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Peruvian Lawmaker Honors American Pro-Life Group’s Global Work
A Peruvian lawmaker recently honored a pro-life organization from the U.S. with a prestigious award for its work to limit abortions in Peru. Peru was the first country visited by South Carolina-based Pro-Life Global in its summer tour of Latin America, and it trained over a hundred young, pro-life activists there. At the end of… -
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Pennsylvania Lawmaker Proposes Tax Fairness for Faith-Based Health Care Sharing
A House Republican has introduced a bill designed to achieve tax fairness for ministries that share health care costs. A member of the House Ways and Means health subcommittee, Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., is the sponsor of the Health Care Sharing Ministry Tax Parity Act, which he introduced last Monday. Kelly’s bill would allow members… -
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The Supreme Court Is Not Red v. Blue
The United States Supreme Court has been lauded by such diverse members as conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist and liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the “crown jewel” of the Constitution for its power of judicial review. The court should be venerated not because of the happenstance of personalities or ideological persuasion but because of… -
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Supreme Court Gives Ominous Forecast for State Laws Regulating Social Media
The modern public square is private. That paradox is the lesson handed down by the Supreme Court in NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice, two cases in which the world’s largest social media empires challenged state laws in Texas and Florida that curtailed their practice of online content moderation. Just a few terms ago,… -
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Why 3 Liberals Dissented From Supreme Court’s Trump Immunity Ruling
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson issued dissents Monday in which they vehemently object to the court’s 6-3 opinion in the presidential immunity case brought by former President Donald Trump. The majority of the high court held that presidents are entitled to “absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive… -
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A Great Day for Trump at the Supreme Court
In what is undoubtedly one of the most significant constitutional decisions it has ever issued with respect to the separation of powers and the powers of the presidency, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision Monday saying that former presidents are entitled to broad immunity from criminal prosecution after they leave office for acts committed… -
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Dems’ Civil War Over Housing Comes to Head After San Francisco Forced to Allow More Construction
Pro-housing Democrats won a victory Friday in San Francisco after state authorities declared the city had not met its housing permitting goals in 2023, triggering a law some city Democrats opposed that will expedite approval of new builds, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. San Francisco’s sluggish approval of new projects triggered SB 423, a California… -
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France’s Right Notches Massive Wins in Key Elections Against Macron’s Liberal Wing
France’s premier right-wing party won massively in the country’s first round of snap elections on Sunday, delivering a blow to President Emmanuel Macron’s liberal coalition. The right-wing National Rally party won 33% of the votes in the parliamentary elections across France on Sunday, leaving Macron’s Renaissance party with only 21% of the votes, according to The Wall… -
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Monkeypox: House Investigators Find NIH Hiding Risky Viral Gain-of-Function Research
Can there any longer be any doubt? The behavior of senior officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the powerful federal agency formerly run by Dr. Anthony Fauci, is intolerable. And the performance of the Department of Health and Human Services in response to legitimate congressional inquiries has been abysmal. The latest… -
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Majority of Voters Want to Ditch Biden After Disastrous Debate, Poll Shows
The majority of voters want to see President Joe Biden replaced as the Democratic nominee following his debate performance Thursday night, according to a Morning Consult poll. After the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle since the primary season, Biden’s performance against former President Donald Trump left many major Democrats scrambling to soften the blow…. -
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Supreme Court Upholds ‘Absolute Immunity’ for Presidents in Trump Case
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Donald Trump’s favor in the presidential immunity case, complicating at least two prosecutions against the 45th president. “Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power entitles a former president to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority,”… -
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Bad Defenses of Bragg’s Trump Prosecution
Trump was convicted of 34 charges of falsifying business records with intent to conceal another crime. Alvin Bragg and his allies defend the prosecution as just, but their defenses are poor. It is a poor defense of Bragg’s prosecution to say, as a New York Times columnist did, that it was based on a “mountain”… -
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When Washington Spends, You’re on the Hook. You Deserve to Know for How Much.
Maybe you’ve heard that our national debt has topped $34.7 trillion. But what does that really mean for you and your family? The number is somewhat incomprehensible. To spell it out, that’s thirty-four trillion, seven hundred and twenty-five billion, eight hundred and fifty million, three hundred and twenty-three thousand, six hundred and eight dollars. That… -
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Dell Shareholders Reject Free Market Proposal to Stop Donating to LGBTQ Agenda
Shareholders who recoil at the specter of self-described human rights activists partnering with corporations to promote “gender transition” surgeries had the opportunity to make their voices heard Thursday at Dell Technologies Inc.’s annual shareholder meeting. But their efforts against the radical LGBTQ agenda fell short. A shareholder proposal asking Dell’s board of directors to list… -
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Montana Judge Strikes Down Law Clarifying There Are Only 2 Sexes
A Montana judge is striking down a state law defining “sex” as either male or female, claiming that the law violates the Montana State Constitution. In an order issued on Tuesday, Montana District Court Judge Shane Vannatta, the first Montana judge to openly identify as homosexual, declared Senate Bill 458 to be facially unconstitutional according to Montana state… -
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Watchdog Calling Out Biden’s Border Crisis Faces Pushback
A watchdog agency that has called out many of the Biden administration’s failures at the border has faced an onslaught of frivolous and time-consuming investigations, the agency’s top lawyer alleges in a new federal lawsuit. James Read, chief counsel to Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, filed suit Monday against the Council of… -
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Are Soft-on-Crime Policies Jacking Up Car Insurance Premiums?
Over the past two years, auto insurance prices have surged by an average of 27% nationally. That’s an increase from $127 a month in 2022 to $161 a month by the end of 2023. The increase in insurance premiums far outpaces the overall average inflation rate of 12% over the same time period. These price… -
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Court Threatens 1st Amendment Rights of Tenn. News Site After Publishing Details From Nashville School Shooter’s Leaked Diary
The editor-in-chief and publisher of the Tennessee Star was ordered to appear in court last week and threatened with charges of contempt after his news website reported on an anonymously leaked collection of documents authored by Nashville mass shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Michael Patrick Leahy was joined by his attorneys in court on Monday for… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Judge in Trump’s Manhattan Trials Reviews Risk Assessment by Anti-Trump Psychiatrist
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Five mental health professionals, some of whom already accused Donald Trump of being “dangerous,” prepared a risk assessment for New York state Judge Juan Merchan to consider in his July 11 sentencing decision on Trump, according to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a longtime critic of the former president. It… -
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Trump Rips Biden’s Performance in First Post-Debate Rally
“The question every voter should be asking themselves today is not whether Joe Biden can survive a 90-minute debate performance, but whether America can survive four more years of ‘crooked Joe Biden’ in the White House.” That was the main theme of former President Donald Trump’s first rally, held Friday in Chesapeake, Virginia, since the…