Political Commentary & Opinion
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Number of Children Living With 2 Parents Increasing, Data Shows
Newly published data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the proportion of American children living in two-parent families increased to 71.1% in 2023, continuing a slight upward trajectory since 2015. The numbers appear to contradict a popular narrative in the mainstream media that American society no longer aspires to establish households with a mother… -
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Court Lifts Injunction on Alabama’s Ban on Sex-Change Surgeries for Minors
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a temporary order to lift an injunction preventing an Alabama law banning sex-change surgeries for minors from going into effect, according to court documents. The law was halted in 2022 for the duration of the lawsuit by a district court, which claimed that the legislation illegally… -
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CLIMATE DYSTOPIA: How Life Would Get Worse If Climate Alarmists Carry Out Their US Agenda
The global climate is always changing, but contrary to the popular narrative, the science on the exact causes is far from settled. Alarmists claim that humans burning fossil fuels for energy will catastrophically ruin the climate, and they demand a “net-zero” future to save the world. What would happen if the climate alarmists actually succeeded… -
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BREAKING: US, UK Launch Retaliatory Airstrikes Against Houthis After Months of Attacks in Red Sea
The U.S. and the U.K. conducted retaliatory airstrikes Thursday evening against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen following a cascade of attacks on commercial shipping, Reuters reported, citing four U.S. officials. The Houthis had launched at least 27 drone and missile attacks against commercial vessels near the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the U.S. military said Thursday,… -
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Ex-Harvard President Had History of Pushing DEI Long Before Promotion to Top Job
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s expansion of campus diversity bureaucracies quashed academic freedom and chilled free speech on campus, according to current and former professors. Gay resigned as president on Jan. 2 after facing multiple plagiarism allegations and pushback from failing to say whether calls for genocide violated the school’s code of conduct at a Dec. 5 congressional hearing… -
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NCAA Board Member Reportedly Snubs Female Athlete Demanding Fairness in Women’s Sports
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Female athlete Macy Petty says she hand delivered a letter from prominent women’s organizations asking for fairness in women’s sports—and NCAA Board of Governors Chair Linda Livingstone wouldn’t even look her in the eye. Petty, a member of the women’s organization Concerned Women for America, was one of a number… -
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Is the Israel-Hamas War Spreading Throughout the Middle East?
Since the day it began, the war between Israel and Hamas has resulted in almost nothing but significant tragedy. Thousands in Israel and Gaza have become victims of a violent war, and the death toll continues to rise. Additionally, the terrorist group wreaking havoc in the Middle East is not only a threat to Israel,… -
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Global Trade Falls as Traffic Through the Red Sea Plummets After Attacks
Global trade fell 1.3% in December month-over-month as attacks on transport ships through the Red Sea continue to cause delays and losses, according to German research institute IFW Kiel. The drop in global trade follows a decline in the number of container ships using the Red Sea in their route, falling from 500,000 containers per… -
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Unforgivable Sin: On the Exploitation of Innocence
Children are not property to be exploited; they are gifts from God—and what do you do with a gift? You cherish it, grow it, and protect it. Yet, in a world marred by moral decay and power imbalances, the most vulnerable among us, children, often fall prey to the darkest desires of influential figures. The… -
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More Gen Z Women Embracing ‘Tradwife’ Influencers
Hannah Neeleman, a Utah-based cattle farmer and mother of eight, is perhaps the most popular Instagram “tradwife”—a growing category of social media influencers who reject the not-so-traditional 9-to-5 workforce in favor of homeschooling their children, homemaking, or running a family business. Though her content is entirely wholesome, she (and other tradwife accounts) are not without controversy. In… -
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Janet Yellen Wants You to Believe Bidenomics Has Been a Smashing Success. The Opposite Is True.
Few academics have fallen as far from grace as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Instead of composing lectures from her Ivy League ivory tower, she’s been reduced to penning editorials defending the indefensible: Bidenomics. Her latest screed plays a shell game with the facts, telling the American people to disbelieve their lying eyes and empty wallets. The truth… -
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‘GESTAPO’: Canadian Reporter Arrested for Questioning Deputy Prime Minister
Canadian police have arrested a reporter for asking a question. David Menzies of Rebel News approached Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday to ask her why Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not classified as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government. Freeland was leaving a vigil honoring the memory of 55 Canadians who were killed in 2020… -
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With Over 9 Billion Video Views, PragerU’s CEO Is ‘Dreaming Big’ for Future
Fifteen years ago, Allen Estrin and Dennis Prager founded an organization called PragerU with the goal of providing easily digestible commonsense ideas to young people. Estrin, producer of “The Dennis Prager Show,” and the namesake Prager struck gold. Today, PragerU produces five-minute videos and other content that have more than 9 billion views since its… -
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How the Iowa Caucuses Work
All eyes are on Iowa. On Monday, Iowans will travel to individual precinct locations in each of the state’s 99 counties. The caucuses take place beginning at 7 p.m. local time, and individuals must be Iowa residents to participate. The leading Republican candidates to be voted on are former President Donald Trump, former South Carolina… -
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If You Build a Beach House, Uncle Sam Shouldn’t Have Your Back
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., is upset because Sen. Rand Paul wants to limit federal flood insurance. But Paul, R-Ky., is right. In my new video, Paul says it “shouldn’t be for rich people.” That should be obvious. Actually, federal flood insurance shouldn’t be for anyone. Government has no business offering it. That’s a job for… -
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A Nation Dr. King Wouldn’t Recognize
This year, 2024, marks the 60th anniversary of the signing into law of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. Soon we observe the national day set aside to note and honor the leader of the movement that led to that act becoming law: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We must ask how, after… -
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Was It Legal to Appoint Jack Smith in the First Place?
Was special counsel Jack Smith illegally appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland and is his prosecution of former President Donald Trump unlawful? That is the intriguing issue raised in an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court by Schaerr Jaffe LLP on behalf of former Attorney General Ed Meese and two law professors, Steven Calabresi and Gary… -
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Mayorkas Says Over 85% of Illegal Aliens Are Released Into US Interior
More than 85% of the illegal aliens encountered at the border are released into the interior of the U.S., according to reports. Following a private meeting between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Monday, sources in the room told Fox News’ Bill Melugin that “Mayorkas admitted that… -
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Carjackings in DC Doubled to a Staggering 959 in 2023
Our nation’s capital is a model of dysfunctional, clueless blue city governance. Nothing highlights that better than the explosion of crime—and especially carjackings—since 2020. The official 2023 year-end tally of carjackings in Washington, D.C., ended up being a staggering 959, twice the number of the previous year. There were 152 carjackings in 2019. That number… -
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BOMBSHELL: 200 Undercover FBI Assets at US Capitol on Jan. 6, Congressman Estimates
A member of Congress investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol estimates the FBI had 200 undercover assets both inside and outside the building. “We believe that there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets operating in the crowd, outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the Capitol or provoked entry of…