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opinion
The Media Has Tried and Failed to Sell the Left’s Crazy Agenda
Every reasonably honest observer knows the corporate media has a liberal bias. That bias is displayed more often in the topics they choose to emphasize than in outright misinformation. We all know the major narratives that the media is trying to drive home. There is none bigger than the idea that Republicans have become extreme,… -
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Whither Future of Abortion Law
Hadley Arkes, a longtime commentator on abortion, natural law, and constitutional jurisprudence, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the arguments that should be made to defend unborn human life in America. Arkes notes that the term “value judgment … is a term that we began to use with Nietzsche. When people lost their confidence… -
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Biden Has No Right to Declare a National Climate Emergency
The Washington Post reported Monday night that President Joe Biden is “considering whether to declare a national climate emergency” to “salvage his stalled environmental agenda and satisfy Democrats on Capitol Hill.” A few hours later, The Associated Press reported that the administration would “hold off” on the announcement as he, presumably, lays the political groundwork… -
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Immigration Amendment Doesn’t Belong in National Defense Authorization Act
It’s National Defense Authorization Act time again, and as usual, Congress is trying to pack the must-pass bill chock-full of provisions and 1,230 amendments, most of which have no place in the bill and, worse, nothing to do with national defense. This year, special interests are attempting to include dangerous and pricey provisions that would… -
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Biden and the Left Exploit Child’s Tragedy, Ignore Illegal Alien Who Raped Her
While the story of the 10-year-old Ohio girl who made national headlines for traveling to Indiana for an abortion after being raped remains in the headlines, the media would rather largely ignore the rest of the story—that the illegal alien suspect in her rape, Gerson Fuentes, has been arrested and charged. Immigration and Customs Enforcement… -
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DC’s Solution to Illegal Immigrants Bused From Texas: ‘Put Them on Train to Miami’
Editor’s note July 25: In emails Monday, a D.C. Department of Health spokesperson and FEMA’s press secretary responded to The Daily Signal’s original report published July 22. This developing story has been updated to reflect their comments. After expressing alarm in April about the arrival in the nation’s capital of a bus carrying illegal immigrants… -
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Army Is Falling Dangerously Short on Recruitment. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
The Army is falling far short of its 2022 target end strength, the maximum number of personnel permitted by Congress in each military service. A recent news report noted the Army will “fall about 10,000 soldiers short of its planned end strength for this fiscal year,” and has only achieved 50% of its recruiting goal… -
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Bidenvilles: America’s New Emblem of Decay
In French, a “bidonville” is a shantytown. A “bidon” is a large container, like the giant yellow vegetable oil bottles used to carry drinking water in developing countries. I’ve seen plenty of shantytowns in cities from India to Togo; they are an unfortunate consequence of rapid urbanization. What surprised me when I came home to… -
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The Left Should Be Happy With Biden
The left should be ecstatic that President Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted. The left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old money by printing lots of new money. Those richer who have it, lose the value of their money; those poorer who don’t have any money, suddenly do. When combined with… -
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Where’s the Beef?
How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can’t buy meat? At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans, and Kroger limited purchases of beef. Hundreds of Wendy’s outlets ran out of hamburgers. “How the hell can this be?” says Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., in my new video. “They [Wendy’s]… -
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The Serious Lack of Good Governance and Economic Freedom: Root Causes of Sri Lanka’s Ongoing Turmoil
Sri Lanka’s spectacular political downfall over the recent days and ongoing downward economic spiral offers yet another unmistakable reminder: Good governance, both political and economic, matters. The overthrow by ordinary Sri Lankans of an irresponsible government that bears responsibility for decades of mismanagement wasn’t a revolution. It was instead the result of frustrated Sri Lankans’… -
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Biden Gets COVID-19, Exposing Huge Double Standard
President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19. We should all hope the president has an easy time. We should not ask for media nastiness and/or glee. But this presents an obvious occasion to remember just how the “objective” press made a frenetic, mean-spirited, and hyperbolic mess out of former President Donald Trump’s bout with… -
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Sen. Rand Paul Warns Against Democrats’ Plan to Raise Taxes Amid Inflation
The economic crisis facing the nation is disproportionately hurting small businesses. Mom and pop shops are struggling to stay afloat in the face of historic levels of inflation. Against this backdrop, Democrats have proposed raising taxes on pass-through entities—small businesses, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations. To Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.,… -
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6 Big Takeaways as House Panel Retraces Trump’s Steps During Capitol Riot
“The dam has begun to break,” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., asserted early in the eighth hearing held by the House panel investigating the Capitol riot 18 months ago. The hearing’s focus Thursday night was on what Donald Trump did and didn’t do at the White House for about three hours as rioters breached the Capitol… -
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Taiwan’s Ambassador Affirms Confidence in US Help as China Threat Grows
Taiwan’s ambassador to the U.S., during a roundtable discussion Wednesday with House Republican leaders, said she is confident America would assist the island if it were attacked by China. “We take the United States’ commitments to Taiwan seriously, and these commitments have been made over the past many decades through the Taiwan Relations Act and… -
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Medicare Savings Should Be Used for Improving Medicare, Not Funding Obamacare
Attention, seniors! Here is a simple proposal: Every dime of potential budgetary savings in the Medicare program should first be plowed back into the Medicare program to help ensure its solvency or secondarily be earmarked for debt reduction. Under no circumstances should Medicare be milked as a cash cow for other government programs, whether… -
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With CHIPS on Table, Leave It to Congress to Drop Ball on Semiconductor Subsidies
In honor of this week’s baseball All-Star Game, Congress and the Biden administration look poised to take a swing at the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has begun the process of advancing a bipartisan technology research and development package through the Senate, whose hallmark is… -
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‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Blackwashed to Avoid ‘Another Bunch of White People on Screen’
Not content to ruin just one story from the “A Song of Ice and Fire” universe, HBO has decided it is going to take another piece of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy magnum opus and drive it into the ground. This time, by being racist. Coming soon to a TV screen near you is “House of… -
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What You Need to Know About Biden’s Climate ‘Emergency’
In a speech Wednesday in Massachusetts, President Joe Biden announced that he would use yet more executive action in a bid to push his radical climate agenda, despite recent checks on unilateral presidential action by Congress and the Supreme Court. The administration is aiming to overhaul the energy sector and the American economy to achieve… -
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Reducing Patient Access to New Medications Is the Left’s Latest Medicare Price-Fixing Scheme
As negotiations on their tax and spending bill continue, Senate Democrats are working on a legislative proposal to have the government fix the prices of Medicare prescription medications. Though the details of the 190-page amendment differ in certain respects from earlier versions, the indisputable result would be the same: reduced patient access to prescription drugs. Like…