September 14 2021
 
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden takes on an authoritarian tone to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In separate commentaries, Jarrett Stepman and Doug Badger argue that Americans shouldn’t like what they hear. On the podcast, the topic is the left’s stranglehold on pop culture. Plus: Pennsylvania objects to a report on ballots; Democrats eye $3 trillion in new taxes; the Taliban’s new military might; a racial breakthrough in baseball; and “Problematic Women” welcomes a champion of Afghan women who was once a terrorist’s wife. On this date in 1901, President William McKinley dies eight days after being shot by a deranged anarchist during the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
 
 
 
COMMENTARY
Hail, Biden!: The President’s Toothless Caesarism
By Jarrett Stepman

It seems we are in a more advanced stage of Caesarism, where Joe Biden doesn’t even bother to say that he’s tired of waiting for Congress.
NEWS
Pennsylvania Disputes Legal Group’s Finding on ‘Unknown’ Ballots
By Fred Lucas

The office of Pennsylvania’s top election official mocks a conservative legal group’s findings about undelivered and unreturned mail-in ballots in the presidential contest.
ANALYSIS
Former Wife of Al-Qaeda Operative Speaks Out on Plight of Afghan Women
By Kelsey Bolar

“You can see the exact same things happening clearly in 50 Muslim-majority countries ... [and] in the West as well," Yasmine Mohammed says.
NEWS
How Democrats Plan to Hike Taxes to Pay for $3.5 Trillion in Spending
By Andrew Trunsky

Democrats’ contemplated tax increases are focused predominantly on wealthy Americans and large corporations.
COMMENTARY
Biden’s Divisive COVID-19 Vaccination Plan Favors Coercion Over Persuasion
By Doug Badger

Lacking a coherent strategy, the president serves up a grab bag of loosely related proposals that favor coercion over persuasion, government mandates over personal choice.
NEWS
Retreat From Afghanistan Makes Taliban Best Armed Islamist Group on Earth
By Thomas Catenacci

Republican lawmakers demand that the Biden administration provide a full accounting of the U.S. military equipment left in the Taliban’s possession.
ANALYSIS
Podcast: Why TV’s ‘The Office’ Could Never Be Made Today
By Douglas Blair

Emily Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about the new censorious left and how conservatives can claim a place in the media landscape.
COMMENTARY
1971 Pittsburgh Pirates All-Minority Lineup Was Historic—and Likely Purposeful
By Tim Murtaugh

Twenty-four years after baseball great Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, my grandfather decided that the Pirates would become the first team ever to field nine minority players.
 
     
 
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