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    CNN Smears Electoral College, Lies About the Founders
    Many on the left are calling for the nation to get rid of the Electoral College. And it appears that many in the media support this notion. Unfortunately, progressives and their media allies at CNN and elsewhere have waged a disinformation campaign to bury the intentions of the Founders, or distort the Founders’ views on…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Rep. Gowdy: Paul Ryan a Modern-Day Founding Father
    Shortly after Rep. Trey Gowdy’s new lawmaker orientation as an elected member of the House of Representatives in 2011, he went to his hero Paul Ryan’s office and asked for his autograph. Ryan, who was slightly embarrassed, according to Gowdy, decided to take the opportunity to have a quick chat with his new colleague from…
    Ginny Montalbano
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    Principal Replaced After Telling Student to Take Off Trump Jersey at ‘Patriotic’ Football Game
    Administrators replaced a North Carolina high school principal after she told a student to take off his Trump jersey at a patriotic-themed football game. Cindy Gordon, who was principal at Harnett Central High School, asked Matthew Collins, 18, to remove the jersey because it was political, WRAL reported Friday. The front of the jersey read “USA”…
    Neetu Chandak
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    The Dangerous Consequences of Calling Sovereignty and Patriotism ‘Dog Whistles’
    “Patriotism” and “sovereignty” are now dirty words. That’s what one Washington Post editor said in response to President Donald Trump’s United Nations speech on Tuesday. “America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism,” Trump said during the speech. Trump also said: “We will never surrender…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    America Has Strayed From Founders’ Vision for Economic Freedom and Limited Government, Walter Williams Says
    An author and economics professor warns that America must return to the Founders’ vision of limited government to preserve the economic future of the country. “I think we can safely say that we have made a significant departure from the constitutional principles of individual liberty and limited government that made us a rich nation in…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Nike Boycott Over Kaepernick Ads Demonstrates Yearning for Patriotism
    The National Football League just can’t escape the ugly politics of 2018. One of the world’s largest sports apparel companies is now embracing the man who started it all, and fans aren’t happy about it. Nike is jumping in to champion Colin Kaepernick, the man who launched the now-frequent national anthem protests, and is making…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    College Student Calls Out Women’s March Founders for Not Allowing Unscreened Questions
    A conservative college student is making waves over a requirement for prescreened questions at an event featuring leaders of the left-leaning Women’s March. Kassy Dillon, a senior at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, says she is irked that the march activists didn’t call on students and let them ask whatever they wanted. Dillon, president of…
    Chrissy Clark
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    Right Side of History: The Founders Had an Answer to the ‘Fake News’ Problem
    “The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past. On this week’s episode, hosts Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal, and Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal’s White House correspondent, discuss the fake news phenomenon, the history…
    Jarrett Stepman | Fred Lucas
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    The Difference Between How Conservatives, Liberals Define Patriotism
    A new poll by the American Culture & Faith Institute uncovered some interesting—and perhaps worrisome—trends when it comes to how Americans think they can properly support their country. The study found that Americans think patriotism is generally in decline, but we can’t even agree on how to define it, let alone settle on whether it’s…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    In the Pronoun Wars, Be Thankful for the Founding Fathers
    It is sometimes astounding the kind of foresight the Founding Fathers had in protecting future generations from tyranny. The current international push to criminalize free speech in the name of various social movements should make us thankful that we have the First Amendment. Most other nations, even in the Western world, don’t have nearly the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    White House Chief of Staff Speaks Out Against Civil War Monuments Removal
    White House chief of staff John Kelly condemned the removal of Civil War monuments as “dangerous” and referred to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as an “honorable man” on the Monday night debut of “The Ingraham Angle.” Chief of Staff John Kelly praises Robert E Lee as "honorable man," says "lack of an ability to…
    Jack Crowe
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    What the Left Hopes to Achieve by Attacking the Founders
    Our nation’s leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Though typical Democrats and Republicans do not have this leftist hate for our nation, they have been willing accomplices in undermining the most basic value the Founding Fathers sought to promote—limited government. Leftists have had…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Must-See Moments: Shooting Victim Displays Ultimate Act of Patriotism
    The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week, many of which often go underreported by the mainstream media. This week, a Las Vegas shooting victim, who had been shot in the leg, demonstrated the ultimate act of patriotism when he stood up to shake President Donald Trump’s…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Here Are 8 Monuments That Have Been Attacked Since Charlottesville
    Since the awful riot that took place at the base of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month, activists and vandals have responded throughout the country by looking for 100-year-old monuments to destroy. While it may be bad enough to strip down history, the process should rightly remain in the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Founders Anticipated ‘Fake News.’ Here’s What They Did About It.
    Following the presidential election, numerous stories surfaced about how “fake news” influenced the results. This prompted a reaction from the media and a concerted effort by the social media giant Facebook to crack down on the phenomenon—announcing that it would in part by using liberal fact-checkers to distinguish the “real” from the “fake” news. The…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Obama Celebrates His Newest Monuments by Tweeting out Pictures of the Wrong National Park
    The White House took to Twitter Wednesday to promote President Barack Obama’s latest monument designations in the Western U.S., but its tweet had a picture of a completely different national park. Obama created the Bears Ears and Gold Butte national monuments, but it’s Wednesday tweet included a picture of the Three Gossips at Arches National…
    Michael Bastasch
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    Fearing Late Action by Obama, Republicans Consider Curbing Presidential Power to Declare National Monuments
    President Barack Obama is using his executive power to issue a broad swath of environmental protections during his last weeks in office, guarding himself against a successor who has vowed to roll back parts of that agenda. As part of this effort, Obama has made historic use of a 110-year-old law signed by Theodore Roosevelt…
    Josh Siegel
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    Here’s What the Founders Thought About Term Limits
    With the sudden dominance of Republicans in Congress, state legislatures, and, of course, the White House, conservatives have an incredible opportunity to restore constitutional principles to government. Several lawmakers have brought back the old idea of congressional term limits to “drain the swamp” on Capitol Hill. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    What the Founders Thought About the Value of a ‘Classical’ Education
    The generation that produced the U.S. Constitution lived at a time when liberal education was being rethought, redefined, stretched, and challenged. The Founders lined up on different sides of that debate. They argued over whether or not a liberal education worthy of the name had to be a classical education based on instruction in the…
    Richard Gamble
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    How This Man Pushed Courts to Respect the Founders’ Constitution
    Three decades ago, then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III initiated a spirited national debate about the proper application of our most important governing document—the U.S. Constitution. His goal was to persuade judges, even Supreme Court judges, to agree they should respect the text of the Constitution and the intent of the Founders who wrote it. Meese,…
    Lee Edwards
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