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State Department Emails Reveal Diplomats’ Concern About China’s ‘Invasive’ Swab Testing for COVID-19
Emails recently obtained by Judicial Watch show how U.S. officials scrambled over reports that the Chinese government was requiring anal swab tests to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The communications were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State. “It took six months and a federal lawsuit to confirm that our… -
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Amazon Killed Popular Feature at Demand of China’s Communist Party
Amazon stopped offering customer ratings and reviews of books sold in China at the request of the Chinese Communist Party, according to a Reuters investigation. The Chinese government ordered Amazon to stop allowing customers to review books following less-than-perfect ratings of a collection of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s writings, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with… -
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How This Pilot Fights United Airlines’ Vaccine Mandate
As private businesses mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their employees under pressure from the Biden administration, employees are banding together to make their displeasure known. In the airline industry, United Airlines pilot Sherry Walker and her group, Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom, are pushing back against what they view as an overreach by the industry to… -
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Left Melts Down as Sen. Joe Manchin Says He Can’t Support Biden’s ‘Mammoth’ Spending Bill
A single Democrat came out against President Joe Biden’s massive, multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better plan and the left is having a collective conniption. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said Sunday that he would have to cast a “no” vote for Democrats’ current Build Back Better bill, a version of which already has passed the House. “I… -
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It’s Time to Stop Denying Reality About Transgender Athletes
A transgender athlete, Lia Thomas, dominated during a Nov. 20 women’s swim meet with athletes representing Cornell, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a woman, set new Ivy League records for the women’s 500 and 200 freestyle and smashed numerous UPenn records in women’s swimming. In the 1650… -
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This Job Market Brings New Challenges. ‘Build Back Better’ Would Make Things Worse.
Unfathomable. Inexplicable. Unparalleled. The current labor market is unlike anything America has experienced before, and unlike anything one could have fathomed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of Americans desperately seeking jobs, employers are desperately seeking workers, with 11 million job openings in October compared to 7.4 million unemployed. In November, a whopping… -
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Despite What the White House Says, Obamacare Is Deeply Troubled
Open enrollment on Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges is in full swing. Consumers in most states, including the 33 that use the federally operated HealthCare.gov, have until Jan. 15 to sign up for coverage for 2022. The Biden administration says things have never been better, and that premiums are declining, more insurers are participating in the… -
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Longtime Sidekick ‘Bo Snerdley’ Reveals the Secret of Rush Limbaugh’s Success
The iconic voice of Rush Limbaugh no longer graces the airwaves, but the broadcaster's legacy lives on in a new book by his longtime sidekick. James Golden, known on air as "Bo Snerdley," spoke to The Daily Signal about the man he worked alongside for 30 years. Golden recently published a book about Limbaugh, "Rush… -
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We Hear You: Inflation Isn’t a ‘High-Class Problem’
Editor's note: Some observations on rising inflation from The Daily Signal's audience are among those that caught our attention this week. As usual, you can send your own comments to the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I don’t know what a “high-class problem” is supposed to be, per David Harsanyi's commentary ("Biden White… -
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Biden Administration Sanctions Mail-Order Abortion. Here’s How the Move Endangers Women.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will significantly weaken longstanding safety protocols that have applied to dangerous chemical abortion pills for more than 20 years, opening the door to widespread telemedicine abortion and abortion pill-by-mail distribution. The Biden administration’s decision is a response to the abortion industry’s demands at the expense of women’s… -
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Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandate Faces Showdown at Supreme Court
President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for 84 million private employees is set to take effect in just about two weeks—unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in to stop it. The Heritage Foundation, a petitioner in the case against Biden’s mandate, asked the high court Saturday to halt the government’s order. Heritage, a private employer… -
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Jail for Jussie: Throw Book at Race-Hoaxster Smollett
Dear Santa Claus: Here is what I want for Christmas: The longest-possible time behind bars for Jussie Smollett. A tungsten-stiff prison sentence for the convicted racial hoaxster and weapons-grade pathological liar would be a huge gift, not just to me, but for all of American society. After a jury found Smollett guilty of five counts… -
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The Year in Unhinged Liberal Celebrities’ Freakouts
Despite the triumph of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, liberal celebrities didn’t get much happier in 2021. It began with Donald Trump refusing to concede that he lost the presidential election. A year ago, one actor engaged in violent fantasies over this stubborn resistance to the facts. “Who arrests Trump if he refuses to concede? Who… -
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Taking a Cue From China, Facebook Censors Chinese Whistleblower on COVID’s Origins
UPDATE—Dec. 21: Science Feedback changed its rating from "partly false" to "missing context." Read more below. Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist, escaped to America after facing threats for speaking out on the origins of COVID-19. China couldn’t stop Yan from telling her story, so Facebook is stepping in to help the communist regime censor… -
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Why Hasn’t Jussie Smollett Been Charged With Perjury?
This did not wear well. On Feb. 22, 2019, a story posted on Gentleman’s Quarterly website was headlined: “The Racist, Homophobic Attack on Jussie Smollett Is America’s Endgame. When one of the most famous black and gay men in America is not safe, the message is clearer than it has ever been.” One of the… -
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Democrats Dump ‘Build Back Better,’ Pivot to Useless Extremism
Editor’s note: On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., told “Fox News Sunday” he would not vote for the Build Back Better bill, saying, “I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there.” Unable to pass their welfare-state expansion with a simple majority,… -
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A Glimpse Into Homeschooling Through Holidays
Homeschooling during the holidays is a meaningful time in my family’s homeschool. Since my husband and I started homeschooling our children, we have taught them year-round. This means we don’t take summer breaks. That’s not to say that we don’t take breaks at all. It means we have more flexibility to choose when and how… -
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Remembering Linda Whetstone, Champion of Liberty
The world has lost a great ally of freedom. Linda Whetstone, daughter of entrepreneur and think tank pioneer Sir Antony Fisher, passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 15 at the age of 79. Whetstone left a remarkable legacy of institutions, academics, students, and activists across the globe that have benefited from her tireless efforts to raise… -
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Biden’s Many Anti-Energy Policies Are Hurting Producers, Consumers Alike
When Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm addressed the National Petroleum Council on Tuesday, she announced that the administration would not impose a ban on crude oil exports in an effort to tamp down gasoline and diesel prices. That was the right move, as doing so would only have created more rigidity in energy markets and exacerbated… -
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Mary’s Shelter and the ‘Angel’: A Story of Pregnant Women in Crisis and the Pro-Life Maternity Home That Shelters Them
Eighteen-year-old Mikaela had nowhere to go. Her father had turned her out of the house in a rage, insisting that she abort her baby. Her boyfriend also urged her to abort his unborn child, refusing to let her move in with him. The teenager was nine weeks pregnant when she arrived at a maternity shelter…