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Arizona Lawmakers Stand Up for Students Wearing ‘MAGA’ Gear in Dispute With High School
Some Arizona lawmakers are raising free speech concerns after a group of students and parents said high school officials called on students to remove pro-Trump “Make America Great Again” gear. The incident occurred March 1 when Perry High School in Gilbert, Arizona, hosted its “Party in the USA” Spirit Day. Heidi Jones and Jennifer Farris,… -
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California Lawmaker Wants to Add Planned Parenthood Phone Number to Student IDs
Imagine forcing every kid to walk around holding an ad for Planned Parenthood. Well, in California, you don’t have to imagine it. California state Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel is doing everything he can to seal the single largest free publicity deal in the history of abortion: a Planned Parenthood phone number on every student ID. Including… -
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New Bill to Tax Stock Market Could Devastate Ordinary Savings and Retirement
A new tax proposal in Congress aims to stick it to the rich. But if passed, it could devastate the U.S. financial system and ruin the value of ordinary Americans’ retirement accounts. The proposal, introduced by a team of Democrats in the House and Senate, would assess a penalty each time someone sells a stock,… -
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Our Planet Is Not Fragile
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claims that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” The people at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree, saying that to avoid some of the most devastating impacts of climate change, the world must slash carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030… -
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Why the Peace Cross Case Represents the Best of America
One of the most profound differences between the American and French views of religious freedom is our treatment of religious symbols in the public square. America’s Founders envisioned a public square that is neither secular nor sacred. In contrast, France has enacted policies that advance radical secularism. French law has erased religious symbols from public… -
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Trump’s Cuba Sanctions Are a Solid Step in Cracking Down on Maduro Regime’s Enablers
The Trump administration on Monday took the historic step of implementing Cuba sanctions. Specifically, the administration is temporarily permitting U.S. citizens whose property was stolen by the Castro regime to pursue legal action. From March 19 to April 17, Americans will be able to sue 205 Cuban companies that are owned and/or operated by the… -
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Linda Sarsour Attacks ‘White Feminist’ Nancy Pelosi Over Resolution Condemning Anti-Semitism
Women’s March Co-Chair Linda Sarsour on Monday night attacked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as a “typical white feminist upholding the patriarchy doing the dirty work of powerful white men,” in response to a House resolution condemning anti-Semitism. House Democrats announced the resolution on Monday after Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s latest anti-Israel comments, which critics—including other Democrats—have… -
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Ocasio-Cortez ‘Could Be Facing Jail Time’ If Control Over PAC Was Intentionally Hidden, Former FEC Commissioner Says
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti obtained majority control of Justice Democrats PAC in December 2017, according to archived copies of the group’s website, and the two appear to retain their control of the group, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. If the Federal Election Commission finds… -
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Google’s Internal Audit Bucks the Narrative on Gender Pay Gap
Whether it’s the result of political pressure or wanting to stay ahead of progressive trends, a number of larger companies are conducting internal audits to investigate whether they could be accused of having a so-called pay gap between men and women. Google conducts such an audit every year, and this year produced a surprising result…. -
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How Covington’s Nick Sandmann Could Win His Defamation Claim Against Washington Post
Nicholas Sandmann is one of the Covington Catholic High School students caught in a media firestorm while attending the March for Life last month in Washington, D.C. Now, he is pushing back. Last week, his lawyers filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post for $250 million—the amount that Jeff Bezos spent to buy the… -
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How American Health Insurance Fails to Keep Pace With Modern Medicine
Did you know there was no health insurance until 1930 and that 90 percent of today’s medical care did not even exist in 1950? Yet, health insurance has not evolved to match the innovation or the demand. On this week’s edition of “The Bill Walton Show,” economic author John Steele Gordon and I discuss how… -
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Fires Back at Fellow Democrat: ‘I Should Not Be Expected to Have Allegiance’ to Israel
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said Sunday that she is “expected to have allegiance” to Israel, in response to criticism from Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., who said Omar “continues to mischaracterize support for Israel.” Omar on Wednesday slammed “the political influence in this country that says it is OK to push for allegiance to a foreign… -
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Kudos to Dianne Feinstein for Asserting Adult Privilege
Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write: Dianne Feinstein was right. A small group of middle and high school children from the San Francisco Bay Area visited the Democratic senator from California last week to demand she support the “Green New Deal,” a collection of environmental policies even some Democrats find too extreme,… -
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Podcast: The Fight That Broke the Democratic Party
On today’s podcast we feature an interview with Jon Ward, a political reporter in Washington who wrote the new book “Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party.” Ward chronicles the fight between President Jimmy Carter and Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1980, recalling how Kennedy’s primary campaign against Carter paved… -
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How America’s Wealthy Often Become the Biggest Welfare Recipients
When I hear “welfare payments,” I think “poor people.” But America’s biggest welfare recipients are often politically connected corporations—like America’s sugar producers. The industry gets billions of dollars in special deals while deceitfully running ads that say, “American farmers don’t get subsidy checks.” That ad confused me. If they “don’t get subsidy checks,” then what… -
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17 Takeaways From America’s Biggest Conservative Conference
The Daily Signal was at all three days of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest annual national gathering of conservative activists, in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, and we’ve rounded up some of the highlights of our coverage. Vice President Mike Pence Speaks Out Against the ‘Culture of Death’ “Life is winning in… -
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Kamala Harris Is Wrong. Keep the World’s Oldest Profession Illegal.
Sen. Kamala Harris thinks that prostitution should be legal. Prostitution, the California Democrat said in a recent interview with The Root, are relations based on consent, and “when you are talking about consenting adults, I think that … we can’t criminalize consensual behavior, as long as no one is being harmed.” A grocer willingly sells… -
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Conservatives on Why ‘America First’ Doesn’t Mean ‘America Alone’
Does the slogan “America first” also mean “America alone?” That was the question asked Friday during the Conservative Political Action Conference, following President Donald Trump’s second summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Among panelists discussing Trump’s “America first” foreign policy were Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,…