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America Should Let Israel Wipe Out Hamas Once and for All
“We stand with Israel,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday. “And we will make sure that Israel has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself, and respond to this attack.” It was a strong statement of support. But Israelis have heard such statements from American presidents before, only to be disappointed just weeks… -
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More Research Refutes Efficacy of Masks Against COVID-19
As flu—and coronavirus—season approaches, Dr. Anthony Fauci is again saying that wearing face masks protects individuals from spreading the coronavirus. Some colleges and hospitals are reinstating mask mandates. Politics and the fear of coronavirus may have held sway the past few years, but common sense and rational science need to prevail now. Masks are ineffective,… -
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Israeli Jewish Student Attacked at Columbia University Amid Pro-Palestine Protests
Columbia University has tightened access to campus beginning Thursday amid news that a Jewish student was attacked on campus by an allegedly pro-Palestine student. The New York Police Department confirmed to The Daily Signal on Thursday that officers responded to an assault on Wednesday around 6:10 p.m. in front of 600 West 116th Street. Upon… -
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‘It Is Difficult To Overstate The Extent to Which Inflation Is Devastating American Families,’ Economist Says
"Inflation is still increasing at approximately twice the Federal Reserve's target rate, meaning ordinary Americans are getting no relief after 2 1/2 years of runaway prices," the chief executive officer of the Job Creators Network said after a government agency reported that inflation ticked up last month. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday that the consumer… -
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Reality of Life in Israel Right Now
For some in Israel, daily life is continuing, now set by a backdrop of war. “Rocket alert sirens will go off, and they’ll say, ‘Hold on, let me take my computer, let me go to the safe room,’” Scott Phillips said of his friends living in Israel, adding that while talking to him on video… -
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How This Small Business Owner’s Frustrations Led Her to Serve in Public Office
Ellen Troxclair says she never intended to run for public office. She was busy growing her small real estate business in Texas, but grew frustrated by the high property taxes that were keeping buyers out of the market. Troxclair ran for public office, becoming the youngest-ever elected woman, and lone conservative, on the Austin City… -
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Rhode Island Town Defies Mob, Erects Columbus Statue
If we really want to make America great again, we need to elevate what is good and noble about us and defy those who insist on tearing down our past. On Monday, designated as Columbus Day, the town of Johnston, Rhode Island, unveiled a statue of Christopher Columbus in a local park. A few protesters… -
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How Federal HR Departments Stymied Conservative Hires
Human resources departments at federal agencies tried to stymie conservative hires, even under a conservative president, according to a former Trump administration official and president of the think tank the American Main Street Initiative. That’s one reason there is a strong leftward tilt in the federal bureaucracy. “We’re supposed to be a nation of free,… -
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SPLC Silent as Leftists Appear to Celebrate Hamas Terrorist Attacks Against Israel
The Southern Poverty Law Center bills itself as the authority on “hate groups” and extremism, but it has yet to comment on the left-leaning organizations across America that have celebrated Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Jews in Israel this past weekend. It has remained silent on those attacks, as well. Hamas terrorists blew through sections of… -
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Look at Videos, Pictures of Hamas Terror in Israel. It’s What Evil Looks Like.
I am a Jew. Those have been the words of the Jewish people for three millennia. Those were the words of the men, women, and children of Masada. Those were the words of the followers of Bar Kochba. Those were the words of Jews in Granada in 1066 and the Rhineland in 1096 and Khmelnytsky… -
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These 12 Defensive Gun Uses Show Absurdity of Attacking Second Amendment Rights
In a legal battle that made national headlines, the governor of New Mexico last month sought to unilaterally suspend the right of residents to bear arms in public. This insanely unconstitutional measure—which courts fortunately brought to a quick halt—would be troubling on its own, given the Supreme Court’s clear defining of the right to keep… -
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Ohio Governor Urges Voters to Reject Radical Abortion Ballot Measure
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is urging voters in the state to reject a radical abortion measure on the ballot in November. DeWine and his wife, Ohio first lady Fran DeWine, deliver the message in an ad by Protect Women Ohio released Wednesday—the same day that early voting began on Ohio Issue 1, the Right to… -
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Rashida Tlaib Attacked Israel in Her Comments on Hamas Terror and Leaders of Her Party Won’t Call Her Out
House Democratic leaders have condemned the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, but they have yet to address statements from two fellow Democrats who condemned Israel as an “occupation” and an “apartheid system” in the aftermath. “I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said in an… -
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NBC News Struggles to Find Quotable Critics of Hamas’ Invasion of Israel
Often, as Americans, we want to live in an old Coke commercial where everyone sings in perfect harmony on a hill while they’re holding their cola bottles. We don’t want to live in a world where evil humans just gun down peaceful concertgoers or kill unarmed civilians in house-to-house raids. Raping women, and then executing… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Proposed Rule Allows Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to Cover Abortions, GOP Women Warn
FIRST IN THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican congresswomen are calling on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to revise its proposed rule allowing for abortions to be covered under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, Reps. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina and Mary Miller of Illinois wrote to EEOC… -
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Why Does NPR Want Courts to Defer to Executive Agencies?
Age is not coextensive with legal merit where judicial opinions are concerned. As then-Justice Antonin Scalia remarked, longevity “alone does not make up for brazen invention” and weeds become no less weedlike simply by deepening their roots. So, when outlets like National Public Radio report with alarm that “The Supreme Court … could overturn a… -
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WATCH: Anti-Israel Students Host DC Vigil for Hamas ‘Martyrs’
WASHINGTON — George Washington University students held a “Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine” on Tuesday evening where they mourned the Hamas terrorists killed attacking Israel. The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter gathered in Kogan Plaza as dusk fell on Washington, D.C., “for a vigil in honor of our martyrs.” Organizers encouraged the students… -
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‘THERE WILL BE BLOOD’: Hamas Issues ‘Unambiguous Call to Arms’ in ‘Support of Jihad-Waging Gaza’
Hamas issued a “Declaration of General Mobilization” Tuesday in what an expert warned was an “unambiguous call to arms” after Israel declared war following the Hamas’ terrorist incursion Saturday that killed more than 900 Israelis, including beheading babies. “A call to our Palestinian people, the masses of the Arab and Islamic world, and free people… -
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House Oversight Panel Investigates Biden’s Iran Negotiations
In light of Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, House Republicans are stepping up their investigation into the Biden administration’s use of officials who have sympathetic ties to Iran's Islamist regime. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday sought documents, other information, and a briefing from the State Department about nuclear negotiations with Iran. Of… -
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Outrage Over Harvard Student Groups Blaming Israel for Hamas Attack
Over 30 Harvard University student groups publicly blamed Israel for the Islamist militant Hamas movement’s terrorist attack on the Jewish state Saturday. “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” they said in a joint statement. In Israel, at least 1,000 have died, many of whom were killed…