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Rachel Levine Targets Transgender Heresy for Big Tech Suppression
Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, urged doctors at state medical boards to pressure Big Tech to stifle “medical misinformation” right after he declared that there is no “scientific or medical dispute” about the benefits of using experimental drugs and surgeries to force male bodies to resemble female bodies or vice… -
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‘They Knew I Did Nothing Wrong’: Jan. 6 Committee Withdraws Subpoena of Trump
The Jan. 6 committee dropped its subpoena of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. “In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, wrote in a letter to Trump’s attorney, CNN reported. “Therefore, through this letter,… -
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New Congress Should Investigate Black Lives Matter Riots
America enters 2023 as a radically different society because of the 2020 violence linked to Black Lives Matter. It took years to knit the revolutionary network that would provoke this sea change. And, indeed, the organizers of the protests met for years to plan how to “disrupt and transform” America. Most of you don’t know any of this because… -
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Consuming Less, Paying More: One Spanish Family’s Story of Coping With Europe’s Energy Crisis
As winter’s colder temperatures set in in Europe, one family is sharing its story of coping with a crippling energy crisis in Spain. “We have two forms of energy to heat our home … . One is gas-powered and the other one is electric-powered,” Maria Teresa Novo told The Daily Signal in a phone interview…. -
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FBI Twitter Files Corruption Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Warns GOP Senator
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., called on Democrats to join Republicans in investigating the threat of politicized federal law enforcement after the latest installments of the “Twitter Files” revealed that the FBI paid Twitter more than $3.4 million while the bureau was pressuring the social media company and reportedly undermining Johnson’s probe of Hunter Biden’s foreign… -
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March for Life President Calls for Americans to ‘Fearlessly Continue Marching’
The annual March for Life is set to take place January in Washington, D.C., on the 50th anniversary of the monumental 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. And while some have suggested that pro-life activists should focus on state-level efforts, March for Life President Jeanne Mancini is calling on pro-life Americans to "fearlessly… -
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Supreme Court Bars Ending Title 42, but Border Crisis Will Continue Because Biden Won’t Enforce It
The southern border will remain in a state of emergency unless and until the Biden administration gets serious about enforcing our immigration laws. The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending Title 42 in a 5-4 ruling. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and… -
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Comic Book Fans Shun Superheroes’ Woke Makeovers
Did you know that Superman’s son is bisexual? So is Batman’s sidekick, Robin, and lots of other superheroes created by Marvel and DC Comics. The author of the bisexual Superman story says gay people write to say they “burst into tears” when they saw that the characters had become gay. While it’s nice to make… -
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Appeals Court’s Transgender Sports Ruling Doesn’t Add Up
The children had gathered that day for the first time in their first-grade classroom. At the top of the agenda: Learn how to do simple problems in addition and subtraction. After the teacher had reviewed some basic principles of arithmetic, she asked one of the students: “Do you know what one plus one equals?” The… -
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Looking Back on Biden’s Muddled Christmas Message
Imagine being a speechwriter for a so-called devout Catholic president and being asked to write a Christmas speech. It sounded like the first instruction was: Don’t say the words “Jesus Christ.” There’s mention of “the birth of a child—a child Christians believe to be the son of God; miraculously now, here among us on Earth,… -
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How Expansive Welfare Benefits Can Make Being on Dole More Lucrative Than Working
Kids love Santa. They don’t have to work for the stuff on their Christmas lists. He just gives it to them. In many states, gratuitous welfare benefits have made that childhood fantasy an adult reality. Professor Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and I have found that some families can receive the annualized equivalent of… -
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For Teachers Unions, Parents and Children Come Last
Schools in the Rochester school district in Michigan include in their curriculum a course called “History of Ethnic and Gender Studies.” If my child were attending school there, I would wonder why this is in the curriculum as part of K-12 education and what is taught. One mother, Carol Beth Litkouhi, wondered enough that she… -
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New IRS Requirement Raises Questions About Vow to Expand Audits Only on ‘Rich’
Next month, the U.S. Postal Service will be busier than usual. Not because of late Christmas cards or thank-you letters, but because of the extra Form 1099-Ks the IRS will be mailing out. Under the American Rescue Plan, third-party payment facilitators like Venmo, eBay, Etsy, and Airbnb are now required to send Form 1099-Ks to… -
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Leftists Defend Not Allowing Conservative Parents to See Them or Their Grandchildren
My previous column, “Why Many Conservatives Won’t Be With Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas,” dealt with the issue of parents whose left-wing adult children have cut off all contact with their parents because the parents are on the Right—children who will not even allow their parents to have contact with their grandchildren. One would… -
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: Incompetent but Failing Upward
One of the bestselling books of the 1970s was “The Peter Principle,” a business management book by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. The book’s premise, in a nutshell, was that people get promotions based on their performance in their previous jobs until they are ultimately elevated to a position in which they’re incompetent, since… -
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Are Universities Doomed?
In a famous exchange in the “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were unsustainable…. -
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Congress Guts Budget Rules and Misses Chance to Cut Spending
Republicans in Congress missed a huge opportunity to begin putting our country’s fiscal house in order. Inflation caused by runaway government spending and money printing was the top issue on the minds of voters in the November midterm elections. The Left’s reckless pursuit of these disastrous policies has been a boon for fiscally conservative politicians… -
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These 9 House Republicans Vote for Omnibus Spending Bill
The House of Representatives voted 225 to 201 to pass the $1.85 trillion omnibus spending bill on Friday afternoon. This comes a day after the Senate voted 68-29 for the legislation, meaning that the bill will end up on President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. Nine Republicans voted in favor of the omnibus bill… -
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After Biden-Zelenskyy Meeting, Security Expert Outlines Role America Should Play in Ukraine War
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Wednesday with President Joe Biden at the White House before delivering an impassioned address to a joint session of Congress. This was the first time Zelenskyy had left Ukraine since Russia launched its military invasion of Ukraine just over 300 days ago. The timing of the Ukrainian leader’s meeting with… -
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22 Movies Your Whole Family Can Enjoy This Christmas
Finding a movie my whole family enjoys is about as common as Patriots coach Bill Belichick cracking a smile under his gray hood. My family members' differing taste in movies is never clearer than at Christmastime, when my mom would be happy to watch only Hallmark movies and my brother-in-law insists the action thriller “Die…