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Shut Down the Department of Education ASAP
A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress—also known as the Nation’s Report Card. The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation’s children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels. American Enterprise Institute characterizes the most…Star Parker -
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Arizona Rancher Praises Trump as Illegal Border Crossers on His Land Plunge From 50 or More to 3 Daily
Border rancher John Ladd says President Donald Trump is “doing everything right.” Ladd’s Arizona ranch shares 10.5 miles with the border of Mexico, and during the four years of the Biden administration, about 50 illegal aliens crossed through Ladd’s property daily, and sometimes that number rose to as many as 200, he told The…Virginia Allen -
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Trump and Our Return to the ‘American System’
Few economic philosophies have shaped America’s prosperity as profoundly as Henry Clay’s American System—a blueprint for national strength and self-sufficiency. Developed in the early 19th century, Clay’s vision centered on protective tariffs, a strong national banking system, infrastructure development, and the responsible use of natural resources. These pillars propelled the United States into economic dominance. However,…Tim Overton -
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21 of the Most Telling Signs at ‘Hands Off!’ DC March
Some of the language on the signs is offensive and not appropriate for children. Face masks. Rainbow flags. Handmaid's Tale costumes. Hysterical references to Nazis. Yup—the "Hands Off" protest in Washington, D.C., Saturday had all the regular tropes of another left-wing protest. The protest in the nation's capital was one of a reported 1,200 across…Katrina Trinko -
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‘Live Not By Lies’ Highlights Forgotten Anti-Communist Heroes
For Silvester Krcmery, each morning began with what he called an “inventory check.” Krcmery, a doctor who described his prison cell as so small he could not sit, recalls waking up in the bitterly cold atmosphere. “Do I still have my nose? Because it was as cold as a frozen stone. So I check: all…Katrina Trinko -
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Purging DEI From the Smithsonian Is No Easy Task
President Donald Trump’s decision to clean house at the Smithsonian Institution is a necessary next step in his ongoing crusade to claw back cultural ground that the Left has spent decades capturing. This new action should be far-reaching and profound and sweep away such dangerous ideas as the Latino Museum. The executive order the president issued late last week, on…Mike Gonzalez -
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Harvard and DEI: An Expensive Lesson
The U.S. Department of Education is calling on colleges to account for racist and antisemitic incidents on campus—and its move to withhold taxpayer dollars from violators has gotten university officials’ attention. The University of Michigan just disbanded its multiyear, multimillion-dollar boondoggle in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and Columbia University agreed to align the school with…Jonathan Butcher -
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Washington Post, AP Articles Expose Pro-Transgender Athlete Bias of Legacy Media
If there were any lingering doubts about the unabashedly pro-transgender bias of the liberal media, they were demolished Thursday by the marked contrast between a feature story and a news article, both in The Washington Post, on two separate cases of trans athletes competing in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. At 6 a.m. Thursday morning,…Peter Parisi -
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Dark Web Tesla Doxxers Used Widely-Popular Parking App Data to Find Targets, Analysis Shows
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A dark web doxxing website targeting Tesla owners and allies of Elon Musk appears to be compiled from hacked data originally stolen from a massive ParkMobile app breach in 2021, according to records obtained by a data privacy group. The site, known as DogeQuest, first appeared in March and publishes names, home…Thomas English -
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Trump-Backed Budget Resolution Clears Senate Hurdle on Party-Line Vote
Republicans in the Senate succeeded in passing a Trump-endorsed budget resolution on a straight party-line vote of 51 to 48 at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, were the only Republicans to vote against it. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., did not vote. The resolution’s passage is an important step in…George Caldwell -
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Former Obama DOJ Official Leads Hundreds of Law Firms to Oppose Trump Order Against Firm That Repped Clinton Campaign
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—More than 500 law firms led by former Barack Obama solicitor general Donald Beaton Verrilli Jr. came out on Friday against an executive order targeting the firm that represented Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016. President Donald Trump issued an order targeting Perkins Coie’s access to government contracts, buildings and security clearances in early…Katelynn Richardson -
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While Nazi Profiteers Get a Free Pass, the Left Burns Teslas
Civil disobedience practiced by the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. is one thing. Crimes against people or property for political ends are quite another. The latter risks return to the law of the jungle, a cure worse than the disease. That provides the framework to assess the proliferation of criminal…Armstrong Williams -
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‘Go Ask the KKK’: Democrat Cuts Parents Out of the Discussion on Transgender Custody Bill
A Democrat member of the Colorado House of Representatives doubled down on previous remarks defending her excluding parental rights groups from discussions about a bill that would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming.” She did so by comparing parental rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan in a hearing on…Tyler O’Neil -
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Other Countries Seem to Like Tariffs. So Why Are People Opposed to Trump’s Tariffs?
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. April 3, President Donald Trump announced it as “Liberation Day.” And by that he meant we…Victor Davis Hanson -
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This One Quality Makes Trump a Dire Threat to the Deep State, Reagan Veteran Says
Don Devine is proud that The Washington Post once attacked him as President Ronald Reagan’s “terrible swift sword of the civil service,” but even he is blown away by the muscular reforms of the Trump administration. That doesn’t stop him from giving advice on how to slay the deep state leviathan, however. Devine, who served…Tyler O’Neil -
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AOC Wallops Schumer in Potential 2028 NY Senate Primary, Poll Finds
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., would trounce Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in a hypothetical 2028 Democratic Party Senate primary, according to a poll conducted by Data for Progress, a self-described “progressive” think tank. The left-wing group surveyed 767 likely primary voters in such a New York Democrat Senate primary contest from March 26 to…Jacob Adams -
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5 Million and Counting Ineligible Names Off Voter Rolls
About 5 million ineligible names were removed from voter registration rolls across the United States since 2019, Judicial Watch announced—with almost 1 million of those coming from New York City. The conservative-leaning government watchdog group has taken legal action against state and local governments for voter list maintenance under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act,…Fred Lucas -
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Meet Jason Williams: The Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in New Orleans
This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and the threat those prosecutors pose to victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series have focused on the rogue prosecutor movement in general and on specific prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago,…Cully Stimson -
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Virginia’s Democrat Senators Recommend 4 US Attorney Options to Trump
While Virginia’s current governor is facing more partisan pushback from the Democrat leadership in the General Assembly over his nominees to serve on state boards and commissions in the waning months of his administration (more regarding that issue coming soon to this space), two former Democrat governors have reached across the aisle to make suggestions…Joe Thomas -
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WATCH: Colorado Woman Testifies About Horror of Tren de Aragua Takeover in Her Town
A D.C. federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s order to deport Venezuelan nationals who are alleged members of the violent criminal gang Tren de Aragua. Cindy Romero, a victim of the gang and former resident of Aurora, Colorado, testified as a witness at a Tuesday House Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial overreach of federal courts:…Elise McCue