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Hunter Biden May Have 2nd Amendment Defense on Gun Charge, but Not for Lying, Legal Expert Says
Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Joe Biden, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to drug-related gun charges in federal court in Delaware. Special counsel David Weiss, who is investigating the younger Biden on tax-related matters, last month secured a grand jury indictment on three gun charges related to his purchase of a Colt Cobra 38SPL…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Admin Tries to Force Its Religion on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.
In President Joe Biden’s America, if you disagree with transgender orthodoxy, you might not be able to run a business. Federal law prohibits harassment on the basis of sex in the workplace, and under Biden, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission aims to weaponize that law against employers who believe that biological sex can’t be altered…Tyler O’Neil -
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Financial Angles to Past Impeachments Could Guide House’s Biden Inquiry
During Rep. Jim Jordan’s opening remarks during the first hearing of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry targeting President Joe Biden, he expressed a long-understood formula for political shenanigans. “This is a tale as old as time,” said Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, which held the hearing, as well as chairman…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Admin Twists the Law to Force Abortion Policies on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.
Last year, Congress passed a law to protect pregnant women from employer discrimination, and Democrats insisted the law could not be used to force employers to provide leave for abortions. “Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act … the [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] could not—could not—issue any regulation that requires abortion leave, nor does the act…Tyler O’Neil -
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WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? Heritage Sues After Biden Admin Refuses to Hand Over Docs on SPLC, Moms for Liberty
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Has the Biden administration acted against the parental rights group Moms for Liberty after the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center put it on a "hate map" with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan? The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project asked that question, demanding records from various agencies under the Freedom of Information…Tyler O’Neil -
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As Evidence of Biden’s Corruption Mounts, Defenders’ Explanations Keep Changing
President Joe Biden’s defenders have been on a wild ride this past year. It began with them arguing that the president knew absolutely nothing about his family’s influence-peddling business to arguing that it’s no big deal that Chinese communist wire payoffs happen to have Biden’s home address listed on them. The quality of the excuses,…David Harsanyi -
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Day 1 of Formal Biden Impeachment Inquiry: 7 Big Takeaways
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee held its historic first hearing Thursday in the impeachment inquiry examining the conduct of President Joe Biden. Republicans on the House committee laid out some of the gathered evidence of what they call influence peddling by Biden, son Hunter Biden, and other members of his family. Committee Democrats insisted,…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Marches With Autoworkers While Causing Their Problems
President Joe Biden showed “solidarity” with striking United Auto Workers by joining it Tuesday on the picket line near Detroit—one day before former President Donald Trump is to deliver remarks to an audience of current and former union members at an auto parts manufacturer, also in Michigan. The UAW is demanding a 35% hike in…Diana Furchtgott-Roth -
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Hunter Biden Sues Rudy Giuliani Over Laptop, Alleging Violation of Privacy
Embattled first son Hunter Biden sued former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in federal court in California on Tuesday, alleging a violation of computer privacy laws and suggesting that the material on his infamous laptop had been doctored. The lawsuit also names Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, as a codefendant. The younger Biden's lawsuit comes two weeks…Fred Lucas -
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German Refugee Family of Homeschoolers Targeted for Deportation by Biden Administration
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement told a German Christian family that was persecuted for homeschooling their children that they needed to prepare to be deported after living in the U.S. for 15 years, says Kevin Boden, an attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association, who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Uwe and…Kate Anderson -
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Biden Has ‘Completely Abandoned’ Border Patrol, Texas Lawmaker Says After Crossings Reach Record High
Customs and Border Protection encountered more illegal aliens on America’s borders and at U.S. ports of entry in August than any other single month on record. CBP released the latest numbers Friday, reporting 304,162 illegal aliens encountered in the month of August, surpassing the previous record high in December 2022 by nearly 2,000. “The…Virginia Allen -
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Here’s How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law
Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern border of the U.S. The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the “border is secure.” He is now written…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Schumer Shred Senate Dress Code Into Rags
As if Bidenflation, collapsing school test scores, a demolished “border,” vagrant encampments, stool-stained sidewalks, blood-soaked streets, juvenile genital mutilation, surging sex slavery, and mounting foreign threats were not enough, Democrats just trashed the majesty of what has been called “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” Not even the Senate’s dress code could withstand the Democratic impulse to make things dirty, ugly, and dangerous. Why? That’s what Democrats do. In a major wardrobe malfunction, Senate Majority…Deroy Murdock -
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Fetterman’s Slovenliness Represents Demise of Objective Social Standards
The U.S. Senate, once known as the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” will now permit its members to grace its chamber floor wearing whatever clothes—no matter how casual or unprofessional—they happen to fancy on any given day. Following Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, D-N.Y., decision earlier this week to have the sergeant-at-arms cease enforcing the Senate’s…Josh Hammer -
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JD Vance Blames Biden for ‘Politicized’ Military, Supports Tuberville’s Stand
Sen. JD Vance, a Marine veteran, accused the Biden administration of politicizing the U.S. military, creating a recruiting crisis that is jeopardizing its readiness and warfighting capabilities. “There’s a reason why we have, frankly, a crisis in recruitment in the all-volunteer military—the first time we’ve had a recruitment crisis, really, since the end of the…Rob Bluey -
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25 Governors Demand Transparency From Biden on Impacts of Border Crisis
Twenty-five Republican governors, led by Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., condemned President Joe Biden Tuesday for his persistent inaction at the southern border and his incentivizing of illegal immigration. The governors are demanding transparency on the impacts of the border crisis, including where the government is relocating illegal aliens within the U.S. and how the federal government…Sara Garstka -
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Schumer Folds in Abortion Military Battle Ahead of Tuberville’s Planned Procedural Maneuver
After insisting for months that Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville was solely responsible for the delay in approving senior military promotions, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer finally folded Wednesday and began to set up votes on three military officers. The news will likely be seen as a win for Tuberville since it demonstrates that the…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Here’s Another Way the Biden Admin Might Push Illegal Student Debt-Shifting Scheme
It’s clear that the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Joe Biden’s student debt bailout attempts has motivated his administration to find new ways to bypass Congress and the American people. That’s because the Biden administration wants to fulfill a campaign promise to its left-wing political base ahead of the 2024 election cycle. This time, the administration appears to be…Ryan Walker -
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Devon Archer’s Testimony Raises Question: Did Hunter Biden Lie in His Own Memoir?
In a raft of glowing reviews, Hunter Biden’s 2019 memoir “Beautiful Things” was celebrated as an “unflinchingly honest” (Entertainment Weekly), “confession and an act of contrition” (The Guardian) that was “candid” and “doesn’t hold back details” (The New York Times) of his substance abuse and broken relationships. While describing the book as an “unvarnished confessional,” The…Paul Sperry -
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Indictment of Hunter Biden Is ‘a Smokescreen,’ Oversight Project Director Says
Special counsel David Weiss’ indictment of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is “a smokescreen,” according to Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project, the watchdog arm of The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of Heritage.) Howell says the three drug-related gun charges against the younger Biden “are the smallest things…Samantha Aschieris