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When President Barack Obama named retiring Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., to serve as his administration’s secretary of transportation, LaHood brought with him a vision for changing the way Americans moved from one place to another. It would start with empowering the government to monitor how many miles Americans drove. “We should look at the vehicular…
When will The New York Times finally stop pulling punches and go after Donald Trump? That’s the question President Joe Biden’s campaign asked the media this week. “For the political press corps—especially our friends at the Gray Lady,” pleaded the White House, “it’s time to meet the moment and responsibly inform the electorate of what…
Long after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared over and the government said federal employees would return to in-person work, government building occupancy data shows that the Department of Labor headquarters had so few employees return that each employee had an average allocation of 1600 square feet of office space. That’s considerably larger than the average…
When we say “never forget” in reference to 9/11, we should mean it. This week, a few dozen videos featuring people who say they read the now-deceased 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” went viral on TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform. Bin Laden explained in the 2002 letter, which was recently republished…
Utah just celebrated the 25th anniversary of its healthy marriages initiative, a statewide effort to help people build and maintain strong marriages. There’s a great need to strengthen marriage in the U.S., given its decades-long decline and the many consequences of family breakdown, particularly among lower-income communities. Utah’s initiative is an example other states’ leaders…
Adoption is a beautiful decision that should always be celebrated, but especially in November, during National Adoption Month. From the first time I unexpectedly saw that positive pregnancy test, I knew that I was destined to become a birth mom and give another woman the chance to experience the beauty of motherhood. Growing up in…
The tragic mass shooting last month in Lewiston, Maine, sent gun control activists into their typical attacks on the right to keep and bear arms. Many defaulted to their standard narrative that the real “bad guy” wasn’t the murderer, but the Second Amendment and its supporters. Instead of demanding accountability from the government officials who…
How humiliating and disheartening must it be for a Miss Universe pageant contestant to lose to a “woman” with a penis and testicles? That, regrettably, is not a hypothetical question. That’s exactly what happened to real young women earlier this year in preliminary pageants in two European nations, Portugal and the Netherlands. On Saturday night,…
On Dec. 10, the United Nations will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document drafted in the aftermath of World War II under the leadership of American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Much has changed since then, including the world body’s understanding of children and of parental rights. The original…
Proportionality in war is a synonym for lethal stalemate, if not defeat. When two sides go at it with roughly equal forces, weapons, and strategies, the result is often a horrific deadlock—like the four years of toxic trench warfare on the Western Front of World War I that resulted in 12 million fatalities. The purpose…
On Nov. 7, the House of Representatives (212 Republicans and 22 Democrats) voted to censure radical Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., because she has “levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7.” One of those outrageous falsehoods was clinging to the false claim that Israel bombed the al-Ahli hospital in…
The world needs to understand that Hamas is “a brutal terrorist organization, [and] that it’s only starting with Israel,” Sawsan Hasson says. According to Hasson, head of public diplomacy at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, Hamas’ leaders have been quite vocal that they plan to carry out similar acts of violence against the United…
Arizona State University President Michael Crow believes we are in such danger that we should amend the U.S. Constitution to empower the government to deal more expansively with climate change. Crow’s view that constitutional protections of our liberties should be eliminated when they become inconvenient wouldn’t square with the founders, but his estimate of the…
Last weekend marked Armistice Day in Great Britain and Veterans Day in the United States. Both are somber days, typically marked by honor and respect for symbols of the country and the men and women who have sacrificed so much for them. Instead, both London and New York City featured terrorist supporters marching en masse…
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has been bragging about the contract he secured with auto companies and took credit for it in a U.S. Senate committee hearing on Tuesday. On Thursday, GM’s workers ratified the contract with 45% of the workforce voting against it. Some Ford and Stellantis workers in Kentucky and Ohio have also…
As the holiday season approaches, families across America are carefully planning how to spend their hard-earned money on travel and purchases. If only our elected officials in Washington were as frugal. Many of them, it seems, are trying to spend as much of your tax money as possible on wasteful handouts and vanity projects. And waste is…
I have been following the news from Israel very closely since first learning of the horrifying attacks of Oct. 7. As someone who has traveled to the Holy Land on nearly two dozen occasions and seen the country from north to south, I was affected. But nothing has prepared me for what has come after…
Two competing proposals in Congress address Social Security provisions—the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)—that affect workers who have worked in jobs that were exempt from Social Security. One proposal would revert to a deeply flawed benefit system at a cost of $183 billion while hastening Social Security’s insolvency by more…
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ——————————————————— The Biden administration announced a deal to ease economic sanctions…
Two state courts, the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Michigan Court of Claims, have thrown out the attempts by anti-democratic groups to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, at least with respect to the presidential primary election. The attempt to take away the ability of voters to make their…