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opinion
The Hunter Biden Omission Perseveres
Right now we’re getting a feeling that echoes the feeling from last fall, a sense that every new piece of investigative journalism on Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop will be ignored by the “mainstream media.” To be fair, when they didn’t ignore the story back then, they constantly implied it was a Russian disinformation plot. On… -
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Power-Hungry Oregon Politicians Ignore CDC Guidance, Stalling Return to Normalcy
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidance three weeks ago advising that fully vaccinated people could largely resume normal activities without masking, many saw it as the light at the end of the long tunnel of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the CDC’s May 13 guidance is just that and, thanks to… -
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How COVID-19 Could Help Working Women
Women have come a long way in the labor force. Much of women’s gains have consisted of steady progress in education, labor force participation, and earnings. But historical events have also played a role, including the surge in their labor force participation during World War II. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic might mark another such… -
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Louisiana Teacher: Why I Spoke Out Against Pushing Gender Ideology
Louisiana high school teacher Jonathan Koeppel spoke out recently against the gender identity ideology being promoted at his school. A video of his remarks at a school board meeting quickly went viral. During the meeting in April, Koeppel played an audio clip for the school board from an education app the school uses, called “BrainPOP,” in… -
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GOP Congresswoman’s Home Vandalized With Antifa Symbols on Memorial Day
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s home was vandalized with Antifa symbols and profanity on Memorial Day, the freshman congresswoman announced on Tuesday. Multiple circle-A anarchist symbols and messages such as “all politicians are bastards,” “no gods no masters,” “f— you Nancy,” and “pass the pro act” were spray-painted on Mace’s home and sidewalk, according to… -
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Teacher Fights Suspension for Declining to Obey School District’s Transgender Pronoun Policy
A prominent religious liberty organization is asking a Virginia school district to reverse a decision to suspend a gym teacher for not complying with pronoun rules for transgender students in his elementary school. The Loudoun County school district suspended Byron “Tanner” Cross, a physical education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, after he said during a… -
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Biden Calls for Billions to Close Racial Wealth Gap, Hits 2 Senate Democrats for Stymieing His Agenda
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a plan to push for the government to buy from black-owned businesses and for infrastructure targeted at minority-majority areas to help close the “racial wealth gap” between black and white Americans. He said his administration also wants to increase enforcement of the Fair Housing Act to increase black homeownership…. -
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In Europe, Voter ID Is the Norm
Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections—warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story—of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned. A database on voting rules… -
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Biden’s Obeisance to Left-Wing Ideology Threatens Public Health
The Biden administration’s adherence to progressive extremism is harming public safety. On May 5, the administration jeopardized the country’s future health when it declared it would ignore the intellectual property rights of the companies that created COVID-19 vaccines. The long-term consequences of this ideological and reckless decision will be far reaching unless we put a… -
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America Must Lead Free World in Elections to Interpol Commission
Interpol, the international organization of police organizations, has an important election coming up. That election will determine the new membership of a body known as the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files. The commission’s job is to check that the processing of personal data by Interpol complies with the police organization’s own rules, and… -
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The 6th Circuit Was Right: My University Can’t Force Me to Endorse Ideas I Disagree With
When I began teaching my political philosophy class at Shawnee State University in the spring of 2018, I had no idea that day’s discussion would bring me to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, but it did. On that day, a biologically male student raised his hand, and I responded with a simple… -
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Biden’s ATF Nominee Amplifies Concerns About Stance on Second Amendment
When President Joe Biden released his plan in February to tackle gun violence, he also announced the nomination of David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF. Chipman’s nomination as ATF director raised immediate concerns from Second Amendment advocates, many of whom see it as a slap in the… -
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Biden Buries Bad News of a Bloated, Reckless Budget and Hopes You Won’t Notice
When there’s bad news to be released in Washington, a tried-and-true tactic is to dump it on a Friday afternoon. If it’s really bad news, then make sure to release it before a long holiday weekend. President Joe Biden followed this strategy, releasing his budget proposal on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day holiday…. -
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Arizona Sheriff Describes How the Border Has Changed Under Biden
The effort to curb illegal immigration in his Arizona border jurisdiction has deteriorated dramatically since President Joe Biden took office, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels says. “When President Biden declared the southwest border a nonemergency, it stopped the physical barrier going up, it stopped all infrastructure completion, it stopped the subterraneal technology, it froze that… -
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How This Independent Journalist Documents Media Bias
The left-leaning media sometimes uses the news to promote an agenda, independent journalist Drew Holden says. Holden has become known for his Twitter threads, in which he shows how news coverage changes depending on whether the subject is a liberal or a conservative. “What we’ve seen in the last couple of years,” Holden says, “is… -
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Former VA Secretary Robert Wilkie Reminds Us Why We Celebrate Memorial Day
On Memorial Day, America honors the more than 1 million men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country. Robert Wilkie, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Trump administration, says Americans owe a great debt because without those who laid down their lives, “we wouldn’t have very much… -
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We Hear You: Thomas Sowell, Housing First, and China and Celebrities
Editor's note: This week, we're sharing your thoughts on a cowardly celebrity, how to tackle homelessness, and applause for a teacher outing classroom wokeness. Want to sound off? Email us at [email protected], and we'll consider your letter for publication in a future edition of "We Hear You."—Katrina Trinko Dear Daily Signal: Having been long been… -
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Madison Becomes Last of Wisconsin’s 5 Largest Cities to Face Election Complaint
MADISON, Wis.—This capital city has become the fifth and last of Wisconsin’s so-called WI-5 cities to face a formal complaint alleging violations of election law in the November presidential contest in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. Saying they are concerned about liberal groups entrenched in administration of Wisconsin elections, a crowd of about nearly… -
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Biden’s Russian Collusion
Is Joe Biden a Russian asset? After reading this tale of three pipelines, that unhappy ending will be hard to avoid. First, on Jan. 20, Biden’s first afternoon as president, he ditched the Trump-approved Keystone XL pipeline. Some 11,000 high-paying jobs, many unionized, vanished. While these suddenly unemployed Americans sulked, Russian President Vladimir Putin cheered…. -
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11 States Consider Bans on Teaching Critical Race Theory
Earlier this year, an Aiken County teacher wrote to South Carolina state Rep. Bill Taylor in alarm about critical race theory emerging in public schools. “I know full well the insidiousness of the so-called critical race theory that aims to resegregate society, discriminate against those who are white, victimize those who are black, and render…