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    Reconciliation 3.0 Is the Best 250th Birthday Present Congress Can Give America
    Leave it to the legacy media to turn a commemorative currency proposal into a five-alarm constitutional crisis. By now, you’ve probably heard about the scene at last week’s White House press briefing when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins confronted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about a proposed $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump. “Do you think politically it’s…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    The Story of Churchill’s Great Speech Before Congress
    Winston Churchill made 16 visits to America in his lifetime. He traveled here as a soldier, a tourist, and a lecturer, but his winter visit to America in 1941 as a wartime leader was perhaps his most important. The story of that trip—and the speech he delivered to a joint session of Congress the day…
    Lee Habeeb
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    Why the American Colonists Rebelled
    The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech delivered on May 28, 2026, at the “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Reenactment at The Heritage Foundation. Britain’s seven year war with France came at a great cost. Its consequences would alter the world. England accumulated a substantial amount of debt throughout the…
    Brenda Hafera
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    Artists Pull Out of Great American State Fair, Citing Partisanship and ‘Threats’
    Several musical artists scheduled to perform at the Great American State Fair in honor of America’s 250th birthday have withdrawn from the event after SPIN Magazine highlighted President Donald Trump’s connection to the fair. The Great American State Fair will showcase all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. It…
    Al Perrotta
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    The Debate Over the Women’s Museum Was Never About Women
    “House Democrats oppose a bill for a Smithsonian women’s history museum.” This is not a sentence I ever expected to read. Aren’t Democrats supposed to be the feminists? The champions of inclusion? The self-appointed defenders of the “disadvantaged”? And on top of that, they are the ones who pushed for the women’s museum to begin…
    Anna Gustafson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The 1.2 Million Reasons America Exists Today
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   This Monday was Memorial Day. It commemorated all the Americans who died on behalf of the United States from…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    How Culture War of Andrew Johnson’s Senate Trial Resonated in Clinton, Trump Impeachments
    As the first presidential impeachment trial was drawing to a close, newspaper titan Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune ran a bold headline: “CONVICTION ALMOST A CERTAINTY.” If by “certainty” the paper meant falling one vote short of the two-thirds needed to remove President Andrew Johnson, the headline proved accurate. On May 26, 1868, Johnson slipped…
    Fred Lucas
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    Bob Woodson Lived a Life Dedicated to the Least, the Last, and the Lost
    Robert L. “Bob” Woodson passed away earlier this week at the age of 89, leaving behind a rich legacy of faith, service, and patriotism.  Born in Philadelphia, Woodson and his four siblings were raised by their mother after his father died when he was nine. He quit high school at 17 and joined the Air…
    Delano Squires
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    Memorial Day and the Oft-Forgotten Dead
    The rolling hills, dappled paths, and white crosses make Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia a place of quiet repose, deep emotion, and somber reflection. Dutifully, the nation honors its military dead there, and on this 158th Memorial Day, countless Americans will rightfully and respectfully pay homage to those who gave the last full measure of…
    David Holmes
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    America’s Love Affair With the Road Endures
    BEDFORD, Pennsylvania—For the briefest of moments, a line of vintage Rolls-Royce automobiles chugged along the curving Cumberland Road. They passed over the Cumberland Run a handful of times and wound themselves down the mountains, away from Pennsylvania and toward the city of steeples, Cumberland. The sight gives the bystander a moment to imagine what it…
    Salena Zito
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    How George Washington’s Farewell Address Fulfilled the Declaration of Independence
    Welcome to the first in our series, Landmark Speeches in American History. Over the next several months, we will celebrate 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…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Democratic Control of Government Means Redefining Religion, Family, and America
    Per USA Today columnist Chris Brennan, the Rededicate 250 event, held on the National Mall to rededicate our country as One Nation Under God, violated both our national spirit and our Constitution. Per Brennan, the Christian character of the event, and the Protestant content, flies in the face of the national value of religious diversity….
    Star Parker
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    To Save America, We Must Reconnect With the Founders’ Moral Imagination
    Matthew Mehan, author of “The American Book of Fables,” joins Bradley Devlin on a new episode of “Signal Sitdown“ to discuss the “moral imagination” of the Founders and the need during America 250 for the nation to have a “shared memory.” This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Bradley Devlin: Why did you write…
    Bradley Devlin
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    MS NOW Host SHOCKED That Some Americans Believe They Have God-Given Rights
    We may have witnessed the most MS NOW moment of all time. On Monday, MS NOW host Katy Tur moderated a panel in which she discussed recent, supposedly controversial comments by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La. “What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government, they come from…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Victor Davis Hanson: America Being Overtaken? We’ve Heard That Before
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.    The recent Chinese-American summit, as I’ve spoken elsewhere, has raised anxieties that there is a tension between an establishment United States and a…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Getting Back to Business: The Buttonwood Agreement on the Eve of America’s 250th Birthday
    This week marks the anniversary of one of the most consequential yet least celebrated moments in American economic history.  On May 17, 1792, 24 merchants, brokers, and auctioneers gathered at 68 Wall Street in New York and signed a concise, two-sentence agreement under a buttonwood tree. In plain language, they pledged to trade public stocks…
    Douglas H. Napier
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    GOP Rededicates America as One Nation Under God as the Left Attempts to ‘Erase History’ 
    As the nation prepares to celebrate America’s 250th birthday this July 4, Republican leaders in Congress joined a rededication service on the National Mall on Sunday to redeclare the country as “one nation under God.” While the Mall was full of prayer and worship, some online criticized the event, calling it Christian nationalism and a…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    The Perfect Children’s Book for America 250
    As our nation marks the 250th anniversary of its independence, we are offered many occasions to commemorate, debate, and reassess. What “The American Book of Fables,” written by Matthew Mehan and illustrated by John Folley, offers is something different and more lasting: the chance to remember and to love. Not with passing sweetness, but with the…
    Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
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    A Founding Mother’s Faith: Abigail Adams
    “My mother was an angel upon earth. …Her price was indeed above rubies,” wrote John Quincy Adams about his beloved mother, Abigail. Mourning her death in his diary, the secretary of state at the time and later America’s sixth president echoed the words of Proverbs 31:10 in a fitting tribute to a remarkable woman of faith….
    Kenyn Cureton
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    Why Won’t Barack Obama Go Away?
    In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed…
    Josh Hammer
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