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    25 Years After 9/11, Have We Finally Realized What We’re Fighting?
    I was born two years before Sept. 11, 2001. I belong to the first generation of Americans for whom the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are not a personal memory. Because I do not remember the morning itself, the television images, or the atmosphere of fear and uncertainty that settled over…
    Kristen Ziccarelli
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    The Jokes of 9/11
    As someone paid to deal with the news each day, it is perhaps not in my best interest to admit that almost everything that comes across your X news feed is disposable. Whatever news has you hot and bothered today, whatever juicy entertainment gossip has you licking your chops, whatever fills the late-night comic’s monologue…
    Al Perrotta
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    When South Carolina Learned to Resist
    On Oct. 19, 1765, a crowd gathered at the corner of Broad and Church streets in Charleston, South Carolina, and built a gallows. An effigy representing South Carolina’s stamp distributor was soon hanging from it beneath a sign that read, “Liberty and no Stamp Act.” The Stamp Act had been passed by Parliament only months…
    Jim Sanderlin
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    Woke on Display: Inside the ‘American Democracy’ Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American History
    The Daily Signal takes you on an eye-opening tour of the Smithsonian Institution‘s National Museum of American History and its “American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith” exhibit, fact-checking claims from the White House and congressional investigations that Smithsonian leadership is on a taxpayer-funded mission to radicalize the once-venerable museum.
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Excise the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
    As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now. Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why,”…
    Todd Bensman
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Changed Names. Trump Does It, and Suddenly It’s Tyranny.
    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.   We’re in another psychodrama, melodrama controversy, and that is that [President] Donald Trump has just renamed…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Woodrow Wilson’s Vision of ‘Progress’ Was at Odds With Human Nature
    Welcome to the seventh 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….
    Gillian Richards
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    Resistance Becomes Revolution: North Carolina, 1776
    By 1774, North Carolina had spent years learning to resist authority. The Regulation had exposed resentment toward corrupt colonial officials, the Stamp Act crisis had produced organized resistance to Parliament, and the women of Edenton had demonstrated that the Patriot cause was no longer confined to male politicians. Events beyond North Carolina were forcing its…
    Jim Sanderlin
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Atomic Bombs Dropped in Japan Were Not Satanic
    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.  It’s August, so we have the annual debate over the dropping of two atomic bombs, one on…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The Constitution Can Unify America, Levin Says at SPN Annual Meeting
    ORLANDO, Fla.—In his keynote address at State Policy Network’s Annual Meeting this week, Israeli American journalist and constitutional studies expert Yuval Levin said that the U.S. Constitution once united our nation—and perhaps, surprisingly, might do so again. Hot topics at this year’s gathering ranged from data centers and artificial intelligence in health care to school…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Dolly Parton, RIP: The Story of Her Most Famous Song Embodies Her Life Story—and the American Dream
    Dolly Parton died Tuesday of cancer at the age of 80, surrounded by loved ones. She was loved like few other entertainers in American history. The story of how her most famous song, “I Will Always Love You,” came to be—and how Whitney Houston came to record it—may be the best of all the Parton…
    Lee Habeeb
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    Alan Dershowitz Speaks to Fascinating Similarities Between Founding of America, Israel
    Tuesday’s edition of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” featured a special guest, Alan Dershowitz. The attorney was there to discuss his book “Founding Fathers and One Jewish Mother: The Documents and People Who Established the US and Israel.” Dershowitz shared with host Tony Kinnett that the book is based on his personal archive of documents he’s…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Are Civic Centers the Answer to Help Ohio Students Think?
    Last year, Senate Bill 1 went into effect in Ohio to combat diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now state lawmakers are looking to do even more to promote independent thinking on college campuses. For the anniversary of his bill being signed into law, state Sen. Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, announced a new bill he has for civic…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Nixon Was the ‘Most Naturally Bright President’ We’ve Ever Had
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition 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. Sami Winc: So, Victor, I’m anxious to hear about our John Tyler, but also Richard Nixon, who is probably…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘Fire and Be Damned!’ North Carolina and the Sparks That Lit the American Revolution
    By the late 1760s, North Carolina was a smoldering tinderbox of conflict. Elected officials Cornelius Harnett and John Ashe had led the Sons of Liberty in resisting the Stamp Act, making its enforcement impossible and contributing to Parliament’s repeal of the tax, but deeper grievances remained. Drought brought crop failures, hunger, economic depression, and a…
    Jim Sanderlin
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    ‘Freedom Doesn’t Just Ring, It Revs’: IndyCar Brings America’s 250th Celebration to DC
    WASHINGTON—This weekend, the streets of the nation’s capital will be taken over by one of the most American sports, IndyCar. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix will be a 250-mile race through the heart of the city, circling the National Mall and passing monuments and government buildings. It is set to bring more than 100,000 fans,…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Smithsonian Plan Could Cost Taxpayers Millions While Bypassing Congress
    The Smithsonian Institution, the largest museum complex in the world, may have a plan to give its controversial Latino museum permanent residence on the National Mall, providing it with a building and spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars without congressional approval. Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation Institute for National Security and…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    The Wait Is Over: Sean Duffy’s ‘Great American Road Trip’ Debuts
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is taking his family on “The Great American Road Trip” and bringing America along, too. The long-awaited reality TV series is here, and the Daily Signal got a first look at the family’s first two trips: Philadelphia and Texas. In the six-episode series, Duffy; his…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Calvin Coolidge on the Christian Roots of American Liberty
    Welcome to the seventh 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….
    Daniel McCarthy
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    North Carolina Before the Revolution Was a Tinderbox Ready to Ignite
    Understanding North Carolina before 1776 helps explain the crucial but often overlooked role it played in America’s break with Britain. By the time of the Revolution, the colony had accumulated a volatile mix of political resentment, economic hardship, frontier independence, religious dissent, and frustration with government abuse and inadequate representation in its own colonial assembly….
    Jim Sanderlin
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