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US Is at a Moral Crossroads, Rep. Louie Gohmert Warns
Rep. Louie Gohmert is warning that America stands at a moral turning point. “We are near the end of the road of no return. There’s still time to get back on track, but not a lot of time,” the Texas Republican told attendees Saturday at the annual Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel…. -
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YouTube’s Concerning Suppression of Conservative Speech
Dear Mr. Brin: Fifty years ago this week, when I was a 21-year-old college senior, I was in the Soviet Union, sent by the government of Israel to smuggle in Jewish religious items and smuggle out names of Jews who wanted to escape the Soviet Union and could then be issued a formal invitation to… -
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How Congress Shackles the Executive and Undermines President’s Accountability to People
This summer, Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill to restore the “original understanding of the president’s constitutional power to remove his subordinates.” As I wrote in a recent First Principles essay, this is a good thing. The power of presidents to faithfully enforce the law by removing principal officers in… -
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A Day to Remember Lost Little Ones
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan dedicated October as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Since then, over a dozen states and the House of Representatives have marked Oct. 15 as a special day of remembrance for infants lost prior to birth. This is undoubtedly a good thing, yet there remains a general silence and lack… -
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The New York Times Is Wrong. The Rich Pay More Taxes Than You Do.
By almost every measure, the U.S. has one of the most progressive systems of taxation in the world, in which high-income people pay the highest tax rates. Everyone agrees on this basic fact, except The New York Times. Using data from a new book by Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the Times claims… -
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Turning Generation Z Into Faith-Filled Leaders
Culture is constantly changing ,but there are principles of truth that never change. It is those principles which the Imago Dei Leadership Forum seeks to empower young people with so they can be leaders who influence culture. John Murray, founder and president of Imago Dei Leadership Forum, joins The Daily Signal podcast to offer advice… -
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A New Dark Age: California’s Blackouts Are Self-Inflicted
California, the richest state in the nation—and one that’s often portrayed as the progressive harbinger of the future for the rest of the country—has been hit with its latest Third World-style disaster. On top of high poverty rates, skyrocketing homelessness, rising crime, and the return of medieval-sounding diseases, the state—specifically, the San Francisco Bay Area—has… -
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Forged by the Sea, and Centuries of Devotion to the American People
“The Navy has both a tradition and a future—and we look with pride and confidence in both directions.”—Adm. George Anderson, 1961 Sunday, Oct. 13, marks the 244th birthday of the United States Navy. The Navy has evolved significantly from its colonial seafaring roots, but its spirit of service to the nation remains. The colonial militia… -
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Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants
Many of the stories about the gods and heroes of Greek mythology were compiled during Greek Dark Ages. Impoverished tribes passed down oral traditions that originated after the fall of the lost palatial civilizations of the Mycenaean Greeks. Dark Age Greeks tried to make sense of the massive ruins of their forgotten forbearers’ monumental palaces… -
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How One US Agency Fights Religious Persecution Around the World
The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development told social conservatives Friday about its work to curb threats to religious freedom around the world. “The assistance that USAID provides to people across the world—it’s an expression of American compassion,” Mark Green said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. “But it’s also a reflection… -
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The NBA’s Support for Tyranny
One hard truth about principles is that sticking to them can be inconvenient when it compromises your bottom line. This is the challenge the NBA top brass, players, and coaches have faced when it comes to Hong Kong. They bungled that challenge and clearly have sold out. Apparently, sticking to principles is too high a price… -
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8th Circuit Heeds Calls for Criminal Law Reform
For years now, Heritage Foundation scholars have argued that, absent extraordinary circumstances, criminal liability should require proof of criminal intent. At least one court has taken notice. In an opinion issued on Sept. 16, a majority of a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that when a statute doesn’t say whether… -
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A Mom Fights for Justice After Her Daughter Claims a Gender Fluid Child Assaulted Her in Bathroom
Does the transgender ideology pose dangers to school children? Vernadette Broyles is a lawyer representing a girl who claims she was sexually assaulted as a 5-year-old after her school allowed a transgender child to start using the bathroom of the opposite sex. Read the lightly edited interview, posted below, or listen on the podcast: We… -
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Canadian Court Strips Father of Rights, Allowing Teen to Transition Against His Wishes
A 14-year-old girl in Canada will continue with hormone replacement therapy to become a male against her father’s wishes, a court in Canada has ruled. A three-judge panel of the British Columbia Court of Appeals, the province’s highest court, upheld a lower Canadian court’s decision to allow the child, who has identified as male since… -
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Good News: Mississippi Woman Convicted After Trying to Win Votes Via Bribes
For the residents of Canton, Mississippi, faith in their elected officials must be at an all-time low. The city has been facing seemingly endless election scandals in the past couple of years. Five local officials—including an alderman, the fire chief, and the city clerk—have been convicted of a variety of crimes stemming from their efforts… -
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The True Effects of Watching Porn
Haley Halverson of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation discusses pornography crisis in this country, how it’s changing us, and what can be done about it. Read the lightly edited interview, posted below, or listen on the podcast: We also cover these stories: Turkey’s military takes action at the Syrian border. Two people are killed near… -
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DC Is Abolishing Columbus Day. Here’s the Truth About Columbus.
Editor’s note: On Tuesday, the D.C. City Council approved a measure to abolish the celebration of Columbus Day, set to take place Oct. 14. The holiday will be replaced by Indigenous People’s Day. The council fast-tracked the legislation by calling an emergency session. The District of Columbia was named after Christopher Columbus and bears numerous monuments… -
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Prison Reform Advocates Call Mass Incarceration an ‘Epidemic’
African Americans still have a long way to go when it comes to fairer treatment by the criminal justice system, a New York congressman said at a recent gathering of black lawmakers. “The mass incarceration epidemic is something that has been with us now for almost 50 years,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said during a… -
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Edwin Meese Salutes Reagan in Accepting Presidential Medal of Freedom
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese, upon receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House, praised the many people who helped him throughout his life—notably a future president named Ronald Reagan. Meese was deputy district attorney for Alameda County, California, when Gov. Ronald Reagan hired the lawyer as his legal affairs secretary in 1967…. -
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In Blistering Letter, White House Tells Democrats It Won’t Cooperate With ‘Illegitimate’ Impeachment Inquiry
The White House said in a blistering letter sent Tuesday to top House Democrats that officials in the executive branch will not cooperate with House Democrats’ “constitutionally illegitimate” impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. In the letter, White House counsel Pat Cipollone accused Democrats of attempting to both overturn the results of the 2016 election and…