US Military Strength Rated ‘Marginal’ as China, Russia on Move

America’s military is stronger than before, but lacks the capacity to fight more than one war with a major power as adversaries such as China and Russia grow more ambitious, according to the 2020 Index of U.S. Military Strength.  The Heritage Foundation released the 500-page report Wednesday, grading all four branches of the U.S. military […]

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The Gun Grabbers Mislead Us

Gun control did not become politically acceptable until the Gun Control Act of 1968 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law’s primary focus was to regulate commerce in firearms by prohibiting interstate firearms transfers except among licensed manufacturers, dealers, and importers. Today’s gun control advocates have gone much further, calling for an […]

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This Student Stood Up for Mike Pence Amid Leftist Protests

“I Like Mike” was the campaign that Taylor University freshman David Muselman created when a few progressive students tried to keep Vice President Mike Pence from visiting campus. The vice president had been invited to deliver the 2019 commencement address at the Christian college in Upland, Indiana. When the leftist students tried to block his […]

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We Hear You: Notes on Our Schools From the ‘Belly of the Beast’

Editor’s note: We’re back with a roundup of your emails, beginning with one on the state of public schools from a correspondent who recently moved from California to Virginia. Don’t forget to write us at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: About your “Back to School Edition” roundup of reader comments: I served on a consultative […]

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Trump Administration Is Right to Eye Free-Market Health Plan Finders

One lesson learned from the disastrous 2013 launch of the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, is that the federal government isn’t much of a tech-savvy e-commerce innovator. Even so, six years later, the feds are still running and upgrading HealthCare.gov and its Medicare sister site, Medicare.gov. Will the Trump administration apply the lessons learned and get out […]

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Even Before Ukraine Uproar, 10 of 13 Democrats on Intel Panel Backed Trump Impeachment Probe

In July, Rep. Andre Carson, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, voted for the then-most recent resolution calling for the ouster of President Donald Trump from office.  “I think it represents a larger, more important conversation that we need to have about … what we’re willing to tolerate as a citizenry from […]

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