Can a rock be racist? It can be, according to student activists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The school in early August moved a giant boulder that had sat prominently on campus for nearly a century to honor geologist and former university President Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin.
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Americans Deserve Answers on Botched Afghanistan Withdraw
Americans want to know whether the U.S. should have blown up all the military equipment rather than have it be captured by the Taliban? What about the decision to abandon the military prison at Bagram Airfield containing thousands of the worst terrorists in Afghanistan? To Americans accustomed to seeing their military succeed, none of what they see on TV makes sense.
There Are Better Ways to Fight Covid Than Mask Mandates
Mask mandates on the vaccinated will only increase vaccine hesitancy and thus only prevent our country from putting this pandemic behind us.
New Chief Chaplain at Harvard Is an Atheist
Harvard University has selected a man who does not believe in God to be the school’s chief chaplain. Chief Chaplain Greg Epstein is the author of “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe.”
Why Media Are Only Tough on Biden When He’s Not in the Room
Tim Murtaugh: Making Biden look bad in a press conference is not a smart approach for reporters who want to continue to have access, hear their names called to ask questions, or be granted an audience in the Oval Office.
Taliban Fighters Now Equipped for Decades
The Taliban captured essentially all the necessary ingredients to fully equip both an army and an air force, spanning the gamut from 600,000 rifles and machine guns; 76,000 vehicles, such as high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles, armored trucks, and pickups; radios, night vision googles, and drones; and 208 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
America Is Experiencing a Crisis of Confidence in Biden
Even many of Biden’s media and political defenders are noticing and criticizing his leadership amid one of the worst foreign policy fiascos in American history. Perhaps more than a few feel that Biden’s failures betray his message that he would bring the “adults” back to Washington.
Afghan Chaos Was Avoidable and Biden Is to Blame
Nobody can argue that it is in America’s interest to have the Taliban back in power in Afghanistan—but through a mixture of incompetence, stubbornness, and aloofness, this is exactly what Biden has done. Not only does the Taliban now control the country, it also has billions of dollars in U.S. military equipment and supplies at its disposal.
Documentary Pulls Back the Curtain on Transgender “Mission”
Children with gender dysphoria not only are being offered puberty blockers but surgery to remove or alter their body parts. No one, including doctors, “wants to be framed as a bigot,” says Jennifer Lahl, creator of the film “Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender?”
The Perverse Agenda of BLM
In the opinion of Black Lives Matter, the suffering of the Cuban people is not due to the despots running Cuba who deprive them of their freedom, but it’s caused by the free country, the United States, that is its nearby neighbor to the north.
Life on a Border Ranch: Cut Water Lines, Downed Fences, Stolen Property, Dead Bodies
John Ladd, whose family has ranched at the U.S.-Mexico border for more than 125 years, says illegal immigrants tell him that President Joe Biden invited them to come.
Why Repealing the Hyde Amendment Is Racist and Discriminatory
Without the Hyde Amendment, an additional 120,000 black babies would have been aborted every year since 1980. Over the 48 years since Roe v. Wade passed, that translates into an additional 5,760,000 black lives lost. It is clear that the abortion industry disproportionately targets black women and babies.
Hunter Biden’s Art Sales Are an Ethical Mess Made Worse by the White House
Though Hunter Biden hasn’t publicly presented his work for sale before, art dealer Georges Berges will projects the pieces will sell at prices up to $500,000 for large paintings. But if you’re concerned that this represents an opportunity for nefarious characters to covertly line Hunter’s pockets in efforts to influence his father, never fear, the White House has a solution: All details of the transactions will be shrouded completely from public view.
New Platform Gettr Says No to Cancel Culture, Yes to Free Speech
Amid the debates over Big Tech companies and censorship, a new social media platform has emerged to champion free speech. Gettr officially launched July 4 and its CEO is Jason Miller, a former aide to President Trump.
Glowing Profile of Jill Biden Is Publicity, Not News
On June 29, ABC’s “Good Morning America” aired several minutes of this, swooning over Jill Biden and promoting a preposterously positive cover story in the August issue of Vogue magazine. Nobody reads Vogue for hard facts about politics. The fashion magazine, run by longtime Democrat Anna Wintour, is a willing participant in glossy propaganda.
Nickelodeon Promotes Transgender Programming to Kids
Kids should enjoy their childhood without the corruption of public figures seeking to push a specific gender. The network’s programming is aimed at children as young as 2 years old, yet they’re promoting values that many parents may find unacceptable or may not be prepared to teach their kids.
Meet the Teacher Who Fought His School’s Radical Gender Politics
Teacher Tanner Cross was suspended from his job as a gym teacher at Leesburg Elementary School in Virginia after he spoke out against two proposed school policies related to transgender students at a Loudoun County School Board meeting. Last week, a judge ordered him reinstated and Cross spoke to The Daily Signal about his experience.
Ilhan Omar and Contempt for America
Omar is a Somali refugee who was welcomed to America and now sits in Congress, seething with contempt for her adopted country, its tolerant values, and those of its allies. The Democrats are stuck with a whole squad of like-minded representatives and thousands, perhaps millions, of young supporters eager to promote these socialist attacks on America.
Conservatives Score Big Against NCAA
Just two months ago, the NCAA had promised to boycott states that protected girls sports or banned gender experimentation on minors. That all fell apart just a few weeks later, when so many states had passed conservative legislation that the league finally realized it had nowhere to go. Suddenly, tournaments that weren’t supposed to be awarded to places like Arkansas got the news that they would still be hosts after all.
How BLM Contributes to Rise in Anti-Semitism
Recent fighting between Israel and Hamas has brought the issue to the forefront with more than two dozen anti-semitic attacks reported in the United States since May 10. This troubling trend has been attributed to the pro-Palestinian organization Black Lives Matter and its supporters on the American left and in the news media. (Podcast)
The Left’s Critical Race Theory Preaches Black Failure
Critical race theory may be the Democrat left’s filthiest, ugliest big lie. It defines America as inherently and irredeemably bigoted, denounces all whites as racial oppressors, and diminishes all blacks as racially oppressed victims. BLM and other “systemic racism”-mongers claim that white privilege and white supremacy blockade black success. Blacks think, “Yes, we can.” The Democrat left replies: “No, you can’t.”
Biden Is Off to a Disastrous Start
Our president has a habit of enthusiastically taking credit for the accomplishments of others — as he does with vaccine production and distribution — while denying responsibility for, or botching, the things over which he does have control.
How Surrogacy Harms Women and Children
While scientists do not fully understand the scope of these health considerations, it is clear that for both short and long-term outcomes, surrogacy is a frontier of unknowns; children, egg donors, and surrogate mothers may pay a physical or psychological price nobody yet fully knows or understands.
Voters in Dallas Suburb Lead Revolt Against Critical Race Theory Curricula
About 70% of the vote went against a whole slate of candidates—from the mayor’s race to school board and City Council—who supported a “diversity plan” that pushed critical theory on students and faculty, and turnout for the election was high. That’s not a “divided” election; it’s a landslide.