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I Worked at Planned Parenthood for 15 Years—Here’s Why It Shouldn’t Get Taxpayer Dollars
Do states have the right to refuse to give taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities within their borders? As someone who worked at Planned Parenthood for more than 15 years and who knows what they do with that money, I can say unequivocally that they should have that right. One of the…Mayra Rodriguez -
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Biden’s Firing of a Trump Appointee Boomerangs Big Time
Roger Severino sued then-President Joe Biden in 2021 for dismissing him before the end of his term on an independent agency called the Administrative Conference of the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision against Severino laid the groundwork for the court’s decision on Friday that President Donald Trump can…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Can Virginia Republicans Halt Extreme Abortion-Until-Birth Amendment?
If we all had a dollar for every time we’ve been told, “This is the most important election of our lifetime,” we could afford to get the graffiti cleaned off our Telsas. However, before you tune out the election noise this year, consider the impact of one horrific constitutional amendment in Virginia that will be…Joe Thomas -
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Nationwide Injunctions Pose ‘Potential Constitutional Crisis,’ Warns Gingrich
A House panel heard Tuesday from experts about curbing the ability of district court judges to impose nationwide injunctions, which have been a thorny problem for President Donald Trump’s agenda. “This is not new, but it is not old. For 180 years of our nation, there were no such injunctions,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, the…Fred Lucas -
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Supreme Court Justices Seem Inclined to Uphold Religious Charity’s Claim for State Tax Exemption
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday, on one of its last days of oral arguments for cases from the October 2024 term, in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. The case concerns the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s state unemployment tax exemption as applied to the work of the Catholic Charities Bureau. At…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Quits House Freedom Caucus
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced in a letter on Monday that she would be resigning from the conservative Republican House Freedom Caucus. While praising the conservative caucus’s chairman, Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., as a “model of integrity” with a “gentlemanly approach,” Luna, R-Fla., took issue with the conduct of some unnamed members of the caucus….Jacob Adams -
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It’s All Lawfare: Everyone but the Cronies Get Cheated, Mistreated by Big Government
Not to get all Old World on you, but the Oxford Dictionary defines “lawfare” thusly: “Legal action undertaken in order to exert power or control, esp. as part of a hostile campaign against a particular country or group.” In New World parlance? Author Malcolm Feeley in 1979 published a tome with a title that best…Seton Motley -
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GOP House Leadership Still Pondering Next Role for Returning Stefanik
At a Tuesday morning press conference, Republican leadership in the House indicated they’re still not sure what role Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., will play after the withdrawal of her nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations and her return to Congress. The rising star gave up much of the influence she gained over the…George Caldwell -
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Bill Amending Oklahoma’s Anti-ESG Law Dies
A bill in the Oklahoma Legislature to amend the state’s three-year-old anti-ESG law died last week after criticism that it would water down efforts to avoid public investments in companies boycotting oil and gas companies. ESG is an acronym for environmental, social, and governance-based investing. Oklahoma’s 2022 Energy Discrimination Elimination Act bans state investments with…Fred Lucas -
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Peace Through Technological Strength: How Trump’s America Tames the Chinese Dragon
In the days around the U.S. presidential election, dozens of People’s Liberation Army warplanes cruised through Taiwanese airspace. Such behavior is a microcosm of China’s audacity and confidence to act with increasing impunity. During President Joe Biden’s tenure, the Chinese military consistently probed Taiwan’s readiness and Washington’s leadership. Data from the Taiwanese Ministry of…Shane Festa -
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Deportations Hit 100,000 Under Trump
The Trump administration has carried out more than 100,000 deportations since Jan. 20, The New York Post first reported. In fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s pledge to arrest and remove illegal aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also made 113,000 arrests. “He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!” an ICE…Virginia Allen -
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SATIRE: 10 Things Trump Will Rename This Week
After President Donald Trump’s great success renaming the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, the president is preparing to declare he has the sole power to rename anything he wants. The Daily Signal was added to a group chat called “Top Secret Renaming Small Group” by a Snapchat user, in which the Trump administration discussed…Moira Gleason -
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Elon Musk’s ‘Mind-Blowing’ Chart Shows How Many Noncitizens Have Social Security Numbers
Elon Musk revealed a “mind-blowing chart” Sunday claiming millions of noncitizens are receiving Social Security numbers from the U.S. government. At a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Musk displayed a bar chart showing a steady increase from fiscal years 2021 through 2024, topping more than 2 million Social Security numbers issued to noncitizens…R.E. Wermus -
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EXCLUSIVE: Group Equips Parents to Lobby Lawmakers to Follow Trump’s Edict on Girls Sports
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative organization for parents is equipping them to challenge their elected representatives who are defying President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting women’s sports. The American Parents Coalition will send parents a form they can send to their legislators urging them to adhere to Trump’s directive keeping biological males out of…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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The Left’s Imaginary COVID-19 ‘Reckoning’
When I first came across Jonathan Chait’s new Atlantic piece, “Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided,” I assumed the answer would be that Democrats had been the ones relentlessly and tragically wrong about virtually everything during the pandemic. No such luck. In Chait’s telling, the Left remains uncannily open-minded, always striving for truth, while…David Harsanyi -
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NPR and PBS Are Begging for Mercy. They Don’t Deserve It.
NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational programming was cut. Then, in 2015, “Sesame Street” got a private deal with HBO, and a stream of educational content came online. Now, the mantra is that without public broadcasting, there will be no advance warning systems…Mike Gonzalez -
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Memer-in-Chief: How Donald Trump Took the Digital Town Square by Storm
President Donald Trump has made massive inroads with Gen Z voters through an alternative media strategy that took the president’s message directly to the digital town square. As a deputy assistant to the president and White House deputy communications director, Kaelan Dorr is a key player in executing Trump’s digital media strategy. He joined a…Bradley Devlin -
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‘MAHA’?: New Jersey Democrat Introduces ‘Caffeine Safety’ Labeling Bill
Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. introduced the Sarah Katz Caffeine Safety Act at a press conference Monday, a bill that would require labels showing caffeine levels on beverages. Joined by the parents of children who have died from cardiac episodes after consuming highly caffeinated drinks, Menendez, D-N.J., said his bill fits with the “Make America Healthy…George Caldwell -
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EXCLUSIVE: Vance to Give Remarks at Screening of Docuseries on Christian Dissidents in USSR
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Vice President JD Vance will attend a premiere of Rod Dreher’s Angel Studios series on Christian dissidents in Soviet-era Russia on Tuesday. Vance will deliver remarks prior to a showing of a docuseries at The Heritage Foundation about Christian survivors of the USSR based on American Conservative editor-at-large Dreher’s book “Live…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Tesla Owners Not Connected to DOGE or Musk Are Acceptable Victims, According to 31% of Democrats
A surprising number of Americans approve of the rash of violence against Teslas amid Elon Musk's work helping President Donald Trump with the Department of Government Efficiency. Self-identified atheists, Democrats, young people, and supporters of the policies of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are the most likely to approve of the violence and the least likely…Tyler O’Neil