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    The Politically Incorrect Reality About What Boosts Kids’ Chances for Success

    If you want to increase access to the American dream, there’s one simple trick.  But there’s a catch: It’s not a very politically correct reality.  Simply put, to optimize any kid’s chance at success, he needs to grow up with married parents.  A new book, “The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started…
    Katrina Trinko
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    For Speaker Mike Johnson, a Historic Opportunity

    America faces a border crisis with devastating consequences for Americans’ safety and security, wars in Europe and the Middle East, a floundering economy and an incompetent administration with a senile executive. Now more than any time in recent memory, Congress needs strong leadership.  More specifically, the People’s House needs a conservative leader who recognizes the urgency…
    Kevin Roberts
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    Universities Have Become Staging Grounds for American Pogroms

    The American university system has finally gone beyond failure and has become an active threat to the United States and her people. We have reached peak political irony as LGBTQ activists cry in the streets of college campuses for a group, Hamas, that would hang them from cranes. Universities that once proclaimed the virtues of…
    Tony Kinnett
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    ‘Canceling’ People Who Celebrate the Wanton Murder of Women and Children Is Free Expression

    “Canceling” people who disagree with you over ordinary political issues is bad for civil society. Ruining someone’s life because he wore a MAGA cap or tweeted something stupid or supported the wrong initiative creates an oppressive environment for open discourse. “Canceling” people who sign petitions and hold up signs that openly celebrate or justify the…
    David Harsanyi
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    Why Texas Parents Like Me Want More Choices in Educating Our Kids

    A few days ago, I posed two questions to two of my young children. The first question: “What would you think about the government telling us which pediatrician to go to, based on where we live?” The second: “What if a hailstorm damaged our roof, but we had to choose from a list of government-approved…
    Lindsay Horton
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    The Food Insecurity Lie

    President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!” News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.” But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at The Heritage Foundation, explains, “Food insecurity is not the same thing…
    John Stossel
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    California Counties Making Mask Mandates Grate Again

    Five counties in California implemented mask mandates for some areas on Wednesday as a precautionary measure ahead of flu season, Los Angeles' KABC-TV News reported. Staff members at hospitals and doctors' offices in Alameda, San Mateo, Contra Costa, and Sonoma counties must now wear masks when interacting with patients, according to KABC Channel 7. Santa Clara County…
    Lillian Tweten
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    Only MLB Team Not to Bend Knee to ‘Pride’ Pressure Just Won World Series

    The Texas Rangers, who won their first World Series in 63 seasons Wednesday night, is also the only team in Major League Baseball not to hold a “Pride Night”-style event celebrating LGBTQ individuals.  The Rangers bested the Arizona Diamondbacks in four out of five games to take the series.  Baseball fans who don’t think professional…
    Lucy Gilbert
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    Understand Evil or Perish by Its Hand

    This week, the Metropolitan Police in London were videotaped removing posters with pictures of hostages taken by Hamas. The posters were being removed from Cullimore Chemist in Edgware. The chemist’s CEO, Hassan Khan, recently retweeted posts branding Israel and the Israel Defense Forces “filthy animals” and encouraging Iran and Hezbollah to attack Israel. This naturally…
    Ben Shapiro
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    This Is Speaker Mike Johnson’s Favorite Bible Passage

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Critics of new House Speaker Mike Johnson have been quick to target his faith-infused rhetoric, attempting to paint the Louisiana Republican’s faith as “extreme” and “radical.” During an interview with The Daily Signal this week, Johnson discussed the importance of his faith and how it plays into his politics, emphasizing the…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Homeschooling Trend Is More Than Passing Fad

    The spike in homeschooling was understandable during the COVID-19 pandemic. With many public schools closed in 2020 and 2021, what other choice did parents have? But even with schools open again, the number of families opting to homeschool has remained stable.  According to analysis from The Washington Post, the homeschooling trend has defied predictions.  The…
    Virginia Allen
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    Speaker Johnson Slams FBI for Targeting Religious Americans

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized the FBI for targeting people of faith, promising to "hold those responsible accountable for these actions." In an interview Tuesday with The Daily Signal, Johnson specifically addressed the Justice Department's interest in pro-life Americans and people of faith in light of revelations that the FBI…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Dao Award Aims to Send Pulitzer Prize Packing

    We’re finally getting an alternative to the Pulitzer Prize, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The Dao Prize, an annual award that aims to showcase and support investigative journalism, is the result of a partnership between two conservative organizations: the National Journalism Center, created by the Young America’s Foundation, and the Dao…
    Tony Kinnett
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    EXCLUSIVE: Ted Cruz Slams Left’s Attacks on Leonard Leo as a ‘Full-on Assault on Our Constitution’

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz blasted the Left’s attacks on Federalist Society Board Co-Chairman Leonard Leo and other conservative friends of Supreme Court justices as an attempt to undermine the Constitution itself. “From Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme to the attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas, and from the smear tactics used to defame…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Effects of Experimental Gender Surgery on Kids ‘Destructive,’ New House Speaker Says

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: New House Speaker Mike Johnson sharply criticized experimental surgeries on children as he discussed the "destructive" effects that such experimentation, dubbed "gender-affirming care" by gender ideologists, has upon young people. "We had some hearings on the subject when I was in [the Judiciary Committee]," the Louisiana Republican said in a…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Dinesh D’Souza’s Film ‘Police State’ Is Warning Cry for Americans: ‘We’re in Danger’

    Dinesh D’Souza’s newest film, “Police State,” chronicles the real-life stories of everyday Americans who have endured the wrath of a weaponized government and of the whistleblowers who are exposing its abuse of power. The film will be shown Wednesday at a red-carpet event at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump,…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Mike Johnson Opens Up About Intersection of Faith, Politics

    The new speaker of the House of Representatives opened up about his Christian faith and how it informs his politics in an interview with The Daily Signal, in which he stressed the importance of treating political opponents with dignity and respect while adhering to fundamental truths. Speaker Mike Johnson discussed the Christian principles of America's…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Today’s Public Health Emergency: Restoring Trust in 7 Steps

    The public health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic ended long ago, but America faces a new emergency. Faith in health agencies has plummeted more rapidly since 2019 than any other government institution, with almost two-thirds now rating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “only fair or…
    Scott Atlas
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    Unassimilated, Warring Tribes a Prescription for Collective Suicide

    Few Romans in the late decades of their fifth-century A.D. empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals. These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were focused on destroying the civilization…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    New Speaker Spurs Spike in House GOP Fundraising

    The National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s campaign arm, raised its largest amount in a single day since February 2022 on Friday after Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana won the speakership. The NRCC raised $175,000 two days after Johnson secured the gavel, and brought in more than $475,000 over the three-day weekend, the Daily Caller News…
    Mary Lou Masters
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