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In Loudoun County, Dad Has 2 Reasons to Take on Critical Race Theory
In his own words, Virginia parent Michael Rivera isn’t normally the type of person to make big speeches. “I, like all of you, live a quiet and private life. I like to stay at home,” Rivera told a crowd of about 250 in Leesburg, Virginia. “I don’t necessarily like to spend my time at school board meetings, but we have to do it.” … -
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How Zuckerberg Paid Millions for Progressives to Work With 2020 Election Officials Nationwide
In the months leading up to November’s election, voting officials in major cities and counties worked with a progressive group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and its allies to create ballots, strategically target voters, and develop “cure” letters in situations where mail-in ballots were in danger of being tossed out. The Center for Tech and… -
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Will Liberals in Congress Give Health Insurance Industry $200 Billion Windfall?
Liberals have long aspired to a single-payer health care system that would eliminate private health insurance companies altogether. As such, it’s incongruous that 113 sponsors of so-called “Medicare for All” voted to increase government payments to profitable health insurers through the end of next year. Those same members of Congress appear ready to embrace a… -
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Biden Administration Is Forcing Navy to Make False Choice
The executive branch showers the federal government with easy money. It seems odd, then, that the federal government is making the Department of Defense choose between a false set of budget options when investing in defense—especially the Navy and cybersecurity—yields high returns. Consider the following events that have taken place over the past three months:… -
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Building an Even Better US-Swiss Relationship
Following the NATO summit, President Joe Biden will continue his European trip with a visit to Geneva, where he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, but also hold bilateral talks with his Swiss counterpart, President Guy Parmelin. The United States and Switzerland have a proven record of a dynamic partnership on many critical issues, and… -
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Virginia School District Challenges Judge’s Ruling Reinstating Teacher Who Wouldn’t Use Transgender Pronouns
A school district in Virginia is appealing a judge’s June 8 order to reinstate an elementary school gym teacher who it suspended for saying he wouldn’t call children who “identify” as transgender by their “preferred” names or pronouns. “Many students and parents at Leesburg Elementary have expressed fear, hurt, and disappointment about coming to school,”… -
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Don’t Be Fooled: Gender Identity Policies Don’t Follow the Science
During the past presidential election, you may remember seeing black yard signs with lists of creed-like statements written in rainbow text. The creeds included claims like “science is real.” All Americans should agree with this statement. And yet, contrary to this pithy creed, any law that classifies gender identity as a protected class under civil rights law denies science. The Equality Act and the Fairness for All… -
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Biden Directive on Mitigating Threats From TikTok, Other Foreign-Owned Apps Is Insufficient
President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked an executive order signed by then-President Donald Trump that targeted the Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat apps by proposing these apps be banned due to their national security risks. In its place, Biden signed a new executive order with vague directions for the Commerce Department to evaluate software related to… -
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PolitiFact Isn’t Partisan? Pants on Fire
At its recent United Facts of America Festival, PolitiFact interviewed Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. Its executive director, Aaron Sharockman, began with some light humor, telling Warner he was one of the more accurate members of Congress. Sharockman complimented Warner for having zero “Pants on Fire” rated claims. Warner joked: “That feels like it should be… -
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Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents Skyrocketed During Pandemic, CDC Report Shows
Suicide-related emergency room visits among both adolescent girls and boys spiked amid the pandemic and continued to surge as lockdowns persisted, according to a government health report. Emergency room mental health visits increased 31% among children aged 12-17 years old in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Friday…. -
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Biden Administration Uses Term ‘Birthing Person’ Instead of ‘Mother’
Joe Biden ran on an absurdly radical platform for a “moderate,” but it looks like he saved a lot of his truly crazy ideas for the White House. Just when Americans think his policies can’t get any more deranged, he unleashes a budget that cancels moms. In a bizarre attempt to transgender the English language,… -
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Celebrating the 246th Birthday of America’s Army
When the Second Continental Congress delegates voted for a resolution on June 14, 1775, they had no idea they also founded America’s Army. On Monday, June 14, that Army turns 246. The delegates directed “six companies of expert riflemen be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia.” Each company consisted of… -
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Ford, Mellon, Rockefeller Made Their Fortunes Thanks to Capitalism. Now, Their Foundations Seek to Undermine It.
Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon flourished because of America’s free enterprise system. Yet, the foundations that bear their names are today pursuing a much different agenda, warns Rick Graber, president and CEO of the Bradley Foundation and chairman of the Philanthropy Roundtable. “These foundations exist with their massive endowments because of these… -
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We Hear You: Woke Employees, Race in Schools, and Defunded Police
Editor’s note: The Daily Signal’s audience appreciates the commentary by a nonprofit leader about countering wokeism on her staff. Here's a sampling of the response on this and our coverage of related issues, from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I just read Grace Daniel's article on resisting a mutiny by employees of her… -
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Communism Survivor Speaks Out Against Critical Race Theory
Editor’s note: On Thursday, Xi Van Fleet was interviewed by Fox News host Sean Hannity about why she spoke out against critical race theory during a recent school board meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia and said the theory was the “American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” Watch the interview or read the lightly edited… -
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Border Town of Del Rio Blames Biden for Flood of Illegal Immigrants
Illegal immigrants have started fires on the Texas ranch and twice tried to break into the house where she and her husband live with three young daughters, Allison Anderson said. In another incident, authorities’ pursuit of unlawful crossers at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a stop on her family’s property, she said. “I was outside… -
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Biden Divides Us. Here Are 12 Principles That Can Unite Us.
Americans are woke. They woke up and realized President Joe Biden is no moderate. He is spearheading the most radical policies in modern history, policies that would transform this nation into an unrecognizable country—far less safe, more impoverished, and more unfree. Nevertheless, the vital issues of the day pull us together. Conservatives share a common… -
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Biden Administration Eyes Ending Discrimination Against Dead. (Don’t Put It Past Them.)
Editor’s note: The following is satire. Consider the wild success that the Biden administration has enjoyed in its unilateral modification of the term “sex” in federal anti-discrimination law to include “gender identity” (aka what someone might feel like on any given day). Now, President Joe Biden is reversing a rule inherited from his predecessor that… -
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Black Mom: Critical Race Theory Is False ‘Unless You Believe That Whites Are Better Than Blacks’
Editor’s note: Keisha King, a member of Moms for Liberty and a mother of two in Florida, delivered these remarks Thursday to the state Board of Education, according to Fox News. Her comments were widely shared on social media, including by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Below is a lightly edited transcript, or you can watch… -
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The Democrats’ Filibuster Con
When Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., closed the door on eliminating the legislative filibuster this week, promising not to “weaken or eliminate” the 60-vote threshold, he “dashed” the “dreams” of Democrats, according to The New York Times. Hypocrisy is nothing new in Washington, but it takes a preternatural shamelessness to have participated in over 300 filibusters,…