In Afghanistan, where the president chaotically withdrew U.S. troops this summer, 9-year-old Afghan girls are being bought and sold as child brides.
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Meet the Parents Behind Youngkin’s Victory
On the eve of the election, The Daily Signal attended a Parents Matter rally in Loudoun County packed full of invigorated families. Parents tell us they voted for Youngkin because he will fight for families, for education, and for parents’ rights. (video)
Anarchy Reigns in Portland
Maybe if Portland and Oregon’s leaders had backed the blue, the city’s streets wouldn’t be running red.
Don’t Let Dems Turn U.S. into Europe with Spending Bill
The most vociferous champions of the European-style governance are invariably the most passionate critics of the dynamism and glorious messiness of American life.
Vaccine Mandates Aren’t Biden’s Only Job-Killing Scheme
University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan found that the multi-trillion-dollar bill’s combination of work disincentives, labor market competition limits, employer mandates, and higher consumer prices for telecommunications, energy, and other products will reduce full-time employment by about 7 million jobs.
Dems Are Turning America into a European Welfare State
The cradle-to-grave subsidies in the 2,448-page, $3.5 trillion spending bill that Democrats in Congress are crafting will create a welfare trap for millions more Americans, send inflation soaring, and drive our nation much deeper into debt.
Mom Gets Dirty Books Removed from Virginia School Library
Stacy Langton, a Fairfax County mother, made headlines after she read aloud and showed images from two books, “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe and “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison, during a school board meeting. Although officials removed the books temporarily from libraries, Langton says she is still concerned that children will be permanently affected by the obscene pictures.
Dems Represent the Party of Death, Debt and Debauchery
Deception could be added, but that would require changing the metaphor to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The Left Leans into Champagne Socialism
Being aligned with socialists in 2021 apparently means looking like th decadent elite in “The Hunger Games,” dodging taxes, and stiffing workers.
Marxism Underpins the BLM Agenda
The divisive critical race theory conflicts flaring across the country are a legacy of BLM. So is the crime wave that blights our cities, as are the race-conscious policies that President Joe Biden is signing into law. Not bad for organizations founded by Marxists who set out explicitly to dismantle the foundations of American society.
Why Isn’t Biden to Blame for Covid Deaths?
If we use the standards that Democrats set during the Trump years, those Covid-19 deaths are the responsibility of Biden.
Even a 42-Ton Boulder Isn’t Safe from Woke Cancel Culture
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.
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.