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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes his soon-to-be candidacy for the presidency is unique because he’s “fought the good fight.” “What I hear that Americans want is someone who fights and wins for everyday Americans,” Walker told The Daily Signal during a sit-down interview near Des Moines, Iowa this past weekend. “A lot of people on…

So what will be Marco Rubio’s “bully pulpit” issues if he becomes president of the United States? He laid them out during a one-on-one interview with The Daily Signal in Des Moines, Iowa over the weekend. “We have to have tax policies, regulatory policies, debt policies, health care policies that make us globally competitive,” Rubio says….

It was the first time seeing her bakery since the new owners moved in. “This is really hard,” Melissa Klein said, tears filling up her eyes. Almost two years ago, Melissa and her husband, Aaron, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, had to close the bakery they built from scratch after declining to bake a…

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is considering using public funds to finance a new stadium for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team. According to Fox Business, Walker, a Republican, initially proposed using $220 million in state bonds to finance part of the $500 million arena. The current and previous owners of the team have pledged a combined…

Less than a day after a donation fund was set up for the Oregon bakers who the state recommended be fined $135,000 for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, the crowdfunding website, GoFundMe, has shut it down. “The campaign entitled ‘Sweet Cakes by Melissa’ involves formal charges. As such, our team has…

An Oregon administrative law judge recommended today that the bakers who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding should be fined $135,000. "[T]he forum concludes that $75,000 and $60,000, are appropriate awards to compensate [the same-sex couple] for the emotional suffering they experienced," wrote Alan McCullough, administrative law judge for Oregon's Bureau of…

Dana Perino’s new book features a touching encounter between President George W. Bush and an injured—and intubated—Marine receiving the Purple Heart. She follows it with another story involving a dying soldier’s mother yelling at the president about the war. Both stories were recounted by Perino in an excerpt from “And the Good News Is…” that…

On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee released a report detailing wasteful spending at the Internal Revenue Service. The Washington Post recently reported that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen called taxpayer service this season from his agency “abysmal,” and he blamed the poor service on budget cuts. The House Ways and Means Committee, however, said…

House conservatives today expressed skepticism over a bipartisan Senate plan for Congress to review a nuclear deal with Iran, fearing the measure would give lawmakers little power to actually stop an agreement they don’t like. The Senate bill passed out of committee last week and was deemed a “compromise” because Republican lawmakers agreed to withhold…