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    Federal Law Enforcement Presence Limits Minneapolis Unrest

    It took less than 48 hours for protesters to begin burning the city of Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd in May 2020. Law enforcement struggled to control protests as demonstrators set a local police station on fire, looted businesses, and left parts of the city covered in graffiti. Five-and-a-half years later, Americans wonder…
    Virginia Allen
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    Venezuelan Warns His Country ‘Isn’t Free Yet’

    Franklin Camargo was only six years old when he stood in a Florida grocery store and stared at the variety of Oreo cookies. In that moment, he says he began to understand that the U.S. was very different from his home country of Venezuela.   When a child “can tell the differences, the huge differences, when it comes to prosperity, happiness, [and] safety between a country and the other one, that’s…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Moral Blackmailing of the American People

    In Springfield, Ill., in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant “mobocratic spirit” threatened to sever the “attachment of the People” to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln’s opposition to anarchy…
    Josh Hammer
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    Renee Good’s Death Was Tragic, but There’s a Lesson To Be Learned

    Renee Good died on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She had been attempting to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents engaged in federal law enforcement activities. Along with other protestors, Good involved herself in what federal agents were doing and used her car to block them. Confronted by federal agents, Good accelerated with an agent in front…
    Erick Erickson
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    What on Earth Is Happening in Minnesota?

    What is going on in the People’s Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Reagan years, with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their language about immigration-enforcement cops are eyebrow-raising in the same week the elitist media somberly…
    Tim Graham
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    How to Help Small Businesses, Hurt Mamdani All at Once

    Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, wants affordability and equity through big-government intervention. His platform includes city-owned grocery stores, rent freezes, a $30 minimum wage, free buses, universal child care, and small-business reforms focused on improving compliance. Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, has a threefold plan: “cut fines and fees for small businesses in…
    Miles Pollard
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    Maduro and Mamdani: Two Collectivists Check Into Public Housing

    Welcome to 2026, the year we fight collectivism. And we’re already seeing early signs that we’ll have to wage this fight not just overseas but also right here at home. The new year has been packed with news. Fortunately, it augurs well for those who want to fight collectivism, i.e., the government appropriation of private…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    130 Dems Side With Trans-Identifying Athlete Accused of Sexual Harassment in SCOTUS Case

    More than 130 Democratic members of Congress have filed an amicus brief supporting a transgender-identifying athlete—a biological male—at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court case on school sports participation. The athlete is not only at the center of a Supreme Court case but has also been accused of sexual harassment and engaging in intimidation tactics…
    Sarah Holliday
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Common Denominator of the Issues Troubling Me Most

    In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler weigh the four finalists from their Sour 16 troubling issues, with Hanson explaining what they all have in common.  This content was recorded prior to Victor Davis Hanson’s major surgery on Dec. 30.   Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Minnesota Somali Fraud, Illegal Trucking Scandals Share One Thing: DEI

    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. This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’ve…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    One Video Blows Up Countless Media Narratives About Minnesota ICE Shooting

    One video sank an entire media news cycle of false narratives. On Friday, Alpha News released a video taken by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent involved in the shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an ICE agent that’s become an international story. The notion that the agent shot her for no reason at…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Walz Admin Actually Ordered Fraud Unit to Stand Down Early in His Term, Whistleblowers Say

    Whistleblowers have accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration of squashing criminal fraud investigations as far back as 2019, according to a Republican state representative who oversees fraud prevention in state programs. Rep. Kristin Robbins, a Republican and chair of the Minnesota House’s fraud committee, told The Daily Signal that four whistleblowers inside the Department of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Is Congress Returning to ‘Regular Order’ in Funding?

    The House of Representatives took a major step toward averting another government shutdown when it passed a funding package Thursday.  But perhaps more importantly, House Freedom Caucus members influenced the process around the bill’s consideration in ways they say could help government spending in the future. The House’s “minibus” package covers three of the 12…
    George Caldwell
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    Let’s Be Honest About ICE Shootings, and How We Got Here

    We’ve had an avalanche of hot takes since Renee Good was shot in Minneapolis by federal agents. But there should be no “hot” takes. There should be cold reasoning—about how we got here and how we avoid things getting worse. “Hot” indicates anger, a lack of control, lack of thought. That’s what we saw from…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Trump Provides Solution to Housing Crisis

    President Donald Trump announced on Jan. 7 plans to ban institutional investors from buying up homes and renting them back to Americans. You’ll Own Something and Be Happy Corporate landlord Blackstone’s stock plunged nearly 5% on the move to make housing more affordable. Trump’s goal is to lower house prices and prevent Wall Street outbidding…
    Peter St. Onge
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    Not Just Minnesota: How Tax Dollars Are at Risk of Fraud in This State

    More than $250 million in federal funding for Illinois programs risked misuse due to poor monitoring, state audits show.  With Minnesota facing scrutiny over a massive fraud scandal, Illinois is among other states that have continued receiving federal funding despite scathing audits.  Illinois state officials failed to perform required risk assessments for more than $250…
    Fred Lucas
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    How Trump Finally Buried the Iraq Syndrome

    Something crucial happened with President Donald Trump’s recent actions in Venezuela. In fact, taken together with his earlier moves abroad, they mark the substantive death of what might be called the “Iraq syndrome“—a paralyzing mindset that has distorted American foreign policy for more than two decades. The Iraq syndrome emerged after the failure of the…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Danger of Dumbing Down American Students 

    In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson explains why the ignorance of American students keeps him up at night more than the threat of radical Islam.   This content was created prior to Hanson’s major surgery on Dec. 30.  Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The Deadly Consequences of Democrats’ War on ICE Enforcement

    Democrat politicians have put countless lives at risk becasue they can’t accept an administration that vigorously enforces U.S. immigration laws. The tragedy that unfolded Wednesday as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman in Minnesota who appeared to be driving at him should never have happened. Democrat politicians, looking to take…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    How ‘Stranger Things’ Self-Sabotaged in Its Final Hour

    “Stranger Things” is over, and, after ten years of investment, many fans have walked away asking the same question: What on earth was that? After a decade of supernatural terror, emotional stakes, and character-driven suspense, audiences were effectively told that the key to defeating an interdimensional monster was with a woke identity arc, which felt…
    Elise McCue
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