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opinion
GOP Establishment’s Days Are Numbered
The Republican establishment doesn’t know it yet, but last weekend was a watershed moment for their party. On April 20, House Republican leadership facilitated passage of a foreign-aid package that sends roughly $60 billion to Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel and Gaza, $8 billion to Taiwan, and exactly zero dollars to the southern border. The… -
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Can You Guess the Most Unpopular Leader in Congress?
It’s no secret that Congress is highly unpopular with the American people. For years, it consistently has ranked near the bottom of U.S. institutions. This month’s Gallup/Newsweek poll put its disapproval at 80%. But how about its leaders? Veteran pollster and TV host Scott Rasmussen, president of RMG Research, surveyed 2,000 registered voters last week… -
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Let the Ivy Leagues Reap What They’ve Sown
The Left’s winter of discontent appears to be transitioning into a summer of rage as college campus unrest heats up with the warmer weather. Well-funded and well-organized anti-Israel protests are spreading from one college campus to another. And they are becoming a feature in America’s Democrat-run cities as mobs of radicals have been able to… -
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The Biden Administration Has Redefined ‘Sex.’ What Does That Mean for Schools?
The Biden administration now says that “sex” means “gender identity.” So, what does this mean for K-12 teachers? In a new regulation released last week, the Biden administration changed the definition of “sex” in a crucial civil rights law that was originally designed to protect women. Title IX of the Civil Rights Act says that schools cannot discriminate… -
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What I Saw at UPenn’s Pro-Hamas Protest Encampment
PHILADELPHIA—Victoria Coates, a national security expert at The Heritage Foundation, traveled Thursday to the City of Brotherly Love with a cadre of security personnel to deliver this simple but now radical belief at the University of Pennsylvania: “Hating Jews is a bad idea.” Following Coates’ remarks to the Penn Alumni Free Speech Alliance and the… -
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Jonathan Turley Says Bragg’s Case Against Trump Is ‘Collapsing’ After Witness Testimony
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley on Friday said the prosecution’s case against former President Donald Trump is failing as a key witness is benefiting the defense. Trump is on trial facing 34 felony counts of allegedly falsifying business records in relation to a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. The prosecution’s… -
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The Marxists Come Out at George Washington University
“We must have a revolution so we can have a socialist reconstruction of the United States of America,” said rally speaker Sean Blackmon, member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation What would George Washington think if you told him that a university bearing his name would one day be inculcating protesters who sought the… -
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Texas Shows How to Prevent a Campus Takeover
Given the Marxist fixation with seizing power, it’s strange that woke university administrators can’t seem to use it better. After all, they, not the students, are the legitimate authority on campus. For campus administrators who need remedial training on how to do their jobs, Texas provided a tutorial Wednesday when University of Texas at Austin… -
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Restore Order and Crush the Campus Jihadist Thugs
In his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, President George Washington reached a stirring conclusion: “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine… -
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Judge’s Conflicted Political Ties Raise Eyebrows in Trump Trial
“THIS SCAM ‘RUSHED’ TRIAL IS BEING PRESIDED OVER BY POSSIBLY THE MOST CONFLICTED JUDGE IN JUDICIAL HISTORY,” former President Donald J. Trump declared with characteristic understatement via Truth Social. Trump added that Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan “MUST BE REMOVED FROM THIS HOAX IMMEDIATELY.” Whether Merchan is “the most conflicted judge” ever is debatable. However, he surely belongs in… -
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FBI Director Accused of Hypocrisy for Monitoring Conservatives but Not Pro-Hamas Protests
The director of the FBI is being accused of hypocrisy for allowing the targeting of concerned parents, Trump supporters, and American Catholics but not “monitoring” pro-Hamas rallies and protests on college campuses. Director Christopher Wray was asked in an interview on Tuesday about “actively monitoring” the rallies erupting across college and university campuses, which have become the… -
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How Israel May Curb Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
Details of Israel’s recent limited retaliatory strike against Iran‘s antiaircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed to stop such incoming ordnance. The target was near the Natanz… -
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Big Questions Before Supreme Court in Trump’s Presidential Immunity Case
The nine Supreme Court justices have a major question before them. Is a current or former president immune from prosecution? Former President Donald Trump is facing prosecution for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump argues that his actions as president are protected from prosecution under presidential immunity. Trump lawyer John… -
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Biden’s Latest Power Plant Power Grab
Almost two years after a similar rule was rejected by the Supreme Court, the Biden administration on Thursday released another final rule for regulating America’s power plants. Under the rule, coal-fired power plants and most new natural gas-fired power plants would have to eliminate 90% of their carbon emissions by 2039 or close down in… -
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EXCLUSIVE: How The Daily Wire Is Bringing the Christian Faith of King Arthur and Merlin to Life
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Wire’s new streaming television show “The Pendragon Cycle” will highlight the Christian faith of King Arthur and Merlin as portrayed in Stephen R. Lawhead’s book series. The series will show how the wizard Merlin and his father, the bard Taliesin, learn to let God direct their supernatural powers, Jeremy… -
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Biden Again Puts Politics Ahead of National Security and Good Sense
In another staggeringly poor choice for the nation, the Biden administration is putting concern for votes in the coming election before national security interests. Strangely, due to election calculations, President Joe Biden seems to prefer Hamas and China over Israel and Japan. Already going with the head-shaker of softballing America’s response to Hamas’ terrorist attacks… -
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Election 2020 Redux: Presidential Immunity Question Before the Supreme Court
In what may be one of the most important and historic cases the U.S. Supreme Court has ever handled, the court heard almost three hours of oral arguments Thursday in Trump v. United States, the presidential immunity case. In a spirited discussion in the final case to be heard by the court before its summer… -
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Mexican NGO With Pro-Biden Flyers Also Allowed Anti-Trump Display, Images Show
A migrant services center in Mexico near the Texas border where pro-Joe Biden flyers recently were posted also was home to a display opposing Donald Trump in 2020. The executive director of Resource Center Matamoros has denied any political involvement by the nongovernmental organization. However, new images obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, in collaboration… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Seattle School Board Member Calls Israel ‘Right-Wing Apartheid Force’ in Pro-BLM Email
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Emails obtained by Parents Defending Education, a watchdog organization, show a Seattle school board member called Israel a “right-wing apartheid force” and praised the Black Lives Matter movement six days after Hamas’ terrorist attacks left over 1,200 dead in the Jewish state. Eliza Rankin, the school board member for Seattle Public… -
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Trump Faces 34 Felonies at Trial. But Was There a Crime?
I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged the former president with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has pleaded not guilty. The case began with Michael Cohen, Trump’s onetime…