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Rookie Georgia Police Officer Explains Why He Resigned After Pushback Over Views on Traditional Marriage
What are you willing to give up to stand by your religious convictions? That’s a question Jacob Kersey did not anticipate having to ask himself at the age of 19. Kersey was excited to be a new officer with the police department in Port Wentworth, Georgia, a town of about 12,000 near Savannah. He says everything… -
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Enforcing LGBTQ ‘Pride’ Is Totalitarian
This past Saturday night, the New York Rangers National Hockey League team did something almost unbelievable. Though scheduled to wear LGBTQ “Pride” jerseys during pregame warmups, not one member of the team did so. Another recent example of defying LGBTQ Pride jersey demands in the NHL—which is run by people who are as governed by… -
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The Threat of Woke Corporations and the Response of the Red States
Resistance to environmental, social, and corporate governance investing is taking center stage in a number of Republican-leaning state legislative sessions this year. The question is how red states can prevent asset managers from investing their states’ funds—or exercising shareholder rights (such as proxy voting)—to advance ESG-related political and social goals rather than maximizing returns for beneficiaries. There… -
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Exposing Radical Florida Lawmaker’s Attempted Hijacking of Parental Rights
Legislation introduced in the Florida House of Representatives this month is being touted by its sponsor as a “children’s rights” bill, but it would be more accurate to call it what it is, a “usurpation of parental rights” bill. Characterizing far-left Democratic state Rep. Michele Rayner-Goolsby’s HB 217 as a children’s rights bill is a… -
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What Biden Said When Asked About Catholic Bishops and Abortion
President Joe Biden appeared to deny that the Catholic Church is calling for the end of taxpayer-funded abortion in an exchange Monday. After Biden exited Marine One, EWTN correspondent Owen Jensen brought up the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statements on abortion. “Catholic bishops are demanding that federal tax dollars not fund abortions,” Jensen said to… -
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6 Places Investigators Should Search for More Biden Classified Documents
The classified information from the Obama-Biden administration discovered Nov. 2 at a Biden-friendly think tank in Washington must have been moved there sometime after it opened in early 2018. It’s not clear where the documents were kept after Jan. 20, 2017, when Barack Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, left office after eight years…. -
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Missouri Schools Took Kids to a Drag Show Without Informing Parents. AG Bailey Is Working to Prevent It From Happening Again.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri's attorney general sent a letter to the state's association of school boards, urging it to adopt a resolution mandating that parents and guardians receive advance notice and the ability to opt their children out of sexual instruction, following news that a middle school took students to a drag show without… -
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Lessons in Preferred Pronouns Should Start in Pre-K, Largest Teachers Union Says
The nation’s largest teachers union recommends that educators begin teaching the concepts of preferred personal pronouns and gender identity starting in pre-kindergarten. “When you look at elementary school students, many people think they are too young to talk about pronouns,” said panelist Matthew Powell, a member of the National Education Association’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee,… -
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Big Docket Gets Bigger: Supreme Court Grants Review in Case on Employees’ Religious Rights
In what is certain to be another high-profile addition to its docket this term, the Supreme Court has granted review in Groff v. DeJoy—a case in which the religious rights of employees will take center stage. The petitioner in the case, Gerald Groff, has asked the justices to determine whether his employer, the U.S. Postal… -
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Biden Administration Pursues Racial Balkanization
President Joe Biden came into office promising to be a unifier, but make no mistake, he’s rapidly becoming the divider-in-chief. He is now reviving former President Barack Obama's idea of adding yet one more racial category to our Balkanized nation and effectively turning Hispanics into a race, not an ethnicity. In a document from the Office… -
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Mother Tells How Daughter Fell Victim to Trafficking After School Hid Her Gender Identity. New Bill Aims to Prevent Such Tragedy.
A subcommittee in the Virginia House of Delegates voted Monday to advance a bill requiring schoolteachers and school staff to notify parents about their children’s purported gender transitions, partially in response to the horrific sex-trafficking story of Sage, a girl whose high school hid her transgender identity from her mother. HB 2432, “Sage’s law,” requires… -
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DeSantis Announces Changes to Florida’s Colleges
Florida is making a slew of changes to its colleges, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said Tuesday morning. “We will eliminate all DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] and CRT [critical race theory] bureaucracies in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said in a news conference in Bradenton, Florida. “New College has really embraced that, and I… -
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Rand Paul Warns Biden Admin Against ‘Unconstitutional’ Abortion Public Health Emergency
Pushed by abortion activists and Democratic lawmakers, President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly considering declaring a public health emergency on abortion as a response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. “There are discussions on a wide range of measures … that we can take… -
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ESG Is ‘Terrifying,’ ‘Problematic’ Concept in Investing. Author and Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy Explains Why.
Conservatives have been sounding the alarm over the use of environmental, social, and governance policies as they relate to investments, particularly for private and public pension funds. But, what exactly is ESG? According to Vivek Ramaswamy, co-founder of Strive Asset Management, “ESG refers to the use of dollars—including your dollars—to advance environmental or social goals,… -
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Killing of Tyre Nichols: Senseless Inhumanity in Memphis
No adjective is sufficient to describe the reaction one gets from watching five Memphis, Tenn., police officers beat 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to within an inch of his life. He later died of his injuries in a local hospital. “Inhumane” and “senseless” are as close as it comes. While Nichols was accused of “reckless driving,” it… -
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Could Lower Standards for Police Recruits Breed Future Misconduct?
The death of Tyre Nichols following a vicious beating by Memphis police officers indicates the perils of lower standards for police recruits nationally amid recruitment challenges, a law enforcement advocacy group says. The Memphis Police Department hired two of the five officers who were fired and charged in Nichols’ death in 2020, after the department… -
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How Should Americans Respond to the Fatal Police Beating of Tyre Nichols?
A black man died at the hands of at least five black police officers. Now, some Americans are demanding police reform to prevent such injustice in the future. Tyre Nichols, 29, reportedly was pulled over for reckless driving Jan. 7 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was on his way home after taking pictures of the sunset, a… -
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Grotesque, Woke Art in Public Spaces Is Next Phase in War on History, Culture
Get used to grotesque works of “art” being injected into every public space. Last week, an 8-foot-tall, golden statue was unveiled atop a New York state courthouse in New York City. It stands alongside several other, older statues of classical design. According to the artist, Shahzia Sikander, the statue is meant to be a representation… -
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Police Chief Who Placed Officer on Leave for Voicing Traditional Marriage Views Retires
Port Wentworth, Georgia, Police Chief Matt Libby announced his retirement Monday, less than a week after The Daily Signal reported that Police Officer Jacob Kersey had been placed on administrative leave after sharing his views on traditional marriage on Facebook. WTOC first broke the news of Libby’s retirement Monday afternoon, reporting that the police chief… -
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NOT GUILTY: Jury Clears Catholic Father Targeted by Biden DOJ
A jury has found Mark Houck not guilty of federal charges brought against him by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. The DOJ had charged Houck with two counts of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act when, outside a Pennsylvania abortion clinic, Houck allegedly pushed a pro-abortion activist who was allegedly…