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Clement Troutman, a Navy veteran and Tropical Smoothie Café franchisee in Maryland, says that “the free enterprise system is alive and well.” But, Troutman adds, “we need to really pursue that and go and chase those dreams.” “Because there are people waiting,” the restaurateur says. “The cures for cancer are out there, and, you know, we’re sitting on the sidelines thinking that we don’t have what...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Members of Congress have yet to elect a new speaker of the House. Israel’s energy minister says until the hostages are released, Gaza will not receive any humanitarian aid and all basic resources like food, water, and fuel will be cut off.  CEOs call on Harvard University to release the list of names of students who issued a letter suppor...

For some in Israel, daily life is continuing, now set by a backdrop of war.  “Rocket alert sirens will go off, and they'll say, 'Hold on, let me take my computer, let me go to the safe room,'” Scott Phillips said of his friends living in Israel, adding that while talking to him on video calls, “They keep their call going in the safe room. That's the Israeli spirit.” Phillips serves as the CEO of P...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Israel has formed a war-time cabinet just days after the terrorist organization Hamas launched a surprise attack against the country. Tyler’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/11/there-blood-hamas-issues-unambiguous-call-arms-support-jihad-waging-gaza/  House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has secured the party’s nomination for...

The attack Hamas launched on Israel Saturday was “a genocidal savage rampage by uncontrollable militants who were simply trying to destroy Jews,” says Victoria Coates, who formerly served as a deputy national security advisor to President Donald Trump. Hundreds of Israelis were killed in the initial attack and the death toll, which includes at least 14 Americans, continues to rise.  Reports of Ham...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The war between Israel and Hamas continues today days after the terrorist organization launched a surprise attack. Jason Bedrick’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/09/iran-is-responsible-israels-9-11/  Pro-Palestine protests held throughout the U.S., including in New York City and San Francisco The House of Representatives rem...

At a time when America faces innumerable challenges, Alexandra Hudson wants her fellow citizens to focus on something only they can control: civility toward others. Hudson’s new book, “The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves,” is on sale today. She joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about something why civility is so lacking in our society and what to do about...

Erin Boggs was 16 in 1992 when she learned she was pregnant.  “I was scared, definitely kind of alone,” Boggs says. “So, I knew the decision was going to land on me solely, and it felt like a critically important decision.”  Boggs says people around her suggested she could parent or abort, but no one recommended adoption, but that was ultimately the choice she made.  “It was honestly through praye...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Biden criticizes Republicans, telling them it’s time to pass a budget.  Former President Donald Trump endorses Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker.  Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton calls Trump supporters cult members.  The new jobs report boosts stock market, but the devil is in the details.  Relevant Link...

A Southern California school district requires teachers and staff to notify parents when their children say they have been bullied, are considering self-harm, or decide to publicly identify as a gender opposite their biological sex at school. But California's Democratic attorney general, Rob Bonta, sued the district to block that policy, claiming that it violates the state's constitution; specific...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announces plans to begin construction of a border wall in Starr County, Texas. Elon Musk has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League, but now it looks like a truce was reached.  President Joe Biden has nominated a former colleague of his son Hunter Biden to run an internal watchdog agency in hi...

The removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday was historic, but now it's time to talk about the future, one knowledgeable Capitol Hill watcher says. "We are at a critical juncture in this country," says Ryan Walker, executive vice president of Heritage Action for America, an independent, nonprofit organization affiliated with The Heritage Foundation, whic...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Steve Scalise, R-La., officially announce their bid for House speaker.  President Donald Trump returns to court for the third day of his New York fraud trial.  Sen. J.D. Vance introduces legislation requiring a person’s actual, biological gender on their United States passports. Thousands of healthcare workers...

ew leadership is needed in America, says Spencer Chretien, associate director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, also known as Project 2025. "We see every day the effects of the current administration, whether it's the open southern border, rampant inflation, a woke and weaponized government, foreign policy disaster," he says. "And we need new leadership in this country." "And so, while...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Texas Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar is carjacked in D.C. Hunter Biden pleads “not guilty” to three federal gun charges. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is ousted from his position.   Chicago’s Democrat leaders are the latest Democrats to call on the Biden administration to intervene and take action on the current illegal alien crisis. ...

Congress has averted a government shutdown—for now.  The continuing resolution passed Saturday keeps government agencies funded at current levels until Nov. 17. The bill passed 335-91 in the House and 88-9 in the Senate. But it’s a short-term fix, and lawmakers remain on a tight deadline to finish passing 12 annual appropriations bills. Republicans continue to demand federal spending cuts and mone...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Congress passes a continuing resolution to fund the government until Nov. 17.  Former President Donald Trump appears in court in New York for a civil case.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to appoint Laphonza Butler to fill the vacant Senate seat left by Dianne Feinstein. Polling shows that Americans don’t have a favorable view of the...

The Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty “hate groups” or “antigovernment extremist groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2019, the SPLC put D.A. King’s Dustin Inman Society on the “hate map,” years after it had told the Associated Press that King...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., has died at the age of 90. A government shutdown lingers as deadline approaches. The Heritage Foundation is suing the Biden administration on behalf of the pro-parental rights group Moms for Liberty.  Elon Musk visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas on Thursday. Over 50 people were killed in a bom...

All of us encounter twists and turns every day—whether in our personal lives or at work. Steve McKee’s new book “Turns: Where Business Is Won and Lost” offers a guide for which turns to take to live a better life. McKee, co-founder of the McKee Wallwork marketing agency in New Mexico and author of several acclaimed books, has navigated turns throughout this own life and successful career. He joins...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The House holds its first impeachment inquiry hearing on President Joe Biden. GOP presidential candidates take to the stage for the second debate, but former President Donald Trump is again absent.  Philadelphia police say a large group of “criminal opportunists” smashed windows and robbed retail and liquor stores for the second night in...

Seven GOP candidates took to the debate stage Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, for the second Republican presidential debate. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and North Dakota...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: If President Joe Biden wishes to avoid a government shutdown, he should sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and hammer out a plan to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, McCarthy said at a news conference Wednesday:https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/27/biden-wants-keep-government-open-needs-close-border-mccarthy-says/ New Jersey Democra...

Doctors don’t have enough evidence to know the long-term effects of what happens to someone who takes puberty blockers as a child, the executive director of the American College of Pediatricians says.  "We know that if you stop puberty with these puberty blockers, you stop a whole sequence of events," Dr. Jill Simons says, adding that there also are "effects on the brain." "There's effects on the...

The second Republican presidential debate is set for Wednesday night, and if Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, were the debate’s moderator, he knows what he would ask the candidates relating to China. “Maybe the most obvious question is perhaps the most important, which is: ‘Why should an average American care about the threat posed by th...