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opinion
Media Falsely Accuses Indiana Library of ‘Book Banning’
The board of a library system in an Indiana county posted new guidelines in December for books in the library’s “teen” section. Books, graphic novels, and comics found to contain overtly sexual content or racial slurs would be moved one room over, to the adult section. As a result of this policy and growing concerns… -
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Appeals Court in Florida Voids Obama Judge’s Ruling in Win for Election Integrity
In a win for common sense and the voters of Florida, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-to-1 opinion written by Chief Judge Bill Pryor, upheld several election reforms passed by the Florida Legislature in 2021. In League of Women Voters of Florida v. Florida Secretary of State, the appeals court on… -
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Montana Governor Signs Slew of Pro-Life Legislation
The Republican governor of Montana signed five pieces of pro-life legislation into law on Wednesday, stating, “Montanans sent us to Helena to boldly defend life, not send their tax dollars to abortion clinics.” Gov. Greg Gianforte added: “Montanans’ hard-earned money should not be used by the government to fund elective abortions.” “This package of pro-family,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: 16 Attorneys General Back Florida Transgender Medicaid Rule
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sixteen state attorneys general weighed in on Florida's rule blocking Medicaid funds from transgender medical interventions on the grounds that they are experimental. "From the Founding, states have exercised their authority to enact health and safety measures—regulating the medical profession, restricting access to potentially dangerous medicines, banning unsafe or unproven treatments,"… -
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Dishonest New York Times Series Does Not Deserve a Pulitzer
Following an 18-part investigative series in The New York Times alleging various forms of maleducation and malfeasance in New York City yeshivas, the New York Board of Regents began implementing regulations targeting these Hasidic Jewish day schools. These included requiring certain classes (currently not taught at yeshivas) to be taught for a specified length, allowing… -
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Chief Diversity Officer Won’t Roll Over for the Left
Virginia state official Martin Brown is the latest reminder that DEI—“diversity, equity, and inclusion”—is a sham, a strategy to force systemic change and not to encourage equality, participation by all, or ideological diversity. “DEI is dead,” Brown said last week, and the keepers of the orthodoxy started calling for his head. Brown, chief diversity, opportunity,… -
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Bracing for Post-Title 42 Surge: Biden Sends 1,500 Troops to Border, Texas Cities Issue Emergency Declarations
Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing at least: Encounters with illegal aliens at the southern border will increase when Title 42 expires on May 11. President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security “expects that encounters at the southwest border will increase as smugglers spread disinformation, which will place a strain on our immigration system,… -
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Missouri County GOP Cites Bible in Resolution Endorsing Natural Marriage
Years after many declared the debate on same-sex marriage closed, a chapter of the Republican Party has passed a resolution defining marriage exclusively as the union of one man and one woman, based on nature and the testimony of Scripture. On April 24, the Republican Party of Jackson County, Missouri, passed the “Defense of Marriage”… -
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‘We’re Not Doing That Here,’ Oklahoma Schools Superintendent Says of DEI Instruction
Oklahoma is taking a lead on school choice programs and resisting far-left ideology in classrooms across the state. “It is amazing how aggressive the Biden administration is with this radical agenda towards our schools,” Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, says. When he came into office, Walters says he told staffers there, “We’re… -
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Iowa Taxpayers Shouldn’t Be at Mercy of Woke Investment Managers
Iowans have an opportunity to make asset managers decide whether they will operate to further the financial interests of Iowa residents or weaponize their duties to further a political agenda. Proposed state legislation known as Senate File 507 would protect free enterprise and Iowa’s taxpayers by codifying two commonsense principles: Taxpayer dollars—specifically public pension funds—should… -
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Biden-Garland Lawsuit Against Tennessee Ban on Transgender Procedures for Kids Is Baseless, Legal Scholars Say
The Justice Department filed suit on Wednesday against a new Tennessee law prohibiting doctors from performing irreversible transgender procedures on minors. The federal lawsuit asserts the law violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause by denying what it calls “medically necessary care” to minors. The complaint asks the court to issue an immediate stay to prevent the law… -
opinion
Good Riddance to Kim Foxx, Chicago’s Soros-Backed Rogue Prosecutor
The first big city, George Soros-backed rogue prosecutor, Chicago’s Kim Foxx, announced Tuesday that she won’t seek reelection next year as the state’s attorney of Cook County, Illinois. In a defensive, rambling speech at the City Club of Chicago, the controversial Foxx, a Democrat, claimed that she never wanted to make a career out of… -
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Virginia Governor Elevates State’s Economic Partnership With Taiwan
“Together, we will continue to build a deep and lasting partnership.” That was the unmistakable, powerful message Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin conveyed Monday to President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan and the people of the Asian island nation. In his first official overseas trade mission for the commonwealth of Virginia, Youngkin made a notable visit… -
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Louisiana Bill Would Ban K-12 Classroom Discussion of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
New Louisiana legislation would ban public school teachers and personnel from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with students from kindergarten through the end of high school. That's not all. Republican Louisiana state Rep. Dodie Horton's HB 466 would also prevent teachers from discussing their own sexual orientation or gender identity with students or using… -
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Biden, Harris Meet With ‘Tennessee 3’ to Push Gun Control
President Joe Biden met Monday with three Tennessee state legislators at the White House, two of whom were temporarily expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives after staging a raucous protest in the chamber. Their colleagues expelled state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they interrupted a legislative session by shouting through a bullhorn…. -
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In Zeal for Transgenderism, Washington State Muscles Parents Out, Gets Control of Their Kids
Update: Gov. Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, has signed into law Senate Bill 5599. According to the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Marko Liias, a Democrat, SB 5599 “allows licensed shelters to contact the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in lieu of parents in certain additional instances, like when a young… -
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Promoting Lawlessness in Chicago
“As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!”—Turkish playwright Mehmet Murat ildan That didn’t take long. The mayor-elect of Chicago, Democrat Brandon Johnson, responded to a group of teenagers who attacked cars and… -
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Disney Is Going to Lose (Again) to Florida and Ron DeSantis
The first round of the “Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis v. The Walt Disney Co.” fight, held last spring, ended in a clear DeSantis victory and Disney defeat. Following Disney’s vocal opposition to Florida’s commonsense Parental Rights in Education Act, misleadingly dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Florida passed a law to abolish the Reedy… -
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‘War on Woke’: DeSantis Says Florida Will Teach Truth, American Exceptionalism
OXON HILL, Md.—Woke ideology is a war on truth, so Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is waging a “war on woke” in education and other arenas, the Republican said at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit. In his keynote address on Friday, DeSantis said education in the Sunshine State will not impose political indoctrination on… -
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In Chicago, Good People Must Fend for Themselves in Heart of City
During the riotous mayhem that hit the Chicago downtown Loop last weekend, mobs of young people looted stores and injured innocent bystanders. A woman was savagely beaten. The car of an Indianapolis couple was attacked while they were inside. The husband was hospitalized with minor injuries. All of this was just the mob action caught…