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High School Girls Explain Why They’re Uncomfortable Having a Biological Male in Their Locker Room
RANDOLPH, VERMONT—Blake Allen and her teammates spoke out when a biologically male student used their locker room. Now these young girls face heavy criticism—and maybe even punishment. Our Daily Signal team traveled up the coast this week to the town of Randolph in northeastern Vermont, just in time to catch the last few days of… -
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How Biden and IRS Unlawfully Expanded Obamacare
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that his administration had expanded Obamacare. Congress didn’t legislate the expansion. The Internal Revenue Service did. The IRS scrapped an Obama administration regulation that faithfully implemented the Obamacare statute, officially called the Affordable Care Act, which became law in 2010 on a party-line vote. At issue is whether dependents of… -
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‘Bullet’ Train to Nowhere Emblematic of California’s Political Dysfunction
North Africa is less politically dysfunctional than California. That’s the conclusion of a project manager with the French national railroad, regarding California’s massively expensive, way-behind-schedule high-speed rail project, which has been in the works for more than a decade. A report this week by The New York Times highlights the lowlights of the California high-speed… -
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Watchdog Group Calls Out Investment Giant Morningstar for Reputed Anti-Israel Bias
A watchdog organization is calling on a leading investment company to end its allegedly antisemitic “environmental, social, and governance” policies. The New Tolerance Campaign, which encourages “Americans to confront intolerance double standards by establishment institutions, civil rights groups, universities, and socially conscious brands,” claims that investment giant Morningstar is discriminating against Israel through “boycott, divestment,… -
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The Fatal Flaw of Christian Nationalism
The subject of “Christian nationalism” has again appeared in our political life, establishing residence in the Republican Party. It is nothing new, though, having taken many forms in the past, including Moral Rearmament, Prohibition, Christian Reconstructionism, Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition. In each incarnation, people have been told that something approaching heaven on Earth… -
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Biden Administration Outsourcing Online Censorship of Conservatives
Woke academics and Democratic Party loyalists are using taxpayer dollars to police the internet and suppress the voices of Biden administration critics. In the 2020 election cycle, the deep state and Silicon Valley worked tirelessly to limit the reach of conservatives on social media platforms. Today, the departments of Homeland Security and State are supporting the same… -
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Washington Post Worries That America Has Too Many Catholic Hospitals
The Washington Post published a story on Monday that carried the following headline: “Spread of Catholic hospitals limits reproductive care across the U.S.” What did the newspaper mean by the euphemistic term “reproductive care”? It meant, among other things, terminating a human life. The subhead to the story said: “Religious doctrine restricts access to abortion… -
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Biden Tries to Dismiss High Inflation Numbers Ahead of Midterm Election
President Joe Biden touted “progress” in inflation even as one measure of price increases reached a 40-year high. The consumer price index rose 0.4% in September, showing that inflation remained at a near four-decade high of 8.2%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday. “This latest data from the Department of Labor shows… -
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March for Life Announces Major Shift Ahead of 50th Anniversary of Roe
March for Life President Jeanne Mancini announced that the theme of the 2023 march will center on marching into a post-Roe America. “There’s a lot of confusion about the inherent dignity of the unborn child,” said Mancini at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Thursday. “Our enemy is the lie that abortion is good for… -
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Former Trans Teen Launches Organization to Support Detransitioners
Chloe Cole began taking puberty blockers at 13. She was 15 when she had her breasts surgically removed. At 16, she detransitioned. Now, at the age of 18, she has become an activist and leading voice against children and youth “transitioning” to the opposite sex. Cole recently announced that she is launching an organization to… -
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How Likely Is Nuclear War? Expert Explains Threat of Russia, North Korea
Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. How serious are those threats? Is the United States prepared to respond in the face of a nuclear attack? And what role do China and North Korea play in the discussion of nuclear war? “We’ve been hearing threat after threat, nuclear threat after nuclear threat against… -
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On Its 247th Birthday, US Navy Is on Watch 24/7
The U.S. Navy on Thursday will celebrate its 247th birthday, and organizations such as the Navy League will be helping many of us celebrate the day. Unfortunately, all too often, it seems like there’s nothing but bad news out there, making this a good time to reflect on the good news—and there’s quite a bit… -
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Biden’s Inflation Quickly Makes Americans Poorer
The sailor’s lament “Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink” is reminiscent of how most Americans must feel today about their cost of living. For instance, there are plenty of homes and apartments across the country, but good luck finding one that’s affordable—inflation and interest rate hikes under President Joe Biden have made… -
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A Prophecy Comes True on Polyamorous Relationships
In 2015, when a Supreme Court majority ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that “state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution,” I wrote that the high court had an… -
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Biden’s Abuse of Power Causes CBO to Raise Cost Estimate of Private Pension Bailouts by $4.5 Billion
You know the Biden administration’s special-interest giveaways are out of control when an additional $4.5 billion is met with hardly any criticism. The Congressional Budget Office released a report on Sept. 30 that says President Joe Biden’s changes to the rules of a recent taxpayer bailout of select private union pension plans will add $4.5… -
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Election Watchdog Probes Colorado Offer of Voter Registration to 30,000 Noncitizens
An election watchdog group is seeking more information about why Colorado sent 30,000 postcards to noncitizens, inviting them to register to vote. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold admitted Monday that her office sent out the notices and called it an error that she is trying to address. The Public Interest Legal Foundation announced Wednesday that… -
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Physician Assistant Sues Hospital for Religious Discrimination Over Transgender Stance
First Liberty Institute filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a physician assistant who was fired in 2021 from University of Michigan Health-West after she sought a religious exemption from referring patients for sex-reassignment surgeries and hormone interventions. According to a Wednesday press release from First Liberty Institute, Valerie Kloosterman worked at Michigan Health for… -
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PayPal Gives America an Eerie Glimpse Into a Totalitarian Future
Our right to free expression is unquestionably the most significant of all of the liberties that we hold most dear. It is the foundation of every right that we enjoy as Americans and is the reason why society exists in its current form, as well as the reason why it will continue to evolve each… -
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Surprise! New York Times Discovers Biden’s a Liar—but Soft-Pedals It
The New York Times is signaling that it’s not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, it announced his statements are routinely unfactual. He’s a habitual liar. Why is this discovery emerging now? The online headline of its Oct. 11 story was: “Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel.” The subtitle:… -
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A Governor Who Understands That Woke Corporations Undermine American Interests
“ESG is kind of rewriting how you invest. Instead of focusing on value for your shareholders, it’s more of a political agenda.” These are the prudent words of Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt about environmental, social, and corporate governance standards, dubbed ESG, which are nonfinancial yardsticks applied to firms and used by money managers in decision-making…