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opinion
Hey, Kamala: Leave Them Kids Alone
As summer ends, students across the country are making their way back to school and into classrooms. Some parents and students find this time of year to be an exciting prospect. For many others, however, it has become concerning. And rightfully so. During COVID-19, many people witnessed firsthand what students were being exposed to in… -
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These 2 Freedom Caucus Lawmakers Say They Won’t Support Spending Package Without SAVE Act
Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Chip Roy, R-Texas, said they will only vote for the continuing resolution to fund the federal government beyond the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 if it includes the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voting. “It’s not enough to say it’s illegal,” Roy told… -
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FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris Campaign Platform Makes Promises Based on False Assumptions
Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats’ nominee for president, finally released her policy platform Monday, a day before her first debate with former President Donald Trump. The Harris platform makes various claims about the root causes of issues faced by America and the way Harris plans to address those issues. The claims underlying her policy promises are… -
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TRIGGER WARNING: YouTube Slaps Suicide-Risk Warning on Daily Signal Video
At 3:40 a.m. Monday morning, The Daily Signal received an email from YouTube alerting it that the trailer for a mini-documentary on a victim of gender ideology in California was flagged for mentioning “suicide or self-harm topics.” The video, “California Stole My Rights,” now displays a warning screen that would-be viewers must manually bypass to… -
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When These Battleground States Are Mailing Out Ballots and How That Could Affect Election Results
Just one battleground state was set to mail out absentee ballots before the presidential debate on Tuesday—but that timeline has been pushed back because of litigation surrounding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ballot status. In North Carolina, ballots can be mailed up to 60 days before the election. It was the lone state where voting was… -
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‘Optics Over Security’: House Committee Faults Biden-Harris Admin for Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal in New Report
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The House Foreign Affairs Committee released a report on Sunday detailing the Biden-Harris administration’s failures that led to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021. The Biden-Harris administration failed to properly coordinate and adhere to recommendations from NATO and senior military officials regarding the withdrawal, endangering American troops and resulting in the Abbey… -
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Kamala Harris’ Banana Republic on Free Speech
In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that social media companies “are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation and it has to stop.” Does it? Every two-bit authoritarian in history has justified censoring its citizens as a way of protecting them from the… -
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TAKEN: California Took Away a Widow’s Teenage Daughter to Transition Her
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A mother in California lost her daughter to the foster care system in 2016 after she wouldn’t support the then-14-year-old girl identifying as a boy. “I lost my husband, but this was worse than losing my husband, because I had my rights taken away,” the mother told The Daily Signal. Years… -
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The House GOP’s Barrage Against Harris, Walz
As Congress prepares to come back from August recess with less than two months before the Nov. 5 presidential election, House Republicans are taking aim at the Democratic ticket through a flurry of investigations and hearings. With only three weeks of the congressional session left before Vice President Kamala Harris squares off against former President… -
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Why Have Europe’s Economies Flatlined Since 2008?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. New numbers say the European Union has joined Japan in the “lost decades” brigade, with per-person gross domestic product in dollar terms nearly flat since 2008. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, while disposable household… -
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Faux Feminist Kamala Harris: Anti-Woman, Misogynist Candidate
Vice President Kamala Harris claims to be a champion for women, but many facts tell a different story. Harris speaks pro-women rhetoric, but fails to protect women and girls from assaults in locker rooms. Harris endorsed a new Biden-Harris administration rule expanding Title IX protections to gender identity and sexual orientation, requiring schools receiving federal… -
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ABC News Rejected The Daily Signal’s Access to Trump-Harris Debate, Then Conservatives Spoke Out
Following a public outcry, ABC News reversed its decision to deny The Daily Signal access to cover Tuesday’s presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia. The event, which will take place at the National Constitution Center, is the only scheduled debate between Trump and Harris for the 2024… -
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What’s Tim Walz’s Connection With the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—During his time in Congress, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz worked to secure millions for a Minnesota-based lab that worked on a variety of projects with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, now widely seen as the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. Walz, who is Kamala Harris’ running mate, worked to earmark… -
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What a Bookstore’s Opening in DC Says About Growing Chinese Civic Engagement Overseas
Mournful residents of Shanghai, China, watched Jifeng Bookstore close its doors for the last time on Jan. 31, 2018. The establishment was best known for carrying books and hosting forums that pushed the boundaries on issues deemed sensitive by the Chinese Communist Party. The forced closure of the bookstore was part of a broader crackdown… -
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Jake Tapper and Jeffrey Goldberg, Good Buddies Who Hate Trump
News consumers are often unaware of just how friendly the power players in Washington are, and those relationships are often undisclosed. You can tell that Trump haters have a common cause, but it can go much deeper than that. On CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Sept. 3, the host brought on Atlantic editor-in-chief… -
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The Easy, Cheap, Quick Solution to the RFK Jr. Ballot Issue
Early voting is starting in many states, both in-person and through the absentee balloting process, which makes resolving the issue of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remaining on state ballots an immediate problem. Wherever practical, election officials have a solemn obligation to their voters to remove a candidate from the ballot when that candidate has dropped… -
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How Swing State Supreme Courts Could Swing the Presidential Election
Several battleground states passed election reforms after the 2020 election, but those laws might be only as good as state supreme courts allow them to be. The states of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and North Carolina all enacted election reforms that include enhanced voter ID laws and bans on private money funding administration of elections. … -
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WATCH: RFK Jr. Wins, Harris Loses, and Trump Laughs
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine what might be the worst week Vice President Kamala Harris has ever had—right before the biggest debate of her life. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins historic legal victories, in which appeals courts in Michigan and North Carolina strike his name from the presidential ballot…. -
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Colorado Law School Student Blows Whistle on Anti-Trump Course
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A top public university’s law school is offering a class this fall that aims to explore the U.S.’ political shift toward “authoritarian Christianist nationalism” in the “age of Trump,” according to an email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Law School class, titled “Statutory Interpretation,” is offered… -
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The Media Lies Add Up
The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media. The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for the false allegation that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to warp the election. Citing the bogus “Steele dossier,” loser Hillary Clinton and other Democrat grandees claimed that the victorious…