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opinion
Biden Sets Everything on Fire
Joe Biden is the luckiest man to ever assume the presidency. He succeeded an unpopular figure. He was inaugurated just two weeks after the dramatic storming of the U.S. Capitol by extremist Donald Trump supporters seeking to stop the certification of the 2020 election, which was also the beginning of the year after widespread race… -
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Fact Check: Was Biden Right About Federal Unemployment Benefits Having No Effect on Jobs Report?
The $1.9 trillion, partisan COVID-19 relief package was supposed to boost the economy, but it may have stifled it instead. With widespread reopenings, 46% of Americans having received at least one COVID-19 vaccine, and another round of “stimulus” checks boosting Americans’ bank accounts, expectations were high for job gains to exceed 1 million in April…. -
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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin Gets It: DC Statehood Requires Constitutional Amendment
Who says politicians never listen? Fortunately, sometimes they do. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., recently made clear: “If Congress wants to make D.C. a state, it should propose a constitutional amendment … and let the people of America vote.” He said April 30 that he and his staff took a “deep dive” into the issue and… -
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Hamas Exploits Palestinian Unrest to Launch Rocket War Against Israel
Hamas, the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, has orchestrated Palestinian political violence for the past few weeks as part of its annual propaganda/terrorist offensive against Israel during Ramadan, the Islamic holy month. After Hamas and its political rival, the Palestinian Authority, competed to promote violent clashes with Israeli police at Muslim holy sites in… -
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Christian College Fights Biden Directive Allowing Men to Live in Women’s Dorms
A small Missouri college is taking the Biden administration to court over a directive that allows biological men who “identify” as women to live in female-only dormitories. The College of the Ozarks, a Christian school with just over 1,500 students, filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration in April after the Department of Housing and… -
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Firsthand Accounts of Illegal Immigration Surge: Observations From Front Lines
The Daily Signal recently traveled to Cochise County, Arizona—which shares 83 miles of border with Mexico—to see firsthand how the illegal immigration crisis is affecting those who work and live on the U.S. side of the southern border. Brandon Judd, a Border Patrol agent and president of the National Border Patrol Council, told The Daily Signal… -
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8 Takeaways as Senate Panel Deadlocks on Bill to Nationalize Elections, Nullify Voter ID
In a party-line vote Tuesday, a Senate committee deadlocked 9-9 on a bill that would nullify voter ID and other state election requirements after rejecting multiple Republican-proposed amendments. The Senate Rules and Administration Committee debated the amendments and merits of the legislation, S 1, which sponsors call the For the People Act. Committee Chairwoman Amy… -
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South Carolina Lawsuit Challenges State’s Blaine Amendment Bias Against Religious, Private Schools
With American education turned upside down during the pandemic, the South Carolina Supreme Court barred Gov. Henry McMaster from distributing any of the funds that the state had received under the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to private and religious schools. But private and religious schools and colleges in the state aren’t… -
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Montana Governor Signs Law Banning Males From Girls Sports
Despite other Republican governors folding beneath political pressure, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has not shied away from taking the bull by the horns. On Friday, Gianforte signed HB 112, a bill prohibiting biological males from competing in girls sports—a commonsense protection that has been, sadly, recently rejected by two of his Republican counterparts. Gianforte has not been one… -
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Cruz: Senate Bill ‘Designed to Ensure Democrats Never Lose Another Election’
Editor’s note: At a Senate Rules Committee meeting Tuesday when senators met to consider amendments to the For the People Act, legislation that would affect election laws across the nation, Sen. Ted Cruz spoke about the bill, saying it would suppress “millions of votes … by allowing millions of people to vote illegally.” Read the… -
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FCC Commissioner Slams Baltimore Prosecutor’s ‘Chilling’ Request for Investigation Into Fox Affiliate Over Bias
The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission criticized the Democratic Baltimore City state attorney’s recent request for an investigation into a local Fox affiliate as an attack on free speech. Brendan Carr, the top Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, condemned Baltimore City State Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s request, saying it was part of a broader effort by… -
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White House Task Force Is Payoff to Biden’s Union Cronies
With little fanfare, President Joe Biden on April 26 signed yet another executive order, this one establishing a White House task force on “Worker Organizing and Empowerment.” Implicit in its title is the leftist core belief that individual workers aren’t smart enough to know what’s good for them, so the government is going to intervene…. -
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In These 11 Cases, a Firearm Saved the Owner or Others
Late last month, President Joe Biden used his first address to a joint session of Congress to push for major gun control initiatives, often using blatant lies and mischaracterizations in the process. One of Biden’s more egregious mischaracterizations was the common trope that the nation is experiencing a “gun violence epidemic.” The plain data simply… -
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Abysmal Jobs Report Shows Folly of Biden’s Big-Spending Agenda
The latest national employment numbers were released on Friday. Expectations were high. A combination of vaccinations, relaxing of pandemic-related economic restrictions, and stimulus funding that passed in March were enough to have experts predicting 1 million new jobs in April. The reality was quite different—just 266,000 new jobs in April, the biggest underperformance in memory,… -
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What You Should Know About Jack Phillips’ Latest Religious Liberty Case
Self-described cake artist Jack Phillips is again at the center of the debate over religious freedom, this time as the defendant in a state trial after being sued for declining to design and bake a cake celebrating a gender transition. “Jack’s been in the news for many years,” as Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel at Alliance… -
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The Infernal Revenue Service
Thanks to the beneficence of the Internal Revenue Service—and the fallout from COVID-19—we half of Americans who pay federal income taxes have been given until May 17 to file. Since I began earning enough to file Form 1040 and associated forms, I have only known one person who prepared his own taxes. That was Bill… -
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Biden Administration’s New Gender Identity Policy Could Force Health Professionals to Violate Conscience
President Joe Biden’s new policy redefining sex puts doctors at risk, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling told The Daily Caller News Foundation Monday. The Biden administration announced Monday that it would reinterpret “sex” in the context of health care anti-discrimination laws to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” reversing a Trump administration policy that… -
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How Biden’s Open-Border Policies Are Worsening Scourge of Human Trafficking
One of my top priorities as state attorney general of Missouri has been to combat human trafficking. We have organized a number of operations to fight human trafficking with an unprecedented level of coordination among local, state, and federal law enforcement that have rescued victims and led to the arrest of traffickers. Further, through our… -
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5 Things You Need to Know About Biden’s $1.8 Trillion American Families Plan
Strong families and hard work have formed the foundation for healthy development, meaningful relationships, and economic well-being ever since America’s inception. Now, President Joe Biden has a new vision: one in which progressive politicians and government bureaucrats sit at the helm of American families, financed through $1.8 trillion in new taxpayer spending. Through a laundry… -
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American Conservatives Renew Push Against China’s ‘Developing Country’ Status at World Bank
A group of conservative U.S. senators has introduced legislation that would prevent China from continuing to exploit its “developing country” status at the World Bank to access super low interest rate loans that are funded in part by American taxpayers—even as China continues its huge and aggressive debt-trap diplomacy “One Belt, One Road” development lending…