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Rep. Banks Demands Accountability for Military Training Branding Pro-Lifers as Terrorists
Rep. Jim Banks is demanding that the individual responsible for the military training that portrayed pro-life Americans as terrorists must be held accountable. Banks, R-Ind., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hosted a hearing Thursday, “Oversight of Extremism Policies in the Army.” The Indiana lawmaker, who is running for Senate,… -
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Attorney General Puts Himself in the Crossfire of a Partisan Political Campaign
Attorney General Merrick Garland broke precedent just weeks before the November election, delivering politically charged remarks at the U.S. Attorneys’ National Conference in Washington—pointedly speaking publicly rather than privately in a departure from his usual practice. “Our norms are a promise that we will not allow this department to be used as a political weapon,”… -
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5 Things You Need to Know About the Fed’s Rate Cut
The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates marks a new chapter in the D.C. Cartel’s long march toward the bankruptcy of our nation. Although the Fed’s move to cut rates and expand the money supply may provide some relief from higher interest rates for consumers and businesses, it does so at the expense of… -
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UN Move Would ‘Sell Our Sovereignty to Globalists,’ GOP Lawmakers Warn
House Republicans are standing up to what they call a push by the United Nations and its World Health Organization to extinguish U.S. sovereignty and free speech. Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Bob Good, R-Va., led a press conference with fellow GOP congressmen on the first day of Constitution Week to oppose ongoing initiatives of… -
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What a Federal Appeals Court Gets—but the University of Louisville Doesn’t—on Transgender Issues
It’s genuinely amazing how quickly one’s whole life can change. Seven years ago, I was in my 14th year as chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. I’d worked with many dedicated colleagues to build a strong and respected program. My prior three annual… -
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Teamsters Decline to Endorse for President Despite Members’ Overwhelming Support for Trump
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Teamsters union has declined to make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election just hours after releasing internal polling data showing that workers it represents strongly favor former President Donald Trump. Among rank-and-file members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 59.6% surveyed said they believe the Teamsters should endorse Trump, compared… -
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Stopgap Spending Bill Disproportionately Hampers Military Funding
With less than two weeks until the end of the fiscal year, a long-term continuing resolution is currently the best and most realistic option to constrain out-of-control government spending and avoid another lame-duck omnibus appropriations bill. However, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently sent a “parade of horribles” letter to Congress outlining the dangers of… -
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President Biden’s Incredible Vanishing Act Reveals Who’s Really in Charge of the Government
The president of the United States, often referred to as the “leader of the free world” and the “commander in chief,” seems not to be his own man. President Joe Biden, who ostensibly wields the awesome power of the Oval Office, yielded to a loud pressure campaign demanding that he step aside in the 11th… -
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‘Stumbling Toward Utopia’: How the 1960s Took a Wrecking Ball to American Family
Up until the 1960s, the traditional nuclear family—one man, one woman, and at least one child—was seen as the societal ideal. But in the 1960s, the American family came under withering attack and has never been the same since—resulting in myriad societal problems that seem to spiral increasingly downward with each passing year. The Great… -
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Held Hostage in Syria, He Says ‘Everything’ Was Taken From Him, but His ‘Faith Was Absolute’
Syria was one of the last countries left on Sam Goodwin’s list. He was young and on a mission to join a small group of people alive today who have visited every country in the world. By 2019, Goodwin had already traveled to 180 countries, including those with hostile regimes in Iran, North Korea, and… -
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‘They’re Eating the Cats,’ and the Second Assassination Attempt: How Toxic Rhetoric Can Be
Less than a week after Vice President Kamala Harris claimed “it’s up to the American people to stop him,” referring to Donald Trump at their presidential debate, Secret Service thwarted a second assassination attempt targeting the former president at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Just over two months after an assassin opened fire… -
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Kamala Harris Gave Vague Answers During Interview With Black Journalists, ABC News Correspondent Says
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—ABC News’ senior White House correspondent Selina Wang on Tuesday said Vice President Kamala Harris often did not offer detailed responses during her National Association of Black Journalists interview. Harris spoke with NABJ member journalists in Philadelphia about the Israel-Hamas war, the economy, and other issues during the roughly 45-minute interview. Wang noted Harris’… -
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WATCH: Trump, Harris Promise the Moon to Swing States
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dive into the details on the neck-and-neck race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump as the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and (almost) North Carolina are hit with a tsunami of promises from the candidates. Harris goes… -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Probes Why Census Miscounts Boost Democrats in Electoral College, Apportionment
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A key House committee has begun an investigation into Census Bureau overcounts and undercounts that favor Democrats in awarding congressional apportionment and Electoral College votes. House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., wrote Census Bureau Director Robert Santos on Wednesday to inquire about its communications about the overcounts and undercounts… -
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Death of Woman in ProPublica Article Reveals Danger of Abortion Pill, Not Abortion Bans
A ProPublica article published Wednesday claims a Georgia woman died after taking an abortion pill because the state abortion ban prevented her from getting necessary treatment. But a pro-life OB-GYN says 41-year-old Candi Miller’s story says more about the danger of abortion pills than about the abortion law. “This story illustrates very clearly the horrendous… -
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Media Victim-Blames Trump for Assassination Attempts. But They’re the Ones Sowing Chaos.
By a miracle, really a series of miracles, former President Donald Trump has survived two assassination attempts in little more than two months. The implications of Trump being murdered are almost too disturbing to contemplate. The fact that a man running for president continues to be targeted like this is certainly worth a “national conversation.” Yet,… -
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Abortion: How to Begin to Win
One of the great mysteries in most polling on abortion is the small percentage of those surveyed who are fully committed to either a pro-life or pro-choice position. One study of swing states across the country found that only 31% of adult Americans said they put a stake in the ground on one viewpoint or… -
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The Left Lauded Voting by Mail in 2020, but Now It’s a Bipartisan Concern
In the 2020 presidential election, the Left staunchly promoted voting by mail and scoffed at critics of the option. In 2024, however, Democrat and Republican election officials, as well as an inspector general, are raising concerns about whether the U.S. Postal Service is prepared for mail-in ballots. Last week, election officials from both major parties… -
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State Department Paying to Put on Play Where God Is Bisexual and Communists Are Good—in Bid to Push LGBTQ Agenda Abroad
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration is paying to put on a play that portrays God as bisexual, sharply criticizes former President Ronald Reagan, and paints communists in a positive light, all in an effort to push gay rights on Southeastern Europeans, federal grant records show. Earlier in September, the State Department greenlit funding for… -
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‘Chaos and Violence’: Expert Says New UN Resolution Demanding Israel Withdraw From Gaza Is ‘Highly Problematic’
A United Nations resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank within six months will cause chaos and violence in the Middle East, according to Andrew Tucker, executive director of the Hague Initiative for International Cooperation. “This is a very important and potentially catastrophic decision because it’s going to lead, unfortunately, to chaos and more…