“With friends like these, who needs enemies?” is an observation attributed to the late comedian and New York Post “Strictly for Laughs” columnist Joey Adams. After the Dec. 22 betrayal by 18 Senate Republicans of their House GOP colleagues—to say nothing of Republican voters—in inexplicably helping Democrats ram through a disgracefully pork-laden $1.85 trillion omnibus…
Senate Republican leaders have declined to comment on the bill that Senate Democrats introduced to fund the government through Nov. 17 that avoids a government shutdown but that also fails to address the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. In introducing the bill, the Democrats undermine House Republican efforts to convince President Joe Biden to address…
A group of Republican senators is leading an effort to end government-backed “too big to fail” bailout policies. In an effort to end the practice of taxpayer bailouts of private companies, 10 Republican senators from the Senate Banking Committee penned a letter to the Trump administration requesting that he terminate these policies for nonbanks, claiming they…
THE CENTER SQUARE—Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to increase security at the northern border after the Canadian government began issuing visas to Gazans who may be connected to the terrorist organization Hamas. The Canadian government’s program includes giving Gazans a “Refugee Travel Document,” which replaces their passport and is accepted by U.S. Citizenship…
Republicans and conservatives dating back at least to Richard Nixon have used the slogan “tough on crime” and its corollary “lock ’em up and throw away the key” as electoral red meat. The problem is what to do when inmates are released with few skills, fewer job prospects, and a bleak future that leads some…
What’s the one initiative Sen. Ted Cruz would pursue as president to help ordinary Americans? That’s the question MSNBC host Joe Scarborough posed to the Texas Republican last week on “Morning Joe.” Cruz discussed the need for tax reform and his support for a flat tax allowing everyone to file their taxes “on a postcard.” Cruz said…
If there was any confusion as to where Congress stood on Cuba, this week definitely put that to rest. From spending bills to legislation, a bipartisan coalition in Congress is pushing back against the Obama Administration. On Wednesday, the House passed the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) spending bill which included a provision prohibiting either…
While the unusual coalition of President Barack Obama and conservative groups hold out hope for the chance at what they call the most meaningful reform to criminal sentencing laws in a generation, frontline law enforcement officials are debating what the changes would mean for their communities. Steven Cook, whose organization represents more than 5,500 assistant…
Active-duty service members and their spouses show strong support for “choice-driven education policies and programs” for their children, according to a survey on military families and K-12 education. “It is a national security issue. … We need to not hurt our families by limiting their education,” said report co-author Lindsey Burke, director of the Center for…
President Joe Biden showed leadership and courage last week by flying into an active war zone to personify solidarity with America’s embattled friends and allies in Israel. Too bad Biden’s appeasement of Iran made the trip necessary. Perhaps Biden went to Tel Aviv to atone for his years of financial assistance to the ayatollahs. Biden’s…
Voting has long been one of the privileges of American citizenship, but perhaps not for much longer. Left-wing activists are going all-in with their demands to let noncitizens vote, and Washington, D.C., just took up the charge. The D.C. City Council advanced a bill to let anyone vote in local elections, regardless of citizenship and…
Silicon Valley has enormous power over the flow of information that reaches people around the globe. That’s why it’s vital for Americans to understand how tech giants can manipulate information, either intentionally or unwittingly, to advance a political agenda. Now, 34 conservative leaders are banding together to call for tech giants Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and…
The Senate confirmed Paula Xinis for a federal judgeship in Maryland by a vote of 53-34, over the protests of major state police unions and outside conservative groups. Xinis, a partner and senior trial attorney at the Baltimore law firm representing the family of Freddie Gray, will serve in what is in effect a lifetime…
Thanks to virtual schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were horrified to discover the radical lesson plans their children’s activist teachers were teaching. Lessons on critical race theory and on sexual orientation and gender identity caused parents to realize they would have to take their kids’ education into their own hands. Post-pandemic, the homeschool boom…
Despite the recent approval and congratulatory statements made to the Secret Service regarding their good work during the visit of Pope Francis last month, the agency is once again under scrutiny, this time for trying to undermine its congressional critics. Representative Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has been an outspoken critic of the Secret Service within Congress, especially…
When Democrats get caught in a political pickle, they can count on the borrowed authority of “journalists” and “fact-checkers” to bail them out. Take failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ pressuring corporations to put a financial squeeze on Georgia. She began a March 31 op-ed in USA Today by writing: “Boycotts work. The focused power…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a bill Wednesday aiming to abolish a federal agency that arguably duplicates work that other agencies already do and that does not rely on Congress for its funding. Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., filed the bill to abolish the Office of Financial Research, an agency…
The new White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, came to the briefing room on Tuesday with domestic policy adviser Susan Rice. This came two days after CNN’s Brian Stelter celebrated the “refreshing” arrival of “transparency and truth” at the briefings. Rice is best remembered in conservative circles for spewing falsehoods on five Sunday talk shows…
In 2020, if you thought it was possible COVID-19 came from a lab in China you were labeled a conspiracy theorist, a peddler of misinformation, “bonkers,” and a racist. Facebook and other social media removed the lab leak claim from their apps or slapped “misinformation” labels on it. Facebook did so in lockstep with the…
Rachael Rollins, the George Soros-backed rogue U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced earlier this week that she is resigning as the chief federal prosecutor for the Bay State. Rollins resigned right before the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General and the Office of Special Counsel released devastating reports outlining her serious…