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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When the Obama administration issued a rule in 2016 requiring doctors to perform gender transition surgeries, many doctors balked. Those same doctors can breathe a sigh of relief now that three federal courts have ruled against the Obama mandate. Last week, a federal court in Texas ruled that the 2016 rule issued by the Department […]
Andy Puzder has lived the American dream. Raised in a working-class home, he worked his way to become a CEO in the fast-food industry. “What I didn’t think was, ‘That son of a b—- is stealing from us.’ Or, ‘He’s in the 1%,’ and we’re in whatever percent you were in when your dad sold […]
China is its own biggest problem as the communist state asserts itself on the world stage, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says. “The key challenge in China’s image is China,” Gingrich said Thursday during an event at The Heritage Foundation in which he discussed his new book, “Trump vs. China: Facing America’s Greatest Threat.” “I […]
More and more Democrats have come out in favor of impeachment, but it’s worth remembering that some wanted to impeach President Donald Trump from Day One. Those voices are often associated with “the resistance.” In today’s episode, Kimberley Strassel of The Wall Street Journal argues that the resistance is the truly destructive force in American […]
Several Democrats on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee at a hearing Wednesday derided short-term health-insurance plans as “junk,” accusing the Trump administration of “sabotaging” the health care system with a rule that expanded people’s ability to purchase these plans. The accusations are without merit. While I was at the National Economic Council, I coordinated […]
It’s been two years since Republicans fell one vote short of repealing and replacing Obamacare. Since then, Democrats have moved further to the left and pushed for a single-payer system, while Republicans have developed free-market alternatives. In today’s special edition of The Daily Signal Podcast, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., shares about a new plan put […]
Consider yourself lucky if you started learning English before last year. With Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s addition of 1,373 new words and 4,000 revisions since 2018, you got in on the ground floor. There’s also some bad news. The new words include several additions and definition changes that politicize language and drive it leftward. Here are seven […]
