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    Time for Trump to Drop Lawsuits and for the Press to Apologize
    Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits brought against Donald Trump, to the great glee of many of his “Never Trump” and Democrat detractors. Some of them had an immediate turnabout effect, especially Manhattan District Attorney Alvin…
    Michael Barone
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    How the Left Will Defend Its Censorship Regime Against Trump
    The reelection of President Donald Trump could serve as a historic turning point for free speech in America. President Trump has said he will investigate censorship practices by the federal government, end the rampant disrespect for First Amendment rights on our college campuses, and take on Big Tech’s Orwellian policing of speech on the internet. If successful,…
    Bradley Smith
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    SHOCKER!: PolitiFact Tags Trump for ‘Lie of the Year’ for Seventh Time
    Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they’ve singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene. It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: “A lie marked…
    Tim Graham
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    What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?
    In the weeks before his 2016 Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure. No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% approval. His inauguration in a few…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    How To Get Trump’s Agenda Through Congress
    A sweeping election victory on Nov. 5 means Republicans will have control of the House, Senate, and the White House come January. Capturing this trifecta, however, was just the beginning of conservatives’ fight to save the country.  Now comes the much harder task: conservatives actually have to govern. Republicans, animated by President-elect Donald Trump’s winning…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Biden Admin Rushes to Hire DEI Staff Ahead of Trump Inauguration
    Within 10 days of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory, 33 DEI-related jobs were posted by the federal government. Now, with barely a month until Trump takes office, The Daily Wire reported that the feds are “currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,200 employees to work on … [diversity, equity, and inclusion]—employees who would be…
    Sarah Holliday
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    Trump’s WARNING to Terrorists: Daughter of Americans Held Hostage Reacts
    In one day, 117 of the people Iris Weinstein Haggai grew up with, including her parents, “vanished.” Among the 400 residents living in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one mile from the border of Gaza, one in every four were either killed or taken hostage during the terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.   Like so many in…
    Virginia Allen
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    It Feels Like Trump Already Is President
    President-elect Donald Trump said so many things on the campaign trail that critics warned would hurt him in November. Yet he won the popular vote. Now, a month before Trump takes the oath of office, President Joe Biden is limiting his public appearances to such an extent that it feels like Trump already is president….
    Debra Saunders
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    Like Your Taxes Low? Trump and Republicans Want to Keep It That Way
    Sunday is the seven-year anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a landmark piece of legislation that contributed to historic economic prosperity under the first Trump administration.  In December 2017, a Republican Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed this package of sweeping reforms into the U.S. tax code, both for individual filers and…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    From Illegal Immigration to ‘No Tax on Tips,’ Youngkin Models States Working with Trump on America First Policies
    Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is demonstrating how states should work together with President-elect Donald Trump to enact a smart, conservative agenda. This is key leadership by Youngkin as some blue state governors vow to impede Trump’s agenda at every turn. For example, Youngkin recently announced his budget proposal to crack down on the Old…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    5 Lies Biden Used to Break the Border—and How Trump Can Fix It
    Over the past four years, President Joe Biden conducted an experiment: What happens if you open the U.S. border to nearly all who seek entry?  He released millions of illegal aliens at the border, paroled over a million more using programs Congress never authorized, and allowed at least 2 million more to evade the Border Patrol.  That resulted in…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Explaining the Beef Between Donald Trump and Chip Roy
    The drama surrounding the government funding deadline escalated Thursday when President-elect Donald Trump attacked Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. The shocking development came as Trump insisted on including a debt limit increase, which Roy firmly opposes. “The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great…
    Bradley Devlin
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    PARTISAN PUSH: All But 2 Democrats Vote Against Trump-Endorsed Government Funding Bill, Despite Debt Ceiling Increase
    Hours after President-Elect Donald Trump endorsed a new bill to fund the government, the House of Representatives took the first of multiple expected votes on the bill. The House first voted on whether to suspend the rules to pass the bill, the American Relief Act of 2025. That vote failed, 174 to 235, with both…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Administration Nomination Signals Return to Respect for Effective Patent Rights
    When President-elect Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Abigail “Gail” Slater to lead the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division last week, he expressed a return to his first administration’s policy of supporting innovation and rejecting support for predatory patent infringement by Big Tech companies. In his statement in support of Slater’s nomination, Trump recognized…
    Adam Mossoff
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    Fani Willis Booted From Trump Case in Georgia
    A Georgia appeals court on Thursday disqualified Fani Willis, the scandal-plagued prosecutor leading a racketeering case against Donald Trump and his 2020 campaign supporters.  The appeals court left the criminal charges in Georgia stemming from the 2020 presidential election in place but booted Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, and determined that a new prosecutor…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘President Trump Is Going to Usher in a Golden Age of Science,’ Health Expert Says
    Political agendas have “co-opted” science in America, according to the founder of an organization that helps consumers spend their health care dollars on proactive, preventative solutions like fitness, nutrition, and innovative health technology. In recent years, Calley Means, founder of Truemed and co-author of “Good Energy,” says science has become intermingled with public policy, which…
    Virginia Allen
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    ABC’s Payment to Trump Creates ‘Chilling Effect’ 
    After ABC News settled with Donald Trump for $16 million over George Stephanopoulos incessantly lying about Trump being held “liable for rape,” the hot concept in media panic was the “chilling effect.” MSNBC commentator Barbara McQuade lamented “the chilling effect it might have on people who otherwise would be critical of Donald Trump.” Is there…
    Tim Graham
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    Here’s How Trump Can Make America Beautiful Again
    Shortly after President-elect Donald Trump announced his 2024 presidential bid, the former and now future president released some preliminary policy objectives. Among them, Trump promised that, if put back in office, his administration would undertake efforts to get rid of ugly public buildings and beautify American cities. This week on “The Signal Sitdown,” my guest…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump, Vance Throw Curveball Into Spending Fight as Hill Scrambles to Fund Government
    President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance want House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans on Capitol Hill to play hardball with obstructionist Democrats in the ongoing government funding fight. On Tuesday night, Congressional leadership released the text of the continuing resolution that will fund the government until March 14, 2025. With funding set to…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Mitch McConnell Attacks Trump’s ‘America First’ Approach Despite Electoral Mandate
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A notable critic of President-elect Donald Trump appears to be gearing up to oppose key parts of the incoming administration’s foreign policy agenda, despite the electoral mandate of Trump’s “America First” slogan. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is going on offense against Trump’s foreign policy worldview, calling on him Monday in a published…
    Adam Pack
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