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What Mayra Flores Victory Shows About Hispanics and Conservatism
Republican Mayra Flores made history on Tuesday, winning a South Texas congressional seat that had been occupied by Democrats for more than 100 years. The district, which is largely populated by Latinos on the southern border, went for President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. So, how did Flores win? “I think this speaks… -
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6 Takeaways From Jan. 6 Committee Hearing on Trump’s Pressure on Pence
The Jan. 6 committee hearing Thursday focused entirely on former Vice President Mike Pence, his constitutional role in certifying states’ presidential electoral votes, and whether former President Donald Trump’s attorney believed the arguments they were making about the vice president’s authority to unilaterally determine the winner of a presidential election. Gregory Jacob, former counsel to… -
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After the Guns Were Removed, the Killing Fields Began
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.” The quote was from Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China. Mao’s first act after gaining complete control of China in 1949 was to take away… -
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Social Security Disability Program May Appear ‘Solvent,’ but It’s Bad Deal for Workers, Poor Program for Individuals With Disabilities
Unlike Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program for retirees, which has a highly predictable financial outlook, the financial well-being of Social Security’s Disability Insurance program varies widely from year to year. Drastic yearly swings in its projected solvency occur because the system hasn’t stuck to its mission of providing benefits for people who are… -
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Conservative Leaders Demand Justice Department Take Action to Stop Pro-Abortion Violence
A growing number of pro-life organizations have been attacked following the leaked opinion in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case could overturn Roe v. Wade, which made abortion restrictions illegal. In response, a group of conservative leaders sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Kristen Clarke, assistant… -
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Voting Republican Could Kill You
Voting Republican could be hazardous to your health, especially if you live in a county that Donald Trump won. That’s the latest contribution to junk social science, this one brought to us by the distinguished British Medical Journal. The authors tell us that counties that voted for GOP presidential candidates between 2000 and 2016… -
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Enforcing Anti-Abortion Laws Is Neither Pro-Life Nor Pro-Choice. It’s Rule of Law.
Even before a leaked draft opinion indicated that the Supreme Court might overrule its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision creating a right to abortion, a growing number of liberal prosecutors throughout the country appeared determined to protect abortion anyway. Their strategy? Refusing to do their job. Attorneys general in nearly a dozen states and the… -
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‘The Leash Is Off’: Abortion Activists Behind Attacks on Pro-Lifers Issue New Threats, Urge Others to ‘Burn’
A statement that appears to be from the violent pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge was posted online Tuesday, saying “the leash is off” for attacks on pro-life operations, declaring violence until pro-life groups shut down. The statement was posted to Abolition Media, an “online news source for revolutionary movements,” and promised violent attacks on pro-life organizations such as crisis… -
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Biden Falsely Accuses Trump of His Own Greatest Offense
As President Joe Biden was coming to the conclusion of his address at the AFL-CIO Convention on Tuesday, he made an inadvertently ironic observation. “We’re the most unique country in the world,” he said. “We’re organized on one notion. Every other country is organized based on ethnicity, religion, geography. But the United States is based… -
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As China Sabotages Its Own Economic Interests in Europe, US Should Take Advantage of the Opportunity
For a few years now, China has been hampering its own economic engagement with the European Union. Chinese diplomats are often described as “wolf warriors” as they aggressively, sometimes offensively, assert China’s interests in the international arena. As a result, even in the absence of a serious, robust U.S. government approach to trade with Europe… -
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What It’s Like to Be on a Puberty Blocker
On this week’s edition of the “Problematic Women” podcast, Gloria Taylor joins us to discuss her experience taking a drug that is sometimes used as a puberty blocker for minors: Lupron. Taylor, a senior communications manager at The Heritage Foundation, started getting injections of Lupron after being diagnosed with breast cancer. (The Daily Signal is… -
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How to Reinvigorate America’s Youth
America is a golden land of opportunity. Yet many of the country’s young people don’t see it that way. They believe the American dream is unattainable and that America is a racist and bigoted place full of evil oppressors. Ian Rowe, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the new book… -
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What We Saw When Protesters Came to Homes of Kavanaugh, Roberts
A week after an assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a small group of 17 protesters made their way to Chevy Chase, Maryland, on Wednesday to march to his home as well as the home of Chief Justice John Roberts, something they have done each week for more than a month. The event… -
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The Biden Economy Shows the Folly of ‘Experts’
This week, the stock market took a turn into bear territory on the heels of yet another brutal monthly inflation report. With the Federal Reserve considering larger rate hikes in order to tamp down record inflation, the possibility of a near-term recession now looms quite large, despite the feeble protestations of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen…. -
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Hawley Unloads on Biden Administration’s Calls for Censorship
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley criticized the Biden administration for promoting censorship on environmental issues by technology companies during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday. “Laura, this is the most recent example of the most anti-First Amendment administration in American history,” Hawley told host Laura Ingraham of “The Ingraham Angle.” The Missouri senator responded to a… -
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Don’t Draft Our Daughters—or Anyone Else
Last year, Congress considered a very bad and ill-considered idea. With no debate and no real scrutiny, there was an effort to add to the annual National Defense Authorization Act a provision to require young women to register for military conscription. The provision was dropped. Proponents will quietly try to add it again this year…. -
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Coach Kennedy Case Is a Threat to ‘American Democracy,’ Sports Illustrated Says
A featured article in Sports Illustrated published on Monday characterizes a possible U.S. Supreme Court victory for a former high school football coach’s right to public prayer in Bremerton, Washington, as a “further erosion of the separation between church and state.” In the lengthy profile of coach Joe Kennedy, writer Greg Bishop noted that the magazine conducted… -
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Biden’s Bid to Expand Obamacare Via IRS Is Illegal
The Biden administration is unlawfully trying to expand Obamacare. The Internal Revenue Service has published a proposed regulation that would make an additional 5 million people eligible for premium subsidies. The IRS proposal is unlawful, but the administration will do it anyway, as it did with vaccine mandates. Here’s the background: The Obamacare statute created… -
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New Poll: More Americans Side With Conservatives on Hot-Button LGBT Issues
It’s June, and Pride Month is here. Americans who quietly object to the celebration of Pride Month are tempted to feel isolated—or worse, despair at the thought that the America they grew up in is no more. If they look to corporate America, college campuses, the front office of their favorite professional sports team, social… -
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Michigan Middle School Hides Student’s Gender Transition From Parents
Teachers at Richards Middle School in Fraser, Michigan, have been hiding the transgender status of a biological male student from parents. Earlier this week, Fox News obtained an email from a counselor at the public school warning teachers to not inform the mother of the student that her child was going by a different name and pronoun….