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Missouri School Offered ‘Sweet Prize’ to Students for Reading Sexually Explicit Books
A Missouri high school offered prizes to students who read books featuring sexually explicit LGBT material, critical race theory, and transgender education. The high school librarian in the Webster Groves School District, located in the suburbs of St. Louis, encouraged students to check out books from her commonly banned book list to enter a raffle… -
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Supreme Court Tells Maine to Stop Religiously Discriminating. Maine Gets Creative, Does It Anyway.
Last term, in Carson v. Makin, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Maine could not prevent parents from using otherwise generally available state school choice funds at religious schools simply because those schools provided religious instruction. But the state is back at it again, discriminating against families and the religious schools they want to… -
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Maryland School District Reviewing Policies to See If Homework Is Racist, Negatively Impacts ‘Marginalized Communities’
Maryland’s largest school district is reviewing its homework policies through the lens of so-called anti-racism. Montgomery County Public Schools will reevaluate its homework policies, last updated in 1986, “with an antiracism lens” to determine how homework affects “social-emotional learning” and whether it negatively impacts “marginalized communities,” according to a Daily Signal review of a March… -
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20 Lawmakers Stood Up to the Washington Establishment. This is Their Story.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives after a historic 15 rounds of voting over four days in January. His journey to the gavel was not an easy one. Twenty lawmakers, including Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Eli Crane and Andy Biggs of Arizona, Anna Paulina Luna and Matt… -
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Michigan Public Schools Admit Teaching Critical Race Theory
State governments in places like Florida, Virginia, and Arkansas are leading the fight against the use of race and sex to divide the country. These are welcome steps. But on the other side of the ledger, you have states like Michigan. There, the public schools are going in exactly the opposite direction. Take Detroit, for… -
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Youngkin Signs Bill Ensuring Equal Status for Virginia Churches
On March 26, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, signed HB 2171 into law. This new statute ensures that houses of worship are not subject to unequal restrictions compared to those placed on other businesses, organizations, and activities in the commonwealth of Virginia. In sharp contrast to the limit of 10 people imposed on “nonessential” gatherings such as churches by… -
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Violent Antifa Agitators and Transgender Activists Shut Down Students for Life Event at Virginia University
Violent transgender activists and Antifa agitators interrupted the final Students for Life “Lies Pro-Choicers Believe” Tour at Virginia Commonwealth University on Wednesday and shut the event down. Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins’ and student ambassador Isabel Brown’s speaking tour concluded at the Richmond, Virginia, public university in violence as police arrested protesters… -
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Jane’s Revenge Vandals Slapped With Lawsuits in Florida, Launching a Trend That May Spread Across the Country
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and Christian legal group First Liberty Institute filed lawsuits Wednesday seeking damages and fines against two members of Antifa and pro-abortion group Jane's Revenge who allegedly vandalized three pro-life pregnancy centers in south and central Florida. A federal grand jury indicted Caleb Freestone, 27, and Amber Smith-Stewart, 23, with violations… -
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DeSantis Vows Florida Won’t Help Extradite Trump
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in a tweet that the Sunshine State will not help extradite former President Donald Trump, who was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury Thursday night. Trump spends significant time at Mar-a-Lago, a Florida resort he owns. “Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue… -
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Catholic Church in Nicaragua ‘Under Siege’ From ‘Dictator-in-Chief’ Ortega, Florida Lawmaker Says
Two panels of the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a joint hearing recently focusing on the persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua. Since last year, the Catholic Church had been facing intense mistreatment from President Daniel Ortega, culminating in the arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, an outspoken critic of Ortega’s government. Álvarez was sentenced… -
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As More Trains Derail, Heritage Foundation Asks Court to Force EPA to Release Information on Ohio Disaster
The Environmental Protection Agency is blocking release of public information about the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which created an ecological disaster, alleges a lawsuit from The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The push for more information comes as the EPA faces additional questions about a derailment Thursday in Minnesota of a 22-car… -
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Washington Needs Actionable Agenda for Dealing With Existential Threat From China
“If not now, when?” That’s one of the key questions Washington must deal with when it comes to the greatest existential menace America must confront and defeat in this century. The critical matter is not the issue of John Kerry’s climate change. It’s about how to effectively fend off a Communist China that has been… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Nevada’s Rejected Votes Exceeded Narrow Senate Margin in 2022, Watchdog Group Finds
Nevada rejected a higher number of mail-in ballots in the 2022 election than the final vote margin that decided a close Senate race last year, according to an analysis obtained by The Daily Signal. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative election watchdog group, found that 8,036 ballots were rejected. Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez… -
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How 2 Texas Lawmakers Propose to Solve Problem of Ammo Shortage Amid Crime Surge
Two Republican state lawmakers in Texas propose establishing a Texas Ammunition Manufacturing Facility as an office within the state’s Department of Public Safety. Noting a shortage in the supply of ammunition and soaring prices amid growing crime, state Sen. Pete Flores sponsored a bill in the Texas Senate (SB 1851) and state Rep. Ellen Troxclair sponsored… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia School District Boots 14 Sexually Explicit Books to County Libraries
A Virginia school district’s new superintendent decided Wednesday to remove 14 sexually explicit books from school libraries and donate them to the county government’s public library system. The 14 “young adult” novels to be removed from libraries in Spotsylvania County Public Schools by order of Superintendent Mark Taylor, on the job since Nov. 1, include:… -
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‘Shameful’: Alabama Supreme Court Justice, AG Slam SPLC for ‘Displays of Racial Bias’
The Alabama Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Southern Poverty Law Center's motion to remove a duly-appointed judge, and one of the justices condemned the center for "implicit accusations of racism" and "displays of racial bias." "Displays of racial bias would be shameful no matter the source, but they are especially troubling coming from a legal… -
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Maine Dad, Lawmaker Defend Education Transparency Through Public Records Requests
A bill in the Maine state Legislature would protect transparency in education after a state official accused parents of “hate speech” for making government public records requests. Introduced by state Rep. John Andrews, R-Paris, the bill would codify Maine’s version of the Freedom of Information Act, the Freedom of Access Act, and affirm that the requests… -
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6 Charts Show Why Washington Must Cut Spending ASAP
The recently released Biden administration budget for 2024 was layered with problems. It doesn’t take the surging size of the national debt seriously; it views shaking down taxpayers as the solution to fiscal problems; it would hand massive raises to federal bureaucrats; and it offers bad medicine for Medicare while allowing Social Security to go… -
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Toll of Border Crisis on States: Florida
This is Part 3 in a series about the toll that the federal government’s intentional promotion of illegal immigration is taking on the states and their citizens. (Read Part 1 (national overview) here and Part 2 (Texas) here.) As the border crisis continues across every congressional district in the country, Florida is leading the charge to fight back… -
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Democrats’ Boycotts of Texas, Arizona Field Hearings on Illegal Immigration Inexcusable
All 15 of the Democrats on a House committee last week boycotted a field hearing on the crisis at our southern border, aptly held in Texas for the express purpose of focusing lawmakers’—and national—attention on the out-of-control problem of illegal immigration. Worse, the March 15 hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee in Pharr,…