Political Commentary & Opinion

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, introduced two bills Friday aimed at empowering parents and defunding schools that promote racial division. He frames the legislation as combating critical race theory, a lens by which teachers tell students to view America as institutionally racist in favor of whites and against blacks. While proponents either…

Editor’s note: This report contains language some readers might find offensive. Democrat lawmakers are feeling pressure from the left flank of their party at town hall meetings across the country, with a series of outbursts from attendees urging them to take a more radical left-wing approach in Congress.  The series of shouting matches comes shortly…

It’s one thing for irritated Americans to pressure companies into abandoning progressive LGBT agendas; it’s another for long-time Pride sponsors in San Francisco to bail on their own. This year, several of San Francisco Pride’s major donors—Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, La Crema, Diageo, and Smirnoff—have pulled back from the 2025 Pride Parade and Civic Center Celebrations, leaving organizers scrambling…

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced Thursday that classicist, military, and naval historian and bestselling author Barry Strauss as the second 2025 Bradley Prize winner.  Strauss, the Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, will receive the award at the Bradley Prizes ceremony on May 29 in Washington, D.C. The award carries…

The Department of Government Efficiency’s cutting of Internal Revenue Service office space is consistent with the federal government’s earlier findings about excessive expenses within the tax collecting agency.  The Trump administration will reportedly close more than 110 IRS offices across the country. In June, during the Biden-Harris administration, the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax…

During the American Revolutionary War, soldiers penned heartfelt letters to their wives or tactical missives to troop commanders. Today, some members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)—an organization founded in 1890 to honor those patriots—are writing letters of their own. Only now, they’re written to President Donald Trump in a desperate plea for…

VENICE, Calif.—Francesca Padilla was awakened by the sound of screaming people and breaking glass. Soon she could hear the tortured howls of her neighbor’s dog Togo as the bungalow right next to her Venice home was engulfed in flames.   “It was yelping so loud—the sound isn’t the usual dog sound—it was suffering,” another neighbor told…

Craig Iffland, an expert on the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, says the files released Tuesday evening show the CIA went to extraordinary lengths to hide embarrassing details about its operations in the 1960s. It is Iffland’s expert opinion that “[m]ost of the major documents long sought by researchers can be found…

Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday demanded action from Attorney General Pam Bondi on the United Kingdom's requiring that American tech companies provide access to encrypted data. The Kentucky Republican senator implied that the U.K. demanding access to American data was a dangerous violation of an agreement between the two nations. Paul calls the United Kingdom's…

THE CENTER SQUARE—Despite a historic number of witness slips in opposition to the Illinois Homeschool Act, the controversial legislation is advancing. Hundreds of homeschool families were in Springfield Wednesday to oppose the measure that adds more regulations on homeschooling families. Among the requirements are that families report to the state that they are homeschooling. If…

THE CENTER SQUARE—The House Subcommittee for the Delivering on Government Efficiency is calling the leadership of National Public Radio, a news operation that receives taxpayer funding, to testify before Congress, it said Wednesday. The House subcommittee was created to operate similarly to the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump administration’s federal effort to cut waste,…