Tag: Ilhan Omar

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    The Sneaky Way Corporate America Blacklists Conservatives, and How More of Them Are Fighting Back

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—More nonprofits are urging the software company Benevity—which hundreds of companies use to allow employees to donate their time and money to charities—to stop systematically blacklisting conservative nonprofits. Twelve organizations first sent a letter to Benevity in October following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The new letter, sent…
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    ‘I’ve Had Enough, Thank You Darling’: Trump Walks Out On NBC Interview

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump frequently sparred with “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker about multiple topics before cutting the interview short. Trump went to Wisconsin on Friday to discuss farming and his economic agenda, Fox 6 Milwaukee reported. Mirroring the stormy weather outside the farm where the interview took place, Trump and Welker…
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    US Considering Purchasing Chagos Islands, Telegraph Reports

    June 7 (Reuters) – The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. U.S. officials have drawn up a proposal to bypass the U.K. and make their own deal to take control of Diego Garcia, the report said.  Reuters could not immediately confirm the report….
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    About The Media Freakout on Voter ID in Ohio

    Polling from both Heritage Action and Honest Election Project Action has shown voter ID to be extremely popular among Ohioans. Yet the Republican effort to enshrine voter ID into the state constitution is being called out by many in local mainstream media. Republicans Push Enshrining Voter ID in State Constitution First, where the effort stands…
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    International Pressure Prolongs Human Suffering, IDF Sergeant Says 

    International pressure from Western media, politicians, and one-sided human rights organizations has prevented Israel from fully neutralizing threats—allowing them to resurface decades later and prolong unnecessary bloodshed, an intelligence officer with the Israel Defense Forces told the Daily Signal. Avraham Levine, who lost dozens of loved ones to attacks carried out in northern Israel by…
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    Democrats’ Maine Senate Gamble Raises Questions About Standards

    The Democratic Party’s approach to Maine’s Senate race has sparked a debate that extends well beyond the state’s borders. At the center of the controversy is Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner, whose campaign has been dogged by a series of damaging allegations and personal scandals. Reports have highlighted Platner’s past online activity, including the presence…
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    Antifa Mob Gathers Outside TPUSA Event, Violence and Arrests Quickly Unfold

    SAN ANTONIO—A violent Antifa protest erupted outside the Turning Point Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. After protesters attempted, but failed, to storm into the event through a police blockade, the violence escalated. One man, who had been pepper-sprayed for storming police, was seen washing his eyes with water from a plastic…
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    13 States Failed Basic Financial Audits—Here Are the 7 Biggest Red Flags

    State auditors across the country were unable to verify billions of dollars in unemployment spending, Medicaid payments, and pension obligations in federally-funded programs, according to a new report by a government watchdog group. The findings in the 2026 Financial Transparency Score report, released by the government watchdog Truth in Accounting, found that 13 states failed…
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    California: The Land of Regulation

    California’s punishing cost of living isn’t inevitable—it’s policy-driven. Burdensome regulations have sent housing and energy prices soaring, crushing incomes and deepening poverty. Smarter deregulation could bring back the Golden State’s long-lost affordability and historic role as a “land of opportunity.” In 2024, California had a poverty rate of 17.7%, meaning about 7 million people were…
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  • ‘All DC Needed Was Trump’: Revitalization of Nation’s Capital Shows Decline Is a Choice

    “All D.C. needed was President Trump! That was Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on X celebrating the renovation of the Columbus Circle fountain in the District of Columbia after decades of neglect and more recent abuse. Maybe this seems like a small thing. It’s just an old fountain. What is that compared to the state of the…
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    Driving People Out of California

    When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as governor of California in 1967, the state had a population of 19,176,000, according to the Census Bureau. Eight years later, when he left that office in 1975, the state’s population had grown to 21,537,849—an increase of 2,361,849. That was not an unusual pattern for governors of the Golden…
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    Bureaucrats in the Way of Business

    Is your business “needed”? Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is “needed.” Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn’t proved her business was needed. “Why does the state of Louisiana…
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    How Do Federal Government Employees Get Away With Not Paying Their Taxes?

    We have known for some time that our federal employees have cushy lives compared to the people for whom they work (us). What is particularly infuriating is that so many of them either don’t pay their taxes or are seriously delinquent on what they owe their employer—the federal government. Recently, the Treasury Inspector General for…
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    Stop the Scam: Minneapolis Students Need Education Choice

    One classical school in Minneapolis offers a lesson on how to create opportunities in tough areas. Policymakers and special interest groups should pay attention. In May, at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, Rep. Bob Onder, R-Mo., described a reality that has been obvious to parents in…
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    Scott Bessent’s Most Vicious Capitol Hill Moments

    This past week, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent sparred with Democrats as he testified before multiple committees on Capitol Hill. Here are the seemingly mild-mannered secretary’s most vicious verbal battles of the week during his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. Who Was President During WWI? “Do…
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    No Great Expectations for New Jersey’s Businesses

    It was the based of times, it was the woke of times, it was the age of candor, it was the age of cant, it was the epoch of sense, it was the epoch of pretense. And it was the season when firms started moving from high-tax, high-cost blue states to freedom-loving red states. ExxonMobil’s…
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    California Scheming? Golden State’s Glacial Vote Count Bolsters Case for SAVE America Act

    The polls closed in California on Tuesday at 8 p.m. local time. As of Saturday, nobody knows which two candidates will be competing in November for governor or Los Angeles mayor. Indeed, mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day may stumble in for seven days until June 9—and still be counted. Thus, weeks could pass before…
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    Protecting Religion: The Battlefield of the Future

    On June 6, 1876, as the United States approached its centennial anniversary, President Ulysses S. Grant addressedthe youth of America. “My advice … no matter their denomination,” is to hold fast to faith, to not merely know one’s religious precepts, but to live them. By Grant’s counsel, in this would be the flourishing of the…
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    How to Help Boys

    It would be better for boys if society stopped expecting them to act like girls. A Texas mom recently shared a video of her son at his kindergarten graduation. The clip shows him squirming in his chair, playing with his hands and stretching over his seat. She captioned the video, “You’re six and the ceremony…
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    Protester on Trial for Pepper-Spraying Police at ‘Fascist’ Heritage Foundation Makes His Defense in Court

    This article has been updated with a comment from Nathaniel Wetter Taylor. Nathaniel Wetter Taylor, the protester who allegedly pepper-sprayed two special police officers outside of the Heritage Foundation last year, delivered his own opening statement before a jury Thursday, attacking Heritage as “fascist” and claiming that the officers violated his rights. Appearing in the D.C. Superior Court,…
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