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    Thank You, Michael Reagan
    Recently, Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, passed away at age 80. His passing was duly eulogized by the Reagan Foundation and the Young America’s Foundation at the Reagan Ranch. Both noted that Michael, whom I had the privilege to know, devoted his life to writing and speaking about the American principles…
    Star Parker
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    Yearning for Truth: Why Young Americans March for Life
    Tens of thousands rallied in Washington, D.C. at the 53rd annual March for Life on Friday. This year’s theme: Life is a Gift. While some suggest that unborn life is a cause for parents and grandparents, thousands of young Americans joined the March for Life in a public display that defied the caricature of the pro-life movement. Some shared…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Ivy League Prof: ‘Black Lives Matter Was Created From a Fabrication’
    “Black Lives Matter was created from a fabrication,” Bill Jacobson, founder of Legal Insurrection and professor of law at Cornell University, tells substitute host Jack Fowler on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” The two also unravel the shocking hostility Jewish students have faced since the Oct. 7 massacre. Subscribe to…
    Jack Fowler
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    Diplomats Ponder if Trump Is Reviving Founding-Era Foreign Policy
    Is President Donald Trump’s foreign policy doctrine a return to how America’s Founding Fathers thought about foreign policy? Last week, 300 diplomats gathered at a dinner in Washington, D.C. to ponder the question. The Ben Franklin Fellowship’s Honoring America’s First Diplomat dinner brought together foreign policy experts to compare the Trump doctrine to foreign policy…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Trump’s Outrageous Threats Get Real Results
    Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the international press would have no difficulty finding…
    Michael Barone
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    In Real Life, There’s No New ‘CBS Newsmax’ Under Bari Weiss
    The leftists on social media have hilariously caricatured CBS News under new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as “CBS Newsmax,” like it’s lurched dramatically to the right. But if you’re monitoring CBS in real life, there’s plenty of evidence that “classic CBS” is still operating. In recent days, CBS has proven to be worse than ABC and…
    Tim Graham
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    Who’s Afraid of the Ten Commandments?
    On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a crucial case that is all but guaranteed to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The predictable controversy surrounding the litigation, which involves similar but distinct mandatory Ten Commandments display laws arising out of Texas and…
    Josh Hammer
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    The Left’s Search for a New Cause
    Monday marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans to judge one another by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. It is a legacy rooted in a specific historical struggle—one that culminated in the Civil Rights Act after years of…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Why ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ Is the Greatest Book of the 20th Century
    On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” David J. Mahoney explains to co-host Jack Fowler why he believes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” is the greatest book of the 20th century. Mahoney, professor emeritus at Assumption University and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, also unpacks Thomas Sowell’s theory that…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Top 25 Signs at the March for Life 2026
    Tens of thousands of pro-life demonstrators filled Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 53rd annual March for Life, an event that once again drew national attention as participants rallied around the 2026 theme, “Life Is a Gift.” The march proceeded from the National Mall toward the U.S. Supreme Court, with crowds composed of families, school…
    Katherine Matt
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    Murder Rates Plummeted Last Year, Yet Media Refuse to Give Trump Credit
    Violent crime plummeted around the country this year, but the legacy media refuse to acknowledge that it has anything to do with the return of President Donald Trump. According to a report by the Council on Criminal Justice, over the past year, the murder rate dropped to its lowest level since 1900. Other crimes dropped…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Why America’s Founding Principles Still Matter 250 Years Later
    The following remarks were delivered by Matthew Spalding at the Freedom 250 Mobile Museum kickoff event in Summerfield, North Carolina, on Jan. 21. It is great to be with you on this wonderful occasion.  But I must point out that we wouldn’t be here today, were it not for those remarkable Americans who gave us a…
    Matthew Spalding
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    Freedom 250 Mobile Museum Launches National Tour for America’s Semiquincentennial 
    The Freedom 250 Mobile Museum kickoff event this week launched a nationwide tour of interactive museum trucks designed to bring American history to communities across the country.  This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the Mobile Museum truck revealed Wednesday is one of six that will tour the United States in celebration of the semiquincentennial.  Matthew Spalding, vice president for…
    Reagan Campbell
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    Biological Male Under Pressure From Colleagues After Stunt at Women-Only Event
    Conservative members of Congress pushed back on biological male Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., at a women-only press conference on legislation that would allow victims to sue the creators of nonconsensual sexually explicit artificial intelligence content on Thursday. McBride, who now goes by the name Sarah, began identifying as a woman 10 years before being elected…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Moves to Claw Back Taxpayer Funds for Immigrant Children’s Abortions
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Health and Human Services is officially moving to roll back a Biden-era policy of taxpayer-funded abortion travel for unaccompanied illegal alien children in the U.S., The Daily Signal can first report. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, within the HHS Administration for Children and Families division, is making regulatory…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Disinvites Nation From Board of Peace
    President Donald Trump has revoked his invitation to Canada to join his new Board of Peace overseeing Gaza. “Dear Prime Minister Carney,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday, “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever…
    Virginia Allen
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    What Jack Smith Didn’t Say About Paid Confidential Informants
    Former special counsel Jack Smith couldn’t answer how much in tax dollars went to confidential sources in his nearly two-year investigation of President Donald Trump.  House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pushed Smith on the topic during the committee hearing on Thursday. Jordan noted that at least $20,000 went to a single source to review…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘All Signs Point’ to End of Communist Cuba, GOP Officials Say
    Republican officials believe President Donald Trump is close to “freeing the people of Cuba,” as whistleblowers claimed the Trump administration eyes regime change in Cuba by the end of 2026. The administration has allegedly been in search of Cuban insiders who can help execute a regime change on the island, The Wall Street Journal recently…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Jack Smith Forced to Explain ‘Enemies List’ of Congressional Phone Records
    Lawmakers grilled former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday for scooping up phone records of members of Congress while concealing his targets from a judge. Smith testified publicly before the House Judiciary Committee after giving a private deposition last month regarding his nearly two-year probe of then-former President Donald Trump. Smith’s investigation focused on alleged…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Sues JPMorgan Chase, Bank Says
    REUTERS—U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase on accusations of debanking, the largest U.S. lender said in a statement on Thursday. Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, filed the $5 billion lawsuit Thursday morning in Florida state court in Miami on behalf of the president and several of his hospitality companies, a Fox…
    Manya Saini
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