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First Trump, Then Who? Facebook Makes Wrong Call in Censoring Trump
Facebook’s Oversight Board decided Wednesday to uphold Facebook’s and Instagram’s suspension of former President Donald Trump from their platforms. This decision is the wrong one, and one that all Americans, regardless of political affiliation, should be concerned about. However, the Oversight Board was entirely appropriate to admonish Facebook for the fact that its penalty was vague and… -
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4 Ways Washington Is Damaging Our Kids’ Future
This past year has tested us as Americans: We lost loved ones, jobs, and the ability to connect with one another in person. But, as Americans, we will get through the pandemic. My existential fear for our nation does not involve the pandemic, but rather, the decisions we are letting our leaders make, which are… -
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Teaching Critical Race Theory to End in Arkansas Agencies Without Governor’s Signature
Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson allowed legislation to become law without his signature Monday that ends the use of critical race theory education for state agencies. Hutchinson effectively approved SB 627 Monday, “an act to prohibit the propagation of divisive concepts” and “to review state entity training materials.” The legislation bans state agencies from teaching “divisive concepts,”… -
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Facebook Is Keeping Trump Off Its Platform
Facebook’s oversight board upheld the company’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump Wednesday morning. “The Board found that, in maintaining an unfounded narrative of electoral fraud and persistent calls to action, Mr. Trump created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible,” the board said in a statement. It also found, however, that… -
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The High Cost of Drug Price Controls
The debate over expanding government control of our health sector should have ended during the COVID-19 pandemic: Where there have been failures in responding to the crisis, it has been a failure of big government—such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s arrogant and clumsy insistence on controlling early development of testing that delayed… -
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Coal Workers Union Doesn’t Always Represent Coal Workers’ Values
GRAYSVILLE, Pa.—When coal mine employee John Morecraft heard last Monday that United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts approved of President Joe Biden’s plan to move the nation’s energy industry away from fossil fuels, Morecraft said he anticipated the news would be misconstrued. “I knew the story would come across as though all coal… -
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Former Acting Homeland Security Chief Weighs in on Biden Border Crisis
Personnel with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and with Customs and Border Protection are being directed by the Biden administration to stop using the terms “illegal alien” and “assimilation.” Chad Wolf, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation and former acting secretary of homeland security in President Donald Trump’s administration, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to… -
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How Apportionment Defrauds American Citizens
The news that six states will gain seats in the House of Representatives and another seven will lose seats, thanks to new census numbers, was widely reported. What was missed, though, is that the inclusion of noncitizens, including illegal aliens, in the population used to determine apportionment means that many Americans—and states—are being defrauded of… -
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Female Athletes Ask Court to Allow Idaho Law Banning Males From Women’s Sports to Go Into Effect
College track and cross-country athlete Madison Kenyon has been forced to compete against a biological male on five occasions. She lost every time. “Losing unfairly to someone who has natural advantages is frustrating and unmotivating,” said Kenyon, a sophomore at Idaho State University, at a press conference after a court hearing on the legality of… -
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Woke Companies Fail in Efforts to Hurt States Passing Conservative Legislation
Corporate America: heavy on threats, light on action. After the big blow-up in Georgia, most businesses probably thought they’d scared the daylights out of Republicans by going on MSNBC and ranting against the state’s election law. Turns out, the people who should be scared are the woke CEOs. Not only did Major League Baseball’s All-Star… -
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Calling Sen. Scott ‘Uncle Tim’ Is Black-on-Black Racism
Have some respect, black people—if not for Sen. Tim Scott, then for yourselves. The epithet “Uncle Tom” isn’t a slur white people use against black people. It’s used by black people against other black people. Those who dislike black people must, I’m sure, watch such foolishness with glee. It turned my stomach to see “Uncle… -
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In First 100 Days, Biden Shows He’s Divider-in-Chief
The first 100 days of a president’s term can reveal a new administration’s priorities. Unfortunately, the first 100 days of the Biden administration—which the president marked on Thursday, the day after his address to a joint session of Congress—reveal an executive branch determined to advance an aggressively intolerant ideology. President Joe Biden claims to promote… -
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How TSA Explains Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Fly With You
The Transportation Security Administration has an “established process” for identifying illegal immigrants who board domestic flights to a new home in America, a spokeswoman told The Daily Signal, although the Biden administration formally refers to this population as “undocumented.” The TSA was responding to a Daily Signal report Friday about such commercial flights carrying illegal… -
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Arkansas Looks to Protect Religious Liberty in State Constitution
If you adapted the old advertising slogan for the American company known for its jams, jellies, and preserves, “With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good,” to the American Civil Liberties Union, it might read something like, “If the ACLU labels your action one of the ‘most extreme’ in the nation, it has to… -
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Don’t Buy Deceptive Marketing of Violence Against Women Act
“Pass it and save lives,” President Joe Biden said last week in his address to Congress regarding congressional reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The House already did so last month, and given the bill’s title, you’d think it would be an easy lift for the Senate. After all, doesn’t the Violence Against Women Act have the… -
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Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Scrapping Florida’s COVID-19 Restrictions
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order scrapping all COVID-19 restrictions throughout the state and an accompanying bill that limits localities’ ability to enforce emergency precautions. “I think that’s the evidence-based thing to do,” DeSantis said during a press conference Monday announcing the executive order. “I think folks that are saying they need to be… -
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Kenosha Residents Demand to Know Why Outsiders Helped Run Wisconsin Election
MADISON, Wis.—Six Kenosha residents have filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission alleging the city allowed liberal outside groups to take over running November’s election. The action is the latest in a growing number of election law complaints against the “famous WI-5”—the cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine. But unlike in Green Bay,… -
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Journalism Is Riddled With Bias, Errors, Narrative Setting, and Pack Reporting
Barely a day passes anymore without one or more major corporate news outlets exposing their liberal bias, sometimes by how they frame stories, sometimes by the massive errors they commit, and sometimes by the mistakes they make in groups. In recent weeks there have been a series of glaring examples in which members of the… -
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Finnish Lawmaker Faces Jail for Sharing Bible Quote About Homosexuality
Quoting the Bible can’t land you in American prison (yet), but in Helsinki, it’s a different story. In a case that’s stunned the West, Finland’s former interior minister and leader of the Christian Democrats has been criminally charged for posting a picture of the Bible, opened to Romans 1:24-27. She was disturbed by the Evangelical… -
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How Critical Race Theory Is Taught in Public Schools
Critical race theory is making its way into institutions across America. Christopher Rufo, a visiting fellow for domestic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how critical race theory is affecting what children learn in schools. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news outlet.) “Critical race theory is an academic…