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Gas Taxes Are Rising Nationally—and Nowhere More Than California
Across the nation, states are raising their gas taxes. Leading the way, California now has a 70.9-cent per-gallon state excise tax. The Tax Foundation says the “gas tax is meant to function as a user fee, charging drivers to fund the construction and maintenance of the roads they use.” States apply tax gas in a variety of ways; most add tax at… -
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Trump Tells Senators to Pass the SAVE America Act ‘for Jesus’
With Congress’ spring break scheduled to start this week, President Donald Trump is demanding that the Senate stay in Washington, D.C., to pass the SAVE America Act and fund the Department of Homeland Security “for Jesus.” Rather than tackle DHS funding and the SAVE America Act separately, Trump is now pushing the Senate to bundle the… -
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Ohio Military Service Members Return Home After Paying Ultimate Sacrifice in Epic Fury
Operation Epic Fury has hit home for the Buckeye State. Last Wednesday, three members of the U.S. military from Ohio returned home after paying the ultimate sacrifice. President Donald Trump was in attendance for the dignified transfer as America remembers and honors these fallen soldiers. Ohio natives Cpt. Seth Koval, Cpt. Curtis Angst, and Tech…. -
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Supreme Court Backs Police Immunity in Protest Case
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a Vermont police officer is entitled to qualified immunity after a protester at the state Capitol sued him for an injury in a case that stretches back more than a decade. Qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers from litigation if they are acting in the line of duty,… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Won the Battle, But Will He Take Iran?
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. We’re concluding the third week of the Israeli-United States effort to emasculate Iran, and we’re, sort of, in a standoff period…. -
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A Shrinking Fleet and Slower Shipyards are Forcing Unsustainable Deployments for the US Navy
Since the end of the Cold War, for 30 years, the U.S. Navy has sustained a third of its fleet deployed on the backs of sailors and sometimes taking shortcuts at the shipyard—this approach is breaking down, according to the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office. But with what is being called a… -
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Fraud Scandal Deepens: Key Defendant Who Met Top Minnesota Official Pleads Guilty
Another five individuals pleaded guilty in a massive fraud scandal in Minnesota, including one who met with the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison. Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, 42, was a consultant for Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit at the center of a federal fraud investigation. Mohamed was identified by the Justice Department as a leader in… -
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GOP Rep Challenges Muslim Leaders to Condemn Islamic Terror
A Congressional Republican told The Daily Signal that he is concerned about the “silence” from Muslim leaders in condemning the wave of recent terror attacks carried out by alleged Islamic terrorist who “cited a religious justification for their violence.” “If a Christian justified violence by citing the Bible, every church in America would and SHOULD… -
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Trump’s Mueller Comments and What Andrew Breitbart Told Me When Ted Kennedy Died
There was plenty of outrage yesterday after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social and posted the following reaction to the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” Predictably, the response was swift and condemning. Critics called the statement… -
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Phyllis Schlafly, a Hero for Today’s Women
This is an adapted excerpt from Emma Waters’ new book “Lead Like Jael: 7 Timeless Principles for Today’s Women of Faith,” out March 24 from Regnery Faith. In the autumn of 1973, the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield became an unlikely battlefield. As legislators prepared to vote on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment… -
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Blue States—and a Few Red States—Taxing the Trump Accounts
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has staked out an anti-Donald Trump resistance position on nearly every issue, but backs changing his state’s tax law for children’s accounts bearing the president’s name. “Minnesota does not adopt federal tax law changes automatically. The state Legislature must pass a tax conformity bill in order to adopt federal tax law… -
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Justices Skeptical of Counting Late-Arriving Ballots
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday seemed particularly skeptical of arguments by the state of Mississippi that mail-in ballots arriving after Election Day should still be counted. Mississippi counts ballots that arrive up to five days after Election Day. At least 17 states and the District of Columbia count ballots that arrive late, with… -
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How the Human Rights Campaign Makes You Complicit in Child Victimization
Thanks to the Human Rights Campaign, even conservatives may be helping fund child-mutilating hormones and surgery, mother-and-father loss, and the destruction of embryonic life—not through elections or legislation, but through burrito bowls, chocolate bars, and bronzer. That is the scandal exposed by a new report from Them Before Us, “Harming Rights of Children: How the… -
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Trump Has a New Plan to Solve Homeland Security, Voter ID Disputes
President Donald Trump is demanding that any deal with Democrats to fund the Department of Homeland Security include an agreement on requiring photo identification and proof of citizenship in federal elections. The demand merges two battles that Congress has failed to resolve. “I don’t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying,… -
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Battered Christopher Columbus Statue Blessed With New Home From Trump
The White House installed a statue of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus early Sunday, constructed from the remains of a monument that was destroyed in a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest. The new statue is located outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House. The original statue was located in Columbus Piazza in… -
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Trump Stops Strikes on Iran’s Energy Infrastructure
President Donald Trump says the United States will not conduct strikes on Iranian power plants for the next five days. “I am pleased to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of… -
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Big Tech in the Crosshairs of New Coalition With Lots to Spend
A new pro-family technology coalition plans to spend at least eight figures this year to protect children from dangers presented by artificial intelligence. On Friday, the White House released its National Framework on AI, which called for measures to protect children, but didn’t go far enough for many child safety advocates. For the first time,… -
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Obamacare at 16: An Unhappy Birthday
March 23, 2010. Sixteen years ago, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, thus locking into statutory concrete the dysfunctional status quo that burdens us today. Recall this was Obama’s “signature” legislative achievement. Of course, Obama’s congressional allies knew exactly what they were doing. They conscientiously read and fully grasped the 2,700-page… -
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Tom Homan Knows Why Democrats Want to Keep DHS Shut Down
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—White House border czar Tom Homan told CNN on Sunday he thinks Democrats’ apparent decision to prolong the partial government shutdown is not due to differences in immigration policy but instead “execution.” Homan appeared on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash” on the 37th day of the Department… -
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Treasury’s Bessent Says US Has ‘Plenty’ of Funds for Iran War
WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) — The U.S. government has “plenty of money” to fund the war against Iran, but is requesting supplemental funding from Congress to ensure the military is well supplied in the future, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday. Bessent, speaking on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” program, also ruled out…