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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., today blasted “big government” in response to the current situation in Ferguson, Mo. In an op-ed published in Time, Paul wrote, “Not surprisingly, big government has been at the heart of the problem.” He continued: “Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal…
A new directive from the Navy has raised concerns about the potential removal of Bibles from Navy lodge rooms and guest quarters, according to Fox News. These lodges are hotels located on naval bases for members of the Navy, usually used when they receive new permanent change of station orders. The directive states “The Navy Lodge…
There has not exactly been an overabundance of good news on Obamacare. So it did come as some surprise two weeks ago when the Department of Health and Human Services issued a press release with the headline: “Consumers have saved a total of $9 billion on premiums,” and the subheading; “Health care law will return…
Which news story seems out of place?
First, an apology. In a July 2 article in this newspaper [Investors Business Daily] I erred in citing Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers comparing the superior job creation performance of no-income-tax Texas and Florida with the two states with the highest income-tax rates, California and New York. This set off a brouhaha in the media…
“The fact is if the government needs money to detain illegal immigrants, especially those with felon backgrounds, I think we can find that money when you know how much money we spend in this country.” >>> Obama Administration Released Over 600 Illegal Immigrants With Criminal Convictions
If you don’t know freedom, how can you want it? In the classic young adult novel, “The Giver,” the government has gone to great lengths to hide the idea of liberty from the citizens of its pre-determined, utopian society. Lois Lowry’s 1994 book, the movie version of which hits theaters Friday, depicts a world in which…
A State Department report on religious freedom released in July showed that repression of religious belief is still the norm in Cuba. The report explains that in Cuba “most religious leaders reported they exercised self-censorship in what they preached during services” because of fear of “government reprisals.” Moreover, while the State Department recognizes that established…
Exhausted mothers. Fathers fearing for their families. Children dying of thirst and hunger. Brand new babies delivered with no medical assistance. Dehydrated elderly. These are just some of the dire circumstances the Yezidi community has faced since being forced to flee their villages for the top of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, after terrorists from the Islamic State…
Monica Potts accuses conservatives of perpetrating a “big, long, 30-year conservative lie.” “It took the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression for many economists, liberal or not, to finally say publicly what many had long argued: Inequality is bad for the economy,” Potts wrote in an article published last week in the Daily Beast….
Last week a judge in Tennessee upheld that state’s Constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Though the decision was made a week ago, it has only now been made available electronically. The case involved a same-sex couple married in Iowa that sought a divorce in Tennessee. Because…
Today, Hollywood is full of fictional heroes. Yet only a few of the many that have stormed screen sets have ever done much to give back to the real heroes—the men and women of America’s armed forces. Stand up and salute Robin Williams: He was a star who shared his time and talents. Just ask…
As a story last week in the New York Times documented, it was not easy for the Obama administration to make the call to launch air strikes in Iraq against Islamic State forces as they advanced through Iraq toward the Kurdish capital of Erbil. But the headline—“Fear of Another Benghazi Drove White House to Airstrikes…
Hillary Clinton may have earned headlines this week for criticizing President Obama on foreign policy, but make no mistake: Obama will likely support her presidential candidacy. Daily Signal senior contributor Genevieve Wood gets the scoop from “Clinton, Inc.” author Daniel Halper. Watch Wood and Halper’s full discussion:
“[The Islamic State] has a great number of personnel that they’ve recruited, foreign fighters from Western European countries, some of which are in a visa-waiver program,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Steve Bucci. “They have passports that would not flag them for any special attention.” Watch the full interview on the current situation in Iraq with…
CNN photojournalist Mark Phillips was on board a flight taking supplies to the Yezidi community trying to escape Islamic State fighters in Mount Sinjar, Iraq. His raw footage captures the emotional rescue by the Iraqi air force and Kurdish peshmerga. “There was not a dry eye on the aircraft,” CNN reported. >>> ‘No Future for Yezidis in…
Just two months after Florida became the second state to enact education savings accounts, the state’s largest teachers union has sued to stop the program, which serves children with special needs. Passed by the Florida legislature on the last day of the session and enacted in June, Florida’s Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts help families of children with…
The second most liberal city isn’t New York, famed for its war on Big Soda. It isn’t Chicago, where President Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is mayor. And it isn’t Seattle, where they are gradually hiking the minimum wage to $15 an hour. No, the second most liberal city in the United States…
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) has announced that it directed its staff to take more of an activities-based approach to identifying systemic risk in the asset management industry. This could mark a sensible change from the FSOC’s original method of identifying large asset management companies as systemically dangerous, but the statement’s precise implications remain…
When I see a headline accusing an author of writing something that was “error-filled,” well, call me crazy, but I expect to see some errors pointed out. Alas, Salon editor Joanna Rothkopf’s Aug. 4 article failed to identify any bona fide inaccuracies in Ed Feulner’s July 29 Washington Times op-ed on trans fat. She mostly…