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Pfizer Execs Must Come Clean on COVID-19 Viral ‘Mutation’ Experiments to Hill Committees
Dr. Jordon Trishton Walker, a director of research and development for the Pfizer Corp., recently became an overnight internet sensation. The reason: In a set of rambling remarks to an undercover Project Veritas reporter, Walker outlined how the company could mutate viruses in a lab and do so to create new vaccines, while speculating on… -
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AP Bans ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers,’ Directs Journalists to Use Negative Term Instead
The Associated Press added an entry to its style guide directing journalists to put the term “crisis pregnancy center” in scare-quotes, and to use “anti-abortion center” instead, to convey that “the centers' general aim is to prevent abortions.” The AP added this entry between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27, 2022, according to The Daily Signal’s search… -
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Biden Bungles China Spy Balloon Challenge
In the wake of China admitting today that a large surveillance balloon flying over the U.S. was its own, critical questions arise. What is China surveilling? How invasive is this? Is this an act of aggression? Should we believe China when it says it was an accident? Everything Beijing does is with intention, and until… -
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Library That Banned Christian Book Story Hour Backs Down After Legal Challenge
An Arizona library that censored a local resident from hosting a Christian book reading is backing down after a religious liberty law firm’s demand letter. "We appreciate the county's quick response to our letter and are working with the library staff on scheduling a time when our client can host story time," Andy Gould, senior… -
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How 1 Georgia County Skirted ‘Zuckerbucks’ Ban to Bank $2 Million Election Grant
A Georgia county has accepted a $2 million grant for election operations from a Big Tech-aligned organization that distributed similar grants in 2020 from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, doing so despite a state law prohibiting local election offices from taking private money. The Georgia law, however, could allow such private funds to go to a… -
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EXCLUSIVE: America First Legal Demands Answers From CDC on ‘Abhorrent’ Transgender Activism in Schools
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Legal has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding records related to the CDC's "self-assessment tool" urging teachers, administrators, school health staff, and others to advocate LGBT causes in school. "It’s abhorrent that federal tax dollars are going to pay… -
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How the Left Still Managed to Racialize Tyre Nichols’ Death
It became national, indeed, international news that five Memphis police officers grabbed, punched, beat, pepper-sprayed, and stun-gunned a black suspect named Tyre Nichols, who later died at the hospital. A picture of him in his hospital bed showing his swollen, battered, and bloodied face went viral on social media. The city police chief, a black… -
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Race Everywhere in Today’s America
Tyre Nichols, 29, an unarmed African American, was brutally beaten to death recently by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions. Both the victimizers and victim were black. The Memphis police chief is black. The assistant police chief is black. Nearly… -
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After College Board Victory, DeSantis Faces CNN Smears of Racism
Anyone watching leftist cable news channels knows that it’s considered fair commentary to categorize Republicans, individually or collectively, as “white nationalists” or “white supremacists.” Anyone standing in the way of the Black Lives Matter/critical race theory crusade is dealt the racist card. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis scored a political win in pressuring the College Board… -
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‘Horror and Deepest Sorrow’: New Jersey Republican Councilwoman Shot Outside Her Home
A New Jersey Republican leader expressed his “horror and deepest sorrow” at the news that a councilwoman in Sayreville had been shot. Republican Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour, 30, was shot Wednesday night in her car outside her house. At around 7:22 p.m., authorities received a 911 call about shots fired in Sayreville, New Jersey, the Middlesex… -
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Lying and Denying: Left Is Still Out to Take Away Your Gas Stove
Southern Democrats attacked the U.S. Army at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. Having ignited the Civil War, these Southerners had the chutzpah to call it the War of Northern Aggression. In like fashion, Democrats unleashed today’s War on Gas. Inspired by their Confederate ancestors, they then blame their victims who complain that… -
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GOP Right to Deny Rep. Ilhan Omar a Committee Seat
Poor Rep. Ilhan Omar has been denied a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “I certainly did not or was not aware that the word ‘hypnotized’ was a trope,” the congresswoman told CNN’s Dana Bash this week. “I wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money. That has been… -
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Antony Blinken Makes Major Announcement on China Trip After Mysterious Chinese Balloon Spotted
Lawmakers and policy experts are weighing in after a Chinese “spy balloon” appeared over the U.S. earlier this week. “America is under assault from Chinese spying and if the Biden Administration refuses [to] respond it will send a message to the Chinese military that they can send even more spy balloons. Inaction invites dangerous behavior,”… -
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‘Child Abuse’: Trump Presents Plan to Stop ‘Mutilation of Our Youth’ in the Name of Transgender Identity
In the buildup to the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump has begun laying out his campaign platform. On Wednesday, the former president released a video condemning the radical Left’s gender ideology and plans to protect children from experimental transgender surgeries and procedures. “The left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an… -
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Why Your Tax Refund Could Be Smaller This Year
It’s that time of the year once again: tax season. Although the process of filing an income tax return is often arduous, the hope of a sizable refund from the IRS removes a little pain from the ordeal. But with an economy such as the one we have right now, Preston Brashers, a senior policy… -
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Leftist Lunacy Means Being ‘Transgender’ Is More Important Than Being the ‘Right’ Gender
Video games offer players the potential to be whatever character they want. So, why do so many transgender activists insist on playing as “transgender” characters—complete with the scars—rather than as just regular characters of the sex they want to be? Popular video game series The Sims introduced a new update this week that adds a… -
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Fertility Doctors Using Donor Sperm From Someone Other Than Who the Client Chose
The Netflix documentary “Our Father” exposed a jarring truth about the fertility industry. Jacoba Ballard knew that her mother used a sperm donor to conceive her. Curious about the identity of her father, she took an at-home DNA test. What she found changed her life. Her biological father was Dr. Donald Cline—her mother’s fertility doctor…. -
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Major Standardized Testing Org Used by Catholic Schools Promotes Gender Ideology, Drag Queens, ‘Trans Kids’
The NWEA, which says it provides map-testing assessments to Roman Catholic dioceses and almost two thousand Catholic schools across the country, features articles on its website encouraging educators to help students to "come out" and promoting gender ideology to children. Formerly known as the Northwest Evaluation Association, the NWEA boasts of developing Pre-K through 12th… -
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86 House Democrats Vote Against Resolution Condemning Socialism
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism on Thursday, with nearly all Republicans and half of the Democrats supporting it. H. Con. Res. 9, a resolution "Denouncing the horrors of socialism," passed 328 to 86, with 14 Democrats voting present, and six members (three Republicans and three Democrats) not voting. "This was… -
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Anti-Trump ‘Doonesbury’ Cartoon Finally Goes After a Biden—but With Kid Gloves
Back in early August, fully 18 months into the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden, we noted with curiosity how the liberal newspaper editorial cartoon “Doonesbury” still had not even mentioned Biden, much less ridiculed or lampooned anything about his administration. That was despite the president’s numerous lies and innumerable speaking gaffes, and in spite of…