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opinion
4 Reasons Colombia’s New Marxist President Should Alarm American Policymakers
When former Marxist terrorist Gustavo Petro won Colombia’s presidential elections in June, the United States lost its most important military ally in Latin America. Late last month, Petro opened his 1,400-mile border with the narcoterrorist regime in Venezuela, a border that was closed in 2019 when Colombia joined the United States and nearly 60 other… -
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The Left’s ESG Movement Is Coming After All Americans. Here’s How It Can Be Stopped.
Americans were just issued a dire warning after “Dilbert,” a comic beloved by many over the years, was dropped from 77 publications after over three decades. Created by cartoonist Scott Adams, “Dilbert” uses satire to poke fun at traditional office life on a number of issues, which recently included “ESG.” As this particular comic strip explained, the… -
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Europe’s Approaching Energy Crisis and Economic Winter
Europe is preparing now to suffer the consequences of the wrongheaded interventionist policies it has followed for more than a decade. Inflation, an energy crisis, and a perpetual economic stagnation are the expected outcomes of quantitative easing, unnatural negative interest rates, a ban of traditional energy sources without any feasible alternatives, massive debt, enormous government… -
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Conservatives Accuse DOJ of Targeting Pro-Life Activists
Conservatives are condemning the Department of Justice’s targeting of pro-life activists, accusing the Justice Department of ignoring scores of attacks on pro-lifers. President Joe Biden’s Justice Department recently arrested Catholic father and pro-life activist Mark Houck, who allegedly pushed a pro-abortion activist for allegedly harassing his son. On Wednesday, the Justice Department charged 11 more pro-life activists… -
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Government Micromanagement Running Economy Into Ground
It’s almost certainly true that the company president didn’t set the price of the last product you bought at Walmart, Costco, or Amazon. If the head of a major multinational retailer did set the day-to-day prices of tens of thousands of items across hundreds of different markets, he wouldn’t have time to do much else…. -
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FBI Won’t Provide Updates, Say Whether It Has Arrested Anyone Over Attacks on Pro-Life Organizations, Centers, Churches
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will not share whether it has made any arrests related to attacks on pro-life centers, organizations, and Catholic churches following the leak of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. At least 83 Catholic churches and 73 pregnancy resource centers or pro-life organizations have been attacked since the draft… -
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For All Intents and Purposes, America Now Has No Southern Border
It was a Tuesday morning like any other in Del Rio, Texas. I stood a short distance from the Rio Grande and watched several illegal aliens board a Border Patrol van. Ten minutes later, about a mile down the road, I met a couple from Colombia who had just crossed the border from Mexico with… -
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Big Cases to Watch During New Supreme Court Term
The Supreme Court is back. The nine justices will be hearing several blockbuster cases this term and weighing in on everything from affirmative action to election districts and even a case that involves Californians’ access to bacon. “Last term was certainly a very big term with big cases,” Zack Smith, a legal fellow at The… -
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FBI Reportedly Raid Home ‘Guns Drawn,’ 11 Pro-Life Activists Charged for Blocking Abortion Clinic
Amid accusations that it is targeting pro-lifers to silence and intimidate, the Justice Department has charged 11 more pro-life activists with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act for blocking the entrance of an abortion clinic in 2021. The 11 activists were charged with FACE Act violations stemming from their 2021 “blockade”… -
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GOP Lawmakers Worry About China Ties of Election Software Company Accused of Stealing Data
Criminal charges in California against the chief executive of a software company said to be tied to China have sparked national concerns about election security. Eugene Yu, founder and president of the election software company Konnech Inc., was arrested by local police in Michigan in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal… -
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National Archives Scraps ‘Transparency’ Mission When It Comes to Trump Documents
The Biden administration has turned what should be the most transparent of government agencies, the National Archives and Records Administration, into one of the least transparent agencies—rivaling even the FBI. Established in 1934, the National Archives has a mission to identify, protect, preserve, and make publicly available all historically valuable records. But the… -
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Media Falsely Links Hurricanes to Climate Change. Here Are the Facts.
The weather is difficult to predict. Media narratives aren’t. The media bat signal is up to exploit the latest crisis for left-wing policy goals. As Florida deals with the cleanup from Hurricane Ian—which ravaged the state, killed hundreds, and displaced thousands more—media outlets have peddled the idea that this tragedy is the result of climate… -
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‘Irreversible Damage’: Oklahoma Governor Explains Decision to Ban Funding for Gender Transition Procedures for Minors
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, signed a bill this week that blocks funding going to Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health for children’s gender transition services—such as transgender surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormones. In a Wednesday phone interview with The Daily Signal, Stitt acknowledged the media uproar over the legislation but pointed out that… -
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Supreme Court Examines Whether Alabama’s Congressional Districts Violate Voting Rights Act
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which took center stage Tuesday during oral arguments at the Supreme Court, prohibits a state from imposing a “standard, practice, or procedure” that “results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color …… -
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Biden’s Energy Crisis
The West is experiencing its third energy crisis. The first, in 1973, was caused by the near-quintupling of the price of crude oil by Gulf oil producers in response to America’s support for Israel in the Yom Kippur war. Their action brought an end to what the French call the Trente Glorieuses—the unprecedented post-World War… -
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How Woke Leftists Are Taking Over a Founding Father’s Home
Each year over 100,000 people visit Montpellier—the home of Founding Father and fourth U.S. President James Madison—expecting to glimpse into the mind of Madison and his role in founding a nation. Instead, they find a distorted version of American history. -
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DC Suburbs and Silicon Valley Compete to Be Richest Place in USA
If you want to live in one of the wealthiest communities in the United States of America, do not move to Manhattan or Palm Beach, Florida. Move instead to the suburbs or exurbs of San Francisco or Washington, D.C. The Census Bureau this week released its data on the 2021 median household incomes for areas… -
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Free Speech vs. Banning Jews
The University of California, Berkeley is known for many things, some good and some very bad, even outrageous. In 1964, a ban on campus political and religious activities launched what was called the free speech and academic freedom movement that quickly spread to other campuses. To many of an older generation, it quickly got out of hand…. -
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Justice Clarence Thomas and Ginni Thomas — American Patriots
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his political activist wife, Ginni, are a high-profile Washington conservative power couple. Power couples are a common Washington phenomenon. Each spouse wields political power and influence in a certain arena. Together they concentrate power and influence. Per Public Citizen, of the 115th Congress, 59% of retiring congressmen remained in… -
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Mark Houck Attorney: Garland Must Explain to Family Why Their Father Was Arrested by Men With Guns
When Republicans question Attorney General Merrick Garland on the shocking arrest of a Catholic father, Mark Houck’s lawyer wants the Houck family to be in the front row. Peter Breen, an attorney with the Thomas More Society representing Houck, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview that the Justice Department sent “20-plus heavily armed…