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The Fani Willis Escapades Grind On
The fun never sets in the Atlanta courtroom of Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. That is the red-hot scene of the adults-only reality TV hit called “The Real Prosecutors of Fulton County.” As The Associated Press observed on Wednesday, a perilous political matter has “taken on a soap opera atmosphere, bogged down by testimony about sex, dating, cash stashes, and… -
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Conservative Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Back Amendment Protecting Traditional Views on Marriage
Dozens of leaders of conservative organizations planned to send a letter Friday to members of Congress demanding that the lawmakers adopt protections for religious Americans who support the traditional idea of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The signees urged House Republicans to protect religious freedom by prioritizing passage of the… -
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American Paralysis and Decline
“We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become… -
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‘GRATUITOUS SLANDER’: 2,500 Rabbis Slam ADL Over CPAC ‘Smears’
An organization that represents more than 2,500 traditional, Orthodox Jewish rabbis in U.S. public policy condemned Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for comparing the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The ADL responded to the rabbi’s statement by emphasizing what it characterized as evidence of extremism at CPAC,… -
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Receipt Belies Hunter Biden’s Denial of Dropping Laptop Off for Repairs
Hunter Biden suggested that he never would have dropped off his laptop at a small Delaware computer repair business, but documents bearing his signature appear to contradict that claim. The president’s son insisted that he would have taken his broken computer to a standard Apple store for repair work, when asked by Rep. Matt Gaetz,… -
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EU Climate, Cattle Flatulence Rules Threatening European Farmers’ Livelihoods, Driving Up Food Prices
Through the European Green Deal, European bureaucrats are ignoring citizen opposition in deindustrializing Western Europe and reducing its agricultural production. They’re using climate laws to attempt to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The agricultural policy provisions of these laws—the euphemistically named Farm to Fork Strategy—have European farmers uniting in protest like never before…. -
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Why New Federal Health Care Benefit Mandates Must Be Avoided
In the wake of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling related to in vitro fertilization clinics/practices, policymakers are likely to respond by overreacting and making hasty policy decisions. Suggesting a new federal benefit mandate is one of those ill-advised ideas. A federal benefit mandate for IVF would not only raise the cost of health care… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Railroading the Election: How 1 Small Agency Conforms to Biden’s Get-Out-the-Vote Agenda
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Even seemingly obscure federal agencies are working to turn out more voters under President Joe Biden’s executive order on elections. The Railroad Retirement Board’s strategic plan includes calls for distributing flyers and posters; keeping metrics on directing individuals to the federal voter registration website Vote.gov; and working with an “equity team”… -
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International Coalition Assembles to Battle Gender Ideology
An international coalition of diplomats, researchers, and thinkers gathered Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to address the “infusion of gender ideology” into domestic and foreign policy and international affairs. Attendees traveled from Hungary, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Italy, Brazil, and Canada to discuss their concerns about radical gender ideology in their own countries, including the promotion of… -
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Rooting Out ‘Woke’: One Church Leader’s Mission to Rescue Christianity From Cultural Marxism
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—An Indiana pastor has launched an effort to connect Christian leaders across the country and root out the influence of a “woke” Christianity that undermines the biblical and traditional doctrines of the faith. “We’ve got 500 pastors that have signed this statement across all sorts of denominational lines, committing themselves to really sound biblical… -
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If This Is ‘Christian Nationalism,’ Sign Me Up!
The other day, Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla appeared on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” to talk about the hysteria de jour, “Christian nationalism.” Donald Trump, she explained, has surrounded himself with an “extremist element of conservative Christians” who are misrepresenting “so-called natural law” in their attempt to roll back abortion “rights” and other leftist… -
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Fact-Checking 4 Big Claims Biden Made at the Border in Texas
President Joe Biden visited the southern border Thursday in Brownsville, Texas, where he delivered remarks flanked by local officials and by his recently impeached secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas. Biden made numerous claims and largely blamed Republicans for the influx of millions of illegal aliens because a compromise border security bill failed to pass… -
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Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law That Would Allow Law Enforcement to Arrest Illegal Migrants
A federal judge blocked a Texas law Thursday that allows local police to arrest migrants who cross into the state illegally. U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra, a Reagan appointee, said in a 114-page ruling that the law, SB 4, “threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice.” He issued… -
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Trump Claims Biden Is ‘Destroying Our Country’ During Southern Border Visit
Former President Donald Trump labeled the situation at the southern border “a Joe Biden invasion” while speaking to the media in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday. “I call him ‘Crooked Joe’ because he’s crooked,” Trump said. “He’s a terrible president. The worst president our country has ever had, and probably the most incompetent president… -
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Time Magazine’s Insulting Depiction of Christian Martyrdom
Time magazine issued a flowery piece on the glory of self-immolation on Wednesday, complete with a dose of anti-Catholic bigotry. Authors Solcyré Burga and Simmone Shah used as their starting point the tragic death of Aaron Bushnell, a U.S. airman who died after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington… -
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Google AI’s Recent Debacle Draws Stark Comparison to Public Education’s Own ‘Racial Justice’ Algorithm
“Happy Days” thought they had a great idea for juicing ratings back in 1977, featuring an episode where “the Fonz” jumped a real-life shark on water skis. It didn’t do much for the ratings of the show, but it did help coin a phrase. Today, “jumping the shark” denotes when something popular reaches a point… -
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Chinese Hackers Infiltrate America’s Critical Infrastructure
“The cyberthreat posed by the Chinese government is massive.” That was FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaking at a recent security conference in Munich, warning of new cyberattacks from China. And not just from the outside, which would be bad enough. Wray singled out the Chinese Communist Party hacking group Volt Typhoon, which the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure… -
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Single Adult Illegal Alien Men Flood San Diego Streets
The Border Patrol began releasing illegal aliens onto the streets of San Diego last week after local funding for migrant resources ran out. The illegal aliens being released onto the city streets of San Diego County are “predominantly single adults, and predominantly men,” Jim Desmond, a San Diego County supervisor, told The Daily Signal. Desmond… -
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Republicans Must Use Leadership Change as Opportunity to End Business as Usual in Senate
With Wednesday’s announcement from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will step down as the Republican Senate leader in November, conservatives have a generational opportunity. McConnell has been the Senate’s GOP leader for over 17 years. The choice senators will face now is between continuing business as usual or setting up the Senate to… -
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MSLSD?: Racist Joy Reid’s Crackpot Conspiracy Theories on TikTok
In case you just can’t get enough of Joy Reid with an hour each weeknight on MSNBC, you can catch her sharing her wild and loose opinions on TikTok. Recently, she pounced on remarks by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., supporting the Alabama court decision that frozen embryos are children, because “we need more kids.” Our…