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opinion
It’s a Bad Idea to Tap Medicare to Bail Out Postal Service
The U.S. Postal Service is in trouble. So Congress is coming to the rescue by debating a proposed “Postal Service Reform Act” (HR 3076) to “stabilize” the independent agency’s financing and put it on a path of fiscal responsibility. But although the legislation passed Tuesday by the House and now before the Senate might end… -
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School Assigns Seventh Graders to Read Novel Glamorizing Illegal Immigration
A Virginia parent says his seventh grade daughter was assigned to read a book meant to “elicit sympathy” for illegal immigrants. At the end of January, Michael Erickson’s daughter and her classmates were assigned the 2007 novel “Crossing the Wire” by Will Hobbs. The novel promotes a “leftist-leaning philosophy that we should just open up… -
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Porn Websites Will Have To Verify Users Are 18 or Older in UK
The United Kingdom will require pornography sites to verify that users are 18 or older by checking ID and credit cards, BBC News reported Tuesday. The requirement is part of the Online Safety Bill aimed at protecting users from harmful content, according to BBC News. Websites that refuse to cooperate will reportedly be fined up to 10%… -
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Hollywood’s Shameful Love Affair With China
Throughout our ongoing struggles with China, one key battle appears to have already been won by our adversary: the battle for arts and entertainment. Boasting a population of over 1.4 billion people, many of whom have the financial means to pay for and consume a wide variety of forms of entertainment, their market share for… -
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What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Dating and Romance Today
Few authors have influenced society’s ideas about romance more than Jane Austen. The English novelist, born in 1775, lived only to age 41. In her short life, Austin completed six novels, including her most famous, “Pride and Prejudice.” With Valentine’s Day just around the corner on Feb. 14—or the alternative Singles Awareness Day on Feb…. -
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Meet Doctor Suing Rhode Island Over Vaccine Mandate
Dr. Stephen Skoly’s request for a medical exemption to the state’s vaccine mandate was denied. Then the Rhode Island Department of Health ordered him to stop his critical surgical care in October. Now, represented by the Washington, D.C.- based civil rights group the New Civil Liberties Alliance, he is suing Rhode Island to stop the state from… -
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CDC Struggles to Maintain Public Trust, Leader of House Doctors Caucus Says
Amid new information on its inner workings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing a credibility problem for its COVID-19 response, a leader of the House’s GOP Doctors Caucus told The Daily Signal. “The American people don’t do well with being told ‘Because I told you so,’ which has, unfortunately, been the Biden… -
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Beijing Olympics Prompt Burps of Moral Equivalence
Anyone under 30 today has no idea what it was like to live in America during the Cold War. That includes the reflexive tendency of liberals and leftists to insist repeatedly that we really shouldn’t lecture the authoritarians in the Soviet Union or China for gross abuses of human rights, because the United States isn’t… -
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Nationwide Battle Escalates Over Private Millions Bankrolling Public Elections
Democrats want to continue allowing private money to fund public elections. Republicans want to limit the practice, which they say gave Joe Biden an unfair and perhaps decisive advantage over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential contest. So far, at least 10 Republican-controlled states have passed laws to prohibit or limit the use of private… -
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‘Bald-Faced Hypocrisy’: Corporate America Grovels to China
Companies tell us they support justice. “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything,” says former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in a Nike ad. “Speak for the people who may not be able to be heard,” says the NBA. “Corporate PR hogwash,” says journalist Melissa Chen in my new video. “Hogwash,” she says, because… -
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CEO’s Rant Emblematic of Why Covenant Between Main Street Consumers, Big Corporations Is Collapsing
Word travels fast in places like Pittsburgh’s iconic small-business district filled with third- and fourth-generation family-owned businesses. The majority of them are centered on two things: relationships and food. Relationships and food, but not politics. At least not usually, thank goodness. The relationships come not just from the generational loyalty of people repeating what their… -
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Report: Ineligible Labor Unions Received Over $36 Million in Federal COVID-19 Relief Loans
Up to 226 forgivable loans totaling more than $36 million were given to labor unions and related organizations that weren’t eligible to receive the loans, according to a new report by the Freedom Foundation, a free market conservative think tank. The loans were administered by the Small Business Administration through the Paycheck Protection Program, which… -
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Left’s Attack on Joe Rogan an Attack on Dissent
Joe Rogan must be stopped. This is the consensus from all of the wisest and most compassionate voices in our society. According to the White House, Spotify should not merely lead off Rogan’s COVID-19-centric podcast episodes with a content warning; according to press secretary Jen Psaki, “our view is that it is a positive step,… -
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Big Tech Censored Dozens of Doctors, More Than 800 Accounts for COVID-19 ‘Misinformation,’ Study Finds
Major technology companies and social media platforms have removed, suppressed or flagged the accounts of more than 800 prominent individuals and organizations, including medical doctors, for COVID-19 "misinformation," according to a new study from the Media Research Center. The study focused on acts of censorship on major social media platforms and online services, including Facebook,… -
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California Schools Can Change Students‘ Gender Categories Without Parent Consent
A Catholic mom in Northern California enrolled her daughter in a public charter school. During her initial Zoom classes, the girl, an incoming freshman who had not yet stepped foot in the school due to COVID-19, was asked her name and “preferred pronouns.” She chose a male name and male pronouns. The school then routinely used this… -
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GoFundMe’s Sordid History of Censorship of Conservative Causes
The popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe has taken down yet another conservative donation campaign. As donations for the “Freedom Convoy” trucker protest in Ottawa, Ontario, reached $10 million on Feb. 4, GoFundMe pulled the plug on it and took the page down, alleging violence and unlawful activity as an excuse. To add insult to injury, the… -
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Meet Sarah Bloom Raskin, Biden’s Latest Anti-Freedom, Anti-Energy Nominee
With all the attention directed to President Joe Biden’s commitment to nominate a black woman to replace retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, sadly lost is what we expect from our court and what we expect from our nation. If we have detached from what our nation supposedly is about, what idea… -
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‘Unsilenced’: New Film Lifts Curtain on Horrors Committed by Chinese Communist Party
Just over 20 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting those in China who followed the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. Today, Uyghur Muslims face imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Chinese government. Tomorrow, more innocent lives will fall victim to suffering at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party if Beijing’s… -
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YouTube Removes, Then Restores, Video of Mom Fighting Mask Mandates in School
YouTube has reversed course after removing a video of a mom calling for the end of mask mandates in her children’s school district. Virginia resident Merianne Jensen last week stood before her local school board and demanded that the elected leaders stop playing “politics with kid’s faces.” “We are forcing healthy children home for exposure… -
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Maduro Carries on Chavez’s Legacy As Venezuela Circles Drain in Downward Spiral
For much of the 20th century, Venezuela was the poster child for the successful South American republic—that is, democratic when its neighbors were despotic, and prosperous when its neighbors were poor. It was the wealthiest Latin American country, and it’s now the poorest, after its adoption of communism and one-man rule. How could a country…