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Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal: Something Smells Rotten Here
In what only can be described as a bizarre and disturbing turn of events, after a five-year investigation the Justice Department this week announced a plea agreement with Hunter Biden, the troubled son of President Joe Biden. Under the deal, the president’s son would plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay… -
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9 Allegations About Bidens, DOJ in IRS Whistleblowers’ Testimonies
The White House won’t respond and Attorney General Merrick Garland is playing defense after the release of sworn testimony from two IRS whistleblowers alleging special treatment in the agency’s investigation of the president’s son, Hunter Biden. The House Ways and Means Committee voted Thursday to make public the transcripts of the IRS agents’ testimonies—two days… -
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A Year After Dobbs, Let’s Protect Life and Parental Rights
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court failed to honor the right to life, the most basic human right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, in its Roe v. Wade decision. Since then, the political Left and the radical abortion industry have attempted to sell young women on the idea that killing babies in their wombs… -
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1 Step Forward and 1 Step Back in Immigration Enforcement
When it comes to our immigration laws, the Supreme Court issued two important decisions on Friday, one that benefits the enforcement of the law and one that, unfortunately, does not but instead will allow the Biden administration to continue to endanger public safety due to, as Justice Samuel Alito said in his dissent, its “federal… -
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National Parks Sponsor Pride Marches, Create LGBTQ ‘Teaching’ Resources With Taxpayer Dollars
Instead of spending time preserving natural history, some federally funded parks are sponsoring Pride month events and teaching LGBTQ history to the public. Earlier this month, Yosemite National Park in California held a weeklong Pride celebration sponsored by Yosemite’s LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group. The events included a speaker series as well as a Pride march… -
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Mike Pence Challenges 2024 Field to Support National 15-Week Abortion Ban
As his fellow 2024 presidential candidates shy away from abortion, former Vice President Mike Pence is instead embracing the issue—and calling for the 2024 field to support a national 15-week abortion ban. The former vice president spoke out at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C., an evangelical conference where candidates gathered on… -
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As National Debt Hits $32 Trillion, 4 Examples of Absurd ‘Only in Washington’ Budget Logic
American families must find ways to pinch pennies every day, especially in the face of massive inflation since the start of the Biden administration. In contrast, the federal government has just reached the shameful milestone of $32 trillion in gross debt, or more than $245,000 for every household in the country. That's the result of… -
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Wins—and Woes—Abound 1 Year After Roe v. Wade Overturned
One year ago, on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court righted a grave wrong by overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States. In its Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, the court said that Americans can protect unborn life at any stage through “their elected representatives … in… -
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Is Truth Winning? Musk, Rowling Deride Use of Term ‘Cisgender’
Is “cisgender” about to be relegated to the dustbin of history? The term, which has relentlessly been popularized by gender ideologues and their liberal media allies, refers to a person “whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned to them at birth,” as the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBT activist group, puts it in… -
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Pearls Before ‘Swine’: Pop Star Lovato’s New Song Is Profane Pro-Abortion Rant
Warning: This article contains language that could be offensive to some readers. While pro-lifers celebrate the first anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, singer-songwriter Demi Lovato’s new song “Swine” epitomizes leftists’ fear of, and fury at, a growing pro-life America. On Thursday, Lovato—perhaps best known among Generation Z for her lead role in… -
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Don’t Let Hunter’s Plea Deal Distract From the Real Biden Problem: Ukraine
In today’s America, it sure is nice to be a Biden. Presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden’s transparently sweetheart plea deal consummated this week with his daddy’s Justice Department encapsulates, in many ways, the two-tiered system of justice that conservatives have been decrying at least since then-FBI Director James Comey let then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton off… -
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Pro-Life Coffee Company Donates $100K to Pregnancy Centers Since Roe v. Wade Reversal
An up-and-coming pro-life coffee business, Seven Weeks Coffee, has donated over $100,000 to pro-life pregnancy care centers since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, and over $125,000 since the company’s establishment in late 2021. Why the name "Seven Weeks Coffee"? Anton Krecic, the company's founder and CEO, told The Daily Signal, “At seven weeks… -
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Joe Biden Is Not OK
On June 16, President Joe Biden ended a big gun-control speech in Connecticut with the words, “God save the queen, man.” Why did the president express adoration for the departed Brit monarch? Was he confused about royal succession? Who knows. When asked about the incident, White House aides offered nonsensical and conflicting answers—because they have… -
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Judge Misreads Supreme Court in Ruling Boy’s ‘2 Genders’ T-Shirt Makes Others Feel ‘Unsafe’
Score one for the woke scolds, who now get to dictate what kinds of messages nonwoke students are permitted to express in school. Liam Morrison, a 12-year-old from Massachusetts, was sent home from school for wearing a T-shirt declaring in all capital letters: “THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS.” The reason? Liam was told that his… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Lankford Lays Out How GOP Should Approach Abortion Post-Roe v. Wade
FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Saturday will mark one year since the historic day Roe v. Wade was overturned. Republican Sen. James Lankford sat down with The Daily Signal to discuss what the post-Roe landscape looks like, as well as the Republicans who shy away from discussing abortion and the Democrats who promote it. The Oklahoma… -
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Unlike Politicians, Numbers Don’t Lie: ‘Fact-Checkers’ Slant Left
Conservatives on Twitter are mocking CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale again, especially since his Twitter bio explains his work as “fact-checking the president.” Fox News reported on June 16 that Dale hasn’t published a fact-check of President Joe Biden since March 30, and that was only online, not on TV. “Since that time, though, his database… -
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas’ Challenge to Biden Border Policy
The Supreme Court Friday struck down Texas and Louisiana's legal challenge to new Biden administration border policies that violate federal statutes and harm citizens in Texas and Louisiana, the states argued. (Read the full ruling below.) All justices besides Samuel Alito concurred in the opinion that Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge the new… -
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When Science Became Political, It Lost Americans’ Trust
Institutional trust is built over the course of years. Decades. Centuries. Dishonesty takes just a moment to destroy institutional trust. This week, Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine, got into a spat with podcaster Joe Rogan and presidential candidate Robert… -
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The Brexit Blame Game
Seven years ago, on June 23, 2016, the British people voted to leave the European Union. That departure didn’t happen until early 2020, and even now, Britain isn’t completely out. That hints at the fundamental problem: Although a majority of British voters chose to leave the EU, a majority of British politicians—and an even larger… -
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‘We Don’t Need’ Abortion, Former NFL Star Ben Watson Says of Black Community
Former NFL tight end and pro-life advocate Ben Watson says he didn’t want to write a book about abortion and race. “It’s two heavy topics,” Watson says, adding that he saw a connection that needed to be made between the two topics, and “perhaps not in the traditional way.” Pro-abortion advocates argue that women, especially…