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Here’s Why Obama Created DEI
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. I want to talk today about the controversy over diversity, equity, and inclusion, but in a… -
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Trump Is Reverse Engineering DEI Revolution in Science Institutions
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the federal government has sent shock waves through science institutions around the country. Way back in 2021, I wrote about how institutions of medicine were promoting transgender ideology with little scientific justification. They used their institutional credibility to promote left-wing political views. It went beyond just… -
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Anna Paulina Luna to Lead House Investigation Into JFK Assassination, Jeffrey Epstein, and UFOs
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., announced Tuesday that she would lead a House Oversight subcommittee to provide more answers on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as on UFO sightings and Jeffrey Epstein’s client list. “I’m proud to announce the creation of the Task Force… -
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CULTURE SHOCK: Why Super Bowl LIX Was More Significant Than Met the Eye
In what turned out to be hardly a showdown at all between the triumphant Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl LIX still surprised audiences with its pro-America themes throughout. Here is your cultural rundown of what happened during the big game Sunday night: Player and Prayers The two biggest players in Sunday night’s… -
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Immigration Industrial Complex Struggling to ‘Keep Their Lights on’ After Trump Decree
Did you know that your tax dollars have been propping up a system of nonprofit organiations that house and transport illegal aliens across the country? President Donald Trump has paused some of the programs that propped up that system, and now those nonprofits are taking him to court. HIAS (formerly Hebrew Immigrant Aid Services) and… -
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Who’s Afraid of School Choice—and Food Trucks—in Wyoming?
Teacher unions are racing to stop greater education choice from spreading to Wyoming. But parents there already know that more education options would be valuable for them, and special interest groups’ latest dirty political tactics only make them look desperate. “It’s either, you support families or you don’t,” says Mary Schmidt, a Wyoming parent who… -
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Speaker Johnson Addresses Budget Questions: ‘Take a Deep Sigh of Relief’
The House Republican leadership is still working on ironing out differences between members surrounding the budget reconciliation process as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., gave an update Tuesday that he expected progress to be made this week. The budget reconciliation process is an important tool to ensure that President Donald Trump has the funding and support… -
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Netanyahu Puts Hamas on Notice: Release the Hostages or ‘Ceasefire Will End’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an ultimatum to Hamas on Tuesday: Release the remaining hostages who are alive by noon Saturday or the ceasefire agreement will end. “If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end, and the [Israel Defense Forces] will resume intense fighting until the final defeat… -
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Republicans Look to Redirect Global AIDS Relief Funding Diverted by Biden to Support Abortion Promotion
The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief is supposed to be a major lifesaving program from the United States to the world. Under then-President Joe Biden, however, it was used to promote abortion abroad. Now, Republicans in Congress are seeking to remove the PEPFAR’s promotion of abortion through its sponsorship of organizations that support the… -
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Why College Students Have Trouble Reading
We have a national reading problem in the U.S. The widespread lament over the further decline in children’s reading scores underscores the failure of our country’s public schools, but the predicament is not limited to primary education. It extends all the way up into America’s elite colleges and universities as well. A firestorm recently erupted… -
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4 FEMA Employees Fired as Trump Calls for Termination of Agency
President Donald Trump called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. “FEMA spent tens of millions of dollars in Democrat areas, disobeying orders, but left the people of North Carolina high and dry,” Trump wrote. “It is now under review and investigation. The… -
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‘Tearing the School Apart’: How DEI Changed Kentucky Country Day School
“Despite the occupation, despite the apartheid, Palestine will one day be free,” declared Mahmoud Kutmah, the valedictorian of Kentucky Country Day School’s class of 2021, at the end of his graduation speech. What followed that May 2021 commencement ceremony set off a chain reaction that enabled education consultant Rodney Glasgow to enter the picture and… -
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Sorry, Liberals. DOGE Is 100% Legal. Here’s Why.
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. I want to revisit the hysteria, controversy—whatever term we use—about Elon Musk and his role… -
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The Left Thinks Losing Power Is Equivalent to ‘Authoritarianism’
If you listen to the Left’s elite opinion makers, you might think that the Trump administration’s current large-scale attempt to reform and reduce the scope of the vast federal bureaucracy is tantamount to dictatorship. President Donald Trump is certainly launching a full-scale barrage against the administrative state. The Left’s #Resistance from within has been feeble at best compared… -
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Latest to Draw DOGE Scrutiny: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
In its latest frontal attack on the federal bureaucracy, the Trump administration is moving to drastically downsize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency, created during the Obama administration, has been temporarily rendered ineffective, as a Trump appointee ordered its employees to stop working Sunday. Created by a 2010 act of Congress as an agency,… -
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Why Chinese AI DeepSeek Won’t (and Can’t) Work
The world is abuzz with the news about DeepSeek, the new open source AI platform that changed the paradigm regarding how much time, money, and processing power is required to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems. Its origin in Communist China only adds to its mystery—and concern for those of us in the West. Big Chinese… -
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The Left Unwittingly Proves Trump’s Point on the Need to Root Out Anti-Christian Bias
President Donald Trump last week announced a new task force dedicated to eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government. Trump noted that the federal government under President Joe Biden “engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.” The new president pledged not to “tolerate this abuse of government” and… -
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Lies, Damn Lies, and University Research Overhead Costs
Over the weekend, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would be cutting the rate at which it pays universities for overhead on federal research grants from an average of about 60% to 15%. Not surprisingly, there were howls of protest from university staff and their fellow-travelers in the media. Given their professional commitment… -
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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover—or a Politician by His Voice or Appearance
As people tuned in for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent Senate committee confirmation hearings, many heard his voice and immediately tuned out. Yet, listeners’ less-than-stellar auditory experience may not necessarily be a bad thing. RFK Jr. has spoken publicly about his voice, which is the result of a rare neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia. In… -
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‘BETRAYAL’: Lawmaker Responds to FEMA Diverting $59M to House Illegal Aliens
Elon Musk claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated $59 million last week to house illegal aliens in New York City. The Department of Government Efficiency, an agency established to root out government waste, “discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants,” Musk wrote…