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opinion
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… -
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Acting Secret Service Chief Said to Have Played Key Role in Limiting Resources for Trump
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including countersnipers, to former President Donald Trump’s rallies and events—despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making…. -
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The Ineffectiveness of Proposed New Gun Controls After Attempt to Kill Trump
Almost immediately after a gunman tried to kill Donald Trump as he spoke July 13 at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, gun control zealots twisted the assassination attempt into an opportunity to blame the Second Amendment and lawful gun owners. They, as they so often do in the aftermath of any national news story… -
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6 Takeaways From Senate Hearing on Trump Assassination Attempt
Top FBI and Secret Service officials testified Tuesday about security failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump 17 days earlier. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a rare joint hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee that featured testimony from the Secret Service’s acting director, Ronald L. Rowe…. -
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Anti-Israel Activist Laments That Overseas Palestinian Groups Are ‘Criminalized’
An organizer for a prominent anti-Israel group complains that some “Palestinian political organizations” that he considers allies have been “criminalized.” His group doesn’t say which ones, though. Mohammed Nabulsi, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, appeared to refer to organizations internationally recognized as foreign terrorist groups during an interview with the International Journal of… -
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Pete Buttigieg: Abortion Makes Men ‘More Free’
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg argued Monday evening that abortion makes men “more free,” prompting quick criticism from pro-life commentators on the right. Buttigieg spoke during an online #WhiteDudesForKamala event where he praised Vice President Kamala Harris for focusing on freedom in her presidential campaign. President Joe Biden endorsed Harris as the next Democratic… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Woke Caucus Says White House Must Clarify Stance on Trans Surgeries for Kids
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to clarify the stance of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ administration regarding irreversible gender-transition surgeries for kids. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., the chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus, sent a letter to Becerra on Tuesday co-signed by GOP… -
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Beyond Taiwan: Decoding China’s Unprecedented Military Posturing
As Americans focus on the presidential election campaign and domestic political uncertainty, China’s large-scale military exercises loom on the horizon after an unusually provocative summer of such activity. Tensions across the Taiwan Strait simmer and a standoff with the Philippines persists in the South China Sea, and China is becoming more direct with America and… -
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House Bill Would Codify Sex as Male and Female, Not Gender Identity or Expression
A Republican congresswoman from Illinois has introduced a bill to clearly define sex based on biology, rather than ideology. “As a mother and grandmother, I am deeply concerned by the Biden administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX, endangering our daughters and granddaughters in sports and locker rooms,” Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., told The Daily Signal…. -
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There Is No Substance in Kamala Harris’ Campaign
Is Kamala Harris running for president or prom queen? Superficiality is nothing new in American politics, and Donald Trump certainly knows how to use playground tactics—like tagging opponents with childish, yet effectively humiliating, nicknames. Trump is about much more than taunts, however. From immigration to foreign policy and everywhere in between, he’s staked out clear… -
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Young Adults Still Living at Home With Parents at Highest Rate in Nearly 85 Years
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. The share of young adults still living with their parents just hit its highest level since 1940. Of course, in 1940, they lived at home because they were saving themselves for a good [husband or wife]. Today, they… -
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Author Explains How the Left Took Over America’s Classrooms
Education expert David Goodwin says conservatives have a long way to go in taking classrooms back from the pernicious ideological influence of the Left. Goodwin, co-author of “Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation,” shared his perspectives on the education culture wars with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. “We’re going to have… -
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US Ally Paraguay Stands Firmly With Israel, Taiwan
Reconfirming that his country would be relocating its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a July 17 speech, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña underscored that “Paraguay has always been a great friend of Israel, we always say that it fills us with pride to have been the decisive vote for the creation of… -
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US Households Lose More Than $15,000 a Year, Thanks to Biden Admin Regulations, Report Says
Federal regulatory costs tax the average American household more than $15,000 per year under the Biden administration, according to a Competitive Enterprise Institute annual report released Tuesday. Households pay an average of $15,788 in hidden regulatory costs, according to the annual report, written by Clyde Wayne Crews and titled “Ten Thousand Commandments.” That’s more than… -
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VICTORY: California Dad Wins Custody of Son, 4, Over Mother Who Sought to Raise Him Nonbinary
Harrison Tinsley, now has full custody of his 4-year-old son, Sawyer, after a long legal battle prompted by his ex-girlfriend’s efforts to raise the boy nonbinary. “I know he’s a boy,” says Tinsley. “He wants to be a boy. He adamantly expresses that. If you say anything to the contrary, he gets very upset, and… -
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Biden’s 18-Year Term Limit for Supreme Court Equals Half the Time He Was in Senate
President Joe Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate, argues that half that time—18 years—is long enough to serve on the Supreme Court. Biden’s long-shot package of proposed Supreme Court reforms comes under six months before he leaves office and almost three years since a presidential commission made some of the same recommendations. Vice… -
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Biden Backs Supreme Court ‘Reforms’ Aimed at One-Party Rule
If Democrats win big in November, you should probably expect them to seek to pack the Supreme Court with their partisans. President Joe Biden endorsed a Supreme Court “reform” plan in an op-ed column for The Washington Post on Monday. The plan was also endorsed by the acting president—er, I mean Vice President Kamala Harris…. -
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WATCH: Liberal Blitz to Call Conservatives ‘Weird’ Backfires
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine the media’s exceptionally awkward honeymoon with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and how overplaying its hand by obscuring videos and policies from the current vice president’s previous campaigns may cut the celebration short. Voters probably retain a longer memory than many in the media… -
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Biden Admin Suggests Spending $78 Trillion to Achieve Net-Zero Global Carbon Emissions
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said during a speech in Belem, Brazil, on Saturday that the price tag for a global transition to a low-carbon economy amounts to $78 trillion in financing through 2050. Yellen said that in order to achieve the goal of net-zero global carbon emissions, there would need to…