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    Hollywood vs Individualism
    Many popular movies make a constructive point: If you work hard enough and push through tough times, you can achieve your dreams. In “The Pursuit of Happyness,” a struggling father tells his son, “Don’t let anyone tell you, you can’t do something.” The movie is a true story about a man who overcomes homelessness and…
    John Stossel
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    Europe Needs to Calm Down About Greenland
    Is the United States about to invade Greenland? If you listen to EU politicians and much of the U.S. legacy media, and actually take them seriously, then you might answer “yes.” President Donald Trump is going to unleash Delta Force to spirit away the prime minister before we nuke Nuuk (the capital of Greenland) and send…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    America Needs More Masculinity 
    Society has spent decades telling boys that masculinity is toxic, and now there’s a shortage of skilled tradesmen. The connection should be obvious.   Through his on-again, off-again tariff dance, President Donald Trump has made one thing clear: He wants more things built in America. He’s bragged about already securing more investment dollar commitments than former…
    Victor Joecks
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    Minnesota’s Dangerous Surrender of the Rule of Law
    Now that the nation’s attention has turned to Minnesota and its massive welfare fraud – fraud so large (referred to as “industrial-scale” by the assistant U.S. attorney, possibly as much as $9 billion) that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz felt compelled to end his bid for reelection—we should take the opportunity to investigate the possibility of a different kind of fraud,…
    Jenny Beth Martin
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    The Task That Lies Ahead in Venezuela
    Dictator and narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in a thrilling nighttime raid on his palace in Caracas, Venezuela, in an operation codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve. The mission involved over 150 aircraft launched from around 20 bases across the hemisphere. It neutralized much of Venezuela’s air defenses, cut power in Caracas, and ended…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Leftist Group Dodges Accountability for ‘Hate Group’ Accusation After Judge Blocks Discovery
    A federal judge dismissed a conservative nonprofit’s defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center Wednesday, reversing a previous judge’s theory of the case. Critics say the SPLC routinely smears mainstream conservative and Christian groups by placing them on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. D.A. King, founder of the Dustin…
    Tyler O’Neil
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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 | Elise McCue
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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 | Nicole Huyer
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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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