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COVID-19 Data Shows It’s Time for America to Return to Normal
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1 offers a unique opportunity to break with past pandemic policies and announce that we are moving on from COVID-19. The public policy response to the pandemic has so far depended on nonpharmaceutical interventions and vaccines. These policies appear to have reached the limits of… -
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8 Ways Heritage Foundation’s 2022 Budget Blueprint Strengthens Financial Health, Economic Vitality, National Security
The Heritage Foundation on Feb. 22 unveiled its Budget Blueprint for 2022, and with more than 200 specific policy proposals accompanied by analysis from Heritage experts, it contains a wealth of information for both policymakers and the public. The Budget Blueprint is about much more than just numbers. It addresses America’s most pressing problems and… -
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Victims vs. Vectors? The Ethics of Giving COVID-19 Vaccines to Children
Fifty years ago, I began medical school. Through this half-century, I have provided, prescribed, promoted, and supported vaccine use. As a physician in retirement, I am fully vaccinated and boosted for COVID-19, as are my grown sons and three of my young adult grandchildren. Vaccine development has a proud history that has prevented millions of… -
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Putin Won’t Stop With Ukraine, KT McFarland Says
Russia will succeed in its invasion of Ukraine, national security expert KT McFarland predicts. And once Russian President Vladimir Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there, she says. “I think [Putin’s] going to start looking to the Baltics, those three little countries—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,” McFarland says on “The Daily Signal Podcast.” America is now in another… -
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14 Highlights From America’s Biggest Conservative Conference
What are the most important issues facing Americans today? How should we respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? How is President Joe Biden’s term going so far? The Daily Signal team attended the Conservative Political Action Conference, held Feb. 24-27 in Orlando, Florida. There we interviewed dozens of top conservative newsmakers, including lawmakers and former… -
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‘Eliminate the Permanent Ruling Class in Washington’: Sen. Rick Scott Promotes Plan to Save America
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., called for a plan of action to fight China, critical race theory, and abortion in remarks Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida. The former governor of Florida warned conservatives against being merely “a speed bump on the road to America’s collapse,” and argued for his “Rescue America”… -
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What He Saw in Ukraine a Week Before the Russian Invasion
ORLANDO, Florida—A week before the first Russian boots set foot on Ukrainian soil, Rep. Mark Green flew to Ukraine to get a sense of how things were going, and how America could best help. “When I was there, the mood was very positive and energetic. They felt like they were going to fight,” said Green,… -
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America in ‘Cold War 2.0’ With Russia, KT McFarland Says
ORLANDO, Florida—America is in a new Cold War with Russia, KT McFarland says. In Russian President Vladimir Putin’s opinion, America may have won the Cold War of the post-World War II period, or think it won, but “that was only Cold War 1.0,” McFarland, the former deputy national security advisor under former President Donald Trump,… -
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Rep. Jim Jordan Wants More Information on Clinton Attempt to ‘Frame’ Trump on Russia Narrative
Congress should investigate the Department of Justice’s conduct and that of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in “trying to frame” former President Donald Trump, said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. Jordan noted Congress should also investigate the Justice Department’s targeting of parents that speak out at school board meetings… -
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Trump: Putin Would Not Have Invaded Ukraine If I Was President
Former President Donald Trump asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he were still in office–a statement backed up by broad public opinion. “As everyone understands, this horrific disaster would never have happened if our election was not rigged, and if I was the president,” Trump said Saturday night, speaking… -
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Rep. Jim Jordan: Jan. 6 Committee ‘Totally Out to Get President Trump’
The January 6th Committee was created with the purpose of investigating the riot at the Capitol and preventing something like it from ever happening again. But as Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, explains, the committee has abandoned that job in favor of trying to “get” President Donald Trump. “It’s totally out to get President Trump.” Jordan… -
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Gov. Noem to Biden: Lead on Punishing Russia Over Ukraine—or Resign
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem called on President Joe Biden to resign unless he can demonstrate better leadership on the world stage. The governor, speaking Friday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, said that Biden should lead allies to impose tougher and… -
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Trump Praises Ukrainian President’s Bravery: ‘He’s Being Tested at the Highest Level’
ORLANDO, Florida—Former President Donald Trump weighed in Saturday evening on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, repeatedly praising Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his bravery. Ahead of the former president’s remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, The Daily Signal asked Trump whether he would take up arms like Zelenskyy if Trump were president during such an… -
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4 Conservative Lawmakers Offer Solutions to Biggest Issues Facing America
How can conservatives have a voice in Big Tech? Why is the left working so hard to promote a radical ideology in classrooms across America? How is America doing under President Joe Biden’s leadership? And how should Biden respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Offering solutions to such pressing questions are four House Republicans—Ted Budd… -
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Rep. Jim Banks: Putin Was Waiting for ‘Weak American President’ Like Biden
ORLANDO, Fla. – Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin waited to invade Ukraine until he could work around a “weak American president” like Joe Biden. The Indiana congressman weighed in on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a Friday interview with The Daily Signal, critiquing Biden’s “weak” sanctions of Russia… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Race Shouldn’t Be Sole Basis for Nominating a Supreme Court Justice, Ben Carson Says
ORLANDO, Fla.—Former presidential candidate and celebrated neurosurgeon Ben Carson says he is disappointed with how President Joe Biden selected Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. “When we start making the criteria for public positions something that people have no control over—they have no control over their race … it goes against all the work, the… -
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Disastrous Olympics Showed Us All How Corrupt the World Is in 2022
It’s hard to find consensus these days, but everyone seems to agree that there was something rotten about the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. Not the athletes and the sporting events, of course; they trained their entire lives to compete, were as brilliant as ever, and are not responsible for the decisions that led to such… -
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America ‘Not Going Down Socialist Road,’ Rep. Byron Donalds Vows
The warnings about creeping socialism appear to be true, Rep. Byron Donalds says, invoking politicians on the far left such as Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “In 2020, when we were telling the world that the radical Democrats believed in socialism, the media said we were lying. They said it was a joke…. -
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Pompeo: Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Biden Didn’t Show Trump’s Resolve
As an Army officer, Mike Pompeo was part of a unit guarding a European ally against Russian forces—a circumstance he says is reoccurring with U.S. troops stationed in the Baltic states and Germany now. “We see on our TV the bombs, the missiles, the Soviet tanks—the Russian tanks—moving across Ukraine,” Pompeo, secretary of state under… -
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‘So-Called’ Objectivity Lacking in TV Networks’ Reporting on ‘Freedom Convoy’
Something caught my ear in the car, listening to a radio simulcast of the Feb. 21 “PBS NewsHour.” Anchor Judy Woodruff dryly reported that “Canadian police have arrested more than 190 protesters and issued 389 charges in connection with the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy.’” The “so-called Freedom Convoy.” It’s a journalistic term, the use of which…