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
What This Former NYPD Detective Has to Say About Attacks on Police
Rob O’Donnell, a former detective with the New York Police Department, was among first responders to the terrorist attacks that brought down the towers of the World Trade Center in 2001 as well as to the terrorist bombing there eight years earlier. O’Donnell joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about what that was like…. -
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Lauding Democrats and Their ‘Landmark’ Voting Rights Bills
Democrats always seem to be the heroes in the copy of so-called mainstream media outlets. Republicans often emerge as the villains who squash everything noble and good. Leftists are typically described as the reformers who somehow lack an ideology. Take a March 15 story that led the national section of The New York Times. The… -
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Securing America Requires a Secure Border
Noe Victelio Rivera-Batres is a citizen of El Salvador who was convicted of illegally crossing the border into the United States three years ago and then ended up living in Las Vegas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement summarized his story in a press release it put out three weeks ago. Rivera, it says, is a… -
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‘Baghdad Bob’ Rides Again
When I heard Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas say last Sunday on “Meet the Press” that the southern border “is closed,” it immediately brought to mind claims by Iraq’s former information minister — dubbed “Baghdad Bob” and “Comical Ali” (aka Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf) — about Saddam Hussein’s superior military forces. During the 2003 U.S.-led invasion… -
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Even Some of Biden’s Media Allies Find It Hard to Ignore Border Crisis
Whatever you do, don’t call the surge of attempted illegal immigrant crossings at the southern border a crisis. That’s the message Americans and the media have been getting from the Biden administration. Given how swiftly we’ve seen border enforcement become overwhelmed since the presidential transition in late January, there’s a good reason for Americans to… -
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What This Arizona Sheriff Sees While Border Crisis Worsens
A border sheriff in Arizona says his county has hit a crisis point with the surge of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. “We went from a year ago manageable [and] calm to unmanageable chaos and crisis,” Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Wednesday. “Checkpoints are… -
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For the Left, Bigotry Is a Tool
A white man last week shot to death eight people in Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian American. According to Atlanta police, the man said he was targeting brothels and blamed the women for his alleged sex addiction. The gunman stated that he had visited two of the spas before and had planned to drive… -
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Debunking 6 Myths About the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Congress passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut and reform package in December 2017 that became the subject of heated, partisan attacks. Now, more than three years later, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the subject of countless lingering mischaracterizations that fuel a push in Congress to repeal parts of the law. Setting the record… -
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North Carolina Introduces Bill Banning Biological Males From Women’s Sports
The North Carolina Legislature has introduced a bill that would ban biological males from women’s sports. The Save Women’s Sports Act, filed Monday by North Carolina state Reps. Mark Brody, Pat McElraft, Diane Wheatley, and Jimmy Dixon, seeks to ensure that “women are not forced to compete against men playing on women’s sports teams.” House Bill 358 uses… -
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Election ‘Safety’ Grants May Have Swung Arizona to Biden, Report Finds
Money from the founder of Facebook touted as being for safe elections during the pandemic may have affected the outcome of the presidential race in Arizona by driving up Democrat turnout, according to a government watchdog report. The grant from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan focused more on “voter education” than… -
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How ‘Equal Pay Day’ Compares Apples and Oranges
This year, March 24 marks “Equal Pay Day”—a day that’s supposed to symbolize how far into the new year women must work to earn what men did in the previous year. In 2020, the median earnings of all full-time wage-earning and salaried female workers were 18% lower than males. That would be a problem if… -
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Democrats’ Operative Got Secret Internet Connection at Wisconsin Election Center, Emails Show
Madison, Wis.—A veteran Democratic operative intricately involved in Green Bay’s November election was given access to “hidden” identifiers for the internet network at the hotel convention center where ballots were counted, according to emails obtained by Wisconsin Spotlight. Green Bay city officials insist the presidential election was “administered exclusively by city staff.” But the emails… -
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2 Massachusetts Towns Create Legal Polyamorous Partnerships
What could the left possibly want after same-sex marriage and transgenderism? Try polygamy. The media laughed off groups like the Family Research Council when we warned about that 15 years ago. Now, a decade and a half later, with American parents in the fight of their lives over girls sports and city councils endorsing three-person… -
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Tucker Carlson Calls Out Gov. Noem Over Bill Banning Biological Males From Women’s Sports
Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested to Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Monday evening that she caved to pressure from the NCAA over a bill banning biological males from women’s sports. Noem discussed South Dakota House Bill 1217, which would ban biological males from participating in women’s high school sports, with Carlson following her Monday… -
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Why Someone Hid Accurate Death Count for New York Nursing Homes
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and his administration’s alleged efforts to hide the accurate number of related deaths beg the question: Is the cover-up worse than the crime? The Empire Center for Public Policy, a New York-based research organization, filed a request last summer under the Freedom… -
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How ‘Minneapolis Effect’ Explains Surge of Violent Crime in American Cities
This past year, “defund the police” has been a frequent call from activists seeking systemic reform of the American criminal justice system. It became a popular rallying cry after the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. And Minneapolis is among cities that partially defunded police departments and proactive crime prevention… -
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Heritage Foundation President, Executive Vice President to Step Down
The president and executive vice president of The Heritage Foundation, Kay C. James and Kim Holmes, jointly announced Monday that they will be resigning from their leadership posts at the Washington-based public policy think tank. “When we came on board as the executive leadership team three years ago, we set several goals and told Heritage’s… -
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West Virginia Families, Students Have New Reason for ‘Hope’ on Educational Options
Thousands of children across West Virginia have new hope for the future. State legislators have approved a proposal that would allow students to use education savings accounts to choose how and where they learn. Lawmakers will now send the proposal for these Hope Scholarships to the governor’s desk. Parents can customize their child’s learning experience… -
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The Hypocrisy of the Filibuster Busters
The effort to undo the Senate’s legislative filibuster is an un-American, Constitution-eroding, radical play to nationalize politics by empowering slim and fleeting majorities to institute wide-ranging, generational policies. Judging from the media coverage, you might be under the impression that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has some kind of duty to “diffuse” the Democrats’ threats… -
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Don’t Blink or You’ll Miss It: The Left Quietly Puts in Place Everything It Needs for Single-Payer System
The House of Representatives will hold a hearing tomorrow titled “Building on the ACA: Legislation to Expand Health Coverage and Lower Costs.” This hearing further confirms the left’s commitment to a single-payer health care model is alive and well. This hearing will be held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and is intended to…