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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.,… -
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Recognizing Risks of Opening a Pandora’s Box on Reparations
In the quest for recompense for historical injustices, the California Reparations Task Force has taken a bold and controversial step. Recommending payments of up to $1.2 million to every qualifying black resident, the nine-member panel aims to address the long-standing racial disparities and inequalities in the state. But as the nation witnesses this unfolding drama,… -
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Texas on the Verge of Allowing Chaplains in Public Schools
A bill allowing chaplains in schools passed the Texas Legislature Tuesday evening after the state’s House of Representatives voted largely along party lines, according to Religion News Service. House Bill 3614 was introduced by Republican state Rep. Cole Hefner in March and if signed into law would allow schools to “employ or accept as volunteers chaplains,” according… -
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In Our Nation’s Capital, Chinese Students Seek Freedom From Communist Oppression
A group of Chinese students in Washington, D.C., is taking a stand against the Chinese Communist Party’s interference in U.S. academia. This small but determined group of students at George Washington University released a statement April 25 announcing the establishment of an Independent Chinese Student Union to give young local Chinese a platform to organize… -
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Weaponizing Death
Recently, there has been a spate of horrific homicides. The killers, whether committing mass shootings or single killings, are hard to stereotype. They can be clearly either mentally ill or simply innately evil. They can kill for revenge, for ideological purposes, out of hatred, for notoriety—or for no known reason at all. They are probably… -
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Are School Libraries Banning Thousands of Books? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Trust the Left’s Narrative
“What we’re seeing here is a resurgence of widespread censorship in America,” Nadine Farid Johnson recently told The Wall Street Journal. Johnson is the Washington director of PEN America and co-author of its report claiming to identify 2,532 books banned in public schools during the 2021-2022 school year. PEN America advocates on behalf of poets,… -
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Alabama Senator Blasts Lloyd Austin: ‘Most Political Secretary of Defense We’ve Ever Seen’
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., once again stymied his Democrat colleagues from approving nearly 200 promotions for military generals and flag officers—while also picking up an ally in his ongoing dispute with the Pentagon over its new abortion policy. The latest standoff took place Wednesday evening when Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., asked for unanimous consent to… -
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Did Tucker Carlson Just Kill Cable News?
Tucker Carlson is back, or about to be back, but not on cable news. The ex-Fox News prime-time host will host a show on Twitter. “You can’t have a free society if people aren’t allowed to say what they think is true,” Carlson said in a video shared on his Twitter Tuesday. “Speech is the… -
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What to Know About End of Title 42 and Biden’s New Asylum Rule
An estimated 13,000 illegal aliens are expected to cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day beginning Thursday. That’s more than double the daily average in March. This expected spike in the number of migrants crossing the border illegally is the direct result of the end of Title 42, a public health measure set in place under… -
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Biden’s Expensive, Unrealistic Push for Electric Vehicles
President Joe Biden’s latest push for electric vehicles is reminiscent of a soliloquy by Don Quixote: short on facts, long on rhetoric, and filled with unrealistic expectations. Sadly, though, Biden’s policy mistakes are moving beyond fiction to a reality that confines consumers to cars that are unaffordable and unwanted. Like Don Quixote tilting at harmless windmills… -
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WATCH: Illegal Aliens Stream Over Border Ahead of Title 42’s End
EL PASO, Texas—In the waning hours of Title 42, the public health measure that enabled Border Patrol to expel illegal aliens from the border, The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan and Tim Kennedy traveled to El Paso, Texas, and captured footage of comparative calm before the expected storm. A Border Patrol agent told The Daily… -
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Lefty Media Ignore Conservative Group’s Massive Victory Against SPLC, Despite NYT Reporter Calling It ‘Front-Page News’
More than a month after a judge handed a conservative organization a monumental legal victory against the Southern Poverty Law Center, most legacy media outlets have ignored the story, even though a New York Times reporter said it was “front-page news.” The Southern Poverty Law Center routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,”… -
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Exploding Border Crisis May Mark Terminal Stage of Biden’s Presidency
This may mark a terminal stage of President Joe Biden’s time in the Oval Office. On Thursday, the Biden administration finally will drop Title 42, a public health policy implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Trump administration that allowed for the quick deportation of illegal immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic…. -
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5 Keys to Understanding Biden’s Nominee for Top Economist Who Pushed for IRS Expansion, Green New Deal
On Thursday, the Senate Banking Committee will consider whether to advance the president’s adviser who has been called “Joe Biden’s man on the left” and the man behind “Bidenomics” to be chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Jared Bernstein has pushed the president’s spending and climate policies and was among the most… -
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Schumer on Cusp of Defunding DC Police Department as Crime Explodes
At a time when crime is exploding in Washington D.C., why is Sen. Chuck Schumer for defunding the Washington Metropolitan Police Department? On April 19, by a vote of 229-189, a bipartisan group of members in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to disapprove (i.e., rejected) the adoption of the fraudulently named Comprehensive Policing and… -
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Woke Capitalism Threatens US National Security, Alabama Attorney General Says
Left-wing environmental, social, and governance policies in corporate America are “a clear and present danger to consumers and to our democracy,” according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. “An unelected cabal of global elites is using ESG to hijack our capitalist system, capture corporations, and threaten hard-earned dollars of American workers,” Marshall, a Republican, said… -
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Comer Trusts Whistleblower, Awaiting FBI Info on Influence Peddling Allegation
While releasing information about $10 million flowing to Biden family members at a press conference Wednesday, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer said a whistleblower’s bribery allegations against President Joe Biden "are consistent with our independent findings.” The committee subpoenaed the FBI last week for forms with information regarding a whistleblower's claim that the…