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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 | Grace Blythe | Wilson Beaver
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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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    Biden’s Big Bet on Military Abortions Falls Flat
    Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, President Joe Biden has made it a top priority to use any and all administrative actions to promote and pay for abortions with taxpayer money. No single related action garnered more attention than Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin‘s announcement that the Defense Department would use taxpayer…
    Connor Semelsberger
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    Distracted By Climate Change? Former Trump Transportation Official Weighs in on Bridge Collapse
    What will be the long-term impact of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, Tuesday? What industries will be affected and how? And who in the U.S. supervises ship safety—and are they prioritizing safety ahead of issues like climate change? Steve Bradbury, who formerly served as acting deputy secretary of the…
    Brian Gottstein
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    She Survived Terrorist Attacks to Become Voice for Democracy in UK
    The threat of terrorism first touched Arlene Foster’s life when she was just a child. Her father was serving as a police officer in the United Kingdom when he was shot in his own home by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1979. The Provisional Irish Republican Army group was seeking to end British rule…
    Virginia Allen
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    Our Military Is Weak. That Should Scare You.
    Our government isn’t serious about defending the United States and its interests. In fact, it has fallen woefully short in carrying out this sacred obligation. I know this sounds harsh, but as we’ll see, the government’s own numbers prove the point. That our military is weak is not an indictment of the men and women…
    Dakota Wood
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  • news

    ‘A Huge Blow’: Decline in White Recruits Fueling the Military’s Worst-Ever Recruiting Crisis, Data Shows
    Each U.S. military service saw a notable decline in white recruits over the past five years, according to data obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, likely factoring into the military’s crippling recruiting crisis. The Army, Navy, and Air Force missed their recruiting objectives by historically large margins in fiscal year 2023, which ended on…
    Micaela Burrow
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    ‘Gender-Based Political Violence’: Former Lawmaker Targeted for Calling a Man Who Identifies as a Woman a Man
    Mexican authorities convicted civil society leader and former Mexican Congressman Rodrigo Iván Cortés of “gender-based political violence.” His crime? Criticizing a man who identifies as a transgender woman. Cortés drew fire over posts on Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter, that referred to a trans-identifying Mexican congressional representative as a “man who self-ascribes as…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Just How Many ‘Extremists’ Have Infiltrated the US Military? The Media Doesn’t Want You to Know
    President Joe Biden loves to warn the country about the threat of white supremacy, and his own administration has launched a soft inqusition into the most patriotic members of society, the men and women who volunteer to put their lives on the line for the rest of us. Nearly three years into the Biden administration,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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