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The Border Buildup
The battles over how to pay for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall are just getting started, but the administration is already calling for proposals… Read More
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How Illegal Immigrant Suspects in Rockville High Rape Case Were Able to Settle in America
The two teenagers accused of raping a ninth-grader at Maryland’s Rockville High School last month were among more than 150,000 unaccompanied minors who entered the… Read More
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Gun Sales Have Fallen Since Obama Left Office
The gun industry may be headed for a slump after eight years of explosive growth under former President Barack Obama. From December through February, the… Read More
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Student Rights Group Begins Litigating ‘Free Speech Zones’
An organization dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of college students has helped file the first lawsuit as part of a new campaign to end… Read More
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We Hear You: I’m a Sailor, a Marine, and a Transgender Woman Who Was Born This Way
Editor’s note: One reader who we heard from awhile back marked March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility. So this weekend seemed like a fitting… Read More
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Congress Right to Affirm That States Can Defund Planned Parenthood
It isn’t often that Congress moves a heavy burden off the backs of the states and allows them the freedom to be actual “laboratories of… Read More
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Charges Against Pro-Life Investigators Show Government’s Double Standard on Investigative Journalists
The undercover Planned Parenthood videos published in 2015 made one thing abundantly clear: Big Abortion skirts the law for its own gain, going to great… Read More
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North Carolina’s Leaders Are Trying to Appease Cultural Bullies. It’s Not Working.
If the goal of compromise is to ensure that nobody’s happy, then North Carolina is succeeding. With the NCAA’s ultimatum to repeal H.B. 2 just… Read More
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Left and Right Unhappy With Repeal of North Carolina’s Bathroom Law
A legislative compromise watering down North Carolina’s “bathroom law” leaves access to public bathrooms muddier than ever, conservative opponents of the change say, and it… Read More
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Pro-Life Activist Who Filmed Planned Parenthood Responds to ‘Bogus’ Charges
The pro-life activists who created undercover videos that triggered multiple state and congressional investigations into Planned Parenthood’s abortion practices are facing more than a dozen… Read More
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How Jeff Sessions Plans to Fight Back Against Sanctuary Cities
The Justice Department will start enforcing federal immigration laws by discontinuing the funding of sanctuary cities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday while speaking… Read More
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The Myth of an Unbiased Mainstream Media
The attention on The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas’ role as occasional White House pool reporter has made one thing very clear: For many, the illusion… Read More
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Vandals Spray-Paint LGBT Slogans on Marriage Groups’ Tour Bus Near UN
Two men spray-painted and smashed the windshield of a tour bus used by the National Organization for Marriage in “broad daylight” Thursday in New York… Read More
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Hollywood Seeks to Raise Millions for Intolerant ACLU
If you haven’t gotten your fill of Hollywood celebrities hawking left-wing causes, then mark your calendar for March 31, when the likes of Alec Baldwin,… Read More
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14-Year-Old Girl Says She Was Raped by Illegal Immigrants. Here’s How the Community Is Reacting.
Parents and other residents of a Washington, D.C., suburb are struggling to come to terms with reports that a 14-year-old female student was raped in a… Read More
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Making Free Speech Great Again in a World of Safe Spaces
Free speech has become anything but. Instead of engaging in productive dialogue to understand different viewpoints, people are lining up to shut down conversation. Sadly,… Read More
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The Unforeseen Consequences of Transgenderism
Determining one’s own sex or that of another used to be a simple matter. First, there was the matter of appearance, whether a person looked… Read More
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Why the ‘Establishment’ Media Is Finding Itself on Shaky Ground
As a member of The Daily Signal team, I took offense to The Washington Post’s recent questioning of our “legitimacy” as a news organization. The… Read More
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The Truth About the Supposedly Impartial News Media
A recent Washington Post article by media reporter Paul Farhi raises the alarm that the White House Correspondents’ Association has not once, but twice, assigned… Read More
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New York Times Misuses Data to Criticize Defunding of Planned Parenthood
Earlier this week, The New York Times ran a piece responding to Congress’ current plan to reallocate Planned Parenthood funding. The piece is little more… Read More
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Conservatives Do Believe in Social Justice. Here’s What Our Vision Looks Like.
Last month, America lost a great defender of freedom, Michael Novak. Novak was committed to rightly ordered liberty and cared deeply about the principles and… Read More
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New Planned Parenthood Ad Campaign Seeks to Defend Abortion Giant’s Government Funding
After spending over $30 million on the 2016 election, Planned Parenthood has a new project: a million-dollar ad campaign defending its government funding. The organization,… Read More
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It’s Not Fake News: Predators Are Taking Advantage of Target’s Fitting Room Policy
In April 2016, retail giant Target waded into the raging national debate about whether bathrooms should be maintained as exclusively single-sex. In a post on… Read More
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Planned Parenthood Will Keep Obama’s Parting Gift Unless Congress Acts
The clock is ticking for Congress to reverse President Barack Obama’s parting gift to Planned Parenthood. The House acted last month, but the Senate must… Read More
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Why Trump’s Visit to Andrew Jackson’s Grave Matters
On Wednesday, Andrew Jackson’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump is scheduled to lay a wreath on the seventh president’s grave. He will be the first president… Read More
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We Hear You: Religious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage, and Wedding Cakes
Editor’s note: We got a big reaction with our report on the appeals court date for the husband-and-wife Oregon bakers ordered by a state agency to pay $135,000… Read More
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Trump Faces Challenge of Visa Overstays, the Largest Source of Illegal Immigration
As President Donald Trump focuses on border security in his initial actions to counter illegal immigration, a new report shows the unauthorized population increasingly is… Read More
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‘Day Without a Woman’ Strike Organized by Group With All-Male Leadership
For many, the election of Donald Trump to the presidency served as devastating news. For many on the left who have sought an opportunity to… Read More
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Texas Bathroom Bill Intended to Be ‘Model for Other States’
The Texas Legislature will be voting next week on a bill that will prevent men from entering women’s restrooms and the lieutenant governor of Texas… Read More
