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PHILADELPHIA—Democrats didn’t shy away from the issue of gender identity and public restrooms at the Democratic National Convention, turning what used to be a women’s restroom inside the Wells Fargo Center into an all-gender restroom. The Daily Signal observed both men and women using the facility, seemingly paying little mind to the sex of the…

PHILADELPHIA—After the revolutionary himself confirmed that the revolution he started had run its course, a seething slice of the Democratic Party on Tuesday staged a protest on an elevated courtyard overlooking Philadelphia. “Are you angry? Are you pissed off?” a bearded middle-aged man implores his fellow “Bernie or busters,” using a megaphone to project his…

Top officials at the Government National Mortgage Association spent $3.9 million on a public relations campaign designed to create positive images for themselves, including a magazine piece on how one of them avoided obesity. Spending tax dollars to polish an individual employee’s image isn’t allowed under Federal Acquisition Regulations, the Department of Housing and Urban…

A slim Cuban woman speaks from a wheelchair at the front of the room. The woman speaks softly for 10 minutes in Spanish, pausing at intervals to wait for her translator’s words. Her left arm ends at the wrist, and she cradles it in her right hand. “If the Cuban people are going to risk…

President Barack Obama signed an executive order in 2010 applying the Hyde Amendment, which bans taxpayer funding of most abortions, to Obamacare. Five years later, the White House referred to the Hyde Amendment while defending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. Now, the Democrats’ party platform is calling for repeal of the measure. According to a…