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After Zuckerberg Money Pours Into Election, Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote to Curb Outside Funds
MADISON, Wis.—Looking to check the influence of “Zuckerbucks” on state elections, the Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation Tuesday that requires election administration grants from third-party groups to be fairly distributed by the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The bill, which passed the state’s lower legislative chamber along party lines, follows the release of emails showing that an outside… -
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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin Gets It: DC Statehood Requires Constitutional Amendment
Who says politicians never listen? Fortunately, sometimes they do. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., recently made clear: “If Congress wants to make D.C. a state, it should propose a constitutional amendment … and let the people of America vote.” He said April 30 that he and his staff took a “deep dive” into the issue and… -
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Hamas Exploits Palestinian Unrest to Launch Rocket War Against Israel
Hamas, the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, has orchestrated Palestinian political violence for the past few weeks as part of its annual propaganda/terrorist offensive against Israel during Ramadan, the Islamic holy month. After Hamas and its political rival, the Palestinian Authority, competed to promote violent clashes with Israeli police at Muslim holy sites in… -
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Montana Governor Signs Law Banning Males From Girls Sports
Despite other Republican governors folding beneath political pressure, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has not shied away from taking the bull by the horns. On Friday, Gianforte signed HB 112, a bill prohibiting biological males from competing in girls sports—a commonsense protection that has been, sadly, recently rejected by two of his Republican counterparts. Gianforte has not been one… -
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FCC Commissioner Slams Baltimore Prosecutor’s ‘Chilling’ Request for Investigation Into Fox Affiliate Over Bias
The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission criticized the Democratic Baltimore City state attorney’s recent request for an investigation into a local Fox affiliate as an attack on free speech. Brendan Carr, the top Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, condemned Baltimore City State Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s request, saying it was part of a broader effort by… -
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White House Task Force Is Payoff to Biden’s Union Cronies
With little fanfare, President Joe Biden on April 26 signed yet another executive order, this one establishing a White House task force on “Worker Organizing and Empowerment.” Implicit in its title is the leftist core belief that individual workers aren’t smart enough to know what’s good for them, so the government is going to intervene…. -
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What You Should Know About Jack Phillips’ Latest Religious Liberty Case
Self-described cake artist Jack Phillips is again at the center of the debate over religious freedom, this time as the defendant in a state trial after being sued for declining to design and bake a cake celebrating a gender transition. “Jack’s been in the news for many years,” as Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel at Alliance… -
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The Infernal Revenue Service
Thanks to the beneficence of the Internal Revenue Service—and the fallout from COVID-19—we half of Americans who pay federal income taxes have been given until May 17 to file. Since I began earning enough to file Form 1040 and associated forms, I have only known one person who prepared his own taxes. That was Bill… -
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How Court-Packing Power Grab Endangers Rights, Threatens Nation’s Foundations
The independence of the Supreme Court is crucial to preserving the original meaning of the Constitution and preventing a radical transformation of our laws and our country. But with Democrats in control of the White House and slim majorities in the House and Senate, not only are basic rights like the right to life under… -
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How Surrogacy Harms Women and Children
By now many Americans have read a glowing news article about the latest celebrity to have a child via surrogacy or watched a human-interest piece about a woman carrying a child for a loved one. From New York, which just quietly legalized commercial surrogacy, to California, which remains a hotspot for individuals and couples from across the… -
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Punishing Big Pharma for Its Success Will Cost Lives
The New York Times reports that “Pfizer Reaps Hundreds of Millions in Profits From Covid Vaccine.” The pharma giant Pfizer earned revenues of $3.5 billion in the first three months of 2021, estimated to generate around $900 billion in profits. All the company had to do was create a safe drug that effectively alleviated the… -
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NPR at 50 Years: Still a Liberal Sandbox
National Public Radio is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week in a classic way: asking its fans for money. A fundraising email gushes, “From covering the Vietnam War in 1971 to the COVID-19 vaccination effort today, and everything in between, NPR has delivered fact-based news and trustworthy analysis to millions.” Some of that “fact-based news”… -
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Black Success Matters
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and the entire left seem monomaniacal about systemic racism. In their minds, 1958 never ended, and Bull Connor’s Birmingham, Alabama, stretches from coast to coast. Addressing a joint session of Congress on April 28, Biden said that “with the plans outlined tonight, we have a real chance to… -
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Swedish Hospital Bans Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones for Gender Dysphoric Youths Under 16. We Should, Too.
Sweden, arguably one of the most politically and socially liberal countries in the world, has nonetheless taken a giant step toward protecting gender dysphoric minors and their mental, emotional, and physical well-being. The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine reported on Wednesday that the Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital—an arm of the one of the most… -
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What Media Got Wrong on Georgia’s New Election Law
Georgia state Sen. John Albers says the media got a lot wrong in covering Georgia’s election legislation. “The media missed most of it,” Albers told “The Daily Signal Podcast.” “They had written up their talking points before the bill was even passed. In fact, even before the bill was created, they already had a narrative… -
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Border Sheriff Says Harris Not Coming to Border a Sign Crisis Isn’t Priority
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told The Daily Signal that he is frustrated by the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris, who was appointed the lead for the border crisis on March 24 by President Joe Biden, hasn’t visited the southern border. “We haven’t been prioritizing the southwest border. If that was the case, the… -
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New York’s Long Decline Is Canary in Coal Mine for Biden’s Big-Government Agenda
When I was born in western New York, it was the second-most populous state in the nation and had a whopping 34 congressional districts. Following the 2020 census, however, New York is now the fourth-most populous state and will only have 27 congressional districts. Over a period of 40 years, 1981 to 2020, during which… -
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Cuomo Announces Separate Baseball Stadium Seating for Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Fans
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that Yankee Stadium and the New York Mets’ Citi Field will have separate seating areas for vaccinated and unvaccinated fans. Starting May 19, fans who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted to sit next to one another in full capacity sections at either stadium, according to… -
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Why Big Tech Companies Continue to Lose Public’s Trust
The Big Tech companies consistently hide behind their algorithms when called to account for inconsistent content moderation and account suspension. Such was the case when the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology, and the law on April 27 held a hearing titled “Algorithms and Amplification: How Social Media Platforms’ Design Choices Shape Our Discourse and… -
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Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?
What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system? Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives? Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition. 1. There was no escape from ideological indoctrination—anywhere. A…