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opinion
What’s Best Thing Most Americans Can Do to Make Country Better?
Some think tank or polling organization should ask 1,000 Americans: What is the best thing most Americans can do to make the country better? Presumably, those most influenced by their schooling and by the media would answer something along the lines of “fight racism” or “work to reduce inequality.” Whatever the specific answer, most young… -
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She Was Imprisoned in Her Native Cuba. Here’s How She Describes Life Under Communism.
Lala Mooney, born in communist Cuba, was imprisoned there at age 19. As protests erupt in the Caribbean nation, Mooney, mother of Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about what life there is like. “At the economic level, we lost everything,” Mooney says. “My mother’s family owned a sugar mill… -
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Fact-Checking 6 Big Claims in Biden’s Partisan-Tinged Speech on Voting
In a major speech Tuesday, President Joe Biden linked voter ID requirements to repressive Jim Crow laws in the South after the Civil War, declaring it’s “not hyperbole” and insisting it’s time to ask: “Are you on the side of truth or lies?” Biden delivered his fiery remarks at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia… -
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Is Kim Jong Un’s Regime on Cusp of Collapse?
Speculation over internal conditions in North Korea and the stability of its regime is even more rampant than usual. Reports of food shortages, a COVID-19 outbreak, and political volatility have fanned much of the speculation. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s recent extended absence from public view simply fueled the fire, triggering renewed rumors of health problems. Still, it never… -
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Hunter Biden’s Art Sales: Ethical Mess Made Worse by White House
Allow me to join the chorus of voices congratulating Hunter Biden for waking up one day recently as an accomplished and commercially successful artist, a sudden event that curiously corresponded with his father’s becoming president of the United States. This is surely a coincidence, and certainly only represents the latest shift in Hunter’s colorful career… -
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Biden’s ‘Competition’ Executive Order Realizes a Central Planner’s Dream
President Joe Biden on July 9 issued an executive order, purportedly to promote competition. The order, though, is yet another far-left directive to promote federal government intervention in the economy, pushing policies that may not even be authorized by Congress and that could trample on states’ rights. It punishes economic success and presumes that when… -
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Governor Says Texas Democrats Who Fled Vote on Election Reform Face Arrest
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says Democrats who fled the state to avoid voting on an election reform bill will be arrested upon their return. Democratic members of the state House of Representatives left Texas to avoid being called to vote Monday on the election legislation. Under state law, two-thirds of House members are required for… -
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Biden on Track to Have Most Expensive White House Staff in US History
President Joe Biden has wasted no time filling out his White House staff, employing 567 people at a projected cost of $200 million over his four-year term. That is compared to the Trump administration, which spent $164.3 million between 2017 and 2020, and the Obama administration spending $188.5 million between 2009 and 2012, both of… -
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De Blasio to Keep Masks in Schools Despite CDC Guidelines
Masks will be required in New York City grade schools this fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday at a press briefing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance Friday that vaccinated students and teachers could go maskless and stressed “the importance of offering in-person learning, regardless of whether all of the prevention strategies… -
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Marking a Milestone With Manila: 75 Years of US-Philippines Relations
The United States and the Philippines will celebrate two important milestones in their bilateral relationship this year. Last weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, signed on July 4, 1946, as well as the 70th anniversary of our mutual defense treaty with the Philippines. That makes the… -
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4 Reasons Why Federal Government Shouldn’t Permanently Expand Jobless Benefits
Historically, about 40% of unemployed workers have received unemployment insurance benefits. But since Congress passed massive unemployment insurance expansions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, that figure has more than quadrupled, to unemployment benefits equaling 176% of the number of unemployed workers. Between April 2020 and May of this year, state and federal unemployment insurance… -
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What’s Really Going On Inside Cuba
Thousands of Cubans protested in the streets Sunday because of dire conditions brought about by the Caribbean nation’s communist regime. What is going on there, what will be the repercussions for protesters who have had the courage to gather in the streets, and how should the U.S. respond? “It’s a very dark moment right now,” says… -
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Cuban Protests Are Reminders of Communism’s Evils—and of Why America Is Land of Hope
What’s ruined Cuba isn’t the coronavirus. The lethal virus of communism did. Massive protests erupted in Cuba over the weekend. Cubans, in dozens of cities, could be heard shouting “Freedom!” and “Down with communism!” Demonstrations have occurred in Cuba in the past, but these appear to be truly unprecedented in scope. They come as the… -
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Leftists’ Applause for Texas Democrats’ Flight Shows Hypocrisy on Democracy
If democracy dies, does any leftist care? You’d think so: After all, we’ve had years of hand-wringing about the erosion of democracy in our nation, from The Washington Post’s “Democracy dies in darkness” motto to The New Yorker magazine fretting in a headline that “American Democracy Isn’t Dead Yet, but It’s Getting There.” No doubt,… -
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Big Business Loves Big Government
Politicians say they pass laws to “protect Americans from big business.” People like hearing that. Many don’t like big business. Unfortunately, most people don’t realize that those laws often help big business while hurting consumers. “Big business and big government are not enemies like a lot of people think they are,” says American Enterprise Institute… -
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This Cuban Dissident Hopes to See End of ‘Castro Tyranny’
Antonio Rodiles said he has lost count of how many times he was arrested in Cuba. The human rights activist in 2010 founded Estado de SATS in Cuba, a forum calling for political and economic reform in his home country. Rodiles, who is now visiting Florida and lives in Cuba, says he is watching the… -
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My Campus Canceled Me Because I Didn’t Post a Black Square on Instagram
I love my university. I cherish the memories I have made and the friends I have met, but all good things have a blemish. I was told college is the time for maturing and growing to become who I am meant to be. Growing up, I was told college is an accepting place where I… -
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Biden Response to Cuba Protests Is Disappointingly Weak, Florida Senators Say
The demonstrations in Cuba present a major opportunity for the United States and other democracies around the world, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., says. Bringing freedom to Cuba would affect the entire region, said Scott, who represents a state with a large Cuban American population, as well as many other Latin American immigrants. “They all know… -
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Understanding Economics Can Cure an Obsession With Socialism
Although nearly a quarter of Americans (23%) say socialism means equality, fewer (17%) correctly identify socialism as an economic system where the government controls key factors of production and distribution, according to a Gallup poll in 2018. The same poll found that 42% of Americans said they feel positively about socialism. Despite such apparent support… -
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Why Tax Code Should Continue to Allow Full Expensing of Research and Development
When President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law three days before Christmas in 2017, he implemented one of the most comprehensive tax reform packages of recent years. The new law included significant tax rate reductions, simplifications, and other reforms in the individual tax code. In 2019, Heritage Foundation analysts scored…