After a Lexington, Virginia, restaurant, the Red Hen, refused service to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday, commentators on the left immediately seized upon a false analogy. They likened that incident to the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the case of the Christian baker in Colorado who refused to craft a custom cake for […]
It is a searing image. A toddler in pink shoes, a pink jacket, and jean shorts staring up at her mother, who is talking to a U.S. Border Patrol agent. She is afraid. She is in tears. She could be any of our daughters. This young girl quickly became a symbol for opposition to President […]
Editor’s note: Our audience had some things to say about Rachel del Guidice’s account of what she saw at the recent LGBT pride parade in Washington, D.C. , and on Fred Lucas’s reporting on the official review of the FBI’s treatment of Hillary Clinton. Those responses dominate this week’s collection of views. Be sure to […]
The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week. This week, we discuss all things immigration, as the contentious policy debate rages on. First lady Melania Trump caused a stir with a controversial jacket (“I Don’t Care, Do U?”), President Donald Trump signed an executive order, and Homeland […]
For this week and the next, the United Nations is hosting a conference of its Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects—fortunately abbreviated as the PoA. Like the U.N. Human Rights Council, the PoA is a classic U.N. institution: It’s a […]
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As we enter the summer, Republicans and Democrats continue to debate the merits of the tax cuts. Lost in this partisan bickering is the genuine and long-overdue relief the tax cuts offer small businesses. Sadly, the media reporting on small business tax cuts has been heavily politicized, complicating rather than clarifying the issue. Even The New […]
If a 10 percent tax on restaurant meals wasn’t enough to jack up the cost of dining in Washington, D.C., city residents just voted for a 275 percent increase in the minimum wage for tipped workers. Currently, the minimum wage for workers who also receive tips is $3.33 an hour in the district. Initiative 77, […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to halt separating families that illegally cross the border, but also said he wants to sign a “comprehensive” immigration bill from Congress. “You may be able to do for immigration what Nixon did for China and Reagan did for the Soviet Union,” @SenAlexander says. In signing the […]
Mercedes Schlapp, assistant to the president and senior adviser for strategic communications at the White House, spoke exclusively to The Daily Signal’s Ginny Montalbano on Friday during the Young Women’s Leadership Summit organized by Turning Point USA in Dallas. Schlapp described the Trump administration’s successes, what the president expects from his team, and how the media […]
