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opinion
Violent Crime Keeps Surging as More on Left Admit It’s Foolish to ‘Defund Police’
It looks as if the surge in violent crime of 2020 is holding steady and perhaps escalating in 2021. Numbers on violent crime from cities around the country have jumped by historic and unprecedented rates in the past year. This surge is returning many of America’s cities to violent crime rates not seen since the… -
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‘We Have the Support of the President.’ For These Americans, Human Trafficking at the Border Is a Form of Political Activism.
An increasing number of U.S. citizens—who consider themselves “political activists”—are taking money from Mexican cartels to receive illegal immigrants into the U.S. from the Mexican border and smuggle them into the interior of the United States. They do so believing that President Joe Biden condones their actions, thanks to his administration’s rhetoric and policies on… -
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More Economic Freedom in Balkans Requires Reducing Government Corruption
The U.S. sanctions recently slapped on Albania’s former prime minister for corruption represent the latest in a string of events highlighting shortfalls in government integrity in the Balkans. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained that Sali Berisha, Albania’s prime minister from 2005 to 2013, was “involved in corrupt acts.” Blinken specified “misappropriation of public… -
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The Hunter Biden Omission Perseveres
Right now we’re getting a feeling that echoes the feeling from last fall, a sense that every new piece of investigative journalism on Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop will be ignored by the “mainstream media.” To be fair, when they didn’t ignore the story back then, they constantly implied it was a Russian disinformation plot. On… -
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Colombia Is Being Threatened by Leftist Violence. Biden’s Silence Is Deafening.
Colombia, one of the United States’ oldest and most reliable allies in the hemisphere, has been rocked by political violence in the past few months aimed at destabilizing the country. As the Center for a Secure Free Society reports, the government of democratically elected President Ivan Duque has been targeted by the same violent, narco-funded,… -
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Biden’s Border Policy Is an Economic Boon for Cartels, Assault on American Communities
President Joe Biden’s border crisis is routinely promoted by his administration and the leftist media as “an immigration system” that is “humane, orderly, and safe.” But on the U.S.-Mexican border, the harsh truth is that Biden’s “system” has led to booming business for the human and drug traffickers of the Mexican cartels. In Cochise County,… -
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Biden Unwisely Rescinds One of Trump’s Criminal Justice Reforms
President Joe Biden has been moving at breakneck speed to undo every policy of his predecessor that he can, but he seems not to be giving any thought to whether the underlying policy is good. If former President Donald Trump made it, Biden will unmake it—even if he later has to remake it, as in… -
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Trump Antagonist Opposes Arizona Election Audit as Justice Department Official
A foe of former President Donald Trump is leading the Biden Justice Department’s push to discredit or halt an election audit in Arizona’s largest county—an issue that is heating up this week. Pamela S. Karlan, principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, warned the leader of the Arizona state Senate… -
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How Biden’s Open-Border Policies Are Worsening Scourge of Human Trafficking
One of my top priorities as state attorney general of Missouri has been to combat human trafficking. We have organized a number of operations to fight human trafficking with an unprecedented level of coordination among local, state, and federal law enforcement that have rescued victims and led to the arrest of traffickers. Further, through our… -
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I Spoke With Residents at the Border. American Citizens Are Paying Criminal Costs Because of Biden’s Policies.
The flood of illegal immigrants from across the southern border is only one of many threats to America’s national security that have increased recently, thanks to the Biden administration’s contempt for the rule of law. The administration’s actions at the border have left federal and local law enforcement, large-scale ranchers and small businesses, and families… -
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Biden Must Protect US Citizens From International Criminal Court
Almost 250 years ago, America’s Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence, cataloging the ways that King George III had infringed upon American liberties. King George’s offenses included “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” Back then, the king presumed to have the authority to seize American colonists and prosecute them… -
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Did Hunter Biden Violate Law in Buying Handgun? 3 Big Questions
Hunter Biden, the president’s son, seemingly faces no legal consequences for a possible deception during a background check while buying a gun. It’s not clear whether the younger Biden broke the letter of federal gun law, although several legal experts and commentators say the question warrants an investigation. Biden bought a .38-caliber revolver in Delaware… -
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Left’s Hidden Agenda in New Hate Crime Bill
The Senate is expected to vote soon on a bill touted as targeting hate crimes against Asian Americans. The legislation, authored by Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., had not initially received widespread conservative support. >>> Update: The Senate passed an amended version of the bill Thursday afternoon by a surprisingly unified… -
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The Media’s Selective Reporting of Alleged Criminals’ Race
On March 23, Mohammad Anwar of Springfield, Virginia, a 66-year-old immigrant from Pakistan earning his living as an Uber Eats driver, was killed by two girls, ages 13 and 15. They carjacked Anwar, Tasered him, and then, as he held on to the car (the source of his livelihood) in an attempt to stop them… -
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Georgia Attorney General Fights for Keystone Pipeline as National Security Issue
More than 20 Republican state attorneys general have teamed up to oppose the energy agenda promoted by President Joe Biden. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss two lawsuits that he and other attorneys general have filed against the Biden administration in an effort to further American energy independence. Carr… -
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‘Not That I Remember’: Hunter Biden on Dropping Off Incriminating Laptop for Repair
Hunter Biden cast doubt during an interview on claims that he dropped off his laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019, saying he doesn't remember doing so. In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS “Sunday Morning,” President Joe Biden's surviving son suggested that the laptop, contents of which were published weeks before the November… -
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Hunter Biden Contradicts Own Texts in Questioning Secret Service’s Role in Gun Incident
Hunter Biden said he does not believe that the Secret Service got involved in a search for his handgun after his sister-in-law and then-girlfriend threw it in a trash can in October 2018. Biden’s comments in a "CBS This Morning” interview on Monday would appear to conflict with text messages he reportedly sent several months… -
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Human Trafficking Is World’s Fastest-Growing Crime, Activist Says
Human trafficking is the fastest-growing crime in the world, but too few people are talking about it, says Sophia Fisher, executive director at Stop the Demand Project and a fierce foe of human trafficking. Fisher joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss her fight against human trafficking, how America is dealing with this horrible crime within… -
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Society Pays When Prosecutors Fail to Punish Crime
Imagine a society where prostitutes could solicit johns for sex just yards from police officers who did little more than wave them on their way. Picture yourself walking through a park with your children as a homeless person is free to urinate and defecate beside the park bench where he is stashing the illegal drugs… -
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How Hunter Biden’s Interests ‘Overlapped’ With Banned Ukrainian Oligarch
The Ukrainian oligarch whom the Biden administration banned from the United States this month previously had overlapping financial interests with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, according to government documents and earlier news reports. Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian billionaire known for hardball actions against competing companies, is a former government official in Ukraine and also used…