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Pro-Family Groups Urge Disney to Protect Kids, Stop Pushing LGBT Agenda
As Walt Disney Co. employees staged an all-day walkout Tuesday to protest what they say is the company’s insufficient response to a parental rights bill in Florida, the Family Policy Alliance and the Florida Family Policy Council called on the entertainment giant to stop taking sides on controversial issues and to protect families and children. “As…Maggie Hroncich -
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Sen. Ron Johnson Asks ‘Full Accounting’ of Biden Family’s Chinese Business Deals
Americans need a “full accounting of Biden Inc.’s financial entanglements” with China, said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who helped lead an earlier probe into the international business deals of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. A newly published book, “Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” by Peter Schweizer, asserts that five…Fred Lucas -
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‘Maybe You’ll Need to Report a Relative to the FBI!’ An Atlantic Writer’s Advice For Dealing With Conservative Family on Thanksgiving
A Wednesday newsletter from The Atlantic urged readers to use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to “deprogram” their conservative relatives. “Maybe you’ll plant the seed, sow just a little doubt about whatever Tucker Carlson is saying now,” Molly Jong-Fast wrote. “Or maybe you’ll need to report a relative to the FBI!” Jong-Fast described Thanksgiving as an invariably disappointing…Laurel Duggan -
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In 2020, Their Family Business Burned Down in Kenosha Riots. Here’s How They’re Doing Today.
KENOSHA, Wis.—Last year, The Daily Signal shared the story of a family whose business was destroyed during the 2020 riots in Kenosha. “Everything burned to the ground,” Raquel Santiago told The Daily Signal in 2020 about her family’s ice cream shop, which had opened in 2004. “Expensive machines, compressors. I mean, things that you cannot…Virginia Allen -
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Government Supports Would Grow to $76,400 per Poor Family
The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on the partisan Build Back Better Act. This legislation, if enacted, would generate the largest increase in means-tested welfare spending in U.S. history. >>> Update: The House narrowly passed the $2 trillion social spending bill Nov. 19 by a vote of 220-213. The Senate will…Robert Rector -
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Healing the Family and Saving the Country
When I was 9 years old, my parents separated and then divorced. When I was 15, I announced to my mother that I no longer would go to church. Apparently, in doing so, I was living out a common phenomenon. As marriage declines, so does religious belief, John Van Epp and J.P. De Gance point…Katharine Gorka -
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers, Ambassadors Commemorate Global Declaration Challenging ‘Right’ to Abortion, Upholding Role of Family
Lawmakers, ambassadors, and embassy officials gathered Thursday in Washington to commemorate a pro-life, pro-family international declaration signed by the United States during the Trump administration. President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of the United States from the Geneva Consensus Declaration almost immediately after he succeeded Donald Trump as president Jan. 20. Speakers at the gathering…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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4 Reasons Why Liberal Politicians Should Abandon Federal Takeover of Paid Family Leave
Paid family leave is something almost everyone wants, and it’s important for workers to be able to take time off when a family or medical need arises. The great news is that paid family leave is on the rise, with the percentage of workers with access to paid family leave shooting up by 64% over…Rachel Greszler -
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Democrats Are Trying to Sneak Gender Dogma Into Bill on Family Violence
The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act this summer, but it stalled in the Senate. Undeterred, progressives have been trying to insert their gender dogma wherever else they can, including the $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend bill and HR 2119, which is the barely noticed Family Violence and Prevention Services Improvement Act….Jay Richards -
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Fired for Biblical Marriage Views, Former Fire Chief Explains How Faith Carried Him Through Persecution
Kelvin Cochran served as a firefighter for over three decades. He was named “Fire Chief of the Year” in 2012, and former President Barack Obama appointed him the U.S. fire administrator, the highest fire service post in the nation. But Cochran faced a different kind of fire in 2015 when he was terminated as Atlanta’s…Virginia Allen -
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‘Are You Transgender?’: Virginia School Survey Asks Students About Gender, Sex, Intimate Family Details
A Fairfax County Public Schools system survey will ask children as young as 13 years old to anonymously answer questions about their sex lives, drug and alcohol consumption, and intimate details of their family life. The school system administers the survey to students in the eighth, 10th, and 12th grades each fall, and a separate…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Chad Wolf: My Home, Family Were Targeted by Protesters. This Must Stop.
I was surprised to read The Washington Post’s recent editorial concluding that pro-choice protesters had crossed the line by demonstrating in front of the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. After all, The Washington Post is not exactly a conservative or rational voice on these types of issues. Almost all the points in the editorial…Chad Wolf -
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5 Things You Need to Know About Paid Family Leave Program in Progressives’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Package
We all want to have the ability to take leave from work when major or even minor life circumstances necessitate it. Having access to paid leave is incredibly important because without a paycheck, many workers cannot afford to take the leave they need. Fortunately, there’s been a huge upswing in access to employer-provided paid family…Rachel Greszler -
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Liberals Blame Trump, Capitalism for Family Alienation
In my last column, I published comments written by New York Times subscribers about how proud they were of their children for deciding not to have children of their own. Though they acknowledged how much they ached to be grandparents, they nevertheless reveled in the fact that this would never happen. Why did these parents…Dennis Prager -
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Maj. Sullivan Ballou Sacrificed Love of Family for His Country. His Letter Reminds Us That It Takes Courage to Preserve Freedom.
Visit a major Civil War battlefield, and chances are you will see stone monuments speckled amid the quiet and green fields and glens that form these hallowed places. These monuments are somber memorials to regiments and brigades, and ultimately, to the soldiers who fought, bled, and died on these fields. Tallies of dead and wounded…Philip Reynolds -
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Why Juneteenth Should Serve as Reminder That ‘Family Matters’
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, but it would take nearly two-and-a-half years for all American slaves to be notified of their freedom. On June 19, 1865, Union troops, led by Gen. Gordon Granger, arrived in Galveston, Texas, to tell the African-American slaves they were free. A portmanteau of “June”…Virginia Allen -
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Biden’s Family Leave Plan a Permanent Burden for Temporary Problem
If you’re a politician peddling big new government programs for which there is little need but hefty price tags, you need a clever marketing strategy. At the least, your sales pitch could use a decent sound bite. Such marketing is what the Biden administration with its friends in Congress and the media are doing when…Veronique de Rugy -
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Over Legal Objections, Biden Moves to Reinstate Family Planning Funds for Abortion Providers
The public comment period closed Monday for a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would roll back important provisions of the Trump administration’s 2019 “Protect Life” rule. At issue in the debate is the federal Title X family planning program. The law that established the program—Title X of the Public Health Service Act (1970)—says…Melanie Israel -
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Marriage and Motherhood Came in Her 40s. Why She Says Timing Was Perfect.
Life doesn’t always turn out the way we plan, and sometimes that’s a beautiful thing. Emily Stimpson Chapman, an author, freelance writer, wife, and mom to two—soon to be three—adopted children, has personally experienced the joy of living a life that is different from the one she imagined as a young woman. Chapman joins “Problematic…Virginia Allen -
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Rioters in Kenosha Burned This Immigrant Family’s Business to the Ground
It took rioters only two nights to move through Kenosha, Wisconsin, burning and looting businesses as they went, until parts of the city looked more like a war zone than an American town. “It's emotional for us,” Raquel Santiago told The Daily Signal during an Oct. 7 interview, adding: “I don't even have words to…Virginia Allen