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At CBS News, Kid Gloves for Fetterman, Brass Knuckles for Greene
CBS News offered a perfectly awful contrast on its Palm Sunday news shows. On “Sunday Morning,” Jane Pauley puffed and polished Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. In the evening on “60 Minutes,” Lesley Stahl assaulted Trump-adoring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. The Pauley interview lasted almost 10 minutes and was perfectly pitched to relaunch Fetterman as… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Leads Fight Against Biden ‘Conservatives Need Not Apply’ Hiring Rule
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Biden administration is considering a regulation that would enable bureaucrats to screen out conservatives during the vetting process. Forty-one people representing 35 organizations wrote a letter opposing the rule in a public comment exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal. "This regulation twists proven hiring requirements into vague standards that… -
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Rabbi Explains History, Power of Passover
Passover begins with a Seder meal to “remember what our ancestors went through,” Rabbi Pinchas Taylor says. “You do physical actions and experience physical tastes and motions and whatnot to … not only tell over the story, but reexperience the story as it took place,” says Taylor, author of the books “Pillars of Faith” and… -
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Source of Our Freedom Is Our Creator, Not Government
It is a unique and special time now because Christians, Jews, and Muslims all are engaged in major holidays of religious contemplation and renewal: Christians with Holy Week and Easter, Jews with Passover, and Muslims with Ramadan. We’re talking billions around the world. So, although in our time there has been a retreat in various… -
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Trump: ‘Justice System Has Become Lawless’
Former President Donald Trump delivered stinging remarks condemning not just the New York case where he was arraigned Tuesday afternoon, but all of the investigations targeting him. “I never thought anything like this could ever happen in America,” Trump said early in the speech Tuesday night from his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida to an audience… -
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Unsealed Trump Indictment Previews a Case That Puts Us in Uncharted Territory
Former President Donald Trump was arraigned Tuesday on a 34-count indictment accusing him of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty to the felony indictment in a courtroom at Manhattan Criminal Court. The indictment, which had been sealed until the arraignment, is a typical state court charging document, containing little more… -
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SPLC to Face the Music for ‘Hate Group’ Defamation as Lawsuit Clears Major Hurdle
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Southern Poverty Law Center routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations "hate groups," placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, but most lawsuits aiming to hold the SPLC accountable for this alleged defamation have failed. On Friday, however, a federal judge denied the SPLC's motion… -
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Soros-Backed BLM Partner Bankrolled Bragg’s Election as DA, Now Praises Trump Indictment
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg—the Democrat leading the prosecution of former President Donald Trump—had backing in his 2021 election from an organization affiliated with the main Black Lives Matter group. Color of Change is a partner organization of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the main organization behind the BLM movement. The Color of… -
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Trump’s ‘Catch-and-Kill Scheme’ at Center of 34 False Statements Charges, Soros-Backed DA Says
Then-President Donald Trump made 34 false statements in business records in order to “cover up crimes related to the 2016 election,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg claimed during a press conference after Trump pled “not guilty” to the charges in New York court on Tuesday. Bragg accused Trump of hatching what he called “a catch-and-kill… -
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What I Saw Outside Trump’s Arraignment at Manhattan Courthouse
NEW YORK—Hundreds of passionate supporters and opponents of Donald Trump turned out Tuesday for his scheduled arrest and arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court, creating a carnival-like scene here. A Manhattan grand jury last week indicted Trump on charges believed related to the payment of supposed hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels before his race… -
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Country Music Goes Drag: It Was Just a Matter of Time
Country music legend Randy Travis once covered an older number called “It’s Just a Matter of Time.” In his signature twang, Travis belts out a classic song of lament in which the singer is pining for a lost love—someone whom the singer seems to think will return in due course. It’s most certainly wishful thinking…. -
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Could It Happen Here? It Is Happening Here
My field of study in graduate school was communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia’s School of International Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in the entire university to major in what was known at the time as “Communist Affairs.” I cite this in order to make… -
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Data Proves Left Wrong: ID Laws Don’t Suppress Voting
The Left continues to object to laws requiring voters to present identification, even as voters support such laws and states enact them. As explained in my book “The Myth of Voter Suppression,” states with voter ID laws typically have higher turnout during elections. The Ohio Legislature passed a photo ID law this year, while Nebraska… -
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Finland Becomes 31st NATO Member. Here’s Why It Matters
Finland is joining NATO, and Victoria Coates says Russia is less than pleased. Leaders in Moscow are “thoroughly outraged about this and claiming it causes some kind of intolerable threat to Russian security,” says Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news… -
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Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims About Economy and Manufacturing
President Joe Biden touted what he considers his economic accomplishments Monday during a speech at a manufacturing plant in Fridley, Minnesota. Biden visited a power-generation facility operated by Cummins Inc., a company that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power-generation products. Cummins is spending $1 billion for manufacturing plants in New York, North Carolina,… -
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Why Are Some ‘Insurrections’ More Equal Than Others?
Democrats are just appalled that Republicans would dare call a “mostly peaceful” storming of a Capitol building an “insurrection.” Any comparison to what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, is just outrageous, they say. Following a mass shooting by a transgender person at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, several protests erupted in Tennessee and other… -
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‘You Don’t Deserve to Be President,’ Nikki Haley Tells Biden From Tour of Southern Border
Nikki Haley, former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, visited the nation’s southern border Monday, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 race to do so. “What I’d say to President [Joe] Biden is, ‘Shame on you,’” Haley told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner during her trip to the border. “You are… -
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20 Lawmakers Stood Up to the Washington Establishment. This is Their Story.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives after a historic 15 rounds of voting over four days in January. His journey to the gavel was not an easy one. Twenty lawmakers, including Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Eli Crane and Andy Biggs of Arizona, Anna Paulina Luna and Matt… -
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Target of What He Called Politicized Prosecution, 1 Presidential Candidate Campaigned From Prison
The prosecutor made the point that no one—not even a presidential candidate—is above the law. “No man, even though four times the candidate of his party for the highest office in the land, can violate the basic law of this land,” said Edwin Wertz, the federal prosecutor charging Eugene Debs, perennial Socialist Party presidential candidate,… -
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Michigan Public Schools Admit Teaching Critical Race Theory
State governments in places like Florida, Virginia, and Arkansas are leading the fight against the use of race and sex to divide the country. These are welcome steps. But on the other side of the ledger, you have states like Michigan. There, the public schools are going in exactly the opposite direction. Take Detroit, for…