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Handful of Colleges Hold Out, Push Back on Cultural Marxism on Campus
Former University of Kentucky championship swimmer Riley Gaines was recently assaulted by demonstrators at San Francisco State University for her support of keeping biological men out of women’s sports. Federal Appeals Court Judge Kyle Duncan was shouted down at Stanford Law School. Cornell University’s student government recently passed a resolution calling for automatic trigger warnings from faculty—though,… -
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Senate to Vote on Blocking ‘Illegal,’ ‘Wrong,’ Veterans Affairs Abortions, Tuberville Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Senate is expected to vote this week on a resolution introduced by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., which would block the Department of Veterans Affairs from providing taxpayer-funded abortions to retired service members. “Using our VA medical facilities to provide taxpayer-funded abortions is illegal and wrong,” Tuberville said in a news release exclusively… -
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Israeli Mayor of West Bank Town Talks About Losing 3 Residents to Terrorism
Oded Revivi is the mayor of Efrat, an Israeli town in the West Bank. Earlier this month, three Efrat residents—mother Lucy Dee and daughters Maia and Rina Dee—were shot and killed by terrorists. Revivi joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about how Efrat is moving forward, what the Dee family is experiencing (and why… -
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Stuff of Parents’ Nightmares: Washington State Bill Hides Runaway Kids From Transgender-‘Unsupportive’ Parents
In the dark of night on the last day of the legislative session in Washington state, Senate Democrats passed Senate Bill 5599, a breathtaking evisceration of parental rights. The bill would allow the state to legally hide runaway children from their parents if the parents don’t consent to their child’s “gender transition” or abortion. No… -
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Biden’s Fascistic EV Edict
President Joe Biden is set to “transform” and “remake” the entire auto industry—“first with carrots, now with sticks”—notes The Washington Post, as if dictating the output of a major industry is within the governing purview of the executive branch. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing draconian emissions limits for vehicles, ensuring that 67% of all… -
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Election Oversight That America’s Next President Should Champion
When the next president takes office in January 2025, he or she will have the opportunity to reform the Federal Election Commission, which governs campaign spending and fundraising and has significant authority over activity protected by the First Amendment. The terms of five of the six FEC members either will expire or be about to… -
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Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing
It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining that their campaign to transform society had hit a rough patch. Surely, they couldn’t be serious? Woke orthodoxy is firmly in place in all the cultural centers and even at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Then along… -
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EXCLUSIVE: 2 FBI Agents Who Knelt at BLM Rally Gained Promotions
Kneeling could be an avenue to rise through the ranks at the FBI, judging by promotions for two agents who did so in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters. One of the two agents appears in a video for her alma mater saying that the FBI seeks a “diverse workforce” to ensure that the bureau… -
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Indiana Public School Officials Admit Lying to Parents About Critical Race Theory
When I received an email from Nathalie Henderson, chief schools officer of Indianapolis Public Schools, demanding that I and other administrators lie to our parents and teachers about teaching critical race theory, I was amazed at the boldness in her request that I be dishonest. At the time, I was the science coordinator for Indianapolis… -
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FBI Arrests, Charges 2 NYC Residents ‘In Connection With’ Chinese ‘Secret, Illegal Police Station’
The FBI on Monday arrested two New York City residents “in connection with opening and operating an illegal overseas police station.” Lu Jianwang, 61, of the Bronx, and Chen Jinping, 59, of Manhattan, were arrested Monday morning and “are charged with conspiring to act as agents of the [People’s Republic of China] government, as well… -
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Missouri School District to Fight Bias, Racism in Math Curriculum
A Missouri school district plans to include the personal pronouns “they/them” in math problems and hire certified teachers as “math interventionists” to fight racism and gender bias in math classes after a curriculum evaluation. “A persistent myth within math education is that since ‘numbers are universal,’ math classrooms are objective and free of bias,” says the… -
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Crime Victims Speak Out at House Panel’s Field Hearing in NYC
While New York City has dramatically reduced crime since it reached a peak there in the early 1990s, the issue has again become a growing concern for the Big Apple, which has seen a spike in crime since 2019. Enter the House Judiciary Committee, which held a field hearing in New York on Monday to… -
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Biden ‘Missing in Action’ on Debt Ceiling, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Says
President Joe Biden “has been missing in action and misleading the public,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Monday in New York as the debt ceiling debate continued in Washington. “I met with President Biden at the White House on Feb. 1—75 days ago,” McCarthy said in a speech at the New York Stock Exchange… -
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Bitter Fruit of Bidenomics: 2 Years of Inflation-Ravaged Wages for US Workers
Last week marked the two-year anniversary of declining real wages for ordinary American workers due to ongoing high inflation. The latest consumer price index, released last week, shows prices grew 20% faster than wages over the past 12 months. This sad anniversary is the result of President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats’ reckless spending that has diluted the value of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: The 4-Point Game Plan for a Conservative President to Dismantle the Deep State That Undermined Trump
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative leaders and former political appointees has compiled a game plan for the next conservative president to restructure the federal government's bureaucracy to make it more cost effective, high-performing, and accountable to the people. "The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive use… -
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Americans Will Rally in Texas, Demand Lawmakers Act to Secure Southern Border
Thousands of Americans are expected to gather April 29 in Austin, Texas, for a rally calling on state lawmakers to secure the southern border. “I actually expect this to be the biggest border event in the history of the country,” Mark Meckler, president of the Convention of States and a founder of the tea party… -
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How Enormous Boost in IRS Funding Is Warping Tax Agency’s Priorities
The IRS released its strategic operating plan on April 6, describing its intentions for spending the nearly $80 billion of supplemental funding it’s receiving under the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. The report was 48 days late beyond the Feb. 17 deadline the IRS was given and only included funding and staffing details for two of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Smith Blasts Biden Admin for Barring Priests From Ministering at Military Center
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith tore into President Joe Biden's administration for barring Catholic priests from ministering to service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, warning that the move calls into question "the Federal Government’s respect for, and protection of, the innate religious rights of Catholics in… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Backs State AG’s Emergency Order on Transgender Interventions Amid Legal Threat
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency regulation Thursday restricting the use of experimental transgender interventions on minors. An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals supported Bailey's order, despite pro-transgender activist groups condemning it as based on "debunked claims" that ignore "medical evidence" and threatening a lawsuit to… -
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NPR Doesn’t Even Try to Conceal Its Hatred of Republicans, Fox News
National Public Radio left Twitter in a hilarious huff. In a statement, CEO John Lansing announced, “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence.” This contains multiple layers of comedy. For starters, NPR is a platform that has…