Political Commentary & Opinion
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opinion
How Democrats Can Stop Alienating Young Men: Some Unsolicited Advice
Last November, Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris among young men 18 to 29 years old, racking up about 56% of their votes according to the Associated Press. That represents a huge decline from 2008, the climax of the Barack Obama coalition, when the Democrat candidate won 62% of the young male vote against GOP… -
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Religion Without Faith Will Never Bring Fulfillment
In the introduction of his 1984 book, “The Naked Public Square,” then-Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus wrote about the relationship between religion and politics in society, Politics and religion are different enterprises, and it is understandable that many people would like to keep them as separate as possible. But they are constantly coupling and getting quite mixed up… -
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The New Politics of Metropole vs. Heartland
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France’s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’’ election last month. And maybe in Poland and South… -
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Italian Referendum Would Speed Up Path to Citizenship
Italians are heading to the polls Sunday for a two-day referendum on whether to accelerate the citizenship process and change labor laws—proposals opposed by the country’s conservative prime minister. As immigration concerns mount across Europe, the citizenship question would usher in a sweeping change in Italy by cutting in half the required period of residence… -
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The Partisan Media Hate Any Praise of Trump’s Broad Media Access
Jack Blanchard at Politico’s Playbook newsletter made the leftists angry by praising President Donald Trump’s energetic availability to the press. While CBS star Scott Pelley wailed at a college commencement that they are “the fierce defenders of democracy,” “the seekers of truth” and “the vanguard against ignorance,” Trump grants them access. Blanchard wrote on May… -
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CBS Errs as It Airs Radical Professor on ‘Misinformation’
The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Donald Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been “misinformation research,” in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods. In the Joe Biden years, “misinformation” experts at major universities worked with the federal government and… -
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Artificial Intelligence Regulation Hotly Debated on Hill
An unexpected issue has emerged as the House-passed “big, beautiful bill” is debated in the Senate—whether or not states will lose the ability to regulate artificial intelligence in the future. Since Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., called out a provision in the House’s “big, beautiful bill” that blocks states from regulating AI, the Senate is… -
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WATCH: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returns to Be Democrats’ Albatross
Salvadoran MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States after the Department of Justice demanded he be tried on criminal charges, including human trafficking. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., humiliates his party. Democrat members of Congress have taken their biggest opportunity to look good in months and… -
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Illegal Alien Deported to Salvadoran Prison Brought Back to US to Face Human Trafficking Charges
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien removed from the U.S. to his native El Salvador earlier this year, has been brought back to the U.S. following legal challenges to his deportation. But the Trump administration is welcoming Abrego Garcia back from a Salvadoran prison to the U.S. with an indictment from the Justice… -
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NYT Study Finds Widespread GOP Gains, Sounding Alarm for Dems
Republicans are surging, and Democrats are in deep trouble. That’s what a new report from The New York Times concluded after assessing polling data from the past four presidential elections. The new study concluded that the GOP was gaining ground in working-class counties, while Democrats were earning support increasingly in the best-educated enclaves of the… -
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These Eight Leftist Icons Haven’t Posted About Pride Month Yet
In past years, Pride Month has taken on an almost religious significance for the Left. But a week into June, many of its heroes have yet to post about it on X. Eight superstars of the Left, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Ma. and former President Barack Obama, have not posted about Pride Month on X…. -
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Democrat Leader Jeffries Weighs Closer Relationship with Musk
Just one day after the fallout between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk went nuclear on social media, Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was already trying to leverage it to his advantage. To be sure, Jeffries, D-N.Y., is not mourning Musk’s departure from the Washington scene. Asked by The Daily Signal if he thought… -
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House Committee ‘Keeping a Watchful Eye’ on Labor Department’s Funding of Pro-Union Group Amid ‘Conflict of Interest’ Concerns
The House Committee on Education & the Workforce is monitoring the relationship between an agency within the Labor Department and the pro-union group the Solidarity Center following a recent Daily Signal report on a potential conflict of interest. "This report is deeply concerning and calls into question whether there was a significant conflict of interest,"… -
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Remembering D-Day and FDR’s Prayer
It was a few minutes before 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his radio broadcast to an anxious nation. Earlier that day, he had held a press conference for 180 reporters about the D-Day invasion. About its scale and seriousness. Special editions of newspapers across the… -
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Virginia Researchers May Have Found Key to Alzheimer’s
With all the “he-said-she-said” over President Joe Biden’s failing mind and the “politburo” (their word, not ours) that was making all the executive branch decisions in his stead, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia have been in the news lately. But what if we were actually able to take a giant leap forward in curing the Alzheimer’s… -
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Broadway Forces Patti LuPone to Apologize, But Not for Calling for Kennedy Center to Get Blown Up
Today, a case study on the hypocrisy and self-absorption of the Left in both the entertainment and news industries. Last week, stage legend Patti LuPone called for the Kennedy Center to get “blown up” because of President Donald Trump’s involvement. Not just once, but several times. “She is even angrier at the rest of the… -
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Countering the Drone Threat
On Jan. 29, 2024, three American service members were killed and over 40 wounded when a drone exploded inside a U.S. base in Jordan. That was the first time in over 70 years that U.S. troops died in a direct enemy air attack—and those deaths didn’t come from jets or missiles. They came from a… -
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Ethicists Critique Illinois’ Bid to Join 10 Other States in Allowing Doctor-Assisted Suicide
The Illinois state House has passed a physician-assisted suicide bill that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to patients who are terminally ill. The legislation—which reportedly stalled Thursday afternoon in the state Senate—requires that people have a prognosis of less than six months to live and be of sound mind before allowing… -
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Did DOGE Go Far Enough? Poll Reveals What Americans Really Think
Nearly half of Americans believe the Department of Government Efficiency is right on target or hasn’t gone far enough in its cost-cutting efforts. That’s according to a new poll from the Napolitan News Service, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters last week on their feelings about DOGE, the Elon Musk-inspired initiative that targeted waste, fraud, and… -
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‘Readiness Over Wokeness’: GOP Lawmakers Salute Renaming of Navy Vessel
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered the U.S. Navy to rename a tanker vessel that had been christened the USNS Harvey Milk after the late left-wing gay activist and San Francisco politician. Milk, who began a relationship with a 16-year-old boy when he was 33, has long been seen as a homosexual rights…