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The Delegitimization of Israel in the Airline Industry
This article is the first in a series examining the expanding scope of efforts to delegitimize Israel as it fights a war for survival against Iran and its proxies in the Middle East. As a small country in a hostile neighborhood, Israel is overly reliant on international flights for business and tourism. So, it’s troubling… -
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Why the Founders Considered America a ‘Second Israel’
It is a truism that the West was formed by Athens and Jerusalem—meaning the rational thinking introduced by Greece and the moral and religious thought introduced by Israel. Of the two, Jerusalem’s contribution was the more enduring. Relatively few Westerners read Aristotle and Plato. Virtually every citizen of the West—even the illiterate—until the last generation… -
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Kamala Harris Doesn’t Care About You, Only Herself, Senator Says
Over the past nearly four years, Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration have created more crises than I can count. Because it’s an election year, they are running around like firemen desperately trying to put out a fire. The only problem is, they’re the ones who lit the match. Now, less than a… -
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Naval Academy Ignores Students’ Right Not to Recite Preferred Pronouns
Something is amiss in Annapolis, home of the U.S. Naval Academy. A rot growing like kudzu across this bucolic campus is undermining the Naval Academy’s core mission: to prepare young officers to take command at sea. How else can you explain the academy’s insistence that the Supreme Court’s holding that it is unconstitutional for colleges… -
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Debunking Democrats’ Oft-Repeated Anti-Trump Lies
If you are reading these words, you are paying unusually close attention to Election 2024. Most Americans are too busy to follow campaigns in depth. Politicos often speak in shorthand and wrongly assume that everyone understands us. Phrases like “very fine people” and “bloodbath” echo across party offices and newsrooms. But they escape normal people…. -
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Verizon Denies Relationship With Leftist Group Despite Promoting Its Education Program After Black Lives Matter Riots
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Right after the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis, Verizon promoted education materials from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center that advocated for teaching Black Lives Matter in school. The company now denies any relationship with the SPLC. Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm that urges companies to… -
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’Stand Your Ground With Love’: French Teacher Fired for Rejecting Personal Pronouns Wins Lawsuit Almost 6 Years Later
French teacher Peter Vlaming was fired in 2018 for shunning the use of pronouns to refer to a transgender-identifying student. On Sept. 30, the West Point School Board in Virginia agreed to pay him $575,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees. “I’m so relieved that our basic fundamental rights of freedom of expression, of freedom of… -
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Colorado Governor Silent on Whether He’ll Use Far-Left Smear Factory to Cancel Conservatives After Flag Squabble
Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, did not respond to concerns that his administration would rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center to exclude conservatives from a state flag program after his office apologized for honoring a gay organization the SPLC brands a “hate group.” Polis’ signature appeared on a document celebrating the Colorado chapter of… -
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Biden-Harris Admin’s Medicare Shock for Seniors
“We finally beat Medicare,” President Joe Biden claimed during his calamitous June 27 debate with former President Donald Trump. The White House later clarified: “He meant to say that he beat big pharma.” But seniors’ wallets are taking the beating. Changes made to Medicare’s prescription drug coverage by the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats—with not… -
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Why the Far Left Has Worked So Hard to Cancel Christopher Columbus
The far Left’s obsession with canceling Christopher Columbus does not have as much to do with the man, but rather what he represents, according to historian Jarrett Stepman. Efforts to cancel men like Columbus come from “cultural Marxists who thought that you need to change American culture to truly change our policies at the highest… -
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America’s Bipartisan Spending Suicide Pact
The greatest moral hazard in American life is politics. Many of you probably remember 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney being secretly recorded by a Democratic operative telling donors that “47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what” because they are “dependent upon government … believe that they are victims… -
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The Left’s Double Standard on Unconfirmed Rumors
Bob Woodward is the most overpraised journalist in modern American history. He’s an “icon” because he took out Richard Nixon. Every book should be titled “Democrats Pounce” because that’s how these books succeed. Back in October 2006, when Woodward’s Bush-bashing book “State of Denial” came out, NBC’s Tim Russert proclaimed: “Mr. Woodward will be all… -
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How Free Cash Ruins Lives
Some politicians and activists are eager to give you “free” money. They call it universal basic income, or UBI—cash for everyone, no strings attached. Comedian Dave Chappelle thinks UBI would “save my community almost instantly.” In my new video, UBI activist Conrad Shaw agrees, “You would effectively get rid of extreme poverty immediately.” He says… -
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Oct. 7 Apologists Are Right About One Thing: Hamas’ Terrorism Didn’t Take Place in a Vacuum
Within minutes of Hamas jihadists breaching the Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, and commencing the largest slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Western leftists and other defenders of the genocidal Palestinian-Arab cause rallied around a talking point: “This did not occur in a vacuum.” The claim—blithely offered by armchair revolutionaries without even… -
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Sticking With Trump: CEO’s Sign Makes a Big Statement in Small-Town America
Anthony Constantino grew up in Amsterdam, New York, at a time when the city was bustling with activity. In the years that followed, however, many of the manufacturing jobs disappeared, leaving its factories empty and its residents without work. Rather than flee upstate New York, Constantino instead co-founded Sticker Mule in 2010. The company makes… -
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WATCH: The Cost of a Failed Coup
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris learn the consequences of a failed coup. When you shiv your boss in the back only half-way, leaving him a vegetable in the Oval Office, but in the office all the same, you run the risk of his… -
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The Left Fears Wars, Hurricanes Will Affect Election
With the Katrina-level federal incompetence in North Carolina, The New York Times is panicking that “economic turbulence” could sink Vice Presidential Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign, handing the nation to MAGA fanatics who want to seize the federal government and make it leave you alone. The article laments that we’re seeing October surprises, but the wrong… -
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Harris Calls DeSantis ‘Selfish,’ Biden Praises Him as ‘Very Gracious’
Two hours before Hurricane Milton made landfall, President Joe Biden had only kind words for Ron DeSantis—even though his vice president, Kamala Harris, accused Florida’s Republican governor of being “utterly irresponsible.” At issue: a phone call. The day before, Biden even gave DeSantis his personal cellphone number, urging him “to contact me directly, if that’s necessary.” Harris,… -
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Democratic Senate Candidates Shunning Harris on Campaign Trail
With only about 25 days until this damnably necessary act of democracy descends into recriminations and conversations about 2028, Donald Trump is barnstorming across the nation while Kamala Harris sits for interviews designed to generate turnout from her base. Where are Barack and Michelle Obama? Does democracy not matter? Where is Hillary Rodham Clinton? Where… -
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What I Saw on My Visit to Springfield, Ohio: The BorderLine
Last week, I went to Springfield, Ohio, to see for myself this town that has symbolized the raging debate about mass illegal migration, which remains a top concern of voters. Above the noise and distraction, my conclusion was that Springfield symbolizes two main issues. First, you can’t have open borders and a welfare state. Second,…