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EXCLUSIVE: House Subcommittee Chairmen Pressure DC Mayor, Police to Preserve Aborted Baby Remains
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — The chairmen of two House of Representatives subcommittees are calling on D.C. authorities to preserve the remains of “The Five” aborted baby bodies. “Our subcommittees are conducting oversight of the District of Columbia’s and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) enforcement of federal law,” Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited… -
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A Remedial Lesson for Mark Cuban in Civil Rights Law, ‘Diversity’ and Discrimination
Billionaire Mark Cuban is a big fan of diversity, equity, and inclusion. That means he’s a big fan of racial discrimination in hiring. On X, formerly Twitter, Cuban confessed that he gives racial and gender preferences to job applicants on the theory that “diversity” puts his business “in the best position to succeed.” Cynthia “Cynt”… -
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Florida Authorities Arrest Abortion Activist for Submitting Fraudulent Petition Signatures
Florida authorities have caught multiple individuals involved in petition fraud related to a radical effort to enshrine late-term abortion into Florida’s state constitution. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced this week that inspectors arrested a “paid petition circulator” and issued an arrest warrant for a second petition circulator after they submitted 133 invalid constitutional… -
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How One Senator’s Command Economy Proposal Could Put Air Travel Out of Reach and Cost Airport Workers’ Jobs
Airline prices—which are already 22% higher than they were two years ago—could get a whole lot more expensive and many airport workers could lose their jobs if a proposed amendment allowing the federal government to set the wages and benefits of airport workers makes its way into a Federal Aviation Administration bill. That proposal from… -
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Transgender Series, Part 2: ‘Truthful Therapist’ Explains Why Parents Can’t Trust Mental Health Professionals
Editor’s note: This is the second podcast interview in a series on transgender phenomena, science, and the potential for medical malpractice lawsuits. Check out the first interview, on rapid-onset gender dysphoria. Unfortunately, parents can’t trust mental health professionals on the issue of a transgender identity, a veteran social worker warns. Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a therapist and… -
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What’s the Point of Marriage?
Entire books have been written to answer the question of “Why get married?” So, it’s futile to think we can fully address the question in a few minutes. But if you’ve never asked yourself what the point of marriage is, it’s worth consideration. In the same way Scripture commands us to love God and love… -
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Florida’s Education Freedom Folly
Florida long has been a pioneer in providing families with education freedom and choice. It was among the first states to enact both tax-credit scholarships and education savings accounts, and to expand those options to every K–12 student in the state. With 350,000 students participating in the state’s K–12 scholarship policies, Florida has both the… -
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Would Trump Have to ‘Lose Bigly’ at SCOTUS to Be Kicked Off Ballot?
It would take a sweeping legal ruling for the Supreme Court to effectively kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado and elsewhere, say legal scholars who’ve analyzed the arguments set for Thursday in the case. “In order for Trump to lose, he has to lose bigly. Or is it big league? He… -
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Why Taylor Swift, Super Bowl, and Mark Zuckerberg Get a Shoutout in This Election Reform Hearing
Impartial referees are just as important in the big election in November as in the big game this Sunday, a lawmaker argued Wednesday during a congressional hearing on private funding for administering elections. “The millions of private dollars being funneled to local offices raises serious questions about the conditions placed on their use,” House Administration… -
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‘Got It All Figured Out’: Arizona’s Election Chief Defends Split Rules on Proving Citizenship to Vote
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes contends that his state’s “bifurcated ballot system” requiring proof of citizenship to vote in state elections, but not federal ones, has worked effectively. An oath of legal eligibility taken by voters for federal elections for Congress and president is entirely sufficient, Fontes says. “We have the strictest regime in the… -
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‘CRIME-RIDDEN EMBARRASSMENT’: Trump Says Quiet Part Out Loud About DC
Washington, D.C., is becoming an embarrassment to the nation. A horrific story that made national headlines illustrates what the city is becoming. A would-be carjacker shot a former Trump administration official in the head Jan. 29 at the beginning of an insane, violent romp through the city. Mike Gill, who served as the chief of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers Demand DOJ ‘Halt Plans’ by DC to Dispose of 5 Aborted Babies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL— Republican congressional lawmakers are calling on the Department of Justice to “halt” any efforts to discard the bodies of five aborted babies in the District of Columbia, warning that these babies may have been illegally aborted. “We demand that you immediately halt plans to dispose of these children, as they… -
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Border Bill Fails in Senate
The Senate’s $118 billion spending bill failed to advance past a procedural vote on the Senate floor Wednesday. The bill included funding for border-related measures, Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The bill fell short of receiving the 60 votes needed to keep moving forward in the Senate. If the bill had passed in the… -
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Stop Allowing Noncitizens to Determine Congressional and Presidential Representation
The open border has enabled the Left to amass more political power. Democratic-controlled states have gained congressional seats by welcoming and harboring illegal aliens. As president, Donald Trump tried to halt this wrongdoing by ordering the census to exclude all noncitizens from apportionment. But one of President Joe Biden’s first acts in office was to reverse this policy as… -
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Progressive Black Pastors Misguided on War in Gaza
Some 1,000 black pastors nationwide are reported to have weighed in to pressure President Joe Biden to force a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. According to one pastor, the war “has evoked the kind of deep-seated angst among black people that I have not seen since the civil rights movement.” And per another,… -
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Restoring Trust on Public Health Issues After COVID-19 Rests Squarely on Public Health Officials
At this year’s annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, panelists convened to discuss their “Global Risks Report 2024.” Among the many world problems they decided they needed to solve, they identified “misinformation and disinformation” as one of the most severe threats facing the planet in the near term. Public health officials, struggling… -
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Blue State Considers ‘Strippers’ Bill of Rights’ for Adult Dancers
Washington state is considering a set of legislative proposals to provide adult dancers with compensation protections and mandatory security, The Associated Press reported. The set of proposals, dubbed the “strippers’ bill of rights,” is the product of years of advocacy from Strippers Are Workers, an organization operating in Washington state, according to the AP. The group “fights to… -
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States Fight Back Against Biden’s Green War on Inexpensive Electricity
America’s electricity supply is facing a daunting future. A recent report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation places most of the country at high or elevated risk of electricity capacity shortfalls over the next decade. That means more blackouts and brownouts. But thankfully, individual states are springing into action to protect their electricity grids…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: Cruz Calls for DC Medical Examiner to Investigate Aborted Babies’ Remains
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz has called for the Washington, D.C., medical examiner to conduct a “proper investigation” into whether a D.C. abortionist illegally aborted babies in violation of the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. Cruz, R-Texas, reacted Wednesday to a Daily Signal report in which a lawyer alleged that the Department of Justice… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Leaders Call on Jordan, Johnson to Repeal ‘Weaponized’ FACE Act
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Conservative leaders are calling on House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to pass the FACE Act Repeal Act of 2023 “as soon as possible.” “In the aftermath of additional pro-life activists being convicted by the Biden administration under the FACE Act for peacefully protesting…