Last week, The Heritage Foundation, the Institute for Justice, the American Conservative Union, and the Charles Koch Institute co-hosted a panel discussion at the Capitol, highlighting the need for reform of the nation’s civil forfeiture laws. Civil asset forfeiture is the legal tool that enables law enforcement authorities to seize property or currency they suspect […]
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is considering using public funds to finance a new stadium for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team. According to Fox Business, Walker, a Republican, initially proposed using $220 million in state bonds to finance part of the $500 million arena. The current and previous owners of the team have pledged a combined […]
As the debate over same-sex marriage heats up across the country, advocates for traditional marriage gathered in the nation’s capitol to make their voices heard. With the U.S. Supreme Court taking on the issue in a landmark gay marriage case in the coming weeks, The Daily Signal asked attendees of the 2015 March for Marriage—and some protesting the […]
Earlier this week, The Daily Signal brought you the touching story of President George W. Bush’s visit to wounded veterans. It’s included in Dana Perino’s new book, “And the Good News Is…” However, during an interview with NPR, only part of the story made it on air. Perino recounts the full story for Fox News’ Megyn […]
As hundreds of business owners, bankers and government officials descended on Washington, D.C., in support of the embattled Export-Import Bank, Republicans miles away mobilized to call for the agency’s end. “The government should not be picking winners and losers when it comes to the free market,” Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida told reporters today. […]
A powerful congressional committee last night passed a measure to kill one of two controversial pieces of legislation from taking effect in the District of Columbia, moving closer to acting out a historic power play against a bill that critics believe infringes on religious liberty. Opponents of the bill, called the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act, […]
It’s been 20 years since we experienced the worst act of American home-grown terrorism at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. This solemn day stands as a reminder of the 168 souls that were lost. On a day where anger lashed out, Oklahomans responded with compassion. Every year since April 19, 1995, […]
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently appeared on one of the late night talk shows, beating the class warfare drum and arguing for billions of dollars in new social programs paid for with higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires. In recent years, though, blue states such as California, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland and Minnesota adopted this […]
Last month Wisconsin made national headlines by becoming the 25th right-to-work state. But there’s another equally significant development in workers’ rights that has largely escaped media attention: the rapid flowering of local right-to-work laws in Kentucky. As of December 1, 2014, no local governments anywhere in the U.S. prohibited forced union dues. Now a dozen […]
On the surface, abortion and same-sex marriage may seem unrelated. However, as explained in an amicus brief of 100 scholars of marriage, filed in the pending Supreme Court marriage cases and summarized here, the two are closely linked in a short and simple causal chain that the Supreme Court would be wise not to set […]
