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Olympian Ilona Maher Disrupts Radical Left’s View of Femininity
Ilona Maher has put women’s rugby on the map following her performance on and off the field at the 2024 Paris Olympics, breaking the radical Left’s view of femininity in the process. Chances are, I am not the only American who two weeks ago had never heard of Maher and didn’t even know women’s rugby… -
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‘Flux and Confusion’ in White House Could Embolden Iran, Foreign Policy Expert Warns
President Joe Biden is, for all practical purposes, a lame-duck president, and that may embolden terrorists in the Middle East, Victoria Coates says. “Unfortunately, we’re in this unprecedented situation, where it’s almost not clear who the commander in chief of the United States is,” says Coates, vice president of the Institute for National Security and… -
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‘Glory to the Martyr’: Anti-Israel Activists in US Praise Slain Hamas Leader
Anti-Israel activists in the U.S. praised the top political leader of the militant group Hamas online on Wednesday after his assassination. Ismail Haniyeh, 62, died in an airstrike in Iran’s capital, Tehran, that the terrorist organization blamed on Israel. Haniyeh was involved in hostage negotiations with Israel after Hamas invaded the Jewish state, killing about… -
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WATCH: What the Media Refuse to Ask Kamala
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we brace for the impact of a major conflict in the Middle East, which may expand into Europe and the open borders of the United States. Don’t expect anyone to ask Vice President Kamala Harris about it; Democrats’ presumptive nominee for president isn’t taking questions from… -
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Biden’s Illegal Title IX Rule Is Set for Enforcement. The School Year Is Going to Be Complicated.
It may still be the dog days of summer, but parents, students, and educators everywhere are already looking to the start of the school year. And this year will bring one massive change to schools and colleges across the country. On Aug. 1, President Joe Biden’s Department of Education is set to enforce its massive… -
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Kamala Harris, Candidate of Myth
So, Kamala Harris is the new Democratic candidate for president. And, we’ve been told, she is incredible. Not merely serviceable, a middle innings relief pitcher brought in when your starter suddenly implodes in the third inning. She is the Mariano Rivera of politics. She’s lights-out. She’s charismatic, fascinating, quick on her feet, charming. She is,… -
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The Courage of Bibi Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress last week at the invitation of House Speaker Mike Johnson. The prime minister’s job that night was to make clear to Congress, the nation, and the world the “what” and “why” of Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip, following the murderous attack by Hamas terrorists Oct. 7… -
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Back When San Francisco Wasn’t Liberal—or an Epithet
“She is a San Francisco liberal.” That’s how Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas—who graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law School—described Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview on CNN last week. That description of San Francisco may make sense now, but there was a time when it did not. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower… -
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What RFK Jr. Says About Government Spending and Debt
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won applause at the Libertarian presidential convention in May by criticizing government lockdowns and deficit spending, and saying America shouldn’t police the world. It made me want to interview him. Earlier this month, I did. Kennedy, an independent candidate for president, says intelligent things about America’s growing debt. “President [Donald] Trump… -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Leaders Urged to Save AM Radios in New Vehicles
In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson and other House leaders on Wednesday, a right-leaning think tank encouraged “prompt House passage” of legislation protecting the installation of AM radios in all new vehicles. Numerous vehicle manufacturers—especially makers of electric vehicles—such as Ford, Tesla, and Volvo, have begun removing AM radios from their new models…. -
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Legal Settlement Exonerates Sailors Kicked Out Over COVID-19 Vaccine
A recent settlement protecting about 4,300 Navy sailors from being negatively affected by COVID-19 policies in the future is the latest example of how the consequences of the pandemic are still unfolding—specifically in terms of how the military dealt with it. An estimated “80,000 to 100,000 service members—both active-duty and reservists … were impacted by the… -
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Is Kamala Harris Working With Servile Journalists to Polish the Spin on Their Stories?
It’s funny how journalists admit Vice President Kamala Harris is getting a media honeymoon, and then deny it means anything. Ben Smith at Semafor sent an email noting “Republican fury” at the gushy pro-Kamala bias and claiming, “But who are we, and Republicans, kidding? I wish we had that kind of power. The news media can’t make… -
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Japan’s Population Implosion Is an Economic Time Bomb
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Japan is running out of people. It will get worse—and we’re next. Last week, Japan’s government announced the country lost 861,000 people last year as the country’s fertility rate—the average number of babies a woman is expected to… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Organization Fighting Radical Gender Ideology in California Sues School District for Withholding Public Records
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The nonprofit that has been exposing radical gender ideology in California filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the public school district in Burbank, California, for failing to comply with state law by providing requested documents. Burbank Unified School District, in Los Angeles County, hasn’t responded to the Center for American Liberty’s repeated… -
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Bias Lurks in Study Linking Bronchitis in Children With Poor Air Quality
A new study by a team of University of Southern California researchers claims that children exposed to poor air quality are at greater risk of (self-reported) bronchitis symptoms than are adults. But this health claim is tenuous. Published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the study uses data sets from a… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Parents Petition Denver Schools to Stop ‘Seal of Diversity’ Program
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Denver high school allows students to take classes such as Queer Literature and Gender Studies to earn a “Seal of Diversity” award. Students can submit a short, five-minute application to be part of the program, then take “diversity, equity, and inclusion”-related classes and engage with a DEI-related club or organization… -
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Why ‘the Right Side of History’ Is Often Wrong
We are living in unprecedented times. That statement is always true, but as events around us continue to unfold, it’s difficult to awaken each morning without wondering what development of the day will become history in the making. Unanticipated incidents, be they acts of God or assassination attempts, define themselves. Others, from proposed legislation to… -
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Far-Left Donors Aim to Buy the Evangelical Vote, Author Megan Basham Says
Left-wing groups donate to organizations considered Christian in an attempt to control the evangelical vote, says Megan Basham, author of the new book “Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda.” “We have to look at the fact that this is rightly called America’s most powerful voting bloc, and they… -
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Olympics Opening Ceremony Was Far More Serious Than ‘Offensive’
I am a Jew, not a Christian. Yet I found loathsome the mockery of the Last Supper—one of the holiest scenes in the New Testament—during the opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. In fact, it is actually troubling to constantly read the words, “Many Christians are offended”—as if only Christians are offended by France’s… -
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WATCH: ‘US Leaderless as World Burns’
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine a few key details about the escalation of conflict in the Middle East as missiles fly from Iraq and jets are seen flying north to Lebanon from Israel in apparent retaliation for the Hezbollah attack that killed 12 Israeli children. Young Voices state beat…