Political Commentary & Opinion
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opinion
Ending Slavery Wasn’t Enough. It Took My Family 5 Generations to Become Truly ‘Free.’
I recently had the pleasure of being invited by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to speak at a breakfast gathering honoring D.C. Emancipation Day. We would be celebrating the 157th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s formal emancipation of over 3,000 enslaved individuals in the district (on April 16, 1862). Several months later, on Jan. 1, 1863,… -
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The Fed Should Have Only 1 Mandate: Monetary Neutrality
Congress can improve the nation’s monetary policy by replacing the Federal Reserve’s so-called dual mandate to promote stable prices and maximum employment. Instead, the Fed’s goal should be monetary neutrality—namely, supplying the amount of money the economy needs to keep moving, no more and no less. To help the Fed achieve this goal, Congress should… -
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America Thrives on the ‘Late Bloomer’ Spirit
With all the attention that the national debate between socialism and capitalism is getting, a new book has arrived on the scene that provides valuable perspective. The book is “Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed With Early Achievement,” written by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard. Karlgaard takes on the cult of… -
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The Left’s Response to Mueller Report Shows They Weren’t After the Truth
Objectivity, like Elvis, long ago left the building in Washington, and so the report by special counsel Robert Mueller is being read and interpreted through mostly biased eyes. Democrats, who had counted on Mueller to prove that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, were initially as crestfallen as they were on election night 2016. Still,… -
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Problematic Women: Free College for Everyone!
Is Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s call for free universal college and student loan forgiveness really possible? Inez Stepman, senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum, joins for this week’s edition of “Problematic Women” to discuss. Plus, Glamour reports a bride asks her bridesmaid to get an abortion to make sure she fits into her dress,… -
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Beware Soros-Funded Hijacking of US Census
“Are you a U.S. citizen?” Only in self-defeating, sovereignty-eroding America is the idea of asking whether people living in America are American citizens for the American census a matter of controversy. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on the high-stakes 2020 census questionnaire…. -
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Out of the Ashes, a Beautiful Hope
Last week, the world mourned the blazing destruction of the opulent Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. But that wasn’t the only devastating church fire in recent times: we cannot forget the destruction of our very own “Pillars of Hope.” Over the span of 10 days from March 26 to April 4, three historically black churches… -
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Green New Deal Would Reward Rich, Hurt Poor
The Green New Deal’s goal is to move America to zero carbon emissions in 10 years. “That’s a goal you could only imagine possible if you have no idea how energy is produced,” James Meigs, former editor of Popular Mechanics magazine, says in my latest video. “Renewable is so inconsistent,” he adds. “You can’t just… -
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NASA Chief Criticized for Mentioning Christianity in Speech
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand the First Amendment. Or maybe, after the spat over a speech by NASA’s Jim Bridenstine, it does. Thanks to the double standards of secularism, public officials can’t even talk about faith without making headlines. It’s no wonder, then, that when the head of America’s space program gave remarks at… -
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Glenn Beck Explains the Biggest Left-Wing Lie About America
“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 discuss recent comments by Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder, who recently said on MSNBC: “Exactly when… -
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How Pelosi’s Equality Act Would Ruin Women’s Sports
Women shouldn’t have to compete against men in order to play sports. Yet that’s exactly what is happening increasingly across the country and around the world, as a growing number of male athletes who self-identify as women are being allowed to enter women’s competitions. The so-called Equality Act would only worsen this trend. This piece… -
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Liberals Are Using Rep. Ilhan Omar as an Excuse to Chill Speech
Democrats have spent the past two-plus years accusing the president of the United States and his allies of seditiously conspiring with our enemies to destroy “democracy.” For the most part, this fairytale has been cynically deployed by politicians to undermine the legitimacy of a Republican presidency, yet millions of Americans now believe their votes were… -
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Podcast: The Strange Terrorist Attack in Sri Lanka
Did other, bigger terrorist groups help a relatively small group in Sri Lanka pull off the sophisticated attack that left nearly 300 dead Sunday? Why did the terrorists target hotels and Christian churches, when there was no recent history of Muslim-Christian fighting in Sri Lanka? And how come some government officials knew about a possible… -
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Embarrassing Gaffes Continue to Show Media’s Ignorance of Religion
It’s become increasingly clear that many in our nation’s elite media know little to nothing about religion—Christianity in particular. This is a disturbing trend for the future of our country. A long list of theological gaffes by The New York Times over the years was recently catalogued in an insightful New York Post editorial by… -
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On Earth Day, Gloomy Predictions Haven’t Come to Pass
This Earth Day, it almost feels like we should be carving some turkey. Why? Because we have a lot to be thankful for since the first Earth Day event occurred 49 years ago. We should be thankful that the gloom-and-doom predictions made throughout the past several decades haven’t come true. Fearmongering about explosive population growth,… -
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Banning Fetal Tissue Research Isn’t Bad for Science. It’s an Opportunity.
Indiana lawmakers banned the use of aborted fetal tissue in research in 2016. But soon after, the law was blocked by a federal court after Indiana University sued, claiming the law was unconstitutionally vague and unduly burdensome. But in a surprising turn of events, last month, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the… -
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A Teen Refugee’s Flight to Freedom From Communist Cambodia
For six years, the only luxuries Bopha Sayavong dreamed of were peace, quiet, food, and shelter. It wasn’t until she landed in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a refugee from communist Cambodia on Oct. 31, 1981, that she began to imagine the luxuries freedom would bring. Even after arriving in the U.S., though, life was not… -
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Pompeo: Easter Attacks in Sri Lanka Show ‘Brutal Nature of Radical Terrorists’
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said several U.S. citizens died in the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. Terrorists killed over 200 people and wounded 450 others in Sri Lanka using coordinated explosive attacks on churches and hotels. Bombs erupted in churches in Negombo, Colombo, and Batticaloa and in the hotels Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand…. -
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We Hear You: Absorbing the Loss of Notre Dame Cathedral
Editor's note: The burning of Notre Dame Cathedral affected many in The Daily Signal's audience, and featuring some of those responses seems appropriate this Easter. Don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: More than 850 attacks on Christian artifacts or churches in France in 2017, as Kate McKenna notes in her…