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    Biden Administration Sues Texas Over Governor’s Order Restricting Transportation of Illegal Immigrants
    The Biden administration filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas challenging Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order targeting the transportation of migrants spreading COVID-19 in the state, according to court documents filed Friday. Abbott, a Republican, announced restrictions on the ground transportation of illegal migrants in federal custody who could spread COVID-19 around Texas communities…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    Whistleblowers Say Officials Ignored Need to Buy Underwear for Detained Children at Border
    Federal officials ignored requests to buy underwear for migrant children detained at the Fort Bliss emergency intake site near El Paso, Texas, according to a whistleblower complaint filed by the Government Accountability Project. Two whistleblowers reported gross mismanagement of the Fort Bliss facility and harm to unaccompanied migrant minors. The whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein, an official…
    Kaylee Greenlee
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    America Must Address Its Other Epidemic: Fentanyl Overdoses
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a record 93,331 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2020. Some 75% of them involved opioids, the latest sobering statistic in the United States’ 2 decades old opioid epidemic. Overuse and misuse of prescription opioids, and later heroin, drove the first two waves of the epidemic….
    Alexander Phipps | Matthew Samilow
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    Some No-Cost Ways for Congress to Make Pentagon More Effective
    It is easy to complain, much harder to offer solutions. Congress loves to criticize the Pentagon’s wastefulness, even though lawmakers create some waste by imposing overly prescriptive rules such as “use it or lose it.” The “use it or lose it” phenomenon occurs at the end of every fiscal year, when the Defense Department rushes…
    Kaitlyn Romaine | Frederico Bartels
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    Federal Judge Halts Arkansas Ban on Sex-Change Procedures for Minors
    A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the enforcement of a highly publicized Arkansas law banning sex-change procedures for minors. Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, otherwise known as the SAFE Act, prohibits physicians from performing sex-change procedures, such as using puberty blockers or doing “top” and “bottom” surgeries, on minors. U.S. District Judge Jay Moody…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Nominee Faces Pushback Over Stonewalling Senators
    After his March 2 Senate committee confirmation hearing, Rohit Chopra appeared to have a “reasonably assured path forward” to becoming the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Suddenly, however, Chopra’s prospects look a bit different. As Government Executive reports, several current and former employees of the bureau allege that the Biden administration is…
    Norbert Michel
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    Biden Administration Needs to Take the Kid Gloves Off When Reacting to China’s Cyberattacks
    The United States, along with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and NATO, on Monday formally attributed a series of malicious cyberattacks to China. This includes the March cyberattack that targeted Microsoft’s Exchange Server software, carried out by a Chinese-based hacking group known as Hafnium. This formal attribution is part of a broader condemnation of…
    Dustin Carmack
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    Democrats Openly Assault Honest Elections, Ohio’s Top Election Official Says
    The partisan divide in Washington is clear on a bill in Congress to eliminate most state voter ID laws while nationalizing election laws, but bipartisan consensus exists among local election officials, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says.  “I can tell you in Ohio, as I talked to election officials—men and women that actually work…
    Fred Lucas
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    Understanding Economics Can Cure an Obsession With Socialism
    Although nearly a quarter of Americans (23%) say socialism means equality, fewer (17%) correctly identify socialism as an economic system where the government controls key factors of production and distribution, according to a Gallup poll in 2018. The same poll found that 42% of Americans said they feel positively about socialism. Despite such apparent support…
    Emily Marsh | Tori K. Smith
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    It’s Insane That Psaki Is Suggesting Republicans to Blame for Defunding Police
    Most of us recall as children getting into a dispute with another kid and then blaming him for starting a fight. When Mom approached, you said, “He hit me first.” The other kid denies it and accuses you of hitting him first. As adults we become more sophisticated when lying. That’s why White House press…
    Cal Thomas
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    US Response to Cyberattacks? It Must Be More Than Just Biden’s ‘Off Limits’ List
    President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a mid-June summit in Geneva, after which Biden told reporters, “I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off-limits to attack, period—by cyber or any other means.” The president said he handed over a list of 16 areas of critical infrastructure that are…
    Dustin Carmack
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    After Lauding Ngo’s Book About Antifa, Mumford Musician Leaves Band
    As part of its ongoing campaign to become the most reviled group in America, Antifa branched out from its usual behavior of smashing windows and beating people to engaging in some good old-fashioned cancel culture.   This week’s victim was Winston Marshall, former Mumford & Sons guitarist and banjo player, who was forced to leave the band after praising journalist Andy Ngo for his new book “Unmasked:…
    Douglas Blair
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    Despite Controversies, We Need to Encourage Voluntary Military Service
    Just in time for July Fourth, The Heritage Foundation released a citizen’s guide that encourages youth to consider serving in America’s armed forces. >>> The Daily Signal is the news and commentary platform of The Heritage Foundation. Voluntary military service has never been more important to keeping American democracy alive and well. It safeguards all…
    James Carafano
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    Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Association
    What would it take for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Independent Women’s Law Center, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Gun Owners of America, and the Human Rights Campaign and the Proposition 8 Legal Defense Fund to be found in the same trench fighting the same opponent? Nothing less…
    Thomas Jipping | David Bainbridge
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    Exclusive: Rep. Ted Budd Introduces Amendment to Nix Over 1,400 Earmarks From Transportation Bill
    A North Carolina congressman is introducing an amendment to remove all earmarks from a transportation spending bill slated for a House vote this week. “Taxpayers across the country are getting their first look at what Washington is like in the new earmark era,” Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., said in a statement to The Daily Signal. …
    Rachel del Guidice
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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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  • opinion

    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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    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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    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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