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Planned Parenthood Backs Court-Packing, Term Limits for Justices
Planned Parenthood announced Sunday that it supports Supreme Court reforms such as court-packing and term limits, according to a statement. After Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, Planned Parenthood launched a “Reclaim Our Courts” website and $100,000 ad campaign to highlight how former President Donald Trump “drastically changed the makeup of our courts.” Its latest position… -
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Is My Money Safe? Financial Expert Explains Recent Bank Failures, Questions Activity of JPMorgan Chase
Americans needn’t worry about the safety of their money at the bank, financial and investment expert David Bahnsen says. Three large American banks have collapsed since the beginning of the year, but “there’s almost nothing in common at all with these three banks closing, relative to all the 2008 closings,” says Bahnsen, founder and chief… -
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FOREBODING: SPLC ‘Laying the Groundwork’ for Government to Silence Conservatives, Traditional Catholic Warns
The FBI appears, at least briefly, to have joined the Southern Poverty Law Center's attempt to demonize Roman Catholics who follow the church's teachings on marriage and who celebrate the Latin Mass, in a move one traditional Catholic leader calls both embarrassing and foreboding. Michael J. Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper and producer of… -
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Vegan Wokescolds at PETA Team Up With AI to Rewrite the Bible
Once again, the Left is trying to appropriate the Bible for its own political purposes, this time with the help of artificial intelligence. Yes, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals last week published a rather milquetoast rewrite of the book of Genesis entitled “The Book: PETA’s Version of the Creation Story.” The result is… -
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Mother’s Day Presents an Opportunity to Honor and Stand Up for Real Women
It’s a man’s world again. We’ve won. We’ve seized women’s sports, parenting titles, and Woman of the Year and Prom Queen awards. The gals were making headway there for a while, but now the men are back on top. I can still remember them, although their memory fades by the day—actual women, that is. Once… -
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Those Systemically Racial Pulitzer Prizes
In theory, the Pulitzer Prizes are a celebration of the best journalism in America. But in reality, it represents something entirely different. It rewards left-wing journalists for most effectively thumping the tub for the Left. They call it “[elevating] our understanding of the world.” We’ve entered the third year of the Biden administration, and no… -
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Biden’s Blunders, From A to Z
After reading my list of former President Donald Trump’s triumphs, from A to Z, nationally syndicated radio host Bill Martinez suggested during one of our weekly interviews that I give President Joe Biden’s blunders the same alphabetical treatment. Here goes. Afghanistan’s humiliating abandonment to the Taliban, amid America’s chaotic and deadly military withdrawal, may be Biden’s biggest… -
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Every State Is a Border State: How the Migrant Crisis Impacts Wisconsin, Alabama, Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Republicans in the House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass HR 2, a massive border bill. Many of them who represent states far removed geographically from the border told The Daily Signal how the crisis is impacting their states. “We have had a rash of fentanyl overdoses in the 3rd Congressional District in the… -
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WATCH: Border Patrol Blocks Media From Documenting Illegal Immigrants’ Entry Into US
EL PASO, Texas— At midnight on Thursday evening, the pandemic-era rule allowing authorities to expel illegal immigrants at the southern border expired. A large group of migrants waited outside Gate 42 in El Paso, Texas, to enter the United States from Mexico. As reporters at the border in El Paso sought to document the illegal… -
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The Great Left-Wing Disinformation Operation Against the Supreme Court
The past five weeks has seen a flurry of media activity, clearly coordinated, against the right-of-center U.S. Supreme Court. First, the outlet ProPublica began publishing a series of pieces “exposing” the well-known fact of Justice Clarence Thomas’ long-running friendship with billionaire real estate tycoon Harlan Crow, and alleging ethical improprieties pertaining to the justice’s purported… -
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Democrats’ Debt Ceiling Position Makes Zero Sense
“If you buy a car,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained the other day, “you are expected to pay the monthly payment. … It’s that simple.” Is it? Now, obviously, those who argue that the president can cancel millions of student loans by decree aren’t in a position to offer lessons on personal responsibility…. -
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11 Defensive Gun Uses Show How Lawful Gun Owners ‘Get It Right’
Often lost in conversations about gun violence is the reality of who is responsible for the bulk of that violence. Most gun crimes aren’t committed by lawful gun owners but by a small subset of repeat violent offenders who already are prohibited from legally possessing firearms. At the same time, the vast majority of the nation’s… -
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Republicans to Hold Hearing on DOJ Targeting Pro-Lifers
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republican lawmakers will hold a hearing next week focusing on the Department of Justice’s targeting of pro-life activists like Mark Houck through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, The Daily Signal has learned. On Tuesday morning, the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and limited government will revisit the… -
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‘Woke’ Pentagon Unites House Conservatives, Tuberville in Standoff Over Military Promotions
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A group of House conservatives made their way across the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday night for a rare appearance on the Senate floor. They were there to show solidarity with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican crusading against the Pentagon’s woke leadership. At least 10 conservatives were on hand to witness… -
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Co-Author of GOP Border Bill Explains Why It Passed the House While the 2014 Version Didn’t
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Reps. John Rutherford, R-Fla., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., celebrated the passage of a Republican bill to secure the U.S.-Mexico border as Title 42 was set to expire on Thursday, explaining how the bill addresses the border crisis and warning that if the crisis isn’t solved, “This is going to get more people murdered.” The… -
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New NC Supreme Court Majority Overturns Prior Majority’s Unconstitutional Interference in Redistricting
In a detailed, 146-page opinion by Chief Justice Paul Newby, the newly composed North Carolina state Supreme Court vacated and overturned a prior decision by the same court that was a prime example of political interference by activist judges, who were fully prepared to ignore the law and the constitutional limitations on their authority. This… -
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House Passes Border Bill as Illegal Alien Encounters Surge on Southern Border
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday aimed at securing the United States’ southern border and stopping the flood of illegal aliens entering the country. “I was pleased to see provisions to restart construction of the border wall, end catch and release, and reinstate the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy included in this… -
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How to Introduce Others to the God of the Bible
There are four primary reasons that fewer and fewer people in America and the West take God, the Bible, or religion seriously: 1. The belief that science disproves religion. 2. The belief that reason and feelings supplant God and the Bible as the only necessary vehicles to morality. 3. The “progressive” ideologies of at least… -
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Biden Can’t Ignore Constitution and Give Himself Unilateral Power to Raise Debt Ceiling
The U.S. government has long been a spendthrift. It spends more than it takes in—now more than ever. The national debt has ballooned to a mind-boggling $31.46 trillion. To put that into perspective, the federal government has burdened each citizen with about $94,000 of this debt, but because many (most) citizens do not directly pay… -
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‘Horror Story That Is Joe Biden’s America’: Senators Expect Border Catastrophe as Title 42 Ends
Senate Republicans predict more chaos to roil an existing humanitarian and national security crisis at the southern border and blame President Joe Biden’s inaction for allowing Title 42 to expire at 11:59 p.m. Thursday. The Biden administration “can’t even say the words ‘illegal immigration,’” and instead reword it as “irregular migration,” Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb.,…