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opinion
Daily Signal Reaches 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube
The Daily Signal reached 1 million followers on YouTube Friday, capping off an incredible year of growth for its video content. In 2025 alone, The Daily Signal has added over 600,000 subscribers to its YouTube channel and increased its annual video views by over 400%. “We have provided original, smart conservative commentary and reporting, and our rapidly growing audience has shown there… -
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Government Control in the Digital Age
Politicians push government IDs. In a Transportation Security Administration announcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem sternly warns, “You will need a REAL ID to travel by air or visit federal buildings.” European politicians go much further, reports Stossel TV producer Kristin Tokarev. They’re pushing government-mandated digital IDs that tie your identity to nearly everything… -
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The $100 Billion Question Nobody’s Asking: Why Are Taxpayers Funding Big Tech Contracts With Nothing to Show for It?
When the government, or anyone for that matter, spends $100 billion annually on information technology, you’d expect transformative results. Instead, we get a masterclass in institutional capture. It’s clear the federal government is serving the best interests of massive software companies, not taxpayers or federal workers. Instead, the federal IT landscape resembles a graveyard of… -
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Tech Neutrality Lets Big Tech Off the Hook
Imagine this: You’re waiting your turn at the DMV only to discover that it’s under new management. The federal government announced a ban on state driving laws just this morning. No longer will states be allowed to set their own public guardrails like speed limits. Instead, Washington will write the rules—maybe. Because while calling for… -
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How Obama, Biden Regulations Slowed Technology Growth in Health Care
Regulations from Obamacare and under the Biden administration not only increased the cost of health care, they also made it more difficult to advance artificial intelligence and other technology in medicine, experts told a House panel Wednesday. The regulations amount to “layers of permission” for health data, said Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, Blue Cross of California… -
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Don’t Feed the Beast: America Should Not Be Sending H200 Chips to China
Recent reports suggest the Trump administration is considering a request by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to ease export controls in order to sell more advanced Artificial Intelligence chips to China. Specifically, Huang is lobbying the White House to permit Nvidia to sell China significant quantities of its H200 chip. This would be a colossal mistake…. -
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‘Nuclear’ Data Centers Right Outside Virginia’s Capital City?
Richmond, Virginia’s WTVR news viewers heard the headline this week that “Goochland County residents voice concerns over proposed data center and nuclear reactor development.” While anti-data center protests are growing more common, there’s also a proposed nuclear reactor site residents are going to have to contend with, too? Is lightning striking twice for residents outside… -
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Federal Workers Flock Back to Office in Droves After Trump’s Order Respecting ‘Taxpayers Who Pay Their Salaries’
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hybrid positions for federal workers have plunged since President Donald Trump’s Day-One order to end most remote work arrangements for agency employees, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. Federal employees working fully on site now totals 46%, which is more than double the national average of 21%, according to Gallup. Since Trump’s executive… -
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China’s Sudden ‘Safety Concern’ of Nvidia’s Chips May Be Driven by Other Motives
In an escalation of geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China, Chinese regulators accused Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips of harboring a security risk. Nvidia representatives in China were recently summoned by Chinese cybersecurity officials and asked about the “backdoor security risks” associated with Nvidia’s H20 chips. Chinese officials assert that such vulnerabilities could enable anyone… -
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Why Are Democrats Flocking to South Carolina?
For some reason, Democrats are flocking to deep-red South Carolina. In recent weeks, California Gov. Gavin Newsom; Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear have all visited the Palmetto State, which favored President Donald Trump over Kamala Harris by almost 20 percentage points. In May, Tim Walz and Wes Moore, the governors of… -
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High Stakes for High Tech: Virginia’s Data Center Controversy
Once again, the issue of building new data centers for tech companies is coming up in Virginia as many local governments are making plans to set up “commissions” to study more regulations on the industry. The naysayers point to the massive energy load required by these centers and the infrastructure needed to deliver that energy… -
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Newly Adopted WHO Pandemic Pact Is a Step Toward ‘Global Surveillance Superstate,’ Expert Warns
After three years of negotiations, delegates to the World Health Organization’s annual meeting have adopted a global pandemic agreement that threatens national sovereignty, requires the transfer of vaccines during global pandemics, asks nations to fight “misinformation,” and authorizes such “social measures” as lockdowns and mask mandates. The 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, adopted the final… -
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Marco Rubio Says Uncle Sam Is Monitoring Social Media. Who Doesn’t Believe Him?
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this bombshell during Wednesday’s White House Cabinet meeting: “We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans.” Rubio offered that he is surprised a federal agency monitoring the social media posts and commentary of American citizens is not a bigger story. Maybe… -
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Netanyahu Denies Israeli Security Chief’s Surveillance Allegations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied allegations that he asked Israel’s domestic spy chief to surveil protesting citizens and demanded personal loyalty. The claims come from Ronen Bar, the head of Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet. Bar’s allegations are from an affidavit made public on Monday as part of a legal case about… -
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Why the Push Against Data Centers That Bring Billions to the Virginia Economy?
It was 2001 when I realized the city of Buffalo, where I was living and doing radio at the time, was never going to come back from being a ghost town. That’s because there was this little art house startup tech firm called Microsoft that wanted to build a data center out of the abandoned… -
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Why Does Trump Dislike the CHIPS Act?
In his address to Congress last week, President Donald Trump suggested undoing one of the cornerstones of former President Joe Biden's legislative legacy—the CHIPS and Science Act. “Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing,” said Trump. But why does Trump hate it so much? The CHIPS and Science Act was one of Biden’s main… -
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‘Surveillance State’: Bill Would Tackle Government Collection of Investor Data
Republicans in Congress are pushing back on what some consider another front on the surveillance state—in this case, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s collection of investors’ personal data. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., is the lead sponsor of the Protecting Investors’ Personally Identifiable Information Act, which would restrict the SEC’s automatic collection of investors’ personal identifiable… -
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants Us to Forgive, Forget Facebook’s Sins
Mark Zuckerberg is waging a charm offensive. His company, Meta, just agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed back in 2021 after being suspended by Facebook and Instagram. The settlement comes on the heels of Zuckerberg’s attendance at Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Meta’s purported shift away from… -
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California’s Volunteer Fire Unit Vanishes From Web, Social Media After Controversial Dismantling
Fire-ravaged California is grappling with the threat of floods, mudslides, and toxic ash this week as the state’s embattled leaders face more questions about their decision to dismantle an emergency response volunteer firefighting unit—and now attempt to erase its existence. In the latest twist, the website and social media accounts for the firefighting unit, known… -
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The Fall of the Censorship Wall at Facebook
Since Donald Trump won reelection, the fiercest Trump-bashers in the press have raged against any sign of media titans softening their approaches before the second term begins. Visits to Mar-a-Lago? Outrageous! Donating to Trump’s inauguration? Unconscionable! Then Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced his Meta sites would be abandoning the censorship of “fact-checkers,” in place since…