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DC Driving Is Hell, and I Suspect That’s Intentional
I love my children and I love my job, but I dread driving to work and school every morning and every afternoon. Why? Because the roads in Washington, D.C., are hell, and they don’t have to be this way. D.C. driving is already bad—the district is built on two intersecting grids, so roads don’t just…Tyler O’Neil -
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Tax the Past?
Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy. New York and Vermont passed laws that will raise the price of oil, gas, and electricity by taxing the past. New York’s new law demands fossil fuel companies pay $75 billion for carbon emissions dating back to the year 2000….John Stossel -
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Mahmoud Khalil and the Red Green Assault on American Sovereignty
The stock market of late has been on a veritable roller coaster, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency continues to ruffle feathers, Iran marches ever harrowingly closer to a nuclear weapon, and Russia and Ukraine get tantalizingly close to a ceasefire. But the national political conversation this week has curiously tended to focus not on…Josh Hammer -
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America’s Energy Renaissance: Trump’s ‘All Gas, No Brakes’ Approach
Adapted from a speech at The Heritage Foundation’s Texas Summit on March 7, 2025. It is great to be living in the golden era of America. It’s hard to keep up with President Donald Trump, though, in the House of Representatives. We have a president who is all gas and no brakes when it comes…Rep. Keith Self -
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Network ‘News’ Bows Supinely to the Trans Commands
Trans woman activist Dylan Mulvaney did a happy-go-lucky softball interview tour to promote the book “Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer.” The “mainstream” media are out of the mainstream on trans issues, and their extreme fawning and flattery only underlines it. On “CBS Mornings,” correspondent Natalie Morales sounded like a supporter: “What do you…Tim Graham -
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Masked Hamas Agitators at Universities Should Be Criminally Prosecuted
The Trump administration is finally doing what President Joe Biden refused: revoking visas and deporting violent Hamas-supporting foreign “students” once and for all. These agitators should count their blessings. They could have been and should have been criminally prosecuted by the Biden administration. These foreign actors staged violent protests at American colleges, cheering the vicious massacre, rapes, assaults, and kidnappings…Hans von Spakovsky -
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The Swamp Can Scream But DOGE Is on a Lawful Path to Success
Despite a smattering of preliminary injunctions and administrative stay orders from rogue federal judges, President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is well on its way to accomplishing its worthy goals. And despite what some out-of-control judges are saying, it is acting well within the boundaries of the law. Already, DOGE has exposed wasteful, potentially…Hans von Spakovsky -
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‘Very Impressed’: Trump Thanks Schumer for Whipping Dems’ Support of Spending Bill
President Donald Trump thanked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for getting Democrats on board with the Republican spending package to keep the federal government open. The Senate voted late Friday afternoon to advance the continuing resolution, a short-term spending bill. That cleared the way for a final vote to avert a government shutdown. “I…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Counselor Fights to Advise Minors Against Gender Transition in Supreme Court Case
When Erin Brewer was 6 years old, she and her older brother were accosted by two grown men. She was raped. Her brother was not. Brewer called herself a boy for the next several years because, she said, she felt vulnerable as a girl. She wore her brother’s hand-me-downs, used the boys bathroom at…Moira Gleason -
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Universal Injunctions Are Out of Control
In less than two months, President Donald Trump has signed more than 80 executive orders, reshaping federal government policy and administration of the executive branch on a range of issues including immigration, national security and defense, gender, education, and government efficiency. Predictably, the Left is trying to use the courts to fight this political battle,…Thomas Jipping -
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Yes, Mr. Khalil, Your Actions Have Consequences
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. There’s been a lot of frenzy in the news about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. He’s…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Senate Dems Cave, Help GOP Advance Bill to Fund Government, Avoid Shutdown
The Senate on Friday voted 62-38 to end debate on a continuing resolution to fund the government through September, all but guaranteeing final passage of a GOP-crafted bill that would avoid a partial federal shutdown. Nine Democrats and one nominal independent who caucuses with them helped push the Republican-backed bill over the finish line. Democrats…George Caldwell -
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Trump’s Overtures Toward Greenland Are Paying Off
Acquiring Greenland remains a priority for the Trump administration, and there are signs that a deal may be inching closer to happening. You may have missed it, but President Donald Trump referred to Greenland in his joint address to Congress in early March. Trump said to the people of Greenland, “We strongly support your right to determine your…Jarrett Stepman -
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Pentagon Schools Instruct Use of Minecraft to Promote DEI Trojan Horse
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Defense’s school system touted the video game Minecraft as a tool for teaching social-emotional learning, a Trojan horse for diversity, equity, and inclusion. A Department of Defense Education Activity middle-school teacher sent an email to staff encouraging them to use Minecraft to teach kids to “develop important [social-emotional learning]…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Vance Vows Accountability for Offshoring of Jobs
In a speech Friday at Vantage Plastics, a plastics manufacturing plant in Bay City, Michigan, Vice President JD Vance touted American workers and the progress the Trump administration has been making to make American manufacturing great again. “We are an administration that is going to do things for the American people and for American workers,”…Jacob Adams -
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What Trump Said in Justice Department Speech
President Donald Trump said the Justice Department is “turning the page on four long years of corruption and weaponization.” Trump spoke Friday when delivering remarks at the Justice Department for an event focused on fighting fentanyl, a highly lethal drug that has become an escalating problem in the United States. Trump said during the Biden…Fred Lucas -
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West Virginia Bans Biological Males From Women’s Spaces
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed a bill Wednesday to define sex-based terms in state law and prohibit biological males from entering female-only spaces in public schools, colleges, and correctional facilities in the state. “Today, we sent a strong message that West Virginia stands with women,” Morrisey said in a press release. “West Virginia will…Moira Gleason -
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Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?
Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Senate Strikes Blow to Drug Traffickers With Passage of HALT Fentanyl Act
Update: The Senate passed the HALT Fentanyl Act on Friday afternoon by a vote of 84-16. America has many adversaries: China, Iran, North Korea, to name a few. But perhaps America’s biggest enemy is fentanyl, a highly addictive and highly lethal synthetic opioid. In this war on fentanyl, the Senate is preparing to launch its…Bradley Devlin -
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Good Riddance, Mahmoud Khalil
On the same day that Islamic State terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar murdered 15 Americans by plowing a car into a crowd in New Orleans, thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah supporters, many decked out in Islamist garb, descended onto Times Square chanting, “Globalize the intifada.” One of the organizers of the protest was Columbia University Apartheid Divest,…David Harsanyi