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Public School Fires Substitute Teacher for Raising Concerns Over Book Depicting Same-Sex Couples
Lindsey Barr was fired from her substitute teaching job after expressing concern over the content of a book in the school library. Barr is a mother of three boys. All her children attend public school in Bryan County, Georgia, about 30 miles southwest of Savannah, where she also works as a substitute teacher. In August,… -
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Liberal Media Spin Rising Violent Crime as Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Violent crime remains intolerably high, but the left wants you to think that perception is just a concoction of right-wing media. After more than a decade of violent crime decreases with just a few interludes, crime has shot back up to levels not seen since the early 1990s. When the left acknowledges this fact, it… -
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Harris’ Call for ‘Equity’ After Hurricane Wasn’t a Gaffe, But Natural Conclusion of Leftist Ideology
Fresh off an embarrassing gaffe in South Korea, in which Vice President Kamala Harris praised the United States’ strong alliance with North Korea, she is at it again—albeit without gaffes but with a striking comment emblematic of our country’s divide over racial issues. At a Sept. 30 event organized by actress Priyanka Chopra, during which… -
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Would Russia Use a Nuclear Weapon?
How does the war in Ukraine end? This is precisely the question no one is supposed to ask these days. The supposition by our thought leaders seems to be that if we keep up the pressure on Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, he’ll fold and go home; his threats to use tactical nuclear weapons on the… -
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The Right to Arm Oneself Has Become More Important Than Ever
The Second Amendment addressing the right of American citizens to bear arms is a touchy subject these days, but its effect on our daily lives cannot be overstated. Being able to protect ourselves in a world that is becoming more dangerous by the day is essential to survival. The right to arm oneself, whether the… -
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Gender Dysphoria Diagnoses for Children Soared 70% in 2021
Childhood gender dysphoria diagnoses soared 70% from 2020 to 2021, according to medical records of 330 million Americans analyzed by Komodo Health Inc, Reuters reported Thursday. The findings reveal a massive uptick in gender dysphoria diagnoses for children aged 6 to 17, with at least 121,882 children receiving that diagnosis in the five years leading… -
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New California Law Forces Taxpayers to Pay for Union Members’ Dues
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a bill last week forcing California taxpayers to pay up to $400 million of public and private employees’ union dues. This legally questionable, ethically adulterated move is yet another blow against beleaguered Californians. On its surface, the law, Assembly Bill 185, provides $400 million of taxpayers’ money to… -
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Democrats Nap Peacefully Through Border Crisis They Engineered
Democrats are napping peacefully through the U.S.-Mexico “border” crisis that they engineered. Perhaps these data will snap them from their slumber: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reports that the Mexican cartels’ income from smuggling illegal aliens into America has soared from $500 million in 2018 to $13 billion this year—up 2,500%. If these criminals merged into a corporation, their 2022 gross revenues would… -
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‘Guns Pointed at Me’: FBI Arrests Father of 11 in Front of His Children for Pro-Life Work
The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week arrested a pro-life father of 11 children, charging him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations.” Paul Vaughn of Centerville, Tennessee, told The Daily Signal in a Friday phone interview that FBI came to the door of his home, “guns pointed… -
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Restoring Trust in Institutions Is First Step to Pulling America Out of Tailspin
The bad news for America keeps coming in, fast and heavy. The current and future challenges are lining up at a truly unprecedented rate. To say they look scary would be a huge understatement. America’s future is on the line. Unless the country starts healing, that future looks bleak. In the near term, on the… -
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‘I Perform for an Audience of One, and That Is God’: Kanye West Speaks Out in Pro-Life Interview
Kanye West may not be the first name that comes to mind when people think of the 2024 presidential race, but the rapper (who now goes by Ye) proudly declared, “I’m pro-life,” and that he lives his life to serve God alone before making a fleeting reference to a possible presidential campaign in two years’… -
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Compare Liberal Media’s Disparate Reaction to Biden’s ‘Where’s Jackie?’ vs. Trump’s ‘Coco Chow’
By now, everyone who follows politics should recognize that the liberal media will deliberately ignore embarrassing gaffes by President Joe Biden, especially if they suggest he’s not mentally sharp enough to be the president. Biden asking, “Where’s Jackie?” about a congresswoman killed in a car crash two months ago was a TV black hole: nothing… -
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Turns Out Biden’s Empowering of OPEC Was a Really Bad Idea
If the average price of a gallon of gas falls by a penny, White House chief of staff Ron Klain will take to Twitter and credit the Biden administration. In the last few months, due to lower demand and other factors, consumers have experienced a reprieve from historic highs. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre points out… -
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Yes, Democrats, Sometimes a ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Does ‘Stop the Bad Guys.’ Here’s Proof.
In a press conference defending the state’s new restrictions on concealed carry permit holders, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, told reporters last month: “This whole concept that a good guy with a gun will stop the bad guys with a gun, it doesn’t hold up. And the data bears this out, so that… -
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Hurricane Myths
Hurricane Ian is gone, but the media’s myths about hurricanes live on. Reporters say the federal government must direct disaster response, as if only the feds have the knowledge and money to do it. “Debate is already growing about how big federal aid must be,” says CNN. Why?! Don’t they know that government has no… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jordan Launches Congressional Inquiry Into FBI Raid on Mark Houck, DOJ’s Political Enforcement of FACE Act
Republicans Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mike Johnson of Louisiana are launching a congressional inquiry into the Justice Department's political enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, The Daily Signal has learned. "Several recent actions by the Department reinforce the conclusion that the Justice Department is using its federal law… -
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Congresswoman Seeks DOJ Review of Missing Data for 3.1M New York Voters
As New York state struggles with allegations of election fraud, a new review of its voter lists shows that basic personal identification information is missing for 3.1 million registered voters, in apparent violation of federal law. States vary, but the general standard for voter registration information is to include either a Social Security number or… -
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Michigan’s Voter Records a ‘Mess,’ Says Man Who Received Multiple Ballot Applications for Someone Else
Mike Pashby and his family have lived in their single-family home in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for over seven years and never met a man named Larry Hodge. But starting in 2020, Pashby regularly began getting absentee ballot applications and voting notices addressed to Hodge in the mail. Despite his notifying election officials with the Kalamazoo Township,… -
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Nina Totenberg Shreds Journalistic Ethics at NPR
Shamelessly liberal NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg hit The New York Times bestseller list with her new book “Dinners with Ruth,” celebrating five decades of flouting any notion of media ethics with her pal Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The commercial objective is fairly clear. It’s time to cash in with all of the libertine leftists… -
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Gender Ideology Is ‘Half-Baked, Incoherent,’ Filmmaker Matt Walsh Tells Full House at Catholic University
Despite efforts by a leftist group to prevent it from taking place, conservative commentator Matt Walsh, producer of a documentary film questioning the legitimacy of transgenderism, spoke Tuesday at the Catholic University of America. Nearly 750 people attended the event in Washington to hear Walsh discuss his controversial new documentary “What Is a Woman?” One leader of…