Category: Republicans

Supreme Court Denies Review in Critical Trans Bathroom Case That Could Have Clarified Title IX

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The Supreme Court unceremoniously denied review Tuesday in a case that would have clarified once and for all whether separating bathrooms based on biological sex violates either Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 or the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Now, the nation must wait with bated breath for publication of the Department of Education’s final Title IX rule. That Biden administration rule promises to upend decades of sex equality in education by allowing students in a federally funded school to use the bathroom that corresponds to…

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Bureaucracy Reform: Presidential Power Struggle or Democracy Boost?

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The presidential election is a year away, and an unpopular President Joe Biden is visibly losing mental acuity. “Weekend at Bernie’s III” was a sequel no one made, for good reason. The response from partisans on the left is panic, crowned by Washington Post editor Robert Kagan’s unhinged commentary, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable”—complete with a photo morphing former President Donald Trump into Julius Caesar. In an op-ed for The New York Times, Georgetown University professor Donald Moynihan thinks “Trump Has a Master Plan for Destroying the ‘Deep State.’” He’s…

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A Real Woman Explains Why Ohio’s Governor Was Wrong to Veto Bill to Curb Transgenderism

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, on Friday issued an executive order prohibiting gender-transition surgeries on minors in his state and issued draft administrative rules on so-called gender-affirming care for minors and adults. DeWine’s directives came a week after his Dec. 29 veto of House Bill 68, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, which would restrict any gender-affirming care for minors in Ohio and bar biological males who “identify” as females from participating in girls’ and women’s interscholastic athletics. Heritage Foundation legal scholar Sarah Parshall Perry herewith takes issue with…

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Military Colonel Resigns Post in Protest Against Biden’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Policy

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A military officer is retiring from service in protest against the Biden administration’s abortion policies. According to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Col. Dillon R. Patterson voluntarily resigned from his position as the commander of the 188th Wing of the Arkansas Air National Guard on Dec. 18. In a letter Sanders addressed to President Joe Biden and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, she explained, “Unfortunately, Col. Patterson was forced to personally choose between either continuing his command or adhering to his sincerely held religious beliefs against abortion.” She continued, “Because he adhered…

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Start the New Year With the Top Reading Recommendations From Heritage Foundation Experts

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Here at The Daily Signal, we have the tremendous fortune of working alongside the world-renowned experts of The Heritage Foundation, our parent organization. I always find it interesting to hear what my brilliant colleagues read and are influenced by. This year, I polled Heritage staff as to what books, old and new, they would recommend to our readers (and why) as we look forward to the new year. They responded with everything from the historical to the political to dystopian fiction. Sorry, but you won’t find any recommendations for the…

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Inventor Gaston Glock’s Firearms Legacy Lives On

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Gaston Glock, the brilliant Austrian inventor, entrepreneur, and founder of one of the most successful firearms manufacturers in history, passed away Wednesday at 94. The cause of death was not immediatly announced. In 1963, as Europe was attempting to rebuild every aspect of its economy after the devastation of World War II, Glock founded Glock Ges.m.b.H to provide molding parts and components for several European authorities and companies from his facility in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria. His polymer molding products formed the handles of knives and shovels, curtain rods, doorknobs, grenade casings,…

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