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Border Crisis Is No Accident. It’s Biden Making Good on Campaign Promises.
If you wanted to make up something to depict President Joe Biden as the cause of the border crisis, you might invent a scenario in which he was just turning illegal immigrants loose into the interior of the country. Such a situation might easily be dismissed by skeptics as too much of a caricature of… -
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A Message From a Hymn to Young Conservatives: ‘Be Not Afraid’
In these times of extreme polarization, young conservatives are facing increasingly hostile campus climates that mock and shame the traditional principles we hold so dear. We can rise above this challenge by remembering to be not afraid. Also, a phrase from the popular eponymous Catholic hymn “Be Not Afraid” comes from the belief expressed in… -
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Infrastructure Bill Advances in Senate After Overcoming Filibuster
The Senate advanced a bipartisan infrastructure deal Wednesday evening, voting to open debate on the legislation after weeks of tumultuous talks that had at times thrown the entire plan into jeopardy. After last-minute snags over transit funding and other items, key negotiators announced they had reached a deal earlier Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said following the… -
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Biden Border ‘Blueprint’: Unfair, Disorderly, and Inhumane
The Biden administration is hoping that if it repeats the words describing its border process as “fair, orderly, and humane” enough times, Americans will begin to believe it. Never mind what Americans’ lying eyes actually see every day at the border. The administration this week released its “Blueprint for a Fair, Orderly and Humane Immigration… -
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House Republicans Seek to Finish Wall, Hire More Border Patrol Agents
House Republicans will propose legislation Thursday to finish the border wall and hire more officers in response to President Joe Biden’s “destructive” immigration policies, according to a statement provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., and other House Republican leadership announced the Border Security for America Act of 2021, which would require the… -
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Michael Knowles on How Political Correctness Has Upended American Culture
What is political correctness? When did it start to seep into mainstream culture? How is political correctness destroying American society? Michael Knowles, host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at The Daily Wire, joins me on “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss. We also chat about his new book “Speechless.” “This whole culture has been upended,”… -
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Democrats’ Spending Could Cost Taxpayers $5.5 Trillion, Sen. Cynthia Lummis Says
Democrats are trying to push both a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and another $3.5 trillion spending package through Congress. Although the former provides funding for traditional infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, the other and larger package provides trillions of dollars for a laundry list of left-wing priorities, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., says. “They have… -
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‘Cuba Libre’: Why These People Stand for Cuban Freedom
Cuban Americans and their supporters gathered Tuesday for a “Cuba Libre” demonstration on the front lawn of the Capitol to support Cubans’ fight for freedom from communism and demand action by President Joe Biden. “We are demanding that the dictatorship tell us where all the missing people are,” Marta Beatriz Ferrer, whose activist father disappeared in… -
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Study Says European Laws Limit Abortion Earlier Than Mississippi Law Pending at Supreme Court
Most European abortion laws limit abortion earlier than the Mississippi law at the heart of an upcoming Supreme Court case, a study released Tuesday found. The pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute released a comprehensive analysis of European abortion laws Tuesday showing that an overwhelming majority of European countries limit abortions to before 15 weeks. “Mississippi’s law brings the… -
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‘Invest in Joe’: How Hunter Biden’s Financial Deals Extend Beyond Ukraine
When Hunter Biden was on the board of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma, he was included on an official government email in 2016 to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, regarding a phone call with Ukraine’s leader at the time, according to a recent discovery reported in the New York Post. But as… -
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Besides Lost Jobs, 3 More Ways Minimum Wage Laws Hurt Workers They’re Meant to Help
Many studies have documented the effect of minimum wage laws on lost jobs, including the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that a $15-an-hour minimum wage would cost 1.4 million jobs. That’s because mandating higher wages for some workers means no wages for others. But it wouldn’t just be workers who lost their jobs that would be… -
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Texas Governor Enlists National Guard to Catch Illegal Immigrants at Border
The Texas National Guard will be deployed to assist law enforcement officials in arresting illegal migrants on state criminal charges at the southern border, Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced. Illegal migrants who are apprehended and found to have committed state offenses such as criminal trespassing, human trafficking, and narcotics smuggling are subject to arrest… -
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Illegal Aliens Convicted of Homicide Return to America
In June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona charged six individuals who had previously been convicted of homicide in the U.S. with illegally reentering the country. This statistic—published in the U.S. attorney’s monthly report on immigration and border crimes—shines a revelatory light on our justice system and our border security. Each of… -
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Do Student Suspensions Really Cause a ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’?
The Biden administration is picking up where the Obama administration left off in trying to dictate to local school districts how they should best discipline students. Its justification for acting as national school principal is based on the claim that suspending students harms them by excluding them from the learning environment and by stigmatizing them… -
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De Blasio Warns ‘Voluntary Phase Over’ for COVID-19 Shots
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told MSNBC that the “voluntary phase is over” for COVID-19 vaccinations. “We’ve got to shake people at this point and say, ‘Come on now.’ We tried voluntary. We could not have been more kind and compassionate,” de Blasio said on MSNBC. “Free testing, everywhere you turn, incentives, friendly,… -
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2 House Conservatives Demand IRS Transparency in ‘Partisan’ Leak of Tax Records
Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent letters to Treasury Department officials Tuesday demanding answers about the Internal Revenue Service’s ongoing investigation into the leak of wealthy individuals’ tax information. The letters, first obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, were sent to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and Inspector General for Tax Administration J…. -
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How America’s Authoritarians Use Empathy to Rule
America has a crisis of empathy. That crisis isn’t expressed as lack of charitable giving: Americans give approximately seven times what Europeans do to charity per capita. And it isn’t expressed as an unwillingness to spend on a governmental level: The United States currently spends more money than any nation in the history of the… -
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My Professors Thought Calling Conservatives ‘Crazy’ and ‘Hicks’ Would Sway Me to the Left. They Were Wrong.
When I was looking at colleges during my senior year of high school, I knew that I wanted to attend an institution that focused on education rather than indoctrination. My impression was that my professor’s role was facilitating students’ ability to think critically, not indoctrinating them to a point where they thoughtlessly repeat their teachers’… -
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California Governor Takes Kids Out of Summer Camp That Doesn’t Require Masks
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s son was photographed maskless indoors at a summer camp, prompting the Democratic governor to pull his children out of the camp, Fox News reported. “The Newsoms were concerned to see unvaccinated children unmasked indoors at a camp their children began attending yesterday,” the governor’s communications director, Erin Mellon, told Fox News when asked… -
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Biden Touts Stronger ‘Buy American’ Rules for Taxpayer-Financed Purchases
President Joe Biden announced proposed changes to the Buy American Act on Wednesday that would increase the requirement for U.S.-produced components in products bought by the federal government. The proposed rule would mandate all products bought with taxpayer dollars to have at least 60% of their components manufactured in the U.S., the Biden administration announced…