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Illinois School District Gives Transgender Students Unrestricted Access to Bathrooms
An Illinois school district ruled Thursday that transgender students will have unrestricted access to bathrooms of their choice. The school district held a meeting at Palatine High School in northwest Illinois, where board members voted to give unrestricted locker room and restroom access to transgender students, the Chicago station WGN9 reported. The board voted for the decision in… -
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How This Bill Could Free Workers From Forced Union Representation
Imagine that a charge was brought against you and you had to appear in court. Now, imagine that instead of having the choices of representing yourself, hiring an attorney of your choice, or being represented by a public defender, you were required to use an appointed public defender. And now, imagine that the public defender… -
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In Charts, How ‘Medicare for All’ Would Make Most Families Poorer
Under "Medicare for All," three quarters of Americans would be worse off financially, according to new research from The Heritage Foundation. Here’s the bottom line: Most Americans, even many of those not making much right now, would pay more in new taxes than they would save from no longer paying for private health care. … -
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In Pennsylvania, a War on Charter Schools
Charles Mitchell, who leads the Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania, is worried about children’s access to charter schools in the Keystone State. “Our governor has declared war on opportunity for Pennsylvania families,” Mitchell says, referring to Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat. “He’s issued 11 executive orders, the plain intent of which is to put the kibosh… -
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Chilling Ignorance of History
How can one person get so much wrong in one sentence? I refer to Rep. Ilhan Omar, the neo-socialist Democrat, who endorsed presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders with these words: “I am beyond honored and excited for a president who will fight against Western imperialism and fight for a just world.” “Western imperialism”? Wrong. Omar… -
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Whatever Happened to Teaching History?
According to a report by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the teaching of U.S. history to American students lags behind all other subject matters. The latest NAEP survey finds that proficiency levels for fourth-, eighth-, and 12th-grade students are in the 20, 18, and 12th percentile, respectively. Part of this, I suspect, is the… -
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Chick-Fil-A to Stop Donating to Charities Criticized by LGBT Activists
Chick-fil-A announced a new initiative Monday that will focus on education, homelessness, and hunger and end 2020 donations to two charities criticized by LGBTQ groups. The chicken eatery chain announced that Chick-fil-A is instituting a “more focused giving approach to provide additional clarity and impact with the causes it supports” by donating to education programs… -
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Top House Republican Demands Information From ABC on Killed Epstein Story
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter Sunday to ABC News demanding answers surrounding allegations that the network killed a 2015 story about dead alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, journalist Megyn Kelly said. ABC News has come under fire after Project Veritas released a video of anchor Amy Robach Nov. 5 complaining that… -
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Nearly 80,000 Illegal Aliens Had Arrest Records Before Winning DACA Approval
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who successfully enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program carried prior arrest records, according to data released by the Trump administration. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services—the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that is tasked with managing the country’s legal immigration system—released a report Saturday detailing the arrest… -
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‘Doing My Duty as Citizen’: Christine Blasey Ford Accepts ACLU Courage Award
Christine Blasey Ford accepted an award for courage Sunday night from the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU honored Ford, who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assaulting her when they were teens, by giving her the Rodger Baldwin Courage Award at the ACLU of Southern California’s Bill of Rights Awards Dinner. Ford works as… -
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Congress Shouldn’t Get Paid Until It Does Its Job. Why This Bill Is a Great Step.
Congress is likely to vote next week on its second continuing resolution of fiscal year 2020. Another continuing resolution will prevent a government shutdown, but there’s not much to celebrate. The fact that a month-and-a-half into the new fiscal year none of the 12 annual appropriations bills have been enacted is a sign of how… -
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New Program Aims to Help Young Adults Grow in Faith, Maturity Before College
Should students go straight to college after high school? Tommy Nelson, senior pastor of Denton Bible Church, would argue no. “If they are Christian kids [in college], they are ganged up upon by their seniors and they’re now in a survival mode. I mean, you lose your faith, you lose your virginity, you lose your… -
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1 Year After Sex Change, This Teen Regrets His ‘Frankenstein Hack Job’
Less than a year after having gender surgery, Nathaniel now says, “This whole thing was a bad idea. I am 19 years old, and I feel as though I have ruined my life.” It’s heartbreaking each time I get a letter from someone who underwent gender-change surgery and regrets it, especially someone as young as… -
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We Hear You: Oberlin College’s ‘Lawsuit Mess’ With a Local Bakery
Editor's note: Welcome back to some of the intriguing missives from The Daily Signal's mailbag. Don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I enjoyed reading the transcript of Rob Bluey's enlightening podcast interview with Cornell law professor Bill Jacobson of the Legal Insurrection website about the judgment in the case of… -
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The Green New Deal Isn’t Just Expensive. It’s Also Bad Environmental Policy.
We’re not hearing much about the Green New Deal these days, but it’s still a priority for some candidates, as anyone who’s attended a recent Bernie Sanders rally can attest. Criticism of the Green New Deal tends to center on cost and rightly so. It would be extremely expensive. Researchers estimate it would take more… -
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US Government Should Call for Release of This Uighur Academic
Tashpolat Tiyip, a distinguished Uighur scholar of geography, may face imminent death unless the U.S. government jumps in. Vanished in 2017 after he was detained on his way to a conference in Germany, Tiyip was reportedly given a secret trial and sentenced in September 2017 to a suspended death sentence, along with five other members… -
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Backed by Soros Cash, Radical District Attorneys Take Control in DC Suburbs
Radical social justice activists will serve as the top prosecutors for three major Washington, D.C., suburbs—including the two wealthiest counties in the U.S.—after George Soros’ political action committee poured $2.1 million into ordinarily sleepy local races. In Virginia’s Fairfax and Arlington counties, the “reformer” attorneys ran on platforms far to the left of the Democratic incumbents, beating… -
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Disney Again Faces Up to Its Racist Past
Disney has come a long way. Like most American girls, we grew up on Disney princesses. In 2009, when the animated feature “The Princess and the Frog” told the story of Tiana, Disney’s first black princess, we joined other black women across the globe in saying, “It’s about time.” This week, Disney once again is… -
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Pop Star Spars With Salvation Army, Demands Donation to LGBT Group
It’s two weeks until Thanksgiving, but the NFL’s halftime singer is already calling time out. Ellie Goulding, the musician who was scheduled to perform at the turkey day game, is threatening to pull out of the show if the Cowboys’ spotlighted charity—the Salvation Army—doesn’t fold on its Christian beliefs. Either give a donation to an… -
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This Web Designer Shouldn’t Have to Wait to Be Free to Create
They say anything worth having is also worth waiting for. We should know. We waited over three years for the Arizona Supreme Court to rule that the city of Phoenix cannot use fines and jail time to force us to create custom artwork that violates our beliefs. Issued in mid-September, that court decision was a…