Although you’ve known your dad your entire life‚ chances are you’ll never meet the man he was back in the 1980s. He was younger‚ wilder‚ and probably cooler then you’ll ever be. If you think you’ve done some truly cool things in your life‚ chances are your dad did it first. Take a step back into the ’80s and see these dads that set the bar for what it means to have style and swagger. Source

The Senate’s $118 billion spending bill failed to advance past a procedural vote on the Senate floor Wednesday.   The bill included funding for border related measures‚ Ukraine‚ Israel‚ and Taiwan. The bill fell short of receiving the 60 votes needed to keep moving forward in the Senate.   If the bill had passed in the Senate and gone on to pass in the House‚ it would have “codified Joe Biden’s open border‚” Sen. Ted Cruz‚ R-Texas‚ said Wednesday on his podcast‚ “Verdict with Ted Cruz.”   The bill would put the policy of catch and release “into law‚” according to Cruz and “normalized 5‚000 illegal aliens [crossing the border] a day.”  The Senate’s 370-page bill includes about $20 billion in border-related spending and directs the Department of Homeland Security to close the southern border “during a period of 7 consecutive calendar days‚ [if] there is an average of 5‚000 or more aliens who are encountered each day.”    President Joe Biden criticized Republicans for failing to advance the bill. During a closed-door meeting with donors in New York Wednesday‚ CNN reports Biden said Republicans are “walking away [from the bill] because they’ve got [former President] Donald Trump calling and threatening them.”  Trump was critical of the bill on Truth Social‚ writing “Only a fool‚ or a Radical Left Democrat‚ would vote for this horrendous Border Bill.”   Sen. James Lankford‚ R-Okla.‚ led the way in negotiating the terms of the bill with Democrats. Lankford was one of the few Republicans who voted in favor of advancing the border and foreign aid bill‚ along with Republican Reps. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska‚ Susan Collins of Maine‚ and Mitt Romney of Utah.   Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer‚ D-N.Y.‚ voted against the bill in a procedural move that allows him to bring it back to the Senate floor for a vote later.   Even if the Senate had successfully passed the bill‚ House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that the bill was “dead on arrival” in the House.  The Senator is voting Wednesday evening on whether to advance the same bill that only includes the funding for Ukraine‚ Israel‚ and Taiwan‚ and is stripped of all border related funding.   Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state.   The post Controversial Border Spending Bill Fails in Senate appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL— Republican congressional lawmakers are calling on the Department of Justice to “halt” any efforts to discard the bodies of five aborted babies in the District of Columbia‚ warning that these babies may have been illegally aborted. “We demand that you immediately halt plans to dispose of these children‚ as they may well be evidence of a crime‚” the lawmakers wrote in a Wednesday letter first obtained by The Daily Signal. “We further demand you stop stonewalling and finally conduct a thorough investigation into the deaths of these children to determine what truly happened‚ and to hold any lawbreakers or murderers accountable. At the end of this investigation‚ we encourage a respectful burial of the babies.” That letter was spearheaded by Rep. Pat Fallon‚ R-Texas‚ and co-sponsored by 24 of his colleagues‚ including Reps. Chris Smith of New Jersey‚ Jim Banks of Indiana‚ Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Mary Miller of Illinois. The lawmakers are referring to the remains of “the Five‚” five aborted preemie-sized babies recovered from the Washington Surgi-Clinic in the District of Columbia in 2022. The babies have been in the possession of the D.C. medical examiner for years‚ and the city has stonewalled any investigations into the circumstances of their deaths. FILE_6111Download Pro-lifers fear that the babies may have been aborted in violation of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act‚ which bans brutal partial-birth abortion techniques‚ such as snipping the neck of a baby partially out of the womb‚ and the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act‚ which bans physicians from ending the lives of babies born alive in botched abortions. The lawmakers echoed those concerns. “Two years have passed since these victims were discovered in early 2022‚ and yet‚ despite calls from Congress and nongovernment entities‚ there still have not been autopsies performed or an investigation conducted into this matter‚” they wrote. “It has now come to our attention that there are reports that the Department of Justice has instructed the Medical Examiner’s Office to dispose of the babies’ bodies‚” the letter noted‚ referring to the Thomas More Society’s claims that the D.C. medical examiner was in communication with the DOJ about disposing of the babies. “As Members of Congress‚ we would like to remind you that the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act‚ which Congress passed and President [George W.] Bush signed into law in 2002‚ guarantees that every infant born alive‚ including an infant who survives an abortion procedure‚ is considered a person under federal law‚” the lawmakers added. “An investigation must be conducted on what happened in the Washington Surgi-Clinic to these children to determine if a crime was committed.” The Daily Signal reported late Monday that Thomas More Society lawyer Martin Cannon said he “got a call from the Medical Examiner’s Office indicating that the DOJ has advised them that there is no reason to keep those babies anymore.” Cannon‚ who is representing pro-life activists charged by the DOJ‚ told The Daily Signal that “the Medical Examiner’s Office accordingly tells me that if we don’t have an order to the contrary‚ by the end of this week‚ a court order‚ they will dispose of the babies.” The DOJ declined to comment on the matter to The Daily Signal‚ but the medical examiner’s general counsel‚ Rod Adams‚ denied to The Daily Signal that the medical examiner had communicated with the DOJ. Adams has not answered multiple requests for further comment. Cannon insisted that Adams had‚ in fact‚ told Cannon that he had communicated with the DOJ. “It’s pretty plain to me that Mr. Adams has communicated with the federal government during the case to inform them or get their input on my conversations with him‚” he said. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the url or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers Demand DOJ ‘Halt Plans’ by DC to Dispose of 5 Aborted Babies appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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House Republicans suffered a series of cringe-worthy losses on Tuesday night as they failed to impeach Biden Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and advance a bill to provide funding to support Israel in its war against the animalistic terrorist group Hamas. Naturally‚ ABC‚ CBS‚ and NBC took victory laps Wednesday morning over the “chaotic night” and “stunner” on Capitol Hill with the GOP’s “embarrassing...setbacks.” We wish we could lead off with a different network‚ but ABC’s Good Morning America put an aurora of revelry. Co-host Robin Roberts teased the “chaotic night on Capitol Hill ends with a stunning vote” thanks to “Congressman Al Green‚ coming from surgery‚ still in hospital scrubs‚ to cast the key vote while a bill to provide aid to Israel also fails after Republicans backed away from a bipartisan border deal.”     What party was Green‚ Robin? Senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott deserved a cushy salary from House Democrats for the amount of water she carried for them: “[T]his is an embarrassing string of setbacks. In the last 24 hours alone‚ Republicans killed a border deal they helped negotiate‚ failed to impeach the Homeland Security secretary‚ and couldn’t even get enough votes to pass additional aid to Israel.” “Overnight‚ an embarrassing defeat for Republicans. The House failing to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas over his handling of the border...A handful of GOP lawmakers refusing to fall in line‚ saying the party provided no evidence of an impeachable offense‚” she added. Scott further noted the GOP “thought they had the votes‚ but then Texas Democrat Al Green‚ who just underwent emergency surgery‚ showed up‚ wheelchair-bound and in hospital scrubs‚ to cast the deciding vote” in one of many steps in “a chaotic 24 hours...with Republicans also backing away from a bipartisan border deal their own party helped negotiate” and was‚ in her view‚ “the most sweeping reform in decades.” For good measure‚ Scott tried to play cause and effect in both hours of the show to insist the GOP’s fear of Donald Trump — not its particulars — was why the deal failed (click “expand”): SCOTT: It’s the kind of package Johnson said he wanted for months. [TO JOHNSON] You said a few months ago that you wanted to see a bipartisan agreement on border security anD additional aid to Ukraine. Senators say that they did that. JOHNSON: They did not send us a border security measure. They didn’t. SCOTT: After Donald Trump started bashing the compromise‚ Johnson declared it dead on arrival. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: It’s time for Republicans in Congress to show a little courage‚ to show a little spine‚ to make it clear to the American people that you work for them‚ not for anyone else. SCOTT: So‚ as for where things stand this morning‚ Senate Democrats will force two votes‚ one on that package‚ which is expected to fail. Another one with just additional aid to both Israel and Ukraine...[A]s for Trump‚ well‚ he is celebrating the news that that border bill is dead. Of course‚ he wants to run on immigration in November.  (....) SCOTT: You may remember that Republicans demanded border security provisions in exchange for additional aid to both Ukraine and Israel. Well‚ Democrats agreed to that. And now‚ Republicans are backing away from that deal. They’ve been receiving increasing pressure from former President Donald Trump‚ who wants to run on this issue in November. So‚ now‚ after four months of negotiation and a rare bipartisan compromise‚ that deal considered dead on arrival in both the Senate and House‚ with no clear path forward. NBC’s Today also first went to the vote with co-host Hoda Kotb teasing “new chaos in Washington” and co-host Savannah Guthrie chiming in that it was a “stunner”. Going later to Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles‚ Guthrie remarked it was quite “a surprise”.  Nobles boasted in part that it’s “safe to say....this did not turn out the way Republicans had planned” (click “expand”): NOBLES: Yeah‚ that is safe to say‚ Savannah. This did not turn out the way Republicans had planned. They hoped to use the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas as a way to put the border issues front and center. Instead‚ that vote failed‚ leaving Speaker Mike Johnson struggling to find a path forward. A stunning development on Capitol Hill and day of chaos for House Republicans — JOHNSON: The resolution is not adopted. NOBLES: — who were hoping to impeach Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Holding onto a razor-thin majority‚ there were a few Republican defections‚ but they still thought they had enough votes. That was until Democrat Al Green‚ recovering from surgery‚ made a surprise appearance‚ providing Democrats an extra vote‚ enough to kill the measure. (....) NOBLES: But Republicans‚ who begged for changes at the border‚ now arguing this package would make the situation worse. SENATOR RON JOHNSON (R-WI): This does more harm than good. NOBLES: The result is the best and only hope of any type of border reform is effectively dead while the crisis at the border continues to grow with no solution in sight. In the second hour‚ Guthrie returned to the “political stunner” as “[t]he vote went down in dramatic fashion” during a “chaotic night in Washington.” Nobles also sounded off on the “stunning turn of events that Republicans in the House were just not prepared for”. CBS Mornings made it three-for-three with the House GOP in the lead-off spot. Co-host Tony Dokoupil pivoted from the Eye Opener round-up to “the political confusion on Capitol Hill” and “[a]fter weeks of threatening to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for allegedly ignoring the border crisis‚ GOP lawmakers did not have the votes to make an impeachment stick.” “And‚ at the very same time‚ some of those same Republicans‚ apparently spooked by a warning from Donald Trump‚ worked to kill a bipartisan senate bill that might have addressed the very same immigration problems Mayorkas is accused of ignoring‚” he continued. Going to congressional correspondent Nikole Killion‚ Dokoupil invited her to share the details since “people want to know what is going on there.” To see the relevant transcripts from February 7‚ click here (for ABC)‚ here (for CBS)‚ and here (for NBC).

Most conservatives view the U.S. Constitution as the central element that binds the identity of the nation together‚ but constitutions do not make peoples; peoples make constitutions. The Catholic political theorist and enlightenment skeptic Joseph de Maistre believed that no true constitution can ever be written by human hands but can only be inscribed on the hearts of a nation’s people by the almighty God. For Maistre‚ the notion that a constitution would‚ in and of itself‚ create the character of a nation was absurd. The values and norms contained in a constitution reflect the traditions and folkways that organically emerge from the character of a people. America’s founders understood the protestant Christian moral vision shared by most of the populace was critical to the nation’s success. The shared moral vision of the people‚ which serves as the real force of the constitution‚ pre-exists the written document itself. Any rights enumerated in the document are only a written formalization of that which is already held deeply sacred by the people‚ and their protection is entirely dependent on the continuance of that tradition. Maistre did not push for a universal form of government but instead believed that the best government would be one that naturally fit the needs and traditions of the people over which it ruled. An artificially imposed regime with no connection to the ways in which different communities lived their lives could not hope to govern them well. Virtuous leaders had a duty to guide their people toward a better future‚ but that could only be done in the context of a shared understanding of the common good. A constitution could not enforce this vision; it could only represent the spirit that already existed within the polis. America is a vast and complicated nation. It has always been a collection of very different regions‚ cultures‚ and traditions separated by the kind of geographical distances that would have formed individual nations in a place like Europe. This is why the country was originally governed as a confederation of separate states instead of one unified whole. Due to its divergent ways of life‚ geographical separation‚ and intermittent waves of large-scale immigration‚ America never truly achieved ethnogenesis. Instead‚ it relied on one consistent factor that most of its residents shared: protestant Christianity. While Catholic‚ Jewish‚ and eventually Muslim waves of immigration would all arrive‚ America’s initial population were protestant Christians‚ and it is from this firmament that the moral vision of America arose. America was founded by those who chose to leave their homes and strike out for new lands rather than compromise their way of life‚ and that deep instinct to prefer exit over assimilation persisted well into the nation’s history. Due to its size and regional diversity‚ America never truly formed a single national culture or identity. Whenever two or more groups disagreed‚ rather than being forced to reconcile and become one people‚ they simply split‚ venturing farther and farther into a seemingly endless frontier. A federal model allowed individual communities and states to operate very differently as long as they held to the shared moral framework of protestant Christianity. Subsidiarity‚ the idea that the political problems should be resolved as close to the locality where they originate as possible‚ meant that the traditions and folkways of each region could be maintained while still working inside the larger system of the nation. The religious character of America’s people may have changed‚ but the bedrock of its founding document has not. In modern America‚ the Constitution is held up as a secular procedural blueprint for objectively navigating disagreements between groups with vastly different moral visions‚ but nothing could be farther from the truth. As John Adams explained‚ the Constitution is made for a moral and religious people‚ and it is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other.America’s founders did not believe that the Constitution contained any kind of magical universal property of governance. They understood that the protestant Christian moral vision shared by most of the populace was critical to the nation’s success. I do not call myself a Christian nationalist‚ not because I disagree with the idea that biblical principles should be reflected in the laws of our nation but because this has been a core aspect of the American nation since its inception. The problem with the term Christian nationalism is that is turns a crucial pillar of our American identity into a fashionable political slogan that can be easily painted as new and radical by a hostile media elite. An approach to politics that is fundamentally protestant in its character is not revolutionary or novel. It is exactly what the Constitution represents. As hard as it may be to admit‚ we are no longer really governed by the Constitution‚ primarily because we are no longer the kind of people who can be. Conservatives like to believe that restoration of constitutional governance will fix our woes‚ but the founding document cannot make a people virtuous or grant them liberty. The Constitution was only ever the formalization of a way of life present in America’s founding stock‚ and without that shared character‚ our most precious documents become meaningless. The Constitution was never meant to objectively mediate the differences of two sides with radically different moral visions‚ and it never will. Protestant Christianity was central to the identity of the United States and the formation of its Constitution. Until the nation reforges a shared moral vision on that anvil‚ it will continue to be governed by the corrupt progressive theocratic oligarchy that currently terrorizes its people.

President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of the terrorist group that refuses to release hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.On Tuesday‚ a reporter asked Biden about ongoing negotiations between Hamas and Israel to secure the release of the remaining 132 hostages and end the war. Hamas rejected Israel's latest offer‚ producing a counteroffer of its own that Israel found completely unacceptable."What needs to get done for the hostage deal to get resolved‚ sir?" the reporter asked."There is some movement‚ and I don't wanna‚ I don't wanna..." Biden responded before pausing‚ closing his eyes‚ and staring ahead blankly."Let me choose my words— there's some movement‚ there's been...a response from the‚ uh...‚" the president continued‚ clearly struggling to find the correct word. "There's been a response...from...the opposition‚ but‚ um—"Finally‚ a reporter had to step in and help Biden remember Hamas' name."Hamas‚" the reporter interjected."Yes — I'm sorry — from Hamas‚" Biden finally said. — (@) The alarming incident came just two days after Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas that he spoke with François Mitterrand after winning the presidency. But that's not true because Mitterrand has been dead since 1996. Instead‚ Biden meant to say "Macron‚" a reference to the current president of France‚ Emmanuel Macron‚ according to the official transcript of Biden's remarks.Meanwhile‚ the latest NBC News poll found that more than three-fourths of voters are concerned whether the 81-year-old commander in chief has the physical and mental aptitude required of the president.Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.)‚ who is challenging Biden for the White House‚ said Tuesday that these two incidents demonstrate how the Democratic Party is steering America "into a disaster" by pushing Biden's re-election."I'm attacked for being honest and saying the quiet part out loud — the part DC insiders only do in private. I admire our President. I voted for him and campaigned for him. He has visited my home and been gracious to my family and our country‚" Phillips said. "But shame on all of you pretending everything is OK. You are leading us — and him — into a disaster‚ and you damn well know it‚" he added. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!