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Here’s How Biden Agency Mandates Pro-LGBTQ Language on Marriage, Gender
An Interior Department mining agency sought to purge its website and field offices of traditional language that could offend LGBTQ individuals, to comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden. Employees of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement are directed to go through all agency messaging and remove language that presumes traditional… -
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Coddling Brazil’s Authoritarian President Lula
The coddling of Brazil’s increasingly dictatorial president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, by the Biden administration and its allies in Congress has gone from baffling to damaging to U.S. national interests. Lula is an enemy of the United States, one itching to increase China’s presence in the hemisphere. What gives? “They see Bolsonaro as [Donald]… -
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Black Anesthesiologist Defies Affirmative Action Assumptions
Two weeks ago, my wife, Susan, underwent major surgery for breast cancer. Happily, the cancer was caught so early (via routine mammogram) that it was barely a Stage 1 cancer. The surgeon was confident that the cancer was completely eradicated. My wife had both the oncological surgery and the breast reconstruction at the same time… -
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When a Teachers Union Adopts a Radical Foreign Policy
Traditionally, teachers unions have kept a laserlike focus on improving members’ pay, benefits, and working conditions. Now, though, teachers unions are diverting their energies from fighting for the well-being of teachers to fighting over a host of unrelated issues. Teachers unions now have foreign policies. For example, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the state affiliate of… -
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More States Make Progress on School Choice
Several states are making progress empowering their citizens with access to education freedom and opportunity. Earlier this month, Alabama became the 15th state in the nation to enact a program providing education savings accounts and the 10th state to enact universal education choice. Last week, South Carolina and Louisiana took steps to become the 11th… -
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Abortion Drug’s Adverse Event Reporting Should Be Cause for Concern at the FDA
Abortion is a very controversial topic, but drug safety isn’t. Keeping America’s drug supply safe is a nonpartisan endeavor. Whatever one’s political leanings, everybody wants safe, effective drugs, and a full disclosure of known safety risks. Because of that, the Food and Drug Administration is supposed to remain agnostic when it comes to politics, up… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Rubio Calls for DOJ to Investigate Planned Parenthood’s Handling of Aborted Baby Tissue
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is calling for a federal investigation into reports that Planned Parenthood is providing aborted baby body parts to the University of California San Diego in exchange for “valuable consideration”—while also maintaining intellectual property rights over the fetal tissue. “If confirmed, this relationship represents a flagrant… -
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Biden Is Desperate to Help Haiti, but He’s Doing It All Wrong
As Haitian gangs push a skeletal government to the breaking point, potentially sparking the flight of millions of Haitians to the United States, the Biden administration is scrambling to respond. After consistently failing to address the yearslong crisis that was clearly in motion, Democrats’ slapdash effort to “do something” in Haiti is now gaining steam in… -
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WARNING: Terrorist Threat to US ‘Has Not Been at This Level for Decades,’ Expert Says After ISIS Attack in Russia
The Islamic extremist group ISIS took responsibility for a terrorist attack in Russia on Friday that left nearly 140 people dead. The deadly incident is one the United States should take “extremely seriously,” according to national security expert Robert Greenway. The deadly attack confirms that “the level of threat to the United States from terrorist… -
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Young Women Favor Femininity Over Feminism, Survey Finds
A majority of young women say they prefer traditional femininity to radical feminism, an online survey has found. The survey results also show that 82% of women ages 18 to 24 align themselves with “femininity” while only 50% say they consider themselves feminists. In other results, 79% of the 800 young women surveyed agreed that… -
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Married People More Likely to Be ‘Thriving’: Gallup Survey
A new Gallup survey has found that, over more than a decade, one variable has consistently predicted whether people described themselves as “thriving”: marriage. Married couples are more likely to be happy today, anticipate future happiness, and have a “strong and loving” relationship with their children than cohabiting partners. Gallup classified respondents into one of… -
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Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Kids Under 14 From Social Media
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a bill Monday banning minors under the age of 14 from getting on social media. The legislation, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025, requires social media companies to prohibit minors from creating accounts without parental consent and also delete existing accounts for children under the age of… -
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Panel Highlights Negative Effects of DEI on US Military Readiness
Policies pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion are pervasive throughout the U.S. armed forces, say experts, with one going so far as to warn that those policies are “destroying our military.” The Heritage Foundation recently hosted a series of panel discussions, “Seizing the Moment to Defeat DEI,” that brought together top conservative minds to discuss how… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Peace Corps Pushes Expanded Overseas Voting
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—To comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden, the Peace Corps pushed to make its headquarters a voter registration center, upped efforts to register U.S. citizens abroad, and moved to supply multilingual voter registration forms. The Peace Corps, a federal agency, assigns volunteers to provide services and meet needs… -
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Washington Post, TikTok Target Young Women Speaking Up About Birth Control
The Washington Post and TikTok are under fire over apparent attempts to discredit stories women have been sharing about the negative effects of hormonal birth control on their physical and mental health. The Post reported Thursday that “women are getting off birth control amid [a] misinformation explosion,” referring to the onslaught of viral videos of… -
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Conservative Scholars Debate Prison Abolitionists at Berkeley Conference on Crime
BERKELEY, Calif.—When scholars from the Right and Left recently met at UC Berkeley School of Law to debate what to do about surging crime, the event provided a rare opportunity to identify key philosophical and policy fault lines as Americans ponder policing and criminal justice. The conference, sponsored by Berkeley Law and The Heritage Foundation,… -
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German Marshall Fund Wrongly Criticizes Heritage Foundation for Opposition to Exporting Divisive Cultural Agenda
In a recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Laura Thornton, the senior vice president for democracy at the U.S. taxpayer-funded German Marshall Fund, published a sweeping polemic attacking The Heritage Foundation, its Project 2025, and democracy itself. Project 2025 (which I have contributed to) brought together over a hundred conservative organizations to make policy suggestions… -
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Army Seeks Retirees to Come Back to Work Amid Manpower Crisis
The Army is seeking to bring back retired soldiers to fill critical manpower shortages, according to a servicewide directive published this week. The All Army Activities document describes how Army retirees can find and apply for open positions and aims to maintain a sufficient number of personnel to fill all of the Army’s authorized positions…. -
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Appeals Court Sides With Trump, Reduces Bond in Civil Fraud Case
An appeals court agreed Monday to reduce former President Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case bond while he appeals the ruling. If Trump is able to put up the $175 million bond within 10 days, the court agreed to block collection of the judgment, according to The Associated Press. Trump initially faced a Monday deadline to… -
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Did University of Delaware Lie About Biden’s Senate Papers? Lawsuit Seeks Answers.
The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch have asked a Delaware court to reopen their case seeking the release of President Joe Biden’s Senate records held at the University of Delaware. Special counsel Robert Hur’s February report on his investigation into Biden’s retention of classified documents contained findings that contradicted the university’s claims that no tax…