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Republican Lawmakers Visit Southern Border, Tell Mayorkas to ‘Do Your Damn Job’
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited the southern border Thursday, his fourth trip in two years. “I promise you this: The new majority in Congress, we’re going to fight to fix this problem,” McCarthy said of the border…
America’s Pop Culture Is Stagnating. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
Americans seem to be stuck in a cultural rut. In 1981, a mere 16% of the most popular movies in the country were sequels, spinoffs, or remakes of other films. In 2019, that number shot up to 80%. Just this week, multiple…
State Legislative Push for School Choice Gains Momentum Nationwide
Two years ago, 2021 was declared “The Year of Education Choice,” when 19 states enacted 32 new or expanded education choice policies. This year could be even bigger, as more states consider making choice policies available to…
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Houck’s Family, Children Relive Harrowing FBI Encounter in Daily Signal Tell-All Documentary
KINTNERSVILLE, Pa. — Mark Houck’s children were startled awake by a loud banging on their door. The older girls looked out the window, saw flashing lights, and ran out to the landing to see what was going on. The little boys…
Sen. Josh Hawley Calls on US to Arm Taiwan, Warns China ‘Would Prevail’ If It Invaded Taiwan Today
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., says that the Chinese Communist Party is “on the march” and that the U.S. is “not, at this moment, prepared to stop them.” “We didn’t stop them cheating on trade. We didn’t stop them stealing our…
Texas Universities Demand That Job Applicants Pledge Woke Allegiance
There never has been a better time to combat the publicly funded racist advocacy that has become prevalent in Texas universities. Entire departments at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas spend millions of…
Debunking Biden’s Malarkey: 7 Ways He Added $6 Trillion to Deficits
President Joe Biden has a long, well-documented history of telling tall tales. Accordingly, it was not a surprise that his State of the Union address Feb. 7 included many misleading and inaccurate claims. Although a group of…
Gov. Youngkin Demands ‘Full Transparency and Accountability’ From FBI in Wake of ‘Radical-Traditional Catholic’ Memo
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, expressed shock at the FBI Richmond bureau’s memo on “radical-traditional Catholic ideology” that cited the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center and…
Destroying Meritocracy Is Deadly
A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner suddenly dived just a little over a minute after taking off from…
Sarah Sanders’ State of Union Rebuttal Offers GOP a Tutorial on Messaging
In the 1968 presidential campaign, third-party candidate George Wallace, the once and future governor of Alabama, proclaimed: “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties.” That might…