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opinion
Welfare Programs Based on Race and Gender Identity Demonstrate Where Institutional Wokeness Is Going
What happens in Oakland doesn’t stay in Oakland. In 2021, the California city announced a universal basic income program created specifically for so-called BIPOC, or black, Indigenous, and people of color. It was set to give $500 a month to 600 low-income families for 18 months in partnership with a nonprofit organization. Shortly after it… -
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Indiana School Board, Superintendent Refuse to Explain Secret Transgender Policy to Parents
The school board and superintendent of an Indiana school district refused to comment Monday on a recently uncovered transgender policy for students that keeps parents in the dark, nearly two weeks after a public meeting at which parents demanded that officials explain why they're hiding information. Concerned parents in Pendleton, Indiana, flocked to the Dec…. -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Halts Expiration of Title 42
The Supreme Court on Monday halted the expiration of a Trump-era COVID-19 policy that has allowed Border Patrol to quickly expel illegal aliens from America. The policy, known as Title 42, was set to expire Wednesday. On Nov. 15, a United States District Court ordered that the policy be repealed by Dec. 21, but the Supreme Court has… -
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Republicans Can Thank the Federal Government’s Bungled Census for Their Razor-Thin House Majority
Republicans will soon take control of the House of Representatives, but with a margin so narrow it may prove difficult to achieve their legislative and oversight objectives. That margin might have been larger, were it not for egregious errors made by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2020 census. Come January, House membership will consist… -
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EXCLUSIVE: South Dakota Health Secretary Out of a Job After Noem Discovers Transgender Group’s Contract
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem announced the retirement of her state health secretary, Joan Adam, days after the governor discovered that the state Health Department had contracted with a transgender activist group that will host a "gender summit" next month. Noem announced Adam's retirement Monday morning, four days after the… -
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6 Falsehoods From DHS’ Post-Title 42 Immigration Plan
A “tissue of lies” is defined by The Free Dictionary as “a number of false statements made to deliberately hide the truth.” Under this definition should be a copy of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Update on Southwest Border Security and Preparedness Ahead of Court-Ordered Lifting of Title 42.” In it, the Biden-Harris administration absolves… -
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Burying the Major Democrat Donor Angle in FTX Fiasco
The collapse of the cryptocurrency company FTX could be as massive a scandal for Democrats as the Democrats insisted the Enron debacle was for former President George W. Bush. The man who took over the wreckage of Enron is now in charge of managing the end of FTX. But our largest national media outlets are… -
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Celebrate Elon Musk, but Don’t Lose Sight of Big Tech’s Structural Problems
The story of Elon Musk’s acquisition, transformation, and public rehabilitation of Twitter is nothing short of remarkable. Here is that rarest of confluences: A right-leaning (or at least right-sympathetic) mega-billionaire privately acquires a disproportionately influential public company out of genuine public-spiritedness, perhaps even a hint of noblesse oblige, and an earnest commitment to preserving open… -
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The Slippery Slope Never Ends
In 2006, then-Sen. Joe Biden ranted against the supposed irrelevance of a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage in federal law as one man, one woman. “We already have a law, the Defense of Marriage Act,” he said. “I’ve voted, and others have said, look, marriage is between a man and a woman and states… -
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How This Mother Rescued Her Daughter From Woke ‘Cult’ After College Indoctrination
Annabella Rockwell was thrilled when she learned she had been accepted at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, the oldest women's college in America. “I was so excited,” Rockwell said. “I was so eager to learn.” But the more she learned in her college classes, the more her joyful personality waned, her mother says. By junior… -
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Texas Legislation Strikes Back Against University-Backed Discrimination
“A lot of tax dollars are flowing into these universities, and with tuition skyrocketing—dollars should go to operating costs and education, not woke activism.” -
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Her Son Was Killed on Christmas Eve: Gold Star Mom Shares Significance of Annual Wreath Laying
It was just above freezing early Saturday when thousands of Americans arrived at Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, D.C. The army of volunteers bundled in their winter coats spent the morning laying about 257,000 live balsam wreaths on the white gravestones of fallen service members. Thousands of volunteers helped lay the wreaths that arrived… -
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Blossoming Iran-Russia Axis Becomes a Big Problem
After nearly two years of the Biden administration’s failed diplomacy, the revival of the Iran nuclear deal—aka the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—is all but dead, likely making Tehran thrilled with its burgeoning friendship with Moscow. Why? Well, it turns out that Russia can do many things to support Iran in a post-nuclear deal world—and… -
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DOJ Charges 2 More Pro-Life Women With FACE Act Violations
The Justice Department announced Friday it is charging two more pro-life women with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Bevelyn Beatty Williams, 31, and Edmee Chavannes, 41, are accused of trying to stop abortions from taking place, thereby violating the FACE Act in what the DOJ described as “a multi-year… -
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Corporate Media Suddenly Concerned About Free Speech After Twitter Suspends Several Journalists
The corporate media is in hysterics because a few of their own were finally suspended on Twitter. Twitter reportedly banned the accounts for sharing information about the location of Twitter owner Elon Musk’s private jet. This comes just after Musk said a “crazy stalker” followed his car, which had his 2-year-old son inside, and jumped… -
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Sen. Sinema Should Follow Declaring Independence From Democratic Party With Renouncing Its Radicalism
When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, barks “Jump!” Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent, obediently asks, “How high?” Despite a January 2021 puff-piece profile on CBS’ “60 Minutes” touting the Mainer’s supposed independence, the two-term King is an independent in name only. One is hard-pressed to recall the last time he… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Kristi Noem’s Health Department Fires Transgender Group Ahead of ‘Gender Summit’
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, directed her state Department of Health to terminate a contract with The Transformation Project, a transgender activist group that is hosting a "Gender Identity Summit" next month, after The Daily Signal drew the governor's attention to the summit and the group. "Gov. Kristi Noem is reviewing all Department… -
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Biden’s Justice Department Sues Arizona and Gov. Doug Ducey for Building a Border Wall
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is suing the state of Arizona over Gov. Doug Ducey’s border wall built with shipping containers. Ducey, a Republican, has built a makeshift border wall with double-stacked shipping containers topped with razor wire along sections of Arizona’s border with Mexico in Yuma and Cochise Counties. The federal government is calling the… -
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2 Antithetical Billionaires
Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known left-wing activist law professors. He went to a tony prep school and on to MIT. Bankman-Fried mocked society’s bourgeois capitalist conventions by dressing and looking like a slob in cut-offs… -
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These Republicans Voted Against Reinstating Military Members Discharged for Refusing to Get Vaccinated
Four Republican senators voted Thursday against reinstating military members who were discharged for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Mitt Romney of Utah, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and Susan Collins of Maine voted against Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson’s amendment that would have reinstated and provided backpay to military members…