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The Untold Story Behind the Atlanta Murders
The killing of eight individuals at three Atlanta massage parlors has been framed, almost solely, as a case of race-based murder. This is piling distortion on top of tragedy. The Washington Post ran 16 separate pieces depicting the fatal shootings as racially motivated, while The New York Times settled for a mere nine stories reaching… -
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Ex-CDC Director Says He Believes Coronavirus Leaked From Wuhan Lab
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cast doubt on the prevalent theory about the origins of the coronavirus, saying in an interview released Friday that he believes the virus escaped from a science lab in China. “I do not believe this somehow came from a bat to a… -
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How Conservatives Can Do Better in Engaging Black Americans
Commentator Deroy Murdock, besides being a Fox News regular and a contributing editor at National Review Online, is a senior fellow with the London Center for Policy Research. Murdock joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share his journey to conservatism, how he got started in journalism, and what he thinks conservatives can do better to… -
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5 Takeaways as Big Tech CEOs Testify About ‘Misinformation’
Lawmakers questioned CEOs of three of the world’s most powerful tech companies Thursday about censorship and false information on their platforms. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Google’s Sundar Pichai answered questions from members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. During the House hearing, lawmakers asked the three CEOs about their roles in… -
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6 Takeaways From Biden’s First Press Conference
President Joe Biden on Thursday spoke of going to the Senate “120 years ago,” claimed nothing has changed on the border regarding illegal immigration, and outlined more ambitious goals for COVID-19 vaccinations and the reopening of schools. On Day 65 of his presidency, Biden held his first press conference, fielding questions from 10 reporters in… -
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Wisconsin Republicans Launch Investigation of 2020 Election
MADISON, Wis.—Pushing back against claims of “conspiracy theories” from Democrats, the chair of the Wisconsin Assembly’s Campaign and Elections Committee pledges the panel will get answers to integrity questions surrounding last year’s elections. “We’re going to pursue it and we’re going to get to the bottom of it,” state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, said… -
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China Continues to Show Its Contempt for US
Last week in Anchorage, Alaska, Chinese diplomats dressed down Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the broadsides. Not since newly elected President John Kennedy was humiliated at the Vienna summit in June 1961 by USSR strongman Nikita Khrushchev have American diplomats been so roughly manhandled by… -
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Why Biden’s Blaming Trump for Border Crisis Has Zero Credibility
No one believes the Biden White House’s feeble attempt to blame the Trump administration for the current border crisis. As the Biden administration unsuccessfully tries to deflect blame for the humanitarian disaster now occurring before America’s eyes, despite its directed media blackout, the administration is only succeeding at showing it knows it has a problem…. -
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Women’s Groups Silent on Bill Clinton, Kamala Harris Co-Hosting Women’s Empowerment Event
Women’s groups that backed sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh are silent following news that former President Bill Clinton will co-host an event on women’s empowerment with Vice President Kamala Harris, despite allegations of sexual assault and rape against the former president. The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to a number… -
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Fact-Checking 5 Claims Mayorkas Made About the Border Crisis
This week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas once again made several false or misleading statements about the border crisis in a range of high-profile interviews. These statements are the latest in a disturbing pattern of dishonesty and doublespeak from the Biden administration on the crisis it has created on our southern border. Members of The… -
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$3T Infrastructure Grab Bag Would Strangle Economy, Americans With Debt, Taxes
The media were flooded Monday with news that the Biden administration is working on a colossal new $3 trillion to $4 trillion spending plan. While full details are not available yet, the plan appears to be another left-wing grab bag of big-government proposals. Rather than stimulating the economy, it would stimulate bigger government while funneling… -
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Jordan Peterson’s ‘Beyond Order’ Could Not Be More Relevant Today
In the introduction of his newest book, “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life,” author and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson states that he wrote it to explore “how the dangers of too much security and control might be profitably avoided.” “Beyond Order” is a companion to his previous book, “12 Rules for Life: An… -
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America’s National Defense Also Women’s Issue, Sen. Joni Ernst Says
The Biden administration’s reported decision to hold America’s defense budget flat for the next fiscal year is concerning, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, says. Ernst served in the U.S. military for more than 23 years before becoming a senator. Today, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ernst is committed to promoting policies that… -
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What This Former NYPD Detective Has to Say About Attacks on Police
Rob O’Donnell, a former detective with the New York Police Department, was among first responders to the terrorist attacks that brought down the towers of the World Trade Center in 2001 as well as to the terrorist bombing there eight years earlier. O’Donnell joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about what that was like…. -
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9 Highlights From Senate Hearing on Federal Takeover of Elections
Lawmakers listened to ominous references to the South’s Jim Crow era and Maoist China as the Senate held its first hearing on Democrats’ legislation to nationalize elections while eliminating voter ID and most other state election safeguards. “This bill has rightly been called the Corrupt Politicians Act because it is designed to keep corrupt politicians… -
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Lauding Democrats and Their ‘Landmark’ Voting Rights Bills
Democrats always seem to be the heroes in the copy of so-called mainstream media outlets. Republicans often emerge as the villains who squash everything noble and good. Leftists are typically described as the reformers who somehow lack an ideology. Take a March 15 story that led the national section of The New York Times. The… -
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Securing America Requires a Secure Border
Noe Victelio Rivera-Batres is a citizen of El Salvador who was convicted of illegally crossing the border into the United States three years ago and then ended up living in Las Vegas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement summarized his story in a press release it put out three weeks ago. Rivera, it says, is a… -
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‘Baghdad Bob’ Rides Again
When I heard Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas say last Sunday on “Meet the Press” that the southern border “is closed,” it immediately brought to mind claims by Iraq’s former information minister — dubbed “Baghdad Bob” and “Comical Ali” (aka Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf) — about Saddam Hussein’s superior military forces. During the 2003 U.S.-led invasion… -
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Biden, Not Trump, Driving Border Crisis
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas summed up our border crisis in a statement he released March 16: “We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.” According to The Wall Street Journal, Border Patrol agents made about 75,000 arrests of migrants crossing illegally… -
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An American Defense of Britain’s Constitutional Monarchy
Historians may puzzle for many years over why a rambling, emotional interview between members of the British royal family and an American media tycoon-cum-billionaire became a rallying cry to destroy the British monarchy. But so it has: The radical left has seized upon Oprah Winfrey’s televised spectacle with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in a crusade to invalidate one…