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To ‘Buy Sudafed,’ Board Plane Require ID. So Should Voting, Nikki Haley Says.
Tucker Carlson asked Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley a series of probing questions about her presidential candidacy on Friday. Haley spoke with the former Fox News host at the Family Leadership Summit, being held in Des Moines, Iowa. Several other Republican presidential hopefuls also took part in the event. Haley, who declared her candidacy for… -
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How Mike Pence Answers When Tucker Carlson Asks About Jan. 6, Election Reforms, and Ukraine
Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke about his role during the Capitol riot, backed election reforms, and argued on behalf of Ukraine in a sometimes contentious interview Friday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The former vice president, Indiana governor, and congressman sat down with Carlson in Des Moines, Iowa, during the Family Leadership… -
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Electric Vehicles: Costly Virtue Signaling Forced on America by Left
The Left likes to treat skeptics of electrical cars as if they were Luddites. Truth is, making an existing product less efficient, but more expensive, doesn’t really meet the definition of innovation. Even the purported amenities and technological advances EV makers like to brag about in their ads have been a regular feature of gas-powered… -
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Iowa Governor Signs ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Banning Abortion After 6 Weeks
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a “heartbeat bill” into law on Friday, banning abortions after six weeks, when a fetal heartbeat can be detected. This makes Iowa the 13th state to have a heartbeat bill protecting the unborn. “Not only will I continue to fight against the inhumanity of abortion, but I will also remain… -
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10 Reasons Why Affirmative Action Died
The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise in the Supreme Court’s recent decision was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so long. First, supporters of racial preferences always pushed back the goal posts for the program’s success. Was institutionalized reverse bias to last 20 years, 60 years, or ad infinitum? Parity… -
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What’s Causing Pandemic of Adult Children Who Won’t Ever Again Speak to Their Parents?
There is a pandemic in the Western world—especially, but not only, in America—that few are talking about, let alone addressing. This pandemic doesn’t actually kill people. But it does destroy people, ruin lives, crush families, and cause permanent, debilitating pain—far more than have the vast majority of cases of COVID-19. This pandemic consists of adult… -
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Biden’s Evolving Biology on Abortion
When President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on the last day of February in honor of Women’s History Month, which was then about to commence on March 1, he made abortion one of its central themes. In doing so, he employed a misleading euphemism that has become a common cliche used by pro-abortion politicians: “their… -
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If You Don’t Like ‘Conservative Principles Driven by Judeo-Christian Foundation,’ Sen. Tim Scott Says, ‘Choose Another Candidate’
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott says his public policy priorities might not be for everyone. “For those who don’t like commonsense, conservative principles driven by the Judeo-Christian foundation, choose another candidate,” said Scott, R-S.C. “It’s that simple.” Scott made his remarks during a nearly 30-minute onstage interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson… -
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EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Rule Would Drive Cars and Trucks Off the Road. It’s Also Illegal.
Since the 2020 election, President Joe Biden has made clear his intention to drive America’s gasoline- and diesel-powered cars and trucks right off our roads. In May, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new rule that would impose such strict emissions limits that carmakers would only be able to comply with them by switching the… -
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Sorry, Gov. Newsom, but Citizens Want to Use Guns to Defend Themselves, Others
Last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his proposal for a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which the Democrat says would “enshrine fundamental, broadly supported gun safety measures into law while leaving the Second Amendment unchanged.” Although the Second Amendment protects individual liberty by telling the government what it can’t do with respect to… -
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5 Major Cases That Highlighted Supreme Court’s 2022-2023 Term
Another year, another Supreme Court term in the books. And again, the court kept everyone waiting for many of its most consequential decisions until the last days of the 2022-2023 term. It was worth the wait, however, since the court issued important decisions that proved to be victories for the rule of law on affirmative… -
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Smoke, Mirrors, and Justice
In the recently concluded term, the Supreme Court found itself in a storm of consequential cases, overturning precedents, and taking controversial stances that shifted society and upheld constitutional values. Democrats have, in reaction, decried the Supreme Court, framing it as a rogue entity, a politicized institution that has lost its credibility. They lament what they… -
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Montana State Library Commission Cuts Ties With American Library Association Over New ‘Marxist Lesbian’ President
The Montana State Library Commission voted Tuesday to withdraw from the American Library Association based on that organization’s new president, who is a “Marxist lesbian” by her own description. The lopsided vote (5-1, with one abstention) represents the first time a state entity has withdrawn from the 147-year-old nonprofit. “Our oath of office and resulting duty to the… -
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‘It’s Time … to Take Off the Golden Blindfolds,’ GOP Rep Tells US Corporate Leaders Doing Business in China
A Republican congressman warned about the dangers of foreign companies doing business in China, noting that “Beijing reserves the right to swipe any data, seize any assets, and filch any IP [intellectual property] that it wishes.” “The government often mandates the creation of [Chinese Communist Party] cells inside firms, and China’s Military-Civil Fusion Policy means… -
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House Votes to End Pentagon Abortion Funding in Passing National Defense Authorization Act
A divided House voted Friday morning to pass an annual national defense bill after Republicans amended it to prohibit the Pentagon from spending taxpayers’ money to pay for travel and other abortion-related expenses. With this pro-life amendment, the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 passed by a bipartisan vote of 219-210,… -
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How Fauci and NIH Leaders Worked to Discredit COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory
House of Representatives investigators just issued an interim report on Tuesday detailing a sophisticated effort by leaders at the National Institutes of Health and a select group of researchers—including those who had received substantial NIH grant funding—to disprove the hypothesis that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese research laboratory and push the narrative that it instead… -
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What’s at Stake If FBI Isn’t Fixed
The FBI needs to be fixed, because it has become a threat to the fundamental liberties of Americans, Steve Bradbury of The Heritage Foundation argues in a lengthy new white paper released this week. “The liberty of the American people is under threat from politicized national security agencies, exemplified by the abuses of the Federal… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Laptop Deniers Employed by Taxpayer-Funded Groups
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. tax dollars are going to the employers of former intelligence officials who signed a misleading open letter in 2020 claiming that emails, photos, and other content on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop likely amounted to a “Russian information operation.” The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project determined that research organizations, think tanks that… -
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SAFER IN PERU? Dylan Mulvaney’s Latest Gambit to Shut Down Trans Debate
Is it a new day in America? Dylan Mulvaney just deployed the “s” word—and it doesn’t seem like it’s changed anything about the boycott of Bud Light, which continues to lose sales months after partnering up with the transgender influencer, much less the larger national debate about gender identity. In a new TikTok video, Mulvaney… -
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Secret Service Closes White House Cocaine Probe. Heritage Isn’t Giving Up So Easily
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is demanding that the Secret Service turn over the list of individuals who may have accessed the area of the White House where cocaine was discovered over the Fourth of July weekend, on the heels of news Thursday that the agency had closed the investigation. "Pursuant…