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opinion
A Year After Hawaii Fire, Rebuilding Has Barely Begun
Cleanup after wildfires is inherently more difficult than recovery from other natural disasters, according to Brian Cavanaugh, a visiting fellow for cybersecurity, intelligence, and homeland security at The Heritage Foundation. Unlike a hurricane, which mainly creates wind and water damage, Cavanaugh says, fires damage the structural integrity of buildings and often leave dangerous chemicals behind. … -
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As Usual, The Washington Post Gets an Election Story Wrong
One of the problems with reporters for The Washington Post is that they repeat the claims of liberals as if they are facts, without questioning the claims or pointing out the patently obvious problems with clearly false accusations. You can see that in a Page One story Saturday in which the Post blithely reports that… -
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Free Speech Victory for New York Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
A federal district court ruled Thursday that pro-life pregnancy centers in New York may inform women “that the abortion pill reversal (‘APR’) protocol is safe and effective for a pregnant woman to use, with her doctor, to reverse the effects of a first chemical abortion pill and thereby, help to save the life of her unborn child.”… -
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‘Indoctrination’: Colorado Parents Outraged by Elementary School LGBTQ History Standards Launching This Fall
Colorado's new LGBTQ social studies standards, which include first grade lessons on LGBTQ history, transgenderism, and the rainbow flag, is age-inappropriate and pushes a radical agenda, some parents in the state complain. "I don’t want my first grader learning anything about LGBTQ issues at all in school," a Colorado father of a first grader who… -
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‘Cardboard Boxes … Unsecured Sacks’: Wisconsin Struggles to Set Standard for Ballot Drop Boxes
Voters will use ballot drop boxes again this fall in Wisconsin, among a few battleground states that could decide the Nov. 5 presidential election, prompting concern among election integrity advocates. The dissenting opinion in the state Supreme Court ruling reinstating the drop boxes argued that insufficient standards could allow “unattended cardboard box” or an “unsecured… -
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Nevada County Forced to Investigate Voters Registered at Casinos, Strip Clubs, Bars, and Stores. Here’s What It Found.
Nevada’s largest jurisdiction investigated why voters were registered at commercial addresses such as Las Vegas casinos and strip clubs, finding at least 19 out of 90 suspect registrations that need further review. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election watchdog group, dropped a lawsuit against Clark County Registrar Lorena Portillo after she agreed to investigate… -
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Harris Had Record of Pushing Left-Wing Positions on Biggest Legal Issues as California AG
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—More than a dozen briefs signed by Vice President Kamala Harris during her time as California attorney general highlight her left-wing stances on several contentious legal issues of the past decade. Harris filed briefs with the Supreme Court in favor of affirmative action, backing buffer zones that prevent pro-life counseling outside abortion… -
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California Proposal to Give Home Loans to Illegal Aliens Comes Under Fire
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—California lawmakers are one step closer to making hundreds of millions of taxpayer-funded home loans available to residents living in the country illegally. Democrats on the California Senate Appropriations Committee late last week unanimously approved AB 1840 to move forward, according to an official vote tally for the legislation. The bill has one last… -
opinion
LIVE from Chicago: The Democratic National Circus
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we watch some of the best footage from inside and outside the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Riots, protests, sermons, awkward applause, old men yelling, scrawny college students vandalizing—we’ve got it all! Have you ever experienced the joy of watching bitter old people attempt to… -
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Georgia Board OKs Rule to Match Vote Count With Number of Voters. The Left Objects.
The Georgia State Election Board will require that the number of ballots counted in the Nov. 5 presidential election doesn’t surpass the number of voters who cast ballots, in a move narrowly approved Monday. The election board voted 3-2 after more than three hours of heated debate on what proponents contend was a commonsense election… -
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‘Retaliation’: Nurse Who Blew the Whistle on Child Sex-Change Program Says Texas Children’s Fired Her
Former Texas Children’s Hospital nurse Vanessa Sivadge says that she has been terminated after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s alleged use of Texas Medicaid to cover attempted sex changes for children. Texas Children’s has denied that it used Texas Medicaid to cover cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors, as Sivadge has alleged. The… -
opinion
Don’t Be Fooled by the ‘Propaganda Extravaganza’ Coming to Chicago This Week
The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago on Monday, giving Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz an opportunity to present their vision for America. But don’t be fooled by the Democrats’ glitzy gala, says John Tillman, CEO of the American Culture Project and chairman of the Illinois Policy Institute. He offered a… -
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Biden’s Disappearing Act Reveals the Real Power in Washington
Our increasingly imperial executive branch has become the center of American politics as the presidency itself shrinks into irrelevancy. It is a dangerous dynamic that threatens the future of our country, and it’s been exposed during our current president’s lamest of lame-duck final months in office. President Joe Biden—if we can still give him that… -
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The Washington Post’s ‘Rambunctious Rah-Rah’ Coverage of Walz
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, but it reads like it’s owned by the Democratic National Committee. Consider the bias by omission. On Aug. 9, Washington Examiner reporter Gabe Kaminsky found an uncomfortable story: “Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric… -
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Why Michigan Republicans Side With Democrat AG Who Threatened to Prosecute Over Facebook Posts
The Donald Trump-backed candidate for state attorney general says he supports the move by his former opponent—Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat—to threaten to prosecute a GOP township candidate over her Facebook posts. Matthew Deperno, Nessel’s former opponent and the lawyer for Michigan’s Kalamazoo County Republican Party, said Kerry Lynn Elieff likely broke a… -
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Sanctuary Cities for Parental Rights? California City Aims to Protect Families from Radical Gender Policies
The mayor of Huntington Beach, California, is fighting for parental rights despite a recently signed state law requiring schools to conceal students’ gender transitions from parents. Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark introduced an ordinance Aug. 6 to make the Southern California beach town a “Parents’ Right to Know” city. “The state of California is… -
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‘Kindergarten Math’: Georgia Considers Rule to Match Counted Votes With Counted Voters
The Georgia State Election Board is mulling a proposed rule to ensure that the number of votes considered for counting equals the number of votes cast by voters. That might seem to be a minor administrative matter under normal circumstances. But less than three months away from the Nov. 5 presidential election in one of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: California School District’s Ethnic Studies Course Trains Students for ‘Social Justice,’ ‘Activism’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Los Angeles County school district offers an ethnic studies course covering the “intersectionality” of “identity markers” such as race, gender, and sexual orientation. “Ethnic Studies aims to educate students on social justice themes related to ethnicity, identity, and the historical element that is the common denominator, while providing students with… -
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Oklahoma Has Best School Choice in America, State Education Chief Says
Every state should adopt Oklahoma’s school choice model, says Ryan Walters, the state’s superintendent of education. “We have the best school choice in the country, and it’s a national model that every state should follow,” Walters told The Daily Signal at talk-radio host Erick Erickson’s The Gathering conference in Atlanta over the weekend. “But frankly, I think that… -
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Kamala Harris ‘Owns It as Much as Anybody,’ Texas Lawmaker Says of Border Crisis
Regardless of what federal courts say, Texas needs to remove illegal immigrants allowed into the country by the Biden-Harris administration, Rep. Chip Roy says. “We had six kids who died from fentanyl poisoning in the school district in which my family resides, southwest of Austin, Texas,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Signal at Erick Erickson’s…