In a recent interview, Attorney General William Barr said of the dominant news media: They are projecting a narrative. When the word ‘narrative’ came into currency, I knew we were in trouble, because the word narrative suggests that there’s no objective truth. There’s no real story of what happened, it’s just everyone has their own…
As Democrats regroup and forge ahead with plans to implement components of the Build Back Better legislation killed by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., calls for the U.S. Postal Service to be given billions to electrify its vehicle fleet are likely to soon reach a fever pitch. The Postal Service is a high-profile, well-regarded institution through which progressives…
People visiting Washington, D.C., this weekend probably expected to see a white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. Instead, the president’s residence was plastered in rainbow and transgender colors, an over-the-top display of the current resident’s LGBTQ fixation. It was a stark contrast to the mood in the rest of America, where the fury over “Pride” displays has…
Parents Defending Education has released a new report that offers some unsettling information about the reach of the People’s Republic of China in U.S. K-12 schools through so-called Confucius Classrooms. “Confucius Classrooms are a program that is intended to teach children Chinese language and culture, which on its face sounds benign, but some of your…
Hayley Waring, a student at Southern Methodist University, has an opinion piece in The College Conservative about former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s commencement address last month at Harvard. Mayor Bloomberg criticized left-wing censorship of conservative ideas on campus. Waring said Bloomberg is correct and discussed her own experience at SMU: “Last semester, I took…
As voters head to the polls, virtually all of them will cast votes for politicians who indirectly impact taxes, but some will also have the chance to vote directly for or against certain state and local tax initiatives. Out of 147 ballot measures across 41 states and the District of Columbia, 15 are tax-related. Here…
News coverage of the Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas, where the two attackers who opened fire on the event were killed by police, has exposed a lack of understanding about the First Amendment among many in the mainstream media. It was not created to protect speech that doesn't offend anyone. It was created to protect…
Another layer has unfolded for cake artist Jack Phillips. He has asked the Colorado Supreme Court to rule that the government cannot force him to bake a cake in celebration of a same-sex wedding. In August, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that Phillips and his bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop, must bake cakes for same-sex weddings,…
The Pakistani government took a positive step forward earlier this month in renaming the National Center for Physics after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Abdus Salam—a member of the Ahmadi community, a minority sect of Islam. Even though Salam received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, his achievement was largely ignored in Pakistan because of the…
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill on Tuesday allowing for temporary gun confiscation without any due process in Massachusetts. Bill H4670 enables a family or household member, which includes roommates, relatives or significant others, to remove firearms, firearm identification cards and ammunition from any individual deemed to be a danger to oneself or others. Surrendered goods…
I learned last week from a Silicon Valley whistleblower, who spoke with the intrepid investigative team at Project Veritas, that my namesake news and opinion website is on a Google blacklist. Thank goodness the Big Tech giant hasn’t taken over the newspaper syndication business yet. Twenty years of column writing have allowed me to break…
Students, young professionals, and not-so-young Chinese have now demonstrated in Hong Kong for many weeks, despite the brutal attempts by the government to stop them. The police have used clubs, tear gas, and water cannons—everything but dogs—to silence them. “If we didn’t protest,” one young woman said, “this might become just another Chinese city.” Why…
One of the most stunning and yet tediously repetitive features of America’s Donald Trump Experience is the expectation that President Donald Trump is going to become someone else. People across the political spectrum seem permanently immune to the realization that the country has elected a man who says and does extraordinarily shocking things. With metronomic consistency, they exclaim, “Can you believe what he said? He’s just completely nuts! Where’s my…
A jury has found Mark Houck not guilty of federal charges brought against him by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. The DOJ had charged Houck with two counts of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act when, outside a Pennsylvania abortion clinic, Houck allegedly pushed a pro-abortion activist who was allegedly…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project is suing the Justice Department for communications related to the department's failure to apply federal law against far-left protests at the Supreme Court Justices' homes. The suit follows Attorney General Merrick Garland's admission that it is a federal crime (under 18 U.S.C. § 1507) to…
The Left might hate the Supreme Court, but it’s the Left that keeps the court in business by shoving its strange obsessions onto its docket. For this new term that begins Monday, the Left has forced the court to confront its obsessions with child “sex changes,” banning guns, and protecting pornographers from laws that keep…
What do you call it when a Hispanic Democrat like Sen. Alex Padilla plays the victim after harassing federal law enforcement? We’ve seen two examples of this apparently orchestrated charade in the last week, and I suspect we haven’t seen the last of it. The Left has capitalized on both cases, accusing the feds of…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., was absolutely right when she said we had to pass Obamacare so we could find out what was in it. Did you know that the law authorizes the federal government to contract with selected health plans to compete directly with all other private plans in every state? The…
Sneakers, sneaks, kicks, tennis shoes, running shoes: whatever you call them, everybody has a pair. (I’ll die before I call them trainers. This is America.) It seems that there are a thousand brands and types to choose from, whether for particular sports or just lounging around in comfort. But Congress is about to force men…
Liberals are up in arms over a possible executive order from President Donald Trump protecting religious freedom. A draft copy of the executive order was leaked to LGBT groups and liberal media outlets in an attempt to prevent the president from issuing it. But the president should not cave. He should stand up to the…