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opinion
The Decay of Education
The decay in American education is an alarming national security threat. Most high school or college graduates know about little more than their sexual orientation or Taylor Swift’s juvenile lyrics and strutting. They are unable to write a single, succinct, evocative sentence, like the magnificence of a “rosy-fingered dawn.” They could not pass the civics… -
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Blame University Administrators for the Uber Eats Campus Revolutionaries
The revolution will be catered. That’s what an anti-Israel student activist at Columbia University seemed to be saying in a video that went viral on social media Tuesday. Columbia Ph.D. candidate Johannah King-Slutzky, who is studying “theories of the imagination & poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens”—yes, this is real—went on camera and demanded… -
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The Lie of the Century: The ‘Natural’ Origin of COVID-19
Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, what do we know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? We were presented at the outset with two competing theories: natural-origin spillover from animals to humans and accidental lab leak. And at the outset, a cadre of elite scientists… -
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Biden Botched Financial Aid Rollout. And It’s Parents and Students Who Are Paying the Price.
In a normal year, May 1 is known as National College Decision Day, the deadline for students to commit to enrolling at a college, guided in part by their financial aid awards. But the Biden administration’s disastrous rollout of a new financial aid application has left tens of thousands of families in the dark about their students’ future… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Federal Farm Credit Agency Plows Ahead With DEI, ‘Queer’ Farming
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A regulatory agency established during the Great Depression to help farmers financially recover from the Dust Bowl is now pushing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility standards and promoting transgender farming. The Farm Credit Administration, an independent agency that oversees the Farm Credit System to provide credit to farmers and ranchers, issued… -
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Pentagon Says It Can’t Calculate Diversity Training Costs Because Congress Defunded DEI Offices
The Pentagon told Congress it could not provide a required accounting of diversity training to Congress because it didn’t have enough people working in diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Congress mandated the Pentagon compile a report detailing how much the entire military spent on diversity training, salaries for… -
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Here’s the Kind of Voters Left-Wing Activists Are Scheming With the White House to Turn Out in November
White House officials met with liberal activists to discuss boosting voting among prisoners and immigrants just four months after President Joe Biden signed an executive order on turning out the vote, newly released records show. On July 12, 2021, White House officials held a “listening session” that included dozens of organizations, many known for turning… -
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The Ideological Roots of the Open Borders Push: The BorderLine
Why does the Biden administration want open borders? As a researcher and writer on immigration, that’s the question I often get asked. Here are the three reasons I think are behind President Joe Biden’s deliberate border chaos: electoral politics, extortion, and, most insidiously, ideology. I’ll start with ideology and come back to the other two… -
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‘Make Government Work’
President Joe Biden says, “I know how to make government work!” You’d think he’d know. He’s worked in government for 51 years. But the truth is, no one can make government work. Biden hasn’t. Look at the chaos at the border, our military’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rising cost of living, our… -
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CNN Accused of ‘Propaganda’ for ‘Spinning’ Bombshell DOJ Story About Kristen Clarke
A CNN report on the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarke, is drawing accusations that the outlet sought to curry favor with President Joe Biden’s DOJ through its framing. After The Daily Signal published a report on Tuesday highlighting evidence that Clarke had not disclosed an arrest and an expungement during… -
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Top 5 Ways Congress Can Respond to Campus Riots
This election cycle’s summer of rage has gotten an early start, as seemingly organized encampments have popped up on college campuses across the country. Although the national media has made the situation out to be an exercise of free speech under the First Amendment, these campus protests look more like riots and calls for acts… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Roger Marshall Prescribes Solutions for Congress’ Budget Woes
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Nearly 40 Republican senators gathered Wednesday afternoon for a frank conversation about Congress’ broken budget process and the rapidly growing national debt. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., led the conference meeting with his GOP colleagues in hopes of offering solutions to end the cycle of emergency spending requests and massive omnibus legislation…. -
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Biden Is Harder on Israel Than on Campus Pro-Hamas Radicals, GOP Senators Say
President Joe Biden is harder on America’s allies than he is on pro-Hamas radicals on American college campuses, Senate Republicans said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Joe Biden is putting more pressure on Israel these days than he is on Hamas itself, or on the pro-Hamas chapters on America’s campuses,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said at the… -
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DOJ’s Kristen Clarke Confirms She Did Not Disclose Arrest, Alleges Domestic Abuse
The Justice Department’s Kristen Clarke confirmed Wednesday that she did not disclose an arrest and expungement during her confirmation to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, alleging that she was a victim of domestic abuse. The Daily Signal reported Tuesday evening that Clarke, who testified in 2021 to senators that she had never been arrested for… -
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Amid Pro-Palestine Protests, These Fraternity Brothers Prove Patriotism Endures at US Colleges
A scene Tuesday at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill proves that patriotism isn’t dead on all American college campuses. While an American flag was hoisted up the tall flagpole in the middle of the UNC campus, students chanted “USA, USA, USA” and later burst into a rendition of the national anthem. The… -
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Trump’s NY Prosecution Is a Bogus Case by a Bogus Prosecutor
There are many reasons why legal experts are questioning the legitimacy of the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump. But the major reason is that the main claim in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case—that Trump’s $130,000 settlement payment of a potential claim by Stormy Daniels was a campaign-related expense—is totally bogus. Here’s a… -
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Left-Wing Donors Gave More Than $3.3 Million to Pro-Hamas Activities Since 2016
With tent cities springing up across American campuses, filled with antisemitic activists who are openly supporting U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, you could be forgiven for suspecting that this activism was not wholly organic. And you would be right. Fingerprints of Further Funding Take the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University, where “students sleep in tents… -
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Biden Administration to ‘Reschedule’ Cannabis? Don’t Light Up Just Yet
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the Biden administration will reschedule cannabis under the Controlled Substances Act. Attorney General Merrick Garland will reclassify it from Schedule I, the schedule used for drugs that cannot be prescribed for any medical purpose, to Schedule III, under which it could be prescribed by a physician. There will… -
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Reveals Plan to Oust Speaker Mike Johnson
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Wednesday that she will call for a vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson next week. Greene initially filed a motion to vacate in late March over disagreements with Johnson’s latest appropriations plan. The Georgia Republican detailed her plan to advance her efforts to remove Johnson during a press… -
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Free Markets: Necessary But Not Sufficient
For most of our lifetimes, classically liberal economics so dominated the Right that nobody wondered if conservatives were abandoning free markets. In recent years, though, a new generation of conservative thinkers—more traditionalist, populist, or nationalist than libertarian—has challenged the utility and even the morality of laissez faire economic policy. We welcome their questions and critiques,…