Political Commentary & Opinion
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opinion
Financial Crimes Agency Suggests Banks Close Accounts of Conservative ‘Hate Groups’
Is it a “financial crime” to allow a conservative Christian to open a bank account? The very idea sounds absurd, but in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021, the federal agency tasked with protecting the financial system from illicit use endorsed a list of “hate groups” that includes mainstream conservative Christian organizations like Alliance Defending… -
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GOP Lawmaker Says Jan. 6 Report ‘Is Just the Beginning’
The chairman of a House Administration subcommittee on oversight says an “Initial Findings Report” on the Capitol riot over three years ago, released Monday, “is just the beginning.” Since early 2023, Rep. Barry Loudermilk‘s subcommittee “has been investigating the failures at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, which House Democrats failed to do… -
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Legal Challenges Follow SEC Adoption of Costly, Burdensome Climate Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday adopted a final rule to require public companies to disclose climate-related information in financial statements and other reports provided to the commission. The adopting release is 886 pages long and contains 3,241 footnotes. This rule will not do anything to protect investors. It will not do anything material… -
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Call Them What They Are: Illegal Aliens
According to the embargoed version of Thursday’s State of the Union address, which journalists previewed, President Joe Biden planned to remain silent about the late Laken Riley, the 22-year old Georgia nursing student who was killed while jogging on Feb. 22, reportedly by Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26. He broke into America in… -
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Treasury Department Sent ‘Hate Group’ List of Conservative Organizations to Banks
It came to light last week that the Treasury Department provided a listing of “hate groups,” which lumped together mainstream conservative organizations alongside avowed neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, to major U.S. banks for the purpose of monitoring financial transactions in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. Experts say the pattern could… -
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Ireland Rejects Leftist Constitutional Amendments Targeting Family, Motherhood
Ireland has rejected leftist, anti-family proposals in a double referendum on amendments to the country’s Constitution. Irish voters on Saturday overwhelmingly opposed two proposed constitutional amendments that would have legally redefined marriage and motherhood. Over 1.5 million voters on the Emerald Isle showed up at the polls. The proposed Family Amendment would have changed the Irish Constitution’s definition of… -
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‘Totalitarian’ Bill Would Establish Maine as Sanctuary State for Abortions, Trans Surgeries
A Democrat-led bill seeks to establish a legal right to abortions, transgender surgeries, and hormonal treatments in Maine, and protect those traveling from outside of the state to get such procedures there. LD 227 would establish a legal right to “gender-affirming health care services” and “reproductive health care services” within Maine, according to a draft… -
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TikTok Bill Has ‘a Real Chance of Becoming Law’
The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on bipartisan legislation relating to the Chinese-owned app TikTok. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act last Tuesday. Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Select Committee on the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Hides Docs About Report Comparing Concerned Parents to KKK, America First Legal Sues
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Legal filed a lawsuit Monday after the Justice Department refused to hand over its communications related to a report last June comparing parental rights organizations to the Ku Klux Klan. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a leftist group known for putting mainstream conservative and Christian organizations on a “hate… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Here Are the Left-Wing Groups the White House Trade Office Is Scheming With to Get Out the Vote
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative intends to cooperate with a liberal legal organization that routinely sues over voter ID laws as part of its strategic plan to comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order to get out the vote. USTR, an agency within the Executive Office of the President, included working with the… -
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Biden’s Department of Re-Education
Throughout all of history, education has been understood as being about learning the truths of reality and conforming oneself to those truths in order to flourish in civil society. The Biden administration wants to turn that idea on its head. The administration thinks one should try to twist reality to conform it to oneself and… -
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The Song to Inoculate Your Kids Against Gender Ideology
As a father, I love my son dearly. I’m delighted when he learns a new word (he’s 1 year old). It gladdens my heart when he masters a new skill. I’m excited when he figures out connections on his own. And I’m rendered speechless when he demonstrates affection for me and my wife. I’m sure… -
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Oblivious to the Irony: Democratic Party Becoming Enemy of Democracy
I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the intrepid Colonists fought for the then-novel concept of democratic self-government. A cursory glance at Merriam-Webster is instructive. That venerable dictionary defines “democracy”… -
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Our Families Are Hurting. Our Country Can Do Better.
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, as delivered Thursday night by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. Good evening, America. My name is Katie Britt, and I have the honor of serving the people of the great state of Alabama in the United States… -
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Controversial Air Force Colonel Gets a Media Makeover
Within the span of a few days this week, two award-winning journalists penned fawning articles about an Air Force colonel whose promotion to brigadier general is in jeopardy. Coincidence? Casual readers, who know nothing about Col. Ben Jonsson other than what The Washington Post and Military.com reported, likely would conclude that he deserves the promotion…. -
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Fact-Checking Biden’s State of the Union Address
President Joe Biden delivered his 2024 State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday night. During the 67-minute speech, frequently interrupted by applause from fellow Democrat senators and members of Congress, Biden spoke on a wide range of issues, from border security and the economy to abortion and… -
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Jordan Peterson: Government-Corporate Collusion ‘Threatens Everyone’s Freedom Equally’
Famed psychologist and author Jordan Peterson warned Congress about a potential “superstate” in which collusion between government and corporations may be “eliminating the private sphere.” Peterson was a witness Thursday in a hearing held by a special House panel on government “weaponization” that focused on the Biden administration’s working with large banks to surveil private… -
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Americans Chip Away at Corporate Wokeness With Doritos Win
It took Frito-Lay 63 years to build a $13 billion-dollar empire. This week, 50 seconds almost destroyed it. That’s how close the brand came to corporate annihilation after its Doritos team posted a short video with a transgender influencer that makes Dylan Mulvaney look like a youth pastor. Turns out, 24-year-old Samantha Hudson isn’t just… -
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Student Files Lawsuit Over Virginia County’s ‘Dystopian’ Trans Bathroom, Pronoun Policies
Virginia’s Loudoun County and Fairfax County, suburbs of the nation’s capital that are two of the largest and most wealthy counties in the country, have faced numerous controversies regarding their pushing of LGBT ideology. In May 2021, a teenage girl was sexually assaulted in the girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Loudoun County by a… -
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Red States Slap Biden’s Latest Climate Rule With Legal Challenge Within Hours of It Going Live
A coalition of red states announced Wednesday that it is challenging the Biden administration over its fresh corporate emissions and climate disclosure rule, just hours after the Securities and Exchange Commission greenlit the measure. The SEC moved Wednesday to finalize new rules legally requiring certain public companies to report climate-related risks to their businesses and disclose data…