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Artificially inflated by unsustainable government policies, the labor market has been incredibly strong for workers since the COVID-19 pandemic. But the tide could soon turn as bad labor policies and an unfit nominee to head the Department of Labor coincide with the Federal Reserve’s drastic actions to curb inflation caused by out-of-control federal spending. Before…
The Supreme Court declined to intervene Wednesday in an important Second Amendment case challenging Illinois’ new restrictions on gun owners. But no, it’s not time to panic. The battle isn’t over. Not even close. Earlier this year, Illinois enacted a law prohibiting civilian sales or transfers of many types of commonly owned semiautomatic rifles, based…
Special counsel John Durham’s long-awaited report was, as one would expect, as meticulous as it was damning in its findings of fact. He concluded that there was no basis to immediately launch a full-fledged investigation against Donald Trump; that the FBI failed to follow up on intelligence reports that Hillary Clinton had approved a scheme…
While major banks downgrade Anheuser-Busch’s stock and Bud Light becomes a corporate punch line, a quartet of CEOs seems all too happy to join them. As the beer company implodes under the weight of a national boycott, its cautionary tale seems lost on four companies who’ve decided to follow transgender advocacy straight to financial insolvency. Who are…
PBS has an undeserved reputation for trustworthiness. The latest annual YouGov poll on trust in media found the most trusted channel is The Weather Channel, because there’s only so much spin you can put in your weather forecast. But coming in second was PBS, with 30% more people finding it trustworthy versus untrustworthy. Right below…
School board meetings in one New Jersey district have turned into a toxic fiasco as LGBTQ+ protesters screamed and cursed at board members over a policy to fly only the American and New Jersey flags in front of schools. The last two scheduled school board meetings of the Westwood Regional School District in Bergen County,…
I was proud and moved to participate in opening ceremonies at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., commemorating National Police Week. President John F. Kennedy signed the proclamation in 1962 designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and establishing the week in which this occurs as National Police Week. It seems…
This week, special counsel John Durham released a 316-page report detailing the origins of Operation Crossfire Hurricane—the FBI’s investigation into supposed connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. The report is an astounding expose of corruption and collusion—not between former President Donald Trump and Russia, but between the Hillary Clinton campaign, friendlies at…
The chief executive officer of the State Financial Officers Foundation says “we never really saw the [environmental, social, and governance] movement weaponized in a way that this White House and administration [have] weaponized it.” “Certainly, fund managers like BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard have weaponized it, and so it’s really just been in the last two…
The momentum for school choice is continuing to build nationwide. Eight states have enacted new education choice policies or have expanded existing ones so far this year, including Indiana, Montana, and South Carolina earlier this month alone. Of the eight, four states—Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah—enacted school choice policies that will be available to all…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The cavalry is coming to help Sen. Tommy Tuberville. For months, the Alabama Republican has waged a fight against the Defense Department’s woke agenda by blocking the Senate’s approval of nearly 200 promotions for military generals and flag officers. The military establishment, Senate Democrats, and the Biden administration have resorted to…
A bipartisan bill “would give parents that toolbox that they need to help monitor what their children are seeing in the virtual space,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn says. “Kids are being exposed to things in the virtual space that we would never expose them to in the physical space, so it’s important for parents to have…
In what is undoubtedly a far better contribution to the historical record than the program itself, Netflix’s new four-part Cleopatra documentary miniseries has achieved the dubious honor of receiving what is quite likely the lowest audience approval ratings in TV history. “Queen Cleopatra” currently sits at a dismal 2% audience approval on the popular review…
People have to accept that inflation has made them poorer. At least that’s what an economist for the Bank of England recently said. Central bankers and politicians in America won’t articulate this, but it’s true, nevertheless. Inflation has robbed Americans of their earnings and savings, but that wealth didn’t just disappear. No, it was transferred…
How many energy-efficiency mandates are too many? The correct answer is zero. But for the Biden administration, it might be infinity, because the Department of Energy just announced yet another round of efficiency mandates for consumer appliances. The move is just one in a string of similar regulations targeting everything from gas stoves to vending…
During President Barack Obama’s first term, there was a massive spike in the annual deficits run up by the federal government. In fiscal 2008, which ended a little more than a month before Obama was elected, the annual federal deficit was $458.55 billion, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. In fiscal…
Americans needn’t worry about the safety of their money at the bank, financial and investment expert David Bahnsen says. Three large American banks have collapsed since the beginning of the year, but “there’s almost nothing in common at all with these three banks closing, relative to all the 2008 closings,” says Bahnsen, founder and chief…
Once again, the Left is trying to appropriate the Bible for its own political purposes, this time with the help of artificial intelligence. Yes, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals last week published a rather milquetoast rewrite of the book of Genesis entitled “The Book: PETA’s Version of the Creation Story.” The result is…
It’s a man’s world again. We’ve won. We’ve seized women’s sports, parenting titles, and Woman of the Year and Prom Queen awards. The gals were making headway there for a while, but now the men are back on top. I can still remember them, although their memory fades by the day—actual women, that is. Once…
In theory, the Pulitzer Prizes are a celebration of the best journalism in America. But in reality, it represents something entirely different. It rewards left-wing journalists for most effectively thumping the tub for the Left. They call it “[elevating] our understanding of the world.” We’ve entered the third year of the Biden administration, and no…