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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke exclusively to The Daily Signal’s Ginny Montalbano on May 22 about his new book “Trump’s America: The Truth About Our Nation’s Great Comeback.” The transcript has been edited lightly for clarity and style. Ginny Montalbano: Speaker Gingrich, thank you for being with us. I want to start with your…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor today of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, who declined to bake a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding because of his religious beliefs. Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is a historic case involving religious liberty, LGBT rights, and the First…
An elderly Korean War veteran and a few hundred dollars were all it took to get the City Council of Independence, Iowa, to reverse its decisions to stop flying the city’s most prominent American flag and not to keep its welcome sign illuminated. Before Memorial Day, after waiting for others to step up and fund…
A liberal advocacy group that has received more than $16 million in federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development is now suing the agency after HUD Secretary Ben Carson last month scaled back a regulation it supports. HUD has given the liberal National Fair Housing Alliance $16.1 million in grants since 2009,…
PARKVILLE, Md.—Nicole Landers found a note written by her 9-year-old son, Jared. “Kill me. I mean nothing. I have issues,” it read. Her son’s April 16 note, Landers said, was the culmination of months of bullying Jared endured in the classroom. That bullying included being struck in the face and thrown in the mud by…
Business fixed investment is up 9.2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to a National Association of Manufacturers report released Wednesday. This was larger than the previous estimate of a 6.1 percent increase. It is the best growth rate for a quarter since 2014. The report cited GOP tax reform as a reason for this…
A greater share of small companies in the U.S. are raising wages than at any time in the past three decades, according to a survey released Thursday from the nation’s biggest independent business association. A seasonally adjusted 35 percent of small business owners reported they have increased labor compensation in order to recruit new employees or…
It’s been a little more than a year since President Donald Trump approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines amid concerns the projects would destroy the environment. Trump signed an executive order in January 2017, approving both pipelines as activists claimed they would desecrate the land. Keystone XL is getting bogged down in regulatory…
Six percent of Americans aged 15 to 34 consider gun control the top issue facing the country, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV poll reported on Wednesday. That number is down from a high of 21 percent who considered it the top issue in March, according to the poll….
University of Minnesota students are petitioning the university to reinstate a fellowship for medical students that would have them working at and learning the ins and outs of procedure at a nearby Planned Parenthood clinic. “Our hope is that our voices are heard loud and clear,” petition co-author Trish Palermo said, according to the Associated Press. She explained…
After calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c—” on Wednesday, comedian Samantha Bee came under fire. Autotrader and State Farm both announced that they will be not be showing their advertisements on Bee’s show. Thank you to those who reached out regarding our sponsorship of Full Frontal. The comments expressed by Samantha Bee were offensive and…
Religious leaders, scholars, and government officials are challenging the nation’s Christian communities to “do more” for foster care families and children. A series of panel discussions hosted by the National Review Institute late last month focused on the role of communities of faith in helping children in the adoption and foster care system. The issue…
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed into law a measure that preserved the Obamacare mandate requiring state residents to buy health insurance. Starting next year, the bill will require all uninsured residents of the Garden State to buy health insurance or face a tax penalty, which would be deposited into a New Jersey Health…
A national pro-life and human rights organization alleges in a newly released report that Planned Parenthood covers up for child sex abuse. “Despite Planned Parenthood’s public rhetoric as well as laws requiring it to report suspected abuse, its failure to report has been deliberate and widespread,” Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action, the…
After meeting with a top envoy from North Korea, President Donald Trump said that the on-again, off-again meeting with Kim Jong Un is on again. “It’s a getting-to-know-you meeting, plus,” Trump told reporters of the June 12 encounter in Singapore. After first meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday in New York, Kim Yong…
Shareholders peppered Facebook’s top executives during an official gathering Thursday with questions, complaints, and protests after the company’s past year has been littered with scandal and backlash. One investor told Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to lead less like Vladimir Putin and more like George Washington so Facebook doesn’t become a “corporate dictatorship,” according to Bloomberg. Another said…
Google reportedly identified one of the ideologies of the California Republican Party as “Nazism” on its highly popular search platform. The piece of inaccurate information, which is hyperlinked to presumably take web browsers to more information about the hateful, fascist persuasion, is found in the “knowledge panel,” a sidebar widget that presents further, more immediate…
A day after meeting with a reality-TV celebrity on criminal justice reform, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to a celebrity and is considering clemency for two other public figures. Trump announced Thursday the pardon of conservative author and documentary filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was convicted of campaign finance violations. The president later said he’s…
KYIV, Ukraine—The staged assassination of a Russian journalist here hit the newsworthiness sweet spot for Western news editors, generating a tsunami of headlines that dwarfed the scant coverage usually given to Russia’s ongoing war in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian security officials said 41-year-old Arkady Babchenko had been shot in the back Tuesday at his apartment in…
Megyn Kelly went off on Samantha Bee and called the comedian’s comments about Ivanka Trump “disgusting” on Thursday. The host of NBC’s “Megyn Kelly Today” fired back at the star of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” after Bee referred to Trump as a “feckless c—” during an episode of her show on TBS Wednesday evening….