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From Nixon to Trump: EPA Chief Touts Environmental Gains, Hits ‘Single Issue Advocacy’
Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the government has reduced air pollution by 7%, declared Superfund sites safe again at a record pace, and directed tens of billions of dollars to ensuring clean water, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Thursday in a speech marking the agency’s 50th anniversary. Wheeler, speaking at the Richard Nixon… -
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New COVID-19 Findings Confirm What We Have Learned Since the Beginning. A Targeted Response Is More Important Than Ever.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent weekly provisional mortality update has caused a stir. It says: For 6% of deaths [involving COVID-19], COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. Does this mean… -
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California’s COVID-19 Restrictions Go Too Far
California is proving it’s more authoritarian than ever. As many other states have reopened in stages, California officials have opened the Golden State, too—except they repeatedly seem to be applying different guidelines for reopening businesses, schools, and houses of worship. The examples are numerous. Private schools are not allowed to open, per Gov. Gavin Newsom’s… -
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The Deeply Pessimistic Intellectual Roots of Black Lives Matter, 1619 Project, and Much Else in Woke America
If much of the dire rhetoric behind America’s moment of racial reckoning seems from an oppressive world of a half-century ago, that’s because it comes from “critical race theory,” a decades-old philosophy deeply skeptical about the possibility of racial progress. It turns up in the best-selling book “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White… -
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Here Are 31 Times the Media Justified or Explained Away Rioting and Looting After George Floyd’s Death
Dozens of news outlets published content that either justified or explained away rioting and looting in the initial weeks of unrest following the police custody death of George Floyd in late May, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found. While President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have both condemned rioting and looting,… -
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How the Free Market and Civil Society Solved the COVID-19 Face Mask Shortage
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April issued guidance for all Americans, urging them to wear cloth face masks in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, state and local governments began requiring residents to wear masks, especially in stores. When the rapid spread of the disease and… -
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39 Photos Capture America’s Summer of Riots, Arson, and Looting
Violent riots and looting have spread like an infectious disease across America in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Rioters’ demands for justice quickly spiraled into calls to defund police departments across America. Demonstrators have set businesses on fire, looted shops, and carried out planned attacks against police… -
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The Left’s Dangerous Delegitimization of the Election
A recent article in The Washington Post’s Outlook section, “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?”—which explores various potential outcomes of the 2020 presidential election—found that in “every scenario except a [Joe] Biden landslide, our simulation ended catastrophically.” According to the Post, any other outcome is destined to spark “violence” and a “constitutional crisis.” Or, in… -
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‘Beyond Shameful’: Emotional Salon Owner Rips Into Pelosi for Claiming She Was Set Up
San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious said Thursday that it is “beyond shameful” for Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to accuse Kious of setting her up. “For the speaker of the House of the United States to go on TV and falsely claim she was set up and publicly defame me and send… -
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Unemployment Rate Drops to 8.4% as August Sees 1.4 Million More Jobs
The unemployment rate fell by 1.8 percentage points to 8.4% as the economy added 1.4 million jobs in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. It was the fourth straight month that the economy added jobs and the unemployment rate fell despite the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, again upsetting experts’ predictions as the economy continued… -
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As American Gun Sales Hit Record High, Tips for New Owners
Americans are buying guns at a record pace. A surprising number of the sales are from first-time firearm owners, says Stephen Gutowski, a reporter at The Washington Free Beacon and a certified National Rifle Association instructor. Gutowski joins the podcast to explain some of the reasons for the spike in gun sales and to offer… -
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More Young Americans Agree That ‘Every Life Matters,’ Pence Says
RALEIGH, North Carolina—The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in June striking down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics is proof of what’s at stake with the federal judiciary, Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday in remarks at a pro-life event. President Donald Trump has been able to appoint and win Senate confirmation for more than 200… -
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Latest Data Proves COVID-19 Doesn’t Justify Postal Bailout
A stream of apocalyptic predictions and strained conspiracy theories have turned the once-sleepy world of U.S. Postal Service operations into front-page news. Lawmakers focused on the topic are being confronted with an approaching deadline. By the end of 2021, the Postal Service is on pace to run out of funds needed to continue current operations…. -
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DC Mayor’s Attempt to Shift Blame Falls Flat
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser can’t decide what she wants. A year ago, she advocated for criminal justice measures that even The Washington Post’s editorial board decried as having “gone too far,” a situation where “common sense may be losing out to enthusiasm for reform.” But this past week, she attempted to pass herself off as… -
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How American Civil Society Depends on Marriage, Family
American civil society is facing a serious domestic threat: Marriage is declining and family stability with it. Between 1962 and 2019, the percentage of women ages 15 to 44 who were married fell by nearly 30%, according to a recent report from the Social Capital Project of the congressional Joint Economic Committee Republicans. The number… -
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COVID-19 Power Trips of Leftist Politicians, Teachers Unions Must Stop
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out political power trips like America has never seen before. Governors and mayors have seized “emergency powers” that effectively shut down our economic engine and social culture. Never before had Americans seen the day when they would be told they couldn’t open for business, attend worship services, hold weddings or… -
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Postal Service Lawsuit Is a Delivery of Pure Politics
The lawsuit filed last week by New York State Attorney General Letitia James against the U.S. Postal Service reads more like a 64-page list of talking points than a serious legal document. But that didn’t stop her colleagues in New Jersey, Hawaii, New York City, and San Francisco from joining the suit, giving a bicoastal… -
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Iraq War Veteran Likens Portland to Living in a War Zone
Gabe Johnson, an African American Marine Corps veteran, was lying in bed counting the number of explosions he could hear from his downtown Portland, Oregon, home July 18 and into the next morning. “I just started counting,” Johnson, 49, told The Daily Signal. “I was like, ‘Hmm, I wonder how many there are going to… -
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CDC Is Failing to Collect and Share COVID-19 Data for the Front Line
When the levees broke under Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers was roasted for spending billions and still failing to protect Americans. So where’s the outrage over the latest epic governmental fail—this one by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? As the federal agency with primary responsibility for handling infectious diseases, the CDC… -
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The Difference Between Plurality of Opinions and Plurality of Values
I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in the 1850s, the years preceding the Civil War. America has always been about freedom of expression. And that freedom has often led to protests and tension. Generally, we’ve gotten through…