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The Left’s Relentless, Unjustified Assaults on the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
In recent years, the Supreme Court has been the target of a relentless and strategic campaign aimed at undermining its credibility and impartiality. Left-wing publications such as ProPublica, Slate, and The Guardian have led an orchestrated assault against the high court’s Republican-appointed justices, and their message has been amplified by Senate Democrats. Their motive? To… -
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School System Shuts Down as Students Stranded on Buses After First Day Back
After a long first day of school Wednesday, hundreds of students in Louisville, Kentucky, were stuck on school buses until almost 10 p.m. The school system announced a complete closure of schools Thursday, including canceling all extracurricular activities on the second day of school, because of what it called “transportation issues.” Parents are outraged over… -
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Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: Mexican Cartels’ Wristbands Underscore Mayorkas’ Willful Blindness on Border
In a heated exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz in late March, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he had no knowledge of the use of wristbands by Mexican cartels at the Texas-Mexico border. Texas lawmakers, including Cruz, aren’t buying it. Mayorkas’ widely reported interaction with Cruz, a Republican, only invited more questions as to the… -
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Parents Could Face Jail Time for Sending 2 Emails School Staff Don’t Like: Critics Sound Alarm on California Bill
California already has undermined the rights of parents from out of state when it comes to experimental transgender "health care," but the Legislature also is considering a bill that would criminalize causing "substantial disorder" at school board meetings—an attempt to "chill parents from speaking out," critics warn. SB 596, which the California State Senate passed… -
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As Trials Near, Pro-Life Activists Demand Repeal of Unequally Enforced FACE Act
Jury selection began Wednesday in Washington, D.C., in the trials of the first five of 10 pro-life activists indicted under the FACE Act. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services,” according to the Department of Justice. The activists,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: New Mexico Pays Hefty Fee for Trying to Hide Voter Information
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s office settled a public records lawsuit over voter records with a think tank, paying out a $22,000 settlement after initially denying access to voting information. The Southwest Public Policy Institute announced first to The Daily Signal that it reached the settlement in its… -
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The Barack Obama Cover-Up
This week, Tablet released a fascinating conversation with historian David Garrow, author of a massive unauthorized biography of former President Barack Obama in his early years titled “Rising Star.” By all rights, the book should have been a massive hit upon its release in 2017. Instead, it underperformed. The revelations contained therein never hit the… -
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Gender Zealots Out to Cancel Politicians, Religious Leaders for Speaking Truth
Two politicians from Mexico traveled last week to Washington, D.C., to share chilling stories of how their left-wing government is punishing them for speaking out against gender ideology. The politicians, Rodrigo Iván Cortés and Gabriel Quadri, criticized Mexico’s ruling party, the Movement for Social Regeneration (or Morena), which runs a government with a totalitarian streak…. -
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‘Very Little Keeping Down Prices Going Forward,’ Economist Says After Inflation Report Released
An economist says "[a]s long as the Treasury continues borrowing trillions of dollars, we'll continue to see elevated inflation" after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday that inflation was 0.2% in July with a year-over-year rate of 3.2% "Inflation has not been trending towards 3%, but 2%. Now that we've arrived there, there's no indication we're… -
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Ohio Faces a Time for Choosing on Abortion
I recently spent a weekend with dear friends and their newborn baby boy. At only 2 weeks old, their son can’t do much, except eat, sleep, and move his arms and legs around. As a new mom, my friend said she has watched her son make movements that she recognizes are the same movements she… -
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‘Egregiously Obvious’ That Biden Admin Violated First Amendment Rights, Tech Policy Expert Says
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, recently tweeted a lengthy thread in hopes of exposing Americans to the so-called Facebook Files. Using all capital letters, Jordan wrote July 27: “THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE.” Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also has tweeted about… -
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Biden Champions ‘Equal Pay’ While His Own White House Pays Women Less Than Men
The White House, on average, pays female employees less than male employees, even as President Joe Biden calls for equal pay in the wider American economy, according to data analyzed by Mark Perry, an economist and senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. The White House’s median salary for men in 2023 was $105,000,… -
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US Aid to Ukraine Amounts to $900 Per American Household, Economist Says
Congressionally approved aid for Ukraine has cost each U.S. household hundreds of dollars, Heritage Foundation budget expert Richard Stern says. “The formal aid packages alone amount to a staggering $113 billion—roughly $900 per American household and almost 12 times the spending cuts promised by House leadership in the annual spending bills,” Stern, director of The… -
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Don’t Defend Planned Parenthood’s ‘Gender-Affirming Care.’ Defund It.
In post-Roe America, Planned Parenthood is shifting gears. To make up for its lost abortion revenue, it’s expanding its reach into what it calls “transgender hormone therapy.” The recent spike in these services is telling. According to their most recent annual reports, most of the nearly 600 Planned Parenthood centers now dispense cross-sex hormones. In… -
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First, NY Democrats Came for Pizza Ovens. Now, They’re Coming for Ice Cream Trucks.
First, they came for pizza ovens. Now, they’re coming for ice cream trucks. New York City Democrats have decided to take down what they’ve identified as the city’s—make that, the planet’s—biggest threat. If you thought that meant that they were finally going to go hard after crime or ditch Manhattan’s soft-on-crime district attorney, Alvin Bragg,… -
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‘ESPECIALLY CRUEL’: Mother of Down Syndrome Daughter Calls Montgomery County’s Denial to Opt Out ‘an Attack on Children’
GREENBELT, Md.—Muslim and Christian parents protested Wednesday outside the U.S. District Court of Maryland two hours before the court would hear arguments about the Montgomery County school district's refusal to allow them to opt their children out of the LGBTQ book curriculum “Pride Storybooks." Grace Morrison, a Catholic mother who has a daughter with Down… -
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House Panel Hears From Gender Medicine’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ on His Insane Surgical Option for Minors
Light may be breaking through the darkness of gender ideology, as revealed by a recent hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on “due process violations and gender-affirming care.” During the hearing, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., showed part of a video interview with Dr. Blair Peters, who performs transgender surgeries on minors and adults at Oregon Health… -
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EXCLUSIVE: As White House Pushed Facebook to Censor COVID-19 Vaccine Content, Facebook Employees Leaked to White House
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Facebook staffers were leaking to the White House as the tech company and the Biden administration battled over COVID-19 vaccine content and whether Facebook should be censoring it, according to emails obtained by The Daily Signal. In an April 18, 2021, email that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, produced… -
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$20M and Counting: Tally on Foreign Money to Biden Family Rises With Release of New Bank Records
The tally of foreign money to the Biden family has hit at least $20 million, based on the third round of bank records the House Oversight and Accountability Committee released Wednesday—pointing to millions from oligarchs from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. Foreign sources sent the money to Biden family members and business associates while Joe Biden… -
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Barack Obama: The Man, the Myth, the Legend (to Be Continued)
The media deification of Barack Obama has really never ended. His election to the presidency in 2008 was treated as a milestone, like man landing on the moon. Allegedly objective journalists lined up in every studio and on every front page to do him homage. It wasn’t journalism. It was more like idolatry. It was…