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STRATEGIC PROPERTY: This Plot of Land May Prove Essential To a Central Trump Campaign Promise
A 1,402-acre ranch in Texas may become ground zero for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, a Republican, spearheaded purchase of the ranch, which is located along the border with Mexico in Starr County between Laredo and McAllen, Texas. Now, Buckingham says, Texas may lease the land to the federal… -
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Trump’s George Washington Moment
Months before the November election, a research study with which I was involved asked respondents which of 10 historical presidents they wished were in the Oval Office today. To prevent “recency” bias, we kept the list to former presidents whose legacies are largely defined: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore… -
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How Vietnam Can Be Key to America’s Strength, Stability in Indo-Pacific
Forget “Made in China.” There’s a much better alternative that puts America first. Born in 1975, the same year the Vietnam War ended, I witnessed Vietnam’s profound struggles under socialism and its remarkable transition toward a market economy. My father, who served alongside U.S. forces during the war, brought our family to the United States,… -
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2 of Every 3 Abortion Facilities in US Shuttered Since 1990, Report Says
More than two out of every three abortion facilities in the United States have closed their doors since 1990—but abortion still represents “a dark, bloody, hopeless stain on humanity,” according to a new report released Tuesday. A total of 667 abortion facilities currently do business in America, according to Operation Rescue’s 2024 annual survey of abortion… -
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More Corporations Following Walmart’s ‘Rollback’ of DEI Policies
Walmart executives scuttled the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion programs recently, becoming the latest corporate giant to drop extreme politics after public outcry. Others on the Fortune 500 list, such as Coors and Boeing, have also rescinded DEI operations in recent months after criticism from activists such as conservative documentarian Robby Starbuck. Employees and customers… -
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Your Tax Dollars Not at Work
Government excels at NOT getting things done. But politicians promise more things anyway. Kamala Harris declared that our government would “build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!” This “broadband connectivity agenda” was supported by “every House Republican on Energy and Commerce,” write Republican representatives. Three years later, not a single person has been connected. Why?… -
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Stop the Smear
Young blood is here. President-elect Donald Trump has gone full throttle for a new generation of leaders. Consider these Trump nominees for Cabinet posts: Though Matt Gaetz, 42, withdrew his bid to lead the Justice Department, he fit the profile as well—young, outspoken, willing to cut against the grain. Not everyone welcomes the generational change. When smears and media… -
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Major Democratic State Faces Devastating Population Bomb
THE CENTER SQUARE—New York’s population could decline by more than 2 million people over the next 25 years as fewer people are born in the state and more people move out, according to a new report. The study by Cornell University’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s Program on Applied Demographics projects that New… -
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Inside ‘the Blob’: How Bureaucrats Brought Down Britain’s Leader
A new documentary from Palladium Pictures and The Wall Street Journal examines how Britain’s permanent bureaucracy—nicknamed “the Blob”—played a pivotal role in ending Liz Truss‘ brief tenure in late 2022 as prime minister. Through interviews with Truss and other key players, director Michael Pack, a former CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, reveals… -
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What Role Did Ex-FBI Head Andy McCabe’s Wife Play in Gov’t Weaponization Against Parents? Conservative Group Demands Answers
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative group is demanding documents from the Justice Department that could shed light on whether former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe or his wife played any role in the campaign to sic federal law enforcement on parents who protested school boards in 2021. In a statement to The Daily Signal… -
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Entrepreneurs Look to Capitalize on Trump’s Mandate
During his first term, President-elect Donald Trump took to calling Mar-a-Lago—the 62,500-square-foot, Spanish Revival-style mansion that doubles as a private club and Trump’s private residence—the Winter White House or the Southern White House. That Mar-a-Lago is again the Winter White House probably makes Marjorie Merriweather Post, the breakfast cereal heiress who built it in the… -
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Battleground Michigan Set to Debate Citizen-Only Voting Initiative
Lawmakers in Michigan—one of the most fiercely contested battleground states in the 2024 presidential election—will consider an amendment to the state Constitution to ensure that only citizens vote. Michigan state Rep. Bryan Posthumus, the No. 2 Republican in the House as floor leader, says that next month he will propose a constitutional amendment requiring prospective voters… -
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How Not to Think About Syria
The rapid demise of the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has taken every geopolitical analyst and self-proclaimed Middle East “expert” by storm. Following 53 years of brutal Assad family rule and 13 years of bloody civil war, the Syrian strongman abruptly fled for asylum in Moscow as rebels finalized their encircling of Damascus. In… -
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Catholic Health Care System Partners With Pro-Abortion Virtual Women’s Health Clinic
The Catholic health care system CommonSpirit partners with an online women’s health clinic that offers abortion pills and referrals for surgical abortions. CommonSpirit Health announced in 2021 it would partner with Ask Tia to create “a new front door to health care for women.” The partnership, uncovered by the pro-life organization Save the Storks, “enables… -
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The Stench of BO: Barack Obama’s Mystique a Casualty of the Election
Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. As such, he and his coterie proved to be the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American… -
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Unsurprisingly, Democrats Call on Biden to Break the Law Before Leaving Office
The Equal Rights Amendment is dead. Not, as Miracle Max put it in “The Princess Bride,” “mostly dead,” but “all dead.” ERA advocates, however, just won’t let it rest in peace. Forty-six Senate Democrats have written President Joe Biden, asking that he help perpetuate the ERA myth even as he leaves office, requesting that he… -
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When Can Government Deport Foreign Students for Pro-Hamas Protests?—The BorderLine
Is there any behavior by a foreign student here on a visa that’s so bad that he should be deported? Apparently under Joe Biden, the answer was no. It remains to be seen how campus radicals will fare under Donald Trump. Momodou Taal, described in a local paper as a “United Kingdom citizen” and elsewhere… -
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‘Hell’: A Hostage’s Story
Aviva Siegel’s whole face brightened. “Of course, I have to,” she said when asked if she allows herself to dream about the day her husband is freed from captivity in Gaza. “My heart will explode. I will scream. I will jump into the air, and it’s just going to be … I don’t know, I’ll… -
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Make America Healthy Again: Sanders Calls for Ban on Using Food Stamps for Junk Food
One governor is fed up with taxpayers subsidizing junk food—and hurting the long-term health of their fellow Americans. Food stamps—formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—“is undermining the health of millions of Americans, on the taxpayer’s dime, by encouraging families to eat highly processed, unhealthy junk food,” writes Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in… -
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MORE THAN TWO DOZEN: New Report Reveals How Many Informants FBI Had on Jan. 6
Two dozen FBI confidential sources were part of the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and four of those informants illegally entered the building, according to a new report by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General. Another 13 of the 26 confidential human sources were in restricted areas around the Capitol…