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Earlier this week, I explained “parole in place,” President Joe Biden’s latest attempt to grant a back-door amnesty. Biden isn’t the first president to use flimsy pretexts and dodgy interpretations of law to force immigration policy in the absence of legal authority, but he is by far the most reckless. Here are my Five Favorite…
America is now almost $35 trillion in debt. That means every American owes $100,000. The Biden administration doesn’t care. It wants to spend more. Already it is spending so much that it’s increasing our debt by a trillion dollars every 100 days. President Donald Trump was no better. His administration increased our debt by almost…
Editor’s note: This piece from Dennis Prager was originally published in 2007. We at The Daily Signal thought Dennis’ idea was worth revisiting as we approach Independence Day 2024. Perhaps the major reason Jews have been able to keep their national identity alive for 3,000 years—the last 2,000 of which were nearly all spent dispersed…
Hours after Hamas-backed fighters broke out of the fence surrounding Gaza and embarked on a crusade of rape, killing, and kidnapping throughout southern Israel, some American corporate activists began their crusade to legitimize all of it. Notably among their ranks were advocates of the boycott, divest, and sanctions movement. “Oppression is the root cause of…
Most Americans are so dissatisfied with the economy that they think the nation is already in recession. Yet the Biden administration often cites robust job growth as proof that the economy is in great shape. New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia throw cold water on that claim, however. It shows recent job growth has been 80% less than previously estimated. Each month, the…
Newsmax announced this month that it’s planning for an initial public offering later this year or in 2025—a big leap for a media outlet that began more than 25 years ago as a website delivering news on the internet. Christopher Ruddy, Newsmax’s founder and CEO, spoke with The Daily Signal about his plans for the…
Earlier this week, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to require young women to register with Selective Service for the draft should one be officially reinstated. Slipped into the Senate’s version of the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act is an amendment to the Military Selective Service Act that would require women between the ages…
The Supreme Court issued a much-awaited ruling in a tax case, holding that the mandatory repatriation tax passed as part of the 2017 Trump tax cuts did not exceed Congress’ constitutional authority. The court’s holding was narrow, and significant in large part for issues it did not address, leaving open questions related to the constitutionality…
Influencers and leaders of the video game industry are enthralled with the idea of using a market predominantly targeting minors to sway a whole generation into adopting and accepting LGBTQ+ ideology. Major game studios have embraced Pride Month this year in a manner that gamers cannot escape. What this industry truly needs now more than…
A lot of attention is being given to support being picked up by Donald Trump among non-white voters. But the change taking place among young voters is even more dramatic. In the elections in 2016 and 2020, Trump was soundly defeated among voters 18-29. In 2016, Hillary Clinton defeated Trump among voters ages 18-29, 55%…
In perhaps one of the strangest applications of diversity, equity, and inclusion in curriculums I’ve ever seen, the University of Arizona now incorporates a class in which students are told to “live like a bug” in order to understand “marginalized” groups. According to a new report from Timothy Minella at the Goldwater Institute, a Phoenix-based…
We have heard repeatedly during this election cycle that Donald Trump is a deep and abiding threat to democracy. That threat supposedly springs from Trump’s belief that he won the 2020 election, as well as his promotion of the specious legal theory that the vice president has the unilateral power to invalidate certified state electoral…
Since the June 2022 leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned, pro-life pregnancy resource centers have been under attack from pro-abortion vandals. But now, the pregnancy resource centers face a newer enemy—state officials partnering with activists organizations to take them down. Teresa Larkin, vice chairman of the…
The Biden administration has turned the U.S. labor market into a temporary employment agency for foreigners, leaving American workers behind, and the administration’s own data prove it. Yet instead of acknowledging this failure, the White house is taking victory laps on a few cherry-picked numbers. The May job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics…
Education freedom is on the march. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed legislation making the Pelican State the 19th state in the nation to enact K-12 Education Savings Accounts or an ESA-style policy, and the 11th to offer education choice to every K-12 student, following Alabama earlier this year. The legislation creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity…
On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston Bay, Texas learned they were free. In 2021, June 19 became a national holiday, and while Carol Swain says it might be more appropriate for Americans to celebrate the end of slavery on Jan. 1, the anniversary of the Emancipation…
At the height of the Civil War, enslaved men, women, and children sat together in Watch Night services all over America as they eagerly waited for Lincoln’s measure, the Emancipation Proclamation, to go into effect on Jan. 1, 1863. Along with the enslaved were free blacks and abolitionists intent on grasping the freedom they had…
The Left’s media narrative factory is working overtime on its latest and greatest attempt at gaslighting. OK, here it is, here’s the whopper you have to believe to be an ally of “our democracy” in good standing: President Joe Biden is fit as a fiddle, yes siree. All those videos you’ve seen of him staring…
Immediately after the burnings, rapes, mutilations, and killings of Jews on Oct. 7, I was not alone in noting the one moral difference between Hamas and the Nazis: The Nazis tried to hide their crimes against the Jews from the German people (and the world) while Hamas proudly publicized their crimes against the Jews to…
Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden announced his latest unauthorized attempt to grant a back-door amnesty to half a million or more people living illegally in the United States. When it stands between him and a policy objective, Biden treats the law of the land as a minor obstacle to work around. Whether it’s passing along…