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Americans are now experiencing the benefits of tax reform. Employers are sending less of our paychecks to Washington, millions have received unexpected bonuses, and businesses of all sizes have increased investment in the U.S. economy. Despite the good economic news and significant tax cuts for more than 80 percent of Americans, some wish to focus…
Where are all the grown-ups in times of crisis and grief? Don’t bother searching America’s prestigious law schools. Two adult men, occupying lofty perches as law professors, argued this week that the voting age in the U.S. should be lowered to 16 because some high school survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting who want gun…
Sen. James Lankford said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that at least three times as many crimes are committed with handguns than with rifles. Verdict: True Handguns are used in about nine times as many murders and eight times as many nonfatal violent crimes than rifles, shotguns, and other firearms combined. Fact Check: Lankford, R-Okla., pointed…
On Monday, Jill Abramson penned a scurrilous article for New York magazine titled “The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas”—the latest in a long line of shameful attacks on the Supreme Court justice. Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, claims she has new evidence that proves Thomas lied at his confirmation hearing and…
The reality is that if we knew what leads to mass shootings at high schools, the problem would already have been resolved—sadly, we don’t. We need to address all of the factors that contribute to these circumstances, methodically and as part of a systemic approach, not as a series of bullet-point solutions. Are guns to…
“The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past. On this week’s episode, hosts Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal, and Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal’s White House correspondent, discuss the life and legacy of…
When Swedes go to the polls in September, it will be with a backdrop of increasing crime and renewed concern over Russian aggression. In January, a man at a train station on the outskirts of Stockholm died after picking up a discarded grenade, which he mistook for a toy. In August 2016, an 8-year-old British…
Brazil’s performance in the 2018 edition of The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom confirms yet again that South America’s biggest country remains burdened by too much government spending, corruption, and regulatory inefficiency. Historically, a significant reason for Brazil’s lackluster track record on economic freedom has been its weak rule of law. Last month, however, a…
The cruelty of the movement to promote abortion on demand has been on full display the past two weeks. In three notable instances, advocates for a regime of legal abortion until birth have shown the hollowness of their claims to speak for women and the rights of the young, the defenseless, and the disabled. First,…
The Heritage Foundation’s Ted Bromund joins the podcast to discuss ways Congress can improve background checks, as well as the U.N.’s effort to regulate ammunition. We also discuss why the Olympics are so political. Plus: Billy Graham, revered evangelist and spiritual adviser to 13 U.S. presidents, has died at 99. We take a look at…
Some point to the deficit as a reason to raise taxes. But new research shows that spending cuts are superior to tax hikes when it comes to reducing the deficit. This should embolden lawmakers to pursue spending reductions in this year’s budget resolution, giving particular focus to reducing entitlement spending—a key driver of debt. Following…
A recent article in The Guardian dons the foreboding title “Robots will destroy our jobs—and we’re not ready for it.” The article claims, “For every job created by robotic automation, several more will be eliminated entirely. … This disruption will have a devastating impact on our workforce.” According to an article in MIT Technology Review,…
Millions around the globe gathered around their TVs beginning Feb. 8 to watch the 2018 Winter Olympics, which are taking place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, a mountainous rural village, 110 miles east of Seoul. As the world turned its gaze to the Korean Peninsula, it witnessed North Korea and South Korea unified, together under one flag, during the opening ceremony. The symbolic…
The Trump administration moved on Tuesday to deliver affordable health care to millions of Americans with a proposed rule that would expand the availability of short-term, limited duration plans to one year. The rule comes as a result of the president’s executive order calling on federal agencies to take the necessary measures to scale back Obamacare’s…
Over Presidents Day weekend, what more appropriately should be a celebration of George Washington’s birthday, The New York Times published the results of a survey of “politics experts” who ranked American presidents from greatest to worst. The poll relied on “170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section.” Their list…
Ryan T. Anderson of The Heritage Foundation joins us to discuss his new book on transgenderism, threats to parental rights, and why transgender ideology doesn’t hold up to logic. We also discuss Robert Mueller’s decision to indict 13 Russians, the new popularity of tax reform, and Elon Musk’s dream of an East Coast speed machine.
The New York Times editorial board said more than 1,600 mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School more than five years ago, in December 2012. Verdict: Unsubstantiated No universally accepted definition exists for “mass shooting,” but the one used by the Times is extremely broad. Another liberal news outlet,…
The irony and hypocrisy are obviously lost on self-styled “anti-fascists” who loudly—and, more often than not, violently—shut down, in fascist fashion, the free speech of others on college campuses. Or maybe they are in fact aware of the hypocrisy and just don’t care about the bad PR optics, because they are so self-righteously convinced of…
The Supreme Court is scheduled to return to Washington next week after nearly a month off. The justices will hear a number of important oral arguments, including cases involving free speech, public employee unions, and digital privacy. Here are four cases to watch. Public Employee Unions and the First Amendment On Feb. 26, the Supreme…
Parents in Ohio lost custody of their 17-year-old daughter Friday because a judge ruled that she should be allowed to receive therapy, including testosterone therapy, to identify as a boy. Without commenting on the specifics of this case just outside Cincinnati, Americans can expect to see more cases like it as government officials side with…