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opinion
Heaping Scorn on Illiterate Fearmongers With Dr. Kevin Roberts
While the Left has been perpetuating lies about Project 2025, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts explains what it actually is: a policy document “that the next president of the United States” can use “if he so chooses.” “What has driven the Left crazy is that the political center Right has never been this organized, we’ve never… -
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Biden Trails Off in Press Conference, Stopping Mid-Thought With ‘Anyway…’
In what was hyped as a make-or-break press conference Thursday evening, President Joe Biden made a reference to “Vice President Trump” right off the bat and later called someone else the “commander in chief,” a title usually reserved for the president. Biden talked about his success on the global stage at the top of the… -
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Time to Wave ‘Queer’ Goodbye
(Warning: This op-ed concerns hate speech, which is impossible to discuss without using it. Reader discretion is advised.) As America hurtles deeper into July, Pride Month shrinks ever smaller in the rearview mirror. This is the perfect time to wave goodbye to the word “queer.” That word is at the heart of the identitarian letters… -
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Analysis Examines What Happens If Biden Clings to Power Regardless of Election Outcome
A new report examines the possible outcomes of the Nov. 5 election and the prospect of President Joe Biden’s using government force to hold onto power. “President Biden is very well-positioned to hold the White House by force in the case of an unfavorable electoral outcome,” says the report from the 2024 Transition Integrity Project,… -
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We Asked Senate Dems About the Bill Banning Noncitizen Voting
All 47 Senate Democrats were silent when asked by The Daily Signal whether they support a pending bill to compel proof of citizenship for voters in federal elections. But the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, is gaining momentum among Senate Republicans. The House passed the SAVE Act on Wednesday by a 221-198… -
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‘Alternative Political Structures’ Called More Important Than Elections for Conservative Victory
Conservatives should focus more on building “alternative political structures” than the next election cycle, speakers said Wednesday at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington. Celebrated author, educator, and former slave Booker T. Washington offers three key lessons for building these alternative institutions, noted Delano Squires, a research fellow in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center… -
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Public Confidence in Scientific Institutions Erodes Amid Recent COVID-19 Revelations
All eyes were on Dr. Anthony Fauci when he testified last month under oath before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Praising him for his leadership, Democrats labeled the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as the victim. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., for example, accused Republicans of wasting… -
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JD Vance: America’s a Homeland, Not Just an Idea. Mass Immigration Is Sullying That.
The real threat to “American democracy” is not former President Donald Trump or a foreign dictator, but the fact that the American voters keep voting for less immigration and elected politicians keep “rewarding” them with more, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said in a speech Wednesday night. Vance addressed an audience at the annual National Conservatism… -
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Agitators vs. Legislators: Same Team, Cross-Purposes
The crowning event at the Highland Games in Scotland is the tug-of-war. Eight brothers in arms square off against eight others across the line, gripping a rope as big as the biceps they wrap around it. I can’t help but think how similar the world of politics is. Those of us who wish to preserve… -
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Hawley Presses Ex-NIH Official: ‘Is it ‘Normal’ For Scientists to ‘Pre-Bake the Outcome’ of Research?
A former National Institutes of Health official testified to a Senate committee on Thursday that the agency did not suppress inquiries into the origins of COVID-19, even as Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questioned her about private emails suggesting otherwise. Carrie Wolinetz, who was the chief of staff for then-NIH Director Francis Collins during the pandemic,… -
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How Noncitizens Get to Vote in US Elections and How to Stop It: The BorderLine
Most countries allow only their own citizens to vote in national elections and require voters to prove their eligibility to vote through photo identification when they register and before they cast their vote. Here in the U.S., verifying eligibility and registering voters is left to the states. You would hope that the federal government would… -
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Senate Panel’s Probe Into COVID-19’s Origin Brings Us Closer to Truth
Did you know that four months before the world had ever heard of COVID-19—on Sept. 3, 2019—authorities in the Veneto region of Italy discovered COVID-19 antibodies in local blood samples. Of course, you didn’t. The deadly and mysterious COVID-19 was around much longer than anyone had previously suspected. We now know that fact,… -
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How the Radical Left Wrecked the Housing Market
Home affordability just hit a 17-year low, which means the dream of homeownership remains unattainable for the average person. Amid a cost-of-living crisis, saving enough for a downpayment and then affording a monthly mortgage payment has become a Sisyphean task—and radical leftist policies are to blame. Adding up the monthly cost of principal and interest on a mortgage, property taxes, and insurance… -
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Heir to George Soros’ Empire to Wed Ex-Hillary Clinton Aide Huma Abedin
Alexander Soros, son of George Soros and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, is engaged to veteran Democratic operative Huma Abedin, according to his Instagram account. “This happened … we couldn’t be happier, more grateful, or more in love,” Soros wrote on social media on Tuesday alongside a picture of him proposing to Abedin. Soros proposed to… -
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Teen’s Pro-Life Anthem Climbs iTunes Country Charts
A song with a tender pro-life message has reached the top 5 on iTunes’ chart for country music less than three weeks after its release. Eighteen-year-old Rachel Holt sings “I Was Gonna Be” from the perspective of an aborted child. The chorus of the song—“All I wanted was a chance/To learn to love and laugh… -
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Biden Talks Tough About NATO, but His Energy Policies Tell Different Story
President Joe Biden, host of the 75th anniversary NATO Summit in Washington that ends Thursday, last week claimed to ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos that he “put NATO together.” Trying to find a charitable spin on this claim, let’s assume Biden means that he helped NATO stand stronger against Russian President Vladimir Putin in the… -
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Joe Biden Has Always Been a Liar
Framed on a wall in my office is a copy of my first opinion column, published by The Dallas Morning News on Oct. 11, 1987. Until then, I had been a wire-service reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., and, before that, a sports writer in Boston, but had never written opinion. When given the chance by the Morning… -
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We Know What a Woman Is. Now, What Does It Mean to Be a Strong Woman?
It was January 2017 and President Donald Trump had just arrived in the Oval Office. The Women’s March took to the streets of Washington, D.C., proclaiming a message of “strength,” but Sarah Stonestreet didn’t see empowerment. She saw anger. “The overarching message was [a] middle finger to the chauvinistic world,” Stonestreet says of the marchers, adding… -
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Former Kentucky AG Warns About Threat to Business From Woke Corporations
Conservatives must be vigilant about big corporations that seek to “cancel” those with differing political views, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron warns. Cameron, a Republican, ran for governor in 2023, but lost to Democratic incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear. He now serves as CEO of the 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit organization that “seeks to preserve… -
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Why This Congressman Wants IRS to Probe Pro-Hamas Funders
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said in 1913. Indeed, our exposure of the network of organizations supporting pro-Hamas demonstrators is now helping a member of Congress pressure the Internal Revenue Service to investigate these groups. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., sent a letter June 27 to…