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US Must End Reliance on Chinese Pharmaceuticals, Strategic Minerals
Imagine what Joe Biden or a future president of the United States would do if Chinese dictator Xi Jinping dispatched another spy balloon toward America and declared: “If America destroys our peace-loving balloon, we will have no choice but to suspend immediately, and until further notice, all U.S.-bound exports of Chinese-made antibiotics and antibiotic precursor chemicals. We eagerly await… -
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5 Key Questions in Senate Panel’s Hearing on Chinese Spy Balloon
Questions flew Thursday as the Chinese spy balloon that floated last week above the U.S. was the subject of a hearing by a Senate subcommittee. U.S. officials revealed Feb. 2 that China’s surveillance balloon was flying over the country. Two days later, on Feb. 4, an American fighter jet fired one missile to shoot down the spy balloon… -
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Former Acting Defense Secretary Doesn’t Think China Would Have Flown Balloon Under Trump
U.S. officials revealed a week ago, on Feb. 2, that a Chinese surveillance balloon was flying over the country. Two days later, on Feb. 4, an American fighter jet shot down the spy balloon with a missile. Chris Miller, acting defense secretary under President Donald Trump, weighs in on the Biden administration’s decision to shoot… -
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China Surpasses US in Nuclear Missile Launchers; US Unprepared to Deter Growing Threat
As China engages in a rapid nuclear buildup as part of its strategy to achieve global dominance, the Pentagon has announced that the communist nation has surpassed the U.S. in the number of intercontinental ballistic missile launchers it has. The U.S. nuclear force was designed over a decade ago to deter primarily Russia, not both… -
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Which Does Secretary of State Blinken Think Is Worse: Chinese Uyghur Genocide or Spy Balloon?
Secretary of State Antony Blinken—who was planning to leave last Friday on a trip to the People’s Republic of China—gave an address Jan. 30 at the International Religious Freedom Summit, where he happened to mention that the Chinese leaders he was preparing to visit were at that moment engaging in genocide. “This past November,” said… -
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FACT CHECK: Biden Calls Inflation ‘Global Problem’ Caused by ‘Putin’s War’
In his second State of the Union address, President Joe Biden spoke Tuesday night about inflation, which has risen steeply during his presidency. “Inflation has been a global problem because of the pandemic that disrupted supply chains and Putin’s war that disrupted energy and food supplies,” Biden said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Feb…. -
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Female Swimmer Who Competed Against Male Will Attend State of the Union, Force Biden to Acknowledge He Has Said ‘I Don’t Matter’
Swimmer and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines will be one of the faces President Joe Biden will see in the crowd as he delivers his second State of the Union address Tuesday night. “I think my presence here gives a face for Joe Biden to look at and tell me, … in my eyes with me… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Majority of Women Who Got Abortions Were Pressured Into Them, Study Finds
FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Over 60% of women who aborted their unborn baby reported high levels of pressure from other sources, a new peer-reviewed study from the Charlotte Lozier Institute found. And that same group of women also reported higher levels of mental health struggles and quality of life issues following the abortion. The study,… -
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Did China Send Spy Balloons During Trump Presidency? FAA Isn’t Saying
The Federal Aviation Administration, the agency that monitors all air traffic in the United States, didn’t have an answer Monday to the question of whether Chinese spy balloons traversed American airspace during the Trump administration. The aviation agency said its cooperation with the Defense Department in restricting airspace where the balloon was shot down, however,… -
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These 5 China Intelligence Failures Are Even More Dangerous Than the Chinese Spy Balloon
It might not have been a Sputnik moment, but Americans were unsettled to wake up to the news that a Chinese surveillance balloon was sailing overhead, violating U.S. airspace. Their concern deepened when they learned this wasn’t the first time. Beijing has used similar aerostats to surveil U.S. military installations in Guam and Hawaii and, possibly, strategic early warning sites in Canada. More shocking, still, was… -
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Biden Bungles China Spy Balloon Challenge
In the wake of China admitting today that a large surveillance balloon flying over the U.S. was its own, critical questions arise. What is China surveilling? How invasive is this? Is this an act of aggression? Should we believe China when it says it was an accident? Everything Beijing does is with intention, and until… -
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Antony Blinken Makes Major Announcement on China Trip After Mysterious Chinese Balloon Spotted
Lawmakers and policy experts are weighing in after a Chinese “spy balloon” appeared over the U.S. earlier this week. “America is under assault from Chinese spying and if the Biden Administration refuses [to] respond it will send a message to the Chinese military that they can send even more spy balloons. Inaction invites dangerous behavior,”… -
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Fertility Doctors Using Donor Sperm From Someone Other Than Who the Client Chose
The Netflix documentary “Our Father” exposed a jarring truth about the fertility industry. Jacoba Ballard knew that her mother used a sperm donor to conceive her. Curious about the identity of her father, she took an at-home DNA test. What she found changed her life. Her biological father was Dr. Donald Cline—her mother’s fertility doctor…. -
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Taiwanese Leader Denounces China’s ‘Assault on Religion’
Just days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to China in an attempt to improve relations, Taiwan’s top legislative leader was in Washington thanking the U.S. for its support and denouncing Beijing’s “all-out assault on religion” amid a broader government effort to block the Chinese people from enjoying fundamental freedoms and human rights. You… -
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The Russians Aren’t Complying With the New START Nuclear Arms Control Treaty—Now What?
The State Department informed Congress this week in its New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, Implementation Report that it can’t certify that Russia is in compliance with the bilateral nuclear arms control agreement. According to the report, Russia has been preventing required inspections of its nuclear arsenal and has failed to convene a… -
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Police Chief Who Placed Officer on Leave for Voicing Traditional Marriage Views Retires
Port Wentworth, Georgia, Police Chief Matt Libby announced his retirement Monday, less than a week after The Daily Signal reported that Police Officer Jacob Kersey had been placed on administrative leave after sharing his views on traditional marriage on Facebook. WTOC first broke the news of Libby’s retirement Monday afternoon, reporting that the police chief… -
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Chinese Communist Party Targets American Kids by Infiltrating K-12 Schools
Congressional Republicans and Asia policy experts are sounding the alarm over the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on K-12 education as well as colleges in America through what are called Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes. “Confucius Institutes and Classrooms allow the Chinese Communist Party to wield influence throughout the American education system, projecting the CCP’s preferred… -
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Court Rules Against Masterpiece Cakeshop Owner Who Refused to Bake Gender Transition Cake
A Colorado Court of Appeals judge ruled against Christian baker Jack Phillips Thursday after he appealed an earlier court decision requiring him to bake a cake for an individual’s gender transition. Phillips won a previous case at the Supreme Court in 2018 after he declined to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, but was sued again in… -
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Cruz Bill Would Prohibit Sales of Reserve Oil to China
Legislation introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday aims to stop the flow of American oil into Communist China. Titled the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act, Cruz’s bill would prohibit the sale of American crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to any company under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. It… -
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Who’s More Irrational, the Religious or the Irreligious?
There are very few things conservatives, liberals, and leftists agree on. But if they are irreligious, they all agree that religious Americans are more irrational than irreligious Americans. It is a secular axiom that secularism and secular people are rooted in reason, whereas religion and the religious are rooted in irrationality. This is what almost…