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Florida Becomes First State to Sanction Medicaid Providers for Covering Minor Transitions
Florida has become the first state to sanction Medicaid providers for covering the attempted gender transitions of minors. The state is fining five Medicaid health care insurers for violating Florida's new rule banning taxpayer funds from going to transgender treatments, such as performing a double mastectomy or administering puberty blockers, Jason Weida, secretary of the… -
opinion
Fentanyl, Viruses, Spying: Why Do We Let China Get Away With Attacks on America?
Imagine if the United States treated China in the same way it does us. What if American companies simply ignored Chinese copyrights and patents and stole Chinese ideas, inventions, and intellectual property as they pleased and with impunity? What if the American government targeted Chinese industries by dumping competing American export products at below the… -
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Hawaii’s Green Agenda—and Questionable Decisions—Primed the State for One of the Deadliest Wildfires in History
While climate hawks were quick to blame the tragic Hawaiian fires on climate change, some of the state’s green policies and questionable decision-making before and during the tragedy helped set the stage for a disaster that has so far claimed over 100 lives. Along with other Democrats and some members of the media, Democratic Gov. Josh… -
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San Francisco Swirls Drain: Federal Agency Tells Employees to Stay Safe at Home
It’s getting so lawless in San Francisco that government agencies are telling their employees to work from home. The Bay Area’s reputation for and encouragement of open-air drug use has turned this once pristine region of the Golden State into a distinct shade of brown. Literally. We are certainly witnessing the rapid disintegration of San… -
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‘IDENTICAL TO JOE BIDEN’: Mike Pence Slams Trump on Key Economic Issue
ATLANTA— Former Vice President Mike Pence warned that President Joe Biden, and some of Pence’s Republican competitors in the 2024 GOP nomination race, have failed to address a central issue contributing to inflation and America’s weakness on the world stage. “We have a debt today the size of our nation’s economy,” Pence declared Friday at… -
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Biden Admin’s Revolving Door Into Media Spins Heavily
No one among the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the “objective media” and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification. NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent Laura Jarrett was going to be a co-host of the “Today” news program on Saturdays. She is the… -
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Leftists’ Wealth Tax Proposal Means Poorer Standard of Living for All
A group of far-left lawmakers has introduced yet another bill to soak the rich. The new bill is called the Oppose Limitless Inequality Growth and Reverse Community Harms Act—the OLIGARCH Act. Get it? It would introduce an entirely new tax on wealth above $120 million, starting at 2% and climbing to 8%. This new tax… -
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California Is Trying to Use Its ‘Market Power to Change How We Farm,’ Iowa AG Says
Iowa is calling on Congress to prevent California from overregulating the agricultural sector. "California [is] trying to use their market power to change how we farm [and] I think that violates the Constitution," Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says. California's Proposition 12 regulations, implemented in 2022, "require veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg-laying hens to… -
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California Transportation Policy Is Not for the Free
MIDLAND, Texas—Here in Texas oil country, your Uber is more likely to be a pickup than a Prius. Daniel, who works in the oil pipeline business when he’s not driving for Uber, picked me up from Midland International Air & Space Port in his Chevy Silverado. Born in Midland Memorial Hospital and raised in Midland,… -
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A Hysterical Hit Job on Florida’s History Standards
As someone who has taught American history in a Florida school, I’ve followed with particular interest the controversy over the state’s curriculum regarding the so-called “benefits” of slavery. The way this issue has been demagogued is nothing short of outrageous. Florida officials last year created a working group “to review the state’s education standards relating… -
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On the Ground at State Fair: Iowans Want Change in 2024
DES MOINES, Iowa—Attendees at the Iowa State Fair are eager for change during the next presidential election. Many of the fairgoers lean to the right, The Daily Signal learned this week, and want a candidate that will focus on fixing the economy and strengthening the U.S. southern border. Located right outside the state capital of… -
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Vetoes Overridden: NC Legislature Protects Gender-Confused Minors, Parental Rights, and Women’s Sports
The North Carolina Legislature held a veto override bonanza Wednesday, enacting at least five bills over the objections of Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat. Among them were bills to protect minors from the harmful effects of irreversible gender-reassignment procedures, guarantee parental rights in education, and clarify that women’s sports are for women. HB 808 makes it… -
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House Oversight Chairman Seeks Shielded Biden VP Records From National Archives
A powerful House committee wants previously shielded information from the National Archives regarding Joe Biden’s communication with family business associates when he was vice president. In an letter Thursday to the head of the National Archives and Records Administration, the committee’s chairman asked for Biden’s vice presidential records that included pseudonyms and communications with his… -
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Georgia Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Prosecutor Who Indicted Trump
The Georgia Legislature could investigate and possibly impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who this week secured a grand jury’s racketeering indictment against former President Donald Trump and allies who helped Trump challenge the outcome of the presidential election in Georgia. State Sen. Colton Moore, a Republican, said Willis engaged in “political persecution” of… -
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$17 Minimum Wage Would Exacerbate Rising Prices, Pushing Up Child Care Costs by 20%
As families are trying to cope with rising prices and declining real wages, a proposal from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., to increase the federal minimum wage to $17 per hour would drive up costs, especially for child care. According to my original analysis, based on data regarding child care wages… -
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Liberal Media Would Have You Think Trump’s Prosecutors Are Nonpartisans. They Aren’t.
Here we go again. The Democrats have unfurled a fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump, this time in Fulton County, Georgia. The No. 1 media bias complaint on this trend—other than how these indictments “flood the zone” and devolve the Republican presidential primary into a hyperbolic courtroom drama—is that reporters typically fail to identify… -
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Biden’s Misguided Priorities: Ukraine, Illegal Aliens vs. Hawaii
Hawaii, once a symbol of nature’s grace, now lies devastated, a chilling semblance of a war zone. At least 100 lives have been lost to the flames of a devastating wildfire, with hundreds of homes obliterated and families shattered. But in the face of this profound tragedy, President Joe Biden has responded with a suggestion… -
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Air Force Colonel in Line for Promotion Preaches DEI Agenda, Endorses CRT Book
In the weeks following George Floyd’s death in 2020, a U.S. Air Force officer—currently awaiting promotion to brigadier general—accused his fellow “white colonels” of being the “biggest barriers” to addressing “racial injustice” in the military and being “blind to institutional racism.” Col. Ben Jonsson’s 825-word commentary in the Air Force Times on July 1, 2020,… -
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Killing 2 Birds With 1 Stone: How to Find More New Teachers and Military Recruits
America is experiencing two critical shortages at the same time: new school teachers and volunteers for the military. The shortage of teachers is more specific to locality and subject area, rather than acute. School districts have been on a hiring spree for decades, but many schools are struggling to provide their classrooms with effective teachers…. -
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Biden’s ‘Manufacturing Boom’ Is Manufactured Malarkey
Is America really in a manufacturing renaissance? Far from it. U.S. manufacturing is hemorrhaging, and the numbers the Biden administration uses to claim otherwise are bought. Rather than address the problem, the White House is playing shell games with the economic data to gaslight Americans. It turns out that the manufacturing boom is manufactured, with…