Top 5 of 2020 Day 4: During this Christmas season, we're sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year to allow our team to take time off for the holidays.
Are rising sea levels a threat to our planet? Is global warming to blame for wildfires and hurricanes?
Geologist Gregory Wrightstone, author of “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know,” joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the truth about climate change. In our conversation, Wrightstone addresses these talking points by climate activists and much more.
Top 5 of 2020 Day 3: During this Christmas season, we're sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year to allow our team to take time off for the holidays.
Ilonka Deaton was trafficked into sex slavery at the age of 12. She suffered for six years before finally getting free. Now, her brother, Jaco Booyens, runs a film company that brings the darkness of sex trafficking into the light. He’s out with a film called “8 Days.”
Top 5 of 2020 Day 2: During this Christmas season, we're sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year to allow our team to take time off for the holidays.
A French teacher at West Point High School in West Point, Virginia, was fired for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student.
Should people be forced to contradict their core beliefs just to keep a job? Can you be compelled to speak a message you don’t believe in?
Caleb Dalton, a counsel with the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom who represents the teacher, Peter Vlaming, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the issues involved.
Top 5 of 2020 Day 1: During this Christmas season, we're sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year to allow our team to take time off for the holidays.
Professor Carter Snead is one of the world’s leading experts on public bioethics at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a colleague of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, one of President Donald Trump’s finalists to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Snead joins The Daily Signal Podcast to talk about Barrett, her legal career, media attacks, and more.
Father and daughter Mat and Savanna Shaw began singing duets together from their kitchen table at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. After they posted their first song on social media, the pair were shocked by the response they received.
Ten months later, they have recorded two albums and gained international attention, making two appearances on the Kelly Clarkson Show, receiving a write-up in The New York Times, and performing at their first arena concert. Today, Mat and Savanna join the show to share about their journey of success and how it has impacted their relationship as father and daughter.
You can support Mat and Savanna's music here: https://www.patreon.com/matandsavanna.
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America surpasses 18 million coronavirus cases.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar receives the COVID-19 vaccine.
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., rails against the latest $2.3 trillion dollar Congressional spending bill.
Six months ago, William Jacobson, a professor at Cornell Law School and founder and publisher of Legal Insurrection, wrote two blog posts detailing the honest, but negative, history of Black Lives Matter. Students and faculty immediately called upon the school to take action against Jacobson for writing the posts.
Jacobson joined the show on July 1 to explain why students and faculty were actively speaking out against him. He returns to the show today to share what transpired after more than a dozen student groups tried to mobilize a campus-wide boycott of his class and faculty quickly denounced him for his posts.
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Attorney General William Barr says he believes Russia is behind last week’s hack into several federal agencies.
A massive spending bill, likely to be signed into law by President Trump soon, is poised to result in most Americans getting $600 from the federal government.
Trump’s campaign files a new petition with the Supreme Court asking that the court reverse several cases having to do with Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots.
If you invest in an index fund, a mutual fund, or an exchange-traded fund, you probably have holdings in hundreds of different companies, some of which may be promoting an agenda at odd with conservative values.
After 25 years of experience in the field of investments, Bill Flaig decided to create Ridgeline Research to provide conservatives with investment options that align with their beliefs. American Conservative Values ETF (NYSE ticker: ACVF) is a fund to do just that. It currently boycotts the 20 politically active companies for taking positions at odds with conservative beliefs.
Flaig joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain how conservatives can begin investing in companies that uphold their values and keep their hard-earned money out of the hands of companies that lean to the left.
Also on today's show, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a new children’s book series called "Buck the Chuck" that aims to teach kids about the value of freedom.
Visa and Mastercard are reportedly blocking payments on Pornhub due to allegations of child pornography on Pornhub. What is going on here?
Nicholas Kristof, an opinion columnist for the New York Times recently wrote a heartbreaking column on the children of PornHub, telling some of the stories of the children of PornHub. What are some of those stories?
How can people stand up to PornHub and their aiding and abetting of child porn?
Haley McNamara, the director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation in the UK, and a Vice President at the U.S. based National Center on Sexual Exploitation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss.
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Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to receive the Coronavirus vaccine on TV on Friday morning.
Google is under fire from more than a third of America’s states for operation as a monopoly.
Jobless claims have reached 885,000 due to a coronavirus spike.
Christine Fang is a Chinese national who is suspected of being a spy and has had ties to American mayors and other politicians, including Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.
Swalwell has said he has cooperated with law enforcement and cut off all ties to Fang once he knew there were concerns she was a spy.
However, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has said Swalwell shouldn’t serve on the House Intelligence Committee, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has defended her fellow California Democrat.
What questions should Swalwell face about his relationship with Fang? Does it raise any national security concerns?
What is China’s strategy here, and does it have a “long-term” approach?
Dean Cheng, senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center in the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden says his cabinet will look like and represent the people of America.
President Trump is not pleased with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to refer to Joe Biden as "president-elect."
A new poll reports 62% of Americans are concerned that government leaders will hold onto their “pandemic powers” even after the virus subsides.
Dec. 18 will mark one year since the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump.
Looking back, what happened "behind the scenes" of the impeachment proceedings? Fred Lucas, the chief national affairs correspondent for The Daily Signal and author of “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,” joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss it.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell referred to former Vice President Joe Biden as “president-elect” for the first time on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court voted to protect religious groups on Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by faith-based organizations in New Jersey and Colorado that sought relief from coronavirus restrictions.
After review of Federal Election Commission records, Fox News reported that Facebook and Twitter executives donated tens of thousands of dollars to Biden’s campaign, many of them giving the legal maximum of $2,800.
