Political Commentary & Opinion
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Georgia Senators’ Bill Would Create Panel on Election Integrity
Policy experts and political leaders agree that election integrity is one of the most important issues facing the nation. To that end, Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both R-Ga., introduced legislation Nov. 12 to establish a bipartisan advisory commission to “analyze the integrity and the administration” of the 2020 general election for president and… -
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Washington Post Editorial Board Says Electoral College ‘No Longer Tenable for American Democracy’
The Washington Post editorial board came out Sunday in support of abolishing the Electoral College. “The Electoral College, whatever virtues it may have had for the Founding Fathers, is no longer tenable for American democracy,” the Post’s editorial board wrote. As of Monday afternoon, former Vice President Joe Biden holds a 5.6 million-vote lead over President Donald Trump and… -
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What You Need to Know About the Georgia Recount
The deadline for the Georgia recount is 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday. What is happening with the recount, is there a threat of voter fraud, and how is that being addressed? Additionally, former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has begun a voting rights organization, Fair Fight. What are the big players in the state’s politics and… -
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Effort to Win Georgia Senate Races by Bringing in Out-of-Staters to Vote Is Illegal
Celebrities and politicians urging people to visit Georgia and falsely claim residency for the sole purpose of voting in two critical U.S. Senate runoff elections Jan. 5 are advocating criminal actions and should be ashamed of themselves. This call for voter fraud should be rejected. The Georgia runoff elections are extraordinarily important because they will determine which… -
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Look to Native Americans’ Forest Management for Better Wildfire Abatement
This has been a trying year for millions of Americans as a pandemic continues to threaten people’s lives and livelihoods, and a devastating wildfire season in the western United States only made matters worse. Tragically, those wildfires have taken lives and destroyed homes, businesses, and wildlife in the process. While better forest management and wildfire… -
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Legislators Should Help Workers but Keep Airline Bailouts Grounded
With the long campaign season finally over, Congress is returning for several weeks of legislative sessions between now and Jan. 2. It’s rare for substantial legislation to pass during the so-called lame-duck period, but this year could be different due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And one proposal that legislators are considering in earnest is airline… -
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Calls for ‘Unity’ Really Calls for Capitulation
Political unity is an ugly, authoritarian idea. No free place has domestic political unity, nor should it aspire to it. What “unity” really means, of course, is capitulation. America is once again being subjected to the inane brand of pseudo-patriotic sloganeering we saw during President Barack Obama’s tenure. Now, as then, the media will pretend… -
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Dreading Thanksgiving Conversations? Keep These 3 Points in Mind for a Civil Discussion
It’s that time of year again. Many of us soon will travel to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family. As we eat our Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie, it’s almost unavoidable that politics will come up at the dinner table. Someone says something controversial, another fires back, and 10 minutes later mother is removing the… -
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Portland Amends City Charter to Be ‘More Inclusive of All Gender Identities’
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a newly reelected Democrat, announced Thursday that the City Council approved removal of “feminine and masculine terms” from the Oregon city's charter. “The language of the documents that guide the City should reflect our community,” Wheeler wrote on Twitter. “Today, Council authorized the City Auditor to remove feminine and masculine terms… -
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Media Didn’t Earn a Vote of Confidence With 2020 Coverage
Wednesday was Veterans Day, but in 2020 we all know who really deserves our thanks for preserving the American way of life—the press. “The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved democracy,” read a headline in The Washington Post earlier this week. The column was authored by Margaret… -
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No Longer the Democratic Party of JFK
In this current era of no compulsory military service, Veterans Day takes on personal meaning to fewer and fewer Americans. When the country transitioned to a voluntary military in 1973, about 1% of the population served on active duty. Today, it is less than one-half of 1%. But perhaps we can take it further and… -
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Federal Appeals Court Sides With Harvard in Race Discrimination Lawsuit
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Harvard University’s admissions process did not violate the civil rights of Asian Americans, Reuters reported. The decision, which comes after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments less than two months ago, upholds a decision from District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs that favored Harvard after… -
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When ‘Unity’ Means ‘Shut the Hell Up’
On Saturday evening, presidential front-runner Joe Biden—who doesn’t actually become president-elect until vote counts are certified—gave a preliminary victory address. In that address, he spoke of his mandate to govern: a mandate, he said, that extended to marshalling the “forces of decency … fairness … science … hope.” Which is a pretty vague mandate, as… -
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Meet Rachael Rollins, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Boston
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to crime victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series focused on prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The goal… -
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The Mayflower Compact and the Foundations of Religious Liberty
The Heritage Foundation and the Religious Freedom Institute launched a webinar series Thursday that explores the enduring significance of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims and the signing of the Mayflower Compact. The series will examine the meaning of the shortest document in the American canon—barely 200 words—and its impact on the… -
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Meet 5 of the Newly Elected Republican House Members
Conservatives won House races on Election Day and many of these new members are expected to bring fresh perspectives to Capitol Hill as they represent millennials, minorities, the disabled, and immigrants, among others. Here are five of the House's incoming freshman Republicans. 1. Kat Cammack, 3rd District of Florida Kat Cammack defeated Democrat Adam Christensen to… -
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Questions About His Son and China Follow Biden to White House
Editor’s note, March 30, 2022: Sixteen months before The Washington Post’s report today on Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China, The Daily Signal published this article on the overseas business affairs of President Joe Biden’s son. Legal questions surrounding the Biden family’s business deals with a Chinese energy conglomerate almost certainly will follow Joe Biden… -
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McCabe Says He Would Not Have Signed Carter Page Spy Warrant Given Recent Revelations
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he would not have signed an application for a warrant to surveil a former Trump campaign aide had he known it contained inaccurate information. “If you knew then what you know now, would you have signed the warrant application in June 2017… -
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In ‘What It Means to Be Human,’ Carter Snead Challenges Our View of Culture, Law
Notre Dame Law School professor Amy Coney Barrett—now a newly minted Supreme Court justice—is in the spotlight these days, and properly so. Practically overnight, she has become a transformational figure on the high court and in our culture. But another titan of the Notre Dame Law School has just released a book that promises a… -
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GOP State AGs Urge Supreme Court to Overrule Pennsylvania Court’s Election Law Changes
Republican state attorneys general say the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has jeopardized the nation’s constitutional balance of power by legislating from the bench and allowing late-arriving ballots to be counted. Now, they’re calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. Three of the state attorneys general—Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Eric Schmitt of Missouri, and Mike Hunter…