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A state court judge has ruled that USA Powerlifting discriminated against a biological male athlete who identifies as a woman when it banned him from competing in its women’s division. USA Powerlifting must now let JayCee Cooper and other male athletes who identify as “transgender” compete in the division, regardless of whether they have been…
For many years, the District of Columbia “enjoyed” the dubious distinction of being the “Murder Capital of America.” Who can forget President George H.W. Bush appearing on national television in 1989 holding a bag of crack cocaine purchased steps from the White House? It was a dramatic way to highlight just how crime-ridden D.C.—and many other…
OXON HILL, Md.—Top Republican state election officials are opposing President Joe Biden’s executive order putting the power of the federal government behind voter turnout efforts. “As a group, the Republican secretaries of state have been vocally opposing this,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, vice chairman of the Republican Secretaries of State Committee, told The…
The American media has been liberal for decades, but the utter disregard for the truth that pervades much of the reporting today is something new. With all the alarm over misinformation on the Right, little attention has been paid to the much broader form of misinformation that dominant corporate media perpetrates today. One of the…
As its annual National People’s Congress gets under way this week, China has announced a 7.2% increase in military spending for 2023. That comes amid rising tensions over Taiwan and as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s goal of achieving a world-class military that is fully “mechanized & informationized” by 2027. China will be boosting…
The easiest layup in proving the “mainstream media” is hyperpartisan is to study how they cover congressional hearings. After two years of obsessive media promotion and congratulation and live coverage of the Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6, the network “newscasts” can’t locate a hearing now with two hands. On March 1, the Senate Judiciary Committee…
The world’s most trusted evaluator of medical studies, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, has just released as close to a conclusive report on the effectiveness of masks against respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 as we are likely to have for the foreseeable future. The report assessed data from 78 different studies, including 11 new…
You don’t need a political science degree from the Sorbonne to know there are forces attempting regime change in America. Diversity, equity, and inclusion; critical race theory; environmental, social, and governance—these are the strategies that nonelected entities are using to alter how we live. Now to the rescue comes a functioning branch of representative democracy. State governments, particularly…
OXON HILL, Md.—America First Legal filed a lawsuit last week demanding documents from the Food and Drug Administration regarding how strictly the FDA monitors the use of so-called puberty blockers and other hormone drugs for so-called gender-affirming care. Ian Prior, the legal organization’s senior adviser, explained his group’s efforts against the transgender movement in an…
OXON HILL, Md.—A former White House communications staffer said the Department of Energy report lending credence to the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab represents an “I-told-you-so to the nth degree” after the legacy media and Big Tech cracked down on then-President Donald Trump and others for suggesting it. “Much…
In their renewed attempt to ratify the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, Senate Democrats are quick to erase 50-plus years of progress and opportunity for women. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shamelessly mocked the accomplishments of thousands of female athletes as he joked Feb. 28 about the “fate of field hockey”…
Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous. Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result, history’s prescription for civilizational decline. If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air-traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, there will be even more…
It’s no longer a “conspiracy theory.” There’s growing evidence that COVID-19 probably originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and not from a viral transmission from an animal to a human in nature. The Wall Street Journal reports, based on the most recent intelligence, such is the considered judgment of senior analysts at the U.S….
OXON HILL, Md.—The crisis at the southern border is both unending and unrelenting. As The Daily Signal previously reported, more than 1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border since the start of fiscal year 2023 on Oct. 1. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, recently traveled with…
President Joe Biden does not understand the threat China poses to America, according to Sen. Rick Scott. “He pacifies [Chinese President Xi Jinping] all the time,” Scott, R-Fla., says of Biden’s relationship with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. China and Russia pose a threat to American freedom, Scott says, because “both of them…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to increase his already unassailable power after his country’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, convenes Sunday. The gathering represents the most important political event in Beijing since October’s National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held every five years, which saw Xi consolidate his control over the party…
A recent Gallup poll shows Americans see the government as the top problem facing the nation. For the most vulnerable Americans this may be especially true as new research shows that excessive government burden is having a negative impact on the organizations that struggling individuals and families rely on: charities. For the first time, a new study…
After what seemed like an eternity getting him there, Attorney General Merrick Garland finally went face-to-face on Wednesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican members of which were looking to get answers on a number of contentious issues. Those included an unfortunate FBI memo that has since been withdrawn, as well as complaints surrounding the Department of…
Economist Milton Friedman’s maxim that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program” applies to work visas that are supposed to be temporary. Every week brings a new headline about layoffs in the tech sector amid falling share prices, rising inflation, and the end of cheap money. Still, the decreasing demand for labor doesn’t…
OXON HILL, Md.—The clock is ticking on America’s debt. “You cannot spend yourself into oblivion like this country’s been doing,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., says, adding that Republicans are “going to tackle it head-on.” America has reached its current debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion, and Treasury’s extraordinary measures will likely be able to extend current…