Political Commentary & Opinion
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WATCH: Winning 2024 by ‘Any Means Necessary’
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dive into the worst dumpster fire of a political scandal in decades: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. After Americans have been told for years that the government wasn’t pressuring social media companies to censor certain political opinions, Matt Taibbi’s “Twitter…Tony Kinnett -
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RFK Jr. Didn’t Leave Democratic Party. It Left Him.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has effectively quit the race and endorsed former President Donald Trump, popping media heads across America. This is obviously great news for Trump’s odds of winning come November. But it’s even more…Peter St. Onge -
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EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Action Scores Bill Defining Male, Female as Key Vote
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Heritage Action for America is treating the Defining Male and Female Act, a bill that would define sex based on biology, as a key vote in scoring how lawmakers stand on issues of concern to conservatives. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced the legislation at the end of July to establish in federal…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Government-Encouraged Censorship of Conservatives May Only Get Worse
The Supreme Court had multiple opportunities during the last term to end the censorship of conservatives by social media. It chose a different path. Now, Democrats are free to double down on the Biden-Harris administration’s massive censorship enterprise. There is every indication they intend to do so. The bedrock of American democracy, the First Amendment,…Kenin Spivak -
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Why Did Advocate of Diversity and Nuclear Disarmament Get Key Job in This Nuclear Security Agency?
The Biden-Harris administration announced early this year that Sneha Nair would become a special assistant in the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which is the government agency charged with building the nation’s nuclear warheads and maintaining its nuclear stockpile. What the National Nuclear Security Administration does is one of the most critical elements—and technically…Victoria Coates -
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Secret Service Has ‘Routinely’ Misled American Public, Ex-Congressman Says
The Secret Service has a “culture of deception,” former Rep. Jason Chaffetz says. “What they tell the public has routinely been inaccurate, if not an outright lie,” said Chaffetz, a Republican who represented Utah’s 3rd Congressional District and who is now a visiting fellow with The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The former congressman made his…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Are We Already In a Recession?
The U.S. is racing toward a national debt of $36 trillion and will likely surpass this benchmark before the end of the year, according to public finance economist EJ Antoni. In homes across the country, Americans are indirectly feeling the weight of the national debt through inflation, and Antoni, who serves as a research fellow…Virginia Allen -
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Harris Plays Coy on Child Gender Transitions, But Far-Left Groups Endorsing Child Sex Changes Have Her Back
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has avoided addressing whether she supports transgender surgeries for minors—a far-left position that most Americans do not support. Yet a number of LGBTQ groups that endorse attempted gender transition procedures for children are eagerly backing Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. A few of these top LGBTQ groups are…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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COVID-19: The Preventable Pandemic
When The Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. That’s not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 trillion, it’s almost 10 times the projected 2024 budget deficit. Arguably, however, the commission’s most infuriating conclusion was this: The global pandemic was “totally preventable,” in the…Jeff Smith -
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DNC Protesters Are Symptomatic of a Culture Committing Suicide
My colleague Tony Kinnett captured a rather revealing declaration at the anti-Israel protests in Chicago ahead of the Democratic National Convention this past week. A protester shouted, “Reproductive justice means Palestinian liberation.” This leftist gobbledygook is nonsensical on its face (abortion isn’t exactly legal under Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and legal protections on abortion…Tyler O’Neil -
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WATCH: RFK Jr. Turns Harris-Walz Sugar High Into Caffeine Crash
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” back from our live coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we discuss Robert F. Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump for the presidency as he drops out of the race, sort of. Are we really going to see any difference in the polls nationally? What…Tony Kinnett -
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GW Braces for New Pro-Palestine Protests in Nation’s Capital
Classes are underway again at The George Washington University in the nation’s capital amid renewed anti-Israel demonstrations on campus. DMV Students for Justice in Palestine, a coalition of anti-Israel, pro-Palestine groups, led a march through GW’s campus Thursday night, demonstrating outside the home of university President Ellen Granberg. Classes resumed Thursday at GW. Last spring,…Tim Kennedy -
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Yes, Kamala’s Price Controls Lead to Socialism
“Kamala Harris Is No Communist, Socialist, or Nixon,” Jill Lawrence assures us. OK. But are we sure? Not that anyone’s asked me, but as someone who regularly accuses progressives of being “commies,” I think I can help shed some light on why many voters are getting the wrong idea. For one thing, handing self-professed socialists…David Harsanyi -
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Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’
The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic. Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic. That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Backstabbing Behind the Scenes at the Democratic Convention
No one is buying what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party are selling these days. Earlier this week, on the opening night of the demonic confab in Chicago that Democrats call their national convention, the outgoing commander in chief explicitly denied that he was “angry at all those people” who said he should…Josh Hammer -
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Back in the Air: Resumed F-35 Deliveries Help in Indo-Pacific
The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin recently announced resumed deliveries of F-35 aircraft configured with software called Technology Refresh-3, or TR-3. Although a truncated version of the TR-3 software is part of the package, this resumption is a milestone that comes after a yearlong freeze in which undelivered F-35s accumulated and collected dust. The TR-3…Elizabeth Lapporte -
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‘Politically Captured Agency’: Why a Former FBI Agent Wants to Defund the Bureau
The FBI shouldn’t be weaponized to pick winners and losers, which is exactly what it has done by targeting pro-lifers and failing to investigate pro-abortion vandals, former FBI agent Steve Friend says. “What we’re seeing is a politically captured agency that is not only interested in the results,” Friend told The Daily Signal. “They want…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Kamala Harris Ducks 3 Things as She Accepts Dems’ Nomination
Before Vice President Kamala Harris hit the stage to accept her party’s nomination for president Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, her campaign told reporters what to expect. Harris campaign officials leaked to the press that the sitting vice president would reintroduce herself to Americans, despite being the second most powerful person…Bradley Devlin -
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10 Takeaways From Final Night of Democratic National Convention
Democrats gathered Thursday night in Chicago to hear a bevy of speakers followed by Vice President Kamala Harris’ formal acceptance of their nomination for president to close out the party’s convention. The weeklong coronation of Harris, who replaced President Joe Biden as Democrats’ presidential nominee just one month ago, commenced with a party-like atmosphere that…Robert B. Bluey -
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Land Acknowledgments Are Democratic Party’s New Pledge of Allegiance
The Democratic Party has fully embraced the far-left’s ideological framework of America. Democrats released their 2024 party platform this week during the Democratic National Convention. It was a sloppy mess in many places with frequent references to President Joe Biden’s “second term”—21 references by my count. Though as I’ve written previously, we are probably headed…Jarrett Stepman