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    Biden Raised Taxes, but Tax Revenues Are Way Down This Year. Here Are 5 Reasons Why.

    Just because the government raises taxes, doesn’t necessarily mean it will raise more revenues. The Biden administration is discovering that the hard way. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act into law, which included a new tax on companies’ financial statement income, new IRS funding to increase audits, an excise…
    Preston Brashers
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    Biden Considers Poor Approval Rating a Failing of Insufficiently Sycophantic Media

    When they engage with the national media, Republicans expect that the exchanges will be skeptical, if not openly hostile. The press works for the Other Party. Democrats expect the media to be the wind beneath their wings, and get upset when journalists don’t help them at every turn. This was underlined on NBC’s “Meet the…
    Tim Graham
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    What an Army Colonel Biden Wants to Promote Had to Say About Elizabeth Warren, Confederate Statues, NFL Kneelers

    Kareem P. Montague has been opinionated on Facebook since 2011, taking jabs at Republican political operative Karl Rove, posting messages about Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s first Senate campaign in Massachusetts, defending the pro football players who take a knee, and denouncing “white privilege.”  Now an Army colonel, Montague—a veteran of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—has…
    Fred Lucas
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    House Subpoenas Mayorkas, Secret Service Officials as Hunter Biden Probe Expands

    The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is seeking to know what steps the Secret Service took to tip off Hunter Biden in the criminal investigation into his overseas business activities.  The committee issued six subpoenas to the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service, a division of the DHS, on Tuesday. The subpoenas come…
    Fred Lucas
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    Biden Is Killing the American Dream of Homeownership

    In boasting about “Bidenomics” two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into his creepy whispering mode and assured us “it’s working.” Huh? Isn’t a big aspiration of the American dream owning a home? Biden keeps making first-time homeownership harder for young families…
    Stephen Moore
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    Former Harvard Journal Editor Accuses Biden of More Plagiarism

    One of the Harvard Journal on Legislation's former editors revealed Monday that he was "shocked by the plagiarism" that he discovered in a 2000 article submitted by then-Sen. Joe Biden. Roger Severino, now vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation, weighed in Monday in a Twitter thread on the president's "tradition of embellishing,"…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    EXCLUSIVE: ‘Real War on Women’: Biden Team Denied Couple Paid Parental Leave He Claims to Support

    The Family and Medical Leave Act was a “first step” when it became law 30 years ago and should be expanded, President Joe Biden said earlier this year. But some employees hired by Biden's predecessor apparently didn't deserve the benefit, The Daily Signal has learned. Department of Homeland Security records reveal that Biden’s presidential transition…
    Fred Lucas
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    Americans Didn’t Buy Climate Narrative About Maui Fires, So Biden and Media Ready to Move On

    The White House and the legacy media are ready to move on from the disastrous wildfires that ravaged Maui, but the story of what happened there shouldn’t go away. There’s now plenty of evidence that authorities were warned about the danger of dry grass that had built up on the Hawaiian island. Poor decisions and…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    House Investigators Allege Biden ‘Abused’ Office in Hunter’s Trips on Air Force 2

    The House committee investigating alleged influence peddling by the Biden family is seeking records on Air Force Two flights that then-Vice President Joe Biden took with son Hunter Biden.  House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and committee member Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., wrote Wednesday to the head of the National Archives seeking “unrestricted…
    Fred Lucas
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    Busing Illegal Immigrants to Blue America Is Working: Democrats Deserve Blame for Biden’s Border Crisis

    Republican border-state strategy to send illegal immigrants to Democrat-run cities and states is paying off. On Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sent a letter to President Joe Biden begging for federal aid. Importantly, she finally acknowledged where the problem is coming from. “This is a financial burden the city and state are shouldering on…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment Is a Blatant Act of Corruption

    There’s simply no rational or legal explanation for Attorney General Merrick Garland naming David Weiss a special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. Other than the most obvious one, of course. Garland contends that he’s “confident” the Delaware federal prosecutor “will carry out his responsibility in an evenhanded and urgent manner and in accordance with…
    David Harsanyi
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    The Biden Clan’s Con Is Coming to an End

    Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that President Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and his son Hunter Biden—and ultimately Joe Biden himself. As vice president, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    6 Things to Know About a Potential Biden Impeachment Inquiry

    The House of Representatives could move on an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden when Congress reconvenes in September, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says. McCarthy, R-Calif., said Tuesday that action is contingent on Biden and the White House’s cooperation with congressional committees.  Here are six things to know if Congress does proceed with an impeachment…
    Fred Lucas
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    Joe Biden Is a Narcissist, Not an Empath

    President Joe Biden, we keep hearing, is a deeply empathetic man. It is that empathy that brought him to the presidency—his deep and abiding capacity to connect with others. In “What It Takes,” Richard Ben Cramer’s detailed blow-by-blow of the 1988 election cycle, Cramer describes Biden’s ability to “connect” as his greatest supposed skill. This…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Biden Pushes These 4 Woke Military Officers for Promotion as Sen. Tuberville Holds Firm

    Generals who focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, lecture a “white colonel” about the need for more diverse officers, and proclaim climate change a national security threat seem to be finding rewards in the Biden administration. In February, Air Force Brig. Gen. Stacy Jo Huser and two other women were part of a panel at…
    Fred Lucas
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    A Virginia School District Upheld Parental Rights on Trans Issues. Why Is the Biden DOJ Getting Involved?

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Legal is demanding answers after the Justice Department under President Joe Biden intervened in a Virginia school district's adoption of Gov. Glenn Youngkin's policies that center parental rights in transgender issues. "The Department of Justice seems to suggest that protecting the constitutional rights of parents and students will lead…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Hawaiians React to Biden’s Response to Fires

    MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii—President Joe Biden’s response to the disastrous wildfires that destroyed Lahaina, the westernmost city on the island of Maui, is receiving sharp criticism from locals. As The Daily Signal team traveled throughout Maui on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, citizens from all over Hawaii expressed anger, dismay, and exasperation at the lack of care…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Vivek Ramaswamy Says Biden Is ‘Not Really the Person Running the Country,’ and He’s Taking on the People Who Are

    ATLANTA—Entrepreneur and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that President Joe Biden is "not really the person running the country," and that he's running against the real culprits: the managerial class. "The deeper problem with Joe Biden is, he’s not really the person running the country," Ramaswamy, founder of the biotech company Roivant Sciences,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Biden Admin’s Revolving Door Into Media Spins Heavily

    No one among the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the “objective media” and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification. NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent Laura Jarrett was going to be a co-host of the “Today” news program on Saturdays. She is the…
    Tim Graham
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    House Oversight Chairman Seeks Shielded Biden VP Records From National Archives

    A powerful House committee wants previously shielded information from the National Archives regarding Joe Biden’s communication with family business associates when he was vice president.  In an letter Thursday to the head of the National Archives and Records Administration, the committee’s chairman asked for Biden’s vice presidential records that included pseudonyms and communications with his…
    Fred Lucas
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