by Gigi Sohn Last week, on a party-line vote, the Senate voted to repeal the Federal Communications Commission’s 2016 broadband privacy rules giving consumers the power to choose how their ISPs use and share their personal data. Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote, and if the House also votes to repeal the rules, the […]
Editor’s note: The pretensions of the “mainstream media” remain on the minds of our audience. Today’s collection of mail kicks off with those concerns. Got an urge to write us? See how below.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: The Washington Post’s attack on The Daily Signal’s participation in the White House press pool is an egregious confrontation […]
MSN News (a Microsoft site) has compiled a photo slideshow of “Places around the world running out of water.” Unsurprisingly numerous Middle East countries feature with accompanying captions. That Israel should be included is debatable given the fact that its water crisis has been alleviated thanks to desalination plants and effective water resource conservation. MSN […]
The US Senate voted Thursday to confirm President Trump’s pick for US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. The tally for the final vote was 52 in favor of confirmation and 46 against in a largely party-line vote. Just two Democrats, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Bob Menendez of New Jersey, crossed party lines to […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan abruptly withdrew the GOP’s bill to repeal and replace Obamacare Friday afternoon after it became clear Republicans didn’t have the votes to pass the plan. The news came just minutes before the lower chamber was expected to vote on the bill, called the American Health Care Act, and after Ryan huddled […]
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told reporters after a White House meeting that no deal had been reached on the House GOP’s health care bill. Meadows and members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus met with Trump and his key advisers Wednesday in the hours before the House was expected to vote on […]
(CNSNews.com) — In reference to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a frequent Trump critic, said he wanted “to congratulate the president” for choosing “wisely.” He added, however, that Trump’s questioning of a federal judge’s impartiality back in 2016 “was really out of bounds” and compared Trump’s comments […]
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch responded to questions about end-of-life issues Wednesday during his second day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., questioned Gorsuch on his views on physician-assisted suicide. “You make the statement that there is no justification for having anything to do with the end of someone’s life, […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, promised that he would remain faithful to the Constitution in his second day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked Gorsuch if he would honor precedent and remain faithful to the Constitution if confirmed as an associate justice of the […]
For the past decade, John Fund, J. Christian Adams, and I have been writing about the misbehavior, unethical conduct, and lack of professionalism exhibited by lawyers inside the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department, including the Voting Section. The situation apparently has not improved, given the serious accusations of unprofessional conduct made by […]
