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Exploding All Those Myths About Exceptional Cuban Health Care
The myth of Cuban health care has reverberated throughout the international community for decades. Despite the communist authoritarian regime’s stifling of dissent, deprivation of basic liberties, and inhumane treatment of its citizens, members of the international community have been quick to heap praise on Cuba for what—on the surface—appears to be a (counterintuitively) successful health… -
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Media Finds Mark Levin’s ‘American Marxism’ Book Too Counterrevolutionary
We’re six months into the Biden administration, and the liberal media is still obsessing over new books full of titillating tales from anonymous sources about former President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Mark Levin’s newest bestseller—provocatively titled “American Marxism”—is too counterrevolutionary for these journalists to take seriously. CNN’s Brian Stelter touted two new anti-Trump books that were… -
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You Have a Right to Be Transgender. You Don’t Have a Right to Expose Yourself to Women.
How many examples could one give to show what a sick world left-wing activists, the media, and the Democrats—the left’s political party—have wrought? The number is equal to the number of policies they advocate. There is no more obvious example than their position on the display of a penis in front of girls and women…. -
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Pompeo: Biden Administration Inviting UN Racism Experts ‘Enormous Mistake’
In an exclusive interview with “The Daily Signal Podcast,” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticizes the Biden administration for asking the United Nations to send its racism experts to the U.S. “Our administration understood that the U.N. Human Rights Commission was simply … a bunch of antisemitic thugs who spend most of their time… -
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Maj. Sullivan Ballou Sacrificed Love of Family for His Country. His Letter Reminds Us That It Takes Courage to Preserve Freedom.
Visit a major Civil War battlefield, and chances are you will see stone monuments speckled amid the quiet and green fields and glens that form these hallowed places. These monuments are somber memorials to regiments and brigades, and ultimately, to the soldiers who fought, bled, and died on these fields. Tallies of dead and wounded… -
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The Truth About Georgia’s Voting Law
There are a lot of partisan political issues out there, but election integrity shouldn’t be one of them. What could be more basic to the very concept of representative government than having citizens trust that an election—whether it be for president or dog catcher—was fairly won or fairly lost? Yet in the recent past, this… -
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The Perverse Agenda of Black Lives Matter
Since the new wave of race consciousness that has been sweeping our country, precipitated by the graphic video of the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, something very strange has happened. Somehow, what is perceived as a problem has become widely understood to be the solution. And it is endangering our country…. -
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Federal Education Officials Backpedal on Pushing Critical Race Theory in Schools
The U.S. Department of Education looked into critical race theory’s abyss and blinked. In April, the agency proposed prioritizing the theory’s racially discriminatory ideas in a small federal grant program for K-12 schools. But after receiving a “significant” number of comments on the announcement, the agency demurred earlier this week, saying it would not give… -
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Fauci v. Paul and 3 Other Takeaways From Senate COVID-19 Hearing
Another heated exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci stole the show Tuesday at a Senate hearing on COVID-19, although participants also raised other key points. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, clashed publicly with the Kentucky Republican for at least the third time in recent months. “Sen…. -
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Nominee Faces Pushback Over Stonewalling Senators
After his March 2 Senate committee confirmation hearing, Rohit Chopra appeared to have a “reasonably assured path forward” to becoming the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Suddenly, however, Chopra’s prospects look a bit different. As Government Executive reports, several current and former employees of the bureau allege that the Biden administration is… -
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Sen. Rick Scott Outlines 3 Ways to Help Cuba
Sen. Rick Scott joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about how the polices of President Joe Biden’s administration are harming the country’s economy, the crisis in Cuba, and more. “The first thing is: [President] Joe Biden’s got to stand up. There’s hashtags that we ought to use. Dónde está Joe? Where is Joe? Joe’s… -
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Federal Judge Stops Biden White House’s Authoritarian Move on Amnesty
Liberals are up in arms over the decision by a federal judge preventing the Biden administration from reinstating the amnesty program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals for new applicants, although the program may continue for those illegal aliens already in it. This is a very important court decision in slowing the trend toward… -
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She Defied ‘the Last Dictator in Europe.’ Now, She Is Asking the US to Support the People of Belarus to Secure Freedom.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who has quickly risen to fame in Belarus for defying her country’s repressive regime, is now visiting top U.S. officials in Washington, D.C. Her goal is to seek support for the Belarusian people and discuss how the U.S. can help resolve the dire political crisis that has gripped her nation. Tsikhanouskaya has quickly… -
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Hold China, Biden Administration to Account to Prevent Drugs From Crossing Southwest Border
The historic number of U.S. deaths from drug overdoses in 2020 is yet another shocking consequence that stems from the Chinese Communist Party’s negligence, deception, and known export of poison to the United States. China dominates the supply of fentanyl, other synthetic opioids, and their precursors to the U.S. These are the drugs that resulted… -
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Real Infrastructure Opportunity for Congress: Speed Deployment of 5G Network
Faced with rising inflation and trillion-dollar federal budget deficits, more and more Americans understandably are wary of Congress’ passing any new, massive infrastructure spending bills. This is especially so when “infrastructure” is defined so loosely as to encompass all manner of spending on social welfare programs. But there’s one sure way to promote real infrastructure… -
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Biden Administration Needs to Take the Kid Gloves Off When Reacting to China’s Cyberattacks
The United States, along with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and NATO, on Monday formally attributed a series of malicious cyberattacks to China. This includes the March cyberattack that targeted Microsoft’s Exchange Server software, carried out by a Chinese-based hacking group known as Hafnium. This formal attribution is part of a broader condemnation of… -
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YouTube Suspension of Site for Persecuted Minorities in China Is Human Rights Issue
Serikzhan Bilash founded the Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights organization in 2017 to be a voice for the voiceless. He started the YouTube channel so that people could share their experiences of persecution and draw attention to family members caught in the vast web of internment camps in Xinjiang, China. Now, the very platform that once… -
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‘Stand Firm Against That Regime,’ Florida Lawmaker Says of Cuba Amid Revolt There
Rep. Byron Donalds has signed onto a resolution from a fellow Florida Republican, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, condemning the current situation in Cuba. Donalds says it’s critical that the United States stand in strong opposition to the violent suppression of mass public protests there. “They said to me, ‘Man, it’s so bad.’ Not only did they… -
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Psaki Mum on Which Facebook Posts White House Flags as ‘Misinformation’
During a press conference Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki dodged addressing whether the White House would reveal which Facebook posts it flags as misinformation. Psaki said last week that the White House will flag posts deemed vaccine misinformation to Facebook. But the White House press secretary didn’t address Monday whether the White House will “publicly… -
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Life on a Border Ranch: Cut Water Lines, Downed Fences, Stolen Property, Dead Bodies
BISBEE, Arizona—John Ladd, whose family has ranched at the U.S.-Mexico border for more than 125 years, says illegal immigrants tell him that President Joe Biden invited them to come. “The biggest difference with the people coming now is, when Border Patrol catches them, they tell them, they say, ‘We’re going to stay here, no matter…