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What We Saw When Protesters Came to Homes of Kavanaugh, Roberts
A week after an assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a small group of 17 protesters made their way to Chevy Chase, Maryland, on Wednesday to march to his home as well as the home of Chief Justice John Roberts, something they have done each week for more than a month. The event… -
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The Biden Economy Shows the Folly of ‘Experts’
This week, the stock market took a turn into bear territory on the heels of yet another brutal monthly inflation report. With the Federal Reserve considering larger rate hikes in order to tamp down record inflation, the possibility of a near-term recession now looms quite large, despite the feeble protestations of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen…. -
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Hawley Unloads on Biden Administration’s Calls for Censorship
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley criticized the Biden administration for promoting censorship on environmental issues by technology companies during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday. “Laura, this is the most recent example of the most anti-First Amendment administration in American history,” Hawley told host Laura Ingraham of “The Ingraham Angle.” The Missouri senator responded to a… -
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Don’t Draft Our Daughters—or Anyone Else
Last year, Congress considered a very bad and ill-considered idea. With no debate and no real scrutiny, there was an effort to add to the annual National Defense Authorization Act a provision to require young women to register for military conscription. The provision was dropped. Proponents will quietly try to add it again this year…. -
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Coach Kennedy Case Is a Threat to ‘American Democracy,’ Sports Illustrated Says
A featured article in Sports Illustrated published on Monday characterizes a possible U.S. Supreme Court victory for a former high school football coach’s right to public prayer in Bremerton, Washington, as a “further erosion of the separation between church and state.” In the lengthy profile of coach Joe Kennedy, writer Greg Bishop noted that the magazine conducted… -
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Biden’s Bid to Expand Obamacare Via IRS Is Illegal
The Biden administration is unlawfully trying to expand Obamacare. The Internal Revenue Service has published a proposed regulation that would make an additional 5 million people eligible for premium subsidies. The IRS proposal is unlawful, but the administration will do it anyway, as it did with vaccine mandates. Here’s the background: The Obamacare statute created… -
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New Poll: More Americans Side With Conservatives on Hot-Button LGBT Issues
It’s June, and Pride Month is here. Americans who quietly object to the celebration of Pride Month are tempted to feel isolated—or worse, despair at the thought that the America they grew up in is no more. If they look to corporate America, college campuses, the front office of their favorite professional sports team, social… -
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Michigan Middle School Hides Student’s Gender Transition From Parents
Teachers at Richards Middle School in Fraser, Michigan, have been hiding the transgender status of a biological male student from parents. Earlier this week, Fox News obtained an email from a counselor at the public school warning teachers to not inform the mother of the student that her child was going by a different name and pronoun…. -
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US Inflation Originates in Washington, Not Moscow
President Joe Biden spoke at the Port of Los Angeles on Friday and addressed the issue foremost on the minds of Americans today, inflation. And in the spirit of a tried-and-true liberal, he blamed everyone in the world for a problem that he is responsible for. Apparently, our president believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin… -
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The ‘Woke’ Takeover of James Madison’s Montpelier
Montpelier, the home of James Madison, has been taken over by the radical left. In the past few months, a battle has been waging between the Montpelier Descendants Committee and the Montpelier Foundation’s board of directors. Recently, the board was expected to select nine of the 20 candidates put forward by the committee; it gave… -
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Stephen Moore on Inflation and America’s Ailing Economy
Everyday Americans are feeling the wallop on their wallets from unchecked inflation. From gas prices to food prices, the country is experiencing unprecedented levels of economic woes. But who is to blame for this disaster? “I think that there are two co-conspirators in this economic crime. And one is the Biden administration, for spending so… -
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We Hear You: Praying for ‘Praying Coach’ in Supreme Court Case
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience is solidly behind Joe Kennedy, the high school football coach who lost his job for silently praying on the field after games, judging by the mailbag at [email protected]. Take a look.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I can't tell you how frustrated I feel right now, having read Virginia Allen’s… -
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By the Numbers: How Many Men in California Prisons Identify as Women
California’s prison population includes 1,115 biological males who say they identify as women, according to the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. About 1 in 3 in that population has requested transfers to women’s prisons, but only about 1 in 10 of those requests have been approved, the corrections department says. California’s prison agency provided… -
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4 Reasons Biden’s Pitch for Raising Business Taxes Is No Solution for Inflation
In a speech in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on June 3, President Joe Biden acknowledged that deficits contribute to inflation, when he stated, “Reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation.” Unfortunately, instead of a call to rein in spending, the president’s speech was a call for more taxes. To tame the inflation dragon, however,… -
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Republican AGs Set to Speak at Gathering Sponsored by Arabella, Amazon, Facebook
At a time when many Republicans are expressing frustration with what they consider a liberal tilt by one national group that represents state attorneys general, several GOP officials are participating in another coalition of attorneys general with liberal sponsors. The annual meeting of the AG Alliance convened Monday in Sun Valley, Idaho, and is scheduled… -
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Fox’s Transgender Whitewash Ignores Agony, Regrets of Detransitioners
When Julie woke up from her double mastectomy in the children’s hospital in Syracuse, New York, she expected to feel elated. Instead, she only felt numb. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, she thought. Years later, she looks back with anger at the “collaborative idiocy” that crushed her spirit, permanently scarred her body, and… -
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Forbes Bludgeons Build Back Better Bill as Senate Democrats Seek to Revive It
“Don’t call it an ideology. Call it an idiot-ology,” Steve Forbes says of President Joe Biden’s defeated Build Back Better economic plan, which Democrats in the Senate are now trying to revive. Build Back Better is a multitrillion-dollar legislative package proposed by Biden consisting of massive spending on social, infrastructure, and environmental programs. Forbes, the CEO of Forbes… -
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Democrats’ Jan. 6 Fiasco Is Just Another Example of Conservatives Being Treated as Second-Class Citizens
This week’s Jan. 6 carnival barkers never mentioned the name of Ashli Babbitt, a Donald Trump supporter killed by a Capitol Police officer during the Jan. 6 riots. The Jan. 6 carnival barkers also ignore that many Jan. 6 defendants are being denied the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a speedy and fair trial. Both omissions by the Jan…. -
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Happy Birthday, US Army
Tuesday marks the 247th birthday of the U.S. Army, an institution that existed even before the nation it supports. The Revolutionary War began in April 1775 in Massachusetts as small skirmishes between militiamen and British regulars. When the Second Continental Congress later convened in Philadelphia in May that year, the delegates soon realized that war… -
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Social Security’s Unfunded Obligations Getting Worse
Our Social Security program is running dry. Policymakers have no plan to fix it, and generations of Americans have been duped into believing it’s a good deal. Social Security was established to prevent older Americans from living in poverty once they’re unable to work, but the program’s unchecked expansions have made that outcome anything but…