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EXCLUSIVE: Here Are the Left-Wing Groups the White House Trade Office Is Scheming With to Get Out the Vote
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative intends to cooperate with a liberal legal organization that routinely sues over voter ID laws as part of its strategic plan to comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order to get out the vote. USTR, an agency within the Executive Office of the President, included working with the… -
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Ted Cruz Slams Biden Justice Department’s Collusion With Southern Poverty Law Center
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Conservative U.S. senators condemned President Joe Biden’s Justice Department for receiving a briefing on “hate” from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left group notorious for comparing conservative organizations with the Ku Klux Klan. “It is sadly predictable that the Biden administration is echoing the anti-conservative activists at the Southern Poverty… -
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Pro-Life Groups Urge University of Houston to Remove Pro-Abortion Statue
The University of Houston is facing backlash from pro-life organizations over a pro-abortion statue on campus grounds. The university canceled the exhibit’s official presentation ceremony, but the pro-life groups also called for the school to remove the statue outright. The monument, a golden woman with two thick braids resembling ram’s horns, stands about 18 feet… -
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Pro-Life Pregnancy Group Appeals to SCOTUS in Clash With New Jersey AG Over ‘Unlawful’ Subpoena
An organization that operates pro-life pregnancy centers in New Jersey asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving what the centers’ petition calls an “improper” and “unlawful” subpoena by state Attorney General Matthew Platkin. Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal firm known as ADF, filed a petition with the high court Feb. 26… -
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A Lesson for America: Green Policies Crush German Economy
Germany’s gross domestic product has been falling since the third quarter of 2022, causing fears of the first 2-yearlong recession since the early 2000s. German farmers are openly protesting new climate regulations that would raise the price of diesel fuel, vital for tractors and farm machinery. This discontent is mirrored by the general public, which… -
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Biden’s Department of Re-Education
Throughout all of history, education has been understood as being about learning the truths of reality and conforming oneself to those truths in order to flourish in civil society. The Biden administration wants to turn that idea on its head. The administration thinks one should try to twist reality to conform it to oneself and… -
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Investigation Reveals Gender, Abortion Services Masquerading as Health Centers in K-12 Schools
A trend of installing “health centers” in K-12 public schools has led to students being offered disturbing services without parental knowledge or consent, an investigation by a leading parental rights group has found. Progressive education activists claim that so-called school-based health centers and other “wrap-around services” improve academic performance and behavior by giving students daily… -
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How ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Are Costing American Lives: The BorderLine
According to a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, ICE asked police in Montgomery County, Maryland, 119 times this year to detain and hand over criminal aliens they had arrested. The criminals’ records included “convictions for assault, robbery, illegal firearms, sex abuse of a minor, rape, and MS-13 gang membership,” former official John Feere said…. -
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The Ukrainian Verdun
Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of World War I. That meat grinder cost France and Germany some 700,000 dead and wounded. The nightmare ended 10 months later, after the heroic French defense stopped the final German… -
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The Song to Inoculate Your Kids Against Gender Ideology
As a father, I love my son dearly. I’m delighted when he learns a new word (he’s 1 year old). It gladdens my heart when he masters a new skill. I’m excited when he figures out connections on his own. And I’m rendered speechless when he demonstrates affection for me and my wife. I’m sure… -
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Pauvre Enfant: An American (Abortion) in Paris
The French woke up and chose violence. On Monday, France became the world’s only country to explicitly enshrine a right to abortion into its constitution. The French Parliament overwhelmingly approved it, 780-to-72—a greater than 10-to-1 spread. Fittingly, they held their vote in the Palace of Versailles, one of the epicenters of French Revolution violence. The… -
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Biden’s Big Abortion Lie in His State of the Union Address
My mom taught me that saying something you know is not true is a lie. President Joe Biden told some whoppers Thursday night in his State of the Union speech, including several about abortion. Biden, for example, vowed to “restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.” No president, of course, can establish… -
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Oblivious to the Irony: Democratic Party Becoming Enemy of Democracy
I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the intrepid Colonists fought for the then-novel concept of democratic self-government. A cursory glance at Merriam-Webster is instructive. That venerable dictionary defines “democracy”… -
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Our Families Are Hurting. Our Country Can Do Better.
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, as delivered Thursday night by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. Good evening, America. My name is Katie Britt, and I have the honor of serving the people of the great state of Alabama in the United States… -
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Controversial Air Force Colonel Gets a Media Makeover
Within the span of a few days this week, two award-winning journalists penned fawning articles about an Air Force colonel whose promotion to brigadier general is in jeopardy. Coincidence? Casual readers, who know nothing about Col. Ben Jonsson other than what The Washington Post and Military.com reported, likely would conclude that he deserves the promotion…. -
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Catch What You Missed From Biden’s State of the Union Address
President Joe Biden discussed some of the biggest issues on the minds of Americans, from border security to abortion and the economy, in his State of the Union address Thursday night. But what issues did Biden ignore that he should have talked about? Were there any unifying moments? And how did members of Congress in… -
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Republican Response to Biden State of the Union Highlights Border, Economy, and Foreign Policy Failures
In the official Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt highlighted several of the Biden administration’s failings—most notably, its handling of the southern border, which she called “a disgrace.” The Alabama senator declared, “Biden didn’t just create this border crisis, he invited it with 94 executive… -
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Fact-Checking Biden’s State of the Union Address
President Joe Biden delivered his 2024 State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday night. During the 67-minute speech, frequently interrupted by applause from fellow Democrat senators and members of Congress, Biden spoke on a wide range of issues, from border security and the economy to abortion and… -
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Trump Reacts to Biden’s State of the Union Address
Former President Donald Trump shared his live, play-by-play reactions to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Truth Social Thursday night. When Biden and his Cabinet arrived at the House of Representatives chamber approximately 20 minutes after the speech’s scheduled start, the former president posted, “THEY ARE REALLY LATE, VERY DISRESPECTFUL TO… -
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Progressivism Shunned by Voters in Blue Cities, States
Although Super Tuesday may have been predictable on the presidential front, the big primary day held some surprises lower down the ballot. Deep-blue cities and states are rejecting leftist policies. In San Francisco, voters backed ballot measures to strengthen the city’s police force and mandate drug tests for welfare recipients, prompting the San Francisco Chronicle to declare…