Democrats in Meltdown Mode as Obamacare Individual Mandate Moves Toward Extinction

Democrats, of course, oppose the tax cuts moving through Congress. They believe government knows how to spend your money better than you do. But what has really got their goat is eliminating the Obamacare tax—known as the individual mandate—that Americans have to pay to the IRS for simply choosing not to buy health insurance. This […]

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After Agent’s Death, Trump Declares US ‘Must Build the Wall!’

President Donald Trump is renewing his demand that Congress fund a wall on the southern border after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed from injuries inccurred while working over the weekend in southwest Texas, while his partner was injured. “Border Patrol officer killed at southern border, another badly hurt,” the president said in a […]

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Here’s Why We Should Still Celebrate the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving

For most American families, Thanksgiving is a time to gather with loved ones, eat delicious food, and perhaps watch some football. But not everyone is pleased with the celebration of this holiday, and some have taken to maligning its “originators,” the Pilgrims. An editorial in Al Jazeera labeled Thanksgiving a “thoroughly nauseating affair,” one that […]

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Redrawing Districts Is the Job of Elected Leaders, Not Judges

There aren’t many issues the Supreme Court has managed to sidestep, but political gerrymandering is one of them. Until now. The court recently heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a Wisconsin case that involves how voting-district lines are drawn—an issue Justice Felix Frankfurter called a “political thicket” that the courts should avoid. We should […]

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Russia’s Hybrid War Against the West Began on the Battlefields of Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine—Russian revanchism has spread beyond the battlefields of Ukraine’s Donbas region into a global, hybrid conflict that has redrawn the balance of power in Eastern Europe and pitted the world’s two largest nuclear powers against each other. “When a country can come interfere in another country’s elections, that is warfare,” U.S. Ambassador to the […]

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We Hear You: ‘High-Tax Paradises Such as New Jersey and California Better Wake Up’

Editor’s note: With tax reform now in the Senate’s hands following passage of a House bill to overhaul the tax code, it’s a good time to review some more related thoughts of The Daily Signal’s audience. Remember to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Regarding Rachel del Guidice’s story on repealing the state […]

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