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The Death of My Dog Taught Me 2 Important Lessons About Our Secular Age
Last week, Otto, my beloved English bulldog, died. He died as he lived—peacefully. His presence in our home for 12 years was an unmitigated joy. He also, amazingly, became the best-known dog in America through sheer happenstance; he was on camera during almost all of my nearly 300 weekly “Fireside Chats” for PragerU and became… -
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Missouri County GOP Cites Bible in Resolution Endorsing Natural Marriage
Years after many declared the debate on same-sex marriage closed, a chapter of the Republican Party has passed a resolution defining marriage exclusively as the union of one man and one woman, based on nature and the testimony of Scripture. On April 24, the Republican Party of Jackson County, Missouri, passed the “Defense of Marriage”… -
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‘We Will Deny You Security Unless You Do What We Want’: Republicans Slam Democrat Tactics on Supreme Court Ethics
Republicans are denouncing Democratic senators’ attempt to leverage the Supreme Court budget in exchange for an enforceable ethics code. During a Senate Judiciary hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform, Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., tore into their Democratic colleagues for “threatening to cut off the funding for the security at the Supreme… -
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Everything You Need to Know About New Leaker Case
A federal magistrate judge in Worcester, Massachusetts, heard arguments last week on whether the young airman accused of leaking scores of classified documents should be freed on bond or detained pending trial. Judge David H. Hennessy, after listening to government and defense lawyers for 90 minutes, took the matter under advisement Thursday and said he… -
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Chevron Deference, Long Abused by Federal Agencies, on Supreme Court’s Chopping Block?
Who makes the law in America? If you answered “Congress,” you’d be partly right. Congress makes part of the law in America, but only a very small part. And who interprets the law in America? Again, if you answered “the courts,” you’d only be partly right. Vastly more law is made and interpreted by the… -
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‘We’re Not Doing That Here,’ Oklahoma Schools Superintendent Says of DEI Instruction
Oklahoma is taking a lead on school choice programs and resisting far-left ideology in classrooms across the state. “It is amazing how aggressive the Biden administration is with this radical agenda towards our schools,” Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, says. When he came into office, Walters says he told staffers there, “We’re… -
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Takes on Biden Executive Election Takeover
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans in Congress are moving to rein in President Joe Biden’s executive order putting federal agencies in the business of getting out the vote. Their proposed legislation would defund any federally backed voter mobilization drives and prohibit the government from entering election-related agreements with private, nonprofit organizations to mobilize voters. Rep…. -
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Mark Morgan Calls Out Hypocrisy of Corporate Media’s Silence Over New Photos of ‘Kids in Cages’
The Biden administration is holding migrant children in cages and the leftist media is silent. “Where Is the mainstream media? Where is their outrage right now?,” Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, asks. Morgan, who is also a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, confirmed Monday to The Daily… -
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How Biden’s Plan to Penalize Responsible Homebuyers Could Ravage Retirement Savings by $31,000
The Federal Housing Finance Agency just announced it will hike the loan-level pricing adjustment fee on homebuyers with high credit scores and redistribute those funds to borrowers with low credit scores. That’s not an insignificant change. Under the new loan-level pricing adjustment matrix, a borrower with a 740 FICO score and a down payment of just… -
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6 Scandal-Plagued Senate Democrats Attack Clarence Thomas Over Ethics
Senate Democrats are poised to target Justice Clarence Thomas in a public hearing Tuesday as they consider a bill to impose ethic reforms on the Supreme Court. Democrats heavily criticized Thomas after news reports that the justice neglected to report “luxury” travel paid for by businessman and Republican donor Harlan Crow. Reporting the trips as… -
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Biden’s Election ‘Big Lie’ Is of Little Interest to Mainstream Media
Democrats whine on and on about “The Big Lie.” In their minds, this phrase summarizes President Donald Trump’s argument that vote fraud, ballot irregularities, and ninth-inning rules changes sank his 2020 reelection bid. However, Democrats are mum about the Big Lie that slimed Joe Biden into the White House. Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell recently sang like a sparrow to the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees. He explained how he,… -
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Kiss, Twisted Sister Rock Stars Slam ‘Rash’ Push to Trans Children
Two prominent rock stars are voicing their opposition to the activist push to normalize and transition children who say they identify as transgender. "There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game… -
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Corporate America’s Next Best Opportunity to Correct Course on Discrimination Comes via Slew of Shareholder Resolutions
This shareholder meeting season, free speech is on the ballot like never before at some of the nation’s most influential Fortune 500 corporations. In JPMorgan Chase and PayPal’s case, this is happening only after leadership’s failed appeals to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC ruled against requests from both corporations to quash shareholder… -
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Tucker Carlson, Transgenderism, and the Battle for Civilizational Sanity
I attended The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala on April 21, a sprawling and swanky affair featuring many fine presentations, a surprise Dierks Bentley mini-concert for the country music enthusiasts (yours truly among them), and an extravagant post-dinner fireworks show over the Potomac River. But the highlight of the evening, bar none, was former Fox… -
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The School Choice Momentum Continues Nationwide
Education choice is on the march. So far this year, four states have enacted education choice policies that will be available to all K-12 students. Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah have now joined Arizona and West Virginia in making every child eligible for education savings accounts or ESA-like policies that allow families to choose the… -
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Beijing Telegraphs Its Intentions With Recent Military Exercises Around Taiwan
In a historic event on April 5, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy held the highest-ranking meeting ever between a Taiwanese president and a U.S. official on U.S. soil. During Tsai’s visit, and following a trip to Taiwan by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last Aug. 2, the Chinese Communist Party… -
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‘Disaster’: State Financial Officers Slam Biden Admin’s ‘Upside Down’ Mortgage Policy
A new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy that took effect Monday "will have the net effect of making it significantly more expensive for people with good credit to buy houses," according to almost three dozen state financial officers. Thirty-four state financial officers shared their "deep concern with the new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy" in… -
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The 6 Mistakes of Biden’s Emergency Immigration Plan
You know that feeling on a Wednesday night when you’ve reheated the chili you made on Sunday for the third time and you can’t face it again so you throw it away and order take-out? That’s how I felt watching Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas pitch the latest… -
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Experts Warn Senator That Abortion by Mail Is Putting Women at Risk
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Pro-life experts warned Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford that the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to allow the distribution of abortion drugs to women and girls by mail is endangering women across the country. Lankford discussed the ramifications of the move in an episode of his podcast “The Breakdown” with… -
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State OKs Bans on Transgender Treatments for Minors, TikTok in Bid to Keep Kids Safe
Montana recently passed a bill banning transgender treatments on minors. “It’s very important that we protect our children, especially physically, from these treatments that are permanent,” Montana state Rep. Kerri Seekins-Crowe says. “There’s not been a lot of studies done on the long-term effects of these [treatments],” the Republican lawmaker said, adding “but we also…