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opinion
Texas Governor Calls for School Choice for Every Child in Lone Star State
The image of Lucy yanking away the football from Charlie Brown has been invoked for years as a metaphor for Texas’ relationship with school choice. But is the Lone Star State finally about to connect? On Monday night, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called on the Legislature to allow education dollars to follow children to learning… -
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8 Times Leftists Protested Outside Conservatives’ Homes
If at first you don’t succeed … then amp up your intimidation tactics and go protest at a person’s home. That seems to be the motto in recent years of leftist activists, who have increasingly targeted the private homes of lawmakers, White House officials, and Supreme Court justices. As my colleague Doug Blair reported, dozens… -
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We Hear You: A Leaked Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion’s Future
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience expressed joy that the Supreme Court appears posed to reverse Roe v. Wade and dismay at the leak of a draft majority opinion. Here's a sampling of what's in the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I read with interest Douglas Blair's report on the protests Saturday evening… -
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‘Misinformation’: YouTube Censors Donald Trump Speech
Once again, YouTube is trying to affect Americans’ access to the news. Former President Donald Trump spoke at The Heritage Foundation’s Annual Leadership Conference in Florida on April 21. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) Trump discussed “rising inflation, disruptions in the supply chain, a southern border overrun by ‘millions’… -
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Democrats Push Radical Abortion Bill Far More Expansive Than Roe
The Senate on Wednesday is expected to vote on whether to end debate on S 4132, the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022. Even though a similar vote on the virtually identical HR 3755 failed on Feb. 28, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quickly set up this repeat in the wake of the leaked… -
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Pro-Abortion Graffiti Mars Pro-Life Pregnancy Center in Virginia
A vandal or vandals painted pro-abortion graffiti on a pro-life pregnancy center over the weekend in Northern Virginia, about 32 miles from the nation’s capital. Employees of First Care Women’s Health in Manassas discovered the graffiti as they entered the building Monday morning, Becky Sheetz, CEO of the nonprofit Christian ministry Life First, which operates… -
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Post-Roe, Pregnancy Help Centers Will Step Up Their Game
Those of us who are pro-life have long prayed for Roe v. Wade to be overturned. Now that that victory could be in sight, we’re as committed as ever to reaching out to women considering an abortion. In the face of intense pressure from family, friends, their partners, and popular culture, many women feel abortion… -
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Pro-Life Group Attacked With Molotov Cocktail, Headquarters Set Ablaze
Protesters attacked a pro-life group’s headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday, according to a police statement, throwing a Molotov cocktail at the building. The demonstrators reportedly targeted the pro-life nonprofit Wisconsin Family Action, The New York Times reported. Graffiti was found on the building that read “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.” A Molotov… -
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Parishioners Thwart Abortion Activists’ Attempt to Derail Mass at Los Angeles Cathedral
Parishioners at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles ushered pro-abortion protesters out of their church Sunday, thwarting their attempt to disrupt the service, according to footage posted by the Catholic News Agency. During the church service, pro-abortion demonstrators walked between pews toward the front of the church in an apparent… -
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The Last Thing We Need Is Biden’s Thought Police Bureau
President Joe Biden’s bad idea factory just belched out a doozy: The Disinformation Governance Board rolled off the assembly line to the sound of shrieks and Klaxons—and deservedly so. The last thing American citizens need is a taxpayer-funded thought police bureau that monitors public utterances, condemns them as “disinformation,” and then flags them for dutiful… -
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The Left’s War on Children
What are we doing to our children? The leaked news that the Supreme Court may be about to overturn its controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has sent political shock waves across America. It’s also given new life to the left’s faux trope about “the right’s war on women.” But if we take a step… -
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Bittersweet Victory for Doctor After Practice Unlawfully Suspended for Refusing Vaccine
After six months of suspension, Rhode Island, in its munificence, has permitted the “defiant” maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Stephen Skoly to reopen his medical practice. Of course, in the mind of the state, the suspension was always Skoly’s own fault. If only he had submitted. When the vaccine mandate for health care workers was promulgated to… -
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Students Must Take Responsibility for Their Debt
Lending money is not, as they say, rocket science. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, in the last quarter of 2021, of the total of all outstanding business loans from all commercial banks, 1.08% were delinquent. Per the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as of second quarter 2021, a little… -
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The Conservative Surge in Twitter Followers—the Elon Musk Effect?
In January, I wrote about a USA Today article centered around a New York University study that supposedly disproved the claim that social media platforms, like Twitter, discriminate against conservatives. USA Today said, “Despite repeated charges of anti-conservative bias from former President Donald Trump and other GOP critics, Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube are not… -
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COVID-19 School Closures Were Absolute Disaster for Poor and Minority Students, Study Shows
Students that were forced into remote learning due to school closures experienced significant learning loss, which hurt poor and minority students the most, according to a study conducted by researchers at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. The study looked at the consequences of K-12 hybrid and remote learning over a period of two years,… -
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Sean Spicer Blasts Jen Psaki’s Farewell Publicity Tour: ‘This Is So Unethical and Wrong’
Jen Psaki’s last day as White House press secretary will be this Friday, May 13. She’s expected to move next to a high-profile role at MSNBC, according to Axios, which reported April 1 “the deal is nearly final” even though no contract has been signed. “I’m glad that she’s found a soft landing,” says Sean… -
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Time to Highlight Democrats’ Abortion Extremism
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will hold a vote on a bill codifying abortion’s legality so that voters, he contends, can “see where every senator stands.” Though Schumer believes this is a political slam dunk for Democrats, it presents a magnificent opportunity for Republicans to make their case. Though many conservatives have rightly avoided prematurely… -
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What I Saw When Protesters Marched to Supreme Court Justices’ Homes
Editor’s note: Videos and photos in this article contain adult language. Dozens of furious marchers made their way through a Washington, D.C., suburb Saturday evening, hellbent on demonstrating their rage toward conservative Supreme Court justices. “No uterus, no opinion!” they cried as they disrupted the quiet streets, days after a leaked draft of a Supreme… -
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How Americans Became a Constitutional People
A new book by Gordon S. Wood, the great historian of the Founding, details how Americans drafted, ratified, and incorporated written constitutions into their politics and government as fundamental laws. “Instead of reforming the Articles [of Confederation], they throw them out and create an entirely new government—the federal Constitution that we have with us today,… -
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Left’s Reaction to Leaked Supreme Court Abortion Decision Exposes Its Misanthropy
News of the potential downfall of Roe v. Wade has prompted wailing and gnashing of teeth from the pro-abortion left. Though it might appear strange to deem a political party that proclaims empathy and equality as its highest virtues “misanthropic,” there is nothing that suggests a hatred of mankind quite like the practice and promotion…