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Timeline of Ukrainian Pay-to-Play Scheme Confirms Bidens’ Corruption
The Biden crime family’s multimillion-dollar bribery and money-laundering operation has more moving parts than an 80-year-old grandfather clock. Even news-aholics find it tough to follow this scandal’s interlocking meetings, phone calls, trade junkets, wire transfers, and shady characters with unpronounceable names. As just-appointed special counsel David Weiss soon will learn that, unlike “White House Aides… -
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How the Left Captured the Newest Smithsonian Museums
That leftists have accomplished a very successful march through the institutions is a fact of life. But how did they achieve it? The ongoing saga of the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum can serve as a classic case study of how the Left conquered the commanding heights of the culture. Spoiler alert—here’s how it always happens: Determined… -
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‘Bidenomics’ Has Been a Disaster
After 40 years of “trickle-down economics,” President Joe Biden says, “Bidenomics is just another way of saying restoring the American dream.” It’s not often that a politician openly pledges to bring the country back to a time of crippling inflation, high energy prices, and stifling interest rates. But this president is doing his best to… -
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The Bill Comes Due for Blue Sanctuary Cities
The seemingly low-cost virtue signaling of declaring your non-border city or state a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants has now revealed its hefty price tag. “If we don’t get the support we need, New Yorkers could be left with a $12 billion bill,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday of the now crisis-level… -
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Massachusetts Bars Couple From Foster Care Over Christian Views on LGBT Matters
The state of Massachusetts is barring a Christian couple from fostering children due to their biblical beliefs on sexuality and gender. Catholics Mike and Kitty Burke filed a lawsuit last week in federal court against state officials after they were denied the right to serve as foster parents. During the foster parents screening process, the couple were… -
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Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?
Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public servant—Leo Amery, a polymath and… -
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FBI Veteran Corroborates IRS Whistleblower Account of Investigators’ Tipoff to Hunter Biden
A former FBI supervisory special agent who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation corroborated assertions by two IRS whistleblowers that FBI headquarters tipped off the Secret Service and the Biden presidential transition team about investigative plans, according to a new transcript. The transcript released Monday by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee compounds questionable investigative… -
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VINDICATED: School Board Fails to Sweep Dad’s Rights Under ‘Legal Rug’ After It Had Him Removed From Meeting
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A U.S. district court judge in Texas upheld a father's claims that school board members and police violated his constitutional rights when they forcibly removed him and prevented him from attending school board meetings in 2021. Police removed him after he spoke at a school board meeting, raising concerns about the… -
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Alabama GOP Says No to Teachers Unions’ Money in School-Related Elections
Alabama Republicans have told teachers unions to stay out of their school-related elections. The Alabama Republican Party recently voted to ban GOP candidates for the Alabama Board of Education, local school boards, and county school superintendent from accepting donations from teachers unions. John Wahl, chairman of the Alabama GOP, says the change was needed to… -
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Tennessee Mayor’s ‘Hate’ Council Strategized With Far-Left Group Demonizing Moms for Liberty
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — Tennessee's third-largest city launched a council to oppose "hate" and "extremism" in 2018, and that council has repeatedly collaborated with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits "hate groups," putting them on a "hate map" alongside the Ku Klux Klan…. -
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Garland’s Special Counsel Charade Violates the Law and Undermines the Hunter Biden Probe
Just when you thought the Justice Department’s handling of the Hunter Biden case couldn’t appear more corrupt, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he was appointing Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as “special counsel” in the case. Not only is Weiss the same controversial federal prosecutor who has botched the investigation of President… -
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Abraham Lincoln’s Painful Message for the Pro-Life Movement
Pro-lifers waited 49 grueling years to see the judicial barbarism of Roe v. Wade finally overturned in last year’s blockbuster Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That ruling, delivered by Justice Samuel Alito, merely re-politicized a hotly contested issue that had been erroneously accorded the status of “constitutional right” in Roe. Unfortunately, it seems perhaps… -
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Court Stops Another Biden Attempt to Cancel Student Loans
A federal court has stopped yet another attempt by the U.S. Department of Education to cancel student loans—for now. On Aug. 7, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a nationwide injunction against key parts of a recently revised rule that would have let the department erase billions of dollars of student loans and… -
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New College of Florida Trustees Vote to End Gender Studies
Trustees for the New College of Florida have voted to end a 28-year-old gender studies program. Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist and Manhattan Institute scholar appointed to New College’s board of trustees by Gov. Ron DeSantis, introduced the motion to direct the school’s president to eliminate the gender studies program. The board voted 7-3 in… -
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‘UNMITIGATED DISASTER’ Lawmakers Call for School Choice After Students Soil Themselves Stuck on Buses for 6 Hours
A dozen Kentucky legislators are calling for a complete overhaul in state education after a transportation nightmare on the first day of school stranded hundreds of Louisville students on buses until almost 10 p.m. Wednesday. Relying on the controversial computer program AlphaRoute to remap already lengthy bus routes for the school district’s short-staffed bus team,… -
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Judge’s Ordering Airline’s Lawyers to Take Religious Liberty Sensitivity Training Sends Left Into Tailspin
One of the Left’s favorite things to advocate for is diversity and inclusion training. It’s celebrated and even revered, and it’s demanded on social media, in workplaces, at corporations, and within educational institutions. But it seems the Left isn’t so happy when the tables are turned. Take the Monday ruling of a federal judge in… -
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DOJ Names ‘Sweetheart Plea Deal’ Prosecutor as Special Counsel in Hunter Biden Probe
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named David Weiss—the same prosecutor who made a court-rejected plea agreement with first son Hunter Biden—as the special counsel in the tax probe. Garland said on Tuesday that Weiss, the U.S. attorney for the district of Delaware, asked him to be special counsel in the case. “Upon considering his… -
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Of the Many Factors Behind the Maui Wildfires, Climate Change Was Not One, Experts Say
As catastrophic wildfires engulf the Hawaiian island of Maui, some media outlets and politicians quickly jumped at the opportunity to blame the disaster on the man-made phenomenon of climate change. The Associated Press distributed an article quoting Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, as saying that “climate… -
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Beverly Hills Wants Rabbi’s In-Home Religious Gatherings to Cease and Desist. He’s Not Budging.
A rabbi in Beverly Hills is fighting for his First Amendment rights after the Los Angeles suburb sent him a “notice of violations,” seeking to prevent him from holding Jewish services in his home. The nonprofit First Liberty Institute and the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, which represent Rabbi Levi Illulian, sent a… -
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‘It’s a Little Late,’ Lawmaker Says of Biden’s Executive Order on US Investments in Chinese Technology
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at restricting U.S. investment in certain Chinese high-tech, including artificial intelligence, microelectronics and semiconductors, and quantum information technologies. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., however, thinks “it’s a little late.” “China has been stealing our technology for decades,” says Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee….