Month: April 2021

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Communist China is the most villainous government since the Third Reich. It is committing actual genocide against the Uyghurs. It organ harvests Falun Gong and other political prisoners who are killed to fill
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There may be a raging humanitarian crisis at the southern United States border, but Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wants you to know his department is taking serious claims of “domestic violent extremism.” What are the details? Despite facing the largest influx of migrants in two decades that is overwhelming and quickly depleting American immigration
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A new Michigan mask mandate applying to children ages 2 through 4 went into effect Monday, requiring them to wear masks in all public places, including schools, child care centers, and camps. WZZM-TV noted that in April, the state has tallied a spike in COVID-19 cases among children, and last week some hospital leaders said
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Election legislation sponsored by Arizona state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, who represents eastern Maricopa County, failed Thursday after state Sen. Kelly Townsend, a fellow Republican, changed her vote to no. Townsend represents portions of Maricopa and Pinal counties. Ugenti-Rita joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the bill, how its defeat hurts Arizonans, and whether lawmakers will
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A new Singapore-inspired tax law will reduce corporate income tax and boost foreign investment in the Philippines, finance secretary Carlos Dominguez told CNBC, as the country moves to speed up its economic recovery. The Philippines’ so-called corporate recovery and tax incentives for enterprises (CREATE) act, which was signed into law last month, aims to provide
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ABC’s The Good Doctor is back with some bad political posturing. The April 26 episode, titled “Waiting”, takes place after a protest against an unnamed proposition turned violent with two young boys hit with bullets. During the surgery on one of the boys, some confessions shocked Dr. Claire Browne (Antonia Thomas). A liberal black doctor,
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(giftlegacy/Getty Images) In response to Freedom for What? Yuval Levin has some excellent thoughts below about the First Amendment’s implied guarantee of the freedom of association. “The question,” as he puts it, is “whether what the freedom of association protects is the capacity for formation or the capacity for expression.” In the end he wants
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry denied allegations based on a leaked audio that he revealed secret information about Israeli attacks to the Iranians. “I can tell you that this story and these allegations are unequivocally false. This never happened – either when I was Secretary of State or since,” Kerry tweeted on Monday in
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Employees of Simon & Schuster have delivered a petition demanding the publisher stop all deals with Trump administration officials, wherein they accuse the firm of “perpetuating white supremacy” by going forward with a book by former Vice President Mike Pence. What are the details? According to an exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal, Simon
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The White House on Monday announced a new labor union task force, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, to encourage and promote union membership in the U.S. The White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment will be comprised of several other top administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin,
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A federal agency has not explained who provided copies of Vice President Kamala Harris’ children’s book to migrant children at a facility in Long Beach, California. Harris’s book “Superheroes Are Everywhere” was included with clothing and hygiene items in welcome packs given to unaccompanied migrant minors at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, Fox
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As an “MSNBC Republican,” Elise Jordan well knows that her bread is buttered on the side of bashing conservatives. Jordan dutifully carries out her assigned role, reliably ripping non-Never Trumper Republicans. Jordan no doubt scored bonus brownie points with the MSNBC suits and Morning Joe hosts Friday. Because she managed to pull off the rare
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The anti-science and politicized nonsense coming from the Biden administration and our health bureaucracy has been a feature, not a bug, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In hindsight, the health bureaucracy, Democrats, and the corporate media politicized the response to COVID-19 on a national level and in some states to affect the 2020 election. Perhaps the
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(Juan Carlos/Reuters) The left-wing thinker Freddie deBoer wrote a provocative little Substack essay about the New Atheism phenomenon, of nearly two decades ago. What interests deBoer is that so often liberal and progressive Christians engaged in debates with New Atheists by specifically avoiding any theological content at all. Sometimes literally refusing to argue that God
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A campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom has obtained enough poll signatures to put the issue on the ballot, according to the office of California’s secretary of state Monday. The campaign needed to confirm 1.5 million signatures in order to get on the ballot and trigger a special election. Newsom responded by tweeting a
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The attorney for a 73-year-old dementia patient has released surveillance video showing Loveland, Colorado, police officers laughing as they reviewed body camera footage of the arrest of her client — who was later hospitalized for her injuries. What are the details? The dementia patient, Karen Garner, was arrested last summer by officers responding to a
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Attorneys on behalf of the College of the Ozarks, a private, Christian school, have filed a lawsuit in a Missouri federal court against the Biden administration regarding his January executive order, “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” The lawsuit, which attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom filed on
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