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    Google Maps Removed DC Pregnancy Center

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Google Maps removed directions to a Washington, D.C., pro-life pregnancy center and instead offered searchers options that included a local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. Users who attempted to search for Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center on Monday via Google Maps (on either iPhone or desktop) found that Google Maps did…
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    Rep. Jim Banks Demands That Air Force Justify Threatening Airmen’s Careers for Attending Conservative Rally

    Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is pressuring the Air Force to conduct an investigation of text messages to airmen warning against attending a conservative rally, according to a letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. In leaked text messages Nov. 17, a master sergeant at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota urged leaders to caution…
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    Biden’s Restrictions on Critical Minerals Harm America

    It’s no secret that China subsidizes its own companies to dominate the global markets in rare earth minerals. This dominance is both an economic and national security issue for America and her allies because so-called critical minerals are crucial not only for producing electronics and renewable energy technologies but also for the defense industry. Yet,…
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    Cartels Are Shifting From Smuggling Drugs to Smuggling People. Anti-Smuggling Unit Explains Why.

    The border is “open,” according to Detective Shawn Wilson. Despite working 80 miles from the border of Mexico in the Tucson Sector of Arizona, Wilson, a member of the Pinal County Anti-Smuggling Unit, regularly encounters illegal aliens and smugglers passing through the county.   Wilson says the smugglers’ strategy has changed in recent years.   Over the…
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  • opinion

    Father Fights for Son Whose Mother Is Raising Him as ‘Nonbinary’

    Harrison Tinsley’s son, Sawyer, will turn 4 in December. He likes to play hockey and football with his dad and also enjoys singing. According to his father, Sawyer is a happy little boy, but the child’s mother is attempting to raise him not as a boy, or as a girl, but nonbinary.  Tinsley has seen…
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    The Left Is Bleeding Hispanic Support—and They Know It

    The Spanish-language network Univision interviewed former President Donald Trump this month and allowed him to respond to questions without interruption or personal attacks. It was like every interview the legacy media have conducted with President Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton. So, of course, leftist Latino groups, terrified this shift reflects the changing political views of Univision’s audience, are throwing a…
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    Pope Francis Forced to Cancel Meetings Over Breathing Difficulties

    Pope Francis has canceled a series of meetings this week after falling ill, the Vatican said on Monday. The pope is suffering breathing difficulties due to inflammation of the lungs and has postponed some of his meetings until he recovers, the Vatican told the Daily Caller News Foundation. He does not have pneumonia or a…
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    How Bidenomics Has Given Us Most Expensive Thanksgiving Ever

    Just in time for the holiday season, Bidenomics has managed to deliver the costliest Thanksgiving in American history. What is perhaps the quintessential American holiday is now another reminder that the nation is in a cost-of-living crisis where even food is taxing families’ budgets. This is the direct result of the leftist ideology that constantly pushes for…
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    Argentine President-Elect Javier Milei Ushers in New Hope for the Americas

    In Argentina—a country where 1 out of every 4 people work for the state and more than half of the population receives some form of government welfare—14 million of its citizens have just voted for less government. They voted to slash the state. A true free-market reformer, Javier Milei is the first libertarian president in…
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    These 2 ‘News’ Stories Show Why History Is Too Important to Leave to Academia, Legacy Media

    Elite Western institutions have not only failed to pass on our history and traditions, in many cases, they have intentionally tried to tear them down. The result is generations of Americans entirely untethered from their past. At best, they know much that isn’t so. That’s the theme of my new podcast, “History Reconsidered,” which I…
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    ‘THERMONUCLEAR’: Musk Fires Back at Media Matters’ Manufactured Smear

    Elon Musk is going “thermonuclear.” No, this has nothing to do with SpaceX or any of his other wild technology projects—but it’s how Musk described the lawsuit he was filing against Media Matters for America this week. The lawsuit is in response to a Media Matters report last week that X, the Musk-owned social media platform formerly known…
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    Why Radicals Want to Sully Thanksgiving

    Nothing about America is sacred to some people anymore. Even Thanksgiving is under attack. A group called Truthsgiving recently hosted a night of “truth-telling, music, and laughter celebrating indigenous culture and history.” Not that this is new, of course—claims that Thanksgiving, “glorifies colonialism, slavery, and even epidemics” have been made before. It’s tempting to simply…
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    NO, THANKS: Bidenomics Is a Big Turkey, and Not Only at Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving is meant to be devoted to thankfulness for family and the many other blessings in each of our lives. But, as most American families sit down to a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, they will also be met with a specter looming over their financial life—namely, Bidenomics. Rising consumer prices, falling real incomes, a slowing…
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    Why the Media Despise Javier Milei

    So, Javier Milei is extremely scary. That’s what the legacy media have decided: The newly elected libertarian conservative leader of Argentina is absolutely frightening. Axios calls him a “far-right libertarian who’s been compared to Trump.” The New York Times writes, “Argentina Braces Itself for Its New ‘Anarcho-Capitalist’ President,” and called the election Argentina’s “Donald Trump…
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    Be Grateful This Thanksgiving—Unlike the Woke Left 

    Thanksgiving is a day to be grateful for our blessings—unlike wokeness, which seeks to make people ungrateful, says Delano Squires of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Life, Religion, and Family.    “What [wokeness] ultimately ends up doing is making people ungrateful for the things they have. For whatever little we think we have … someone always has less…
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    What to Watch From Angel Studios This Holiday Season and Beyond

    No film from Angel Studios makes it to the big screen without the approval of the Angel Guild.  Over 21 films a week are submitted to the Angel Guild, “and then the guild goes through those and they’re picking their favorites and they’re greenlighting them and then Angel Studios can only pick from the list…
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  • opinion

    This Thanksgiving, Stuff Yourself With Gratitude

    As people across the country prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a Doris Day quote comes to mind: “Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty.” The American actress and singer was right, and this week especially, each of us should take a moment to consider the unique history of this quintessential American holiday, what science says about…
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  • opinion

    As Inequality Grows, Men Fall Further Behind

    Equality always has been an American preoccupation, right from the words “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence. Yet even that phrase is not egalitarian enough by today’s lights; feminists long have objected to the gendered language of “all men.” Thomas Jefferson didn’t mean to commit a microaggression; in 1776, “all men”…
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    Brave Thing to Do: MLB Makes It Up to Atlanta for Stealing Away 2021 All-Star Game

    In many ways, it was a decision that launched a thousand boycotts. If people wanted to trace the surge of consumer activism back to its root, Georgia was probably the straw that broke the woke camel’s back. When Major League Baseball decided to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta over a 2021 law to…
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    Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.

    There’s a price to be paid for bad policies divorced from human nature. The Associated Press reported Sunday that Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law to decriminalize hard drugs is finally facing serious backlash. This may come as a surprise, but according to AP, the state has seen an “explosion of public drug use fueled by the proliferation…
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