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opinion
Dao Award Aims to Send Pulitzer Prize Packing
We’re finally getting an alternative to the Pulitzer Prize, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The Dao Prize, an annual award that aims to showcase and support investigative journalism, is the result of a partnership between two conservative organizations: the National Journalism Center, created by the Young America’s Foundation, and the Dao… -
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Docs Reveal FBI Questioned Obama DOJ in Hillary Email Probe
A presidential candidate faces an FBI probe surrounding alleged mishandling of classified information, amid questions about the independence of the Justice Department. Meanwhile, the candidate's supporters allege political interference and demand that the chief investigator be investigated. Such was the case in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election. Democrats and other supporters of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Ted Cruz Slams Left’s Attacks on Leonard Leo as a ‘Full-on Assault on Our Constitution’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz blasted the Left’s attacks on Federalist Society Board Co-Chairman Leonard Leo and other conservative friends of Supreme Court justices as an attempt to undermine the Constitution itself. “From Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme to the attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas, and from the smear tactics used to defame… -
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Effects of Experimental Gender Surgery on Kids ‘Destructive,’ New House Speaker Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: New House Speaker Mike Johnson sharply criticized experimental surgeries on children as he discussed the "destructive" effects that such experimentation, dubbed "gender-affirming care" by gender ideologists, has upon young people. "We had some hearings on the subject when I was in [the Judiciary Committee]," the Louisiana Republican said in a… -
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Untested Legal Imagination’s the Mother of Trump and Jan. 6 Prosecutions
Donald Trump doesn’t know Thomas Robertson. But the former president’s fate appears inextricably tied to that of the former Army Ranger, who was convicted last year for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol. That’s because the prosecutions of Trump and his supporters, including Robertson, have often depended on reimagining… -
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Biden’s COVID-19 Vax Mandates Spawn Lingering Bad Results
President Joe Biden was unable to overcome the judicial and legislative roadblocks to his full set of COVID-19 vaccine mandates two years ago, but the damage of that policy lingers. If the Supreme Court and Congress had failed to block the mandates, the costly consequences of our COVID-19 crisis could have been worse. Now we… -
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Author of Trump’s Iran Sanctions Tells Biden How to Respond to Ballistic Missile Attack Against Israel
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen fired a medium-range ballistic missile toward Israel Tuesday, requiring an Israeli air defense system to block it and signaling that the war Hamas started with a terrorist attack against the Jewish state may quickly expand into a regional conflict. Robert Greenway, who orchestrated former President Donald Trump’s sanctions against Iran,… -
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Dinesh D’Souza’s Film ‘Police State’ Is Warning Cry for Americans: ‘We’re in Danger’
Dinesh D’Souza’s newest film, “Police State,” chronicles the real-life stories of everyday Americans who have endured the wrath of a weaponized government and of the whistleblowers who are exposing its abuse of power. The film will be shown Wednesday at a red-carpet event at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Mike Johnson Opens Up About Intersection of Faith, Politics
The new speaker of the House of Representatives opened up about his Christian faith and how it informs his politics in an interview with The Daily Signal, in which he stressed the importance of treating political opponents with dignity and respect while adhering to fundamental truths. Speaker Mike Johnson discussed the Christian principles of America's… -
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The Great ‘Green Energy Transition’ That Wasn’t
One of the textbook marketing flops of all time was the Ford Edsel sedan, which was heralded as the hot new car in the late 1950s. All the automotive experts and Ford executives said it was a can’t-miss. Henry Ford (the car was named after his son) guaranteed hundreds of thousands of sales. But one… -
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Department of Ed Bending Rules to Try to Bring Down One of America’s Largest Christian Universities
It is rare to see a university publicly complain about regulatory harassment, but Grand Canyon University has good reasons to do so. One of the largest universities in the country, GCU has 25,800 students in person and 92,000 online. It’s a Christian university, but in the eyes of intolerant federal regulators, its brief period as… -
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How Many Illegals Has Biden Admin Released Into US? Mayorkas Can’t (or Won’t) Say.
During a Senate committee hearing Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas couldn’t answer a question about how many illegal immigrants federal authorities have released into the U.S. interior under the Biden administration. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pressed Mayorkas on the issue, but the DHS secretary couldn’t provide a number at Tuesday's Senate Homeland Security… -
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SPLC FINALLY Issues a Statement on Hamas Terror Attack, and Manages to Make Things Even Worse
After remaining silent on the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the rising antisemitism in the U.S. for three weeks, the Southern Poverty Law Center finally commented on the issue, only to stealth-edit its statement days later. SPLC President Margaret Huang had suggested that Israel intentionally targeted Palestinian civilians, including children, for airstrikes…. -
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House Liberals Use Hearing on Global Religious Persecution to Decry ‘Christian Nationalism’ in America
At a congressional hearing about global religious persecution last week, some House Democrats hijacked the event to fearmonger about a small school of political thought that espouses a position that its proponents call “Christian nationalism.” The Oct. 25 hearing was held by the House Oversight subcommittee on national security, the border, and foreign affairs. Yet, rather than… -
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After Media Bouquets for Pelosi, Predictable Brickbats for Johnson
The good news for Republicans is they finally elected a new speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson. The bad news for Republicans is the “objective” media exist to create bad news for Republicans. The “Politico Playbook” announced the breaking spin over the breaking news: “Johnson is about to become for Democrats what Nancy Pelosi… -
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How Israel Defense Forces Strive to Exceed Requirements of Law of Armed Conflict
As the Israel Defense Forces enter Gaza to wage war against Hamas, it’s important to remember the extent to which Israel works tirelessly to meet and vastly exceed the requirements of international law, including the law of armed conflict. The four basic principles of the law of war: distinction, proportionality, military necessity, and limitation. … -
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Pro-Palestine Protesters Clash in Chicago With Radical Black ‘Israelite’ Group
An extremist group that believes black Americans and other people of color are the real descendants of the ancient Israelites clashed Saturday with pro-Palestine protesters in Chicago while police attempted to calm the two groups. The sometimes violent exchanges between pro-Palestine protesters and members or supporters of Black Hebrew Israelites followed a march around the Chicago… -
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Today’s Public Health Emergency: Restoring Trust in 7 Steps
The public health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic ended long ago, but America faces a new emergency. Faith in health agencies has plummeted more rapidly since 2019 than any other government institution, with almost two-thirds now rating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “only fair or… -
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Cease-Fire Isn’t a Real Option for Israel, This Activist Says
The U.N. General Assembly called Friday for a “humanitarian truce” between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, but a cease-fire isn’t an option for the Jewish nation, activist Boris Zilberman says. If the Israel-Hamas war is put on pause, Zilberman says, Hamas terrorists will use the time “to retool.” Zilberman, director of public policy and strategy… -
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Unassimilated, Warring Tribes a Prescription for Collective Suicide
Few Romans in the late decades of their fifth-century A.D. empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals. These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were focused on destroying the civilization…