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Hungering for Relief From Rapid Rise in Food Prices? Don’t Look to Biden
The Bureau of Labor Statistics last week released the Consumer Price Index data for February, and it shows prices continuing to increase at an alarming rate, including for food. This latest data showed that compared with February 2021, food prices rose a whopping 7.9%. The size of this year-over-year increase hasn’t been seen in more… -
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How to Fix the Media
The Daily Signal is featuring the latest episode of “The Kevin Roberts Show.” The podcast includes an interview with Townhall reporter Julio Rosas, author of “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America.” Kevin Roberts: For this episode, we’re going to talk about something we consume every day. We watch it,… -
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His Great-Great-Grandmother Was a Slave. He Sees Forgiveness as Path Forward.
Editor's note: Rev. Dean Nelson, a staunch defender of the unborn, passed away Saturday at the age of 55. ‘It is with profound gratitude for his life that we mourn the loss of our Executive Director, Reverend Dean Nelson,” Human Coalition wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Sunday. “He has gone home to his eternal reward… -
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Fact-Checking 3 Biden Claims on Gas Prices
President Joe Biden has insisted that rising gas prices are not a result of his administration’s policies. This week, he announced the United States would ban oil imports from Russia because of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Biden also has suggested that U.S. oil companies are responsible in part for the… -
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Pennsylvania’s Ballot Battle Should Rattle GOP
As Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman oversees professional boxing, kickboxing, and wrestling. But those are hardly the most contentious items on her docket. As the Keystone State’s chief elections officer, Chapman is embroiled in a knock-down, drag-out fight over ballot integrity that has Democrats and Republicans pounding each other sillier than 12th-round rivals. Chapman and other Democrats consider mass mail-in… -
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Rhode Island Drops Order Prohibiting Unvaccinated Doctor From Practicing
The state of Rhode Island on Friday dismissed an order that had prevented a doctor from practicing because he declined to take a COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Stephen Skoly, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, sought a medical exemption from getting the vaccine because he has a condition called Bell’s palsy. The state denied the exemption in… -
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Biden’s Burnt Bridges Exacerbate Ukraine-Related Oil Crisis
Although Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has helped to unify Europe against Russia, it has had a divisive effect in the Middle East, where many countries recently have hedged their bets by boosting ties to Moscow to offset declining confidence in U.S. leadership. Even before the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal debacle last August, U.S. allies and… -
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In a Period of Brute Force, China Increases Its Military Budget Yet Again
The Chinese Communist Party announced this week it will increase the budget for the People’s Liberation Army by 7.1%. The announcement occurred at the opening session of the National People’s Congress—the annual rubber-stamp parliament. Thus, it is just a matter of time before the extra resources start following to the People’s Liberation Army. This increase… -
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‘They Don’t Say a Word’: DeSantis Slams Disney’s Opposition to Florida Bill
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Disney for its opposition to the state’s parental rights legislation in a video shared by Fox News on Thursday. “When you have companies that have made a fortune off being family-friendly and catering to families and young kids, they should understand that parents of young kids do not want this… -
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Democrats, Green Activists Pressure Big Tech to Censor More Climate ‘Misinformation’
A House Democrat leading an investigation of oil industry “misinformation” blames social media companies for blocking legislation to counter climate change, even as Big Tech corporations move to demonetize and suppress debate on climate-related issues. Google acted to demonetize “climate denial” information. Facebook upped its fact-checking of climate-related posts, and emails obtained by watchdog groups… -
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At War With Science, Gender Bender Ideologues Don’t Believe in Democracy or Debate
Tom Bevan at RealClearPolitics shared on Twitter a local horror story from the Chicago area. His fifth grader came home from school with a vocabulary assignment in science class. The words included “transgender,” cisgender,” “nonbinary,” and “consent.” The last word carries the most irony, because the educational elite in this country isn’t interested in the… -
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Russia’s Claim of Chemical, Bio Labs in Ukraine Is a Ruse
In the latest in a series of specious and outlandish justifications for its illegal, immoral, and brutal invasion of sovereign Ukraine, Russia is claiming that Washington and Kyiv are working together to develop chemical and biological weapons. Pure Putin propaganda. Indeed, according to the U.S. State Department this week: The United States does not own… -
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Let Them Drive Teslas
“Well, you all imagined it,” Vice President Kamala Harris commented during a so-called clean-transit event, where she appeared with her fellow tautologist, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. “That’s why we’re here today—because we have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and then to make the possible actually happen.” When… -
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What’s Life Like in North Korea? A Defector Explains
Growing up in North Korea, Hyun-Seung Lee says, he had no real understanding of the concept of freedom or human rights. The communist regime monitors citizens so closely, he couldn’t speak freely even in his own home, says Lee, who goes by the nickname Arthur. “I believe that in my home, there [were] bugs or listening… -
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America’s Ruling Class Wants to Reduce Us to Incompetence
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul blamed the recent shooting death of Jason Rivera, a New York City police officer, on “a shot from an illegal gun.” In this strange passive voice, the Democratic governor didn’t mention the officer by name, but concluded that the true threat facing New York City was “the scourge of illegal guns… -
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A Slip of Tongue on Abortion at Supreme Court?
When lawyer Sarah Weddington stood up in the Supreme Court on Oct. 11, 1972, to present the pro-abortion argument in the case of Roe v. Wade, she was legalistically careful in the language she used to describe whom exactly an abortion aborted. She avoided normal human terms like “unborn child” or “baby”—and, most importantly, “person.”… -
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Left’s Devotion to ‘Land Acknowledgements’ Amounts to Empty Virtue Signaling
The radical left’s new favorite way to virtue signal is something called “land acknowledgement.” Hordes of woke businesses and universities have started meetings or other gatherings by declaring that they’re holding them on land where Native Americans once lived. As an example, take this land acknowledgement from San Diego State University about the Kumeyaay tribe. … -
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The Green Immoralists
Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine. In response, the Biden administration’s climate change envoy, multimillionaire and private jet-owning John Kerry, laments that Russian President Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming. “You’re going to lose people’s focus,” Kerry frets. “You’re going to lose… -
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6 Examples of Woke Pork Projects in Omnibus Spending Bill
When congressional leaders rolled out the 2,700-page, $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill this week, they made sure to lard it up with plenty of pork. Such so-called earmarks were banned by conservatives a decade ago after high-profile cases of corruption were exposed, sending members of Congress and lobbyists to prison, and after clear examples of… -
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If Putin Attacks a NATO Country, What Are Our Legal Obligations?
What are the United States’ legal obligations if Russian President Vladimir Putin orders his military to invade a NATO country and NATO invokes Article 5 of the treaty, the collective self-defense provision? The answer to this legal question, which is complicated, is the narrow focus on this article. Before diving in, however, it’s important to…