EducationCommentary
How Our Broken Accreditation System Increases College Costs
One of the most disheartening trends in America today is the steep and relentless increase in the cost of higher education. As almost everything else… Read More
EconomyNews
Lawmaker Moves to Tax Sugary Drinks
A Connecticut lawmaker hopes to open another front in the war on childhood obesity and diabetes. On Wednesday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat, introduced a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Syria: Both Sides Using Child Soldiers
A recent United Nations report shows that both pro-government forces and rebels in Syria have been actively recruiting children to fight in the civil war…. Read More
EnergyNews
Wind Farms Divide Environmentalists: Renewable Energy vs. Dead Birds
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Paul Domski is a falconer and a bird lover. And he seriously doesn’t like wind farms or the federal government’s recent decision to protect… Read More
EconomyNews
Milton Friedman’s 7 Most Notable Quotes
Harry Truman once complained he wanted to find a one-handed economist because he was tired of asking a direct question of those on his economic team,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
ISIS: The Legitimate Threat from Iraq
Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder described the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as “more frightening than anything I think… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Dallas Fed Makes Case for Crude Oil Exports
The Dallas Federal Reserve Bank made the case for why policymakers should lift the ban on crude oil exports: Removing the export ban would eliminate… Read More
InternationalCommentary
China Confronts Growing Instability in Its West
Reports indicate major violence erupting in western China this week, with knife-wielding assailants attacking two towns. Casualties are said to involve dozens of Uighurs and… Read More
SocietyNews
Bachmann at the Border: ‘Bills Don’t Stop the Problem’
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., traveled to the Texas border with Mexico last weekend to get a close-up look of the border crisis. In an exclusive… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Genevieve Wood: It’s Not ‘Inhumane’ to ‘Want to Secure the Border’
“One of the reasons we have these political shenanigans that we do is that people are almost told that you’re somehow anti-immigrant, that you’re inhumane… Read More
SecurityCommentary
How Should Washington Address the Border Crisis?
Join us at 9:30 a.m. ET for a discussion with representatives from Heritage Action and The Daily Signal on today’s border crisis vote in the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
New York Times Reporter: ‘Some People Are Deserving of Incivility’
As I recounted Monday at The Daily Signal, The New York Times reporter Josh Barro thinks some people are “unworthy of respect.” Yesterday Barro doubled-down… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Marriage Won’t End Poverty. But It Will Help (A Lot).
Marriage isn’t the answer to poverty. That’s the argument made last week in The New Republic by Carter Price, who asserts conservatives are too preoccupied… Read More
LawNews
Lawmakers Ponder Ways to ‘Get Politics Out of the IRS’
Could the IRS be governed by multiple commissioners? Some lawmakers hope so. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday heard pitches for proposed reforms… Read More
LawNews
Legislation Introduced to Curb Civil Forfeiture’s ‘Perverse’ Incentives
Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., says his proposed Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act will address mounting concern about what some call the encouragement of corruption in… Read More
LawNews
In IRS Emails, Lois Lerner Calls Conservatives ‘Crazies’ and … Worse
IRS division chief Lois Lerner, the central figure in the tax agency’s targeting scandal, uses a vulgar anatomical expletive to refer to conservatives in newly released… Read More
SocietyNews
Megyn Kelly ‘Sets Record Straight’ on Comparing Cop Killer to MLK
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Labor activists continue to press a school district in Oakland, Calif., to teach that a notorious cop killer, Mumia… Read More
EconomyCommentary
HTF: Lame Duck Would Deprive Congress of Real Debate
The U.S. Senate must be suffering from lame duck amnesia. In last night’s debate on a Highway Trust Fund (HTF) patch, it approved an amendment… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Fall of a Former Chinese Domestic Security Chief Is a Major Event
Reports from China indicate that retired senior leader Zhou Yongkang is under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party… Read More
LawCommentary
Cartoon: Democrats on Impeachment Talk
Is Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., really that outraged about the supposed impeachment chatter? >>> If Conservatives Try to Impeach Obama, He’ll Have the Last… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Cuban Dissident to Congressional Black Caucus: Stop Helping the Dictatorship
Cuban dissident Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera personifies courage. The petite Afro-Cuban dissident has suffered beatings, imprisonment and sexual harassment at the hands of Raul Castro’s… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Portman Proposes Reforms for Social Security and Medicare
Senator Rob Portman (R–OH) proposed reforms to Social Security and Medicare in The Wall Street Journal last week. Reforms to both programs “can not only… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Our Daughter Was Born With Cystic Fibrosis. We Can’t Imagine Life Without Her.
A medical exam room is where most parents are presented with “their options” regarding life. It’s where they are overwhelmed with the unpleasant diagnoses that… Read More
EconomyCommentary
VA Compromise Bill Ignores Budget Rules and Employs Gimmicks
The chairs of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees made a deal on Monday to authorize $15 billion in additional spending in response to… Read More
SocietyNews
‘The Right Way’: Adoption Bill’s Sponsor Says Children Do Best With a Mom and Dad
Legislation being introduced today to protect faith-based adoption and foster care agencies from being forced to place children in the homes of same-sex couples should… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Is the EPA Really Interested in Your Criticism?
Americans will get to have their say on the Environmental Protection Agency and its proposed regulation to fight climate change this week. The agency will… Read More
EconomyInternationalCommentary
Ex-Im Bank: Unilateral Disarmament a Poor Excuse
One argument keeps coming up in favor of reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) is that letting the bank expire would amount to unilateral disarmament. This… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Medicare Funding Problem Threatening Medicare’s Future
Medicare’s true cost is the biggest problem in Washington and the one most ignored. The long-awaited 2014 Medicare Trustees report is out, and the “spinning… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Northeast Asia: Opportunities for Alliance Cooperation
“Japan needs Korea as a strategic partner and friend,” said Takeo Kawamura, senior member of the House of Representatives in Japan at an event on… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Obama’s Self-Made Border Crisis
“You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” In the case of the ongoing crisis along America’s southwest border, that someone is President Obama…. Read More
