Political Commentary & Opinion

The political media have spent the entire Joe Biden presidency up to this point pressuring holdout moderate Democrats to join the left’s efforts to destroy the legislative filibuster. One way they do this is by cobbling together revisionist histories that cast Republicans as uniquely obstructionist and undemocratic. CNN’s White House correspondent John Harwood lays out…

Everywhere, people trash capitalism. But what they think they know about capitalism is usually wrong. My new video debunks some myths about capitalism. “No one ever makes a billion dollars,” complains Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “You take a billion dollars.” In other words, capitalists get rich by taking money from others. That’s nonsense, and Myth No….

A powerful new documentary called “The Streets Were My Father” features three Chicago men, two Hispanics and one black, who grew up without fathers. All three did hard time for serious offenses, including murder. The film, with no narrator, just lets the men talk. None blames “systemic racism.” All concede they made bad choices, but…

Elizabeth Woning began questioning her sexuality when she was 16. By the time she was in her 30s, she says, she was “stereotypically butch.”  But after an experience at a local church, Woning said she began to question what lesbianism meant to her.  “I recognized that it gave meaning and purpose to my life,” Woning…

Juneteenth—the annual observance celebrating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865—is a holiday that many Americans haven’t heard of until recently. That has caused some to wonder if it’s just some new “woke” holiday invented by Marxist academics, the creators of the historically inaccurate 1619 Project, or some other group on the…

Liberal activists are rebranding sex change surgeries as “gender-affirming medical care,” even when discussing these procedures for children. Former transgender people and conservative activists told The Daily Caller News Foundation that this is a deliberate effort to normalize the surgeries and make them more accessible to children. Lawmakers have proposed at least 114 bills related…

For sure, Democrats rejoiced as they watched Republicans painfully twist in the wind at the beginning of LGBTQ Pride Month, trying to figure out how to position their party on this issue. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel got flak from the right and from the left, as she essentially waved a white flag, declaring…

This week, a video from a San Francisco Walgreens went viral on Twitter. The video depicted a man standing next to his bicycle, loading up a garbage bag with products. The man then rides his bicycle down the aisle, past a security guard, who limply throws out a hand to try to grab the bag;…

Kevin McGary is the president of Every Black Life Matters, with emphasis on the “Every.” McGary joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the contrasts between the Black Lives Matter organization and his own group, how fatherlessness has adversely affected the black community, critical race theory, the racist origins of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood,…

A broad revolution is underway in the United States as traditional standards used to measure achievement and provide opportunity are being rejected by schools, corporations, and governments in favor of quotas based on race and gender. On taking office, President Joe Biden signaled that the nation’s long-held principle of equality for all had come to…

“We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., tweeted last week to her 1.2 million followers. They responded with warm support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was cooler. Although the speaker lives in San Francisco’s progressive echo chamber, she heads a national party and understands…

Following the NATO summit, President Joe Biden will continue his European trip with a visit to Geneva, where he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, but also hold bilateral talks with his Swiss counterpart, President Guy Parmelin. The United States and Switzerland have a proven record of a dynamic partnership on many critical issues, and…