Political Commentary & Opinion
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Law Firm Calls for Investigation Into Company Responsible for Friday’s Global Tech Outage for Alleged Discrimination
A conservative public interest law firm filed a civil rights complaint against cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike on Wednesday for racial and sex discrimination. America First Legal said that CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. allegedly discriminated against white men by segregating them, forcing them to complete trainings, and limiting their promotions for the sake of diversity, equity, and… -
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2 YEARS LATER: Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin Heads to Trial
The man who told authorities that he traveled from California to Maryland with the intent to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will be heading to trial, court documents show. Nicholas John Roske, then 26, traveled to the Kavanaugh home in Maryland in June 2022 with the express intent of killing Kavanaugh and two other… -
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Big Tech Cuts Half a Million Jobs, Blames AI
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Big Tech is slashing jobs—half a million and counting. And it’s blaming artificial intelligence. A new study by Layoffs.fyi reports that layoffs in the tech industry have exceeded 100,000 so far this year—and keep in mind that the… -
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I Got Banned by LinkedIn for Using ‘American’ in a Job Posting
After I posted a job opening on LinkedIn last summer for my new online journal, New Guard Press, the social media site removed the listing, citing “discrimination.” My crime? I wrote that my post sought “young writers who believe in our mission of reviving American culture.” A label on that job posting for New Guard… -
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How Does UK View America’s Tumultuous Political Season?
Within less than two weeks, the world has watched as former President Donald Trump was almost assassinated, President Joe Biden announced he was ending his bid for reelection, and Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the leading choice for the Democratic Party nomination for president. From within the U.S., it feels like a tumultuous… -
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What These 2 ‘Breakfast Club’ Callers Say Kamala Harris, Dems Did to Blacks
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Listeners to “The Breakfast Club” radio show and podcast called in Tuesday to criticize Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris over policies they said are “destroying” black Americans. President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race Sunday and endorsed Harris to take his place atop the Democratic ticket after consistently dismal polling and doubts about his mental fitness…. -
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The Overreaching Power of the Bureaucracy Is Destroying Our Representative Government
The United States is a republic with decision-making power held by elected legislators representing the people. Yet many of the biggest decisions affecting the lives of Americans are made by unelected bureaucrats. In recent years, we have seen the administrative state going to levels never seen before, making decisions that Congress never told bureaucrats to… -
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WATCH: ‘Cringemala Harris’—The Tony Kinnett Cast Ep. 142
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dive into the half-hearted attempts to revivify Vice President Kamala Harris into a leader instead of the deeply controversial and lackluster prosecutor, senator, and vice president her legacy has defined. U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns before an expected bipartisan impeachment vote in the… -
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Even a Good Speech Won’t Erase Biden’s Signs of Ill Health
On Wednesday, he’ll deliver a prime-time speech at 8 p.m. Eastern—significantly, a time more aligned with the time of his disastrous debate performance than his alleged preferred time to function. “From 10am to 4pm, [President Joe] Biden is dependably engaged … outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to… -
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Giving a Late Lawmaker’s Commitment to Legislative Transparency the Belated Credit It’s Due
Retired Sen. James Inhofe passed away recently and, in addition to the glowing tributes from others, I wanted to share a personal anecdote about how the Oklahoma Republican made a difference in an unexpected way. Here’s the backstory. Civics 101 tells us that bills and resolutions introduced by a House member or senator are first… -
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A Great GOP Convention—But With One Big Missed Opportunity
I have attended about a half-dozen national conventions, Republican and Democratic, and watched at least a dozen more. And I can say two things: 1) They have all generally bored me. 2) The 2024 Republican National Convention didn’t. The RNC not only held my interest, it often moved me emotionally. If you weren’t moved to tears by… -
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It’s Too Late, Joe
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden’s letter announcing that he is standing down from the general election documented all the reasons the incumbent had to go. But it’s too late, Joe. Your legacy is lost. Biden should have announced he was not running for reelection a year ago—or, at the very least, before he blew the June 27… -
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‘NO SENSE’: Sloped or Not, No Reason Why Roof Shouldn’t Have Been Secured, Sheriff Says
It makes “absolutely no sense” that the roof of the building from which the gunman fired was not secured by the Secret Service, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Sheriff Dale Schmidt told The Daily Signal in an interview discussing the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Following the attempt on Trump’s life during a campaign rally… -
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Are We on Verge of Stagflation?
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Two of America’s biggest banks just warned of incoming disaster. Even poker-face Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is starting to crack, sprinkling his usual sweet nothings with warnings that the Fed’s close to being forced to restart… -
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Why I Started a Digital Platform for Young Conservatives to Take on the Left
In the back seat of a Toyota Sienna headed north through the winding roads of the Blue Ridge Mountains, I rapidly bought an internet domain name and a WordPress subscription. I then furiously began constructing a website on my iPhone 12 Mini—a task not for the faint of heart. On this vacation with my family… -
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23 Takeaways From Secret Service Director’s Testimony Before House Oversight Panel
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, in the wake of the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Numerous lawmakers—from both sides of the aisle—have called for Cheatle to resign after a gunman fired multiple shots at Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, about… -
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Taliban Could Abscond With Hundreds of Millions in US Aid to Afghanistan, Watchdog Finds
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An “increased risk” exists that at least $293 million in U.S. aid disbursed by the State Department in Afghanistan between March and November 2022 could fall into the Taliban’s hands, a new report finds. Two subagencies of the State Department—the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Bureau of International Narcotics… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Top Pediatrician Promoting Trans Procedures for Texas Kids Now High Ranking NIH Official
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The chief pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital resigned in April 2022 after just seven months in her role, shortly after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott forced the hospital to pause attempted sex-change procedures on children, such as puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries. Now she’s working for President Joe Biden’s administration in a… -
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The Chosen One
I think it was 2019 when I first interacted with Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. I had just finished my judicial clerkship and begun my career in media. JD, just a few years older than me, was already a bestselling author and a tech venture capitalist. We were both interested in some of the energetic and… -
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Republicans Need to Prepare for the Left’s Next Move
Donald Trump has a lot of things to celebrate this week, but a foregone conclusion in November isn’t one of them. Joe Biden is down in the polls and losing the unwinnable war against time’s toll. But Biden is nothing if not tenacious, and the president has a trick ready to turn Trump’s latest triumph—…