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opinion
Teachers Are Feeding Critical Race Theory to Our Kids. Look What’s Happening in Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis.—A widespread, vigorous debate is going on in this country right now about critical race theory and if it should be taught in our local schools. Critical race theory is an academic discipline that has been around for decades but only recently became the ideology of the far left in its push to tear… -
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America Must Act Decisively Against China’s Theft, Spying
Grand theft auto is a persistent crime in America. It’s a felony in most states with jail sentences up to 10 years and a fine of $10,000, depending upon the value of the car and any valuables left inside. Car theft is a lucrative pursuit. Thieves steal an average of 2,400 vehicles a day for… -
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How Pro-Lifers in This Texas Town Beat Planned Parenthood
Just one month after Lubbock, Texas, became the state’s largest sanctuary city for the unborn (and the only sanctuary city for the unborn with an active abortion clinic), Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas last week agreed to stop performing abortions within the city limits. This announcement came after a federal district judge dismissed Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, citing lack of standing…. -
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Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Bills Combating Chinese Communist Party’s Influence in US
MIAMI—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills Monday aimed at combating the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the U.S. The first bill is intended to safeguard public institutions from “undue foreign influence,” DeSantis, a Republican, said at a press conference, noting that the bill will prohibit “agreements between public entities and the Communist… -
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High Court Gets It Right: Prosecute Hacking, Not Terms of Service Violations
Millions of Americans are no longer in danger of committing a federal crime when they check sports scores at work, fib in an online dating profile, or use a pseudonym on Facebook, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision last Thursday in Van Buren v. United States. Van Buren posed the question of whether the 1986… -
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‘Emotionally Abusing Our Children’: Mom Criticizes ‘Communist Values’ at School Board Meeting
A parent criticized members of the Carmel Central School District school board for “emotionally abusing” the children and teaching them “communist values” in Putnam County, New York, at a school board business meeting Thursday. Tatiyana Ibrahim, whose child attends one of the schools in the district, criticized the school board for allowing teachers to allegedly… -
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My Woke Employees Tried to Cancel Me. Here’s How I Fought Back and Saved My Nonprofit.
By now there are enough “cancel culture” stories to fill volumes. After my own story about standing up to a woke mob—and succeeding—went viral on Twitter, I decided to speak out, because I am convinced that Americans need more encouraging stories about standing up to cancel culture, and information on how they can do it… -
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Will California Expats Turn Texas Blue? Here’s the Surprising Polling Data
Chuck DeVore moved his family from California to Texas a decade ago. The move was prompted by several factors, he says, including “seeing [California] drifting further and further to the left.” Today, many people are making the same decision that DeVore, vice president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, made: They are leaving California for the… -
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We Hear You: Securing Elections, Cutting Spending, and Countering Wokeism
Editor's note: Clean elections, lower taxes and spending, and back to the basics in education. All three are on the minds of The Daily Signal's audience, judging from the mailbag at [email protected]. Take a look.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: The last thing we need is federal laws governing elections, the subject of Hans von Spakovsky's… -
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Conservatives Score Big Against NCAA
For the refused-to-be-canceled crowd, it was a headline to celebrate. “The NCAA threatened states over anti-transgender bills,” the big print of The Washington Post read. “But the games went on.” It was the surest sign in a post-Georgia, Coke-boycotting world that fed-up conservatives were the newest force to be reckoned with. It’s also the most recent… -
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Facebook Extends Its Ban of Trump to 2 Years or More
Facebook announced Friday it has extended its ban of former President Donald Trump for 19 more months—for a total of two years—and may ban him permanently at a future date. “Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trump’s suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules, which merit… -
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8 Things to Know About Whether COVID-19 Leaked From Chinese Lab
The trove of newly public emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci only has intensified calls for more answers about the origins of COVID-19. On some level, the executive branch and Congress are investigating the origins of the pandemic that has killed millions around the world and almost 600,000 in the United States. The renewed attention comes… -
opinion
Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Isn’t Really About Building Roads and Bridges
What’s the difference between helping the elderly and building roads? The answer should be obvious, but some members of Congress are having trouble telling the difference. President Joe Biden’s administration is sparring with Republicans over his proposed $1.7 trillion infrastructure spending package, which includes $400 billion allocated to help care for elderly and disabled Americans. It goes without saying… -
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Blame Criminals, Democrat Left for Today’s Crime Surge
Today’s explosion in violent crime parallels the return of 1970s-style inflation and gasoline lines. Wide ties and polyester slacks can’t be far behind. Criminals themselves are the root cause of crime—now and forevermore. But the thugs’ enablers, and sometime cheerleaders, are the root cause of nearly every contemporary American malady: the Democrat left. Liberal Democrats… -
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How Google Is Attempting to ‘Newspeak’ the English Language
In a social engineering move that seems straight out of the pages of George Orwell, Google recently introduced an update to its Google Docs platform that encourages users to use more “inclusive” language. Inclusive language advocates argue that words like “he” and “she” are transphobic, or that phrases like “blind date” “build on the millennia… -
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Jews Can’t Let America Turn Into Another Europe
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sent extra state patrols to Jewish neighborhoods after a rash of attacks, including the beating of a man by a mob in midtown Manhattan, a brick flying through the windows of a kosher pizza store, and “protesters” spitting at and threatening restaurant patrons. Since anti-Jewish attacks in Brooklyn aren’t… -
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The New Business of Woke Corporate Consulting
In 2017, Nandini Jammi helped launch a company called Sleeping Giants to pressure corporate advertisers into boycotting conservative media. With little more than a Twitter account, a Facebook group, and a gift for incendiary rhetoric, the company reportedly prompted a range of corporations, from Pfizer to Walmart, to pull advertising from Fox News and other… -
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Pandemic Challenged Us, but Did Not Derail Us
At long last, we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are inching closer and closer each day to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic here in America. We are not quite there yet. There are still 500 of our countrymen dying every day from complications of this insidious virus…. -
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San Francisco Shows Leftist Policies Can’t Solve Homelessness
San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks,… -
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Black Lives Matter Leader Resigns but Organization’s Radical, Marxist Agenda Continues
Over the last 10 months, Patrisse Cullors led the main Black Lives Matters group to significant success: assembling a $100 million war chest, getting a bill introduced in Congress and critical race theory curricula distributed to unsuspecting children in 14,000 school districts, and achieving enough cultural cachet to partner with the musical “Hamilton.” Yet the…