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opinion
Here Are the Facts About Spikes in Crime That Sen. Dick Durbin Didn’t Want Me to Share
It’s no secret that Chicago, like many major U.S. cities, has suffered from an unprecedented spike in homicides and non-fatal shootings over the last two years. Despite seeing record low homicide rates between 2004 and 2015, Chicago residents are now experiencing violent crime at levels unseen in decades—including truly horrific surges in gun violence during… -
opinion
Teachers Union Official’s Facebook Post Says People With Religious Vaccine Exemptions Deserve to Die, Suggests GOP Commit Mass Murder
A National Education Association Board of Directors member and English teacher at a Pennsylvania high school posted to Facebook that she thought unvaccinated individuals with religious exemptions deserved to die, according to a screenshot of the post obtained by the social media account Libs of Tik Tok. Mollie Paige Mumau took to Facebook to condemn… -
opinion
The Consequences of Leftist Crime Policies
This week, a 39-year-old black man in Waukesha, Wisconsin, plowed a maroon Ford Escape into a Christmas parade of children and older women. Five people were killed and another 48 were injured. The motive of the suspect is unknown; if the media have their way, it will remain that way. The media apparently only care… -
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‘Maybe You’ll Need to Report a Relative to the FBI!’ An Atlantic Writer’s Advice For Dealing With Conservative Family on Thanksgiving
A Wednesday newsletter from The Atlantic urged readers to use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to “deprogram” their conservative relatives. “Maybe you’ll plant the seed, sow just a little doubt about whatever Tucker Carlson is saying now,” Molly Jong-Fast wrote. “Or maybe you’ll need to report a relative to the FBI!” Jong-Fast described Thanksgiving as an invariably disappointing… -
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Hunter Biden’s Cobalt Deal With China Increases Cost of His Father’s Push for Electric Cars
Presidential son Hunter Biden’s most recent controversy—assisting a Chinese company’s purchase of a large cobalt mine—is linked directly to a top Biden administration policy of promoting electric vehicles. Cobalt, a relatively rare and expensive mineral, is an essential part of batteries used to power electric automobiles. The COVID-19 pandemic also made U.S. officials and the… -
opinion
Can the FBI Be Salvaged?
The Washington, D.C.-based FBI has lost all credibility as a disinterested investigatory agency. Now we learn from a whistleblower that the agency was allegedly investigating moms and dads worried about the teaching of critical race theory in their kids’ schools. In truth, since 2015, the FBI has been constantly in the news—and mostly in a… -
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Are Parents Being Tagged as ‘Domestic Terrorists’ by the FBI? Justice Department Needs to Show Its Cards
It is time for Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI to lay their cards on the table—and fast—or else they will find themselves enveloped in a burgeoning scandal that will further damage their already-teetering reputation and in a way that will do lasting damage to free speech. In a recent letter, Rep. Jim Jordan,… -
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As Biden Met With Pope, His DOJ Argued for Right to Abort Baby With Beating Heart
The activities of the Biden administration this past Friday featured two remarkable and profoundly contradictory events. In Rome, President Joe Biden met with Pope Francis. In Washington, his Justice Department filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing there is a “right” to kill an unborn baby with a beating heart. What transpired in Washington… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Demand Answers From Garland on Reported $450,000 Payments to Illegal Aliens
Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from President Joe Biden’s administration on reported massive payments to be made to illegal immigrants, a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal shows. “Recent reports indicate that the Biden administration, as part of negotiations with a left-wing activist group, is considering paying $450,000 per person to aliens who entered… -
opinion
New Bill Helps Trial Lawyers Instead of Victims of Sexual Assault and Harassment
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on legislation Thursday that purportedly delivers justice to Americans who have been victims of sexual harassment and assault in their workplaces. Everyone agrees that workplace sexual assault and harassment is abhorrent and should be swiftly dealt with. But the legislation under consideration in the Senate is a gross miscarriage… -
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Biden Justice Department Advances Voter Fraud Case in Philadelphia Begun Under Trump
A probe of voter fraud begun by the Trump administration’s Justice Department that ensnared a former House Democrat and former Philadelphia election officials has resulted in additional charges under the Biden administration. In October, acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams charged Marie Beren, a former staffer for Philadelphia City Council member Mark Squilla, on four… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Marsha Blackburn Calls for Attorney General’s Ouster for Targeting Parents
Attorney General Merrick Garland should resign or be fired or impeached for unleashing the FBI on public school parents, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told The Daily Signal in an interview. “We have all these problems with China that the FBI needs to be looking at,” Blackburn said in the interview Thursday. “We have problems at… -
opinion
Biden Pick Becerra’s Indecent, Indefensible Legal Assault on Nuns, Human Life
The following is excerpted from Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s new book “Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America.“ It is available here and elsewhere. Founded in France in 1839, the Little Sisters of the Poor is a Catholic order of nuns who operate 29 care homes across the United… -
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‘Just Unconscionable’: Parents Protest Outside Justice Department Against ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Label
Frustration at school boards boiled over for some parents and activists who protested outside of the Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., Sunday. A small crowd gathered for the "Parents Are Not ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Rally," a reference to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Oct. 4 memorandum that called on the FBI to “use its authority” in response to… -
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Parents of Girl Allegedly Assaulted in School Bathroom to Pursue Legal Action Against Loudoun District
The family of a girl who was allegedly assaulted in the bathroom of a Virginia high school plans to pursue legal action against Loudoun County Public Schools over the incident and the aftermath. “The Smith family has retained the Stanley Law Group of Virginia,” according to a statement from the firm released Thursday. The firm will not… -
opinion
4,676,300 Unborn American Babies Murdered in Pelosi’s First Speakership
During the first four years that Nancy Pelosi served as speaker of the House of Representatives (2007 through 2010), approximately 4,676,300 unborn babies were aborted in the United States, according to estimates published by the Guttmacher Institute. To put that in more precise language, adopting the accurate wording to describe abortion that Pope Francis recently… -
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Schools Group That Urged Attorney General’s Anti-Parent Initiative Has Ties to Democrats, Unions
The National School Boards Association, which urged the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement to investigate parents who speak out on local education matters as potential domestic terrorists, has political ties to the Democratic Party and labor unions. The national association represents members of locally elected school boards, which usually are officially nonpartisan, and… -
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State School Board Groups Disavow National Entity’s Call for DOJ to Investigate Parents
At least 11 state school board organizations are distancing themselves from a National School Boards Association letter asking President Joe Biden to take action against parents protesting progressive school policies. School board organizations in Virginia and Louisiana criticized the national association’s letter in public statements earlier this month, saying they were not consulted on it and suggesting that the National School Boards Association discourages the “active participation” of parents in school governance…. -
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Biden Exempts Some Crimes by Illegal Immigrants as Basis for Deportation
Federal immigration officials no longer will view unlawful entry into the country as the sole basis for detaining and deporting illegal immigrants, under a new Biden administration policy. The policy will limit deportation to what immigraion officials call aggravated felons, such as violent gang members and others who commit violent crimes. Critics of President Joe… -
opinion
Threatening Memo From Attorney General Merrick Garland to Parents Comes With Serious Conflict of Interest
Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a threatening memo on Monday calling on the FBI to address “violent threats against school officials and teachers.” It was an obvious shot at parents who oppose schools and school boards that promote woke ideology and critical race theory in classrooms that exploded this year. Somehow, the story gets even…