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On today’s edition of The Daily Signal podcast, Rob Bluey and Ginny Montalbano welcome Reaching America President Derrick Hollie to talk about his organization’s innovative solutions for African-Americans. Hollie discusses his commitment to finding solutions on issues ranging from energy poverty to occupational licensing. And he shares his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with…
As we enter the summer, Republicans and Democrats continue to debate the merits of the tax cuts. Lost in this partisan bickering is the genuine and long-overdue relief the tax cuts offer small businesses. Sadly, the media reporting on small business tax cuts has been heavily politicized, complicating rather than clarifying the issue. Even The New…
A Washington state newsprint producer is single-handedly upending the U.S. newspaper industry, and not in a good way. The North Pacific Paper Co. pressured the Trump administration into levying a tariff on Canadian newsprint imports, claiming the Canadian producers possessed an unfair advantage that allows them to charge less than market price. President Donald Trump…
In 2014, high-tech executive and CEO of Mozilla Brendan Eich was forced to resign from the company he helped found and build, because he made a $1,000 contribution to support traditional marriage in the California marriage referendum. According to accounts, Eich was subject to vicious attacks through social media for his contribution in the marriage…
Melania Trump makes a surprise visit to a migrant detention center in Texas to meet with children who were separated from their families, Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle faces vicious attacks, The New York Times publishes fakes news about Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s daughter, and the pope calls abortion the “white glove” equivalent…
Friday is the six-month anniversary of the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—legislation that has provided financial relief to millions of small businesses and individuals across the country. The new tax code has given small business owners the opportunity to reinvest back into their businesses by hiring new employees, purchasing new equipment, raising…
Thursday’s Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. threatens to upend online commerce, drive thousands of small entrepreneurs out of business, and hike prices for hundreds of millions of consumers. Under prior law, states could not force remote retailers to collect and remit sales taxes on their behalf unless the business had a…
Who truly is responsible for the 2,000 alien kids who, according to the Associated Press, recently have been separated from their detained illegal alien parents? There is a lot of blame to share. That includes President Bill Clinton and the alien parents themselves, as well as the courts and immigration policies foolishly created by the…
Small online businesses and consumers around the country will suffer the most from the Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc. It’s now up to Congress to protect internet retailers from taxes imposed by states other than their own. The court essentially ruled that all 50 states and the tens of thousands…
Eric Teetsel, president of the Family Policy Alliance of Kansas, joins us to discuss the LGBT crusade against faith-based adoption agencies across the nation. Plus: We discuss the heated reception an Atlantic article on children and transgenderism received.
The Center for American Progress recently released a study criticizing a Health Policy Consensus Group proposal to reduce premiums and increase choices for the millions of families and small businesses who are forced to choose between remaining uninsured or buying expensive Obamacare policies. The proposal, dubbed the Health Care Choices Proposal, would replace Obamacare individual…
President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon on Monday to create a sixth branch of the U.S. military—the fifth within the Department of Defense—to be known as the Space Force. That direction may have surprised some, but evidence suggests his announcement caught neither the secretary of defense nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…
If a 10 percent tax on restaurant meals wasn’t enough to jack up the cost of dining in Washington, D.C., city residents just voted for a 275 percent increase in the minimum wage for tipped workers. Currently, the minimum wage for workers who also receive tips is $3.33 an hour in the district. Initiative 77,…
In Texas, you can advertise adult shops—it’s church promotion they find offensive. That’s the unbelievable predicament First Baptist Dallas finds itself in after it tried to buy a billboard for upcoming sermon topics. What’s offensive about a message on the Christian heritage of America? Plenty, according to the Dallas mayor. Freedom Sunday is June 24…
The House Budget Committee this week unveiled its fiscal 2019 budget proposal, and the most important aspect is that it provides reconciliation instructions to authorizing committees to find more than $300 billion in mandatory spending cuts. More than two-thirds of the federal budget consists of mandatory spending, which is not subject to the annual appropriations…
This September, I am sending my son from the Arizona desert to the rolling green hills and snowcapped mountains of the Pacific Northwest in Langley, British Columbia, to attend Trinity Western University. It’s the same university that was just informed by the Supreme Court of Canada that the government may deny a license to its…
On June 26, The Heritage Foundation will hold an event on “Prospects for Reform of U.S. Foreign Aid,” where leading conservative economic development experts, including Professor William Easterly of New York University, will lay out their visions to improve U.S. foreign assistance programs. Some of the substantive backdrop for the event can be found in…
American taxpayers are funding a university program that creates recipes for meals based on an African nation that exists only in comic books and movies. Yes, we’re talking about Wakanda, the mysterious high-tech home of the Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther, whose eponymous movie smashed records at the box office earlier this year. What folks…
Confirmation bias damages reputations. It ruins credibility. It destroys lives. When researchers ignore contradictory data that undermines their assumptions, junk science prevails. When police conduct investigations with predetermined outcomes, wrongful convictions abound. And when reporters cherry-pick facts and distort images to serve political agendas, media outlets become dangerous weapons of mass manipulation. Take Talia Lavin,…
President Donald Trump has been tweeting a lot about the crime rate in Germany, a nation that took in many migrants and continues to do so. Robin Simcox of The Heritage Foundation shares the facts. Plus: Did Peter Fonda’s targeting of Barron Trump go too far?