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opinion
Hunter Biden’s Receipt of Obama Officials’ Personal Cell Numbers Undercuts White House Impeachment Defense
Emails reviewed by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project bring new scrutiny to President Joe Biden’s claims of complete separation between himself and his son’s business dealings. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.) According to the email reviewed by the Oversight Project, in 2015, then-White House official Alexander Mackler forwarded the personal cell… -
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Time to Revive the Debate Over Obamacare
Big media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, last week called out former President Donald Trump for slamming Obamacare, opining that such a move was a big mistake. Not so fast. The truth is that Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, failed to deliver on its high-profile… -
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Docs Reveal FBI Questioned Obama DOJ in Hillary Email Probe
A presidential candidate faces an FBI probe surrounding alleged mishandling of classified information, amid questions about the independence of the Justice Department. Meanwhile, the candidate's supporters allege political interference and demand that the chief investigator be investigated. Such was the case in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election. Democrats and other supporters of… -
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Obama Still Scolds Americans for Offering ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ During Maui Tragedy
After the horrific wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui last week that took the lives of at least 99 and left more than 1,000 unaccounted for, many Americans are donating money to help the victims. Many more are offering their thoughts and prayers, including former President Barack Obama, who grew up in Hawaii but… -
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The Barack Obama Cover-Up
This week, Tablet released a fascinating conversation with historian David Garrow, author of a massive unauthorized biography of former President Barack Obama in his early years titled “Rising Star.” By all rights, the book should have been a massive hit upon its release in 2017. Instead, it underperformed. The revelations contained therein never hit the… -
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Barack Obama: The Man, the Myth, the Legend (to Be Continued)
The media deification of Barack Obama has really never ended. His election to the presidency in 2008 was treated as a milestone, like man landing on the moon. Allegedly objective journalists lined up in every studio and on every front page to do him homage. It wasn’t journalism. It was more like idolatry. It was… -
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‘INSANE’: Republicans Act Against Obama Policy That Risks Airline ‘Passengers’ Lives’ to Advance a ‘Woke Agenda’
House Republicans took action this week to reverse an Obama administration policy that critics claim prioritizes diversity over skills for hiring air traffic controllers and could be “risking passengers’ lives to advance their woke agenda.” In passing the $4 billion Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill Thursday, the House included a provision to eliminate the “biographical… -
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Here’s the Real Reason Obama Went Out of His Way to Defend Librarians in a ‘Banned Books’ Letter
Former President Barack Obama just came out in favor of porn in schools. Sure, the former president didn’t say that outright. He released a letter lamenting the supposed trend of “banned books” and standing with school librarians as if they were under siege. “In a very real sense, you’re on the front lines — fighting… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Documents Reveal Rush to Target Trump’s National Security Pick in Obama’s Waning Days as President
Heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush by the outgoing Obama administration to torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump. The Daily Signal obtained 217 pages of documents from the NSA through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents reveal that Obama… -
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Barack Obama, Ever the Racial Arsonist
One way to describe the philosophical and ideological divide between former President Barack Obama and Sen. Tim Scott is that the optimistic Scott views the glass that is America today as much more than half-full, while the ungrateful Obama still sees it as half-empty—or worse. Nearly six-and-a-half years after leaving the White House, Obama—appallingly, but… -
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In Third Obamacare Decision, Supreme Court Doesn’t Decide Whether Its Constitutional
The Supreme Court handed down its decision Thursday in California v. Texas, the third challenge to the Affordable Care Act, colloquially called Obamacare. The high court held that the various states and individuals who brought the suit did not have standing to challenge the law. The mandate and the rest of the act survive. Importantly,… -
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With Obamacare Still on Books, Americans in Dire Need of Better Insurance Options
Now that the Supreme Court has just—yet again—left the Affordable Care Act on the books, it’s a good time to ask just how well the program is doing. A good place to start: how is it working to help the sick? And why are people still saying they want better options? For example, as more people… -
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Obamacare’s Side Effects: Higher Costs, Lower Choices
One of the main goals of Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, was to make individual insurance cheaper and more accessible for Americans. The health care law imposed new mandates and regulations on the market for individual insurance, and the data indicates these reforms did exactly the opposite of the goal: In nearly… -
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Obama and Democrats: Filibuster for Me, but Not for Thee
Senators of both parties often say they want to legislate “on a bipartisan basis.” On March 6, for example, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said it three times in one short speech. For more than 200 years, the Senate’s approach to handling legislation has had a built-in bipartisan incentive by giving the minority more… -
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Rep. Jim Banks: After 11 Years of Obamacare, Republicans Need to Become Party of Health Care
When I first arrived in Washington four years ago, I firmly believed that Republicans weren’t just right on health care, but that we won the debate on health care. Senate Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in March 2010, and in the following November, voters handed Republicans the majority in the House of… -
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Number of Illegal Border Crossings Now 6 Times What Obama Team Considered ‘Crisis’
There is a catastrophic crisis that could add another quarter of a million to the population of illegal aliens in this country in less than a year. According to former officials in the Obama administration, the standard for a border crisis was 1,000 attempted crossings a day. Who was on the team that set that… -
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Justices Hint That Obamacare May Survive Another Legal Challenge
Most of the Affordable Care Act appeared likely to survive yet another legal challenge as five justices indicated that they were not inclined to strike down the law. The court on Tuesday heard Texas v. California, a suit brought by multiple Republican attorneys general that argues that the individual mandate, a signature part of the… -
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4 Things to Know About the Prosecutor Who’s Probing ‘Obamagate’
A federal prosecutor in Texas is drawing a new kind of attention by digging into the “unmasking” of Trump campaign associates that occurred in the waning days of the Obama administration. Attorney General William Barr last month revealed to the House Judiciary Committee that he had assigned U.S. Attorney John Bash of the Western District… -
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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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Barack Obama and His Race Card
Former President Barack Obama once again pulled out the race card for political gain, consequences be damned. This time at the funeral of civil rights icon John Lewis, Obama compared President Donald Trump to not one but two racial segregationists—former Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace. The…