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Jan. 6 Committee Members Don’t Answer Whether They’d Hold Hearings on 2020 Riots
House members on the committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have not informed The Daily Caller News Foundation after multiple inquiries whether they will separately hold televised hearings on the nationwide unrest that occurred after George Floyd’s murder. The committee composed of Democratic and Republican members held a prime-time hearing Thursday featuring new footage and interviews…Gabe Kaminsky -
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America Has More Transgender Youth Than Ever, Study Says
Nearly half of the 1.6 million Americans who identify as transgender are teenagers or young adults, and some of the highest rates of youth transgenderism occur in blue states, according to a new study. The study, conducted by the University of California Los Angeles Williams Institute, found that transgenderism rates varied between states, with New York seeing…Laurel Duggan -
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Study Connects Jump in Youth Suicide With Transgender Treatments, Lack of Parental Consent
State policies that allow children to access so-called gender-affirming care without parental consent have created a significant increase in suicides, according to a new Heritage Foundation study. The Heritage study released Monday found that 2020 saw 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 residents ages 12 to 23 in states that allow minors access to puberty blockers…Jarrett Stepman -
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What I Saw at the March for Our Lives Protest
In the aftermath of a series of mass shootings across the country, a group of around a thousand people gathered Saturday in the shadow of the Washington Monument to protest and call for stricter federal gun control laws. The protest was organized by March for Our Lives, a group founded in the aftermath of the…Douglas Blair -
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Conservatism and the American Future
On this Saturday edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” three guests join us to discuss fault lines and emerging issues within American conservatism regarding culture, economics, and how the decline of important institutions continues to roil our society. Our trio of commentators include Sam Gregg, research director at the Acton Institute; Arthur Milikh, executive director…Richard M. Reinsch II -
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30 Years in Making, Museum Dedicated to Victims of Communism Opens in Washington
Remember these two numbers: 100 million and 1.5 billion. Those were the two numbers emphasized at the dedication on Wednesday of the new Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., which I was privileged to attend along with my family. An estimated 100 million is the number of human beings slaughtered, massacred, and killed by…Hans von Spakovsky -
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The Chesa Boudin Inflection Point in the Fight for Civilizational Sanity
Chesa Boudin is, by any reasonable measure, a nut job. Conservatives could not grow a more picture-perfect political villain in a petri dish, even if they tried; Boudin really is that caricaturable. Boudin’s parents were Weather Underground domestic terrorists and, following the 1981 Brink’s robbery in New York state, convicted as cop-killers. They were incarcerated…Josh Hammer -
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Democrats Called for Action Against Justices. They Got It.
“I want to tell you, [Justice Neil] Gorsuch. I want to tell you, [Justice Brett] Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Those were the words of the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., one of…David Harsanyi -
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California’s Absurd Focus on Slavery Reparations
California is infested with violent crime, failing schools, America’s highest gasoline prices (a stunning $9.60 per gallon in Mendocino), and a 1,200-year-record drought. Al fresco vagrants—too many of them mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs and alcohol—populate ramshackle tent cities that breed lawlessness, squalor, and chaos. Rampant wildfires burn the Golden State to a crisp…Deroy Murdock -
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Pride Month Jumps the Shark
“Pride” events started a few decades ago as an activist effort to push back against the stigma attached to homosexuality. Now extended across the whole month of June, it looks more like an effort designed to do the opposite. Last weekend, social media abounded with videos of a Pride event at a gay bar in…Jay Richards -
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The Left’s Short Path From the Politics of Personal Destruction to Physical Destruction
In the still dark hours of Wednesday morning, a man armed with a gun, a knife, and burglary tools was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home. The man told police that he had come to kill Kavanaugh because of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that could potentially…GianCarlo Canaparo -
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The Subordinate Citizen
I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry. Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them. Anyone testing positive would have to delay his or…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Conservative Media Doesn’t ‘Dwarf’ Liberal Media
As much as conservatives appreciate the counterbalance of the conservative media, it can be shocking to witness the audacity of liberals pretending that Fox News is enormous and uniquely partisan in nature. Former Barack Obama spin artist Dan Pfeiffer wrote this in one of his regular articles for the glossy left-wing rag Vanity Fair: “The…Tim Graham -
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6 Takeaways From Democrats’ Prime-Time Hearing on Capitol Riot
A House panel investigating the Capitol riot took over a chunk of prime-time television Thursday night with the first of a planned six hearings. The select committee—made up of seven Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans—previously suggested it would offer huge revelations from its investigation of the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Early…Fred Lucas -
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What If? Questions a Bipartisan Probe of Jan. 6 Might Have Answered
A bipartisan investigation of the Capitol riot would dig into the security breakdown and not ignore questions that didn’t conform to a Democrat Party narrative, said Rep. Jim Banks, whose appointment to a select committee was blocked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “If I were ranking member of the committee, we would be asking the…Fred Lucas -
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Depp’s Win Is a Victory for Truth
Amber Heard made a social media post after the verdict of her trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp was read, peddling the notion that the outcome is a setback for women. This is shameful, to say the least. This case was not about women. This case was about nothing other than finding the truth, irrespective of…Armstrong Williams -
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Sorry, Democrats: Other Opinions Exist
This week, my company, The Daily Wire, premiered a blockbuster new documentary starring Matt Walsh. Titled “What Is A Woman?”, the documentary investigates radical gender theory and its peculiar hold on the elites in our society—and how the insane proposition that men can become women and vice versa has become so well-accepted that even normal…Ben Shapiro -
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What the Polls Actually Say: Only 1 in 3 Americans Support Roe v. Wade
Following the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—a case that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade—a blizzard of news stories declared that support for Roe—the deplorable 1973 decision that imposed a radical abortion regime nationwide—is overwhelming and unshakable. What these reports and the polling they cite…Lathan Watts -
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Problematic Women: We Can’t Find Baby Formula, but We Can Define a Woman
On this week’s “Problematic Women” podcast, we discuss the new documentary from The Daily Wire, “What Is a Woman?” We also review what’s behind the Biden administration’s baby formula shortage, which is still ongoing, and one of our co-hosts’ appearance at the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit. Finally, we’ll break down the Women’s Bill…Lauren Evans -
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How Ronald Reagan Rescued Bill Clinton’s Presidency
Longtime Democrat William Galston, deputy assistant to Bill Clinton for domestic policy, wrote a recent column for The Wall Street Journal on the performance of the economy during Bill Clinton’s eight years in office. According to Galston, virtually everything Clinton did was a hit. Annual real growth in gross domestic product? It averaged a “robust 3.8%.”…Allan Ryskind