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    Pete Hegseth’s Military
    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’d like to speak a little bit today, very briefly, about the Pentagon under new Defense…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Conservatives Express Support for Colby for Pentagon Post
    Elbridge Colby, nominated to be undersecretary of defense for policy, received robust support from conservative Republicans over the weekend after there was some online discussion of potential Senate holdouts on his confirmation over previously expressed views on Iran. Colby is set to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee at a to-be-determined date for a…
    Jacob Adams
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    EXCLUSIVE: Democrat Governors Arranged Meeting With Biden White House to Thwart Trump Agenda, Emails Show
    White House officials under outgoing President Joe Biden may have colluded with staffers representing a coalition of Democrat governors planning to thwart President-elect Donald Trump's agenda, according to a watchdog group and internal emails obtained from the coalition, known as Governors Safeguarding Democracy.  The precise date of the meeting is not clear, but it appears…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘It Doesn’t Happen Often’ Is Not a Reasonable Defense for Men in Women’s Sports
    Americans are gaining ground in the fight to protect women’s sports. This week, for example, the Department of Education sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations, urging them to restore female athletes’ records. The demand comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s executive orders to…
    Stephanie Lundquist-Arora
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    ‘The War on Women’s Sports is Over’: Trump Bans Males in Female Athletics
    President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Wednesday protecting women’s and girls sports from biological male athletes who identify as transgender. “The war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said. “We will not allow men to beat up, injure, and cheat our women and our girls,” he continued. “From now on, women’s sports will…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Knows How to Win Trade Wars Before the First Shot Is Fired
    Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing with tariffs. Everyone else is baffled: Why did the president announce heavy taxes on imports from Canada as well as Mexico and China? America has an obvious interest in economic decoupling from China, a great-power rival. And by first imposing and then suspending tariffs on Mexican imports, Trump…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Even Never Trumpers Are Warming Up to The Donald
    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. I’d like to talk a day about an irony. Maybe it’s something that’s a paradox. Have you noticed that there’s certain people who are coming…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Watchdog Asks Pentagon Chief Hegseth to Pull Security Clearance of Leftist Megadonor Reid Hoffman
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A watchdog group is asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revoke the security clearance of Reid Hoffman, a major Democratic donor who had ties to the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and bankrolled litigation against President Donald Trump.  Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, sent the…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Unacceptable’: Trump Spokeswoman Reaffirms War on DEI at FAA After Fatal Midair Collision
    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday pledged that the Trump administration will eliminate DEI practices at the Federal Aviation Administration in the wake of a midair collision Wednesday night that killed 67. Much of the briefing served to back up President Donald Trump’s implication the day before that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives…
    George Caldwell
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    ‘Far-Left Nonsense’: Iraq War Veteran Explains Impact of Trump’s Executive Order on Military DEI Initiatives
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An Iraq War veteran appeared Monday on Fox Business to talk about President Donald Trump’s executive order to stop woke practices within the U.S. armed forces. Trump plans to sign a trio of executive orders pertaining to the military, including one that will eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the U.S. Defense Department. Another will…
    Mariane Angela
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    New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Shows Changes Already in Motion
    THE CENTER SQUARE—Pete Hegseth, the newly-confirmed U.S. secretary of defense, says changes to the military are already in motion.  Hegseth told reporters outside the Pentagon Monday that President Donald Trump will soon authorize the reinstatement of military members who were discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, with backpay. He also hinted that military…
    Thérèse Boudreaux
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    Hegseth Confirmed as Defense Secretary
    President Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth was confirmed in a 51-50 vote as Vice President J.D. Vance broke a tie in the Senate Friday, ending one of the most contentious and vital confirmation battles of Trump’s early administration.  Vance’s tie-breaking vote to confirm a cabinet member was the second in American history after…
    George Caldwell
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    Sen. Tuberville Calls Out Biden’s Defense Secretary for Alleged Violations of Federal Law
    As Democratic senators attack Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth for alleged incompetence, Republicans are sounding the alarm on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s repeated disappearances for medical treatment, which were allegedly in violation of federal law. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., has been a vocal critic of Austin in recent days. On Friday, the Alabama senator called out…
    George Caldwell
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    GOP Culture War Fights Were Instrumental to Trump Win, Report Says
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Republicans’ embrace of the culture war was a massive part of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding win in 2024, according to an American Principles Project report released Tuesday. Republican messaging on transgender issues such as child sex changes, men in women’s sports, and taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners swayed voters by 1.3…
    Wallace White
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    Medal of Honor Recipient David Bellavia Comes to Pete Hegseth’s Defense
    Medal of Honor recipient David Bellavia stood up for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal Monday, arguing that his longtime friend has been the victim of a smear on the part of “grifting frauds.” In the weeks since President-elect Donald Trump announced Hegseth as his nominee, the legacy…
    George Caldwell
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    From Woke to Warfighting: How Pete Hegseth Can Fix the Pentagon
    Decades of social engineering have transformed America’s armed forces, prompting concerns about the Pentagon‘s warfighting capabilities and politicized culture. It’s the reason President-elect Donald Trump picked Pete Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense: to restore lethality as the military‘s primary focus. Fixing the Pentagon won’t be easy, but it’s imperative to restore America’s…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    More Islamist Terrorism Is Coming. We Are Woefully Unprepared.
    Al-Qaeda first attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 with a car bomb in the underground garage. Americans heard about the attack on the evening news and then went out to McDonald’s for a burger and fries.  It was like the 911 operator called us and we put them on hold. Less than 10 years later,…
    James Carafano
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    How FBI Is Conducting Investigation Into NOLA Terrorist Attack
    Authorities are slowly learning more about what motivated 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar to turn a truck into a weapon on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early Wednesday morning. The act of terror left 15 people dead and another 35 injured. The FBI says Jabbar acted alone and, despite being a military veteran, was inspired by ISIS….
    Virginia Allen
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    Suicides in Military Continue to Rise, the Mental Health Fight Is Far From Over
    According to the Department of Defense’s Annual Report on Suicide in the military, which outlines suicide trends among service members and their families, 523 service members died by suicide in 2023. This harrowing statistic marks the highest number of deaths since 2020. The report, released Nov. 14, recorded a striking 1,373 men and women actively…
    Matthew Lee | Sydney Hudson | Wilson Beaver
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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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