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US Army and America: Together Accomplishing Big Things
On Wednesday, the U.S. Army turns 248 years old. It was born by congressional resolution even before America was a nation. The words “This we will defend,” emblazoned on the Army flag, encapsulate the ideals of the Army. They reflect the requirement that the primary mission of the Army is to defend America and its… -
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Major League Baseball Strikes All Pride Jerseys
In this Year of Consumer Backlash, it may go down as one of the biggest coups of 2023. While Americans bring the country’s mightiest brands to their knees, Major League Baseball has decided to dodge the flak, quietly ordering teams to ditch their Pride uniforms entirely. The directive, which was issued at the height of the NHL’s players’… -
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Republicans Have Second Chance to Strengthen Welfare Work Requirements With Farm Bill
The media has given outsized attention to minor modifications to work requirements for welfare recipients in the debt ceiling deal between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Such modifications will have a relatively modest impact despite the fact that Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike overwhelmingly support work requirements. That’s why reform-minded politicians should… -
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Watchdog: Trump Indictment Puts Pressure on Special Counsel Investigating Biden Classified Documents
The special counsel investigating the classified documents kept by President Joe Biden could face pressure to act after last week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump, according to a government watchdog group. Robert Hur, a former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Maryland, was appointed special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in January amid revelations that… -
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Elementary School Holds Pride Month Celebration For Little Kids
An elementary school in Charlottesville, Virginia, encouraged fourth graders to lead a pride month celebration of LGBTQ+ gender ideology during a schoolwide monthly meeting, video obtained by The Daily Signal shows. Video shows a little girl at Johnson Elementary School speaking into a microphone and telling a crowd of assembled children, who are all sitting… -
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A ‘Delusion’ Led to ‘Deindustrialization’ of America, Sen. Marco Rubio Says
Strong communities and families, well-paying jobs, and industrial power—those are three key foundations to America’s success, according to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. America was at its best when it had all three, but “all of them have been undermined,” the Florida Republican says. According to Rubio, after the Cold War, America’s leaders thought all nations… -
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Tide Turning Against Biological Men Competing in Women’s Sports, New Poll Finds—Even Among Democrats
The tide appears to be turning against radical gender ideology in a big way. Just this Saturday, a transgender cyclist won a North Carolina race by more than five minutes. Retired tennis star Martina Navratilova said of the result: “What a joke.” A joke, indeed. It seems many Americans agree with Navratilova. A new Gallup… -
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John Roberts Doesn’t Follow Own Advice in Supreme Court’s Alabama Redistricting Case
Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote in a 2007 case: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” He was exactly right in saying so in that Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. Too bad… -
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Pittsburgh ‘Pride Mass’ Canceled Following Backlash
An LGBTQ group's "Pride Mass" has been canceled following a report from The Daily Signal highlighting the bishop of Pittsburgh's condemnation of the event. The Mass had been scheduled to take place on June 11, at 1 p.m. at Duquesne Holy Spirit Chapel, and was to be presided over by Father Doug Boyd, according to… -
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CNN’s Mostly False Take on Biden’s Stance on Abortion
As CNN looks for a new leader, then-CNN host Brian Stelter proposed this as the most important question: “What should an anchor do when a guest says something untrue?” The public could turn this question around: “What should a politician do when a CNN host says something untrue?” The Stelters of this world cannot imagine… -
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We Are Jews Against Soros
George Soros is an evil man. In fact, he is one of the most evil men currently shaping American and Western politics, and global events more generally. To straightforwardly opine in this manner is not to traffic in antisemitism or noxious Jew-baiting. It is simply to share one’s perspective about one of the most influential… -
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Fact Check: Biden Admin Says Encounters With Illegal Aliens Are Way Down at Border. Is It True?
The Biden administration is celebrating a dramatic decrease of 70% in the official number of encounters with illegal aliens in the past month at the nation's southwest border. “As a result of planning and execution—which combined stiffer consequences for unlawful entry with a historic expansion of lawful pathways and processes—unlawful entries between ports of… -
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DC Parents Bring Babies, Toddlers to Drag Queen Story Hour
Parents brought babies, toddlers, and little children to a Washington, D.C., drag queen story hour where a man dressed as a flamboyant woman read books about gender ideology for children. As part of Washington’s Capital Pride events, the Capital Pride Alliance provided a “family zone” where Playtime Project, an organization that offers “transformative play experiences”… -
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Bishops Call for Prayers, Reparation Ahead of Dodgers’ Anti-Catholic Pride Night ‘Blasphemy’
Catholic bishops in the United States are calling for prayers and acts of reparation ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ "Pride Night" featuring an anti-Catholic group of drag performers posing as religious sisters. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who is the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and heads the Archdiocese for the Military… -
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RISING GENERATION: Students for Life of America Trains Hundreds of Aspiring Pro-Life Leaders
A national pro-life group will train hundreds of students and adults to advocate for life, including by participating in an event celebrating the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Students for Life of America will train 230 students and adults at its third annual National Leadership Collective Kick-off, SFLA told The Daily Signal… -
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Planned Parenthood Taxpayer Funding Up; Abortion and ‘Transgender’ Services High Priorities
Planned Parenthood’s 2021-2022 annual report is out: Taxpayer funding is at an all-time high and abortion remains a key priority. Meanwhile, visits for actual health care—like cancer screening and prevention services and prenatal care—continue to decline. The abortion giant has also been diversifying its portfolio of services, trying to corner the market in so-called transgender… -
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GOP Lawmakers Rip Biden for Giving LGBTQ Banner Treatment Equal to That of US Flag
People visiting Washington, D.C., this weekend probably expected to see a white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. Instead, the president’s residence was plastered in rainbow and transgender colors, an over-the-top display of the current resident’s LGBTQ fixation. It was a stark contrast to the mood in the rest of America, where the fury over “Pride” displays has… -
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In UK Relations, Biden Administration Substitutes ‘Declarations’ for Action
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak—the U.K.’s third prime minister in the past year—visited the White House on Thursday in his first official trip to the U.S. This is the fourth time that Sunak and President Joe Biden have seen each other in the past four months. But familiarity isn’t breeding much in this relationship. The… -
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This One Tool Helped Delay Biden’s Attack on Women’s Sports, and You Can Use It to Fight His War on Gas Cars
Cars are already more expensive than they were three years ago, but if the Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden has its way, we’ll be pining for the good old days of 2023. Imagine selective abortion meets “Grand Theft Auto,” as a Heritage Foundation scholar recently dubbed it. The kind of cars most Americans… -
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‘A Very Dangerous Situation,’ Benedict Rogers Says of US Depending Too Much on China For Imports
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, “the United States imports more from China than from any other country.” The total volume of imports in 2022 from China into the U.S. amounted to more than $536 billion, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported. The Group of Seven leaders in May issued a statement about…