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    Shapiro’s Brand Is High Gloss and High Cost

    RealClearWire—Pennsylvania’s “Get Stuff Done” governor has a favorite state department that he’s willing to staff to the rafters: his personal, dedicated PR team. As published reports last summer detailed, Gov. Josh Shapiro now sports 21 employees in his Executive Office, “dedicated to promoting” his image. But earlier this month, in response to an official Right…
    Christopher Nicholas
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    • Analysis

    Lawmakers and Lobbyists Drop the Gloves in Ice Hockey Thriller

    Washington, D.C., is used to power plays, but not the kind on display from lawmakers and lobbyists at the 2026 Congressional Hockey Challenge on Thursday night. At the MedStar Capitals Iceplex, a bipartisan team of officials and staff took the ice to face off against some of the districts’ finest lobbyists in their annual hockey game for charity. The lobbyists took home…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    • Opinion

    Time to Leave the Social Security Plantation

    To repeat what Americans have heard a lot recently, our Social Security system is in very bad shape. Per the most recent report, in 2025, of the Social Security and Medicare board of trustees, Social Security is capable of paying out the entirety of promised benefits through 2033. After that, there is only the capability…
    Star Parker
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    • Opinion

    The First Holy Week

    From March 29 to April 5 this year, most of the Christian world enters into the holiest days of their calendar year. These are the days that commemorate the final days of the life of Jesus. Investigating what is remembered and celebrated can be both practically impactful and spiritually inspiring. On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered…
    Thomas Griffin
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    • Opinion

    ANOTHER TRANS SHOOTER? Teen Girl Allegedly Shot Family Members After ‘Misgendering’ Dispute

    A 16-year-old girl allegedly confessed to shooting and killing her mother and her mother’s boyfriend following multiple fights with her mother regarding the girl’s transgender identity and “misgendering,” according to court records obtained by The Daily Signal. A police video, also obtained by The Daily Signal, shows her discussing the misgendering dispute. Julia Grace Egler…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    • News

    Shutdown Drags On: House Votes to Fully Fund DHS After ‘Inappropriate’ Senate Deal

    The House of Representatives on Friday rejected the Senate’s deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security without funding border security, instead voting to fully fund the department until May 22.  The House passed a continuing resolution to fully fund DHS for 60 days on a mostly party-line vote with three Democrats defecting to join…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    • Opinion

    Resurrecting the California Dream

    When I first moved to California, the Golden State was like an oasis, with red-golden sunsets, wide-open spaces, lush greenery, opal blue waters, and grocery stores selling fruit I’d never even heard of. Back then, California felt like its own country, one where hard work could build a real life of joy and endless possibility….
    Arjun Buxi
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    The Assisted Suicide of Lofty State and Local Taxes

    We get the government we choose to elect, hence the government we deserve. Voting for ever-higher punitive taxes on the rich is arguably a form of civic suicide. Consider that a wealthy New Yorker can get a raise of almost 40% just by moving. That’s right. If moving eliminates a 14.8% top state and local…
    Rob Arnott
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    Conservative and Proud: Is the Right Representing Women? 

    The conservative movement has undergone drastic changes in the past decade, not least of which is the way the political right messages to women. The shift has been subtle. A movement built on the shoulders of conservative leaders who spent years rejecting the harms of the feminist movement now recognizes that women can “have it…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump DOJ Cracks Down on States Housing Biological Men in Women’s Prisons

    The Justice Department opened an investigation into male inmates being placed in women’s prisons in California and Maine. The DOJ notified California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Maine Gov. Janet Mills, respectively, on Thursday about the pending probes, noting the danger to female inmates of potential sexual assault. California law allows male prisoners who identify as…
    Fred Lucas
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    Ohio Lawmakers Steadfast in Passing Pro-Life Legislation

    While the pro-life cause suffered a major setback in Ohio when the Reproductive Freedom Amendment passed in 2023, Ohio lawmakers continue to pass legislation to protect the unborn. The Ohio House of Representatives passed the Share the Health and Empower With Informed Notices Act, or the SHE WINS Act for short, on Wednesday by a…
    Rebecca Downs
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    DHS Orders Payment of 50,000 US Airport Workers in Emergency Action

    REUTERS—The Homeland Security Department said on Friday it was taking emergency action to pay 50,000 airport security officers who have gone unpaid since mid-February, after work absences brought chaos and long security lines to U.S. airports. “[The Transportation Security Administration] has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce. TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks…
    David Shepardson
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    ‘ABSURD’: House GOP Leaders Dismiss Senate DHS Bill

    House Republican leadership and the party’s hardline conservative faction rejected the Senate’s homeland security funding deal, which omits funding for border security. “The Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., said Friday afternoon as he…
    George Caldwell
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    • Opinion

    GROTESQUE: Barack Obama’s Orwellian Push for Virginia Redistricting Is Something to Behold

    What do you call it when a politician tells you to put elections “back on a level playing field” by voting for a redistricting map gerrymandered to give Democrats 10 seats to Republicans’ one? “Lying” doesn’t quite foot the bill. “Rank deception” is closer, but I think this kind of rhetoric calls for the big…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    • News

    House Republican Group Hijacks House Floor to Reject Radical Islam

    A dozen members of the Sharia Free America Caucus spoke consecutively on the House floor Thursday evening against the “threat of radical Islamic terrorism” in the United States. The speeches, organized by Republican Texas Reps. Keith Self and Rep. Chip Roy, the founders of the caucus, claimed that America was on the same migration trajectory…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    • Opinion

    The Air Force Is Finally Restoring Honor to the Faithful It Wrongly Punished

    The Department of the Air Force’s March 19 decision to correct the records of airmen and guardsmen discharged over the COVID-19 mandate deserves real praise. At Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s directive to conduct a review, the Air Force Review Boards Agency examined and upgraded the records of nearly 600 airmen, changing them to “Honorable”…
    Christopher Motz
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    • News

    House Passes Legislation to Combat Mexican Government’s Seizure of American-Owned Port

    The House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to grant the president authority to limit U.S. port access for countries that have seized American property abroad. As Congress remains bitterly divided on the SAVE America Act and funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the Defending American Property Abroad Act of 2026 passed with bipartisan support. The bill, introduced…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    • News

    Judge, Longtime Thorn for Trump, Sides With Administration

    U.S. District Judge James Boasberg—with a history of halting Trump administration policies—sided with the president in a case regarding deporting criminal illegal immigrants to El Salvador. Boasberg, the chief judge in the District of Columbia and an appointee of President Barack Obama, sided with the administration against liberal groups who sued to prevent illegal immigrants…
    Fred Lucas
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    What’s Driving the Rise in Catholic Conversions Across the US?

    At a time when we’re often told institutions are collapsing, trust is evaporating, and the truth is “relative,” a surprising trend is emerging.   As Easter approaches, thousands of Americans are flocking to one of the oldest institutions in the world: the Catholic Church.  A recent New York Times report highlighted a surge in adult conversions to Catholicism across the United States, with dioceses from New Jersey to Oregon…
    Katherine Matt
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    • News

    Senate Jams House With DHS Funding Bill in Dead of Night

    In the early hours of Friday morning, the Senate voted to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security while excluding funding for immigration law enforcement agencies.  The deal, which passed by unanimous consent at around 2:30 a.m., could put an end to chaos at airports across the nation but may upset hardliners in both…
    George Caldwell
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