for the bill. As American families are struggling with… -
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That Single-Payer Thing Isn’t Working Out for UK
Flash! We interrupt your inconveniently scheduled recession—aggravated by crazy congressional spending and absurd tax hikes—to bring you breaking news from London. Britain’s famed “single-payer” system of national health insurance is in crisis. Again. According to The Telegraph, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, the total number of patients waiting for medical care has soared to a… -
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As DC Plans to Ban 40% of Black Teens From School, Mayor Rejects DC COVID-19 Vaccine Numbers
During a Monday press conference, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser seemingly claimed her department’s own numbers surrounding the amount of black school aged children vaccinated against COVID-19 were inaccurate. Unvaccinated school children will be banned from attending Washington, D.C. public schools later this month. In response to a question from The Daily Signal about how 40%… -
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Biden Dismisses Voter Fraud, but His Justice Department Keeps Prosecuting It
The Biden administration’s Justice Department successfully prosecuted election fraud cases last month in Pennsylvania and Louisiana, even as the president has spent much of his term so far asserting that voter fraud is a myth. Federal prosecutors in individual U.S. attorney’s offices also have brought separate cases in Arizona, North Carolina, and New York during… -
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‘Chilling Effect’: After Being Targeted by IRS in 2013, Conservative Leader Worried About 87,000 New IRS Agents
Jenny Beth Martin, a founder of Tea Party Patriots, warns that the skyrocketing number of Internal Revenue Service agents under the Biden administration could herald the return of a politicized tax agency targeting conservatives. “I said back then, if they’re not held accountable, other bureaucrats will think that they are able to abuse the law… -
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Botswana to Become Latest Target of Biden State Department’s Ideological Colonialism
It seems that President Joe Biden’s State Department has decided it must do even more to shame countries into normalizing same-sex relations. The State Department announced a new grant to “promote greater social acceptance of LGBTQI+ persons” in a small African country using U.S. tax dollars. The grant is advertised as “Beyond Decriminalization: Expanding LGBTQI+… -
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‘Humanitarian Tragedy’: 1 Year After Taliban Captured Kabul
Today, Aug. 15, marks one year since the Taliban captured Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, effectively handing the country to the terrorist organization and washing away 20 years of progress in the region. As the Taliban approached the city, former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani abandoned his countrymen and days later resurfaced in the United Arab Emirates with… -
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Once Champions of Working Class, Journalists Now Represent America’s Elite
Just when it seemed that confidence in America’s news media couldn’t get any worse, last month Gallup reported new record lows. “Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news,” Gallup’s Megan Brenan wrote. “Both readings are down five… -
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House Passes Huge Spending and Tax Bill Expanding Size of IRS and Green Energy Handouts
On a party-line vote, the House narrowly passed a $737 billion measure Friday to dramatically expand green energy subsidies and health care programs while nearly doubling the size of the Internal Revenue Service. As Republicans decried the inclusion of about $740 billion in new tax revenues, the bill that Democrats dub the Inflation Reduction Act cleared… -
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IRS and Allies Downplay 87,000-Person Hiring Binge
In 2021, the IRS issued a report that described what the tax-collecting agency could do with nearly $80 billion in new funding, if only Congress would pass the American Families Plan. The Internal Revenue Service was making the case that the Biden administration’s plan to supercharge funding of the IRS would reap dividends for the… -
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Twitter Vows to Fight ‘Election Misinformation.’ More Censorship Incoming.
In the run-up to November’s midterm elections, Twitter is priming itself to go on a censoring spree in the name of fighting misinformation. What could possibly go wrong? The social media platform made the announcement Thursday that it was “activating enforcement of our Civic Integrity Policy for the 2022 U.S. midterms.” The tech giant said it… -
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4 Facts About IRS Gun Arsenal
Some of the 87,000 new agents whom Democrats propose to hire at the Internal Revenue Service could come with some extra firepower. On Friday, House Democrats gave final passage to the tax and spending bill they dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, which, among other things, would double the size of the IRS with 87,000 new…