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DeSantis Deals Blow to Woke Takeover of Education
The College Board has backed down to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and now will revise its national Advanced Placement course in African American studies. This happened following a week in which left-wing media went apoplectic, unleashing a torrent of bad press portraying the Republican governor as a dangerous fanatic and insinuating that he’s racist. One… -
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Florida Supreme Court Rejects Planned Parenthood’s Bid to Block Pro-Life Law From Taking Effect
Florida's state Supreme Court on Monday denied Planned Parenthood's emergency motion to block the state's 15-week abortion ban. “As [Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis] said, we are better when everybody counts,” the governor's press secretary, Bryan Griffin, said in a statement Tuesday, adding: The Florida Supreme Court denied both of Planned Parenthood’s emergency motions asking the court… -
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Hogan’s Office ‘Surprised,’ ‘Disappointed’ by Lack of DOJ ‘Urgency’ in Protecting Justices
The governors of both Maryland and Virginia begged the Department of Justice in May to enforce a federal law protecting Supreme Court justices from the far-left activists protesting over abortion. The DOJ did not fully respond to the request until June 8—the same day that authorities arrested Nicholas Roske and charged him with attempting to kill Justice… -
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A Sorry Set of Anniversaries That Will Cost Americans
Many if not most Americans were up in arms when news broke that an obscure federal regulatory agency was considering a ban on natural gas stoves. Rightly so. A government that meddles in Mama’s kitchen for no good reason clearly has gotten too big But here’s the problem: This kind of regulatory activity is now… -
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Bill Would Tell Honduras’ Leftist Leader: Don’t Even Think of Expropriating US Investments
In recent years, we’ve found ourselves disagreeing from time to time with Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., but his Protect U.S. Investments Act could not be more timely. In Honduras, just as in Venezuela years ago, violent political mobs known as “colectivos” have been organized by radical elements of the “democratic socialist” administration of President Xiomara… -
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Population Panic
Have you heard? The world is about to end! “60 Minutes” recently featured Paul Ehrlich, author of the bestseller “The Population Bomb.” “Humanity is not sustainable,” he said. Why would “60 Minutes” interview Ehrlich? For years, Ehrlich said, “We are very close to a famine,” and, “In the next 15 years, the end will come.”… -
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Who’s More Irrational, the Religious or the Irreligious?
There are very few things conservatives, liberals, and leftists agree on. But if they are irreligious, they all agree that religious Americans are more irrational than irreligious Americans. It is a secular axiom that secularism and secular people are rooted in reason, whereas religion and the religious are rooted in irrationality. This is what almost… -
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College Board Concedes to DeSantis on Woke African American Studies Course
The College Board will revise its Advanced Placement African American Studies course for high school students after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, rejected it as “indoctrination,” according to a Tuesday afternoon announcement. “Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ principled stand for education over identity politics, the College Board will be revising the course for the… -
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Vimeo Removes ‘Dead Name’ Documentary About Parents of ‘Transgender’ Kids for ‘Hateful Conduct’
The video platform Vimeo has removed a documentary about the struggles of parents who doubt the experimental transgender medical interventions that schools and doctors champion for their children, claiming that the documentary violates its policy prohibiting "discriminatory or hateful conduct." The documentary "Dead Name" tells the stories of three parents—identified only by first names—living in… -
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Hawley’s ‘PELOSI Act’ Would Outlaw Insider Trading for Congress
Lawmakers and their spouses would be prohibited from using privileged information to trade stocks under legislation introduced Tuesday by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. Hawley’s bill follows news last year that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, traded between $1 million and $5 million worth of semiconductor stocks shortly before Congress allocated $52 million to… -
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New Gun Regulation Handicaps the Disabled
The Biden administration’s newly released regulations regarding “pistol-stabilizing braces” will instantly turn tens of thousands of law-abiding Americans into felons and create a national rifle registry. But the Biden administration and the media exaggerate the costs and ignore the benefits these braces produce. Few seem to realize that stabilizing braces for pistols were originally designed to allow wounded and disabled veterans… -
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At NPR, Republicans Are All ‘Hard’ or ‘Far’ Right, but No Democrats Are ‘Hard’ or ‘Far’ Left
My maxim on the media’s use of ideological labeling is: “The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans.” Journalists see Republicans as a whole as ultraconservative, or as a wholly owned subsidiary of the ultraconservatives. Journalists firmly on the left think of themselves as the sensible center, so their… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Georgia Police Officer Resigns After Being Put on Leave for Facebook Post on Traditional Marriage
A Georgia police officer has resigned after he was told by superiors that he could not share his personal religious views on social media. “If someone somewhere considers an opinion I have—that isn't a direct quotation from Scripture—to be offensive, then that would be a fireable offense,” Jacob Kersey, the former officer, told The Daily… -
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Why Special Counsel Should Expand Probe to Penn Biden Center’s China Ties
President Joe Biden has had a difficult time explaining the increasing number of classified documents found at his home and at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in the nation’s capital established in coordination with the University of Pennsylvania. The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, first flagged the fact that… -
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DOJ Indicts Radical Activists for Attacking Florida Pro-Life Facilities
Following attacks on over 78 pro-life groups across the nation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has finally indicted two pro-abortion activists for attacking pro-life facilities in Florida. Twenty-seven-year-old Caleb Freestone and 23-year-old Amber Smith-Stewart “targeted pregnancy resource facilities and vandalized those facilities with spray-painted threats,” according to the DOJ. The threatening language that the two… -
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How Blue State Election Official Responds to DACA Recipient Proclaiming, ‘We Are Voting’
After a self-identified noncitizen told the Minnesota state legislators, “We are voting,” the state’s top election official insisted that noncitizen voting isn’t a problem. “Our office has no indication that noncitizen voting is a problem in Minnesota or nationally,” Cassondra Knudson, deputy communications director for Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, told The Daily Signal… -
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Biden DOJ Behind Failure to Arrest Activists Illegally Protesting at Justices’ Homes, Experts Say
Authorities who allow activists to protest at the homes of the Supreme Court justices in violation of 18 U.S. Code 1507 are doing the bidding of President Joe Biden's Justice Department, legal and judicial experts told The Daily Signal. "The U.S. marshals report to the attorney general," Judicial Crisis Network President Carrie Severino said. "If… -
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Iowa Marks National School Choice Week by Enacting Students First Act
Jan. 22 to Jan. 28 is National School Choice Week, and what better way to highlight the fact that parents today have more choices for their children’s education than ever before than by celebrating Iowa’s Students First Act being signed into law on Tuesday? The year 2011 was deemed “the year of school choice” after… -
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Democrats Introduce Bill to Eliminate Federal Debt Limit
Legislation sponsored by House Democrats would eliminate limits on government spending not by raising the debt ceiling, but by repealing it. Introduced by Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., and co-sponsored by 42 other Democrats, the End the Threat of Default Act removes the $31.381 trillion limit set by Congress on how much the U.S. Treasury can borrow. The… -
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British ‘Single-Payer’ Health Care Program Is Cratering. That Should Be Wake-Up Call for US Liberals.
Rishi Sunak, the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, refuses to answer a simple question. He was asked three times whether he received private medical care or relied upon the National Health Service, the British version of “single-payer” government-run national health insurance. Sunak dismissed the question as “not really relevant.” But it is. The prime minister…