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CRTV’s Eric Bolling gave The Daily Signal an exclusive first look at the set of his new show “AMericA.” Formerly with the Fox News Channel, Bolling is back, and now he’s pursuing the type of show he’s wanted to do for years: a casual, engaging show, taped at the Washington Court Hotel’s lobby bar. He…
A suspect thought to be connected with a shooting that occured Thursday afternoon at the the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, has been taken into custody, the Associated Press reported. “Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees,” Phil Davis, a reporter for the Capital Gazette, tweeted. “Can’t…
Diane Preston-Reilly says she has received many touching letters about her TV show “The Real Winning Edge,” which profiles young adults who overcome adversity through faith. But after 10 years of producing the faith-based show, one letter in particular sticks out in her mind, and she never will forget it, Preston-Reilly tells The Daily Signal…
The pro-Second Amendment activist at the Florida high school where 17 died in a school shooting in February is inviting his fellow students to attend a high school leadership summit in Washington next month. Kyle Kashuv, a rising senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, recently became the director of high school…
A writer for Comedy Central said he wished Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was dead after Kennedy announced his intention to retire, giving President Donald Trump another court pick. “I wish this Kennedy had been shot instead of the other ones,” Curtis Cook wrote on Twitter Wednesday in response to news of Kennedy’s retirement. The “other ones”…
California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris said there would be the “destruction of the Constitution” if President Donald Trump got to pick the Supreme Court justice to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” “We’re looking at a destruction of the Constitution of the United States as far as I can tell…
Labor unions no longer get a free ride on the backs of government employees who are forced to pay for political activism they disagree with, the man who successfully challenged the practice at the Supreme Court told The Daily Signal in an interview. For decades, Illinois state government worker Mark Janus said, union leaders had…
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says that robust congressional oversight is needed to govern well and keep each branch of government in check. “Today we live under a government … that is no longer governed by congressional action, enforced by the president, and interpreted by the courts,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in…
On the White House website, President Donald Trump lists the jurists he is looking at to be the next Supreme Court justice. We’ve got that list, which was last updated in November, here. Looking for additional analysis? Heritage Foundation scholars provided more details on some of these names here and here. 1. Amy Coney Barrett of…
The man who will be serving as an outside adviser to the President Donald Trump for judicial nominations says that he thinks Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement will be like Justice Neil Gorsuch. “President Trump’s list of potential nominees for this vacancy includes many of the very best judges in America, judges who have records of…
Editor’s note: Some tweets include adult language. The announcement of the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy generated a firestorm of reactions from the left on Twitter. Brian Krassenstein, a regular Twitter commentator who constantly calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment Justices can be impeached & we have grounds for impeachment if Trump is…
A writer for TBS’ “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” went off on a Twitter rant Monday, saying that “civility is a tool of white supremacy.” “Civility is a tool of white supremacy. Ok, cool. Byeeeeee!” Ashley Nicole Black wrote in a tweet, lashing out against nationwide calls for civility after influential Democrats like Rep. Maxine Waters…
Republican Arizona Rep. David Schweikert says he received more death threats in 2017 than every other year he’s been in office combined. “My fear is this is the playbook of a lot of our brothers and sisters on the left—they’re going to get fringier and fringier, louder and louder, angrier and angrier, and as you…
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, precipitating a generational political fight over the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy’s departure was announced Wednesday morning, after the justices released the final decisions of the court's current term. Few justices loom as large as Kennedy in the history of the high court. As the bench…
A proposed natural-gas compressor station is pitting the caretakers of Mount Vernon against a major power company in a debate over the height of a pair of emissions stacks and the threat they could pose to “the iconic and historic view” from the estate of the nation’s first president. Dominion Energy, a major power company…
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that nonunion government workers can't be forced to pay dues or other fees to support a union, further diminishing the power of organized labor and setting up what right-to-work proponents called the “hard work” of protecting free speech rights for the nation's government employees. Right-to-work advocates also expressed concern…
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…
Public-sector workers are preparing class action lawsuits against the unions they have been forced to pay dues to pending the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court case, The Washington Free Beacon reports. The court is expected to issue a decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in a matter…
Townhall editor and Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich said in a tweet Wednesday that 52 percent of U.S. Border Patrol agents are Hispanic. Verdict: True Pavlich’s figure is in the ballpark. About half of all Border Patrol agents—51 percent—were Hispanic or Latino at the end of fiscal year 2016. Fact Check: Pavlich mentioned the proportion of Border…
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Tuesday, struck down a California law mandating that pro-life pregnancy centers advertise where clients may get an abortion. The decision, supporters said, confirmed that government can’t compel citizens to promote messages they don’t agree with. “No one should be forced by the government to express a message that…