It’s been one year since Lois Lerner officially retired from the Internal Revenue Service amid accusations that the tax agency improperly had targeted tea party and other conservative groups. Now, Lerner is speaking out and offering no apologies for her role in the scandal. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” Lerner told Politico, echoing the few…
Few Americans oppose religious liberty in the abstract. But what should happen when a general law or policy aimed at advancing the common good unintentionally burdens people of faith? Historically, Democrats and Republicans alike have supported accommodating or protecting religious citizens. Alas, this one-time consensus seems to be collapsing. Over the past year, owners of…
As President Barack Obama visited Dallas on Tuesday to speak at the memorial service for five slain police officers there, some law enforcement advocates faulted his legacy on the issue as negative. “Because these are not isolated incidents. They’re symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system,” @Potus…
At the end of June, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to “defund” the city’s police. Now crime is on the rise. John Hinderaker, president of the Minnesota policy organization Center of the American Experiment, joins the show to explain what the future may hold for the Minneapolis Police Department and what his organization is…
Corporations, nonprofit institutions, the media, and countless individual Americans have expressed support of the Black Lives Matter movement, funneling millions of dollars into organizations that purport to carry out its cause. But although many Americans support the phrase “black lives matter,” the actual aims of organizations and activists committed to this cause often are far…
After multiple tries, the U.S. Supreme Court will have the opportunity next term to overturn an outdated ruling from a 1977 case, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education. Previously, the Court ruled against public school teachers who didn’t want to pay dues to a union. The Supreme Court has recently made clear that government employees…
The Center for Medical Progress has responded to Cecile Richards’ testimony at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday. Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, was questioned by lawmakers for several hours over the use of taxpayer funding by her organization. David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress and the project lead…
Public-sector workers are preparing class action lawsuits against the unions they have been forced to pay dues to pending the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court case, The Washington Free Beacon reports. The court is expected to issue a decision on Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in a matter…
Some lawmakers’ push to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour is “truly maddening,” small business owner Stuart Hornsby says. Hornsby owns a frozen yogurt shop, a business he built from the ground up in 2013, in a small city in northwest Georgia. With the exception of the manager and a few other…
Editor’s note: Teacher Tanner Cross was suspended from his job as a gym teacher at Leesburg Elementary School in Virginia after he spoke out against two proposed school policies related to transgender students at a Loudoun County School Board meeting. Last week, a judge ordered him reinstated and Cross spoke to The Daily Signal about…
The Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded its effective demand that a Catholic hospital snuff out a candle it keeps burning in the chapel, a candle that HHS called a threat to hospital safety. "The game was simply not worth the candle for HHS," Lori Windham, vice president and senior counsel at Becket,…
Imagine if your 15-year-old came to my house, and I gave them a book about edgy sex positions? What if I gave your 16-year-old a book with graphic illustrations of oral or anal sex? Would you be happy with that? Or would you be mighty suspicious of me? Many parents may not know it, but…
“The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert.” That’s the first line of Time magazine’s adulatory profile of Vice President Kamala Harris, titled “Her Hope,” or in the online version, “The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris.” The cover of the magazine was a glamorized image of Harris reminiscent of posters of President-to-be Barack Obama from 2008. You really…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Voters aren’t buying Vice President Kamala Harris’ flip-flops on several key policy issues, according to a new Scott Rasmussen national survey. The RMG Research poll, released Friday by the Napolitan News Service, asked 1,000 registered voters this week about the policy views of Harris on illegal immigration, fracking, government-run health care,…
A Virginia judge on Tuesday blocked a Democrat redistricting plan designed to give the party more seats in Congress. Judge Jack Hurley Jr., a judge on the Tazewell County circuit court, ruled that the Democrat-controlled state Legislature did not follow procedure to approve a state constitutional amendment on redistricting. Democrat Speaker Don Scott of the…
Wondering where the companies you buy from stand on the gay marriage case before the Supreme Court? Turns out there’s an app for that. It’s called 2nd Vote, and it is a free online app available on Google Play and Apple’s iTunes that allows consumers to have instantaneous access to a database that includes more…
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., are joining forces to revive a plan to cut the deficit in half as the deadline for Congress to decide whether to increase the federal debt limit looms. The lawmakers’ Cut, Cap, and Balance Act would slash $207 billion from the deficit in 2016 while capping spending at…
HOT SPRINGS, Va.—Conservative lawmakers, scholars, and activists say it’s time for the Virginia General Assembly to look into the taxpayer funding of academics and scientists who don't want President Obama to tolerate dissenting views on climate change. The question, they told The Daily Signal, is why taxpayers should pay for the work of radical academics and…
Nearly one year after a group of six nations led by the United States reached a nuclear deal with Iran, one of the loudest critics of the agreement is warning about the “consequences” of an accord that he believes has emboldened Tehran to provoke terror across the world. Sen. Tom Cotton, a freshman Republican from…
He will stay on mission to “deliver value for the American people,” despite personal criticism, racial slurs, and death threats from the left, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. For facing down death threats to his family and himself over changes in public policy, Pai received the National Rifle…