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Biologically Male Athletes Have Competitive Advantage Over Women, Sports Group’s Study Finds
Biologically male athletes have unfair advantages over women, a report released Thursday from the Sports Councils’ Equality Group found. The Sports Councils’ Equality Group found that there are “retained” differences in an average woman’s strength, stamina, and physique, compared with the average transgender woman “with or without testosterone suppression.” The report concluded that “the inclusion of transgender… -
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American Liberty Must Not Become Coronavirus Casualty
When announcing his nationwide vaccine mandate, President Joe Biden declared, “This is not about freedom.” But for Americans who live outside the Beltway, it is absolutely about freedom, because America is about freedom. Yes, the coronavirus is still with us. Yes, it is still potentially dangerous, particularly to vulnerable Americans. But the need long since… -
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LinkedIn Bans Geologist for Climate Change Posts: ‘This Type of Content Is Not Allowed’
Greg Wrightstone, a geologist and expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has posted content on LinkedIn for years. It would often spark discussions and debates among his followers—and the occasional trolls. That changed last month. Wrightstone, who serves as executive director of the CO2 Coalition, says he was banned from LinkedIn for… -
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Conservative Activist Calls Out Facebook for Suppressing His Posts
For more than a decade, Texas native Don Kirchoff has used Facebook to share news and information with fellow conservatives. The longtime Heritage Foundation supporter and Heritage Action Sentinel frequently posts articles from The Daily Signal as well as content from other conservative organizations and media outlets. But is anyone seeing them? Many of Kirchoff's… -
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Salvation Army Imposes Racial Wokeness Within Church’s Ranks
The news is replete with examples of corporations and institutions going woke, from Google to Aunt Jemima. Unfortunately, now The Salvation Army is in danger of joining the ranks of Woke Inc. In materials prepared for its more than 1.5 million members, The Salvation Army uses terms that echo both radical “anti-racism” jargon and the… -
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Biden Vows to ‘Get This Done’ After Meeting With House Democrats on Giant Spending Bills
President Joe Biden told reporters Friday that he was in no rush to see his $1.1 trillion infrastructure package and separate $3.5 trillion spending bill pass Congress, as divisions among Democrats over the two measures slow their path to becoming law. “We’re gonna get this done,” Biden said after meeting with the House Democratic Caucus on Capitol… -
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Between Border Crisis and Afghanistan, Have We Ever Had a Less Competent President?
There’s always press coverage about Republican mismanagement or Republicans getting into trouble governing as ideologues, but you don’t hear much about the reverse. There’s a lot to critique about Republicans, but for mismanagement and for blindly putting ideology above all else, President Joe Biden may be the all-time champ. Biden campaigned as a pragmatist who… -
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Biden’s Absurd ‘Zero Cost’ Claim: $3.5 Trillion Is Real Money and It’s Coming Out of Your Pocket
Talk about a ludicrous advertising pitch! Speaking of the record-breaking tax-and-spend package currently being pushed through Congress, President Joe Biden last Friday said, “It is zero price tag on the debt. We’re going to pay for everything we spend.” This is flatly wrong, and it isn’t even close. While we don’t yet have a full accounting of the 2,465-page behemoth, it’s… -
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Here’s What Happened to Murder Rates When Texas’ Capital Defunded Police
Drivers heading south on U.S. Route 183 in Austin, Texas, have become familiar with a billboard urging city police officers to relocate to Spokane, Washington, to become deputy sheriffs and collect a $15,000 bonus. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has targeted Texas’ capital city, already in a personnel crunch as the homicide rate reached a… -
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Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster: Predictable and Not Over
A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday put a bright spotlight on President Joe Biden’s imprudent withdrawal from Afghanistan. At one point, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, asked Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, some simple yes-or-no questions about its consequences. “Has the military’s task to defeat terror threats from Afghanistan… -
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On Nukes, China Aims for Parity With US—or Maybe More
After a summer of extraordinarily bad news on the exponential growth of China’s strategic nuclear forces, recent public statements by U.S. government officials indicate Beijing isn’t only building out its nuclear forces, but also diversifying it, by considering new, nontraditional weapons, as well as possibly reconsidering its nuclear deterrent doctrine. That’s an awful lot of… -
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Fact Check: Would Biden’s Spending Bill Hike Taxes on Those Making Less Than $400,000?
President Joe Biden repeatedly has promised that his massive tax increases won’t hit people earning less than $400,000. Biden even put his family honor on the line, tweeting, “I give you my word as a Biden: If you make under $400,000 a year, I’ll never raise your taxes one cent.” But now that the official… -
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Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Spree Would Be Hazardous to Medicare’s Financial Health
Sen. Joe Manchin perhaps best clarified the huge stakes facing the country in the bitter debate over the Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend bill: “What I have made clear to the president and the Democratic leaders is that spending trillions on new and expanded government programs, when we can’t even pay for essential social programs… -
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The California Recall: Enter Snoop Dogg and Barack Obama
At one point, polls showed the odds of recalling California Gov. Gavin Newsom looked 50-50. It was at that point that the scared, embattled governor sent out a mayday call to Hollywood and to Democratic outsiders, including former President Barack Obama. The Hollywood Reporter—three weeks before the date of the recall vote—published a piece with… -
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Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Budget Gets ‘F’ for Its Second Grade Math
President Joe Biden, 78, has a 7-year-old’s grasp of basic math. “My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars,” Biden claimed via Twitter on Sept. 25. Regarding this multitrillion-dollar budget, he continued: “And it adds zero dollars to the national debt.” One can imagine a second grader named Joey Biden showing off his new train set and telling his playmates,… -
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National School Boards Association Calls on Biden to Police Parents Using Domestic Terror Laws
A group representing school boards across the country asked President Joe Biden to enforce federal statutes that combat terrorism to address violence and threats directed toward school board members and public schools in a Wednesday letter. A letter from the National School Boards Association asked the Biden administration to use statutes such as the Gun-Free School… -
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The Elitism of the Woke
Epigraph: “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”—George Orwell, “Animal… -
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Democrats’ Spending Bill Unprecedented in Every Way
There was a time not very long ago when political parties never would have entertained the idea of jamming through any massive, generational reform without some form of buy-in from the other party. Today, Democrats argue that the filibuster’s imaginary threat of “minority rule” has compelled them to use (really, abuse) the budgetary reconciliation process… -
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America Is Building a Military for Optics, Not War
Millions of Americans became alarmed when they saw a viral video that compared a U.S. Army recruiting advertisement to those made for the Russian and Chinese militaries. The Russian ad featured tough-looking men doing situps, jumping out of airplanes, and cocking rifles on a snow-covered battlefield. The Chinese ad showed infantrymen firing rounds as they… -
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Why Rachael Rollins’ Nomination to Be Rogue US Attorney Should Terrify Us All
It brings us no joy to say we were right. But we predicted last year that a disaster-in-the-making would unfold if President Joe Biden selected rogue prosecutors from around the country to become rogue U.S. attorneys. Some were specifically floating the name of Rachael Rollins, the rogue Suffolk County district attorney in Boston, as a…