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Terrorists Surf-in Atop Biden Democrats’ Illegal Alien Tsunami
“The fact is that our borders are not open,” according to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus. You could have fooled me. Notwithstanding this unfounded claim by a member of Team Biden, Border Patrol agents confronted 234,088 illegal aliens in April. This is yet another record shattered by an administration that smashes all the… -
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Ken Cuccinelli Warns of Catastrophic Consequences to Rescinding Title 42 at Border
Editor’s note: This interview was recorded before a federal judge decided Friday afternoon, in a lawsuit filed by two dozen states, to block the Biden administration’s plan to rescind Title 42. In the face of the worst crisis our southern border has seen in decades, President Joe Biden has said he intended to rescind the… -
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We Hear You: Tampons in Men’s Rooms, Marxists in Classrooms, and Abortions for ‘Persons’
Editor's note: One common theme of late in The Daily Signal's mailbag is our audience's dismay at the political uprooting of common sense and reality across the nation. Here's a sampling of what you sent to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I am 74. In high school back in the 1960s, I had a teacher… -
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Against American Mobocracy
In his 1838 Lyceum Address in Springfield, Illinois, a 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln spoke on “the perpetuation of our political institutions.” The speech was eerily prescient, coming 23 years as it did before then-President Lincoln presided over a nation tragically brought into a grisly Civil War—the ultimate test of that “perpetuation”—by the assault on Fort Sumter…. -
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I’m Indian American. What I Think When Republicans Are Accused of Racism.
Are Republicans a bunch of racists? That’s certainly the narrative that the corporate media is pushing as hard as it can. The context this time is the tragic killing spree in Buffalo, New York, carried out by a mentally deranged racist whose online manifesto includes a whole slew of racist and antisemitic conspiracies. Are those… -
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Can Supreme Court Tame America’s Administrative State?
What are the chances that the Supreme Court will spur tremendous reform to change how our nation’s administrative state—rather than Congress—engages in lawmaking? On this Saturday edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” former Justice Department official John Yoo joins the show to discusses the prospects. Yoo, a law professor at University of California, Berkeley, was… -
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Disinformation Board Paused, ‘Mary Poppins’ Director Out, but Biden Suppression of Free Speech Continues
After only a few weeks, the unconstitutional, correctly criticized federal Disinformation Governance Board has been “paused” and “Minister of Truth” Nina Jankowicz has resigned. It is appropriate to celebrate, but amid statements from the White House saying the “work is going to continue,” we should beware that some version of the board will quietly pop… -
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Left’s Obsession With Race Coverage Fosters More Racism
The overt racism and antisemitism written in the Buffalo shooter’s 180-page “manifesto” has been rightly denounced by civilized people. The usual questions are being asked. These include, how did he get the gun after he was admitted to a hospital last year for symptoms of mental illness? Another question: Why did President Joe Biden go… -
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Is Biden’s ‘Success’ Our Mess?
If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions, what would it have done differently than what President Joe Biden has done? So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing ideologue? When… -
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Senators Urge Biden to End Delays on Offshore Oil, Gas Lease Permits
Twenty senators sent a letter this week to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo seeking her support for the Biden administration’s immediate issuing of permits required to use offshore federal oil and gas leases. The letter signed by Republican senators, including Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., identified the National Marine Fisheries Service’s delay in granting permits necessary to increase gas… -
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What I Saw at Third Protest at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Home
Editor’s note: This article contains adult language. Protesters marched Thursday night outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home shouting, “F— the court” and “We are not your incubators.” Barrett is one of five Supreme Court justices who is believed to be a vote in favor of a decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization… -
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Netflix Cracks Down on Employee Activism. Is Woke Capital in Retreat?
Not everything that goes woke goes broke. But if you’re going broke, you better ditch the woke. That’s what’s going on at Netflix, the online subscription streaming service that’s fallen on hard times. Netflix announced that it lost over 200,000 subscribers in the first three months of the year and expects to lose millions more… -
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Why China Still Hasn’t Ended COVID-19 Lockdowns
Chinese President Xi Jinping is sticking with COVID-19 lockdowns while the West returns to normality because China’s national vaccine is relatively ineffective at protecting against the virus, a medical expert told The Daily Caller News Foundation. China’s lockdowns, missing vaccine drug trial data, and the failure of its “vaccine diplomacy” program are evidence that Sinopharm, China’s… -
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Team Biden Quietly Admits Math Error Behind Long Delays in Oil, Gas Permits
The Biden administration privately acknowledged late last month that a mathematical error is delaying the federal government's offshore oil and gas program. In an April 29 letter to industry leaders obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that a subagency “discovered a miscalculation” that has… -
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Destroying the Altar of ‘Woke’
We’ve heard the clever quips “woke-a cola” and “go woke, go broke” to describe traditional American companies and institutions diving headfirst into politics in order to score points with the radical left. Everywhere we look, forces are shoving us to the left, and it often feels like we don’t have a vote. But now, we… -
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San Francisco Archbishop to Pelosi: Do Not Receive Communion
According to a new letter released by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will no longer be allowed to receive the Eucharist at Mass in her home diocese. “A Catholic legislator who supports procured abortion, after knowing the teaching of the Church, commits a manifestly grave sin which is a… -
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‘Dissident’ in America Actually a Spy for China, Prosecutors Allege
The Justice Department has charged a human rights activist in Queens with spying on Chinese dissidents. Authorities charged Wang Shujun, 73, of Queens, New York, with “conspiracy and other charges related to an espionage and transnational repression scheme,” the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Prosecutors also charged four persons they said were Wang’s China-based Ministry of State… -
opinion
Carbon Border Tax Is Outside the Venn Diagram of Compromise
For years, the idea of a carbon tax has been a nonstarter for Americans in both parties. And for good reason—while it would raise a pretty penny for a federal government addicted to spending, a carbon tax would weigh down American consumers and businesses, for no environmental benefit. Given that nearly 80% of Americans’ energy… -
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Mayorkas’ ‘6 Pillars’ Border Security Plan Is Delusional
As May 23 neared, when border agents’ Title 42 public health authority to quickly expel illegal aliens was due to expire, U.S. Customs and Border Protection already had seen predicted increased numbers of illegal aliens. Even the Biden administration admitted that “migration levels will increase.” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a 20-page memo April… -
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Pumping Up Prices
The price of gas keeps rising. “The reason for that is because of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s war,” President Joe Biden said. But that’s impossible. Most of the price rise came before Putin attacked Ukraine. So some politicians simply blame “corporate greed.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse accuses the oil industry of collecting “excess profit.” Sen. Elizabeth…