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    IRS Denies Tax Exemption to Christian Group, Associates Bible With GOP
    A top Internal Revenue Service official told a Christian group that “Bible teachings are typically affiliated” with the Republican Party as a rationale for denying its application for tax-exempt status.  The Texas-based Christians Engaged filed an appeal on Wednesday to the IRS’ denial, objecting to the tax agency’s assertion that it is partisan.  In a…
    Fred Lucas
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    How Economist Thomas Sowell’s Warning About Combating Racial Disparities Came True
    The following is excerpted from Jason Riley’s new book, “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell,” about the iconoclastic economist. The book is available here. The economist Thomas Sowell distinguished himself in the early 1970s as a critic of the traditional civil rights leadership, but in earlier decades he had been optimistic about the direction of…
    Jason Riley
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    How Zuckerberg Paid Millions for Progressives to Work With 2020 Election Officials Nationwide
    In the months leading up to November’s election, voting officials in major cities and counties worked with a progressive group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and its allies to create ballots, strategically target voters, and develop “cure” letters in situations where mail-in ballots were in danger of being tossed out. The Center for Tech and…
    Steve Miller
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  • opinion

    Public School Teacher Warns Parents: Be Afraid of Kids ‘Rooting for Socialism’ by Middle School
    Editor’s note: At a Tuesday night meeting of the Loudoun County School Board in Virginia, teacher Lilit Vanetsyan delivered these remarks, according to Fight for Schools, a nonpartisan political action committee focused on education. The Daily Signal previously has reported on the court-ordered reinstatement of an elementary school gym teacher in Loudoun County’s public school…
    Daily Signal Staff
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  • opinion

    North Korean Cyberattacks Pose Threat to US
    A U.S. grand jury indicted three North Korean hackers in February on charges of attempting to steal or extort $1.3 billion from international financial institutions and companies.  The egregious North Korean cyberattack was hardly an isolated event. Since 2007, the regime in Pyongyang has engaged in cyberespionage, disruptive and destructive attacks, cyberterrorism, and cyber bank…
    Bruce Klingner | Luke Kim
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    Biden Calls for Billions to Close Racial Wealth Gap, Hits 2 Senate Democrats for Stymieing His Agenda
    President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a plan to push for the government to buy from black-owned businesses and for infrastructure targeted at minority-majority areas to help close the “racial wealth gap” between black and white Americans.  He said his administration also wants to increase enforcement of the Fair Housing Act to increase black homeownership….
    Fred Lucas
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    Former VA Secretary Robert Wilkie Reminds Us Why We Celebrate Memorial Day
    On Memorial Day, America honors the more than 1 million men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country.  Robert Wilkie, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Trump administration, says Americans owe a great debt because without those who laid down their lives, “we wouldn’t have very much…
    Virginia Allen
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  • opinion

    Do Steel and Aluminum From Europe Still Threaten US National Security?
    U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis announced a deal May 17 that many are calling a “cease-fire” on the multiyear dispute over U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The European Union was set to double retaliatory tariffs next month on several American products, including whiskey and wine,…
    Tori K. Smith
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    Memorial Day Vow: ‘Never Again Will One Generation of Veterans Abandon Another’
    There have been times when America has forgotten why we sent Americans overseas—and the duty we have to care for those who carry this nation’s freedom on their backs. After Vietnam, there were no “welcome home” parades. As a youth, I saw senior officers in America’s most decorated combat division refused permission to wear their…
    Robert Wilkie
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    I Am a Mother to a Son With Gender Dysphoria. Here Is My Message to Elected Officials.
    As I watch the news and see more and more states consider laws to ban doctors from using hormones and performing surgeries on children and youth who struggle to feel comfortable with their bodies, I can’t help but think of my son’s struggle.   At age 19, my son announced his identity as a woman,…
    Crystal
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    Sen. Pat Toomey Questions Fed’s Racial Agenda
    The Federal Reserve Bank, which is charged with setting monetary policy, appears to be going woke, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., warns.  Toomey cited the focus of the Fed’s 12 regional banks on “structural racism” as the leading cause of inequality in the United States as part of a series of virtual events titled “Racism and…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Homeland Security Chief Warned Biden Counterpart Not to Spark Border Crisis, Notes Show
    The Trump administration warned the incoming Biden administration that a crisis could erupt if it ended current border security policies, according to notes of a telephone conversation during the presidential transition provided exclusively to The Daily Signal. The notes from the Nov. 29 phone call show that Chad Wolf, then head of the Department of…
    Rachel del Guidice
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  • opinion

    Is China’s Digital Currency a National Security Threat? What You Need to Know
    Imagine a currency that can expire, or that the government can require citizens to use only for specific purchases. Imagine no further because that is the power the Chinese government holds through its newly tested digital currency.  China’s digital currency is backed by China’s central bank, but unlike traditional bank accounts, users cannot withdraw physical…
    Virginia Allen
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  • opinion

    Cyberattack on Pipeline Shows How Jones Act Is Threat to National Security
    The Eastern European or Russian hacking ring DarkSide’s cyberattack has wreaked havoc on the Colonial Pipeline, which transports a large percentage of the gasoline, jet fuel, and other refined petroleum into several states throughout the southeastern U.S. and mid-Atlantic. News of the pipeline’s shutdown sparked a panic-fueled run on gasoline, and caused gas prices to…
    Patrick Tyrrell | Anthony B. Kim
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  • opinion

    3 Seas Initiative Matters to America’s Security and Economy
    In a recent forum between the U.S. and European Union, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appealed for greater U.S. support for the Three Seas Initiative, commonly known internationally as the 3SI. Morawiecki underscored the importance of the 3SI in the context of further enhancing the transatlantic and strategic relationship: [T]his new dimension, which we have…
    Anthony B. Kim
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  • opinion

    Blacks Don’t Need ‘White Savior’ Politicians
    I recently came across the term “white savior movies.” According to critics, this is a type of film that features a white hero or heroine entering the life of a helpless, troubled, often clueless black person and, as one black critic puts it, “swoops in” to turn his or her life around. In an article…
    Larry Elder
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  • opinion

    Political Correctness Comes to CIA
    The Central Intelligence Agency is always looking to recruit new agents and advertising is one way it has done so in the past. The difference this time is in a newly created series of recruitment videos that reflect the spirit of the age in which we live, rather than appealing to abilities and patriotism. The…
    Cal Thomas
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  • opinion

    Due Process Is Opposite of Social Justice
    It has been two weeks since the conviction of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of George Floyd. The world has moved on. Politicians breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the verdict; the media quickly moved on to its next manipulated data point in favor of…
    Ben Shapiro
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  • opinion

    Former Acting Homeland Security Chief Weighs in on Biden Border Crisis
    Personnel with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and with Customs and Border Protection are being directed by the Biden administration to stop using the terms “illegal alien” and “assimilation.” Chad Wolf, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation and former acting secretary of homeland security in President Donald Trump’s administration, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to…
    Rachel del Guidice
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  • opinion

    Arkansas Looks to Protect Religious Liberty in State Constitution
    If you adapted the old advertising slogan for the American company known for its jams, jellies, and preserves, “With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good,” to the American Civil Liberties Union, it might read something like, “If the ACLU labels your action one of the ‘most extreme’ in the nation, it has to…
    Lathan Watts
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