The one-sided leniencies for criminals and disregard for victims of crime are often associated with the politics of California and New York. Unfortunately, many red states have adopted this twisted version of criminal justice “reform,” originally catalyzed by Utah. Now a new murder arrest of a violent career criminal out on parole, in conjunction with
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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) on Thursday ironically championed Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, as a heroic life-saving organization. What are the details? During a virtual House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing titled, “Birthing While Black: Examining America’s Black Maternal Health Crisis,” the progressive lawmaker passionately defended the organization, which performs hundreds of
The Central Intelligence Agency is always looking to recruit new agents and advertising is one way it has done so in the past. The difference this time is in a newly created series of recruitment videos that reflect the spirit of the age in which we live, rather than appealing to abilities and patriotism. The
Ronald Reagan chalked up his success in politics to its correlation with show business. Social critic Neil Postman ruefully agreed, adding that in American democracy “the idea [of politics] is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty, but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.” Without reading Postman, middle America knows
Georgia state Sen. John Albers says the media got a lot wrong in covering Georgia’s election legislation. “The media missed most of it,” Albers told “The Daily Signal Podcast.” “They had written up their talking points before the bill was even passed. In fact, even before the bill was created, they already had a narrative
Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, July 15, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) on Thursday urged Democrats to “grow a backbone” and abolish the Senate filibuster. The progressive “Squad” member suggested in a tweet that the party should not follow in the footsteps of former President Barack Obama’s
CNN’s Brian Stelter is already struggling with his network’s sagging ratings but things just got even worse for him. He recently went on vacation and his ratings went up while he was gone. That’s not supposed to happen. FOX News reports: TRENDING: “Why Are You Working So Hard to Shut the Audit Down? What Are
In this essay, I want to tell readers about two of the last century’s big and fascinating business failures. But first, some related insights. In her 2008 Commencement Address at Harvard University, Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling famously asserted, “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that
A family member of Covid-19 infected patient seen carrying an empty oxygen cylinder outside a shop to get it refilled, amidst the rising number of the coronavirus cases. Manish Rajput | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images India’s daily new Covid-19 cases crossed 400,000 for the third time this month as the country struggles
Twitter has suspended several accounts that have been set up to share posts from Donald Trump’s website. The micro-blogging site said the accounts broke the rules by helping the former president to circumvent a ban from the social network. Mr Trump was banned from a number of platforms after his supporters stormed the US Capitol
MSNBC’s The ReidOut has had quite the week, going from hating trans Republicans on Tuesday to being pro-al-Qaeda on Wednesday to Thursday’s declaration of being a pro-toilet humor show. This new development came thanks to host Joy Reid and former RNC Chairman Michael Steele joking that Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was human feces who was
When I was a kid, I was at one of my grandmother’s houses and got bored. I started leafing through a worn copy of Reader’s Digest one day and found a long piece about an island off the eastern coast of Canada. It was a weird article about a “money pit” on that island that
(Pixabay) Robert VerBruggen makes a strong case against Biden’s child-care proposal, and I agree with all of it except for one aside. While the proposal stacks the deck against families with “stay-at-home” parents (who are mostly mothers), he writes that other existing policies are unfair in the opposite direction: “In some ways the status quo
National Park Service (NPS) officials will hold a raffle to decide what 12 lucky people will have the opportunity to shoot bison in the Grand Canyon after they received 45,000 applications. The NPS said in a post on its website that overpopulation of the bison was becoming a problem in the North Rim of the
An Army trainee went AWOL from Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on Thursday morning, and used his government-issued rifle to commandeer a school bus full of kids, officials say. None of the 18 children on board were physically harmed in the incident, nor was the driver of the bus — who was held at gunpoint by
As Congress prepared to slink into their smoke-filled backrooms to craft the next federal budget, President Biden made it clear that his old-timey ways meant that the era of wasteful earmarks and pork-barrel spending was back. And despite Democrats and some Republicans packing on millions of dollars of taxpayer money in spending for their pet
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told The Daily Signal that he is frustrated by the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris, who was appointed the lead for the border crisis on March 24 by President Joe Biden. “We haven’t been prioritizing the southwest border. If that was the case, the vice president would be here,”
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) on Thursday criticized the Biden administration over the “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the federal government “must do more” to address a surge of migrants entering the country illegally. “The reality is that this is
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted that she tells Joe Biden not to take any questions from reporters. “That is not something we recommend. In fact, a lot of times we say ‘don’t take questions,’” said Psaki during a podcast interview with CNN Senior Political Commentator David Axelrod. “But he’s going to do what
Police departments are struggling with budget cuts over recruitment after the in-custody death of George Floyd sparked nationwide civil unrest and ignited a movement to defund the police. Some departments implemented hiring freezes because of budget cuts while local lawmakers completely overhauled other precincts’ budgets, making it impossible to hire new officers. “This current fiscal
In this article PTON A detail shot shows the running deck of a Peloton Tread treadmill during CES 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 11, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller | Getty Images Peloton said Thursday it expects its fiscal fourth-quarter sales to take a $165 million hit due to
A stolen car has just been recovered from a reservoir in Marin County in California, 25 years after it was dumped there. They only spotted it because the water level has dropped so low – a chilling sign of what the authorities say is a “historic” drought and the impacts of climate change. The reasons
Americans took out $1.7 trillion in government loans for college tuition. Now, some don’t want to pay it back. President Joe Biden says they shouldn’t have to. He wants to cancel at least $10,000 and maybe $50,000 of every student’s debt. “They’re in real trouble,” says Biden in my latest video, “having to make choices
Joe Biden will waive intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines, setting up a war between the White House and Big Pharma. If you want to put the brakes on vaccine production, Biden has the plan for it. The move to waive patent requirements is supposed to speed up vaccine distribution to the developing world. But
FOX News Channel’s Sean Hannity conducts interviews with Caitlyn Jenner near Malibu, Calif., May 5, 2021. (FOX News Channel/Handout via Reuters ) Caitlyn Jenner sat down for an Oprah-style interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity last night in which the athlete turned reality star turned transgender activist turned Republican candidate for governor of California pondered
The Texas Senate passed a bill that will allow citizens to carry handguns without the requirement of a permit, paving the way for a Second Amendment victory in the Lone Star State. “HB 1927 would recognize the United States Constitution as our permit to carry and allow all law-abiding adults, aged 21 years or older,
White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted on Thursday that the Biden team tells President Joe Biden to avoid answering impromptu questions from reporters. Psaki made the comments while appearing on CNN’s “The Axe Files with David Axelrod.” Axelrod was praising the communications team for managing Biden so well that there’s never a surprise from
I recently came across the term “white-savior movies.” According to critics, this is a type of film that features a white hero or heroine entering the life of a helpless, troubled, often clueless Black person and, as one Black critic puts it, “swoops in” to turn his or her life around. In an article called
The Big Tech companies consistently hide behind their algorithms when called to account for inconsistent content moderation and account suspension. Such was the case when the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on April 27 held a hearing titled “Algorithms and Amplification: How Social Media Platforms’ Design Choices Shape Our Discourse and
A nurse draws from a vial of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine in Los Angeles, Calif., March 25, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It is in fashion on the left — and in many quarters of the right — to be myopically concentrated on all that is wrong with this country. It’s an odd time to