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Democrats, Leftists Cite Discredited Smear Factory to Demonize House Speaker Mike Johnson
New House Speaker Mike Johnson had barely secured the gavel when leftist groups started attacking him for having previously worked at a premier religious liberty nonprofit law firm that has won numerous cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Leftist groups and one of Johnson’s Democratic colleagues in the House noted his history as a lawyer… -
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Religious Liberty Succeeds Because It Taps Into America’s ‘Live and Let Live’ Instincts
There is still hope religious liberty will prevail in America even though many wish to tear it down, including some in government, according to the president of the religious freedom law firm the Becket Fund. Many religious liberty cases succeed because they tap into the “live and let live instinct” of Americans, Mark Rienzi told… -
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NYPD Says Pro-Hamas Protesters’ Siege of Jewish Students ‘No Threat’
Jewish students at Cooper Union, a private New York City college, were locked inside a library Wednesday as pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas protesters beat their fists on the doors, screamed, and tried to gain entry. New York police, however, told The Daily Signal that officers didn’t intervene because “no threats of physical violence were made.” Videos… -
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Record Number of Chinese, Russian Foreign Nationals Encountered on Border ‘Alarming,’ Arizona Lawmaker Says
Customs and Border Protection encountered a record number of Russian and Chinese foreign nationals along America’s borders and at ports of entry in fiscal year 2023. CBP encountered 57,163 foreign nationals from Russia between Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2023, over 20,000 more than the previous fiscal year. In the same time period, 52,700… -
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Snowboarding Coach Speaks Out After Being Fired for ‘Speaking Biological Fact’
Snowboarding coach David Bloch was fired after acknowledging biological differences exist between men and women. Bloch worked as a coach at Woodstock Union High School in Woodstock, Vermont, for 12 years and says he loved being in the snow and watching the kids he coached grow. “I think it’s so incredible to watch the progress,”… -
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Faith and Feminism: Author of ‘Eve in Exile’ Calls for Restoring Femininity
Frustration over how “hardcore conservatives” view women drove Rebekah Merkle to begin researching the topic of feminism. Feminists and “the hardcore right,” Merkle says, “both agree that being a wife and mother is a brainless, menial job that takes no talent.” “So the feminists react out of it, and then the hardcore conservatives, for whatever… -
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How Many Hezbollah or Hamas Terrorists Are in US? No Way of Knowing.
When then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in the House Judiciary Committee on May 9, 2012, then-Rep. Elton Gallegly asked him about the threat of terrorists entering the United States by crossing the southern border. “First of all, as it relates to our southwest border,” said Gallegly, R-Calif., “do you see any growing evidence of al-Qaeda… -
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5 Charts Sum Up Biden’s Irresponsibility in Asking Congress for $106 Billion More
President Joe Biden has asked Congress for $106 billion in supplemental “emergency” funding, a proposal that contains several important policy flaws and threatens to drive the nation further down the road to bankruptcy. Biden’s Oct. 20 request includes $61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, $13 billion for border security, $10 billion for global humanitarian… -
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After All the Wasted US Blood and Treasure, Afghanistan Now Cozying Up to China
One of President Joe Biden’s many foreign policy failures is once again rearing its ugly head. After two years that have included the Russian invasion of Ukraine and now the war between Hamas and Israel, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent takeover by the Taliban has largely faded from the limelight. Shockingly, immediately following… -
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What Biden Has to Say About New House Speaker, Hamas, China
President Joe Biden voiced support Wednesday for Israel’s defense and warned against believing Palestinian estimates of casualties as the Jewish state continues to pound the Gaza Strip in retaliation for terrorist attacks committed by Hamas, which governs Gaza. During a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the Rose Garden of the… -
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We Must Restore ‘Veritas’ at Our Universities
According to a survey done by The Harvard Crimson in 2022, 80% of the faculty at Harvard University self-identified as “liberal,” and 37% self-identified as “very liberal.” Only 1% self-identified as conservative. This snapshot of the politics of the faculty at the nation’s oldest and leading university is not exceptional. Surveys of most university faculties… -
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Mike Johnson Becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives has voted in Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as speaker. "It is the honor of a lifetime to have been elected the 56th Speaker of the House," Johnson said Wednesday. "Thank you to my colleagues, friends, staff, and family for the unmatched support throughout this process." "It has been… -
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No More Excuses for Biden, Legacy Media: Illegal Border-Crossing Records Keep Getting Broken
This summer, when illegal southern border-crossing numbers briefly dipped, legacy media outlets rushed to proclaim that the issue of mass, uncontrolled immigration was going away. Don’t believe what you hear, President Joe Biden is solving the problem, they proclaimed. Well, that didn’t last long. The latest monthly and yearly numbers just came out, and it… -
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Republicans Select Mike Johnson as New Speaker Nominee
Republicans have landed on yet another candidate for speaker of the House of Representatives: Mike Johnson of Louisiana. Johnson was chosen during a closed-door meeting of Republicans on Tuesday evening, after lawmakers voted in their conference for 12 hours, according to Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky. The Louisiana Republican won 128 votes compared to Florida’s… -
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Risk of Terrorists Crossing Border Has Been ‘Concern From Day One,’ Texas Land Commissioner Says
Texas officials express serious concerns over who's crossing America’s border with Mexico, especially in light of the war between Hamas and Israel. “This is absolutely a concern,” Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says of the threat of terrorists taking advantage of the lack of security along America’s southern border. “We are seeing over 200 people… -
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VA Won’t Explain What It Means to Save the ‘Health’ of the Mother in an Abortion
One year since it began performing abortions, the Department of Veterans Affairs released annualized data to the House Veterans' Affairs Committee under threat of a subpoena. The VA disclosed to Congress that it had provided 88 abortions through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30—of which 64 were said to have been performed… -
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Capital Crime Wave Prompts DC Mayor’s Major Reversal on Police Restraints
Amid escalating crime in the nation’s capital, President Joe Biden went to bat for a “police reform” law passed by the D.C. Council by vetoing a bipartisan congressional measure that would have overturned it. Now, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to roll back the same law that Biden protected. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee,… -
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Abbott Enlists Parents to Get School Choice for Every Texas Student ‘Across the Finish Line’
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on Tuesday called for parents to contact their state representatives and encourage them to get school choice “across the finish line.” The Republican governor posted on X, formerly Twitter, “Texas has an obligation to deliver the best possible education for each child. School choice will help achieve that.” He then… -
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Justices Again Show Undue Deference to Feds, but Take Case That Could Undo That
In the spirit of football season, let’s imagine a short-yardage run play. The running back barrels into a mass of bodies, and the ball disappears from sight. After the officials excavate the ball, they must determine whether the runner has made the line to gain. Now, imagine that in every such ambiguous situation, the referees… -
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Donors Pull Support After Harvard, UPenn Fail to Condemn Hamas’ Terrorist Attack
Billionaires, business moguls, and university alumni are withdrawing their support from two Ivy League universities after school administrators and students failed to strongly condemn the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel. Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) were heavily criticized for their response to Hamas' surprise terrorist attacks Oct. 7 that killed over 1,400 Israelis, after which students…