The National Football League has had a tumultuous season to say the least. Politics and sliding ratings have dogged the sport all year. Despite the fact that this year’s Super Bowl was the lowest-rated game since 2010, it ended up being a great, high-scoring contest in which the underdog Philadelphia Eagles stunningly defeated the New […]
A classified memo on potential FBI abuse of government surveillance was released Friday, and some lawmakers say that it suggests government corruption. “At what point are we going to have real accountability in the Department of Justice and the FBI,” Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said in a conference call with reporters Friday, adding: Obviously we […]
A formerly secret memo released Friday by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee raises serious questions about the judgment and actions of a handful of current and former senior officials at the FBI and the Justice Department. Those officials were seeking permission to surveil an American citizen, Carter Page, who had been an adviser on […]
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A Texas committee voted to keep a Confederate statue, but will add an anti-slavery plaque and kiosks to it, according to a Thursday report. The monument advisory committee in Denton, Texas, voted 12-3 to preserve a Confederate soldier statue but add a plaque and audiovisual interviews bashing slavery and segregation, reported the Denton Record-Chronicle. “I felt […]
The Daily Signal’s Facebook show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week— many of which went misreported by the mainstream media and some of which weren’t reported at all. This week, Republicans on the House intelligence committee agreed to release the declassified memo. We breakdown all of the misinformation from the mainstream […]
A Michigan dog owner was surprised to find out that the state approved his German shepherd for weekly unemployment benefits. The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency sent a letter to lawyer Michael Haddock saying that a Michael Ryder was approved to receive $360 a week in unemployment, reports ABC News. The only problem is that Ryder is Haddock’s […]
We live in a Golden Age of economic progress. People living today enjoy long lives, good health, and high standards of living unimagined just a few generations ago. Billions of people around the world have escaped poverty. Things we take for granted—antibiotics, the iPhone, air travel—would have seemed like magic to our great-grandparents. These blessings […]
Among the many sensible proposals President Donald Trump called for during his first State of the Union address, one certainly deserves more attention than it has received. Tuesday, before a joint session of Congress, Trump said: All Americans deserve accountability and respect—and that is what we are giving them. So tonight, I call on the […]
“We’re gonna beat ISIS very, very quickly, folks. It’s gonna be fast. I have a great plan. It’s going to be great. They ask, ‘What is it?’ Well, I’d rather not say.” Donald Trump made this pledge to supporters in Connecticut in April 2016. At the time, it seemed unlikely he would ever have to make good […]
