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    WATCH: ‘The Olympic Woman-Beating Finals’

    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we don our foreign policy glasses and celebrate the freedom of two Americans formerly held as political prisoners in Moscow, while criticizing the potential release of over a dozen Russian hackers and a plea deal for two terrorists involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks. For…
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    XX-XY Athletics Brand Owner Goes to Bat to Preserve Women’s Sports

    The owner of a new athletic clothing brand says she has seen broad support for protecting the exclusivity of women’s sports from the transgender movement since she began advocating for the cause.  Jennifer Sey, who founded XX-XY Athletics earlier this year, explained to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts in an interview why she started the…
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    Biden’s Radical Title IX Rewrite Goes Into Effect, but Blocked in 26 States

    President Joe Biden’s administration’s rewrite of Title IX went into effect on Thursday, an effort that seeks to allow men in women’s private spaces, athletics, and educational opportunities. The White House did not appear to issue a statement or weigh in on the rule going into effect, nor had Vice President Kamala Harris or Biden…
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    Olympian Ilona Maher Disrupts Radical Left’s View of Femininity

    Ilona Maher has put women’s rugby on the map following her performance on and off the field at the 2024 Paris Olympics, breaking the radical Left’s view of femininity in the process.  Chances are, I am not the only American who two weeks ago had never heard of Maher and didn’t even know women’s rugby…
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    WATCH: What the Media Refuse to Ask Kamala

    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we brace for the impact of a major conflict in the Middle East, which may expand into Europe and the open borders of the United States. Don’t expect anyone to ask Vice President Kamala Harris about it; Democrats’ presumptive nominee for president isn’t taking questions from…
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    Kamala Harris, Candidate of Myth

    So, Kamala Harris is the new Democratic candidate for president. And, we’ve been told, she is incredible. Not merely serviceable, a middle innings relief pitcher brought in when your starter suddenly implodes in the third inning. She is the Mariano Rivera of politics. She’s lights-out. She’s charismatic, fascinating, quick on her feet, charming. She is,…
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    Back When San Francisco Wasn’t Liberal—or an Epithet

    “She is a San Francisco liberal.” That’s how Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas—who graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law School—described Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview on CNN last week. That description of San Francisco may make sense now, but there was a time when it did not. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower…
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    EXCLUSIVE: House Leaders Urged to Save AM Radios in New Vehicles

    In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson and other House leaders on Wednesday, a right-leaning think tank encouraged “prompt House passage” of legislation protecting the installation of AM radios in all new vehicles.  Numerous vehicle manufacturers—especially makers of electric vehicles—such as Ford, Tesla, and Volvo, have begun removing AM radios from their new models….
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    Legal Settlement Exonerates Sailors Kicked Out Over COVID-19 Vaccine

    A recent settlement protecting about 4,300 Navy sailors from being negatively affected by COVID-19 policies in the future is the latest example of how the consequences of the pandemic are still unfolding—specifically in terms of how the military dealt with it. An estimated “80,000 to 100,000 service members—both active-duty and reservists … were impacted by the…
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    Is Kamala Harris Working With Servile Journalists to Polish the Spin on Their Stories?

    It’s funny how journalists admit Vice President Kamala Harris is getting a media honeymoon, and then deny it means anything. Ben Smith at Semafor sent an email noting “Republican fury” at the gushy pro-Kamala bias and claiming, “But who are we, and Republicans, kidding? I wish we had that kind of power. The news media can’t make…
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    Bias Lurks in Study Linking Bronchitis in Children With Poor Air Quality

    A new study by a team of University of Southern California researchers claims that children exposed to poor air quality are at greater risk of (self-reported) bronchitis symptoms than are adults. But this health claim is tenuous. Published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the study uses data sets from a…
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    Why ‘the Right Side of History’ Is Often Wrong

    We are living in unprecedented times. That statement is always true, but as events around us continue to unfold, it’s difficult to awaken each morning without wondering what development of the day will become history in the making. Unanticipated incidents, be they acts of God or assassination attempts, define themselves. Others, from proposed legislation to…
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    Far-Left Donors Aim to Buy the Evangelical Vote, Author Megan Basham Says

    Left-wing groups donate to organizations considered Christian in an attempt to control the evangelical vote, says Megan Basham, author of the new book “Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda.” “We have to look at the fact that this is rightly called America’s most powerful voting bloc, and they…
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    Olympics Opening Ceremony Was Far More Serious Than ‘Offensive’

    I am a Jew, not a Christian. Yet I found loathsome the mockery of the Last Supper—one of the holiest scenes in the New Testament—during the opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. In fact, it is actually troubling to constantly read the words, “Many Christians are offended”—as if only Christians are offended by France’s…
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    WATCH: ‘US Leaderless as World Burns’

    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine a few key details about the escalation of conflict in the Middle East as missiles fly from Iraq and jets are seen flying north to Lebanon from Israel in apparent retaliation for the Hezbollah attack that killed 12 Israeli children. Young Voices state beat…
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    EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Woke Caucus Says White House Must Clarify Stance on Trans Surgeries for Kids

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to clarify the stance of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ administration regarding irreversible gender-transition surgeries for kids.  Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., the chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus, sent a letter to Becerra on Tuesday co-signed by GOP…
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    House Bill Would Codify Sex as Male and Female, Not Gender Identity or Expression

    A Republican congresswoman from Illinois has introduced a bill to clearly define sex based on biology, rather than ideology. “As a mother and grandmother, I am deeply concerned by the Biden administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX, endangering our daughters and granddaughters in sports and locker rooms,” Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., told The Daily Signal….
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    There Is No Substance in Kamala Harris’ Campaign

    Is Kamala Harris running for president or prom queen? Superficiality is nothing new in American politics, and Donald Trump certainly knows how to use playground tactics—like tagging opponents with childish, yet effectively humiliating, nicknames. Trump is about much more than taunts, however. From immigration to foreign policy and everywhere in between, he’s staked out clear…
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    Young Adults Still Living at Home With Parents at Highest Rate in Nearly 85 Years

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. The share of young adults still living with their parents just hit its highest level since 1940. Of course, in 1940, they lived at home because they were saving themselves for a good [husband or wife]. Today, they…
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    Author Explains How the Left Took Over America’s Classrooms

    Education expert David Goodwin says conservatives have a long way to go in taking classrooms back from the pernicious ideological influence of the Left.  Goodwin, co-author of “Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation,” shared his perspectives on the education culture wars with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. “We’re going to have…
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