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opinion
Of ‘Convicted Felons’ and Lying Frauds
Last week, a New York City jury, prompted by the legal coordination between Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan—both partisan actors—convicted Donald Trump on 34 felony counts having to do with falsification of business records. Or election fraud. Or more tax issues. Or … something. Nobody really knows, and apparently it was… -
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Connecticut Town Won’t Hoist ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag for State Trooper, Lowers ‘Pride’ Flag to Half-Staff Instead
Symbols matter. The Left understands this. They understand that the symbols and statues on public display in a society can have profound meaning and shape the way people think about the world. These symbols and statues can represent something about our past or something that reflects the values that we hold as a society. That… -
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Mexico’s Next President Won’t Alter Dangerously Corrupt Course in US Relations
Claudia Sheinbaum, the hand-picked successor of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will be the next president of Mexico. Unfortunately, that means U.S.-Mexico relations remain on a dangerous course that has empowered drug cartels and brought skyrocketing overdoses and uncontrolled migration to the United States. Sheinbaum owes her victory almost entirely to Lopez Obrador’s highly popular government,… -
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Democrats’ Lawfare Proves Politically Impotent, Likely to Come Back to Haunt Them
Nearly 14 months after the first of four unprecedented criminal prosecutions against former President Donald Trump commenced in earnest, the Democrat-lawfare complex got its man: The Soviet show trial in “Justice” Juan Merchan’s dingy New York City courtroom produced its preordained “guilty” verdict. It is perhaps hackneyed to observe that, in convicting and seeking to… -
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The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do With the Prosecutions of Trump
The five criminal and civil prosecutions of former President Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Joe Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. But Biden has long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice’s federal prosecutors for their tardiness in… -
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Merrick Garland Shouldn’t Be Praised. He Should Be Impeached.
The day Merrick Garland was set to appear before Congress, The Wall Street Journal ran a piece exploring the attorney general’s “by-the-book, play-no-favorites approach.” This rendering of Garland conflicts with reality. Even now, Garland is refusing to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interviews with then-special counsel Robert Hur over the president’s hoarding… -
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National Conservatism Conference Condemns Sentencing of Guest Speaker Steve Bannon
The organizers of an international conservative conference stand defiant after a court ordered one of its featured speakers—a former senior adviser to President Donald Trump—to begin serving prison time shortly before the conference starts in July. A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Steve Bannon must begin serving his sentence for contempt of Congress charges… -
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Time Magazine Betrays Its Tilt in Biden, Trump Interviews
Does Time magazine really matter anymore? It still has a circulation of more than 1 million, but that is one-third of what it was in 2012. Does anything it reports still resonate, or is it like a tree that collapses unheard in the solitude of the woods? Time just secured an interview with President Joe… -
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‘Great Felon Ideas’: Battleground State Struggles to Apply Biden’s Election Order
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—North Carolina election officials were perplexed about how to follow President Joe Biden’s directive to expand voting among convicted felons, according to emails obtained by The Daily Signal. Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which put the power of federal agencies behind mobilizing voters, calls for the Justice Department to ensure that convicted… -
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Empathy Comes Firsthand for Director of This Maternity Home
I know what it’s like to be pregnant and homeless. It’s why I now devote my time to helping young women in similar situations. Shortly after graduating from high school in 2005, I learned that I was pregnant. Family members, driven by fear, pressured me to get an abortion, convinced that my having a child so… -
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Get Ready for the New Digital Censorship Regime
A House panel held a hearing last month examining how the Biden White House colluded with Big Tech platforms to censor speech about COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election. Exposing these past abuses was a good start for the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. But now, the same forces are… -
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Let’s Talk Some More About America’s Supposed ‘Rule of Law’: The BorderLine
There’s been a lot of talk about the “rule of law” in the wake of the recent verdict in Manhattan against former President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden said that “the American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed.” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., tweeted: “The rule of law still matters.” The rule… -
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Bob Woodson Shares Why DEI Is Being Ditched
Some universities are repealing and replacing their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. At the end of May, the University of North Carolina system voted to repeal and replace its DEI policy for a new policy that “aims to ensure efforts to support students on UNC System campuses do not infringe on academic freedom, equal opportunity,… -
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SPLC Changes Number of ‘Radical Traditional Catholic Hate Groups’ in Latest ‘Hate Map’ After FBI Backlash
You may have heard that, early last year, the FBI issued a memo targeting Catholics—specifically “radical traditional Catholics”—that relied on the work of the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center. The FBI rushed to rescind the memo on Catholics after a whistleblower published it and The Daily Signal demanded answers. This week, the SPLC released its… -
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Stadium-Sized ‘Day of Gratitude’ Event Set in Las Vegas for Military Personnel, Veterans
At an event expected to be the largest of its kind in Nevada history, 15,000 military service members, veterans, and their families will be treated to world-class entertainment, millions of dollars in gifts, and an array of activities at the NFL Las Vegas Raiders’ stadium on Saturday. With the maximum number of free tickets already… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Reveals 2 Arizona Cities Spent Millions on Homelessness With Little Result
Arizona’s two largest cities allocated tens of millions of dollars to fight homelessness in the past several years, but little has changed, according to a Goldwater Institute investigative report released Thursday. “We’ve seen Phoenix and Tucson spend, combined, almost half a billion dollars on this issue with very minimal improvements in the area of homelessness,”… -
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Parents’ Involvement Called Key to Keeping Leftism Out of Schools
The head of Florida’s Education Department is urging parents to “be involved” in public schools for their children’s sake. “Parents are the most important teacher, and the child’s first teacher, and ultimately are responsible for these kids,” Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. told Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. “These kids don’t belong to the… -
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To the Condescending Cranks Faking Outrage Over Upside-Down Flags
In our modern political dumpster fire, there has never been an art so refined and illustrious as pointless pearl-clutching. In this, the ninth year of 2016, most everyone is fairly desensitized to the political drama emanating from the Left’s ardent claims that any conservative policy or protest is an appeal to fascism as their own… -
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When Lady Justice Lifts Blindfold From Only Her Left Eye
Many things human come in pairs. Eyes, ears, hands, feet, and lungs appear in twos. Even a single nose features two nostrils. Similar examples should be easy to ponder. In this context, America’s new, two-track justice system might be perfectly natural: One for the Left—in which they suffer few consequences, if any, for their misdeeds—and one for the… -
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Why Is Joe Biden Negotiating With Terrorists?
A Gallup poll of several months ago asked, “On the whole, would you say that you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world today?” Only one-third, 33%, said they were satisfied. This down from 53% in February 2020 at the conclusion of Donald Trump’s presidency. It’s a wonder…