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Amazon to Foot the Bill for Employees’ Abortion Tourism
Amazon will fund up to $4,000 in annual travel expenses for employees seeking abortions, according to a company spokesman, joining several other large corporations with similar policies. The company announced in an internal message that it will cover travel expenses for abortions when an employee cannot obtain one within 100 miles of their home and… -
opinion
Blame Biden, Not Putin, for Rising Prices
How out of control is inflation? One measure says it all: Prices are now rising as fast in one month as they used to rise in a whole year when President Joe Biden took office. The measure of inflation that gets the most attention is the consumer price index, which estimates the prices consumers are… -
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‘You Can’t Get a Tattoo If You’re 12’: DeSantis Supports Ban on Child Sex-Change Operations
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would support banning child sex-change operations in Florida in a Monday podcast interview on “The Truth With Lisa Boothe.” DeSantis, a Republican, said it was unhealthy to let children permanently alter their bodies through operations such as mastectomies and castration, and that there appeared to be an organized effort to push… -
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Congress Must Carefully Review Any Ukraine Spending Package
President Joe Biden has requested a $33 billion supplemental spending package to provide additional aid to Ukraine. These funds would follow the $13.6 billion appropriated in March as well as the $6.4 billion in security assistance provided since 2014. This proposed level of funding is significant. For context, $33 billion is about the same amount… -
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Meet Biden’s New ‘Minister of Truth’ at DHS
The woman tapped to head the Biden administration’s new “disinformation” board attached to the Department of Homeland Security has a history of peddling misinformation, extensive experience working with liberal organizations, and appears to have been the lead singer for a Harry Potter-themed band, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced on… -
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Meet the Governor Leading Oklahoma’s Turnaround
Gov. Kevin Stitt is leading a turnaround in Oklahoma. He’s set a goal of making Oklahoma a top 10 state in America by cutting taxes and growing the economy, empowering parents, and being a destination where more people call home. He visited The Daily Signal to talk about the big issues facing Oklahoma and a… -
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Critics Challenge HHS Chief Becerra’s Claim Agency Has No ‘Anti-Racism’ Rule
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, testifying Wednesday before a House Energy and Commerce Committee panel, claimed his agency doesn’t have any policies explicitly “anti-racist” in nature, but the health policy group Do No Harm contends Becerra is either lying or uninformed. Do No Harm, launched April 19, bills itself as a nonprofit dedicated to protecting patients and physicians… -
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Protecting Imprisoned Women From Men Who Say They’re Women
A male inmate housed in a women’s facility at New York’s Rikers Island jail has been sentenced to seven years for raping a female prisoner. In an apparent plea deal, Ramel Blount, 33, who goes by Diamond Blount, pleaded guilty to attempted rape. Blount was housed in the female section of Rikers Island in February… -
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Radical Left Targets Video Games as Hotbeds of Right-Wing Extremism
Gamers, beware, the left is coming for you. A new report from Axios exclaims that “far-right extremists are a growing presence in gaming” and that “the industry’s hidden metrics, lackluster content moderation and head-in-the-sand attitudes get in the way of assessing and combatting the problem.” Axios cited a 2019 report from the notoriously partisan Anti-Defamation… -
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Profiles in Liberal Courage Only: JFK Foundation Awards Snub Manchin, Sinema
There’s apparently no political courage worthy of commendation ever exhibited by maverick Democrats—at least not if the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s annual Profiles in Courage Awards are the arbiters thereof. The foundation’s website explains what it claims it’s looking to reward and showcase with its yearly awards: “In times of partisan divide and political… -
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Earth Day Activists Ignore Big Wind’s ‘Carnage’ for Eagles
Earth Day came and went April 22 without self-described environmentalists and their allies in the media devoting much, if any, attention to the deleterious effects of wind power on wildlife habitats, especially for eagles. There’s nothing on the official Earth Day website, which identifies itself, in part, as “the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental… -
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For Gen Z, One Is the Loneliest Number
In his book “Loneliness,” University of Chicago professor John Cacioppo wrote that negative risks of living alone are far worse than air pollution or obesity. If that is the case, the long-term prognosis for Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, is not good, as they have already spent much of their formative childhood… -
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Pennsylvania College Reins in Free Speech After Hillsdale Professor’s Talk Leaves Left Grumbling
Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has given us yet another disturbing example of modern American colleges’ disdain for free speech. David Azerrad, a professor at Hillsdale College’s D.C. campus, gave a lecture at Saint Vincent on April 8, “Black Privilege and Racial Hysteria in Contemporary America,” and the speech rubbed Gary Quinlivan the wrong way. Quinlivan is co-director of… -
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‘This Should Not Be Controversial’: Georgia Governor Signs Bills to Banish Wokeness From Schools
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed seven education bills into law Thursday taking aim at wokeness in schools, including legislation that limits discussions about race in classrooms and transgender students’ ability to compete in women’s sports. The bills included Georgia’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, or HB 1178, which “provides greater transparency to parents and legal guardians regarding what… -
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Praying Coach’s Case Gives Supreme Court Opportunity to Restore Teachers’ First Amendment Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 25 in the case of Joe Kennedy, a Marine veteran-turned-football coach who made a commitment to God to kneel in prayer on the field after football games and was removed from his job as a result. The case, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, has the potential to… -
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YouTube U-Turn: Censors Strike Again for No Good Reason, Just as Inexplicably Reverse Course
YouTube’s censors have struck again, removing a podcast discussing election integrity that it claims violates its “misinformation policy.” The podcast, hosted by Jacob Kersey, was an interview of me at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, in February 2021 and had been on YouTube for more than a year before it was suddenly… -
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After Texas National Guardsman Drowns Saving Illegal Aliens at Border, Biden Administration Shirks Responsibility
Brave Texas Army National Guard member Specialist Bishop E. Evans tragically drowned on April 22 saving the lives of two illegal aliens attempting to cross the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas. Despite creating the very crisis that put Evans there, the Biden administration has shrugged off any and all responsibility for the 22-year-old’s death…. -
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Film ‘2,000 Mules’ Offers Vivid Proof of Voter Fraud
Like an incantation at high Mass, Democrats chant their claim that election fraud does not exist. “Vote fraud is almost incalculably rare in the United States,” according to defeated Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. “And make no mistake,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York declared on the Senate floor. “There has been no evidence of any… -
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San Francisco Spent $160 Million Only to Have Homeless Die in Rat-Infested Hotels
A housing project based out of old hotels in San Francisco became the site of overdoses, rampant crime, violence, and unsafe living conditions, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report. The hotels are the main components of the city’s $160 million permanent supportive housing program, which failed in its goal of helping residents gain enough… -
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Questions Elon Musk Must Answer to Assure Us He Can Reform Twitter
The impending acquisition of Twitter by the world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk, is one of the most improbable developments out of the business world—and, indeed, the political world—in decades. Though a fairly modest percentage of adult Americans use Twitter, at least when compared with more popular social media outlets like Facebook and Instagram, the platform…