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Cash Cows: Gangs Allegedly Smuggling Drugs Across Border Inside Cattle
The Mexican cartels appear to be smuggling drugs into the U.S. inside cows, according to sources interviewed at the border in Texas and New Mexico last week. The cartels are known to use cattle cars to smuggle drugs, but also seem to be using the cattle themselves as couriers. “When they do the spaying… -
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Trump Set to Confer With Putin as Ukraine Faces Defeat in Kursk
Ukraine faced a sobering defeat Sunday when Russian troops drove the Ukrainian military out from almost all of the Russian region of Kursk. Ukrainian forces had attacked the Russian province last summer in an attempt to unbalance the Russian army. That strategy appears to have faltered in the face of an unrelenting assault by Russian… -
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Trump Assails Clinton-Appointed Judge’s Rehiring Order as ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’
President Donald Trump said it’s “ridiculous” that a federal judge ruled that the government must rehire fired government employees. “I don’t think that’s going to be happening, but we’ll have to see,” he told The Daily Signal aboard Air Force One on Sunday. A judge appointed by President Bill Clinton ruled Thursday that the Trump… -
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‘DIRE’ CONSEQUENCES: President Trump Sends Stern Warning to Iran Over Houthi Strikes
President Donald Trump warned the Islamic Republic of Iran that he will hold Tehran responsible for any military strikes carried out by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who enjoy funding and support from the mullahs. “Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen,… -
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Trump Declares Biden’s Autopen-Signed Pardons, Executive Orders Invalid
In a Truth Social Post on Monday, President Donald Trump said former President Joe Biden’s autopen-signed orders were invalid, contending that recent discoveries by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project render Biden’s pardons void. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT,… -
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California Poised to Disbar Trump 2020 Lawyer John Eastman
The irony is striking for John Eastman, a constitutional attorney and one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers in the litigated post-2020 election. One week before a California panel is set to hear an appeal regarding Eastman’s disbarment, a group of Democrat attorneys general claims a Trump executive order runs “roughshod over the First Amendment” and… -
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Key to Uncovering Truth About MLK Assassination Lies With Congress
Since his return to the White House, President Donald Trump is close to signing 100 executive orders. The deluge has put the corporate media, and sometimes Congress, on their heels. Nevertheless, Congress is coming alongside Trump to keep one of his more interesting campaign promises: to declassify records related to the assassinations of John F…. -
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‘A Is for Abortion’: Public High School Teaches ABCs for Women’s History Month
America’s public high schools are strange places to find displays of the alphabet. Perhaps with plummeting standardized test scores and a substantial increase in English-as-a-second-language students in sanctuary districts, high school educators feel the need to review kindergarten basics. In Fairfax County, Virginia’s West Springfield High School, located just 17 miles from the White House,… -
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Homeschool Students Are Happier, More Engaged, and More Likely to Be Married
As U.S. public school scores plunge yet again, a new study shows homeschool students are more likely to report positive mental health outcomes, to be married and have children, to volunteer in their communities, and to believe in God. The report’s findings come as President Donald Trump contemplates returning most of the federal government’s role… -
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A Fleet Built Too Late Is a Fleet Built to Fail
“We are also going to resurrect the American shipbuilding industry,” President Donald Trump declared in his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4. To accomplish that, the president has announced the establishment of an Office of Shipbuilding. That announcement reflects the recognition of an issue that has been ignored for too long:… -
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How to Align Your Money With Your Faith
A new book by Bill and Dana Wichterman is challenging Christians to reconsider their relationship with money. In an interview with The Daily Signal, the Wichtermans shared insights from their 35-year marriage and the financial journey that led them to write “Stewards Not Owners: The Joy of Aligning Your Money with Your Faith.” “We were… -
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Using the Border Patrol Home App to Get Illegal Aliens to Self Deport
So far, poetic justice seems the theme of this political year. And there’s nothing more poetically just or ironic than what the Donald Trump administration just did: Turned an app used to mass parole millions of aliens into an app to help those aliens leave the U.S. In October 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol launched the… -
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Is YouTube Discriminating Against a Christian Channel?
Is YouTube discriminating against Christians? Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is raising the alarm about evidence suggesting the tech giant—which has a long history of censorship—has unfairly treated a Christian family TV station. “[I]n the case of YouTube TV, concerns have been raised alleging that your company has a policy (secret or… -
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5 Reasons Why We’re Finally Seeing Democrats Implode
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION— After years of breathtaking incompetence and failure under Joe Biden, Donald Trump decided once again to put his very comfortable private life on hold and embark on an unprecedented rescue mission to save America. And as President Trump campaigned for re-election, he was hounded by four bogus indictments from weaponized prosecutors… -
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Study Debunks Climate Doomsday Predictions on Crop Yields, Mass Starvation
For two decades, the public has been bombarded with dire warnings of an impending climate-induced agricultural apocalypse. The claim is that a climate warmed excessively by the carbon dioxide emissions of human activity will ravage the food supply and plunge humanity into famine and chaos. For many reasons, none of this ever made sense. Now,… -
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Texas Bill Would Ban ‘Furry Culture’ in Public Schools
THE CENTER SQUARE—State Rep. Stan Gerdes, R-Smithville, introduced the FURRIES Act, known as the Forbidden Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education, on Thursday to prohibit Texas public schools from allowing furry subculture behavior in classrooms and on campuses. The furry subculture involves individuals adopting anthropomorphic animal identities who often dress in costumes and attempt to mimic… -
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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… -
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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…. -
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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… -
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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…