The Christmas season is on, and shoppers are out in full force. This means nothing for Washington. Here, Santa Claus seems to hand out gifts all year long. Here are 12 examples of government waste we’ve selected in the spirit of the 12 days of Christmas: 1. NASA spent $237,205 to study how rainfall affects…
A balanced budget and health care reform. Those are two things Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., is pledging to deliver as he takes the helm of the House Budget Committee. Price delivered a speech outlining his priorities for the Budget Committee during the 2015 Conservative Policy Summit. Heritage Action for America, the lobbying arm of The…
Here’s a half-serious question: How much do taxpayers have to pay off Boeing to make the Export-Import Bank finally and irrevocably go away? If the feds wrote a check to Boeing for $100 million, would they then let the Ex-Im Bank fade away after the current portfolio winds down? I ask this because the aerospace…
Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer recently announced that he will be spending about $10 million on an ad campaign for Congress to impeach President Donald Trump. On top of the violation of many progressive policy goals, Steyer said that Trump should be removed from office because “people in Congress and his own administration know that this…
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience appreciates those who stick up for first lady Melania Trump, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Those sentiments kick off this weekend's mailbag. Write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: We love how Melania Trump is doing so far, the subject of…
Editor's note: Jarrett Stepman's report from a conference of socialists over Fourth of July weekend in Chicago prompted a huge response from The Daily Signal's audience. Here's a sampling.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Anyone who wants to understand why American political life is so debased should consider what socialist influences have done to our public…
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is making a big political bet after a decade in Congress—that she can become the first Republican governor of New York in 20 years. “[Gov.] Kathy Hochul has a record and has led single-party Democrat rule, making it the most unaffordable state in the nation,” Stefanik, an Upstate New Yorker, says…
A family-owned timber firm that operates the last significant sawmill in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has won a momentous U.S. Forest Service contract: the Big Thorne Project, which will allow the harvest of nearly 150 million board feet of wood. The Obama administration's decision marks the transition away from old-growth timber and toward a sustainable…
Say your fond farewells, because this April marks the last year you will have to pay your taxes under the old tax code. Next year, when you sit down to file your taxes for 2018, you and your family will send less of your paychecks to Washington. In 2018, the average American will work the…
Media bias and dishonest journalism today seem worse than ever. Hollywood is embracing more and more explicit content, and even pushing it on our kids. And conservatives can’t catch a break with Big Tech, which has resorted to censoring and suppressing content at an alarming rate. For 35 years, Brent Bozell has taken on the…
Delaware residents are the victims of deceptive business practices associated with a green energy scheme resulting from elected officials’ sweetheart deal with a fuel cell company, policy analysts and academics argue. Bloom Energy had pledged to create 900 full-time jobs in Delaware by Sept. 30, 2016, and to continue employing these workers for at least…
“We’re finally now getting to the point where we’re going to be addressing the original sin of this country, 400 years old,” candidate Joe Biden told Wisconsin voters in September 2020, “slavery and all the vestiges of it.” On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order that cited “the Civil War…
On the morning of Sunday, Nov. 5, Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire on the congregants of First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The attack killed 26 people, including a pregnant woman and a number of children. A man living nearby heard the shots, grabbed his own firearm, and pursued Kelley. Kelley was found dead…
Editor’s note: As children return to school, discipline and safety are on many parents’ minds. One idea about how Education Secretary Betsy DeVos can make a difference drew responses from our audience. Be sure to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Efficient and excellent teaching and learning cannot happen in a classroom without strict and…
This week, Atlanta cops embodied the city’s motto, “Resurgens,” which means “rising again.” Responding to a distress call about an armed man in the Capitol View neighborhood, three cops were shot in the line of duty on May 11. This National Police Week (May 12-18), we should be grateful that it appears that they will…
A great many Americans claim that they cannot vote for former President Donald Trump because they loathe him. That was also their argument in 2016 and 2020. That argument was childish in 2016 and 2020, and it remains childish in 2024. I say “childish” because mature people don't vote on the basis of whom they…
“Deportation flights have begun,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X Friday morning above two photos of a line of illegal alien men preparing to board a large military plane. “President [Donald] Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of…
Arizona State University officials appear to have violated state law by requiring staff to complete “racial equity” training, according to a new report by the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute. Arizona has stringent laws against imposing training in diversity, equity, and inclusion—called DEI—in taxpayer-funded programs. These laws prohibit the use of taxpayer money for training sessions that…
The House of Representatives is set to vote on election-integrity legislation, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, on Thursday. The SAVE Act would bar states from registering people to vote in federal elections unless they provide documentary proof of American citizenship. To that end, it would also make it a crime to register an individual who…
Two aldermen introduced ordinances to restrict food carts in Chicago, less than a day after they were legalized by the City Council. Alderman Brendan Reilly’s ordinance would ban the carts in certain upscale areas, and Alderman Tom Tunney’s would ban them around Wrigley Field. Bennett Lawson, Tunney’s chief of staff, told the Chicago Tribune “there’s no…