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    Columnist Resigns After Her Site Removes Her Piece on Transgenderism and Hollywood

    Conservative columnist Daniella Greenbaum announced her resignation from Business Insider on Thursday after the news website deleted her opinion piece arguing that actress Scarlett Johansson should not be chastised for playing a transgender role. “I wish I could say I am surprised,” Greenbaum wrote in her resignation letter. “Unfortunately, what happened with my piece—the tarring of…
    Evie Fordham
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    The Disastrous Initiative to Hire Air Traffic Controllers Based on Diversity, Not Talent

    My column a fortnight ago, titled “Diversity and Inclusion Harm,” focused on the dumbing down of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula to achieve a more pleasing mixture of participants in terms of race and sex. Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote about this in her article titled “How Identity…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Revamped Lawsuit Vows to Expose ‘Discrimination’ in Obama FAA’s Diversity Hiring

    A federal judge breathed new life into a lawsuit over the Federal Aviation Administration’s race-based hiring practices for air traffic controllers. The D.C. federal judge’s ruling not only allows plaintiff Andrew Brigida’s suit to move forward, but reignites the controversy over what critics call the Obama administration’s decision to put “diversity over safety” at the…
    Michael Bastasch
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    Hollywood Wins Oscar for Hypocrisy on Guns, Malkin Says

    Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Hollywood hypocrisy on gun control is alive and well, CRTV host Michelle Malkin said Monday, the day after the movie industry’s annual Oscars gala.  The 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, hosted by late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel. At the event, some…
    Chrissy Clark
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    Podcast: Hollywood’s Liberalism on Full Display at Oscars

    At the Oscars Sunday night, host Jimmy Kimmel and others made sure to virtue-signal their “woke” bona fides, between jabbing Vice President Mike Pence, promoting the March 24 march in support of gun control, and giving best foreign film to a movie about a transgender woman. (And when best actor Gary Oldman talked about how…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Must-See Moments: ‘Tolerant’ Hollywood Continues to Attack Sarah Huckabee Sanders

    The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week—many of which went largely misreported by the mainstream media and some of which were hardly reported at all. This week, Hollywood took aim at White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. In response to a tweet from MSNBC host…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Despite Hollywood’s Scorn, Melania Trump Has Accomplished Much as First Lady

    Hollywood’s feminist hypocrisy was on full display Sunday night at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Actress Kristen Bell, who was hosting the event, joked about being a “first lady.” “I think my first initiative as first lady will be cyberbullying,” Bell said to “much laughter” from the audience, according to the The Huffington Post. “Because…
    Ginny Montalbano
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    Don’t Let Liberals End Opinion Diversity Under Cover of ‘Fake News’ Campaign

    The issue of fake news is very much in the news, as it were, and President Donald Trump is being compared to Stalin for his dismissal of journalists who are purveyors of it as “enemies of the American people.” It may be good to jog our memory back to how the term “fake news” arrived…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Unmoved by Terror Attack, Congress Is Doing Nothing to Scrap the Diversity Visa Lottery

    Capitol Hill’s national security priorities are screwier than a Six Flags roller coaster. Instead of immediately shutting down one of America’s stupidest visa programs, which helped bring us yet another murder-minded jihadist this week, bipartisan Beltway politicians are pushing to preserve and expand the illegal immigration pipeline. Republicans and Democrats in Congress want a “fix”…
    Michelle Malkin
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    Colleges Care About Diversity, Except When They Don’t

    A common feature of our time is the extent to which many in our nation have become preoccupied with diversity. But true diversity obsession, almost a mania, is found at our institutions of higher learning. Rather than have a knee-jerk response for or against diversity, I think we should ask just what is diversity and…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Hollywood Actress: Why I Homeschool My Kids

    My name is Sam Sorbo. I’m a mom to three wonderful children, and the author of “They’re YOUR Kids: An Inspirational Journey from Self-Doubter to Home School Advocate.” Home schooling seems like a radical idea—but only because we are conditioned to think of it that way. Why? Because most of us attended school. But after…
    Sam Sorbo
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    The Real Value in Veterans That Hollywood Doesn’t Show You

    Nov. 11 is the day we celebrate Veterans Day. For many of us who have served, it is an important day; to large parts of Middle America, it is a time to celebrate; and to others, they couldn’t care less. What should this day mean to every American? Are we properly serving our veterans? Are…
    Steven Bucci
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    The Diversity Visa Is Bad, but the Real Problem Is Homegrown Terrorism

    In the several days after Tuesday’s terror attack in New York City, much political debate has centered on the Diversity Visa Lottery Program, which the terrorist used to enter the U.S. seven years ago. The diversity visa doesn’t make much sense and should be done away with, but it is not by any means a…
    David Inserra
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    Chuck Schumer Under Fire After NYC Terrorist Attack for Role in ‘Diversity Visa Lottery’

    President Donald Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., early Wednesday for his role in launching the program that reportedly allowed an extremist onto American soil. Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, 29, a green card holder from Uzbekistan, mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists in a rented truck Tuesday afternoon in lower Manhattan before crashing into a school bus. He…
    Ryan Pickrell
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    ACLU Threatens to Stamp Out Diversity by Shuttering Faith-Based Adoption Agencies

    November is National Adoption Awareness Month. And how is the American Civil Liberties Union celebrating? By trying to reduce the number of agencies that place needy children with families. Specifically, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the state of Michigan over a 2015 law that allows religious adoption agencies to decline placing children with…
    Emilie Kao
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    Weinstein Scandal Reveals Truth About Hollywood’s Feminism

    Five years ago at the Democratic National Convention, I went to a Planned Parenthood rally, where one speaker was TV actress Lisa Edelstein. “Do not go to the polls alone,” she told us. “Drag somebody, if she’s a woman especially, because those women are going to vote for Obama—if they know what’s good for them.”…
    Katrina Trinko
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    How a Radical Left-Wing Historian Birthed the Anti-Columbus Crusade

    Confederate statues aren’t the only ones to come under siege from protesters. Christopher Columbus, the Spanish-backed Italian explorer who discovered the Americas, is also being attacked on a wide scale. Activists and cities around the country are now working to change the holiday made in his name and are working to remove monuments in his…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Hollywood Wants to Force This Profanity-Filtering Service Out of Business, and May Succeed

    The ideological and philosophical divide between Republicans and Democrats has seldom, if ever, been broader and deeper, and the divide between partisans in the degree of their aversion to swearing in feature films is just the latest manifestation of that. A new Harris poll—commissioned by the makers of a forthcoming faith-based film, “Generational Sins,” that…
    Peter Parisi
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    Colleges Pay Diversity Officers More Than Professors, Staff

    Top public universities pay administrators with jobs related to diversity initiatives an average of  $175,088 per year, substantially more than other professors and faculty members, according to a Campus Reform investigation. A sheet compiling the salaries of the top diversity administrators at 43 of America’s top public universities shows that virtually all are paid at least $100,000, with…
    Andrea Vacchiano
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    On Diversity of Top Staff, Senate Republicans Outpace Democrats

    Senate Democrats apparently could take some tips from Senate Republicans in hiring more racially diverse senior staff. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., noting that Republicans have an edge on Democrat colleagues in this department, said he wants to encourage his colleagues to find and bring on board qualified minority applicants. “We have one of the most…
    Rachel del Guidice
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