The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago on Monday, giving Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz an opportunity to present their vision for America.
But don’t be fooled by the Democrats’ glitzy gala, says John Tillman, CEO of the American Culture Project and chairman of the Illinois Policy Institute.
“We’re going to see one of the greatest propaganda extravaganzas in the history of politics. It will make Hollywood look like amateurs in comparison,” Tillman tells The Daily Signal.
TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
Democratic Party Nominee Kamala Harris delivers a speech laying out her economic policy agenda.
Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins releases a preliminary investigative Report on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
ESPN fires a newscaster after spoke out in defense of women’s sports.
Following the protests on the campus of Columbia University this spring, the college formed a committee to determine protest rules. But the Washington Free Beacon has found that two of the professors serving on that committee appear to have participated in the protests.
Mediators for Hamas and Israel hold talks to try to find a peace agreement.
The cost of housing rose again last month, making it even more difficult for Americans to afford a home of their own.
Inflation is just one of many problems creating a housing crisis in America. On today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” James Burling, a property rights lawyer with more than 40 years of experience, documents how zoning laws, environmental regulations, and progressive Democrat policies like rent control and affordable housing mandates have put the American dream out of reach for families.
Burling is the author of a new book, “Nowhere to Live: The Hidden Story of America’s Housing Crisis.”
Through his work at the Pacific Legal Foundation, Burling has examined the misguided government policies that contributed to the problem of too few homes for Americans. His book diagnoses where the government went wrong and suggests steps that policymakers—and individual citizens—can take to get out of this mess.
Every state should adopt Oklahoma's school choice model, the state's Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters said. "We have the best school choice in the country, and it's a national model that every state should follow," Walters told The Daily Signal at Erick Erickson’s The Gathering conference in Atlanta over the weekend. "But frankly, I think that I've asked for federal legislation along this way as well." Walters said improving education affects the whole state, and passing federal school choice legislation would improve the whole country.
Regardless of what federal courts say, Texas needs to remove illegal immigrants allowed into the country by the Biden-Harris administration, Rep. Chip Roy says. “We had six kids who died from fentanyl poisoning in the school district in which my family resides, southwest of Austin, Texas,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Signal at Erick Erickson's The Gathering conference in Atlanta over the weekend. Enjoy!
Vice President Kamala Harris' choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate shows how radical she is, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tells The Daily Signal. Scott spoke at Erick Erickson's The Gathering conference in Atlanta on Saturday. He joined The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss Walz's military record, expectations for the 2024 election in the state of Florida, and what to expect from a Harris-Walz Democratic ticket. Enjoy!
Elon Musk is standing up for free speech in the U.K. following last month’s elections that resulted in huge wins for the far-left Labor Party.
Since its rise to power in July, Labor Party leaders have begun cracking down on social media, even arresting individuals for posts they claim incite violence. Now, Musk is using his X account to defend users and raise concerns over the crackdown in the U.K.
“It’s 2030 in the U.K., & you’re being executed for posting a meme,” Must wrote on X Saturday.
“The Brits gave up their guns, and now their government puts them in jail for Facebook posts,” a meme that Musk shared reads.
Musk is combating a “tyrannical-style policing of social media in the U.K.,” says Nile Gardiner, a former adviser to Lady Margaret Thatcher and the current director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.
“Thank God for Elon Musk taking on the Labor Government,” Gardiner declared during an interview on The Daily Signal Podcast.
Recent violent riots in the U.K. were spurred on after rumors spread online about the identity of a man who killed three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed event in July in the English town of Southport, 50 miles west of Manchester. The suspect was rumored to be an illegal immigrant and Islamic. Both claims were proved false. The man now charged with the murder of the girls was born in Britain to Rwandan immigrant parents.
Two men have been arrested and sentenced to a combined nearly five years in prison for reportedly using social media to encourage rioters to target hotels housing migrants in the U.K.
During a recent interview with Sky News, London's Metropolitan Police commissioner warned that law enforcement will “throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.”
Gardiner condemned the violent demonstrations while calling the crackdown on social media “very dangerous.”
“We need free speech champions fighting against Orwellian tactics and policies,” Gardiner said, adding that “Elon Musk is doing this, and full credit to him.”
Gardiner joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what we know about the violent riots in the U.K. and the Labor Party's social media speech policies.
