Changes made to the House GOP’s health care bill would prevent veterans from qualifying for the tax credits the new plan creates, according to a health policy expert. House Republican leaders revealed technical changes to the legislation, called the American Health Care Act, on Monday. But a review of the changes shows that potentially millions…
When House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that the United States had been plunged into a “constitutional crisis,” a large swath of the media took to plying this fantasy for them. “Ever wonder what a constitutional crisis looks like? Well, open your eyes,” CNN’s Don Lemon explained to his viewers. “The…
Day after day, new Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and her fellow Democrats demonstrate how much of their agenda is simply about securing power. Spanberger signed a bill Monday that added the Commonwealth of Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact, which is a misguided and downright unconstitutional attempt to get around the Electoral College in presidential…
Patriot Week, launched in 2009, is a week dedicated to honoring America’s past and studying its founding principles. Every year, Sept. 11 marks the first day of Patriot Week and Constitution Day, Sept. 17, brings it to a close. Judge Michael Warren of Oakland County, Michigan, and his daughter, Leah, founded Patriot Week to celebrate…
Eight Republican presidential candidates took to the stage in Milwaukee on Wednesday night for the first debate of the 2024 presidential election cycle. The Republican candidates who participated in the Fox News-hosted debate were North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina…
Ohio voters on Tuesday voted to codify abortion into the state constitution, The Associated Press is projecting. The ballot language references abortion, but mostly used euphemisms, such as “reproductive medical treatment” or “reproductive freedom.” The measure, known as Issue 1, passed with 58% of the vote. It says “an individual right to one’s own reproductive…
If those in federal office are willing to pay attention, the states are displaying the best—and the worst—of our republican form of government. Every four years, American citizens get the opportunity to express their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, endorse a policy agenda for the nation, and hold the occupant of…
Nicholas Sandmann is one of the Covington Catholic High School students caught in a media firestorm while attending the March for Life last month in Washington, D.C. Now, he is pushing back. Last week, his lawyers filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post for $250 million—the amount that Jeff Bezos spent to buy the…
When law enforcement cleared protesters from Lafayette Square last year, left-leaning media outlets immediately ran with the narrative that President Donald Trump had ordered the move so he could get a photo-op in front of nearby St. John’s Church. But a new inspector general’s report reveals the truth: Trump had nothing to do with the…
House Republicans released their “Commitment to America” on Thursday morning, promising to fight for a strong economy, a safe nation, a future built on freedom, and a government accountable to its people. The Commitment to America promises that Republicans will fight inflation and lower the cost of living, curbing “wasteful government spending that is raising…
Public school districts are adopting curriculums on climate change from well-funded progressive groups casting the issue as a threat to life on the planet that students should respond to through activism. As of fall 2020, 29 states and the District of Columbia had adopted standards that require science classes to teach human-caused climate change as…
Paula Scanlan, who swam on the University of Pennsylvania’s women swimming team with transgender athlete Lia Thomas, testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee on the “Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children,” Thursday about her experience. Watch the video above or read a lightly edited transcript of her remarks below: Good morning, Chairman [Mike]…
The phrase “In God We Trust” has sparked a debate over First Amendment rights in Texas, where an atheist group demanded that local authorities remove decals of the motto from patrol vehicles. Texas news outlet KCBD reported that the Childress Police Department first received the demand in a letter written by the Freedom From Religion Foundation….
Two years after California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs first mounted her challenge to public-sector unions, she’s hearing the same thing today that she’s heard from fellow teachers all along: Keep fighting. The Supreme Court ruled 4-4 Tuesday in the case that bears her name, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, leaving in place agency fees public employees pay…
When the elevator door opened in the lobby, my colleagues and I saw a man sitting, bleeding, surrounded by police. We stared in silence as police yelled at us to get back upstairs. The elevator door quietly closed, and we returned to our fifth-floor office. Up there, we hadn’t heard Floyd Corkins’ gunshot that hit…
The leader of a libertarian student group who overcame pushback from his Massachusetts community college says the experience helped him become a better advocate for free speech. “The answer isn't to restrict other people's free speech,” Jeff Lyons, a Navy veteran who just received his associate’s degree in history and government from Bunker Hill Community…
The Supreme Court’s final week of oral arguments for its 2019-20 term this week included two cases that involve an important religious freedom issue. In a 2012 decision, Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, the Supreme Court said that federal employment discrimination laws do not apply to cases where churches or religious schools fire…
Armstrong Williams, host of “The Armstrong Williams Show” joins the Daily Signal Podcast to discuss racism in America, privilege, peaceful protests, and the way forward for America. Read the lightly edited transcript of the interview, pasted below, or listen on the podcast: We also cover these stories: George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, testifies before the…
A federal lawsuit in one of this year’s biggest battleground states challenges President Joe Biden’s executive order aimed at driving up the vote, in what one government watchdog calls “arguably the most important election integrity lawsuit in the country.” State Rep. Dawn Keefer, a Republican who chairs the conservative Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus, is the lead…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Texas father is fighting in court to prevent his ex-wife from subjecting their son to experimental transgender medical interventions after she moved to California, seemingly taking advantage of the Golden State’s “transgender sanctuary” law. A California judge has taken the extraordinary step of hiding the entire case from the public…