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George Soros Teams Up With Billionaire Who Backed Liberal Disinformation Efforts to Fund Anti-Disinformation Media Venture
Liberal tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, a funder of numerous disinformation projects, is backing a new media venture launched Tuesday that seeks to combat disinformation, according to a report. Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, joined ranks with financier George Soros to fund Good Information Inc., which will “fund and scale businesses that cut through eco chambers… -
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Biden Administration Blocks This Sheriff From Detaining Illegal Immigrants
Far from the southern border, Massachusetts is rarely the first place one thinks about regarding illegal immigration. But the pull of generous sanctuary cities and social programs has brought in a significant population, said Sheriff Tom Hodgson of Bristol County, Massachusetts. So a phone call in May about detaining illegal immigrants came as a surprise… -
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Congress Didn’t Give OSHA Authority to Impose Vaccine Mandates
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is about to require 80 million working Americans to get vaccinated. You may be among them. There’s just one catch: OSHA lacks the legal authority to impose a vaccine mandate. Declaring that his patience was “wearing thin” with unvaccinated Americans, President Joe Biden on Sept. 9 announced that OSHA… -
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China’s New Weapon Just Upped Global Threat Level
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, no—it’s a Chinese fractional orbital bombardment system. A what?! Yes, a Chinese fractional orbital bombardment system—armed with a hypersonic glide vehicle. It was revealed in mid-October that China has conducted two tests of this new strategic weapon system during the summer—a development that should seriously concern U.S. defense… -
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Biden’s Irresponsible ‘Build Back Better’ Tax-and-Spend Scheme Risks Higher Inflation
Rising prices continue to erode Americans’ paychecks, supply chain problems are causing gridlock at U.S. ports, and stores have bare shelves as Christmas approaches. Worse, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg acknowledged that he expects the supply-side issues to persist into next year. Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s top legislative priority—the so-called Build Back Better plan—is a $3.5… -
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Biden Pick Becerra’s Indecent, Indefensible Legal Assault on Nuns, Human Life
The following is excerpted from Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s new book “Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America.“ It is available here and elsewhere. Founded in France in 1839, the Little Sisters of the Poor is a Catholic order of nuns who operate 29 care homes across the United… -
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How America Went ‘Race Crazy’: Author Charles Love Explains and Offers Remedies
Since The New York Times released its 1619 Project in 2019, schools have been quick to adopt the curriculum. Tensions over race and racism over the past year and half have only added to the number of schools using the curriculum, says Charles Love, host of the “Cut the Bull” podcast and executive director of… -
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National School Boards Association Issues ‘Weak’ Apology for Letter Likening Parents’ Actions to ‘Domestic Terrorism’
The National School Boards Association has apologized for a Sept. 29 letter it sent to the Biden administration inferring that irate parents’ actions toward school personnel could be considered acts of “domestic terrorism.” “On behalf of [the National School Boards Association], we regret and apologize for the letter,” the group wrote Oct. 22, adding that… -
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Woke School District Accused of Mishandling Vicious Bullying, Beating of 15-Year-Old
A 15-year-old student at a Massachusetts high school was lured into an ambush by six other students in a brutal beating that landed him in the emergency room. The parents of the attacked boy are accusing Wellesley Public Schools of egregiously mishandling the assault because it did not put out a statement about the beating… -
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We Hear You: Public Schools, Private Beliefs, and Rising Inflation
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience isn't happy with how school system leaders in Loudoun County, Virginia, responded to a rape in a girls' restroom at one of its high schools, nor with the continuing rise in inflation, as evidenced by these letters from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: As a retired… -
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IRS Oversteps Its Boundaries With Lazy and Destructive Proposal
“Americans are starting to be worried about this. Do you think that this pay-for of giving the IRS more money to crack down on unpaid taxes is going to stay in the reconciliation bill?” “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., exchange with reporter during weekly press conference on Oct. 12 No, the… -
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The ‘Prisoners’ Dilemma’ in Biden’s Title IX Policies
In economics, there’s a thought experiment called the “prisoners’ dilemma” that describes a scenario in which two rational people fail to reach a win-win outcome by cooperating. Neither person can trust the other to cooperate, and their distrust leads them to pick an outcome that’s bad for both. The classic example features two conspirators questioned… -
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Lawmaker Locked Out of Twitter Account for Calling Transgender Government Official a Man
Twitter flagged a tweet from Rep. Jim Banks sent out on Oct. 19 calling Dr. Rachel Levine, who is transgender, a man, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. “The title of the first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” Banks, R-Ind., said in a now-locked tweet, in reference to Levine getting sworn in as… -
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8 Ridiculous ‘Green New Deal’ Programs in Democrats’ Bloated Spending Bill
Both chambers of Congress are focused on a raging debate over whether to pass a 2,465-page, $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend bill. With the legislation almost guaranteed to have no Republican support, different factions of Democrats are locking horns over the bill’s fate. Progressives want to spend recklessly, which is much easier to do when you’re using… -
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Netflix Backs Chappelle, but Still Spurns Conservatives
Many conservatives praised Netflix for “standing up to cancel culture” by defending its decision to carry Dave Chappelle’s comedy special “The Closer.” Critics in the LGBTQ community accuse him of misogyny and of bashing transgender people. Among comments that attracted controversy, Chappelle said, “Gender is a fact. Every human being in this room, every human… -
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Risk Is Necessary for a Healthy Civilization
Human beings aren’t great at assessing risk. In 1979, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky posited a new branch of behavioral economics, which they titled prospect theory. One of their key findings was that human beings are naturally loss-averse—we generally are willing to forego the probability of gains in order to minimize the chance of… -
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Work Matters, Despite What Congressional Democrats Think
Why are congressional Democrats breaking welfare again? In March, they transformed the child tax credit into a monthly child allowance—no work conditions attached. If made permanent, as they are now trying to do, it would be the second-largest expansion of the welfare state in U.S. history. The credit used to increase as low-income parents worked… -
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‘Free Speech’ Media Allies With Transgender Tyranny
The left claims their most urgent battle is to save democracy, but when it comes to any questioning of the LGBT lobby, they are the ones who sound like authoritarians. The overtones are unmistakable in the “news” coverage promoting “dozens” of employees walking out of Netflix in Los Angeles on Oct. 20 in protest. The… -
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Sean Spicer’s Road Map for Stopping Biden’s Radical Plan to Change Our Nation
Sean Spicer wants you to take President Joe Biden at his word—his policy agenda really will radically transform America as we know it. Spicer’s new book, “Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America,” details the Biden administration’s agenda and how it is already proving disastrous. He also provides readers with a… -
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China’s Test of Orbital Hypersonic Missile Is a Big Deal
The Financial Times recently reported that China had combined two advanced missile technologies in a test of a new nuclear capability. The test featured a so-called Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, which is launched into space and can orbit the globe before releasing a missile at its target. The Fractional Orbital Bombardment System was reportedly armed with a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle, which can…