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    Here’s Where to Take Your Kids When Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Go Woke

    As an Eagle Scout, I feel a debt to the Boy Scouts of America, but I also think the BSA abandoned its defining values by embracing transgender ideology. Both the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the USA have embraced far-left social agendas that alienate many of the young families who form their natural constituencies….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    WARNING: ‘Don’t Let Your Child Fall Prey to a Manufactured Identity Crisis’

    Virginia mom Merianne Jensen became a voice for parental rights and common sense when she asked a simple question during a local school board meeting in 2022.  “If masks work, why don’t they?” Jensen asked the school board in Prince William County, Virginia. A video of the incident went viral, launching Jensen into the position…
    Lauren Evans
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    America’s Drift Toward ‘a Country I Do Not Recognize’

    If there is one overriding theme of the Biden years, it is the systematic degradation of American freedom, pushing the lives and freedom of private citizens aside as government expands and takes over. This is done under the rubric of the Left that “government knows best.” Day by day, we are becoming what the late…
    Star Parker
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    NYC Leaders Ignore Illegal Alien Crisis, Continue to Push Maoist Cultural Revolution

    The revolution continues in New York. As illegal immigrants flood New York City, the City Council remains hard at work ensuring that every once-venerated symbol of America is stripped from public places. On Tuesday, the New York City Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights held a hearing to discuss the removal of historical statues…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Right Should Not Fund Its Own Demise

    The American Right needs to revitalize itself after a generation of decay where the Left took control over most of the corporate sector, the military, and the press, according to a Claremont Institute expert on American political thought.    That decay has resulted in corporations pushing racial division and leftist ideology after the Right gave corporate…
    Lucy Gilbert
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    7 Takeaways From Merrick Garland’s Testimony to House Panel

    Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to answer questions on a wide range of matters Wednesday in sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.  Garland testified that he couldn’t remember whether he talked to FBI personnel about the investigation of first son Hunter Biden and didn’t know how many confidential informants entered the Capitol during the riot…
    Fred Lucas
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    4 Things a Continuing Resolution Must Have to Get My Vote

    With the start of fiscal year 2024 just days away on Oct. 1, and with no federal budget approval in sight, a continuing resolution again will regrettably be necessary. But any such continuing resolution cannot just perpetuate the status quo ante. To get my vote, it needs to include four things: funding to secure the…
    Andy Ogles
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    Pennsylvania Students Protest Pro-Trans Bathroom Policy

    High school students in the Keystone State are protesting transgender ideology in their bathrooms. Hundreds of students in the Perkiomen Valley School District north of Philadelphia staged a walkout on Friday, in response to the school board allowing students who identify as transgender to use whichever bathroom they like. A policy barring students who identify as transgender…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    YouTube’s Unfair Preemptive Strike on Russell Brand

    The Times of London and Britain’s Channel 4 issued a scathing expose about actor and comedian-turned-podcaster Russell Brand. Brand began his career as a comedian and MTV host. In 2004, he joined “Big Brother’s Big Mouth” on Channel 4, and then transitioned into acting and voice-overs. In 2013, he went political; by 2020, he had…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Biden’s UN-inspired UN Speech

    If a teacher were grading President Joseph Biden’s third speech to the United Nations, he would earn a mediocre “meeting expectations.” He delivered the speech somewhat competently by his standards, clearing that exceedingly low bar. However, Biden seems to think, mistakenly, that his speech was the rallying call of a statesman: I spoke before the…
    Brett Schaefer
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    Hundreds to ‘March for Martyrs’ in DC in ‘Solidarity With Persecuted Christians’

    Hundreds are expected to join the “March for the Martyrs” in Washington, D.C., next week as they peacefully march in solidarity with persecuted Christians around the world. On Sept. 30, the nonprofit organization For the Martyrs will host its annual march to raise awareness about increasing persecution of Christians across the globe. The 2023 march…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Is Mayorkas’ Impeachment Still on Table? Why Rep. Mark Green Isn’t Saying

    Who is responsible for the illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border? That’s a question currently being investigated by the House Homeland Security Committee, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is atop the list. “I think very clearly, Secretary Mayorkas has chosen to totally disregard the laws passed by Congress,” says Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn.,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets a Postage Stamp; Why Doesn’t Antonin Scalia?

    The opening of this year’s Supreme Court term on the first Monday of October will mark the release of a new Forever stamp featuring the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While it may not be surprising that the United States Postal Service will be serving up a bouquet to the Left, it’s still regrettable that while it’s been three years since Ginsburg’s death, it’s been nearly eight since…
    Timothy Goeglein
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    San Francisco on Track for Record Drug Overdoses as Opioid Epidemic Grips City

    Health officials in San Francisco said Monday the number of people dying from drug overdoses is on its way to a record high, according to Fox KTVU 2 News. There were 84 deaths from drug overdoses in August, which puts San Francisco on the path to setting a record-high number of overdose deaths for the year,…
    Brandon Poulter
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    Pro-Life Group Describes Tremendous Growth, Success Post-Roe: ‘It’s Easier to Recruit People’

    When Roe v. Wade was finally overturned—a victory that pro-life advocates had been striving toward for decades—40 Days for Life President Shawn Carney expected that his organization would probably shrink considerably. But he was underestimating the impact that the monumental June 2022 Supreme Court decision would have on the American public, he said in an…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Disney’s Un-Midas Touch Ruins ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Even Disney Itself

    My former college professor Victor Davis Hanson often refers to the Left’s “un-Midas touch,” a magical curse by which everything it touches turns to dross. Growing up in the 1990s and 2000s, I didn’t realize how good I had it until Disney decided to ruin my childhood. I grew up watching three amazing mega-franchises: the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: As Pro-Lifers Face Jail Time on DOJ Charges, GOP Moves to Repeal FACE Act

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — As pro-life activists face prison time brought on by Department of Justices charges, Republican members of Congress are introducing legislation targeting the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the FACE Act, which "prohibits threats of force,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Pence Outlines Plan to ‘Rebuild American Family’

    As Mike Pence addressed the Pray Vote Stand Summit on Friday in the nation’s capital, the former vice president appeared to be a long-shot candidate for president, according to the latest Fox News primary poll, which found him tied for fifth place with the support of 3% of respondents. In a speech that zeroed in on painting…
    Dan Hart
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    Why Were Students Afraid to Let This Princeton Professor Speak?

    Chalk it up as another victory for the mob. Earlier this month, Princeton University professor Robert P. George was slated to give a talk at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, including “a discussion of the importance of free and open discourse during college of the great questions of human life.” That’s according to an email…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Nobody Wins in Musk vs. ADL

    In the fight between Elon Musk and the Anti-Defamation League, Americans are the biggest losers. Antisemitism and woke politics are both cancers eating away at our civil society. We should be intolerant of both—and of those who ask us to pick a side. For starters, America has seen a saddening trend of civil rights organizations…
    Yaakov Menken
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