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    The Quiet Crisis of Manhood and the Profitable Lie Filling the Void
    We are living through a quiet but consequential redefinition of manhood—one shaped not by wisdom, responsibility, or lived experience but increasingly by noise, performance, and profit. A growing segment of voices, amplified across social media, promotes a hollow version of masculinity rooted in indulgence, detachment, and what can only be described as a kind of…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Michael Knowles Joins Scholars to Discuss Catholicism and the American Founding
    As America approaches its 250th anniversary, citizens anticipate celebrating our country’s history and the principles on which the nation was founded. The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with unalienable rights.” As one popular podcaster, and several…
    Jenna Lee
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    Easter Means Hope
    THE WASHINGTON STAND—We all need hope in these challenging days. There’s a popular saying about hope that goes something like this: “People can live about 40 days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for a few seconds without hope.” At Easter, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ,…
    Kenyn Cureton
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    Reclaiming the Lunar High Ground
    NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission sits ready at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B, with final preparations nearly complete for a 10-day flight that will carry four astronauts around the moon. It is the first such voyage in more than half a century—since Apollo 17 in 1972. For millions who remember those early grainy black-and-white…
    Leonard David
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    In Today’s NBA, Beliefs Can Be a Firing Offense
    There are plenty of things an NBA player can do and still keep his job. League history is littered with examples: players involved in off-court scandals, arrests, and even allegations of serious violence. Time and again, teams and the league have found ways to look past behavior that, in most professions, would be career-ending. But…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Members Confused Why British Monarch Set to Address Congress 250 Years After America Dumped Him
    This piece includes satire. King Charles III of the United Kingdom is set to address a joint meeting of Congress on April 28. Ahead of the address, members of Congress told The Daily Signal they were unaware or did not know why the king would come to address Congress 250 years after America ran the…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Democrats Sue to Stop Trump’s Latest Election Integrity Effort
    THE CENTER SQUARE—Democrat officials from 23 states and the District of Columbia announced Friday they’re suing to block President Donald Trump’s recent executive order regulating mail-in and absentee ballots. The suit was slated to be filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. A copy of the lawsuit wasn’t available as of press…
    Dave Mason
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    Trump Proposes to Begin Privatizing TSA Screening Operations
    WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters)—President Donald Trump on Friday proposed to begin privatizing airport security operations handled by the Transportation Security Administration, in an effort to save money. The White House budget proposes cutting funding for the federal agency created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by $52 million and would require small airports to enroll…
    Reuters
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    What Is ‘Good’ About Good Friday
    Christians describe the day an innocent man was violently executed as “Good.” Unless you know the whole story, it doesn’t make much sense. This is Holy Week on the Christian calendar. It began with Palm Sunday, which commemorates the Triumphal Entry. As Jesus rode a young donkey into Jerusalem, the people shouted, “Hosanna!” and “Blessed…
    Victor Joecks
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    ‘He Loves Us’ … and How God Made Sure I Knew It
    My mother died on a Good Friday. Which, in a way, was amusing because she’d long been at odds with God since my father’s death, and she had little use for organized religion since age 5 after some nun whacked her for asking questions. That is, until her final few months. After befriending a retired…
    Al Perrotta
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    How Trump’s 2027 Budget Cuts Funding for Woke Ideology
    President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget includes massive funding cuts for programs pushing ideologies “that poison the minds of Americans,” according to a fact sheet obtained by The Daily Signal. Under the leadership of Director Russ Vought, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget released its fiscal year 2027 budget Friday, stating plans to “eliminat[e]…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Released Millions to Planned Parenthood—Here’s How He Can Defund It Forever
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration has a plan to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal family planning funding, sources familiar with the matter tell The Daily Signal. The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it was extending Biden-era family planning grant awards to Planned Parenthood, sparking criticism from pro-lifers. However, the White House has…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Ousted FBI Agents Seek to Expand Lawsuit to BLM, LGBTQ Grievances
    For the second time in less than a month, former FBI agents involved in former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump have sued, alleging wrongful termination.  Three former agents, Jamie Garman, Blaire Toleman, and Michelle Ball, sued in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, naming FBI Director Kash Patel and…
    Fred Lucas
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    If Donald Trump Did What Obama Did, Media Would Cheer—So Why the Outrage Now?
    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 for The Daily Signal. I’ve talked about the opposition to the Iran war that we are witnessing, but it’s a little bit more than opposition….
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump to Sign Order to Pay Tens of Thousands of DHS Employees
    REUTERS—President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would soon sign an emergency order to pay all employees at the Department of Homeland Security who have worked without pay since mid-February, as Congress has failed to reach a funding deal. “I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the Department…
    David Shepardson
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    Oil Prices Jump After Trump Vows to ‘Finish the Job’ in Iran
    The price of oil surged on Thursday, after President Donald Trump pledged in an address to the nation to “finish the job” in Iran and said America’s allies should help open up the oil trade stalled by the conflict. During his Wednesday evening Oval Office address on Iran, Trump said that the Strait of Hormuz,…
    George Caldwell
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    I Saw the Artemis II Lift Off. It Was the Dawn of a New Era.
    I had the tremendous privilege of watching four NASA astronauts launch from the Kennedy Space Center on the Artemis II mission, which will take them closer to the moon than anyone has been in more than 50 years. Watching the rocket launch into space filled me with a sense of awe and respect for human…
    Jim Baird
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    Trump Claims Gold Star Families Told Him to ‘Finish the Job’ in Iran
    President Donald Trump said the families of fallen soldiers told him to “finish the job” in Iran. “Every single one of the people their loved ones said, ‘Please sir, please finish the job,’” Trump said in a primetime address to the nation on Wednesday night. The address marked one month since the United States launched…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    LIFTOFF: Successful Artemis II Launch Sends Astronauts Into Deep Space
    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration successfully launched four astronauts into deep space for the first time in more than 50 years. Artemis II launched the crewed Orion spacecraft at 6:35 p.m. EST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  The crew will travel for 10 days, loop around the moon, and go farther from Earth than…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    At Trump’s Prompting, GOP Leadership Hatches New Plan to Fund DHS
    With the partial government shutdown now the longest in U.S. history, House and Senate Republicans are trying a new plan to resolve the standstill. Last Friday, Republican senators passed a bill in the middle of the night to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, excluding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border…
    Rebecca Downs
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