Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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opinion
Moving the MLB All-Star Game to Denver Makes Zero Sense
Major League Baseball is moving its 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Coors Field in Denver. This, says ESPN, is “in response to a new Georgia law that has civil rights groups concerned about its potential to restrict voting access for people of color.” Or, more likely, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred moved the game because… -
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Wicker: Coca-Cola, MLB, and Everyone Spreading Lies About Georgia Voting Law Should Be Ashamed of Themselves
Mark Twain observed that “a lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.” Today, powerful voices seem determined to prove him right. In recent days, prominent members of the media, government, and big business have spread a wildfire of misinformation about a newly passed voting law… -
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What Will You Do When Teachers and Trans Activists Try to Force Your Children to Violate Their Conscience?
One of the most memorable scenes in “The Silver Chair” by C.S. Lewis occurs when a protagonist, Puddleglum, breaks free of a witch’s enchantment by stepping on a hot coal. Though painful, the burn clears his head of the witch’s spell of deception and reminds him of what is real. Now is the time for… -
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How Public Sector Unions Are Failing Government Employees
Public employees across America are growing weary of unions that do not represent their interests, says Elisabeth Kines, the national executive director of Americans for Fair Treatment. Kines helps public sector employees, such as teachers, to understand their First Amendment rights and to stand up to union pressure. She says conservatives used to be the… -
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How Georgia’s Voting Law Compares to 7 Blue, Purple States’ Laws
Democrats have repeatedly denounced the new Georgia election integrity law that requires IDs for absentee ballots, but seldom criticize blue states that have comparable laws on their books—or in some cases, laws making it more difficult to vote than in Georgia. “Overall, the Georgia law is pretty much in the mainstream and is not regressive… -
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Should Government Track the Miles You Drive?
One American gets up in the morning, gets in his car, and drives down a congested highway to work. Another wakes at noon and rides a subway to a saloon. Which of these two—if America’s future takes a wrong turn—would pay what might be called the “Buttigieg tax”? CNBC’s Kayla Tausche asked Transportation Secretary Pete… -
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Earmarks a Tool of the Swamp, Not the Constitution
Republicans are helping House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bring back the special-interest spending known as earmarks. You won’t find so much as a tweet from congressional Republicans touting the move, but the House GOP Conference changed its rules to lift the earmark ban and added a statement that earmarks could help “execute Congress’ Article I authority… -
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Wyoming Governor Signs Born Alive Act
Republican Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed the Born Alive Act into law, legislation that requires doctors to care for babies born alive in botched abortions. Senate File 34, which passed the Wyoming House 48-11, requires doctors to use “commonly accepted means of care” for “the treatment of any infant born alive.” “Any physician performing… -
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The Left Wants Kids to See White Supremacy Everywhere, and It’s Destroying Pop Culture
“Certain elements of our community are threatening to get people fired,” tweeted Yale professor Nicholas Christakis on Apr. 3. “Even if someone just poses a question, or expresses a conflicting view, you’re immediately labeled a problem, a white supremacist, and people will say, ‘Find out where they work.’” Christakis was quoting an excerpt from a… -
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Pennsylvania Agrees to Exhume Dead From Its Voter Rolls
Pennsylvania, one of the top battlegrounds of the 2020 election, has agreed to remove the names of about 21,000 dead people from voter registration rolls before the general elections this year. The agreement was reached last week, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election-integrity watchdog group that first identified the names of 21,000… -
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I’m a Capitalist, Mr. President, but You’re Not
Back in the day when “Saturday Night Live” was funny, Chevy Chase would open the “Weekend Update” segment by saying, “I’m Chevy Chase … and you’re not.” That line came to mind over President Joe Biden’s massive tax-and-spend proposals, which are unlike anything since FDR, after whom Biden appears to be modeling himself. The president… -
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What Is ‘No Place for Hate’ Program Actually Teaching K-12 Students?
Americans agree that schools should be no place for hate. Instead, we should foster respect, and reject bullying and racism. But how do we best achieve that shared goal? A program called “No Place for Hate,” now in more than 1,600 K-12 schools, attempts to answer that, but in so doing raises questions about the… -
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Biden’s California Dream
I was surprised to read (in the Los Angeles Times) that the Biden administration’s “role model for America” is … California! He wants to “Make America California.” That is a terrible idea. Californians now rush to move out of California. Some hopeful folks still move there, but so many more leave that California now loses… -
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Democrats Flip-Flop on Preserving Filibuster
Four years ago today, on April 7, 2017, some 61 senators pledged their fealty to the filibuster amid talk in the Senate of abolishing it. “[W]e are united in our determination to preserve the ability of members to engage in extended debate when bills are on the Senate floor,” the bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote… -
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Conservatives Must Fight Corporations That Kowtow to Left
This week, on the basis of whole-cloth lies, major corporations went to political war with the state of Georgia. The lies at issue revolved around Georgia’s new voter law, characterized by both Stacey Abrams and President Joe Biden as a new form of Jim Crow. What do these dastardly new voter restrictions do? They require… -
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Leftists’ Objections to Election Reform in West Virginia Seem Like a Parody of Themselves
The Judiciary Committee of the West Virginia House of Representatives held a virtual hearing on an election reform bill on April 5. What took place was like a story from the parody site The Babylon Bee. I was invited to testify in support of the bill by some West Virginians, so I made a serious,… -
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Yes, Traditional Media Helped Fuel the Latest Capitol Attack
A question has been genuinely asked (on Twitter and other social media sites): “Did the narrative pushed by the media play a role in radicalizing the most recent Capitol Hill attacker, Noah Green?” That level of self-examination has been absent from any news coverage, but the question is a valid one. Perhaps the void makes… -
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Over 250 Male California Prison Inmates Request Transfer to Women’s Facilities
Since January, 261 California prison inmates have requested transfers to prisons aligning with their gender identity, 255 of them biological males who say they identify as women, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told The Daily Caller News Foundation. In January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law a bill requiring the California Department… -
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Democrats Could Pass Massive ‘Infrastructure’ Bill Without 1 GOP Vote
The Senate's parliamentarian has ruled that Democrats can use budget reconciliation for a second time in the same fiscal year, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. Senate Democrats’ ability to use the legislative tool means that, hypothetically, they could pass President Joe Biden’s disputed infrastructure bill with a simple majority vote instead… -
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2 Men on Terror Watchlist Caught Crossing Southern Border
Two men from Yemen were apprehended and found to be on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist after illegally crossing the southern border in January and March, Customs and Border Protection announced Monday. CBP agents arrested the men near the Calexico Port of Entry in Southern California, according to the agency. Both of the men were encountered illegally entering…