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Sex-Change Surgeries for Kids: A-OK With Biden
The Biden administration recently sent a letter to the attorney general of each state, warning the top law enforcement officials that they could be violating civil rights law if they don’t comply with “gender-affirming care” procedures for children. But just what is this gender-affirming care promoted by President Joe Biden, and how does it affect…Douglas Blair -
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Inflation Soars to New High of 8.5% Under Biden
A key consumer price metric used by the government to measure inflation soared 8.5% over the past 12 months, the fastest pace of inflation since December 1981, the Labor Department announced Tuesday. The consumer price index increased 1.2% between February and March, the fastest month-over-month figure since 2005, according to the Labor Department report, meaning more bad…Thomas Catenacci -
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Stop Biden and the Democrats’ War on Charter Schools
Just as I predicted in August 2020, Joe Biden has declared war on school choice. When he ran for president, Biden told voters in Georgetown, South Carolina, in February 2020: “I am not a charter school fan because it takes away the options available and money for public schools.” An equally ungrammatical Biden said in Pittsburgh on…Deroy Murdock -
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Lia Thomas Was Just the Beginning. Biden Administration Wants to Eliminate Women’s Sports.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any educational program that is federally funded either directly or indirectly. But in a painful twist of irony, that same rule is now on the chopping block, thanks to an…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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Media Collusion Defused Bombshell Story About Hunter and Joe Biden
About three weeks before the 2020 election, the New York Post published a bombshell, election-changing story about presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, that, if true, derailed Joe Biden’s claim to know nothing about his son’s multimillion-dollar influence peddling. The Post claimed: “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive…Larry Elder -
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5 Biden Transportation Potholes Making Motorists’ Lives Miserable
Just a few months ago, Washington celebrated the passage of a bloated infrastructure bill. Supporters trotted out tired claims about fixing “crumbling roads and bridges” using gobs of taxpayer money. Yet even if we assume a certain amount of waste, fraud, and abuse due to the problems inherent with federal involvement, Americans might reasonably expect…David Ditch -
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Biden Doubles Down on Radical ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids
Thursday, the final day of Women’s History Month, was dubbed the Transgender Day of Visibility by whatever star chamber makes up those sorts of things. Given the trans-saturated news, however, the day is about as necessary as calling for a Will Smith Day of Visibility on the morning after the Oscars. The fight between Florida…Jay Richards -
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Recuse Yourself, Joe Biden
If we’re going to create transparently idiotic, partisan standards on the fly, they should be applied to everyone in government. If Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has an ethical obligation to recuse himself from all cases related to the Jan. 6 riots because his wife, Ginni, has opinions on the matter, as most Democrats now…David Harsanyi -
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Rep. Kevin Hern Offers GOP Alternative to Biden’s Tax-and-Spend Budget
President Joe Biden on Monday announced a proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2023 that includes a wish list of leftist policy proposals as well as an unprecedented tax on unrealized gains. To Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., Biden’s budget fails to help Americans deal with exploding inflation and doubles down on the deficit spending that…Douglas Blair -
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Biden’s Budget Lies
“Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” When releasing his fiscal year 2023 budget proposal on Monday, President Joe Biden said this was something his father had told him. He then made a claim about a “value” his budget proposal purportedly advances. “The first value is fiscal responsibility,” Biden said. That…Terence Jeffrey -
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Tilting at Windmills: How Biden’s Green New Deal Will Endanger Whales
Why are they called “right whales”? That’s a question one sailor asks in Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring “Master and Commander” series of novels. “Why, because they are right in every respect,” responded his companion, a 19th-century whaler. “ … they have the right whalebone, the best in the market—and the right oil, six or seven tons of it. And…Robert Henneke -
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Biden Administration Has a ‘Momflation’ Problem
Inflation used to be an abstract economic concept that average Americans paid little attention to. It was a word used by economists on cable news. Now, Americans have been forced to become very familiar with the term and what it means for their personal finances. None more so than parents. The term “momflation” was coined…Mary Clare Amselem -
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Biden Throttled US Energy Production When We Needed It Most
A capable presidential administration plans, anticipates, and implements strategies. An ineffective administration bounces haphazardly from crisis to crisis. It’s the difference between playing chess and playing pinball. President Joe Biden’s mismanagement of skyrocketing gas prices gives us a hint as to what game he’s playing. Gas prices, already high and rising due to supply chain…GianCarlo Canaparo -
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On Counterterrorism, Is Biden ‘Over the Horizon’ or in Over His Head?
On April 14, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that, in keeping with an agreement former President Donald Trump had made with the Taliban, he would be removing all U.S. military forces from Afghanistan. “We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out al-Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan,”…Terence Jeffrey -
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Anderson Cooper’s ‘60 Minutes’ Softball Infomercial for Pete Buttigieg
The long-running CBS News program “60 Minutes” has a manically split personality: Vicious attack dogs when Republicans are in power, but supportive infomercial producers under Democrats. Take March 13 for example, when Anderson Cooper hosted a promotional segment for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the “bipartisan infrastructure bill.” Buttigieg was touted as “40 years old,…Tim Graham -
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We Hear You: Judging Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee, Cheering Truckers’ Protest
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience responded to our coverage of President Biden's Supreme Court nominee and on Canadian truckers' "Freedom Convoy," among other topics. Enjoy this dip into the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I think President Biden just made a third big mistake ("Biden Selects Jackson for Supreme Court From Left-Wing…Ken McIntyre -
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Hungering for Relief From Rapid Rise in Food Prices? Don’t Look to Biden
The Bureau of Labor Statistics last week released the Consumer Price Index data for February, and it shows prices continuing to increase at an alarming rate, including for food. This latest data showed that compared with February 2021, food prices rose a whopping 7.9%. The size of this year-over-year increase hasn’t been seen in more…Daren Bakst -
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Fact-Checking 3 Biden Claims on Gas Prices
President Joe Biden has insisted that rising gas prices are not a result of his administration’s policies. This week, he announced the United States would ban oil imports from Russia because of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Biden also has suggested that U.S. oil companies are responsible in part for the…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Sics Bureaucrats on Cryptocurrencies
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order pushing federal agencies to come up with new restrictions on cryptocurrencies, while formally tasking them to consider imposing a Chinese-style government-run surveillance crypto to displace the U.S. dollar. While paying lip service to innovation and to crypto’s ability to reach the financially marginalized, the order is…Peter St. Onge -
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The Biden Administration’s Shocking Scientific Abuses at EPA
The Biden administration and its Environmental Protection Agency are continuing their attack on sound science and undermining faith in the regulatory process. In December 2020, during the Trump administration, the EPA decided to retain the existing air quality standards for fine particulate matter. This decision was based in part on the advice of the Clean…Daren Bakst