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How Christians Can Respond to Today’s ‘Crisis in America’
Racial tensions, the ongoing pandemic, and fierce political discord have left many Americans asking how the nation can move forward in unity. Bishop Garland Hunt seeks to answer that question in his new book, “Crisis in America: A Christian Response.” Hunt, pastor of a nondenominational church in Atlanta, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain… -
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Fact-Checkers Heart Joe Biden
Appearing at a friendly CNN town hall event this week, President Joe Biden dropped a string of untruths on issues both large and small. One of the president’s most egregious falsehoods was the claim that “we didn’t have [the vaccine] when we came into office.” The first shot was administered back on Dec. 14, 2020…. -
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Scott Walker Takes Helm of Young America’s Foundation
Left-wing ideologues who attempt to suppress conservative ideas on college campuses and in legislative chambers don’t genuinely believe in either unity or diversity despite what they say, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in an interview with The Daily Signal. Walker, the new president of Young America’s Foundation, said such persons on the left mostly… -
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How the COVID-19 Censors Killed the Truth
Estimates are all over the place, but it’s now beyond dispute that Soviet policies in the 1930s led to the deaths of somewhere between 7 and 12 million Ukrainians (about the equivalent to killing every person in Michigan today). It’s one of the greatest horrors in world history. The world knew little about the Ukrainian… -
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What Left-Wing Educators Don’t Teach During Black History Month
When will Black History Month be … history? Apart from the bizarre notion that educators should set aside one month to salute the historical achievements of one race apart from and above the historical achievements of other races, Black History Month appears to omit a lot of black history. About slavery, do our mostly left-wing… -
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Justice Department Won’t Oppose Arizona Election Reform Before Supreme Court Hears Case
On the cusp of Supreme Court arguments about Arizona’s ban on the controversial practice of ballot harvesting, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department pulled a surprise maneuver—inaction. The Biden administration in effect maintained the same position, for now, as the Trump administration regarding a major election integrity case. In a carefully worded letter to the Supreme… -
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Before Rejoining UN Human Rights Council, US Should Commit to Authentic Human Rights
The United States is headed back to the United Nations Human Rights Council, as announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In his statement, Blinken addresses the body’s failings, but notes that, “the best way to improve the Council is to engage with it and its members in a principled fashion.” While American human rights… -
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Reasons for Texas Blackouts and How Best to Avoid Them Going Forward
As millions of Texans suffer from a lack of electric power, heat, and water, the “never let a crisis go to waste” crowd is in full swing on both sides of the political aisle. Half-truths and misinformation have flooded social media outlets and policy discussions, blaming specific fuel sources, the deregulated structure of Texas’ electricity… -
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Melania Haters Now Loving Jill Biden
The liberal-Democrat media celebrated Valentine’s Day a traditional way: gushy tributes to the new first lady. On Feb. 12, Jill Biden tweeted on her @FLOTUS Twitter account a photo of herself, with a scrunchie in her hair, at a Washington, D.C., bakery picking up “Valentine’s treats for the weekend.” “Don’t tell Joe,” she joked. Glamour… -
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Biden’s Executive Order on Gender Discrimination Has Muddied Waters on Title IX. Challenges Could Clear That Up.
A month ago on Jan. 20, a newly minted President Joe Biden—who had remarked on Twitter during his presidential campaign, “Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time”—issued a lightning-fast executive order on the subject. Biden’s “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or… -
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The Biden-Made Border Crisis
The border crisis isn’t coming; it’s already here. It is here because the left is actively encouraging, incentivizing, and facilitating it. Team Biden, while on the campaign trail and now firmly ensconced in the White House, put out the message loud and clear to those south of the border: Come over illegally, and we will release you,… -
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Economic Freedom Is Key to Enhancing Relationship Between Sri Lanka and US
Speaking on the 73rd Independence Day of Sri Lanka on Feb. 4, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa observed: “The foundation of our citizen-centric economic policy is that the true potential of the economy cannot be unleashed without economic freedom.” He further noted that “to achieve the government’s aims of eliminating poverty, providing equal opportunity for improvement of… -
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Rush Limbaugh’s Legacy: Stories and Perspective From a Friend
America said goodbye Wednesday to conservative talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh, who revolutionized talk radio, will be remembered for his intellect, sense of humor, and bold rhetoric. Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, was good friends with Limbaugh. Bozell joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share stories about how the… -
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6 Key Aspects of Biden’s Amnesty Bill
President Joe Biden is promoting an immigration bill that could grant amnesty to up to 20 million illegal immigrants. “The Biden administration, in coordination with Democrats on the Hill, introduced legislation that would give citizenship to 10-20 million illegal immigrants,” Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action for America, said in a public statement. The… -
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Cuomo Revelations Should Embarrass Media
The media’s deep arrogance about the Democrats’ superior standing as the Party of Science and Competent Government when it comes to the coronavirus is personified in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He has been hailed for many months as a wonderful role model, an inspiring anti-Trump. Somehow, each and every tragic coronavirus death was laid… -
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Promise to America’s Children Warns of Destructive Equality Act LGBT Agenda
At younger ages than ever before, American children are being targeted by the left with sexual content and destructive gender ideology. It’s coming at them not just from cultural forces in social media and entertainment, but from state governments and local school boards. Now, the White House and Congress are poised to exacerbate these trends by infusing K-12 schools with destructive ideology, politicizing medicine, and undermining parental rights. On Day One of his administration, President Joe Biden signed… -
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Navy Task Force’s Report on Diversity Challenges Misses Its Mark
Like many other Americans, I watched events of this past summer in horror as violence roiled our streets from Seattle to Atlanta and its inevitable climax on Jan. 6 at the Capitol. I took time then to have “the talk” again with my eldest daughter and made prudent decisions as to when and where we… -
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If France Can Reject Wokeness, So Can We
An interesting piece in The New York Times highlights a ferocious blowback against woke ideas in France. Yes, France. “The threat is said to be existential,” foreign correspondent Norimitsu Onishi writes, adding: It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage. The threat? ‘Certain social science theories entirely imported… -
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Utah Parents Push Back Against Transgender Agenda—and Win
A group of Utah parents has prompted a review of an “equity book program” in their local school district after a teacher read a book favorable to transgenderism to a class of third graders. The book, “Call Me Max,” written by transgender-identified author Kyle Lukoff, follows the story of a girl wanting to be seen… -
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Forget Double-Masking. Here’s a Better Way to Curb COVID-19.
California-based Innova Medical Group produces millions of COVID-19 tests every day—tests that people can perform at home and that yield results in minutes. These tests could transform the pandemic response and move us beyond the public health policy stalemate. Yet not one of them is available to Americans. Innova is exporting them to other countries…