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Maine’s Successful Welfare Reform and Why It Worked
States are often the best laboratories for testing out what public policies will make life better for their citizens. Maine’s experiment with welfare reform is a… Read More
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How Is the IRS Auditing Churches? Group Demands Answers
A nonprofit legal organization that advocates freedom of religion is demanding that the Internal Revenue Service explain how it audits churches. “The freedom of religion… Read More
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Mississippi Governor Explains Why He Signed Religious Liberty Law
In an interview with The Daily Signal, Gov. Phil Bryant, R-Miss, explains what his state’s new religious liberty law does and doesn’t do. While many… Read More
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Liberal AGs Have Begun a War Against the First Amendment
Last week, a line was crossed in the ongoing campaign of liberals to criminalize freedom of expression. The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands… Read More
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Liberals’ Double Standard on Bathrooms, Boycotts, and Religious Freedom
If it wasn’t for double standards, some liberals would have none at all. That seems to be the lesson from the past few weeks, where… Read More
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Disney’s Religious Liberty Hypocrisy Exposed
The Walt Disney Company has long blurred the lines between fantasy and reality, creating alternate universes and new worlds through its theme parks and films…. Read More
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Erick Erickson Talks Religious Liberty Fights: ‘The Left Has Overreached’
Erick Erickson talks to The Daily Signal about religious liberty, Hollywood values, bathroom laws, and why the coziness of big business with big government is causing… Read More
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Why More States Are Requiring Work Requirements for Food Stamps
Newspaper headlines have been bemoaning that more states will now have to require adults on food stamps—who are able-bodied and without dependents—to work. Since 2009,… Read More
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US Immigration Agency Returns ‘Freedom of Religion’ to Naturalization Exam
Sen. James Lankford has made a small vocabulary victory that he believes will have a significant impact on religious liberty. The Department of Homeland Security… Read More
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Mississippi Is on the Right Side of History
Lawmakers in Mississippi took a stand for the First Amendment this week, and the usual suspects aren’t happy. Liberal politicians, LGBT activists, and big business… Read More
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8 Questions for PayPal on Its Decision to Boycott North Carolina
Mr. Schulman, On Tuesday, you announced that PayPal, where you are the president and CEO, was no longer going to open a new operations center in… Read More
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Here’s Why Republicans Are Demanding Names in Fetal Tissue Probe
Confronting critics who say she is conducting a “witch hunt,” the chairman of a special House panel investigating the supply of tissue from aborted babies… Read More
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The Extraordinary Courage of Gov. Phil Bryant
On Tuesday, Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi signed the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act into law. To protect religious liberty in his… Read More
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University of Michigan Students Call for Police to Censor Classmates’ Political Messages
The University of Michigan is one of our nation’s premier institutions of higher learning. Young people from all over the country move to Ann Arbor… Read More
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Abortion Funding Slows Senate Support for Human Trafficking Bill
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., wants to build broad, bipartisan support for taxpayer funding of a nonprofit foundation with the audacious task of combating and ultimately… Read More
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Gov. Bryant Stands Up to Liberal Bullying, Signs Mississippi Religious Freedom Bill
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican, has signed the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act, a law that guarantees religious freedom in the… Read More
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More Guns Does Not Mean More Murders
According to proponents of gun control, more guns in America equals more murders and a more lawless society. Every time there is a mass killing… Read More
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George Mason University Honors Scalia Legacy by Naming Law School After the Late Justice
George Mason University has announced it will rename its law school after the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. This stands in stark contrast to… Read More
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Mississippi Moves to Protect Religious Freedom on Marriage
This morning, the Mississippi House passed a bill, HB 1523, protecting religious freedom. If the House disposes of a procedural maneuver that has delayed a final… Read More
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Sponsors of Georgia’s Religious Freedom Bill Decry Governor’s Veto
The sponsors of the religious liberty bill vetoed by Georgia’s governor say they are disappointed and disheartened by his action. Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican,… Read More
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Setting the Record Straight: North Carolina Law Protects Everyone’s Bodily Privacy
The Charlotte City Council passed an ordinance Feb. 22 that was a direct attack on the long-acknowledged truth that maintaining sex-specific bathroom facilities preserves the… Read More
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Welfare System Is ‘Anti-Work,’ Researchers Say
The war on poverty is a war on work, the authors of a new book that criticizes the nation’s welfare system assert. Phil Harvey, chief… Read More
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How Liberal Policies Destroyed Black Families
This piece has been adapted from Crystal Wright’s new book: “Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division.” It’s well… Read More
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NBA’s Threatening North Carolina Is Textbook Cultural Cronyism
Big business has stomped into another state, trying to impose the values of the cultural left. This time, a governor who dared to stand up… Read More
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Georgia Governor Caves to Big Business, Vetoes Religious Freedom Bill
Georgia’s Republican Governor Nathan Deal has caved to pressure from big business and special interests and vetoed a very modest religious liberty bill. This shows… Read More
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The Little Sisters’ Case Isn’t Just About Providing Birth Control
While group of nuns have become the de facto face of the Supreme Court case challenging the Affordable Care Act’s so-called “contraceptive mandate,” another community… Read More
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Indiana Governor Signs Bill Banning Abortions of Down Syndrome Babies
“Every life has value. Every life is a gift.” Carissa Carroll, a mother of a toddler with Down syndrome, told The Daily Signal she supports… Read More
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Why I’m Going on the World Race
In less than two weeks, I’ll be halfway across the world with only a backpack full of belongings. I’ll be on a yearlong mission trip… Read More
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The NFL’s Bullying of Believers
Do you think a pastor who’s against same-sex marriage should be forced to perform same-sex weddings? Do you believe that a religious college should be… Read More
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Little Sisters to the Supreme Court: We’ll Have ‘Nun of It’
In a rare public appearance, a group of nuns stood before the Supreme Court Wednesday to rally against a provision in the Affordable Care Act… Read More
