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The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week, many of which often go underreported or misreported by the mainstream media. This week, Facebook censored conservative Phil Robertson’s video that shows him field dressing a duck because it was too “graphic” and “violent.” The left just doesn’t want kids…
During a speech Thursday on the opioid epidemic, President Donald Trump said that “more people are dying from [drug] overdoses today than from gun homicides and motor vehicles combined." Verdict: True In 2015, deaths in the U.S. from drug overdose surpassed deaths from gun homicides and motor vehicles combined. Although finalized overdose death data have…
President Donald Trump’s trade representative, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, stirred up some controversy last week when he called for a five-year “sunset” provision to be included in the North American Free Trade Agreement. He asserted that investor-state dispute settlement features in U.S. free trade agreements amount to government-backed political risk insurance for big American companies. Some…
The president proposed cutting the corporate tax rate in his budget. He wrote that cutting the rate to 28 percent was necessary for “putting the United States in line with major competitor countries and encouraging greater investment here at home.” Which president am I referring to? You’re probably assuming Donald Trump. Nope. Barack Obama. As…
Phil Robertson, or “The Duck Commander,” joins us in “the swamp” to give his take on faith, freedom, and President Donald Trump. Watch our full interview above.
President Donald Trump has vowed to make the U.S. more energy dominant than ever, and the Interior Department took an important step toward that goal this week. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced on Tuesday that his department is proposing the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the United States. In March 2018,…
Early this week, it became clear that President Donald Trump had decided not to attend the East Asia Summit in the Philippines on Nov. 14. He should reconsider. The annual summit brings together leaders from the 10 Southeast Asian countries with eight others from outside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations—namely, the U.S., China, Japan,…
“Our new Constitution is now established,” Benjamin Franklin wrote to a French physicist in 1789, “and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Perhaps Franklin should have added one more item to his list of certainties: dishonest people will always exist—and…
The U.S. government helped facilitate the abortion of an illegal minor’s unborn child early Wednesday morning, after the Trump administration had fought to prevent such a scenario. The abortion came after a tragic ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, which ordered the government to allow the woman to obtain the abortion….
A federal district court ordered that a nearly century-old “Peace Cross” be taken down in Bladensburg, Maryland. Why? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled earlier this month that the cross, built in 1925, “has the primary effect of endorsing religion and excessively entangles the government in religion.” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan,…
In a shocking report last week, The Intercept—an investigative reporting outlet—released portions of an internal government manual detailing how and why federal agents should seize cash and property using powerful asset forfeiture laws. From what we’ve seen of the manual, called the “Asset Forfeiture Handbook” and used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arm, the…
War memorials can be easy to miss. They’re often tucked away in small parks, virtually invisible to all but those who approach them on foot. Not so the Peace Cross. Standing more than 40 feet high, the concrete edifice was dedicated almost 100 years ago “to the heroes of Prince George’s County, Maryland who lost…
If you wonder why Hollywood stayed so quiet so long about casting couch abuse behind closed doors, just look at how the entertainment industry enabled perverted sexual exploitation of women in front of the camera. Fashion magazine moguls at Conde Nast have now reportedly blacklisted soft-porn celebrity photographer Terry Richardson from working on shoots for…
Our nation’s leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Though typical Democrats and Republicans do not have this leftist hate for our nation, they have been willing accomplices in undermining the most basic value the Founding Fathers sought to promote—limited government. Leftists have had…
There’s a common quote, frequently attributed to G.K. Chesterton: “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.” In our modern context, this should be rephrased a bit: “Don’t try to pull down a statue if you have no idea who or what the statue was really about.”…
In 1824, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams were both members of the same political party. But in every other election with a discrepancy between the electoral and popular votes, the losing candidate has been the Democrat. Odd coincidence? Or is the Electoral College biased against the Democratic Party? Democratic President Barack Obama seemed to…
Imagine you are Jeanne Allen—who joined me recently on “Common Ground”—and you’re a longtime educational reformer, and you’ve coined this phrase, “backpacks full of cash.” And the phrase is catching on because it truly captures an exciting idea in American education—the notion that, instead of appropriating giant sums to school systems, we, in effect, give…
In 2011, after 899 issues and 73 years of publication, Superman, the most famous American comic book character, announced that he was renouncing his American citizenship. “I intend to speak before the United Nations tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my U.S. citizenship,” Superman announces. He then adds, in reference to his famous…
They’re no longer with us, but I can still remember them marching every Fourth of July parade when I was a kid. Sadly, all that remains of our World War I veterans are some fading memories and the historical memorials to their dedication. And if atheists have their way, the memorials will soon be faded…
It’s not every day that good news comes out of Congress, but last week the United States Senate made firm progress on tax reform that included a strong bipartisan message that the final legislation must include real tax relief for working families. Make no mistake: Any tax reform legislation that is produced this year will…