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opinion
The Hypocrisy of ‘Sanctuary City’ Mayors
Monday morning saw another busload of illegal border crossers arrive at New York City’s Port Authority terminal. The city’s commissioner of immigrant affairs, Manuel Castro, was there to personally welcome 52 people off the bus, of whom 80% were single men, witnesses said. “Many other people who are here have told us that the families… -
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‘Terror Campaign’: Trans Activists Push for Censorship of Discussions on Child Sex Changes
Transgender activists have accused Libs of TikTok and other prominent Twitter users of engaging in “terrorism” in an attempt to have them removed from the platform for criticizing child sex-change procedures. Libs of TikTok, commentator Matt Walsh, Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo, and activist Billboard Chris shared several publicly available documents and videos purporting to show that Boston Children’s Hospital was performing sex… -
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Why Is Justice Department Investigating Southern Baptist Convention?
The nation’s largest conservative, Protestant denomination revealed on Friday it is under investigation by the Biden administration over claims of sexual abuse and harassment. The federal probe by a persistent church critic raised eyebrows, coming amidst a flurry of actions opponents say are intended to punish the president’s political enemies, including an unprecedented FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s… -
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School Choice Ensures Equality of Opportunity, Empowers Families, Experts Say
Government-assigned schools have fostered a system of resegregation, one in which students are divided “racially, socially, and economically,” says Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. Roberts contends that educational freedom is the foremost civil rights issue of the 21st century, because school choice ensures equality of opportunity, and that in turn improves public schools on every measure, he said. “Because… -
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How Foreign Aid Has Failed People of Afghanistan
Despite $775 million in humanitarian aid from the U.S. government since President Joe Biden’s disastrous pullout of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan a year ago, half the population—some 20 million people—remains hungry. That’s no change from a year ago when we were also told that half the country required emergency food and other lifesaving assistance… -
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These 11 Defensive Gun Uses Show Protective Benefits of Second Amendment
I testified before Congress’ Joint Economic Committee last month in a hearing focused on “the economic toll of gun violence.” Of course, there’s no doubt that gun violence imposes a tremendous cost on society, both financially and in far less readily calculable ways. How does one measure, for example, the mental and emotional toll of… -
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Salman Rushdie, Iran, and Joe Biden
In October 2018, agents of the Saudi Arabian government murdered columnist and Muslim Brotherhood fellow traveler Jamal Khashoggi in gruesome fashion. The fallout in the American media was cataclysmic for the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia; two years after the murder, then-candidate Joe Biden issued a statement “mourning Khashoggi’s death” and calling… -
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‘I Was Totally Dying’: Afghan Interpreter Recalls Chaotic US Withdrawal
Monday, Aug. 15, marked one year since the Taliban reclaimed Afghanistan after 20 years of war and bloodshed. The New York Times reported that upward of 300,000 Afghans helped U.S. efforts in Afghanistan over those years. On this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Aziz, an Afghan interpreter whose full name is being withheld by… -
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Exposing China’s Semiconductor Vulnerabilities
The CEO of Chinese tech company Tsinghua Unigroup has become the latest in a number of Chinese executives under investigation in connection with corruption of the so-called Big Fund. The China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, established in 2014, is used to develop China’s semiconductor industry. Its turmoil points to a critical Chinese weakness. Chinese President Xi… -
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Soros’ Claim About Leftist Prosecutors Is Big Lie
George Soros must be feeling the heat of rising crime rates. The leftist billionaire recently penned an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal explaining why he financially supports progressive prosecutors. Cloaked in platitudinous language devoid of substance, Soros asserts that “reform-minded prosecutors” have an agenda that promotes safety and justice and are “popular and… -
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Public School Teachers Told to Indoctrinate Kids as Young as 3 in Radical LGBT Theory
State universities indoctrinate future teachers in controversial transgender, racial, and political theories—and instruct them to teach these principles to children beginning in preschool, a new report has found. “There’s a huge amount of liberal indoctrination going on,” the report’s author, Will Flanders, told “Washington Watch” guest host Joseph Backholm on Monday. “We found it across… -
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Abortion Fight Must Be ‘Solved Politically,’ Pro-Life Organization Says
A national conservative organization’s leader says a major takeaway from Indiana’s recent abortion ban is that the only way to win the abortion fight is for pro-life Americans to get involved politically “I think the big lesson for the abortion fight is that this has to get solved politically,” Terry Schilling, the president of the… -
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Ahead of Midterms, 14 States Improve Election Integrity Laws
With primaries underway and with midterms and other fall ballot contests looming, multiple states are demonstrating a commitment to ensuring that their elections remain worthy of public confidence. Since 2021, The Heritage Foundation has been tracking the content of every state’s laws (plus the District of Columbia since it casts three electoral college votes for… -
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The Atlantic’s Catholic Fearmongering
I had no idea that when I walk my dog, rosary in hand, I’m wielding an “extremist symbol.” Yet according to a recent article in The Atlantic, I might as well be brandishing a swastika or other hateful symbol. “The rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or ‘rad trad’) Catholics,” writes Daniel Panneton…. -
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God Still Isn’t Dead
The cover of Time magazine dated April 8, 1966, asked readers: “Is God Dead?” In the 56 years since, so-called experts have proclaimed the impending death of religion and of God in American society. Yet despite their yearly doomsday predictions for God, he still is alive and well in America. All that has changed are… -
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Tucker Carlson: Biden Is Using Law Enforcement to Cling to Power
Fox News host Tucker Carlson eviscerated the Biden administration Monday night for using law enforcement to target its political adversaries, most recently with the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. “This could get very bad, very fast and the Biden people know that perfectly well,” Carlson told viewers. “They know what could happen… -
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Greta Van Susteren Shares What You Need to Know About FBI Raid on Trump
Many questions remain unanswered since the FBI’s Aug. 8 raid on the Florida home of former President Donald Trump. “First of all, make no mistake about it. There are rules that the president is not supposed to keep records,” veteran journalist and lawyer Greta Van Susteren says. “The public records—I’m talking about the non-classified ones—do… -
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The Mar-a-Lago Raid: What Happened and What’s Next
Well, it was quite a week! On Aug. 8, roughly 30 federal agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of former President Donald Trump – an unprecedented action. While Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray have acknowledged approving the filing of the search warrant application–which was approved by a… -
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Biden’s Archivist Pick to Take Helm During Firestorm Over Trump Raid
President Joe Biden’s nominee to the usually obscure and apolitical office of archivist of the United States comes as the agency she hopes to lead is in the middle of the biggest political story in the country. On Aug. 3, Biden announced the nomination of Colleen Shogan to head the National Archives and Records Administration. … -
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Inflation Reduction Act Shows Far Left’s Extremism and Elitism
Last Friday, the House passed the misleadingly named “Inflation Reduction Act,” a massive tax and spend bill that illustrates just how extreme and out of touch the left has become. The vote was along party lines, as it was in the Senate, with no Republicans voting for the bill. As American families are struggling with…