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This Labor Day, the Biden administration and Big Labor will no doubt tout the alleged successes of President Joe Biden’s “whole of government” push to increase unionization in the workplace and unions’ modest successes in breaking into a few big corporations. But those stories will also leave a lot out. They’ll leave out the side…
Change 5 to the Manual of Military Decorations and Awards took effect on Aug. 7, 2023, and hardly anyone noticed. That is until last week, when the Office of the Secretary of Defense returned the draft citation for the end-of-tour award for none other than the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, four-star Army…
This week, the top law enforcement officer in America’s most populous state took a school district to court for the alleged crime of notifying parents when their kids claim to identify as transgender. That school district has gone out of its way to promote mental health and suicide prevention, and it has resources devoted to…
Committees and hearings play a critical role in the operations of Congress. But how are members assigned to committees? And do congressional hearings actually advance legislation and investigations? Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel for The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, goes beneath the surface in today’s edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how Congress really…
The basement campaign turned into the vacation-home presidency for President Joe Biden. Typically, a president’s vacation schedule is little more than a partisan football. Almost every modern president has been criticized by opponents for spending too much time away from the White House. It’s generally not a big deal. Being the commander in chief is…
This Labor Day, people all over the country will be savoring the last days of summer with ice cream. But some New York City politicians want to eliminate even that small sweet treat. What does New York have against ice cream? Already home to crazy ice cream rules that prohibit folks from enjoying the summertime…
The White House and the legacy media are ready to move on from the disastrous wildfires that ravaged Maui, but the story of what happened there shouldn’t go away. There’s now plenty of evidence that authorities were warned about the danger of dry grass that had built up on the Hawaiian island. Poor decisions and…
This Labor Day, Michigan union bosses have much to celebrate. Rank-and-file employees? Not as much. Earlier this year, Michigan became a pioneer in regressivity by becoming the first state in 58 years to repeal a right-to-work law, forcing employees in union workplaces to join the unions as a condition of keeping their jobs. The impending…
Recently some people have started making the argument that former President Donald Trump is barred from running for president by the 14th Amendment, one of the Reconstruction Amendments ratified in 1868 three years after the end of the Civil War. These Trump critics rely on the first sentence of Section 3 of that amendment, which…
All around the nation can be found the detritus of “Bidenomics,” especially in America’s broken housing market. Countless families are struggling just to find somewhere affordable to live, with the American dream of homeownership all but snuffed out for much of the middle class. The only way to solve this problem is to reverse the…
Despite all the “victory laps” Biden administration officials have taken as they brag that their unlawful policies and processing programs have reduced illegal immigration, recent border data shows the opposite. On top of that, there is an undeniable link between the increase in illegal entrants being welcomed into the country and an increase in violent…
President Joe Biden’s mass release of illegal aliens at the southern border—which takes the Department of Homeland Security’s eye off “gotaways” who avoid detection—is a huge national security risk. The latest examples are the 12 Uzbeks who apparently paid an Islamic State trafficker to bring them to the U.S. so they could claim asylum and…
America’s cities have always been the melting pots of change and progress. Historically, they have welcomed migrants and refugees with open arms, offering them a chance at the American dream. However, as recent events have unfolded, there’s a palpable tension in some of the country’s most liberal cities caused by the very policies that made…
COVID-19 cases are up. Hospitalizations climbed 24% last week. But the media make everything seem scarier than it is. The headline “Up 24%!” comes after dramatic lows in COVID-19 cases. Hospitalizations are still less than half what they were when President Joe Biden said, “The pandemic is over.” Yet the shallow media keep pounding…
It did not take long after Anna Low arrived at Harvard University before she became aware of the fact that she was the only conservative in her program. “We actually had to fill out a political ideology survey—it was, of course, anonymous—and the intention behind that, I think, was to show that this program is…
Many Americans have seen a “Schoolhouse Rock” video explaining how Congress operates, or they may have taken political science classes in school. But neither paints the full picture of how Congress “actually works,” Clint Brown says. Take the introduction of bills in Congress as an example, says Brown, vice president of government relations at The…
Most of our schools teach almost nothing of importance, and nothing is more important than the study of good and evil. In the United States today, nearly all schools, from elementary through graduate, concentrate on teaching about racism, sexism, preferred pronouns, homophobia, transphobia, LGBTQIA+, climate change, diversity, equity, inclusiveness and white guilt. In other words,…
In a video released Wednesday, former President Donald Trump denounced the left’s push to “restart the COVID hysteria” and pledged that the United States would not return to lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine mandates. “To every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our freedom, hear these words: We will not comply, so don’t even…
A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, failed to properly follow the precedent set by the state Supreme Court in allowing the county’s top prosecutor to go forward with a grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump after disquaifying the prosecutor from part of the probe for misbehavior. In a legal analysis Aug. 15 in…
This past week, the nation noted the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The speech is without question a historic landmark, both in terms of recalling the unique stress of the time and in terms of King’s eloquence in capturing the situation. But beyond being interesting, why…