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China Will Test America on Taiwan. What Will Joe Biden Do?
Chinese military activity around Taiwan has risen to unprecedented levels over the last few months. Chinese warplanes have breached Taiwan’s air defense zone more than 150 times in just this last week. Given the stakes, and rather ambiguous assurances from the U.S. regarding Taiwan’s security, what happens when Beijing tries to test U.S. resolve? The current Taiwan Relations Act does not provide… -
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Restoring Fortitude in the American People
Freedom is a worthwhile goal, most would agree. Crucially and more specifically, freedom with responsibility is a worthwhile goal. A libertine society where anything goes and consequences are ignored is less American-style freedom and more a scene from an Antifa-led autonomous zone. The American founding is based on ordered liberty. Our sense of liberty is… -
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On Its 246th Birthday, the Navy Continues to Innovate
As the U.S. Navy celebrates its 246th birthday on Oct. 13, it is an apt time to reflect on its accomplishments of the past year. Judging by those accomplishments, innovation should be the theme of the Navy’s 245th year. Just like wireless radio and nuclear-powered technologies, reliable unmanned warships are on the cusp of becoming… -
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Black Professor: Blacks Who Reject Critical Race Theory Being ‘Erased’
Blacks who don’t adopt the doctrines of victimhood or critical social justice erode the narrative promoted by woke activists, Erec Smith, a professor of rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Free Black Thought, says. “The illogic that is inherent in a lot of anti-racist activism … is absurd,” Smith says. Smith doesn’t… -
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State School Board Groups Disavow National Entity’s Call for DOJ to Investigate Parents
At least 11 state school board organizations are distancing themselves from a National School Boards Association letter asking President Joe Biden to take action against parents protesting progressive school policies. School board organizations in Virginia and Louisiana criticized the national association’s letter in public statements earlier this month, saying they were not consulted on it and suggesting that the National School Boards Association discourages the “active participation” of parents in school governance…. -
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Democrats’ Destructive Spending Spree Would Turn America Into a European Social Welfare State
Capitol Hill staffers are working around the clock to hammer into some twisted shape a spending bill that warring factions of the Democratic Party will support in their goal to transform America. The cradle-to-grave subsidies in the 2,448-page, $3.5 trillion spending bill that Democrats in Congress are crafting will create a welfare trap for millions… -
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Lawsuit Alleges Cronyism at Biden EPA to ‘Rubber-Stamp’ Green Agenda
The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is violating the law in a “purge” of advisory committees in order to “rubber-stamp” regulations, a lawsuit alleges, and in the process sweeping away a Trump administration policy against conflicts of interest. The lead plaintiff in the case is Stanley Young, who in March was ousted from the EPA’s… -
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More Bad Policies and Government Spending Will Worsen Labor Shortage
The September employment report released on Oct. 8 showed a modest employment gain, with 194,000 new jobs added, and a drop in unemployment from 5.2% in August to 4.8%. What appears to be good news in the report—a 0.4 percentage point drop in the unemployment rate to 4.8%—is not all positive news. The decline is… -
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The New Victim of Cancel Culture: Science
Cancel culture has reared its ugly head once again, and this time in a new and unprecedented way. A lecture by a physicist was canceled at one of America’s premier institutions of science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for reasons having nothing to do with the subject of the lecture. The lecture was canceled not because… -
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North Carolina’s No. 2 Official Stands by Referring to Teaching Transgenderism, Homosexuality as ‘Filth’
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican, announced in a Saturday video message that he “will not back down” in his fight against “transgenderism, homosexuality,” or “any of that filth” in America’s public schools. Robinson has been called on to resign over comments he made regarding transgenderism and homosexuality in public schools during a June speech… -
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How to Save Freedom: Discourse, Debate Good Places to Start
Discourse and debate promote a free society, says Inez Feltscher Stepman, senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum and host of the “High Noon” podcast. Stepman, who has worked in education policy for more than a decade, is concerned about the rise of groupthink in America. Societies become vulnerable to totalitarianism when citizens are… -
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‘We Have to Reassert Citizenship’: Victor Davis Hanson’s Challenge to Americans
What does it mean to be an American citizen today? Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor emeritus at California State University, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about citizenship and other topics covered in his new book “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are… -
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Podcast: The Legacy of Columbus
The controversy surrounding Christopher Columbus has spanned decades. To some, Columbus serves as a symbol of bloodthirsty colonial expansion, a petty tyrant hellbent on pillaging native lands. To others, Columbus is a misunderstood and unjustified target of anti-American scorn who should be praised for his tolerance and kindness. Jarrett Stepman, a Daily Signal contributor and… -
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We Hear You: Tolerance, Protest, and Our Founding Freedoms
Editor's note: A former Trump administration official's account of protesters' dogging his home and family drove The Daily Signal's audience to write, as did Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' remarks on the truths found in the Declaration of Independence. Be sure to send your comments on our coverage to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I… -
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Biden Exempts Some Crimes by Illegal Immigrants as Basis for Deportation
Federal immigration officials no longer will view unlawful entry into the country as the sole basis for detaining and deporting illegal immigrants, under a new Biden administration policy. The policy will limit deportation to what immigraion officials call aggravated felons, such as violent gang members and others who commit violent crimes. Critics of President Joe… -
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Threatening Memo From Attorney General Merrick Garland to Parents Comes With Serious Conflict of Interest
Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a threatening memo on Monday calling on the FBI to address “violent threats against school officials and teachers.” It was an obvious shot at parents who oppose schools and school boards that promote woke ideology and critical race theory in classrooms that exploded this year. Somehow, the story gets even… -
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New Group Equips Parents With 7 Tools to Combat Wokeness in K-12 Education
It’s no secret that the far left has infiltrated higher education with its radical ideas. But now, woke ideology has come for K-12 classrooms across the country. “As parents, we send our kids to school to learn to think critically, to figure out how to solve problems, and to respectfully discuss and resolve differences of… -
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Americans Reject President Too Weak to Take On Radicals in His Own Party
President Joe Biden’s poll numbers are tanking, especially among independent voters. The American people do not like weak leaders, and they do not like the craziness that’s infiltrating their daily lives. Biden campaigned as someone who could bring the country together. Since taking office, he’s made no effort to do that. Instead, he has… -
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Biden Administration Tries to Use Intimidation to Silence Parents
Under a patina of impartiality, fact-checkers have long engaged in a uniquely dishonest genre of journalism, claiming mastery over truth and facts when, most often, they are merely editorializing on highly debatable contentions. Here, The Associated Press, once the most reliable straight-news source in the nation, claims that a viral tweet from critical race theory… -
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White House Fakery Defended by ‘Fact-Checkers’
When is a fake setting not a fake setting? When President Joe Biden sits in front of it. The “independent fact-checkers,” a phrase that in itself strains credulity, leaped to defend Biden after he received a COVID-19 booster shot in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Sept. 27. For political rookies, the EEOB is not…