Last year, Congress created two major programs for farmers that, not surprisingly, will shatter Congressional Budget Office’s cost projections. Taxpayers’ liability for these programs is open-ended because a widely-supported limit on costs to protect taxpayers didn’t make it in the final farm bill. Congress should put an end to this liability immediately. The 2014 farm bill eliminated the infamous…
GOP presidential candidate Bobby Jindal says he will not change his stance on marriage. The Louisiana governor made that clear when he sat down for an interview with The Daily Signal earlier this year in Baton Rouge. “My faith teaches me that marriage is between a man and a woman. I’m not changing,” Jindal says….
Late Wednesday night, the House Freedom Caucus was just hours away from forcing a historic vote on impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Instead, the conservative lawmakers brokered a deal with the House’s Republican leadership to postpone a vote and hold a hearing. Before the agreement, the pack of rabble-rousers warned their GOP colleagues that they…
Since President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election without winning the popular vote, there have been almost unending calls from the left to eliminate the Electoral College. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined that chorus on Monday. When asked by a group of students what she would change about American…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may seem like an unlikely threat to religious liberty and the institution of marriage. After all, the federal agency was created to combat workplace discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But sadly, the agency created to fight discrimination now threatens to discriminate itself. One nominee to the commission’s…
The Supreme Court decided Friday to hear a case regarding a Maine Department of Education law excluding religious schools from public tuition funding. The court announced it would hear Carson v. Makin, a case brought by Maine parents contesting a tuition assistance program that grants funds to parents without convenient access to public schools, enabling…
The House of Representatives’ attempt to pass legislation on foreign surveillance, homeland security funding, and agricultural policy on a tight deadline has already screeched to a halt, with Republican intraparty disagreement on all fronts. The House Rules Committee, a leadership-controlled panel that determines the conditions of debate for bills on the floor, went into recess…
Republican staff at the House Judiciary Committee released a report Friday detailing the claims of "a multitude of whistleblowers" at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who alleged that the FBI is abusing its law enforcement authority to prosecute political opponents, artificially inflate the amount of "hate" in the country, and removing from its ranks staff…
The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on bipartisan legislation relating to the Chinese-owned app TikTok. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act last Tuesday. Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Select Committee on the…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Most voters oppose allowing transgender-identifying males to compete in women’s sports, but only 36% are aware that Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, supports that policy. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of registered voters think biological males should not be allowed to participate in women’s and girls’ sports, according to…
Just days before Christian students’ scheduled vacation to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a lonely and radicalized high school student opened fire inside Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, killing two people and wounding six more. Police say 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who went by the name “Samantha,” opened fire with a 9mm handgun during study…
Summer is here and school is out. For many parents this means toys everywhere around the house and never-ending debates to get the kids to put their stuff away. Or, some parents may choose to just pick up after their kids. Like America’s kids, Washington is quite good at putting out new government programs and…
A bill known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act has been signed into law by the governor. Supporters of Indiana Senate Bill 101 say that the law protects the free practice of religion, and opponents say the law will allow gay and lesbian individuals to be discriminated against. For example, the law could permit business owners…
A revision to Liberty University’s weapons policy will allow concealed carrying of firearms in dorms—the only area on campus where concealed carry wasn’t already permitted. Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. said students of the Christian university in Lynchburg, Va., will be required to have a concealed carry permit and obtain approval from the university’s police department. He announced…
President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are making “no effort” to reach a resolution with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who is blocking the promotions of approximately 250 military generals and flag officers until the Pentagon changes its abortion policy. Current policy uses taxpayer funds to pay for certain expenses associated with service members’ abortions….
Australians have always viewed America’s litigious culture with suspicion. Our “no worries mate” approach to life means we tend not to rush off to court at the drop of a hat. So last week when a state government commissioner ruled that the nation’s Catholic bishops may have broken the law in distributing their booklet “Don’t…
The minimum wage increase in the nation’s capital to $15 an hour is going to clobber small businesses that don’t take in nearly $2 million a year, a Washington, D.C., business owner told The Daily Signal. Earlier this month, the D.C. Council unanimously passed a measure that will hike the minimum wage in the city…
London had more homicides in the past two months than New York City did—for the first time on record. In February and March, London recorded 37 slayings compared with 35 in the Big Apple, The Sunday Times reported. March alone saw 22 homicides occur in London and 21 in the Big Apple. The two cities…
A basic knowledge of civics and belief in American exceptionalism are in startling decline among younger Americans, a new report suggests. About half of those surveyed under age 38 said they view the United States as a “sexist” or “racist” nation. More than 4 out of 10 Americans under 21 said the nation’s 44th president,…
The Supreme Court on Friday announced it had declined to review the case of a Christian florist in Washington state involving same-sex marriage, again punting on major constitutional questions involving religious freedom. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito expressed support for hearing the case, but to take a case requires the votes of at…