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    Vermont Law Bans Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers From Counseling Women

    A new law in Vermont may end up shutting down pro-life pregnancy centers, banning them from offering non-medical services and providing post-abortion counseling, as well as subjecting them to steep fines if the state deems their advertising “misleads” women into thinking they provide or promote abortions. Two Vermont faith-based pregnancy centers have filed a lawsuit…
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    Child-Trafficking Bust Proves the Left Was Wrong About ‘Sound of Freedom’

    While 126 more suspects in child trafficking and child sexual exploitation are eating prison food today, many legacy media outlets are eating crow. Less than a month after liberal and left-wing media outlets slammed the child sex-trafficking docudrama “Sound of Freedom” for supposedly being a rallying point for “QAnon supporters,” conspiracy theorists, and “Dads with…
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    UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD: Pro-Trans Health Care Group Issues Contradictory Stance on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

    Imagine the Food and Drug Administration announces a new drug with some known side effects and no proven benefits and says, "We're not quite sure this is safe for the public. We need to run more tests, but until we learn more, everyone should take it anyway." COVID-19 vaccines notwithstanding, the American public would rightly…
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    ‘Snow White’ Is Latest Disney Film to Get Woke-Washed

    To no one’s surprise, Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of “Snow White” is shaping up to be yet another left-wing, woke attempt to right the perceived wrongs of the original. “Snow White” was Disney’s first feature film, and it contained elements that do not fare well with the Left’s sensibilities almost a century later. Critics accuse…
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    Dreadful ‘Fascist’ ‘Barbie’ Dominates the Cinema

    Anyone watching television in the last few months has been inundated with marketing for the “Barbie” movie. It wasn’t just in the movie commercials. It was in commercials for cars and other products. It was inserted into the plots of reality shows. It was everywhere. It’s not a movie I had any interest in seeing,…
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    The Pro-Trans Medical Establishment Does the Very Thing It Falsely Accuses Conservatives of Doing

    Transgender activists often claim that when their opponents want to outlaw medical experiments on children, they are not opposing a grotesque alteration of the body, but forbidding doctors to provide any kind of medical care for a class of people—namely, those who identify as transgender. Yet we conservatives and our gender-critical allies wholeheartedly support requiring…
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    From Worst to Worster: Adding Xylazine to Fentanyl

    Xylazine—a tranquilizer approved as a sedative for veterinary medical use but not for any use in humans—is currently worsening the opioid crisis. Known on the street as “tranq,” xylazine has become a common additive to substances like fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine, whether taken orally, by smoking or snorting it, or by injecting it. It creates…
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    Biden’s Woke Housing Plan for All of Us

    Rising interest rates and a shortage of lower-cost houses under the Biden administration continue to make homeownership unobtainable for many young families. Instead of working to solve actual problems like these, President Joe Biden is once again choosing to prioritize the expansive promotion of woke diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology in housing policies, as a…
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    2 Sets of Laws for 2 Americas

    Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America. Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers. Donald Trump may go to prison for removing contested White House files to his home. So far, Joe Biden seems exempt from just such legal jeopardy. But as a senator and vice president with…
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    Bad Rx: Regulatory Burden Driving Doctors Out of Private Practices, Into Hospital Employment

    Independent medical practices are being smothered by excessive and costly government regulation, fueling greater hospital market consolidation and resulting in ever-higher health care costs for individuals and families. There is, however, a glimmer of good news. In a recent hearing, Republicans and Democrats on the House Small Business Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Regulations, chaired…
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    White House Purges 442 Reporters Using New Press Credential Rules

    Over the past three months, the number of reporters with access to the White House dropped by 31%. There are now 442 fewer reporters with a coveted “hard pass”—the result of new rules announced in May that took effect Tuesday. The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas was among the reporters slated to lose his White House…
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    Republicans Demand McCarthy Reform Pandemic Response Legislation

    Republicans are calling on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to apply reforms to the pandemic response legislation in order to protect the American people from future government overreach. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy lead the lawmakers in sending a letter to McCarthy on Wednesday demanding substantive changes to the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)—changes they…
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    State GOP Devises Plan to Limit Influence of ‘Woke’ Teachers Unions

    The Alabama Republican Party is on the verge of prohibiting some GOP candidates from accepting campaign donations from the Alabama Education Association, the predominant teachers union in the state. Alabama GOP Chairman John Wahl announced the proposal ahead of Saturday’s vote by the state party’s executive committee. If approved, candidates running for the Alabama Board…
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    Fitch Downgrades US Credit

    Fitch Ratings downgraded the U.S. government’s credit rating from “AAA” to “AA+” on Tuesday, a signal that the agency no longer has complete confidence in the government’s ability to avoid default. The rating “reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance ……
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    The Gruesome Premise of a Washington Post Feature

    A new Washington Post feature attempts to make a teen couple who had twins after Texas’ heartbeat law went into effect into Dickensian characters, victims of the cruel laws around them. Mom Brooke High, we learn, watched the entire 10 seasons of “Friends” after the family moved to Tampa, Florida, for a military job for…
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    CANCELED FOR ‘HATE’: Tech Company Moves Against Parental Rights Group After SPLC Attack

    A technology company has deleted a parental rights group's events on its site after the Southern Poverty Law Center added the group to its "hate map," which plots conservative nonprofits alongside neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. "It is alarming that we live in a time in America where trained Marxists can have an organization…
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    Slaughter of Nigerian Christians Warrants International Attention

    “If we keep quiet, we are going to go extinct,” says Catholic Bishop Chipa Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state, Nigeria. In June, the Congressional Values Action Team caucus met with Anagbe and the Rev. Remigius Ihyula who shared their testimonies of atrocities committed against Christians in Nigeria by Islamic extremists…
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    DC Police: No Active Shooter on Capitol Hill After Shelter in Place

    The United States Capitol Police ordered Senate offices to shelter in place on Wednesday due to a “concerning 911 call.” Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Officer Hugh Carew told The Daily Signal around 3 p.m. that “a call came in for an active shooter” but that call “appears to be a bad call.” “No injuries and…
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    NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR: Social Networking App Boots Moms for Liberty Amid Leftist Attacks

    The social networking platform Nextdoor bills itself as an app to bring neighbors together, claiming that "connecting with others is a universal human need," but it relies upon the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory, to determine which groups are too "hateful" to be good neighbors. Nextdoor recently banned a Tennessee chapter of…
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    Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind

    There’s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see—the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with. You haven’t heard of them. You don’t know their names, but they determine, through methods both direct and indirect, whether you are allowed to be exposed to particular messages. Their…
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