June 19 2023
 
Happy Juneteenth from Washington, where the blessings of liberty increasingly are under attack. Slavery couldn’t survive long in a free nation, our Jarrett Stepman argues, and that question remains timely. And just to the north, he writes in another piece, Canadians let the government help kill more of them. In a special podcast, Virginia Allen finds out what one educator is doing to try to fulfill the promise of Junteenth. Plus: Victor Davis Hanson on top Democrats’ immunity from prosecution; Dennis Prager on America’s nuttiness crisis; and Amy Swearer on how free people defend themselves and others with guns. On this day in 1865, now called Juneteenth,  Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War is over and slavery is abolished in the U.S. 
 
 
 
COMMENTARY
In Canada, the West’s Suicide Is Becoming Literal
By Jarrett Stepman

Who now controls who lives or dies? Increasingly in Canada, government agencies do.
COMMENTARY
Why Do Comey, McCabe, Clinton Continue to Get Total Prosecutorial Pass?
By Victor Davis Hanson

The last thing this country needs is another bottled-piety lecture on the rule of law from special counsel Jack Smith, President Biden, and the array of admitted lying former high government officials.
COMMENTARY
Juneteenth Is About the Triumph of American Freedom Over Slavery
By Jarrett Stepman

It is a monumental triumph of American civilization that within a century of its creation, the institution of slavery was eradicated through the power of our founding ideals and the force of our military.
COMMENTARY
With Order Making Maryland a Gender Transition Sanctuary, Governor Aids Sex Traffickers
By Joshua Arnold

In 2021, a high school girl who identified as transgender was sexually trafficked after a Maryland judge refused to return her to the custody of her adoptive parents in Virginia.
COMMENTARY
Europe Envy: Few of Pathologies Destroying US Are Present in Any Comparable Degree There
By Dennis Prager

No matter how left the politics of European countries, few deny the male-female distinction as much as America does.
ANALYSIS
Juneteenth: A Day to Celebrate Freedom
By Virginia Allen

Arianne Craig Jolla joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the history of Juneteenth and a new initiative that aims to end generational cycles of poverty.
COMMENTARY
Hollywood May Tell You Differently, but Reality Includes These 12 Examples of Defensive Gun Use
By Amy Swearer, Pierce Sandlin

A university’s guidelines may push Hollywood to “change the narrative” on guns, but nothing can change the facts: The right to keep and bear arms is critical for self-defense.
NEWS
ICYMI: Teen Accuses Doctors of Madly Rushing Her Into Child Gender Transition
By Mary Margaret Olohan

A detransitioner is suing Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Permanente Medical Group, and the doctors who pushed her along the path to hormonal and surgical transgender procedures.
 
     
 
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