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opinion
House Votes Expose Democrats as Pro-Violence, Abortion-Loving, Infant-Hating Extremists
President Joseph Robinette Biden last fall accused Republicans of “doubling down on an extreme position” on abortion. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., shrieked: “With Roe now out of their way, extreme MAGA Republicans are gleefully charging ahead with their deadly crusade to punish and control women’s health decisions.” Well, look who’s extreme now. Pelosi’s successor,… -
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For National School Choice Week, Sen. Lee Wants to Empower Parents, not Educrats
Teachers unions have long opposed efforts to give parents more choices in education. But parents today should quote something from Samuel Gompers, who founded the American Federation of Labor in the 19th century, to union members: “Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.” That surely applies… -
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The Debt Ceiling Debate, Explained
The debt ceiling fight continues in Washington, more than a week after the U.S. hit its legislated debt limit of $31.4 trillion. “The Treasury Department has hit the federal borrowing limit at $31.4 trillion, and they’re going to be able to use cash-management techniques to be able to extend what we call the ‘X date’… -
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‘Asleep at the Wheel’: DeSantis Highlights Justice Department’s Abortion Double Standard
It’s no secret that the Biden Justice Department appears to be highly politicized—and now Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is underscoring that. Asked Thursday about the indictment this week of two pro-abortion activists in Florida on charges of spray-painting threats on the exterior of a pregnancy resource center, DeSantis said he was “surprised” the case had… -
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As Media, Biden Scramble to Explain Document Scandal, the Real Issue Is Unaccountable Bureaucracy
Even more classified documents were discovered recently at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. This news came shortly after the announcement that classified materials had been found earlier at Biden’s former private office at a supposed Washington think tank, the Penn Biden Center. You can see the media narrative morph in real time, from… -
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Big Tech Firm Temporarily Censors Former GOP Nominee for Minnesota’s Top Elections Office Over Election Integrity Post
LinkedIn initially removed a post from former Minnesota Republican Secretary of State nominee Kim Crockett regarding potential noncitizen voting in the state, claiming it was “misinformation.” But the social media site restored the post about an hour after an inquiry from The Daily Signal about the removal. The network notified Crockett that it removed the… -
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How Government Race Preferences Discriminate Against Interracial Couples, Business Partners
Government programs that give preferences to businesses owned by racial and ethnic minorities are popular tools among liberal politicians and bureaucrats. Their proponents defend them as necessary to advance “racial equity” and “social justice,” though they are morally wrong. But there’s another reason to reject these programs: They have the unintended side effects of discouraging… -
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Facebook’s Big Announcement on Trump’s Account Is ‘Encouraging,’ but There’s a Catch, Expert Says
Meta Platforms announced Wednesday that it would end the suspension of former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, but a Heritage Foundation expert warns that this move does not excuse the company’s “deliberate interference” in the 2020 presidential election and other races. “We will be ending the suspension of Mr. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram… -
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House Democrats Move to Force Pro-Life Taxpayers to Fund Abortions
House Democrats continue their attack against the pro-life movement, with their latest victim being the long-standing Hyde Amendment. The House Democrats, led by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., plan to reintroduce the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act, which would repeal the Hyde Amendment and force United States citizens to have their taxes… -
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Obama Warns About the ‘Raw Sewage’ of Disinformation—Ignores Democrats’ Own Garbage
In the wake of the “Twitter Files,” let’s revisit former President Barack Obama’s warning last April about the spread of misinformation: “You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to… -
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Chinese Communist Party Targets American Kids by Infiltrating K-12 Schools
Congressional Republicans and Asia policy experts are sounding the alarm over the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on K-12 education as well as colleges in America through what are called Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes. “Confucius Institutes and Classrooms allow the Chinese Communist Party to wield influence throughout the American education system, projecting the CCP’s preferred… -
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Court Rules Against Masterpiece Cakeshop Owner Who Refused to Bake Gender Transition Cake
A Colorado Court of Appeals judge ruled against Christian baker Jack Phillips Thursday after he appealed an earlier court decision requiring him to bake a cake for an individual’s gender transition. Phillips won a previous case at the Supreme Court in 2018 after he declined to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, but was sued again in… -
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Gore, Kerry Embarrass US at World Economic Forum. Thank God These Globalist Grifters Never Became President.
At the annual World Economic Forum last week, former Vice President Al Gore melted down faster than any glacier he and his fellow eco-alarmists have ever pointed to as supposed evidence of global warming. In a panel discussion on Jan. 18 at the five-day gathering of his fellow globalist elites in Davos, Switzerland, the former vice president… -
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South Dakota Democrat Says the ‘Quiet Part Out Loud’ on Abortion
A South Dakota Democrat characterized abortion as an act of “killing” during a Thursday press briefing at the state Capitol in Pierre. While speaking about exceptions for rape, state Rep. Erin Healy, a Democrat from Minnehaha County, warned that a woman might face risk of prison time “for killing her… her fetus.” She questioned whether… -
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Rep. Good Aims to Combat ‘Woke Agenda’ in Schools With New CHOICE Act
A Republican congressman from Virginia on Tuesday introduced the Children Have Opportunities in Classrooms Everywhere Act in the 118th Congress, seeking to strengthen students’ ability to attend the schools of their choice. Rep. Bob Good’s CHOICE Act aims to counter what he sees as leftist control of the education system by providing low-income families with… -
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Misguided and Socialist Policies Contribute Mightily to Rash of Layoffs, Bleak Economic Outlook
America may be entering a new phase of economic malaise. While inflation dominated the public consciousness in 2021 and 2022, troubling developments in the labor market offer a worrisome sign of what 2023 might hold. A wave of layoffs hit technology companies this month. Amazon announced this month that it would lay off 18,000 corporate… -
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Senators Quote Taylor Swift Lyrics While Grilling Ticketmaster
Republican and Democratic senators alike tore into Ticketmaster on Tuesday after the company’s dominance in the ticketing industry created “bad blood” with singer Taylor Swift’s fans. The Senate Judiciary Committee debated possible actions to prevent ticket-sale calamities like the one that beset Swift’s “Eras” tour that left fans waiting in digital lines for hours. While… -
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New Documentary Exposes Disney’s Pro-Sexualization, Anti-Nuclear Family Agenda
The magic of Disney is fading, according to the president of the Catholic League. Disney has adopted a woke “idea of diversity, which sounds innocuous on the face of it, [but] is really an agenda to divide people,” Bill Donohue says. “And that’s what they’re doing. They’re dividing people on the basis of family, on… -
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Despite His Threat, Biden ‘Will Negotiate’ on Debt Ceiling, Sen. Rand Paul Says
The White House has said that President Joe Biden wouldn’t negotiate over conditions for raising the national debt ceiling, but “I have news for him,” Sen. Rand Paul said, “He absolutely will negotiate.” Paul, R-Ky., joined five other Republican senators at a press conference at the Capitol on Wednesday to address America’s debt ceiling and the… -
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Cruz Bill Would Prohibit Sales of Reserve Oil to China
Legislation introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday aims to stop the flow of American oil into Communist China. Titled the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act, Cruz’s bill would prohibit the sale of American crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to any company under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. It…