Political Commentary & Opinion
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4 Takeaways From House Democrats’ ‘Medicare for All’ Hearing
Democrats pushed their “Medicare for All” legislation in a hearing Tuesday before the House Rules Committee, saying it would provide health care efficiently to all Americans. “Full room at the FIRST EVER hearing on #MedicareForAll today,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., tweeted Tuesday. “A tremendous step in ensuring every single person in this country has quality… -
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Why Most Jews Aren’t Bothered by the Times’ Anti-Semitic Cartoon
Last week, The New York Times published a cartoon so anti-Semitic that Bret Stephens wrote in his Times column that it was “an image that, in another age, might have been published in the pages of Der Sturmer.” Der Sturmer was the Nazis’ major anti-Semitic newspaper. A Times columnist charging the Times with publishing a… -
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Left’s Use of Islamophobia a Cynical Ploy to Shut Down Disagreement
“Some people did something.” That’s not how most people would describe a watershed event in which terrorists killed as many people as possible by turning planes into missiles. Yet this was how Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., referred to the 9/11 attacks at a Council on American-Islamic Relations fundraiser last month. In doing so, she prompted a response… -
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The NeverTrump Movement Is on Life Support
With the over-hyped but underwhelming conclusion of the Mueller investigation, whatever dreams NeverTrumpers within the GOP had of removing the president from office have vanished. Their last flicker of hope lies in mounting a Republican primary challenge in 2020—a strategy doomed to fail. NeverTrumpism is not dead, but it is on life support with no… -
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Answers May Be Coming in the Jussie Smollett Case
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, as the old saying goes. And that’s exactly what one retired Illinois appeals court judge wants to use to get to the bottom of why, and how, Kim Foxx handled the Jussie Smollett case the way she did. In an April 1 Chicago Tribune op-ed, retired Judge Sheila O’Brien wrote… -
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New York Is Illegally Targeting the NRA, Trump Says
President Donald Trump on Monday called the New York state attorney general’s newly announced probe of the National Rifle Association illegal, and an expert on laws regarding nonprofits contends that the probe is at minimum improper. Trump said it was a concerted effort to “take down and destroy” the NRA. “When a state attorney general… -
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Unions Keep Deducting Dues Without Consent, Teachers Say
Just a few weeks before school let out last May, unexpected visitors showed up in Bethany Mendez’s classroom. They didn’t come to discuss the nuts and bolts of education or the work the teacher was doing to assist young students with learning disabilities. Instead, the visitors wanted to know why she was leaving the teachers… -
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Sen. Mike Lee Explains How the Declaration of Independence Makes America Exceptional
“The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past. On this week’s episode, hosts Jarrett Stepman and Fred Lucas speak to Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, about the Declaration of Independence and how it makes America exceptional…. -
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House Democrats Try to Block Withdrawal From Climate Pact
The Democrat-controlled House is set to vote this week on a measure to keep the United States in the Obama-era Paris climate agreement, from which President Donald Trump withdrew in June 2017, within six months of becoming president. HR 9, the Climate Action Now Act, would block federal funds from being used to exit the… -
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Middlebury College Canceled His Speech. Then, a Few Students Redeemed the Situation.
Prior to two weeks ago, Middlebury College in Vermont had become just another poster child for the war on free speech on American college and university campuses. Back in March 2017, administrators at the small liberal arts college disinvited conservative sociologist Charles Murray under threat of violence and protesting students. The week before last, however,… -
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: I Was ‘Really Afraid of My Fellow Americans’ After 9/11
Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib revealed in an interview she was “terrified” for herself and her family after the Sept. 11 terror attacks that left nearly 3,000 Americans dead. “I was probably in my second year of law school when 9/11 happened and I was really terrified of what was going to happen to my… -
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The Inside Story of Trump’s First 2 Years in Washington
Jake Sherman, senior writer at Politico and co-author of Politico Playbook, is the co-author with Anna Palmer of the new book "The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America." The Daily Signal spoke to Sherman about the book and the ways President Donald Trump has transformed Washington. Our… -
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We Hear You: What the Mueller Report Actually Says
Editor's note: Not surprisingly, the audience of The Daily Signal isn't shy about sounding off regarding special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election interference. Here's a sampling. Don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: So there were 10 allegations that could be interpreted as obstruction, Fred Lucas notes in his… -
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Mozambique Hit by a Second Cyclone: Local Shares How His Community Is Coping
Cyclone Kenneth crashed ashore in Mozambique on Thursday night and into Friday, just six weeks after Cyclone Idai devastated the coastal city of Beira. Initial reports said there were three confirmed dead in Kenneth’s wake, and concerns have arisen about further death and destruction in the next 10 days as floodwaters are expected to rise… -
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Islamist Terrorism Remains the World’s Greatest Threat to Peace
After the horrific mass murder of 50 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand, there was widespread coverage and a torrent of mainstream news networks contemplating the threat of white supremacy. These conversations, completely reasonable and necessary in the face of violent attacks from a racist gunman, soon began deteriorating into politically motivated and specious claims… -
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Edwin Meese Responds to the Mueller Report
We had the good fortune to have Ron Nicol and Edwin Meese on “The Bill Walton Show” the day the Mueller report was released. Meese, a former U.S. attorney general, says Robert Mueller should have made a decision on obstruction of justice by the president and that at least one of his attorneys was a… -
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Growing Up, She Thought She Was a Man. Now She’s Fighting the Patriarchy.
When she was around 13, Eliana Bookbinder began questioning her gender after reading a lot online. But in time, she came to realize she was a woman—and now she’s fighting for feminism. She joins the podcast to share her journey. Read the lightly edited transcript below, or listen to the interview: We also cover these… -
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America Is Still Highly Religious. So Why Do We Keep Liberalizing?
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once declared that “God is dead … and we have killed him.” That famous statement rocked Europe nearly 150 years ago. His point was not that God actually died, but that people in the Western world no longer believed in God, and that this loss of faith would only spread. Nietzsche’s… -
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Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. Despite compiling private allegations of loud and obnoxious Trump behavior, Mueller also concluded that there was not any actionable case of obstruction of justice by the president. It would have been hard in any case to find…