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    China ‘Brazenly Pushing Limits to See How Far They Can Go,’ Homeland Security Panel Chairman Says
    High-ranking House Republicans and a defense expert are continuing to sound the alarm after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon about what’s at stake for the United States’ relationship with the communist nation.  “China is brazenly pushing the limits, to see how far they can go. President [Joe] Biden’s administration has consistently…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Government’s Divisive Racial Categories in Census Should Put Conservatives on Notice
    Conservatives haven’t been as interested as progressives are in capturing the federal bureaucracy, or at least they’ve been much less successful. That goes double for the Census Bureau, whose committee on race long has been the plaything of sociology professors and affinity groups. For this reason, rank-and-file conservatives may not grasp the importance of the racial…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Could Airbnb’s Ban on This Conservative Filmmaker’s Parents Be a Preview of Chinese-Style Social Credit System?
    Woke corporations are seemingly testing the waters for a Chinese-style social credit system in the United States. On Tuesday, conservative filmmaker and journalist Lauren Southern wrote on Twitter that her parents had been banned from housing-rental provider Airbnb solely because of their connection to her. “My parents just got banned from Airbnb for being related…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Biden Had Little Time for Border Security in State of the Union Speech
    One lousy minute—at most. That’s the time President Joe Biden devoted to the topic of border security and immigration in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. Those of us paid to analyze and write about it were hoping for more. After all, about 5 million people have attempted to illegally enter our country in…
    Simon Hankinson
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    4 Reasons Why Republicans Call for Impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
    Rep. Andy Biggs and a group of fellow Republican lawmakers say it’s time to impeach and remove Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the crisis of illegal immigration at the southern border.   “It’s clear Secretary Mayorkas has committed high crimes and misdemeanors,” Biggs, R-Ariz., recently said in a prepared statement calling for Mayorkas’ impeachment….
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden Was Right: Children Aren’t ‘Baggage.’ He Should Tell That to Advocates of Commercial Surrogacy
    President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address got one thing right on Tuesday night: Children are not “baggage.” Of course, the context was a complaint about airline companies’ hidden fees that limit a family’s ability to travel. “Baggage fees are bad enough. Airlines can’t just treat your child like a piece of baggage,” the…
    Emma Waters
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    Within Ranks, Trust in Our Military Declines Amid Politicization of National Defense
    Service members increasingly are concerned with the growing politicization of the U.S. military, recent polling shows. In October, The Heritage Foundation established an independent panel to address political practices or policies within the Pentagon that hinder the operational effectiveness of the armed forces. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.) As part of its…
    Jack Kraemer | Patty-Jane Geller
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    How the Left Still Managed to Racialize Tyre Nichols’ Death
    It became national, indeed, international news that five Memphis police officers grabbed, punched, beat, pepper-sprayed, and stun-gunned a black suspect named Tyre Nichols, who later died at the hospital. A picture of him in his hospital bed showing his swollen, battered, and bloodied face went viral on social media. The city police chief, a black…
    Larry Elder
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    86 House Democrats Vote Against Resolution Condemning Socialism
    The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism on Thursday, with nearly all Republicans and half of the Democrats supporting it. H. Con. Res. 9, a resolution "Denouncing the horrors of socialism," passed 328 to 86, with 14 Democrats voting present, and six members (three Republicans and three Democrats) not voting. "This was…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Disregard for American National Security’: House Panel Seeks Details of Kerry’s Secret Climate Talks With China 
    The House Oversight and Accountability Committee wants more information about Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry’s negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party over an international agreement.  President Joe Biden named Kerry, a former U.S. senator, as his special presidential envoy for climate.  Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, served as secretary of state during President…
    Fred Lucas
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    Anthony Fauci Symbolizes ‘Weaponization of Loneliness,’ Former CIA Analyst Says
    Tyrants gain control through weaponizing the fear of loneliness, author and former CIA analyst Stella Morabito says. In America, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the omnipresent voice of the COVID-19 pandemic, is one example of this, she says.  “I believe that he symbolizes for our era the weaponization of loneliness,” Morabito, a senior contributor at The Federalist,…
    Virginia Allen
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    4 Takeaways From House Judiciary Committee’s ‘Biden Border Crisis’ Hearing
    As fentanyl kills thousands of Americans and illegal immigration continues to increase, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday addressing how Biden administration’s border policies have affected American lives. Representatives heard testimony from several witnesses, including Brandon Dunn, co-founder of the Forever 15 Project; Dale Lynn Carruthers, county judge of Terrell County, Texas;…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Biden Administration Pursues Racial Balkanization
    President Joe Biden came into office promising to be a unifier, but make no mistake, he’s rapidly becoming the divider-in-chief. He is now reviving former President Barack Obama's idea of adding yet one more racial category to our Balkanized nation and effectively turning Hispanics into a race, not an ethnicity. In a document from the Office…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    How Government Race Preferences Discriminate Against Interracial Couples, Business Partners
    Government programs that give preferences to businesses owned by racial and ethnic minorities are popular tools among liberal politicians and bureaucrats. Their proponents defend them as necessary to advance “racial equity” and “social justice,” though they are morally wrong. But there’s another reason to reject these programs: They have the unintended side effects of discouraging…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Misguided and Socialist Policies Contribute Mightily to Rash of Layoffs, Bleak Economic Outlook
    America may be entering a new phase of economic malaise. While inflation dominated the public consciousness in 2021 and 2022, troubling developments in the labor market offer a worrisome sign of what 2023 might hold. A wave of layoffs hit technology companies this month. Amazon announced this month that it would lay off 18,000 corporate…
    Preston Brashers
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    Why Special Counsel Should Expand Probe to Penn Biden Center’s China Ties
    President Joe Biden has had a difficult time explaining the increasing number of classified documents found at his home and at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in the nation’s capital established in coordination with the University of Pennsylvania. The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, first flagged the fact that…
    Fred Lucas
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    How Blue State Election Official Responds to DACA Recipient Proclaiming, ‘We Are Voting’
    After a self-identified noncitizen told the Minnesota state legislators, “We are voting,” the state’s top election official insisted that noncitizen voting isn’t a problem. “Our office has no indication that noncitizen voting is a problem in Minnesota or nationally,” Cassondra Knudson, deputy communications director for Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, told The Daily Signal…
    Fred Lucas
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    US Intel Community Investigated Trump Docs for National Security Risk, but Is Silent on Biden Classified Information
    Weeks after the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, the U.S. intelligence community announced it would do an assessment of the risk to national security posed by former President Donald Trump maintaining records at his private home.  No similar announcement has been forthcoming about the classified information stored at President Joe Biden’s private home in Delaware and…
    Fred Lucas
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  • opinion

    Racial Reparations Will Solve Nothing
    This week, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released a report calling on the city to pay every black resident $5 million and absolve all of their outstanding personal debt. Its rationale was broad—as it had to be, since California was founded as a free state: “While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally…
    Ben Shapiro
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    The Real Story Behind Mall Security Asking Man to Remove ‘Jesus Saves’ T-Shirt
    Mall security guards at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, ordered a man to remove his “Jesus Saves” T-shirt or leave the mall, footage shows. “I didn’t do anything,” the man, Paul Shoro, told The Daily Signal in a Facebook message on Tuesday. “They forced me to take off my shirt.” The mall later…
    Tyler O’Neil
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