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    Jimmy Lai’s Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders

    Family members and friends of Jimmy Lai, a businessman and a pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, are holding out hope that he can still be released after his guilty verdict on national security and sedition charges, if President Donald Trump and other world leaders put pressure on Chinese leader Xi Jinping to free him….
    Susan Crabtree
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    Chick-fil-A Doubles Down, Keeps DEI on the Menu

    It’s one thing to catch a local Chick-fil-A rebelling against Christian values—and quite another for headquarters to defend it. After this month’s revelation that an Orem, Utah, location was publicly supporting same-sex marriage in a congratulatory post on Facebook, several disappointed customers reached out to corporate, hoping for an apology—or at least clarity—on what they saw as…
    Suzanne Bowdey
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    Florida Public School Districts Shouldn’t Keep Private and Charter Schools From Utilizing Empty Public Facilities

    Jupiter Christian School, located 22 miles north of Palm Beach, Florida, has 700 students on its waiting list. The head of Grandview Prep, also near Palm Beach, reports that the number of applications to private schools in the area increased by almost 50% between 2017-2018 and 2022-2023. A charter school that serves students in grades K-8 near the heart of Orlando reports just three open seats and only across the…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    Make America Affordable Again: Trump, GOP Look to Lower Costs as Midterm Year Approaches

    Republicans are entering midterm campaign mode with an emphasis on messaging about affordability. As President Donald Trump recently kicked off a speaking tour on affordability in Pennsylvania, Republicans on the Hill are attempting to do their part to make America more affordable. The Trump Factor Last Tuesday, Trump made his first stop in a new…
    George Caldwell
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    • Opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson: ‘We Never Get Any Thanks for What We Do’

    In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss former President Joe Biden’s failure to make sure our adversaries in Syria paid a cost for attacking Americans, and the failure of so many immigrants to say “thank you” for all we do. Editor’s note: This is…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Republicans Rush Health Care Bill Before Christmas Break

    House Republican leadership is hoping to pass a health care plan this week. But it could hit some major speed bumps along the way. Going into the last week in session before Christmas break, House Republicans are in a rush to pass premium-slashing legislation to counter Democrat-led efforts to extend enhanced premium tax credit levels…
    George Caldwell
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    Free Jimmy Lai

    By having its kangaroo court in Hong Kong convict media magnate Jimmy Lai of trumped-up national security charges, China has reminded the world it’s still a communist dictatorship where human dignity, let alone human rights, have no place in the regime’s considerations. Taiwan, take heed: China’s communist leaders would also destroy your island and take…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    This Anti-Christian Group May Be Out of Power Now, But Its Popularity Among Dems Bodes Ill for the Future

    Even a year later, it’s hard to wrap your head around the upside-down world of the Biden administration: The White House celebrated transgender ideology on Easter Sunday, your tax dollars funded the settlement of immigrants who broke the law to come here, and authorities turned to an Antifa-linked group whose “hate map” inspired an act…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Declares Lethal Drug a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’  

    President Donald Trump has declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.   “With this historic executive order I will sign today, we’re formerly classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is,” the president said at the White House Monday. “No bomb does what this is doing,” Trump added.   Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Undercover GAO Investigation Exposes the Ease of Obamacare Fraud

    No one spends a dollar better than the person who earned it. That adage reveals the crux of massive fraud and improper payments that plague federal health insurance programs and drive up costs for taxpayers. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, more than 95% of the fictitious applications the GAO created and…
    Rachel Greszler
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    6 Deadly Antisemitic Attacks and Incidents Since Oct. 7 

    At least 15 people are dead after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese has called the deadly shooting an “act of terror and antisemitism.”   The victims of the Sydney shooting range in age from 10 to 87, according to The Associated Press. About 40 others sustained injuries during the attack.  …
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: How Trump’s ‘Convicted Felon’ Label Could Soon Vanish

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Almost two years after a Democrat-elected prosecutor secured a conviction against then-candidate Donald Trump, a New York appeals court could decide soon on the appeal of the Manhattan felony conviction. “There is no upside for the courts to string this along. So, we could see a ruling soon,” said Dan Backer,…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Hawleys Tout Polling Showing Where Americans Stand on Pro-Family Policy

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Josh and Erin Hawley’s new pro-family nonprofit is touting polling showing the majority of Americans believe society should provide pregnant women with better options than abortion. The polling, conducted by OnMessage Inc. on behalf of the Love Life Initiative, showed that 84% of Americans agree that “many pregnant mothers face difficult…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    MTG’s Last Legislative Push Before Resigning House Seat Aims to Deliver on MAGA Promise

    The House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., designed to protect children nationally from transgender procedures that disrupt children’s biology and development. Greene’s legislation, called the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, would make it a felony to perform surgery, administer medication, or provide other procedures to a…
    Jacob Adams
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    Conservative Student Dead Following Shooting at Brown University

    The vice president of College Republicans at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, was shot and killed over the weekend.   Ella Cook, a sophomore at the university, was attending an economics study session with a group of other students ahead of finals when a gunman entered the lecture hall and opened fire, killing Cook and another student and injuring at least nine others. Authorities have…
    Virginia Allen
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    More Tax on Tips: Blue States Undercutting New Federal Tax Cuts

    Filthy, vile, and disgusting. And I would add: reprehensible, repulsive, and rebarbative. These words perfectly describe the latest Democrat scheme to shaft industrious, economically embattled Americans, all so that the Left can get President Donald Trump. There are no depths too low for Democrats to dig to hurt this president. They were at Sub-basement Level 14 and have now jackhammered their…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Police to Release Man Detained Over Brown University Mass Shooting

    REUTERS—The man held as a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine injured will be released from custody, authorities said on Sunday night. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said earlier at a midday news conference that a man in his 20s was taken into custody in connection with Saturday’s gun violence but gave no further…
    Steve Gorman
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    • Opinion

    Wikipevil?

    Wikipedia is “Wokepedia,” complains Elon Musk. That’s because it’s become so left-wing. “It’s designed to push an ideological agenda that you can’t see,” says journalist Ashley Rindsberg in my new video. He runs “Neutral Point of View,” a Substack publication that exposes Wikipedia bias. “So what if its’ biased?” I ask. “It’s just one website.” “Wikipedia’s…
    John Stossel
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    Trump Can’t Insult Reporters When They Go After Him?

    People magazine and former Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi have made separate lists of insults President Donald Trump has recently lobbed at female reporters. It doesn’t matter how the journalists behaved because apparently, women can’t possibly be ill-mannered in press conferences. Or they think you can’t possibly be as rude as Trump. The list of…
    Tim Graham
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    • Opinion

    Cry the Beloved Europe?

    Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass Americans. Their pique only increases as they push back against the condescending American idea that the U.S. could possibly offer any constructive…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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