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4 Charts Provide Crucial Context as America’s Debt Hits $35 Trillion
While America’s attention has been focused on the presidential election, one of the greatest challenges facing the nation has continued to worsen. On Friday, the gross federal debt hit $35 trillion. For perspective, that amounts to about $267,000 for every household in the country. Unfortunately, not only has the debt soared to such an incredibly large number,… -
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Billionaires Bankrolling Kamala Harris’ Tough-on-Crime Campaign Wanted to Defund Police, Install Soros Prosecutors
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign reportedly seeks to frame her as a law-and-order candidate, however, the deep-pocketed donors propelling her candidacy have a history of supporting efforts to reduce the power of law enforcement. Harris’ close advisers have settled on a strategy of highlighting the vice president’s career as a district attorney… -
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Will Thais Allow Themselves to Become Guinea Pigs for a Central Bank Digital Currency?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. It’s official: Universal basic income will be the Trojan horse they use to replace the dollar with a government-run surveillance crypto-token, or central bank digital currency. Last week, Thailand’s left-wing government announced a program to give free money… -
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Comer Anticipates Proposals for Secret Service Reforms From Task Force on Trump Shooting
The bipartisan House task force charged with investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump likely will lead to significant legislation, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says. Comer’s oversight committee has jurisdiction over the Secret Service, which is under scrutiny for what some call catastrophic security failures at the former president’s July 13… -
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SPLC ‘Labeled Us Anti-Ourselves’: Gays Against Groomers Founder Responds to ‘Hate Group’ Smear
MILWAUKEE—Jamiee Michell, a lesbian who founded the organization Gays Against Groomers, finds it ironic and “hilarious” that the Southern Poverty Law Center brands her openly LGBTQ group an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” “It classifies us as an anti-LGBTQ hate group, which is the most ironic and hilarious thing ever because everybody in our organization is gay… -
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Parents Outraged School District Forces Children to Room With Trans Students on Overnight Trips
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Students in a Southern California school district could be forced to choose between rooming with a transgender-identifying student or missing out on an overnight school field trip. If parents complain about their child rooming with a transgender-identifying student of the opposite biological sex, staff in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District listen… -
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Biden Isn’t Running Again, but House Investigates Who’s Running Government
President Joe Biden is out of the running for a second term, but Congress still wants answers about who’s been running the executive branch and the “cover-up” of Biden’s cognitive condition. “We’ve identified the four people in the White House who we believe were the primary parties involved in the cover-up, three staffers as well… -
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A Look at Kamala Harris’ Record
With some hard work, pluck, the right boyfriend, and a bit of genetic luck, Vice President Kamala Harris has found her way onto the presidential ballot without having to secure a single primary vote. Don’t tell me the American dream is dead. Sure, Harris is a demagogue who speaks in cringy, swirling, impenetrable platitudes. And… -
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Doctor Familiar With Trump’s Wound Disputes FBI Director’s Questioning of Whether Bullet Caused It
Editor’s note: The FBI says former President Donald Trump was struck in the right ear July 13 by a bullet or a piece of one, moving to clarify what happened after nearly two weeks of conflicting accounts, The Associated Press reported shortly after 7 p.m. Friday. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a former… -
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The Bloodless Coup of Joe Biden Will Not Work Out Well for Democrats
The Democratic Party ruling class’ bloodless coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, who also happens to be the nominal sitting president of the United States, is one of the most astonishing political developments of my lifetime. Joe Biden, though clearly physically and mentally impaired, has sought the presidency for quite literally longer than… -
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‘Zero Tolerance’: Republican Files Bill to Deport Pro-Hamas Migrants After DC Riot
House Republicans are promoting a bill that would make foreign students who support terrorist organizations ineligible to remain in the U.S., a response to pro-Hamas protesters who brought chaos to Washington, D.C., Wednesday. Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., introduced a bill Thursday directing U.S. officials to deport any foreigner on a student visa who “has participated… -
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WATCH: ‘Kamala’s Baggage’ on ‘The Tony Kinnett Cast’
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we ford a river of radical statements from the de facto Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris. From retiring carefully chosen terror terms and buddying up with a corrupt union president to plagiarizing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harris leaves no baggage uncarried. Hudson Crozier, a… -
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3 Drag Queens Carry the Olympic Torch in France
The news that American rap star Snoop Dogg is scheduled to carry the Olympic torch just before the start of the opening ceremony this weekend is something some aren’t too happy about. But stirring far more controversy for the Paris Olympics are the three French drag queens who carried the torch last week as part of the… -
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY VICTORY: Va. Court Deals Blow to School District’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Pronoun and Bathroom Policies
A Virginia court ruled Wednesday that students can challenge unconstitutional “transgender” pronoun and bathroom policies. “We are pleased with the court’s decision recognizing that students can, in fact, challenge unconstitutional policies implemented by school boards in Virginia,” America First Legal attorney Andrew Block told The Daily Signal. Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia requires… -
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Over Three-Fifths of Americans Believe Kamala Harris Covered Up Biden’s Health Issues, Polls Find
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—More than three-fifths of Americans believe Vice President Kamala Harris was involved in covering up President Joe Biden’s declining health, two polls found. Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the presidential race, and Harris secured enough verbal support from Democratic National Convention delegates on Monday to be the presumptive nominee. The polls, conducted… -
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Kamala Harris Wanted to End Cash Bail, Reduce Penalties for Criminals
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A newly resurfaced memo put out by Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign outlines her plan to “fundamentally transform” the criminal justice system by reducing penalties for criminals. In 2019, Harris promised to end cash bail, get rid of court-ordered fines, expunge the records of some felons, discontinue federal mandatory minimum… -
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Democrat Scrambles Amid Calls to Boot Him From Committee Investigating Trump Assassination Attempt
A Mississippi congressman proposed a bill that would revoke Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail. Now that Republicans are calling for his removal from the committee investigating the assassination attempt, the Democrat is downplaying how the bill would threaten the former president’s safety. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., introduced the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated… -
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Defense Department Schools’ DEI Agenda Underscores Need for Education Freedom for Military Families
Military families shouldn’t have to worry that their kids are being indoctrinated while they defend our country. However, for families sending their children to schools funded by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which operates domestic and overseas schools for military children, the consequences of a neo-Marxist education are now a troubling reality. In… -
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DEI Is Wreaking Havoc on America, But Here Are Some Signs for Hope
As someone who fought to ensure equal rights for all Americans beginning in the 1960s and ’70s, I’ve been distressed by the overwhelming cultural revolution brought about by the progressive Left and its desire to enforce an ideology of wokeism with its race-based “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mandates. The efforts of my generation during the… -
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Family Fights for First Amendment Rights of 6-Year-Old Daughter Severely Punished for ‘Any Life’ Matters Drawing
The Pacific Legal Foundation has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling in California that said elementary school students have no First Amendment rights. A 6-year-old nicknamed “B.B.” in the Capistrano Unified School District in Southern California was introduced to the phrase “Black Lives Matter” in her first-grade…