Despite Deceptive Headlines, Obamacare Remains As Unpopular As Ever

The Kaiser Family Foundation runs a monthly tracking poll on health care topics, including Obamacare, that provides those involved in the raging U.S. health care debate some helpful regular check-ins with public sentiment. The April edition has gotten some increased attention in light of the recent repeal attempts in the U.S. House of Representatives. CNBC […]

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23 Ways Big Government Is Hurting the Poor

Advocates for big government often equate expanding government with concern for the poor. But reality speaks to the contrary: Expanding government often has very harmful effects on the poor. This reality is precisely what is addressed in a forthcoming special report from The Heritage Foundation, “Big Government Policies that Hurt the Poor and How to […]

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The 2 Cases That Prove Neil Gorsuch Is Right for the Supreme Court

As modern Supreme Court nomination hearings go, Judge Neil Gorsuch’s were surprisingly uneventful. One of his judicial decisions that drew fire is Hobby Lobby v. Burwell. That case determined whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act should prevent the federal government from imposing the Affordable Care Act’s regulatory contraceptives mandate on a particular family-owned business contrary […]

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What Newt Gingrich Sees as Missteps by Trump, House Leaders in Failed Obamacare Repeal

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.—House Republican leaders made a big mistake by trying to rush through their plan to replace Obamacare, conservative star Newt Gingrich says. And, Gingrich adds, President Donald Trump should have waited longer to step in. Instead of setting unrealistic timelines that don’t account for the complexity of health care policy, the former House speaker […]

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We Hear You: I’m a Sailor, a Marine, and a Transgender Woman Who Was Born This Way

Editor’s note: One reader who we heard from awhile back marked March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility. So this weekend seemed like a fitting opportunity  to publish the letter as the lead item in our mailbag.—Ken McIntyre  Dear Daily Signal: At first I was going to ignore Kelsey Harkness’ video report and the comments, but there comes a […]

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Blaming Russia for Everything

Exclusive: The Senate Intelligence Committee launched its Russia-gate investigation by inviting some “experts” in to rant about how everything that goes wrong in the United States is the fault of the Russians, observes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry It’s almost getting comical how everything that happens in the United States gets blamed on Russia! Russia! […]

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UN Takes a Key Step to Address Humanitarian Crisis in Burma

The United Nations approved a resolution on March 24 authorizing a fact-finding mission into human rights violations in Burma. The resolution is the most serious intervention thus far in Rakhine State, where the majority of the 1.2 million Rohingya Muslim population resides. The resolution, adopted by consensus, addresses a wide range of human rights concerns. […]

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Why Socialism Is Here To Stay

by Tyler Durden “[T]he government has to take resources from someone before it can dole them out to others. This act of taking destroys an economy. The more you take from the productive members of society, the less productive they become. That’s the primary lesson of the history of socialism.” The above quote is from […]

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