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    Trump Issues ‘Cease and Desist’ Warning to Election Cheaters

    As early voting begins this week in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump posted another warning to cheaters on Truth Social.  “CEASE & DESIST,” the 45th president posted Tuesday. “I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better…
    Fred Lucas
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    Threat of Another Terrorist Attack ‘Is Higher Now’ Than in Months Before 9/11, Expert Says

    It was 23 years ago Wednesday that terrorists hijacked four U.S. commercial airline flights, turned the planes into weapons, crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, and in the process killed nearly 3,000 people. Today, America is at risk of another equally as deadly terrorist attack, a…
    Virginia Allen
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    How a Weak Defense Industrial Base Harms US Military

    The U.S. military is only as strong as its ability to procure needed weapons systems and other defense materials, and right now, America’s defense industrial base is sorely lacking, experts say. “Unfortunately, like the armed services themselves, they have been neglected,” Robert Greenway, director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation, says…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘Coward’: Veterans Criticize Walz Over Military Record Falsehoods

    Vice President Kamala Harris’ far-left running mate is being blasted by retired military officers for lying about his own military record. On a Monday episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” four veterans who had served with him referred to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, as a “coward” and a “habitual liar,” calling his repeated embellishments of…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    Universities Have Vital Partnerships With Military, but More Security Needed

    Higher education drives some conservatives and even some leftists crazy, but conservatives should support universities’ historic role in advancing national security interests. Republican leadership’s ongoing investigations into national security risks involving institutions of higher education are both praiseworthy and, from a national security point of view, absolutely necessary. But maintaining universities’ role in national security—while…
    Steven Bucci
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    ‘Clearly a Radical Socialist’: Sen. Rick Scott Challenges Tim Walz’s Military Record

    Vice President Kamala Harris’ choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate shows how radical she is, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tells The Daily Signal. Scott spoke at Erick Erickson’s The Gathering conference in Atlanta on Saturday. He joined “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss Walz’s military record, expectations for the 2024 election…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Defense Secretary Orders Warships Heading Toward Middle East to Sail Faster as Iran Threats Intensify

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—U.S. military forces are shoring up in the Middle East in anticipation of an Iranian-led attack against Israel, the Pentagon confirmed on Sunday evening. Iran and Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terror group in Lebanon, have been adamant that they intend to soon launch an attack against Israel, although the timing or nature of the possible…
    Jake Smith
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    Senate’s Superficial Response to Military Recruitment Woes: Drafting Your Daughters

    As the Senate embarked Aug. 2 on its monthlong August recess, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left a significant piece of legislation unaddressed: the annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. Included in this year’s Senate NDAA bill is a controversial provision to amend the Military Selective Service Act and mandate that women between the…
    Elizabeth Lapporte
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    99 Illegal Aliens on Terrorist Watchlist Released Into US, Report Finds

    Under the Biden-Harris administration, at least 99 illegal aliens on America’s terrorist watchlist have been released into the United States, according to a congressional report.  “As if the record-breaking number of border encounters of illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist is not concerning enough, the Biden-Harris administration has released some of the aliens into the…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Left and Right Have Very Different Definitions of Terrorism

    As people grow increasingly wary of dangers around them, a split-screen has again opened up on how the Left and Right approach the threat of terrorism. On the Left, you have the Army being trained on the purported terrorist threat posed by Christian pro-lifers. On the other, elected officials are finally probing pro-Hamas groups. The pro-life groups…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Ramaswamy Says US Could Have Had ‘Civil War’ If Trump Killed, Seriously Wounded

    MILWAUKEE—Vivek Ramaswamy believes the United States may have fallen into a “civil war” if former President Donald Trump had been more seriously wounded or died. Speaking to the press after his speech at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention on Monday, the former Republican presidential candidate discussed the Saturday shooting at…
    Katrina Trinko
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    EXCLUSIVE: Poll Reveals Gender Divide on Proposal to Include Women in Military Draft

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Most women in the U.S. oppose a recent proposal to include women in a potential military draft, a new poll finds.  A national survey by Scott Rasmussen, shared exclusively with The Daily Signal, found that 22% of female respondents “somewhat oppose” drafting women and 36% “strongly oppose” it as Congress weighs…
    Hudson Crozier
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    EXCLUSIVE: Women’s Group Calls Military Draft Proposal ‘Unacceptable’

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative activists and policy experts is urging Congress to reject a bill making women eligible to be drafted into the military.   One group, Concerned Women for America, sent a letter with dozens of individual co-signers in response to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s approving an annual defense package…
    Hudson Crozier
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    Beware When Leftist Journalists Use Founders to Attack Trump

    When the elected Democrat district attorney of Manhattan and his 12 (likely Democrat) Manhattan jurors convicted Donald Trump on artificially inflated felony counts of business accounting, you could count on leftist journalists to try to make it the Most Historic Event Ever. We’re not even sure it won’t all be reversed on appeal. But “historic”…
    Tim Graham
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    In Defense of the Traditional Values That Get You Canceled

    The traditional values that get people “canceled” are the ones people need most. Harrison Butker is a field-goal kicker with the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. He recently gave the commencement address at Benedictine College. Both Butker and the school are Catholic. What he said wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone vaguely familiar with Catholic…
    Victor Joecks
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    Rep. Tlaib Addresses Conference Endorsed by Founding Member of Palestinian Terrorist Group

    Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke over Memorial Day weekend at a conference endorsed by individuals associated with a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. The Michigan Democrat spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestine on Saturday, where she chided President Joe Biden for not doing enough to stop Israel from conducting a “genocide,” according to a video posted to Instagram by the Palestinian…
    Robert Schmad
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    NFL Officials Walk Back Criticism as Christians Come to Butker’s Defense

    In the face of rabid leftist backlash over an explicitly Christian commencement speech he delivered, football star Harrison Butker is finding plenty of support. The Kansas City Chiefs kicker’s bold proclamation of countercultural Christian truth to the 2024 graduating class at the Catholic Benedictine College sparked the ire of leftists, both within the National Football League and…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    EXCLUSIVE: Defense Department Admits to Undercounting Abortions It Authorized

    The Defense Department undercounted the number of abortions that it authorized between 2016 and 2020, new data shows. Following a lawsuit from the Oversight Project, a division of The Heritage Foundation, the Department of Defense said that it had identified a total of 77 abortions performed in military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) during the four-year…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    NY Judge Fines Trump for Violating Gag Order, Warns of Possible Jail Time

    Judge Juan Merchan fined former President Donald Trump $9,000 on Tuesday and held him in contempt for violating his gag order, warning he may impose jail time for future violations. Merchan ordered Trump to remove the offending posts by 2:15 p.m. Tuesday and to pay the fine by May 3. He rejected Trump’s defense that he was…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    What to Do About the Terrorist Supporters Among Us

    The pervasive and open antisemitism that has infected our academic institutions, such as Columbia University, with the chants of “Death to America”; rabid support for Hamas, a designated terrorist organization; and gleeful approval of the Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians makes me feel as if we are experiencing the 1930s all over again. The…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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