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‘You Have Broken Your Promise’: 27 Senate Republicans Demand Lloyd Austin Drop Abortion Policy
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Twenty-seven Senate Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Monday, demanding that he rescind an abortion travel policy that they claim violates U.S. law by circumventing Congress. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., has vocally opposed this policy. "You have broken your promise to the American people not to politicize… -
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The True Face of the United Nations
The precursor to the United Nations was conceptualized by President Woodrow Wilson, who feverishly traveled around Europe calling for “the making of peace” as well as “the creation of a League of Nations” to accomplish that objective. This came on the heels of World War I and, for his tireless efforts, Wilson was awarded the… -
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Collusion? This Group, in Partnership With Government, Targeted Conservative Speech in 2020
On Oct. 24, 2020, Mike Huckabee posted a joke on social media. "Stood in rain for hour to early vote today. When I got home I filled in my stack of mail-in ballots and then voted the ballots of my deceased parents and grandparents. They vote just like me! #Trump2020" Huckabee wasn’t the only voter… -
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There Is No ‘Second America’ If This One Fails
For the past two decades, many educated Americans have stopped acting in “defense of civilization” but instead in “defense of barbarism,” former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss told The Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention on Friday. Weiss warned the conservative legal audience that when it comes to pushing back against the Left and its… -
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‘Zero Appetite’ in Israel for Cease-Fire With Hamas, Embassy Official Says
Despite calls from the United Nations and others for a “humanitarian truce” between Israel and Hamas, Israeli Embassy official Eliav Benjamin says, “Nobody in Israel is talking about a cease-fire at this point.” Benjamin adds that there is “zero appetite for that.” Benjamin, deputy chief of mission at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, told… -
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Supreme Court Releases Code of Conduct
The U.S. Supreme Court released its own "Code of Conduct" on Monday evening to "set out succinctly and gather in one place the ethics rules and principles that guide the conduct of the members of the court." The Code of Conduct comes after intense pressure from liberal activist groups for the justices to implement an… -
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How Thatcher Would Have Crushed Hateful Pro-Palestinian Protesters in UK
Margaret Thatcher hated terrorism in all its forms, whether it was carried out by the Irish Republican Army, al-Qaeda, or state-sponsored. The Iron Lady famously survived an IRA assassination attempt in Brighton, England, in 1984 and was a fearless adversary of terrorist movements across the world. I worked for Thatcher in her private office in… -
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Authorities in DC Preparing to Ensure Safety, Security at ‘March for Israel’
The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Capitol Police said they are taking proactive security measures to protect the March for Israel, a massive pro-Israel demonstration planned for Tuesday, The Daily Signal has learned. Both departments stressed, however, that they could not disclose specifics. The Metropolitan Police Department is working closely with… -
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Iowa Leads Way on Education Freedom
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, families bear the twin burdens of inflation and indoctrination. Parents continue to witness their children being taught divisive, radical ideologies that portray their country as intrinsically racist, place social justice above fundamental subjects such as reading and math, and even divide children by race. All this while academic proficiency drops off a cliff…. -
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Amid Massive Overpayments by Feds, FOIA Documents Show They ‘Only Deal in Billions’
You know there’s a problem when the rounding unit for a federal program’s improper payments equals the annual incomes of 13,408 U.S. households. Emails obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed a Department of Labor official stating that, when measuring improper federal government payments, “We only deal… -
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Secret Service Agent Protecting Biden Granddaughter Fires at Car Thieves as DC Crime Wave Surges
A Secret Service agent protecting one of President Joe Biden’s five granddaughters shot at three unidentified individuals who were trying to break into a government-owned car in Washington, D.C., just before midnight. The Secret Service agent was part of a detail assigned to Naomi Biden Neal, 29, who is presidential son Hunter Biden’s oldest daughter… -
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Let’s Stop Paying Beijing to Steal Our Gene Code
The House of Representatives’ annual defense bill currently under consideration includes an amendment from Rep. Mike Gallagher that would ban federal agencies from giving taxpayer dollars to China’s largest genomics company, the Beijing Genomics Institute, also known as BGI. Gallagher, R-Wis., is chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United… -
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3 Changes to School Choice Bill Could Skyrocket Texas From No. 30 to No. 4 in the Nation
Gov. Greg Abbott called the Texas Legislature into a fourth special session on Tuesday with the aim of expanding K-12 options for families. Over the past few years, lawmakers from across the country have empowered families to find the best school for their children. Abbott, a Republican, seems resolved to create similar opportunities for Texas… -
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Florida Again Earns Top Spot on Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card
Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. “They have universal education choice in that state. Any child who wants it can exercise school choice,” says Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation’s… -
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Examining 7 Accusations of Harassment Against Moms for Liberty
Even before the Southern Poverty Law Center, the discredited far-left smear factory, put the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on its "hate map" alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, left-leaning outlets had repeated claims that the parental rights group's leaders had harassed school board members or other moms who disagreed with them. The… -
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Another Government Agency Secretly Plans to Follow Biden’s Election Executive Order
The Biden administration continues to shield from the public its plans for federal agencies to turn out the vote, citing “presidential communications and deliberative process privilege.” Newly released emails, however, demonstrate the focus of the White House and various government departments on registering voters and getting them out. In a response to a request by… -
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Trans Anomaly: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
The vast majority of mass shooters are male, and male biochemistry helps to explain why. Yet the person who opened fire at Nashville’s Covenant School was biologically female. Higher amounts of the hormone testosterone give men larger muscles, more significant skeletal muscle, and a higher percentage of red blood cells. Testosterone also tends to give… -
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How a Rifle Unlocked the Stories of America’s WWII Veterans
Andrew Biggio was excited to show his neighbor, a WWII veteran, the M1 Garand rifle he had recently purchased. The weapon was the most common rifle used in WWII, and Biggio thought his elderly neighbor would appreciate holding the gun. “When I put that rifle into his hands and he raised it into his shoulder… -
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The BorderLine: Senate Hearing Shows—Again—Why Mayorkas Should Be Impeached
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- At a recent Senate hearing on threats to the homeland,… -
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Here’s Where AP, Reuters, NYT, and CNN Got Their Oct. 7 Hamas Photos and What It Says About Palestinian ‘Civilians’
How did The Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and CNN obtain their photos of Hamas terrorists carrying out their horrific attack on Israel on Oct. 7? What does it reveal about the Gazan “civilians” that Hamas uses as human shields as Israel responded with military force? On Wednesday, a media watchdog called HonestReporting…