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Illinois Democrats Launch a Cultural Revolution in the Classroom
In these head-spinning times, first principles about government are all in play: what it’s for, and how it relates to the people. Not long ago, Democrat and Republican politicians and activists differed over priorities: More guns or more butter? Today, the parties differ more fundamentally over the purpose, role, and function of government itself. The foundational… -
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Liberal Activists Rebrand Sex Changes as ‘Gender-Affirming Medical Care,’ and the Media Is Following Their Lead
Liberal activists are rebranding sex change surgeries as “gender-affirming medical care,” even when discussing these procedures for children. Former transgender people and conservative activists told The Daily Caller News Foundation that this is a deliberate effort to normalize the surgeries and make them more accessible to children. Lawmakers have proposed at least 114 bills related… -
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Will Republicans Step Up to Challenge on Values?
For sure, Democrats rejoiced as they watched Republicans painfully twist in the wind at the beginning of LGBTQ Pride Month, trying to figure out how to position their party on this issue. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel got flak from the right and from the left, as she essentially waved a white flag, declaring… -
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Biden Wants to Make Catholics Pay for Murder
St. John Paul II—speaking for the Catholic Church—stated plainly that abortion is murder. “The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved,” he wrote in “Evangelium Vitae.” “The one eliminated is a human… -
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How Blue City Governance Is Destroying Blue Cities
This week, a video from a San Francisco Walgreens went viral on Twitter. The video depicted a man standing next to his bicycle, loading up a garbage bag with products. The man then rides his bicycle down the aisle, past a security guard, who limply throws out a hand to try to grab the bag;… -
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Senate Unanimously Passes Bill Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
The Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth, already celebrated in the majority of states on June 19, commemorates the official end of slavery in Confederate states on that day in 1865. Though President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, hundreds of thousands of slaves did not… -
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Why Are Our Leaders Not Protecting America From China and COVID-19?
What happens when a country loses interest in protecting itself? That’s what we are living through in America today. COVID-19 has killed 600,000 Americans. Yet the U.S. government and top American leaders have generally been passive, or even uninterested, in learning how it all started. How can that be? It’s almost unimaginable that every single… -
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Protect DC Students From Critical Race Theory’s Racial Bias, Congressman Says
In the nation’s capital, critical race theorists are rewriting public school lesson plans to make them what they call “culturally responsive.” But that benign-sounding project is dangerously manipulative: Self-appointed social justice warriors are using the whims of extremist opinions to change the importance of subjects, such as science and math, along with history and literature,… -
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Critical Race Theory Will Destroy Our Military
As a young Marine Corps first lieutenant assigned to an infantry battalion in the late 1980s, I had charge of the unit transport section of operators, mechanics, and supervisors tasked with taking care of our fleet of combat vehicles. This group of Marines, like all with whom I served over a 20-year military career, was… -
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Meet Every Black Life Matters, an Alternative to BLM
Kevin McGary is the president of Every Black Life Matters, with emphasis on the “Every.” McGary joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the contrasts between the Black Lives Matter organization and his own group, how fatherlessness has adversely affected the black community, critical race theory, the racist origins of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood,… -
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Navy Chief: Critical Race Theory Proponent’s Radical Book Makes ‘Better Navy’
Adm. Michael M. Gilday, the chief of naval operations, did not answer questions Tuesday about whether author-activist Ibram X. Kendi’s opposition to interracial adoption and capitalism is extreme. But, Gilday did tell the House Armed Services Committee that Kendi’s controversial book “How to Be an Antiracist” would lead to “a better Navy” by promoting more… -
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Almost Overnight, Standards of Colorblind Merit Tumble Across American Society
A broad revolution is underway in the United States as traditional standards used to measure achievement and provide opportunity are being rejected by schools, corporations, and governments in favor of quotas based on race and gender. On taking office, President Joe Biden signaled that the nation’s long-held principle of equality for all had come to… -
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Why Biden Shouldn’t Make Concessions to Putin on Missile Defense
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s summit Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 65 national security specialists urged Biden to put missile defense on the negotiating table. These advocates mistakenly claim that U.S. missile defense causes Russia and China to develop new offensive nuclear systems, and that making concessions on missile defense would halt a supposed… -
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‘No One Comes Through the Border Illegally Without the Cartels’ Authorization’: How Biden’s Policies Feed a Criminal Monopoly
Mexican criminal cartels—not U.S. border communities, nor illegal immigrants—are the beneficiaries of President Joe Biden’s open border policies. Biden’s neglect of border security is feeding the money-making machine of the Mexican cartels, a criminal enterprise that exploits immigrants by taking their money—and sometimes their lives. “[The cartels] have the northern border of Mexico sealed,” Jay… -
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Teacher Shares Behind-Scenes Look at How Unions Further Woke Agenda
California teacher Brenda Lebsack says she began seeing “red flags” in public education when she decided to become more involved with her union, the California Teachers Association. After she began attending the union's conferences in 2015, Lebsack says, she was alarmed to see that many of the topics weren’t academic but instead focused on social… -
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Rep. Ilhan Omar and Contempt for America
“We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., tweeted last week to her 1.2 million followers. They responded with warm support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was cooler. Although the speaker lives in San Francisco’s progressive echo chamber, she heads a national party and understands… -
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US Civil Rights Commissioner Slams Chicago Mayor for Barring White Reporters From Interviews
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, blasted Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s policy that barred white reporters from interviewing her in a letter Monday. The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch sued Lightfoot after she announced her policy on Twitter May 19. Thomas Catenacci, a foundation reporter, was denied… -
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America’s Navy Is Leaving Readiness and Morale in Its Wake to Be More Woke
Proponents of wokeness have pulled a fast one on all of us. They say they want the same things we want, such as ending racism and extremism. What they don’t say out loud is that they hope to get there not by building some beautiful new society, but by destroying everything in its path. The… -
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After Competing Against Transgender Athletes, Mom and Daughter Fight for Fairness in Women’s Sports
For professional track athlete Cynthia Monteleone and her teenage daughter, the fight to protect women’s sports is something they know firsthand. In separate events, both mother and daughter have raced against biological men. In Monteleone’s case, she beat her transgender competitor by a few tenths of a second. But her daughter Margaret Oneal Monteleone, 16,… -
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How Stand Up Virginia Is Working to Hold Rogue Prosecutors Accountable
Brenda Tillett, founder and president of Stand Up Virginia, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about the new organization and how it intends to hold rogue prosecutors accountable. “In Fairfax County, Steve Descano was funded by George Soros,” Tillett says, referring to the elected commonwealth’s attorney in Fairfax County, Virginia, and the billionaire financier…