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    Post-Trump GOP Needs Young Men, Heritage Panelists Say
    OXON HILL, Md.—Republicans must win back young men and deliver on affordability if they hope to win in 2028, prominent conservative commentators said. “We are not going to be able to have a coalition that is dependent anymore on the idea that Donald Trump is on the ballot,” Ben Domenech, opinion editor of The Daily…
    Reagan Reese
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    A ‘Love Letter’ to America Opens Today in Theaters
    A new documentary is set to showcase America’s landscapes as a “love letter” to the country in its 250th anniversary year.   The 40-minute film “America the Beautiful” premieres Nov. 11 across more than 70 theaters nationwide. Narrated by award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer, it shows America “from sea to shining sea” and traces the history…
    Malia Loock
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  • opinion

    American Immigration and Our National Spirit
    Summary The election of America’s first Muslim senator, Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed, a second-generation immigrant from Egypt, is a watershed moment in the triumph of multiculturalism. This moment was made possible by the enduring legacy of the Johnson administration and the Hart-Celler Act, which opened the United States to large-scale immigration from the Third World in…
    Samuel Lair
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  • opinion

    To All Who Served, Thank You
    A few weeks ago, in anticipation of Veterans Day, I had the privilege of visiting the National Museum of the United States Army at Fort Belvoir. The museum, which is free of charge, has put together a special exhibition and program in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence…
    Timothy Goeglein
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  • opinion

    Veterans Day Asks Something of Civilians  
    Summary Military service has always been close enough for me to admire, but it has never been mine to claim.   Members of my family have served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Others graduated from West Point or joined the Navy. Their stories have never felt distant to me. Their experiences, however, still…
    Jess Hamilton
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    Scouting America Unveils Military Service & Veterans Merit Badge on Veterans Day
    Summary Scouting America will introduce its new Military Service & Veterans Badge on Veterans Day.  The Military Service & Veterans Badge is meant to inspire Scouts while also encouraging them to honor and understand the armed forces. The Scouting America website states that the badge is “designed to deepen understanding and foster respect, this badge connects Scouts with…
    Olivia Burdo
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    Myrtle Saves Children’s Literature
    Patriotic children’s literature is making a comeback with the upcoming book “Myrtle Saves the Boston Tea Party.”  The new children’s book is set to release Nov. 10. Author Amelia Hamilton told the Daily Signal she hopes to educate children about America’s founding through the exciting tale. “I really feel like America’s founding was an adventure,” she said….
    Olivia Burdo
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  • opinion

    How the Parthenon Became a Temple to Democracy
    Summary For 30 years after the Persians burned Athens in 480 B.C., the rubble sat untouched atop the city’s great stone Acropolis. The Greeks had sworn to leave it there as a reminder of what they had lost and what might come again. The great statesman Pericles, however, finally persuaded his fellow citizens that the…
    Victoria Coates
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  • opinion

    When the Revolution Came to Church: Loyalist Clergy and Patriot Pews 
    Summary On Aug. 14, 1774, the Rev. John Bullman climbed into the towering pulpit of Charleston’s St. Michael’s Church and told his South Carolina congregation that they needed to know their place.  As tensions with Great Britain mounted, Bullman, St. Michael’s assistant rector, preached “The Christian Duty of Peaceableness.”  He ridiculed the “silly Clown” and…
    Jim Sanderlin
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    Democrats Put Patriotism Last. That’s a Problem for America.
    Summary Only 6% of Democrats think that “patriotism” is important for the country. That was one of the unnerving findings of a recently released Gallup national survey about American values that highlighted the conflict of visions that defines modern politics. Gallup led its report on the survey with the seemingly heartening idea that three-quarters of…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The House Is Restless. It Has Been Before.
    Summary PITTSBURGH—In April 1894, a ragged column of unemployed men attempted to come through Pittsburgh on the way to Washington. They called themselves Coxey’s Army. It was a protest march of jobless workers led by Jacob Coxey, an Ohio businessman, and they were marching on the Capitol. The country was in the second year of…
    Salena Zito
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  • opinion

    National First Responders Day and the People Who Saved My Son
    For me, National First Responders Day is personal. My son was supposed to spend the night at his sister’s apartment in Washington, D.C., when disaster struck. At around 1 a.m., she called me, frantic, saying that he still had not arrived. I drove into the city and started walking the blocks between her apartment and…
    Bridget E. Bean
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  • opinion

    The Gettysburg Address: The Crown Jewel of American Political Rhetoric
    Welcome to the 11th and final essay in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the…
    Daniel J. Mahoney
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  • opinion

    Why George Washington Would Deport Mahmoud Khalil
    Summary Mahmoud Khalil wants to take the case against his deportation all the way to the Supreme Court—and if the justices accept it, they will be deciding one of the oldest and most controversial questions in American politics, a dispute more than 200 years old. Khalil is not an American: He’s a Syrian-born Palestinian, but…
    Daniel McCarthy
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  • opinion

    People, Place, Principles: What It Means to Be an American 
    The West is in a crucial cultural moment. Protesters burned a 140-year-old town hall in France, a disquieting testament of denigration. Many argue that America has no unique culture, or if it does, it is not one worth preserving.   Even as America celebrates its 250th birthday, it seems we no longer know—and so don’t understand—what…
    Brenda Hafera
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  • opinion

    No Kings: An American Tradition or Bad History? 
    “No kings!” has become one of the prominent rallying cries of our time.  The slogan evokes the longstanding American aversion to monarchy—an aversion its supporters trace to our nation’s founding.  But a closer reading of the historical record tells a different and far more interesting story. In the run-up to the American Revolution, most colonial…
    Richard Lim
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  • opinion

    Martin Luther King’s American Dream
    Welcome to the tenth in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence….
    Kevin Roberts
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  • opinion

    The War on Columbus Was Never Really About Columbus
    Christopher Columbus is having a revival thanks to President Donald Trump and the good sense of the American people. This is a remarkable change from just a few years ago, when it seemed likely that the country was ready to purge Columbus, the Founding Fathers, and pretty much any notable figure from our past. It…
    Jarrett Stepman
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  • opinion

    Rubio’s Rousing Athens Speech Highlights the Infrastructure Demonizing the West
    The West has lost faith in itself, embracing an ideology of mediocrity rather than its God-given inheritance of self-government, prosperity, and excellence. When Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a clarion call for the West to re-embrace its heritage, amid a backdrop of the Parthenon in Athens on Wednesday, he simultaneously indicted the universities, activist…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson: Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About World War II
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: The interview Tucker Carlson had with Jacob Rees-Mogg, who’s a member of Parliament. I don’t know if he’s still…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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