[ad_1] China’s recent Hong Kong security legislation could be the beginning of the end for Hong Kong as one of the world’s leading financial and trading centers. Many of the 9,000 foreign firms—1,300 of them American—that have regional headquarters there are evaluating the threat from the new law and what many perceive to be a

[ad_1] A plethora of lawmakers have repeatedly urged citizens to stay home and away from their loved ones, even for the holidays, and then refused to stay home themselves. From New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, Democratic lawmakers are flouting their own advice—then either apologizing or excusing their actions

[ad_1] To see what’s wrong with our election system, just look at all the claims and allegations being made in the litigation filed by the Trump campaign and other organizations contesting the outcome of the presidential election. Regardless of what happens with that challenge, state legislatures should take note of the underlying problems, which have

[ad_1] Other elected officials in Pennsylvania continue to question the constitutionality of Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed carbon tax in the run-up to 10 public hearings that begin Tuesday on the disputed regulations to address climate change.  The Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board has approved a “cap and trade” plan to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power

[ad_1] America’s security depends largely on the readiness of the U.S. military. Threats loom like a rising China, terrorism, and bad actors like North Korea, Iran, and others. These countries have demonstrated a desire to remake the existing world order to better suit their ideologies and interests. To remain ready, America’s armed forces depend on

[ad_1] Weeks after Jay Richards, co-author of “The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe,” joined “The Bill Walton Show,” he contracted COVID-19. Now recovered, Richards rejoins the show to talk about his personal experience with the virus, the discussions he had with front-line health care workers, and why

[ad_1] Allen Muench was fighting for his life when he checked into the hospital in November with COVID-19. After just 36 hours under the care of his doctors and nurses, Muench says he “felt like a new person.” Muench, a longtime Daily Signal subscriber from St. Louis, joins the show to share his personal experience

[ad_1] Noxious Marxist theories that have festered in academia for decades finally burst out of ivy-covered walls in 2020, invading all aspects of American life. It wasn’t just the cities succumbing to nightly riots—everything from sporting events, to classrooms, to the workplace was hammered with the message that America was never the land of the

[ad_1] After the 2016 presidential election, I wrote an exceptionally unpopular op-ed for The Washington Post headlined, “We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate.” In it, I noted that “never have so many people with so little knowledge made so many consequential decisions for the rest of us.” My assumption has always been

[ad_1] There’s a lot of talk these days about conspiracies. A huge number of Americans are prone to believing some pretty wild stuff. This is true on the left, where a large number of people never stopped believing that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the White House from Hillary Clinton. This is

[ad_1] Traditional social media networks are experiencing a backlash from users as they continue to “cancel” or otherwise censor conservative views. As a result, alternative “free speech” social media providers such as MeWe and Parler are seeing a surge of new users to their platforms.  Here are three of those social media Davids challenging the

[ad_1] Yale University has fancy dining halls. They pay no property tax. Local restaurants struggle to compete, but their tax burden makes that hard. “We basically pay one-third of our rent in taxes!” complains Matt West, manager of Koon Thai Restaurant. “Yale is a money-making machine.” It is. Many colleges are. Yale has a $31

[ad_1] The blackjack tables remain open in Toledo, Ohio, but some middle schools and all high schools are required to close. An order issued by Ohio’s Lucas County Regional Board of Health on Nov. 25 mandated that “education for Grades 7-12 (or 9 to 12 depending on school configuration) will be virtual from December 4th

[ad_1] Some legislators in Ohio want to give almost every former and future juvenile killer sentenced to life without parole a break, based on a blanket misunderstanding of Supreme Court precedent.  The Ohio state Senate co-sponsor of a bill, SB 256, which would do just that, recently wrote that the Supreme Court has held juvenile

[ad_1] A High Court in the U.K. issued a landmark judgment this week that will protect children 16 years of age and younger from receiving potentially harmful hormone replacement therapy. The High Court ruled that treatments often used to aid gender “transitions”—like puberty blockers and other sex-change hormones—are too experimental and are no longer able

[ad_1] The U.S. economy added 245,000 jobs in November, far below economists’ expectations, while unemployment fell to 6.7%, according to Department of Labor data released Friday. Total non-farm payroll employment rose by 245,000 last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report, and the number of unemployed Americans fell by 400,000 to 10.7 million. The

[ad_1] The world this week lost a great defender of economic freedom with the passing of the great American economist Walter E. Williams. Williams’ legacy will be one of fighting for lasting liberty at every turn against those who would be dictators over their fellow man. As an economics professor at George Mason University,  Williams

[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court sided Thursday against California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s restrictions on worship services during the coronavirus pandemic. Justices tossed out an order from a Central District of California court that had upheld the Democratic governor’s restrictions on houses of worship, CBS News reported. In light of last week’s Supreme Court ruling, which granted

[ad_1] Ever since Joe Biden became our nation’s presumptive next president, the media has been bending over backward to celebrate historic “firsts” for women. This past week alone, they couldn’t get enough of the first female college football player kicking in a Power Five conference, Kamala Harris hiring the first all-female senior vice president staff,

[ad_1] Exactly how have COVID-19 restrictions on churches and other places of worship affected First Amendment freedoms? What happened when the Supreme Court last week blocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s limits on religious gatherings? What about the situation in California, where Godspeak Calvary Chapel’s pastor, Rob McCoy, reportedly turned his church into a “strip

[ad_1] The House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative Republican lawmakers, is demanding that Attorney General William Barr release the findings of the Justice Department’s investigation into vote fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election.  “We represent millions of Americans who do not have confidence in the outcome of this election, not because of the

[ad_1] The Trump campaign’s legal team described suitcases full of ballots Thursday in presentations to Georgia state lawmakers that included a video and a call for the legislators to appoint electors to vote for the president.  Other Georgia state and local officials, meanwhile, said the Nov. 3 election ran smoothly in the Peach State, with no

[ad_1] When COVID-19 lockdowns brought the U.S. economy to an abrupt halt, all eyes turned to a handful of industries that have suffered as a result, such as restaurants, small businesses, and airlines. But few people realize that the entertainment industry is being hit from all sides without a moment of reprieve. For example, Musical

[ad_1] None of the U.S. government’s top 93 prosecutors appears to have looked into evidence of voter fraud in states across the nation, Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakovsky says. In an interview with EWTN’s “News Nightly,” von Spakovsky responds to Attorney General William Barr’s assertion to The Associated Press that the Justice Department

[ad_1] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discouraged Americans from Christmas travel due to the coronavirus pandemic during a telephone press conference Wednesday. “We did put out a message to postpone and stay at home […] around Thanksgiving and we’re putting out the same message: The best thing for Americans to do in the

[ad_1] The mayor of Austin, Texas, flew private to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where he filmed himself telling citizens to “stay home.” Austin Mayor Steve Adler hosted 20 guests at an outdoor wedding and reception for his daughter at a hotel in downtown Austin in early November, the American-Statesman reported. The following day he boarded a

[ad_1] The notices to parents began arriving fast and furious in the weeks after the death of George Floyd in late May. In dramatic, urgent language, K-12 schools across the country—both public and private—professed solidarity with Black Lives Matter and vowed to dismantle white supremacy, as they scrambled to introduce anti-racist courses and remake themselves

[ad_1] Walter E. Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read Walter Williams’ syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the classroom. Walter, a professor of economics at George

[ad_1] Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some degree, rediscovered concepts such as fairness and perspective, AWOL the last four years. Two weeks after the election, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof haltingly, grudgingly, and

[ad_1] Joanne Herring, a longtime political activist and philanthropist, deserves a great deal of credit for helping break the back of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s.  Herring, who became politically engaged in the Middle East in the 1970s, saw that the Soviet Union was seeking to take over Afghanistan to ultimately gain