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After the Final Debate, Americans Need to Know 3 Things About Their Taxes
Once again, Americans didn’t get much clarity about the future of their taxes during the final 2020 presidential debate. Former Vice President Joe Biden has stated that he will only increase taxes on people making more than $400,000 a year, and President Donald Trump wants to cut taxes further. Americans should evaluate these claims in… -
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Vaccine Expected to Be Ready for Vulnerable Population by January, HHS Secretary Says
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday that he expects a coronavirus vaccine to be available for vulnerable Americans by January 2021. The Health and Human Services secretary said vaccines will be immediately offered to seniors, health care workers, and first responders once hospitals are able to administer them, according to The… -
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The Electoral College Didn’t Protect Slavery
The presidential election in 2016 reminded Americans of the role played by the Electoral College in electing our president. Proponents of abolishing or nullifying the Electoral College and replacing it with a direct-election scheme are trying to delegitimize the traditional process by claiming it is a remnant of America’s racist past, created as part of… -
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Amnesty Looms Large in Presidential Debate
Immigration and border security featured prominently in last night’s presidential debate, including possible amnesty for illegal aliens. That would be a terrible idea. Amnesty would be a disastrous move for America. We know it will be disastrous because it was tried before and didn’t work. After amnesty was granted to 2.7 million illegal immigrants in America… -
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For 29 Years, Justice Clarence Thomas Has Been the North Star for Originalism on the Supreme Court
With the expected confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, some conservative commentators have heralded the coming of the “Thomas Court,” as in Justice Clarence Thomas. This term usually applies to either the chief justice or the justice who is the swing vote on 5-4 decisions, but Thomas has not played that… -
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What’s the Impact on Families and Kids If Schools Stay Closed?
School districts are “losing contact with thousands of students, from Philadelphia to Houston to Los Angeles,” according to news reports. What is going on here? Jonathan Butcher, senior policy analyst for the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, joins The “Daily Signal News” podcast to discuss the impact on families and children when… -
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8 Highlights From Second Biden-Trump Debate
President Donald Trump and his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, clashed Thursday night in the second and final presidential debate before the Nov. 3 election. Trump and Biden traded boasts and criticisms in a meeting that began at 9 p.m. EDT at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, after officials said both men tested negative… -
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Twitter Blocks Daily Signal’s Kenosha Video With ‘Sensitive Material’ Warning
Twitter put a “sensitive material” label Thursday on The Daily Signal’s news video showing businesses burned by rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Daily Signal’s three-minute video, released late Wednesday, highlights some of the destruction wrought by rioters on the nights of Aug. 23 and 24. The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The… -
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Cleaner Faster? Trump to Let Dishwashers Use More Water
The Trump administration has finalized plans to release a new rule allowing one class of dishwashers to clean a load in less than an hour. Dishwashers on average take about two and a half hours to wash a load of dishes because of government regulations, more than twice as long as it took the appliances… -
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Tech Censorship Is on a Dangerous Path
The Big Tech censorship by Jack Dorsey’s Twitter of the New York Post story on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden is so egregious that I have to speak up. If there were any doubt, it is now clear that Twitter’s censorship system is set up to survey, capture, control, and manipulate the political narrative within… -
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Free Speech Won at Colleges in California and Ohio. It Should Win in Georgia, Too.
As Free Speech Week concludes, Americans nationwide are reminded that public university campuses provide a unique environment for students to engage in the marketplace of ideas while pursuing higher education. Sadly, however, many public officials have forgotten their own role in encouraging free speech on campus, and some colleges have even received a free pass after violating… -
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‘Fill the Seat!’: Barrett Backers Rally as Senate Panel Advances Her Nomination
“Fill the seat! Fill the seat!” That was what a crowd gathered in front of the Dirksen Senate Office Building chanted Thursday, hours after the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The committee’s action sends the nomination to the full Senate, where it’s scheduled for a Monday vote. … -
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Civil Society Can Usher in a New Era of Education
Learning hasn’t been easy for Ayana Osborne’s family, who became homeless in December 2019. Mandatory school closures due to COVID-19 meant that her three children enrolled in D.C. public schools spent the spring semester trying to attend their virtual education on the two public computers in a hotel lobby. As D.C. schools began the fall semester… -
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Venezuela’s Dictator Hugo Chavez Packed the Courts
Almost from the moment Republicans said they intended to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Democrats began to vow they would pack the court if Republicans went through with their plan. “If [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell] holds a vote [on a Supreme Court nominee] in 2020,… -
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McConnell Mocks Media for Reporting on Barrett’s Faith as If They ‘Discovered Some Secret Scandal’
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned continuing attacks on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett Wednesday, warning that “anti-religious bigotry needs to stop.” “It is so revealing to watch elite society keep stumbling upon mainstream religious beliefs and practices that are shared by huge numbers of Christian Americans and thinking they’ve discovered some secret scandal,”… -
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Pandemic Has Led to ‘National Mental Health Crisis,’ APA Survey Finds
The coronavirus pandemic has contributed to an alarming “national mental health crisis,” according to an American Psychological Association report. The American Psychological Association’s annual “Stress in America” report highlighted the results of a survey that the organization conducted. The results, which showed the coronavirus pandemic is having an outsized effect on Americans’ mental health, have caused the… -
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Iran Is Targeting the Strait of Hormuz. The World Needs to Take Heed.
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is reinforcing its navy in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s aggressive presence in one of the world’s most important regions remains a pressing threat that the international community cannot afford to ignore. We can avoid a costly conflict down the road by paying attention to the signs of… -
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America’s Teenagers Are Losing Their Religion
A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center came out with its most recent survey on the faith of today’s teenagers. While there are a few nuggets of hope amidst the pages and pages of data, there is one message that does seem to be coming through loud and clear: America’s teenagers are losing their… -
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Too Early to Judge the Fate of Pentagon Reform Efforts
If you hired a trainer to lose 50 pounds, would you fire him after two weeks if you’d lost only 5? Now, imagine being asked to reform an agency of over 2 million employees that operates on a $700 billion budget. Could you do it in two years? Congress seems to thinks so. The need… -
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Problematic Women: Celebrating a Victory in War on Women’s Sports
The playing field has been leveled for female athletes at a small university in New Hampshire. Concerned Women for America filed a civil rights complaint against Franklin Pierce University because of its transgender sports participation and inclusion policy. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights agreed with Concerned Women for America that the policy…