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My Friend Was Pressured to Have an Abortion After Scan Showed Chance of Disability
Every day in America, pregnant women sit in their doctors’ offices, waiting for scan results. These mothers—no matter their age, race, or economic backgrounds—all hope to hear the same news: that their baby is healthy and growing right on track. Hearing the all-clear, these moms can rejoice and continue with their medical appointments. However, for… -
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Explains His State’s New Election Law: What’s in It, What Isn’t
The state of Georgia enacted election reform legislation, signed into law last week, that has drawn harsh criticism from the left. President Joe Biden and others have likened it to the Jim Crow era. What does the election law accomplish, and how is Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp responding to the criticism? “The bill makes it… -
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US Joins 13 Other Democracies in Condemning China’s Influence on WHO’s Report on Origins of Coronavirus
The State Department issued a joint statement with 13 other democracies expressing concerns over the World Health Organization’s study with China investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Together, we support a transparent and independent analysis and evaluation, free from undue influence, of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the State Department's statement read. “In this regard,… -
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Gov. Noem’s Disappointing Refusal to Support Girls and Women’s Sports
Gov. Kristi Noem has just let down the girls and women of South Dakota. It wasn’t a total surprise. Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, announced earlier this month she would not sign the legislation, designed to “promote continued fairness in women’s sports,” that the Legislature passed. The provision would ensure that girls and… -
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Fact-Checking 6 of Opponents’ Claims About Georgia’s Election Law
President Joe Biden and other Democrats, without offering evidence, equate Georgia’s new election law with the Jim Crow era, while many media outlets obligingly repeat Democratic talking points about it. A headline over a March 25 news report in The New York Times, not an opinion piece, referred to the legislation as a “major law to… -
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Filibuster Flip-Flop: Sen. Biden vs. President Biden
When President Joe Biden addressed the filibuster during his first press conference on March 25, most of what he said was either factually wrong or seriously misleading. Both the Senate and House must end debate on a bill before it can vote on passage. In the House, the same number of votes—a simple majority—can do… -
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America’s Top Cyberwarrior Warns of Growing Threats
Gen. Paul Nakasone, the commander of the U.S. military’s Cyber Command and the director of the National Security Agency, testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee last Thursday on the current state of Cyber Command and cybersecurity. His testimony provided some alarming news about the threats America faces. Nakasone spoke of the increasing sophistication of… -
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In a Rebuke to Teachers Unions, School Choice Is Going Gangbusters in the States
School districts are slowly beginning to reopen in-person instruction after being closed for nearly a year—or, in many places, for over a year. While this is a wonderful development, it will never erase what parents experienced last year: uncertainty, inconsistency, and, in some cases, ineptitude from public schools. The events of the last year have… -
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Washington Should Steer Clear of Tax on Vehicle Miles Traveled
One of the most frequent claims from Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign was that he would only seek tax increases on those earning more than $400,000 per year. That was always a dubious promise, given his expensive big-government agenda, and now we’re seeing examples of how a tax-and-spend approach can hit everyday Americans. Setting aside… -
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America’s Current Civil War Rages Over Judeo-Christian Values
Conservatives often speak of Judeo-Christian values and how the current civil war in the United States and the rest of the West is essentially a battle between those values and the left, which rejects Judeo-Christian values. They are right. But they rarely explain what Judeo-Christian values are. Yet, without an explanation, mentioning Judeo-Christian values is… -
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Gov. Kristi Noem Effectively Vetoes Bill Banning Biological Males From Women’s Sports
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem failed to certify a bill banning biological males from women’s sports Monday after the Legislature voted to reject her changes. The state’s House rejected Noem’s style and form veto of HB 1217 on Monday, the state’s Veto Day, by a vote of 67 to 2. The vote sent the bill back… -
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It’s Time to Get Serious About Reforming World Trade Organization
“No negotiator walks away from leverage, right? … Every good negotiator retains his or her leverage to use it.” That’s what recently installed U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai emphasized in her first interview since her Senate confirmation on March 17. The upcoming Group of Seven trade ministers meeting will offer the first glimpse of how… -
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Less Is More: Restoring the Founders’ Original Vision for Our Constitutional Republic
One of the main objectives of the great American experiment was to move away from a system of top-down rule by the powerful elite over the powerless. Instead, our Founders understood that power belonged to the people, and was entrusted by the people to those elected to govern. Recognizing humanity’s fallible nature, the Framers structured… -
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The Left’s ‘Jim Crow’ Rhetoric Is Absurd, Insulting, and Dishonest
The obnoxious—and patently false—attacks on Georgia’s new election reform bill, which compare it to the hideous Jim Crow laws of the long-gone “Old South,” are absurd. They are also insulting to those who actually were kept from registering and voting decades ago. The polemical taunts are directed toward two of the bill’s provisions, one that… -
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Jim Crow and the Georgia Voting Law
At his news conference last Thursday, President Joe Biden said of Georgia’s new voting law, “It makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.” Jim Crow was not a person, but unlike most former presidents, he has a museum: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. The name came from a song written by Thomas Dartmouth… -
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What You Need to Know About Biden Administration’s Illegal Immigration Claims
The Department of Homeland Security said two weeks ago that illegal border crossings are on pace to reach their highest level in two decades. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s administration is claiming that border crises happen every year and that former President Donald Trump’s policies didn’t reduce illegal crossings. Lora Ries, senior research fellow for homeland security… -
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On Electoral Redistricting Panels, HR 1 Would Require Racial, Gender Discrimination
HR 1, the so-called For the People Act, is a dangerous and radical bill. It threatens the security, fairness, and integrity of our elections and restricts the First Amendment rights of Americans to freely engage in political speech and activity. It would force state legislatures to hand over the redistricting process to unaccountable bureaucrats and… -
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Mail-In Voting Audit of Montana’s 2020 Elections Finds Significant Number of Irregularities
MISSOULA COUNTY, Mont.—A mountainous, 2,600-square-mile region with a population of approximately 119,600 does not seem like your prototypical setting for machine politics. Yet a recent audit of mail-in ballots cast there found irregularities characteristic of larger urban centers—on a level that could have easily swung local elections in 2020 and statewide elections in cycles past…. -
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Arizona Sheriff 60 Miles From Border Sees Spike in Arrests of Illegal Immigrants
A sheriff whose Arizona county is 60 miles from the southern border says his county is experience a direct impact from the flood of illegal immigrants streaming into the U.S. from Mexico. “We just this morning had a procedure where we chased a car,” Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb told The Daily Signal in an… -
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Congress Failed Once to Use Its Power on Iran Nuclear Agreement. It Shouldn’t Fail Again.
Over the past two months, the Biden administration has shown a willingness to revive negotiations with Iran on the flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran nuclear agreement. Thus far, negotiations haven’t taken place. Iran wants sanctions lifted before coming to the negotiating table, while the U.S. demands that Iran return…