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Virginia mom Merianne Jensen became a voice for parental rights and common sense when she asked a simple question during a local school board meeting in 2022. “If masks work, why don’t they?” Jensen asked the school board in Prince William County, Virginia. A video of the incident went viral, launching Jensen into the position…
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. ———————————————————- As the Biden Border Crisis rages on,…
If there is one overriding theme of the Biden years, it is the systematic degradation of American freedom, pushing the lives and freedom of private citizens aside as government expands and takes over. This is done under the rubric of the Left that “government knows best.” Day by day, we are becoming what the late…
The revolution continues in New York. As illegal immigrants flood New York City, the City Council remains hard at work ensuring that every once-venerated symbol of America is stripped from public places. On Tuesday, the New York City Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights held a hearing to discuss the removal of historical statues…
Duke Energy has thrown consumers under the proverbial (electric) bus to make their operations carbon neutral by 2050. As a result, electricity prices in North Carolina may increase by 19% over the next three years. The company’s president, Lynn Good, receives more than $20 million annually in compensation financed in part by ensuring that consumers lower…
With the start of fiscal year 2024 just days away on Oct. 1, and with no federal budget approval in sight, a continuing resolution again will regrettably be necessary. But any such continuing resolution cannot just perpetuate the status quo ante. To get my vote, it needs to include four things: funding to secure the…
The Times of London and Britain’s Channel 4 issued a scathing expose about actor and comedian-turned-podcaster Russell Brand. Brand began his career as a comedian and MTV host. In 2004, he joined “Big Brother’s Big Mouth” on Channel 4, and then transitioned into acting and voice-overs. In 2013, he went political; by 2020, he had…
If a teacher were grading President Joseph Biden’s third speech to the United Nations, he would earn a mediocre “meeting expectations.” He delivered the speech somewhat competently by his standards, clearing that exceedingly low bar. However, Biden seems to think, mistakenly, that his speech was the rallying call of a statesman: I spoke before the…
Who is responsible for the illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border? That’s a question currently being investigated by the House Homeland Security Committee, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is atop the list. “I think very clearly, Secretary Mayorkas has chosen to totally disregard the laws passed by Congress,” says Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn.,…
It’s clear that the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Joe Biden’s student debt bailout attempts has motivated his administration to find new ways to bypass Congress and the American people. That’s because the Biden administration wants to fulfill a campaign promise to its left-wing political base ahead of the 2024 election cycle. This time, the administration appears to be…
Another week, another batch of teachers union officials lobbying against school choice while sending their own children to private schools. Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates and Illinois Education Association official Sean Denney send their kids to private schools while devoting their time to fighting against poorer parents’ rights to send their children to…
The opening of this year’s Supreme Court term on the first Monday of October will mark the release of a new Forever stamp featuring the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While it may not be surprising that the United States Postal Service will be serving up a bouquet to the Left, it’s still regrettable that while it’s been three years since Ginsburg’s death, it’s been nearly eight since…
In a raft of glowing reviews, Hunter Biden’s 2019 memoir “Beautiful Things” was celebrated as an “unflinchingly honest” (Entertainment Weekly), “confession and an act of contrition” (The Guardian) that was “candid” and “doesn’t hold back details” (The New York Times) of his substance abuse and broken relationships. While describing the book as an “unvarnished confessional,” The…
“Nonprofit voter registration” doesn’t sound interesting. Yet nonprofit voter registration, or the use of tax-exempt charitable organizations to conduct and fund voter-registration drives, is one of the most important and underreported political scandals of our time. Nonprofit voter registration, and the get-out-the-vote activities that usually accompany it, have become the heart of a billion-dollar industry…
School isn’t the only thing back in session this fall. The Supreme Court will resume hearing cases when its new term begins Oct. 2. So, what’s on the docket? If you’d like an in-depth analysis of the cases the high court will hear this term, watch The Heritage Foundation’s annual Supreme Court Preview on Wednesday…
My former college professor Victor Davis Hanson often refers to the Left’s “un-Midas touch,” a magical curse by which everything it touches turns to dross. Growing up in the 1990s and 2000s, I didn’t realize how good I had it until Disney decided to ruin my childhood. I grew up watching three amazing mega-franchises: the…
As president of the United States, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will rely on God, empower parents, protect religious liberty, and stand up to the government and corporate forces waging a war on Christians, the governor told the 2023 Pray Vote Stand Summit on Friday night. “I don’t know how you could be a leader…
Special counsel David Weiss’ indictment of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is “a smokescreen,” according to Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project, the watchdog arm of The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of Heritage.) Howell says the three drug-related gun charges against the younger Biden “are the smallest things…
Axios reported Sunday that “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quietly has directed the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms to no longer enforce the chamber’s informal dress code for its members.” “Senators are able to choose what they wear on the Senate floor. I will continue to wear a suit,” Schumer said. The reporting frames the…
The weaponization of the federal government against President Joe Biden’s political opponents and anyone fighting “woke” orthodoxy is going at such dizzying speed that it’s hard to keep pace. Now, the authorities are investigating Christopher Rufo, a conservative commentator who is on the board of the New College of Florida, for—among other crimes—refusing to address someone as…