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VA Hospital Plans to Ramp Up Sex-Change Surgeries, Double Down on Gender Ideology, Documents Show
A Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Seattle requested more than $600,000 in fiscal year 2023 to build and staff a surgical facility for performing gender-transition surgeries, although the VA has yet to approve such procedures, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The facility has offered hormone therapy, minor surgeries, hair removal,…Micaela Burrow -
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Strive Offers Investors Alternative to ESG-Driven Companies
In the investment and financial services industry, the dominant players like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard are beholden to stakeholder activism, which drives them to a greater focus on leftist ideas like DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—and ESG—environmental, social, and corporate governance. Strive takes a different approach. It’s focused on maximizing value for investors—and it’s having…Robert B. Bluey -
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2 Articles of Impeachment Filed Against Mayorkas
The House Homeland Security Committee on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “His lawless behavior was exactly what the Framers gave us the impeachment power to remedy,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said of Mayorkas. The two impeachment articles “lay out a clear, compelling and irrefutable case for…Virginia Allen -
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Crime Rates Are High, No Matter What the Media Say
As the old saying goes, you reap what you sow. It seems that liberal politicians who sowed the specious seeds of their version of “criminal justice reform” in blue cities across the country now don’t like their crop: high crime rates. Gallup polls show that 63% of Americans think the crime problem is “extremely or…Cully Stimson -
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‘This Is Not a Political Debate,’ Tucker Carlson Warns. ‘This Is a Destruction of You.’
Canada is facing an existential crisis like much of the rest of the West, and Canadians need to understand that to finally fight back against the people in power there. That was the message from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who delivered an impassioned speech in Calgary, Alberta, on Tuesday. His Calgary speech was…Jarrett Stepman -
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You Can’t Defend ‘Democracy’ and the Administrative State
The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who lord over you. If you refuse, you’ll be ruined. You have little recourse. You’ve never even voted on the policy because no law implementing it exists. Bureaucrats in D.C. cooked up the idea, and a political appointee signed…David Harsanyi -
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State Department: Blinken Doesn’t Consider India, Nigeria Persecuted Countries
Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined that Nigeria and India do not meet the threshold to be designated as “countries of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act, the State Department confirmed to The Daily Signal. Though the State Department is still refusing to designate either of those nations as a “Country of Particular…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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The Patriarchy’s New Way to Quash Women’s Happiness
Is 2024 the year of polyamory? “How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?” wonders The New Yorker in a late December article. The New York Times gushes in a Jan. 13 article: “How a Polyamorous Mom Had ‘a Big Sexual Adventure’ and Found Herself.” More articles rapidly followed. New York Magazine’s Jan. 16 cover article was…Katrina Trinko -
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DOD Plans to Cover Fertility Treatments for Same-Sex and Unmarried Couples
The Pentagon plans to cover advanced fertility treatments for same-sex and unmarried couples, Military.com reported, citing court documents unsealed recently as part of an ongoing lawsuit. Certain military hospitals offer donor gametes and in vitro fertilization to married troops at a cost, or free to those whose infertility can be connected to a service-related injury, according to…Micaela Burrow -
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Social Security: A Broken Socialist Dinosaur
It seems many still harbor, or want to perpetuate, the illusion that our Social Security system is not in trouble. Let me quote here from a press release from the Social Security Administration released March 31, 2023: The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the financial status of the Social…Star Parker -
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America’s Families Would Be Slammed by House Panel’s Expansion of Welfare
A major feature of the House Ways and Means Committee’s “tax bill” is an expansion of the child tax credit. This expansion was necessary to secure Democrats’ support for the corporate tax provisions in the bill, but the trade isn’t worth the cost. The welfare-related child tax credit provisions aren’t a minor extension of the…Robert Rector -
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Missouri Trans Clinic Whistleblower Has a Message for the Left
Jamie Reed, the former clinician who blew the whistle last year on a gender clinic in St. Louis, tells “The Daily Signal Podcast” that there are more whistleblowers out there, and she raises the alarm about the “totalitarian” mentality of large LGBTQ organizations that seek to silence those who disagree with them. She also warns…Tyler O’Neil -
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Collusion Between Feds, Banks Reveals Bias Against Conservatives
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, “urged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression,” according to a letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in his capacity as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of…Joshua Arnold -
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Notes From Auschwitz
This week, I visited Auschwitz. I never before had visited any of the death camps. The experience is absolutely chilling. Auschwitz, of course, was a complex of camps, the three largest of which were Auschwitz I, the camp most famous for the terrifyingly Orwellian German slogan welded onto its entrance, “ARBEIT MACHT FREI”; Auschwitz II,…Ben Shapiro -
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The Reasons Behind Declining Union Membership Rates, Wage Advantages
The percentage of workers who belong to unions in the U.S. notched down to a record-low 10.0% in 2023, from 10.1% in 2022. The peak for unionization in the U.S. was about 35% in the mid-1950s. Even more noteworthy is the shrinking gap between union and nonunion wages, which fell to a record-low of 15.0%…Rachel Greszler -
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EXCLUSIVE: ADL Alerts Law Enforcement to Matt Walsh, Chris Rufo, Libs of TikTok
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The Anti-Defamation League flags “online amplifiers of LGBTQ+ hate” as extremists to be examined by law enforcement, an email obtained by The Oversight Project shows. The revelation indicates that the Anti-Defamation League, “the leading anti-hate organization in the world,” is specifically pushing law enforcement to scrutinize viral dissenters against transgender…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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NBC’s ‘Misinformation’ Reporter Assembles Team of Deniers of Leftist Misinformation
The year has hardly begun, and the pro-Biden media are already in a full-blown panic. They’re upset many polls show Donald Trump ahead of President Joe Biden. When Democrats are losing, they warn that democracy is dying and disinformation is thriving. In this spirit of dread, NBCNews.com posted a story with the headline “Disinformation poses…Tim Graham -
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On a Mission to Serve Navy SEALs’ Kids With Learning Disabilities
Navy SEAL deployments are often long and grueling, and leaving school-age children behind only adds to the challenge, especially if the children are struggling in school. If a father is “getting ready to go on mission, and there’s Timmy failing in second grade, that’s all he’s going to think about,” says Gretchen McIntosh, the executive…Virginia Allen -
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‘There’s No More Important Fight … Than the Right to Life,’ Heritage Foundation President Says
The following is a lightly edited transcript of remarks by Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, delivered at the 2024 National Pro-Life Summit, hosted by Students for Life of America, on Saturday at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, D.C. Look, thanks for inviting me to be here. What a tremendous program and…Kevin Roberts -
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DeWine’s Executive Order on Trans Surgeries Missed Mark. A Veto Override Would Be Right on Target.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently rattled the GOP when he vetoed HB 68, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act. The bill would have both protected fairness in women’s sports and prohibited cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and body-modifying gender-related surgeries for minors under the age of 18. Shortly after his veto, however, DeWine issued…Sarah Parshall Perry