Political Commentary & Opinion
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4 Things to Know About Voting Machine Company That’s Causing Stir
Amid litigation and recounts in the presidential election, significant attention is focused on a Denver-based company with strong political ties. Dominion Voting Systems, a voting machine manufacturer founded in Canada, made equipment that is used in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. All those states have seen razor-thin margins in returns from the… -
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7 Big Items on Biden’s White House Agenda
Amnesty for illegal immigrants, taxpayer funding for abortions, and a transition from using oil for energy were key to former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign for the White House. Biden laid out many policy proposals during his campaign to unseat President Donald Trump, which major media outlets called in the Democratic challenger’s favor Saturday even… -
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A Pro Bono Lawyer for Trump Campaign Shares What He Saw in Pennsylvania
Tom Ranieri is a lawyer who volunteered as a representative of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, working at an Election Day hotline. He was there from Oct. 30 to Nov. 3 and joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share what he observed. “The Daily Signal Podcast” is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Pippa, Google Play,… -
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Birth of the Coalition of Normal People May Be Upon Us
Throughout this election, there were signs of the birth of a coalition of normal people unhappy with the radical turns our country has been taking. Regardless of how the presidential race turns out, the potential political realignment is unmistakable. Hispanic and blue-collar workers are shifting noticeably away from the overtures of the left-wing, “defund the… -
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It’s Time to Elect Civility
Looking out the windows today, the skies are blue, but it’s eerily quiet. In Washington, D.C., where I live, businesses have boarded up their windows in preparation for violent protests. Anxiety and trepidation hang in the air. It’s almost palpable. There has been so much tension in the run-up to our recent election. But I… -
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Brands Are Virtue-Signaling Progressive Values to Kids
It’s not enough that kids are learning about social justice issues in school or via TikTok. Increasingly, brands have jumped on the woke train to virtue signal to kids what they should think about controversial ideas, normalizing them for the sake of advancing a collective progressive ideology that values identity politics over individualism. Recently, Oreo… -
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You’ve Come a Long Way, Florida
Election Day 2020 was many things to many people—depending on your age, philosophy, and geography. It’s probably a Rorschach test for the country. It’s a reminder that our nation is large and complicated, with diverse perspectives crossing numerous cultural lines. For millions of us in Florida, however, Election Day was something else. It was a… -
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Pennsylvania Lawsuit Alleges 21,000 Dead People Still on Voter Rolls
A legal group filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging that the state has tens of thousands of deceased people on its voter rolls and that there is evidence of voting activity among the deceased. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, which is not associated with President Donald Trump’s campaign, filed the lawsuit Thursday arguing that Pennsylvania… -
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‘Show Us the Evidence’: Chris Christie, Sen. Pat Toomey Cast Doubt on Trump’s Vote-Counting Concerns
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie challenged President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud made during White House remarks Thursday evening. “I saw the president’s speech last night and it was very hard to watch,” Toomey said on “Today” Friday morning. “The president’s allegations of large-scale fraud and theft of the election… -
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Europe Rocked Again by a Series of Islamist Terror Attacks
There’s been a reprisal in the past month of a disturbing trend in Europe: Islamist terror attacks. On Oct. 4, a migrant from Syria attacked two tourists in the German city of Dresden, killing one. He had arrived in 2015 and had recently finished a three-year juvenile sentence for assaulting a police officer and causing… -
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What You Need to Know About Arizona’s Election Day ‘Sharpiegate’
Laurie Aguilera says her polling place gave her a Sharpie marker to fill out her ballot on Election Day in Maricopa County, Arizona, despite what her lawyers call state guidelines directing that “felt-tip writing utensils not be used.” Ink ended up bleeding through Aguilera’s ballot and election officials would not accept it. The Public Interest… -
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Affirmative Action Goes Down in Flames in Deep Blue California
Even in the deepest of deep blue progressive states, it appears racial preferences are unpopular once voters go into the voting booth. On Tuesday, Californians rejected Proposition 16, a ballot measure that would have essentially ended California’s decadeslong ban on racial preferences for government and public institutions. This ban was enacted by Proposition 209, which… -
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Protecting Learning Pods From Unnecessary Regulations
COVID-19 brought K-12 education to a grinding halt in March. Many traditional public schools remain closed to in-person instruction this fall, while many families are left to navigate the school districts’ crisis online-learning offerings. Some families, however, opted to try a relatively new education model; namely, learning pods. Parent-driven learning pods, in which families… -
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GOP Lawmakers Call on Pennsylvania Secretary of State to Resign Over Election Guidance
Two Pennsylvania state Republican lawmakers have asked Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania’s secretary of state, to step down over her handling of the 2020 election. On Tuesday, state Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and state Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman called for the secretary to resign. “Twice in the last two days, the Secretary of State… -
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The Disinformationists
A republic is not just a nation of laws. It also relies on its good-faith watchdogs, such as honest pollsters, the media, and bipartisan institutions. We still didn’t know the final result of Tuesday’s presidential election as of Wednesday night. But there are lots of reasons to worry that something in America has gone terribly… -
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Colorado Joins States Pledging to Surrender Electoral Votes to Winner of Popular Vote
Colorado residents approved a measure Wednesday to join a list of states pledging to award their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who obtains the majority of the popular vote. Proposition 113 passed with roughly 52% approval from voters, entering Colorado into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, according to The Denver Post. The state joins 15… -
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The Pollsters Got It Wrong Again
The pollsters got it wrong again. Some claimed going into Tuesday’s election that Joe Biden had an unbeatable margin of 17 points in some states. Pundits claimed Republicans would lose between five and 15 seats in the House. It appears they’ve picked up a few. And because final results will not be known until states… -
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The Media and Pollsters Are the Biggest Losers of 2020
There was no blue wave at all, regardless of what ultimately happens in the presidential election. As of the writing of this piece, we still don’t know who won the 2020 presidential election. Contested vote counts could turn the process of sorting it out into a dragged-out legal battle. Nevertheless, the result was certainly an… -
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Blacks of Yesteryear and Today
I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73%, or 3,446, were black people, and… -
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Arizona Voters Approve Proposition 207 to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Products
Arizona voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana products Tuesday, allowing individuals over 21 to legally possess up to 28 grams of cannabis and smaller quantities of concentrates, The Associated Press reported. Proposition 207 followed four years after a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana use was defeated, the AP reported. Republican lawmakers previously rejected changes…