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We Hear You: Abortion on Demand Ends in America
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience greeted the news of the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade with both joy and new resolve. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: In 1980, I was 22, single, and pregnant. I was devastated. My doctor told me to have an abortion. He recommended a… -
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Biden Pops Champagne Corks Over Jobs Report While Forgetting to Mention 1 Fact
President Joe Biden touted Friday’s jobs report as “significant progress” in economic recovery, but he ignored the uneven unemployment rate, with conservative red states beating out liberal blue states in jobs growth. When it comes to beating a likely recession, red states are leading the charge, adding 341,000 jobs since February 2020. Blue states hemorrhaged… -
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New Book Exposes ‘Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias’ of Left-Wing Media
During my time in the White House press corps in 2001 and 2002, the press secretary was Ari Fleischer. He was the definition of mild-mannered and unflappable for President George W. Bush. But he would tell you the reporters were less confrontational back then. Their aggression has grown so dramatically that Fleischer wrote a new… -
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It’s Not ‘Minority Rule’; It’s the Point
One of the more popular complaints of the contemporary left is that the Constitution subverts “democracy” for “minority rule.” If the United States is really more divided than ever, we have even less reason to dispense with the mechanisms and institutions that diffuse power and constrain one side of the divide from lording over the… -
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An Unsecured Border Is a Mortal and Moral Hazard
It happened outside Brackettville, Texas, which sits about halfway between Uvalde and the border crossing at Del Rio. This was a shooting you probably did not hear about—in part, thankfully, because no one was hurt. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was on a road that runs out of Brackettville when he saw a Chevrolet Suburban… -
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Newsom’s Montana Vacation Stirs Scrutiny of California Travel Bans
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared caught off guard by a backlash against his vacation this week in Montana, one of 22 states subject to California’s ban on official travel based on those states’ “discriminatory laws” against the LGBTQ community. Newsom’s communications team quickly revved into gear after reports that the governor was spending his downtime… -
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Biden Administration Admits Border Patrol Never Whipped Anyone
U.S. Customs and Border Protection found that Border Patrol agents who many mistook to be “whipping” Haitian migrants at the border never whipped anyone, according to CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus. The September 2021 “whipping” incident took place in Del Rio, Texas, when Border Patrol agent on horseback attempted to push back dozens of Haitian migrants at the… -
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‘We Love Killing Babies’: What I Saw at Women’s March Protest
Protests around the nation continue in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the issue of abortion to the American people. On Saturday, feminist organization Women’s March marched their way from a park to the fence in front of the White House, buffeted by rain all the while…. -
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Solving the Homelessness Problem in San Francisco
In this Saturday edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Mary Theroux discusses her work to relieve the plight of the homeless in San Francisco by attempting to heal issues in their lives that led them to this condition. Theroux is board chairman and CEO of the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Oakland,… -
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‘Digital Babies’ and the Culture of Lifestyle Over a Culture of Life
“Could the future of parenthood be having virtual children in the metaverse?” An article featured in British newspaper The Guardian forecasts a world in which it is commonplace for young adults and would-be parents to opt toward raising “digital babies” over having real children of their own. Powered by virtual reality and artificial intelligence, these… -
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Los Angeles School District’s Racist Left Uses CRT to Hold Down Blacks
Those who argue that critical race theory is a conservative hallucination need look no further than Los Angeles to see that the right is right—yet again. The 600,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District is using taxpayer dollars to train government teachers and staff members to instruct boys and girls that meritocracy, success, and hard work… -
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Meet the Conservative Comic Artist Countering the Left Online
Scrolling through the sea of posts, pictures, and memes online can make conservatives feel like they’re outcasts. Endless screeds claiming anyone to the right of Mao is a bigoted and hateful person make up most of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. But a growing cadre of conservative creatives is trying to make its mark online and… -
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For Left-Wing Lawmakers, Only ‘Choice’ Permitted Is Abortion
Are “pro-choice” policymakers really interested in women having choices? A new bill from Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., shows they aren’t. Their target? Life-affirming, community-based pregnancy resource centers. Why target them? The abortion industry and its allies in Congress accuse pregnancy resource centers of being “fake clinics” that “deceive” pregnant women… -
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Biden Calls Pro-Life Agenda ‘Extremist’ While Rolling Out Executive Order on Abortion
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday promoting abortion. “This is a moment, the moment, a moment to restore the rights that have been taken away from us and the moment to protect our nation from an extremist agenda,” Biden said, repeating himself as he spoke to the nation from the White House. … -
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Killing of Former Prime Minister Shocks Japan, but Shinzo Abe’s Legacy Lives On
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot Friday at a campaign rally ahead of Japan’s elections Sunday for the upper house of its parliament. The event has shocked Japan, which has extremely tight gun control laws and one of the world’s lowest rates of gun violence. Abe, who was 67, was a towering… -
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Women Don’t Need Abortion to Be Equal and Empowered, Authors Say
“How tragic it is, for the past 49-and-a-half years, [Roe v. Wade] has built up an entire unjust social structure in which women’s equality means access to abortion,” says Ryan T. Anderson, co-author of a new book published just four days after the Supreme Court overturned its 1973 ruling legalizing abortion nationwide. Regnery Publishing released “Tearing Us Apart: How… -
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An Assassin Kills Japanese Leader Shinzo Abe. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan, was slain Friday by an assassin at a campaign event. Abe, who was 67, served two stints as the Asian island nation’s leader, leaving office in 2020, and his legacy loomed large over Japan. The longest-serving Japanese leader’s killing sent shock waves throughout the country and across… -
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Pro-Abortion Women’s March Aims for 1,000 Arrests at White House Rally
Activists with the feminist organization Women’s March plan to rally Saturday outside the White House. Their goal? To get arrested. An online document titled “Summer of Rage Toolkit – July 9th” explicitly says that the objective of the pro-abortion rally is to spur police to arrest participants. “While we welcome everyone to participate, the action will… -
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Ruling in West Virginia v. EPA Scores Win for Representative Government
Under the U.S. Constitution, only Congress possesses federal lawmaking power. But anyone familiar with the massive administrative state might question whether that’s true in practice. After all, federal agencies make a habit of acting as though there’s a special lawmaking power just for bureaucrats. On June 30, though, there was some good news on the… -
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A Hopeful UK Ruling Vindicates Woman Fired for Voicing Traditional Views on Gender
A new legal ruling in the United Kingdom should be a cause for celebration among Americans who hold traditional beliefs about gender and sexuality. An employment panel ruled Wednesday in favor of a researcher who lost her job at the London offices of an international think tank after writing on Twitter that human beings cannot…