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opinion
Staunch US Ally Singapore Boasts World’s Freest Economy in Annual Heritage Foundation Rankings
Singapore keeps punching above its weight, demonstrating to the world the concrete benefit of preserving transparency, openness, and efficiency, which are the hallmarks of economic freedom. For the third year in a row since 2020, when Singapore eclipsed Hong Kong, the small but vibrant Asian country has been top-rated in The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index… -
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How the Left Upended Our Election Laws in 2020
The integrity of our elections is under assault from Democrats in Washington and left-wing forces across America. Using the pretext of COVID, a web of well-funded organizations, working with Democrat lawmakers and friendly judges, systematically changed state election laws in 2020. Cleta Mitchell, who has spent a lifetime fighting for free and fair elections, is… -
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Arizona Legislators Propose Communist-Style ‘Community Schools’
A 20th-century Russian communist said: “Children, like soft wax, are very malleable. …We must rescue children from the harmful influence of the family. … From the earliest days of their little lives, they must find themselves under the beneficent influence of communist schools. … To oblige the mother to give her child to the Soviet… -
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Maryland Legislature Considers Creating ‘Advisory Council’ to Collect Data on Homeschoolers
If we have learned anything about left-wing cultural revolutionaries over the past few years and decades, it’s that they insist that all conform to their view of “diversity.” All are welcome, except for those who disagree. That’s why it’s so troubling to see government authorities rope in, and attempt to control, people attempting to maintain… -
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We Hear You: What’s Happening to Law and Order
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's coverage of the crime spike across the nation, and the role of do-nothing prosecutors, sparked a response from readers. We begin with that issue in this week's dip into the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thanks for the commentary article by Cully Stimson and Zack Smith about Manhattan… -
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With Future of Roe v. Wade Unknown, Pennsylvania in Battle for Unborn
A battle is raging in Pennsylvania for the lives of unborn babies. If laws aren’t in place to protect the unborn, “we could actually end up in a world where abortion is more extreme in Pennsylvania” should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, Jeremy Samek, senior counsel for Pennsylvania Family Institute, told The Daily… -
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Senate Republicans Say No to Biden Funding for ‘Safe’ Crack Pipes
The Biden administration quickly reversed course on a plan to fund “smoking kits” for drug users, apparently including pipes to smoke crack cocaine, but Senate Republicans introduced legislation to ensure it doesn’t happen. The bill would amend a section of last year’s American Rescue Plan Act to prohibit any taxpayer funds from being used to… -
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NYC’s New Law Letting Foreign Citizens Vote Is Unconstitutional. I’m Suing to Kill It.
NEW YORK — I recently was delighted to sue New York City’s Board of Elections. In conjunction with the Public Interest Legal Foundation, co-plaintiffs Phyllis Coachman, Anthony Gilhuys, Katherine James, and I filed suit in New York Supreme Court on Feb. 2. We aim to overturn City Charter Chapter 46-A, which our litigation dubs “the… -
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The Gap Between Political Correctness and Reality
The Democratic Party increasingly exhibits traits of a revolutionary party bent on obtaining control over thought and discourse. The potential ability to exercise this kind of power enables the progressives who run the Democratic Party to inevitably steer the country towards their objectives, having already defined the acceptable bounds of language and debate. Lenin defined… -
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It’s Time to Win War Against Big Tech
Big Tech is an enemy of the American people. The largest corporations of our information economy wield unparalleled power over Americans’ lives. They enjoy almost unfettered access to our personal information. And they exercise more immediate control over our speech and livelihoods than even the government itself. They’ve had years to prove themselves responsible stewards… -
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Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization
What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured unequal application of the laws—and so paved the way for far worse. The Nazi idea of a superior Aryan race adjudicated everything from physics to tank design. Soviet commissars did… -
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Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle Looks Worse and Worse
While the Biden administration’s chaotic and inept withdrawal from Afghanistan was unfolding in August 2021, a suicide bomber murdered 13 American service members, and at least 170 Afghans, at the Abbey Gate outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. It was one of the deadliest attacks on our troops in our 20 years in that nation…. -
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Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill Hits Target: Gender Ideology Harms Kids
Children are being targeted with sexual content—not just in social media, but also in school curriculums. As with other recent controversies, however, leaders in Florida are fighting back. Lawmakers in the Sunshine State have introduced a new bill, Parental Rights in Education. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, that may be because big media… -
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The Left’s Valentine’s Gift for Xi Jinping? Propaganda.
When you’re praising the Chinese Communist Party instead of America, something has gone terribly wrong. And yet that’s what many on the radical left are doing, preferring to prop up a genocidal regime over their own country. Savannah Guthrie of NBC gave fawning praise to the regime for selecting a Uyghur athlete to participate in… -
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New Canadian Law Could Send Parents to Jail for Not Affirming Gender Identity
It’s a conversation many have had at least once in their life. A friend or family member shares that he or she is struggling with same-sex attraction. No doubt there are countless opinions on the most loving way to respond in these moments, but a new law in Canada mandates the response to be given…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: Rand Paul Encourages Truckers to Come to America and ‘Clog Cities Up’
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is “all for” trucker convoys coming to the United States. The Republican senator discussed the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” during a Thursday interview with The Daily Signal following an NBC News report that a similar trucker convoy may form for this weekend’s Super Bowl in Los Angeles–and potentially come to Washington,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Rand Paul Weighs In on COVID-19 Tyranny, Hypocrites, and Civil Disobedience
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky tore into COVID-19 hypocrites like California Democrats Gavin Newsom and Eric Garcetti during a Thursday interview with The Daily Signal, encouraging Americans faced with vaccine mandates to engage in peaceful protest. Newsom, the governor of California; Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles; and San Francisco Mayor London Breed drew heavy… -
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Biden Bureaucracy Secretly Plans to Turn Out Voters After Failure of Election Takeover Bills
The Biden administration is secretly planning to impose an executive order directing all federal agencies to focus on voter registration and partner with private organizations to boost election turnout, according to members of Congress and a watchdog group. Last March, President Joe Biden signed an executive order stating that federal agencies “shall consider ways to… -
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Politics at House Hearing Distract From Needed Pentagon Acquisition Reforms
A recent congressional hearing looking into a defense contractor supposedly overcharging taxpayers turned out to be mostly political theater as lawmakers accused the contractor of greed when the real problem is the Pentagon’s flawed contracting practices. The House Oversight and Reform Committee convened a hearing to consider the actions of defense contractor TransDigm Group after… -
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Election Law Landscape in Constant Flux Ahead of Midterms
In 2020, we saw more lawsuits filed over election laws and rule changes than in any prior year of American history. And with the congressional midterms fast approaching, litigation and other developments just keep coming. Pennsylvania In Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth Court, one of two appellate courts in the state, issued a ruling recently holding that…