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Can Ecuador Continue to Gain Economic Freedom?
Ecuador dramatically rose in rank in the 2020 edition of The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom. With an economic freedom score of 51.3 out of 100, it is the freest it has been in a decade. While the country’s economy is still considered mostly unfree, its recent progress is good news for centrist… -
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The Heritage Foundation Adds 2 Leading Academics as Visiting Fellows
The Heritage Foundation announced that two of the nation’s leading academics will join the think tank as visiting scholars in the Feulner Institute. Their work will focus on highlighting American conservative values and free market principles. The two scholars, Wilfred McClay and Samuel Gregg, will join the Simon Center for American Studies, a department within… -
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Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Explains Fight to Preserve America’s History
A battle is raging for the future of our nation as “extremists and criminals literally try to rip out [statues and other monuments] to destroy the history of America,” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt says. Bernhardt joins the podcast to explain how he is working alongside President Donald Trump to protect monuments that tell the story… -
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White House Weighs Bill in Response to Big Tech on Free Speech
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows says the Trump administration is contemplating some type of regulation for social media companies as part of the COVID-19 relief legislation being negotiated with Congress. “As much as I’m a guy that says that the social media companies should be able to have their own—what I would call… -
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We Hear You: A Vice President, a Constitution, and a Time for Adults
Editor's note: We're back with some of your letters to The Daily Signal. We didn't mean for this column to be away for so long, but we also didn't think we'd still be covering the pandemic. We hope that you and yours are well. Be sure to drop us a line at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear… -
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Our Annual August Debate Over the Bombs
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9. Each year, Americans argue about our supposed moral shortcomings for being the only nation to have used an atomic weapon in war. Given the current cultural revolution that topples statues,… -
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Barack Obama’s Filibuster Hypocrisy
In April of 2005, Sen. Barack Obama took to the floor of the United States Senate and passionately spoke out against Republican efforts to end the filibuster. Then a rising star in the Democratic Party, Obama noted that despite the pressure partisans might feel, it was imperative to “rise above an ‘ends justify the means’… -
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Remembering Brent Scowcroft
Washington’s foreign policy community lost one of its most notable members this week. Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, died on Aug. 6 at the age of 95 at his home in Falls Church, Virginia. Scowcroft leaves a distinguished legacy and will be greatly missed. Scowcroft… -
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The Washington Post’s ‘Fact Checker,’ Not Pence, Deserves the 4 Lying ‘Pinocchios’
Glenn Kessler, the so-called “fact checker” at The Washington Post, this week called out Vice President Mike Pence’s answer to an interview question about election fraud. But it’s Kessler, not Pence, who deserves four “Pinocchios” for many of the misleading claims he makes about it in his column. Pence said: “Make no mistake about it…. -
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300 Female Athletes Back Idaho’s Barring of Transgender Biological Males From Women’s Sports
More than 300 female athletes are speaking out in support of Idaho’s decision to protect women’s sports from biological men. Female professional, Olympic, and National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes on July 29 sent a letter to the NCAA board of governors asking it to reject calls from LGBT activists to boycott Idaho over its new law… -
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4 Points in Understanding China’s Goal for Meddling in US Elections
FBI Director Christopher Wray reportedly provided a detailed classified briefing to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week on election meddling by China. Also, on Friday, William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, issued a public statement with details of how China, Russia and Iran were targeting the U.S. elections. The Chinese communist regime’s… -
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Restoring Public Health and Preserving Economic Livelihoods Must Go Together
As policymakers continue to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, it is more important than ever to weigh the consequences of their public health decisions on jobs and livelihoods. The adage that “the treatment is worse than the disease” comes to mind when considering the lockdown’s effect on the economy. Take, for example, the findings of… -
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Congress Needs to Do No Harm as Unemployment Falls to 10.2%
The U.S. economy added 1.8 million jobs in July and the unemployment rate fell to 10.2%, confounding experts’ predictions for a third month and showing signs of recovery as it slowly reopens after the COVID-19 shutdowns. Although the numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics continue to move in the right direction and more… -
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Voice of America’s One-Sided Coverage of Black Lives Matter Protests
Voice of America, the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s flagship operation, is putting its own spin on coverage of the Black Lives Matter riots in the United States. It’s a spin consistent with much of the rest of the mainstream media—the CNNs of the world—and hardly represents an accurate image of what is going on… -
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The Collapse of the Traditional American Family
The Joint Economic Committee of Congress has just produced an important new study titled “The Demise of the Happy Two-Parent Home.” The report exhaustively presents data showing the shocking collapse of marriage and traditional family in America and then explores possible explanations for why it has happened. In 1962, 71% of women ages 15-44 were… -
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Why Trump’s Washing Machine Tariffs Are Cronyism
President Donald Trump on Thursday visited a Whirlpool factory in Clyde, Ohio, to tout the benefits of his trade agenda for American manufacturers. Whirlpool claimed to have been injured by foreign competition in 2017 and got the administration to impose tariffs ranging from 20% to 50% on washing machines—and parts—imported by its competitors the following… -
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What’s Going On in Minneapolis After City Council Vote to Defund Police
At the end of June, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to “defund” the city’s police. Now crime is on the rise. John Hinderaker, president of the Minnesota policy organization Center of the American Experiment, joins the show to explain what the future may hold for the Minneapolis Police Department and what his organization is… -
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On Purple Heart Day, How a Medal Rewards Acts of Love
The first time I was wounded, I bled little and required no serious treatment, but the soldier next to me, who bore the full brunt of the rocket-propelled grenade that struck our tank, was killed instantly. He volunteered—begged, in fact—to be on the mission that became his last because he loved his job, loved his… -
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NY Primary ‘Mess’ Seen as Omen for Big Problems With Mail-In Voting in November
The more than 84,000 mail-in ballots that were disqualified in the June 23 primary in New York—where two congressional nominations were just decided this week—underscore prospective problems posed by the universal mail-in voting being called for by liberal politicians for the November elections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The massive problems with the primary… -
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Nevada Democrats’ Shocking Midnight Run on Election Integrity
Bills that genuinely promote the common good typically don’t get rushed to passage under the cover of night on strict party-line votes. Yet that’s what Nevada Democrats have done with an “election reform” measure they just pushed through an emergency special session of the state Legislature. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak and his legislative allies claim…