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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin’s Inflation Reduction Act ‘Disaster’ for Americans, Think Tank Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two years on, the Biden-Harris administration’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act has been “devastating” for Americans who rely on the pharmaceutical industry, according to a memo from a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. “The American people have been forced to live with the disaster of the Inflation Reduction… -
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Oklahoma Has Best School Choice in America, State Education Chief Says
Every state should adopt Oklahoma’s school choice model, says Ryan Walters, the state’s superintendent of education. “We have the best school choice in the country, and it’s a national model that every state should follow,” Walters told The Daily Signal at talk-radio host Erick Erickson’s The Gathering conference in Atlanta over the weekend. “But frankly, I think that… -
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Kris Kobach: Biden-Harris Admin Has ‘Thumb on the Scales’ in Electioneering Order
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Known action by the Biden-Harris administration, combined with secrecy, “creates an impression” that the federal government has its “thumb on the scales” for the Nov. 5 presidential election, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach says. Kobach, a Republican, is leading a multistate lawsuit to strike down President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order… -
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The Legacy Media’s Last Gasp?
This week, alleged comedian Stephen Colbert had on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss the 2024 presidential election. In the middle of the interview, Colbert began to ask Collins a question, in all sincerity: “I know you guys are objective over [at CNN], you just report the news as it is.” Colbert, presumably, expected his audience—all… -
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Tim Walz Gave Almost $100K in COVID-19 Funds to ‘Abortion Doula’ Trainers
Presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz directed almost $100,000 in COVID-19 relief funds to an organization specializing in “abortion doula” services, state contracts show. Walz, the governor of Minnesota, spent almost $2 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds without the approval of the state Legislature, using his emergency powers, according to the Minnesota-based outlet… -
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WATCH: The Liberal Media Get Overconfident
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine a bit of the overconfidence particular media institutions and political campaigns are showing as we count down to just 83 days before the general election on Nov. 5. The polls are spun in positive lights for both campaigns, as historical data is cast aside,… -
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Questions Remain About How Pro-Hamas Mob Overwhelmed Park Police in DC
The scene outside Union Station in our nation’s capital that day was almost apocalyptic. Anti-Israel, pro-Palestine protesters arrived at Columbus Circle in front of the historic train station after first marching to the nearby U.S. Capitol. They were supposed to demonstrate peacefully and then disperse. They didn’t do that. In defiance of a permit granted… -
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Allowing Transgender Participants Demeans Womanhood, Pageant Contestant Says
A talented and attractive Miss USA was crowned last week, and she deserves accolades, but we shouldn’t forget that there was a biological man who competed against her and the 49 other young women in the pageant. While conservatives are vocal in speaking out about biological men invading women’s sports, especially with the Olympics having… -
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Housing Costs Drive Inflation, Shocking Economists
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The cost of housing surged in July, accounting for nearly 90% of total inflation, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index data released Wednesday. Shelter costs rose 5.1% year-over-year and 0.4% month-over-month, after rising 0.2% in June, the bureau showed. The 0.4% monthly increase was greater than Bank of America… -
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Why Does Every Leading Large Language Model Lean Left Politically?
Large language models are increasingly integrating into everyday life—as chatbots, digital assistants, and internet search guides, for example. These artificial intelligence systems, which consume large amounts of text data to learn associations, can create all sorts of written material when prompted and can ably converse with users. Large language models’ growing power and omnipresence mean… -
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Federal Trade Commission’s Self-Defeating War on ‘Big Grocery’
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has announced a new investigation into “Big Grocery” to examine the role “corporate greed” has played in high grocery prices. Khan’s investigation is an election-year stunt to blame high prices on progressive whipping boys instead of government failure. If Khan were serious about lowering grocery prices, she would greenlight… -
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Presidents, Power, Faith, and the Boardroom
I’ve spent a lifetime trying to better discern Jesus’ great parable on the organic tension between God and mammon. I am always smitten with Jesus’ admonition that shrewdness matters profoundly in the navigation of life. Having lived my professional life in Washington, D.C., this tension between the world and Providence seems to come to the fore… -
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Recession Fears Loom as Small Business Job Numbers Tank
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Another domino falls for recession as job creation turns negative for small businesses, which employ nearly half of all Americans. In the past year, payrolls for companies with under 50 employees plunged by nearly 100,000, while job trends… -
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States Should Stop Buying Security Scanners From China’s Nuctech
Secure Technology Value Solutions is a company with a boring name and a bland website that is staffed by jovial-looking former policemen and corrections officers. It doesn’t exactly scream “Chinese Communist Party threat,” and that’s precisely the point. Secure Technology Value Solutions is actually a front for Nuctech, a Chinese government- and military-owned company, and… -
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Kamala Harris ‘Owns It as Much as Anybody,’ Texas Lawmaker Says of Border Crisis
Regardless of what federal courts say, Texas needs to remove illegal immigrants allowed into the country by the Biden-Harris administration, Rep. Chip Roy says. “We had six kids who died from fentanyl poisoning in the school district in which my family resides, southwest of Austin, Texas,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Signal at Erick Erickson’s… -
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Kamala Harris’ Record on 3 Big Issues Women Care About
The 2024 presidential election is less than three months away. The first debate between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the current vice president, and Republican former President Donald Trump is set for Sept. 10, but you don’t have to wait until then to know where Harris stands on several major issues on the minds of conservative… -
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Hunter Biden Lied About Lobbying for Foreign Agent to Protect His Father, Prosecutor Says
Hunter Biden received money from a foreign business magnate to influence U.S. policy and lied about the nature of his services for his father’s sake, prosecutors stated in court after years of investigations. Hunter Biden “received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion,” prosecutors say in documents… -
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House Probe of Exit From Afghanistan Lacks Answers and Accountability, Ex-Staffer Says
A House committee is set to release an investigative report on the Biden-Harris administration’s botched exit from Afghanistan, but a former committee staffer contends the probe should have been much tougher. Jerry Dunleavy, a former Washington Examiner reporter and author of the book “Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco,” was on the investigative staff… -
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This Sector Sees Significant Jump in Violent Assaults on Border Patrol Agents
A significant increase in violent attacks on Border Patrol agents has occurred in West Texas in recent years, the head of the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector says. Since Oct. 1, the start of fiscal year 2024, a total of 66 agents stationed in the El Paso sector have been assaulted, according to a press… -
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For Queen Kamala, Media Are Trying to Create ‘Hope and Change,’ Version 2.0
“The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert.” That’s the first line of Time magazine’s adulatory profile of Vice President Kamala Harris, titled “Her Hope,” or in the online version, “The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris.” The cover of the magazine was a glamorized image of Harris reminiscent of posters of President-to-be Barack Obama from 2008. You really…