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Critical Race Theory in Classrooms Isn’t Just About Teaching ‘Honest History’
The media spin and outright gaslighting to cover up the reality of the teaching of critical race theory in our schools and institutions has shifted into overdrive. First, we were told it wasn’t happening at all. Then, we were informed that trying to stop it was authoritarian fascism or something. Now left-wing media and politicians… -
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Biological Male May Join Middle School Girls Cross Country Team, Judge Rules
A middle school student who is a biological male may run on a girls cross country team this fall in spite of West Virginia’s new law banning biological males from women’s sports, a federal judge has ruled. Lawyers from the ACLU-West Virginia had argued to U.S. Circuit Judge Joseph R. Goodwin that HB 3293 would unfairly prevent the 11-year-old… -
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Can National Solidarity Solve Our Race Problems?
On Oct. 16, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House. As Edmund Morris relates in “Theodore Rex,” many Americans were pleased with this precedent-shattering dinner. But not all. Definitely not all. In the South, disgust and vitriol shook the rafters. A sample of headlines: “Roosevelt Dines a Darkey”… -
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As Predicted, Court-Packing Looms Large in Supreme Court Commission’s Second Public Meeting
The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court met Tuesday for its second public meeting, hearing from 27 witnesses about everything from the court’s so-called shadow docket to court-packing and time limits for the confirmation process. The commission’s report for President Joe Biden is due by mid-November, but if this and its May 19 meeting are… -
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‘Dystopian Cruelty’: Congressman Slams Pelosi Staffers’ Treatment of Kids on House Floor
Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., called out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over an incident in which her staff kicked his 5-year-old daughter off the House floor along with children of other lawmakers. “The inability to show kindness to children, which aren’t a problem, gives you almost a poster of what’s becoming wrong with this leadership,” Schweikert… -
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Democrats’ Bill Would Hold Facebook, Other Social Media Liable for ‘Health Misinformation’
Senate Democrats introduced legislation Thursday removing liability protections from online platforms that promote content deemed health misinformation. The bill, proposed by Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Ben Ray Lujan, seeks to carve out an exception from Section 230 liability shields enjoyed by online platforms, such as Facebook or YouTube, if those platforms boost content classified as health… -
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Can the Left Get Anything Right? From Immigration to Energy, Answer Is ‘No’
From immigration to crime, energy, and beyond, Democrats have the Midas touch in reverse: Everything they handle turns to manure. Can the left get anything right? Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly has claimed that “the border is closed.” Regarding the illegal alien surge through Mexico, “we have seen extreme progress over these last few… -
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Pelosi’s Archbishop Rebukes Her for Saying She Supports Abortion as ‘Devout Catholic’
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone rebuked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Thursday for calling herself a “devout Catholic” in her defense of taxpayer-funded abortion. “Let me repeat,” the San Francisco archbishop said in a statement. “No one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have… -
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Declining US Birthrate Another Reason to Rein in Federal Spending
Initially, COVID-19 lockdowns were projected to produce a baby boom, but what ensued instead was a baby bust. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020 marked a record-low fertility rate of 1.64 children per woman and the sixth straight year with an outright decline in the number of births. A fertility rate… -
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How This Pastor Resisted Government to Keep His Church Open During COVID-19
Churches, synagogues, and other places of worship faced extraordinary challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in liberal states such as California. Rob McCoy, senior pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks in California, joins a bonus episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about how he kept his church open during COVID-19 amid… -
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Biden Adopted Vague ‘30 by 30’ Conservation Plan From ‘Radical Environmental Groups,’ Nebraska Governor Says
President Joe Biden’s proposed plan to conserve 30% of America’s land by 2030 lacks needed details, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says. The Biden administration has not provided details on how it intends to accomplish the goal, but enough is known about Biden’s “30 by 30” conservation initiative to know that it won’t serve the best… -
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Texas Moves Detained Illegal Immigrants to Vacant State Prison
Texas law enforcement officials have received the first migrants arrested and charged with state offenses at a vacant state prison, a Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson says. Officials on Tuesday transferred the first three migrants from the Val Verde County Jail near Del Rio, Texas, to the Dolph Briscoe Unit in Dilley as part of… -
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Inflation Something to Worry About Now
Inflation has been accelerating this year, and it isn’t hard to see why. Government spending has been so overwhelming that even former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, a Democrat, said recently: We are printing money. We are creating government bonds. We are borrowing on unprecedented scales. Those are things that surely create more of a… -
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Within Days of More Evictions, Only Fraction of Federal Rent Assistance Awarded
The Treasury Department has awarded a small fraction of the tens of billions of dollars Congress appropriated since January for rental assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The federal government has spent less than $3 billion of $46.6 billion given to the Emergency Rental Assistance program, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday. The U.S. doled out $1.49… -
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Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Abortion Law as ‘Imminent Threat’ to Women
A federal judge has blocked a law that would have banned almost all abortions in Arkansas, calling it an “imminent threat” to women seeking abortions. District Court Judge Kristine Baker issued a preliminary injunction blocking authorities from enforcing the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection Act until she issues a final ruling, The Washington Post reported. The… -
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Canada Shows What Marxists Could Do to America
Imagine if President Joe Biden said he would cancel the Fourth of July to give the United States time to reflect on the sins of its past. There would be no fireworks and no festivities, just a solemn order to self-flagellate. If you happen to be from Canada, this is not a hypothetical scenario. It’s reality. In a statement on July 1, Canada Day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “We as Canadians must be… -
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Americans Want Better Roads and Bridges More Than Untraditional Infrastructure, Poll Finds
Over 80% of Americans support proposals to fund the repairs of roads, bridges, ports, and drinking water pipes, but support for most other infrastructure issues is split sharply along party lines, new polling shows. President Joe Biden and a bipartisan Senate group compromised on a $973 billion infrastructure plan in June, but Democrats are working… -
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Biden Nominee Wins Only Democrats on Senate Panel Amid Tree-Spiking Scandal
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee split along party lines during a Thursday morning vote on President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Democrats on the committee unanimously backed the nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, in the face of fierce Republican opposition over her involvement in a 1989 ecoterrorism incident and her… -
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Some No-Cost Ways for Congress to Make Pentagon More Effective
It is easy to complain, much harder to offer solutions. Congress loves to criticize the Pentagon’s wastefulness, even though lawmakers create some waste by imposing overly prescriptive rules such as “use it or lose it.” The “use it or lose it” phenomenon occurs at the end of every fiscal year, when the Defense Department rushes… -
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As ‘Devout Catholic,’ Having 5 Kids Was Great, Pelosi Says, but ‘Poor Women’ Need Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she was “blessed” to have five children “as a devout Catholic,” but “poor women” need taxpayer-funded abortion. On Capitol Hill, Pelosi also said falsely that Democrats have not blocked Republicans' attempts to ban taxpayer-funded abortions, before describing taxpayer-funded abortion as “an issue of health, as an issue of…