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‘No More’: Sen. Ted Cruz Stops Accepting Corporate PAC Contributions
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is vowing that he no longer will accept campaign contributions from corporate political action committees and urges colleagues to do the same. Corporations have consistently attacked conservative values while expecting Republicans to grant them political favors, Cruz wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Wednesday evening. The Texas Republican said “woke CEOs”… -
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5 White Farmers Sue Over Loan Forgiveness Only for Blacks, Other Minorities
MADISON, Wis.—Christopher Baird owns a dairy farm near Ferryville in southwest Wisconsin, not far from the Mississippi River. He milks about 50 cows and farms approximately 80 acres of pasture. Like a lot of farmers, Baird has direct loans through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. But the dairy farmer isn’t entitled to… -
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Republican Governors Are Signing Pro-Life Laws All Across Country
Republican governors across the U.S. are ramping up pro-life legislation as President Joe Biden continues to expand abortion access. The newest pro-life laws have been signed this week in Arizona, Oklahoma, Montana, and Idaho. On Tuesday, Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed SB 1457 into law, legislation banning abortions based on a diagnosis of genetic abnormality like… -
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Virginia Flunks Math
The state of Virginia, which used to be reliably red and mostly conservative, is providing more evidence of an increasingly blue and liberal hue. Virginia is “considering” renovating its math courses. As the publication Virginia Mercury noted: In webinars [Virginia Department of Education] officials have been upfront that the initiative is based on data, especially standardized… -
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Democrats’ Court-Packing Schemes All About Power
The Democrats’ plans to pack the Supreme Court appear to be getting serious. Left-wing proposals to put more justices on the Supreme Court have been floated for years. Now that Democrats have taken power, they’re putting those plans in motion. A group of powerful congressional Democrats recently unveiled legislation that would expand the Supreme Court… -
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Truth-in-Taxation Laws Are Gold Standard of Property Tax Reform
The burden of high property taxes is a source of growing frustration and legitimate concern for taxpayers across the nation. Because property tax systems vary greatly across the states, finding a solution to out-of-control property tax burdens is often difficult for policymakers. Interestingly, states across the country are taking a page from Utah’s book, where… -
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Florida Leads Way on Commonsense Occupational Licensing Reform
Who says that legislatures can’t pass statutes that benefit the public, rather than cronies or special-interest favorites? (Well, I do regularly, but elected officials actually did something good here, so cut me some slack and read on.) On Tuesday, the Florida Legislature passed a bill, House Bill 735, that makes it easier for ordinary Floridians… -
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Minorities ‘Perfectly Capable of Getting Photo ID,’ Nikki Haley Says of Election Laws
Nikki Haley, previously U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and governor of South Carolina, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what conservatives realistically can try to accomplish during the next 18 months while faced with a liberal Democratic president and Congress. Haley—a Republican and founder of Stand for America, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group that… -
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Fact-Checking 7 of Biden’s Claims in His Address to Congress
President Joe Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of a downsized Congress on Wednesday night, nearly 100 days into his presidency. Biden spoke to only 200 masked lawmakers in the spacious House chamber, even though most, if not all, members of Congress have been vaccinated for COVID-19 and federal health guidelines don’t… -
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Biden’s 5 Blunders in Congressional Address
President Joe Biden discussed distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, gun control, taxes, elections, and free preschool in his address to Congress Wednesday. But the president didn’t tell the full story in his remarks. To learn more, check out our video. -
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Read Sen. Tim Scott’s Powerful Response to Biden’s Address to Congress
Editor’s note: Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress. Below is a lightly edited transcript and above is video of his remarks. Good evening. I’m Sen. Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina. We just heard President [Joe] Biden’s first address to Congress. Our president… -
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Heritage Scholars Sound Off on Biden’s Address to Congress
President Joe Biden is addressing a joint session of Congress this evening, and experts from The Heritage Foundation are weighing in. Here’s what they have to say. >>> The Daily Signal is the multimedia news and commentary outlet of The Heritage Foundation. Economy Education Foreign Policy Health Care Law Welfare Economy Infrastructure Biden’s speech began… -
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Why Advancing Trade Freedom Is Key to Cleaner Environment
At last week’s climate summit, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai underscored that “trade policy can be a powerful tool to create incentives for positive competition” as countries explored domestic measures for how best to handle environmental challenges. Indeed, advancing free trade is a key policy action for effectively facilitating a healthy environment. The proven, right way to ensure… -
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Biden’s Proposed Education Spending Spree Is Untenable, Unaffordable
The Biden administration’s recently released budget request would significantly expand the federal footprint on education through a greatly accelerated education spending spree. The administration requested nearly $103 billion for K-12 and higher education—a 41% funding increase—for the Department of Education. The president’s budget request includes significant funding increases for: School districts with students from low-income… -
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Unintended Consequences of Biden’s Rescinding of Mexico City Policy
Rushing through policy often leads to unintended consequences. The Biden administration certainly has been rushing to implement executive orders to undo the policies of President Donald Trump. One unintended consequence of those actions is the possibility that your tax dollars are going to organizations that are complicit in coerced abortions overseas. One can only hope… -
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With COVID-19 Advice, CDC Too Often Ignores Science
How reliable are government declarations that mask mandates prevent the spread of the coronavirus? Our recent experience with researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has left us less than confident that the public should trust the CDC’s published research, much less any pronouncements based on that research. Our problem involves a paper that the… -
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The Circular Logic of Systemic Racism
Last week, ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. The evidence on the murder charges was weak; the evidence on manslaughter was significantly stronger. Still, the jury took only 10 hours and zero questions to come to its conclusion: guilty on all counts. In and of itself, the… -
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What Creates Leftism? Affluence Plus Secularism
Just as physicists look for equations to explain the natural world, I have always thought it useful to look for equations to explain human nature. For example, in my book on happiness, I offer this equation: U = I – R. Unhappiness = Image – Reality. The difference between the images we have for our… -
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Nebraska’s Education Choice Opportunity
At first glance, Nebraska’s K-12 education system seems to be doing fairly well. On the fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading components of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Nebraska students scored slightly above average overall. But a closer look shows a more worrisome picture. The Urban Institute reanalyzed the NAEP data while controlling… -
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‘We’re Being Overrun,’ Arizona Lawmaker Says of Border Crisis
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., says his state is being overwhelmed by the crisis at the southern border. “We’re being overrun,” Gosar tells The Daily Signal. “I mean, I was down in Yuma a week and a half ago, and we saw ‘coyotes’ just bring children over and just give themselves up. One ‘coyote,’ in the…