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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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CNN Finds ‘So Many of Us’ Love Jill Biden
In May 2017, then-CNN boss Jeff Zucker gave an interview to “The New Yorker Radio Hour” and made waves by proclaiming, “Fox is state-run TV and is extolling the line out of the White House. MSNBC has become the opposition, and I think CNN is seeking the truth.” There wasn’t a laugh track. In 2022,… -
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Biden’s Biggest State of the Union Blunders
Watch the video above to see some of the biggest “oops!” moments from President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. -
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Fact-Checking 10 Claims From Biden’s State of the Union Address
In his first official State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden on Tuesday night addressed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rising inflation at home, an ongoing border crisis, and a fading COVID-19 pandemic. Biden, who also spoke to a joint session of Congress last April, made numerous assertions of his administration’s successes in a speech that… -
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What Biden Got Wrong in His State of the Union Address
President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. (Biden’s address last April 28 was to a joint session of Congress, a distinction admittedly without much of a difference.) The Heritage Foundation’s policy experts weighed in with reaction and analysis on a variety of topics. (The Daily Signal is the news… -
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7 Major Failures of the Biden Presidency
With President Joe Biden set to deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday night, it’s a good time to ask: How has Biden done as president and what is the actual state of our union? According to the American people, things aren’t going great. A CNN poll in early February asked Americans… -
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Biden Selects Jackson for Supreme Court From Left-Wing Donor ‘Shortlist’
D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was among the names on a shortlist from Demand Justice, a liberal legal organization seeded with funding by mega-donor group Arabella Advisors. Demand Justice pushed Biden to choose someone from its Supreme Court list during the 2020 campaign. It heralded Jackson… -
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For Biden Administration, Self-Reliance Is Not an American Value
The Biden administration continues to take America down the unsustainable path of open borders and a welfare state for noncitizens. It has proposed a new “public charge” rule that greatly expands the types of government assistance immigrant applicants may receive without becoming a public charge. The administration is breathing new life into the old adage… -
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In Picking Jackson for High Court, Biden Champions Discrimination
Editor’s note: The president nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court on the day after Deroy Murdock filed this commentary. President Joe Biden promised to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a black female jurist. “The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience, and integrity. And that… -
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Blacks Saying Bye-Bye to Biden
A new report from Pew Research shows that the sharpest drop in approval for President Joe Biden is among the Democratic Party’s most loyal and consistent supporters—black Protestants. In March 2021, shortly after he took office, Biden’s support among black Protestants stood at 92%. By January 2022, this was down to 65%, a drop of… -
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Biden Administration Adds Climate Roadblocks to Future Pipelines, Energy Projects
The Biden administration altered the official federal policy on approving new interstate natural gas facilities and pipelines, requiring a climate consideration. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced that it will begin to “undertake a robust consideration” of the environmental justice impacts of such fossil fuel projects before granting approval, according to a fact sheet published Thursday. The agency,… -
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Hillary Clinton’s Greatest Masterpiece
Hillary Clinton’s never-ending shenanigans in 2015 to 2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup. Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation, and dangerous new tensions with Russia were some of the wages of Clinton’s machinations. Clinton hired a British national and ex-spy, Christopher Steele, to compile dirt on her election opponent, Donald… -
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Senate Republicans Say No to Biden Funding for ‘Safe’ Crack Pipes
The Biden administration quickly reversed course on a plan to fund “smoking kits” for drug users, apparently including pipes to smoke crack cocaine, but Senate Republicans introduced legislation to ensure it doesn’t happen. The bill would amend a section of last year’s American Rescue Plan Act to prohibit any taxpayer funds from being used to… -
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Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle Looks Worse and Worse
While the Biden administration’s chaotic and inept withdrawal from Afghanistan was unfolding in August 2021, a suicide bomber murdered 13 American service members, and at least 170 Afghans, at the Abbey Gate outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. It was one of the deadliest attacks on our troops in our 20 years in that nation…. -
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Biden Bureaucracy Secretly Plans to Turn Out Voters After Failure of Election Takeover Bills
The Biden administration is secretly planning to impose an executive order directing all federal agencies to focus on voter registration and partner with private organizations to boost election turnout, according to members of Congress and a watchdog group. Last March, President Joe Biden signed an executive order stating that federal agencies “shall consider ways to… -
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Meet Sarah Bloom Raskin, Biden’s Latest Anti-Freedom, Anti-Energy Nominee
With all the attention directed to President Joe Biden’s commitment to nominate a black woman to replace retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, sadly lost is what we expect from our court and what we expect from our nation. If we have detached from what our nation supposedly is about, what idea…