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4 Problems With Left’s Hypocritical Plan to Give Wealthy Constituents a Bigger SALT Deduction
Liberal legislators in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, and California seem determined to make sure that their own high-income constituents pay for as little of their big spending plan as possible. Recently, the House of Representatives passed the largest expansion of means-tested welfare spending in U.S. history, along with hundreds of billions of… -
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Rachel Maddow, Libertarian on 1 Issue
Rachel Maddow is one of America’s most popular proponents of socialism. Government is never big enough for Maddow. Sen. Bernie Sanders has a friend in Maddow. But when the subject is abortion, you will not find a more enthusiastic libertarian. After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Nov. 30 on Mississippi’s law banning the… -
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Transgender Swimmer Sweeps Ivy League Races Against Female Rivals. How Is That Fair?
A transgender swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania has been dominating women’s competitions since he opted to swim against women, even though he was just an average swimmer when he competed on the men’s team. Lia Thomas—formerly known as Will Thomas—swam for the men’s team previously, but now competes on the women’s team and against… -
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‘Women Will Die!’: Pro-Abortion Protesters’ Meltdown Over Danger to Roe v. Wade
Pro-abortion activists predicted Wednesday that women in the United States will die if Roe v. Wade is overturned. The Daily Signal interviewed protesters on both sides of the aisle as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case concerning Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic. Abortion supporters predicted that… -
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Cross-Sex Hormones Are Steroids and Addictive
A dirty little secret withheld from people who seek help for gender distress is that cross-sex hormones are anabolic steroids and addictive in the same way that daily consumption of alcohol can lead to addiction. Gender clinics, now including Planned Parenthood, routinely prescribe cross-sex hormones on the first or second visit, and they neglect to… -
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Student Shatters Women’s Swimming Records After Switching From Men’s Team
Lia Thomas, a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, shattered records after transitioning from male to female and joining the women’s team. Thomas, who is biologically male, competed for three years on the men’s team before moving to the women’s team after transitioning, the Daily Mail reported. NCAA rules require males to undergo at least one year of… -
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Biden Blames Big Oil for High Cost of His War on Oil
President Joe Biden is the kind of man who deliberately would steer his car into a ditch, crawl from the wreckage, and then probe the ditch for criminal conduct. Such nonsense mirrors Biden’s recent instructions to the Federal Trade Commission. Citing “mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil-and-gas companies,” Biden told the Federal Trade Commission… -
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Parents Across Country Sue Schools Over Clandestine Gender Transitions
The lawsuit filed Nov. 17 by two public interest law firms against the Kettle Moraine School District in Wisconsin over the clandestine social transition of a 12-year-old girl marks the latest in a series of cases where school officials allegedly initiated social gender transitions without parental consent. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, one… -
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Mom Asks Judge to Dismiss Lawsuit Filed by Teachers Union When She Looked Into Content of Lessons
A mother’s fight for transparency in public schools continues in a Rhode Island courtroom. “Parents have an absolute right to request public information about public education and what their children will learn in school,” Nicole Solas, a mother of two young children, told The Daily Signal in an email Thursday. The state affiliate of the… -
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Nonprofit Accused of Breaking Rules Gets $178M Contract to House Migrant Children at Border
The Biden administration is paying more than $175 million to a nonprofit that has faced allegations of financial mismanagement to house unaccompanied children who illegally crossed the southern border. The Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $178 million contract to Southwest Key Programs, also known as SWK Inc., to house unaccompanied children at… -
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AOC’s Ugly Delegitimization of Supreme Court
The fact that the Supreme Court hasn’t ruled on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abortion case didn’t stop Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from attempting to delegitimize the decision, accusing Justice Brett Kavanaugh of being “credibly accused of sexual assault on multiple accounts” with “corroborated details.” Yet the court, says Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., “is letting him… -
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The Facts About COVID-19 That Legacy Media Won’t Tell You
Do lockdowns work? Do masks? What have we learned about what government actions help prevent the spread of COVID-19, and which don’t? As public health officials and the media sound the alarm about the omicron variant of COVID-19, the answers to those questions are crucial. Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter and author… -
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Salvation Army Conceals ‘Politically Charged’ Racial Teachings During Fundraising Campaign, Nonprofit Group Says
Rather than rescind racially divisive training material in response to objections from members and donors, The Salvation Army is concealing the internal curriculum during its annual Christmas fundraising campaign while continuing to pursue “politically charged racial ideologies,” an outside group alleges. A nationwide petition organized by the fledgling nonprofit Color Us United targets The Salvation… -
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Female State Lawmakers Imagine a World Without Roe
The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments Wednesday in the pivotal abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Seven female lawmakers who traveled to Washington, D.C., joined pro-life protestors outside the court in supporting Mississippi. These female lawmakers spoke with The Daily Signal outside the Supreme Court, and shared why the Americans who elected… -
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Russia’s Influence in Azerbaijan Makes Lasting Peace Unlikely
More than one year after the 2020 cease-fire agreement that brought the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia to an end, tensions remain high between the two. Just like the 1994 cease-fire that brought the first round of fighting to an end, Russia also brokered this cease-fire, and in so doing has dramatically expanded… -
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Federal Court Declares Texas Social Media Law Designed to Curb Censorship Unconstitutional
A Texas social media law designed to curb political censorship violated tech platforms’ First Amendment rights, a federal court found on Wednesday. Judge Robert Pitman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction blocking HB 20, signed into law by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, in early September, and declared it… -
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What a Firebrand Cleric’s Growing Strength Means for American Policy in Iraq
America has two main objectives in Iraq: counter Iranian influence and combat radical Islamists. Fortunately, the official results of Iraq’s recent parliamentary elections create an opportunity for the U.S. to advance these objectives. The big winner was Muqtada al-Sadr, a nationalist Shiite cleric and firebrand. His Sadrist Movement gained 20 seats to increase its… -
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The Third Worldizing of America
In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s—hole of a city.” The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger. Rogen claimed that a car’s contents were minor things to… -
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Biden HHS Awards $77M in Contracts to Nonprofit Cited for Mishandling Children at Border
In the midst of a border crisis, the Biden administration approved $77.5 million in contracts for a nonprofit to house children who illegally crossed the southern border alone, even though that organization didn’t properly document the release of hundreds of such children during the Obama administration. BCFS Health and Human Services, a longtime federal contractor… -
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Contrasting Coverage of Waukesha and Kenosha Shows Media Never Learns Its Lesson
That news media is so monotonously, predictably biased that it has become absurd to hope for honest journalism. Every time something newsworthy occurs involving politically charged circumstances, it becomes painfully obvious that the media cannot help but choose sides. A perfect example is the disparate treatment of the vehicular attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last month…