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opinion
Education Department’s Return on Investment? Zero. Shut It Down.
In fiscal 2024, when President Joe Biden was still in office and the federal government was running a $1.8 trillion deficit, the Department of Education spent three times as much as the Department of Homeland Security and six times as much as the Department of Justice. The Department of Homeland Security, according to the Treasury… -
opinion
A Long List of Undesirables; Elected, Blind, and Otherwise!
Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”? Is that not an apt description of the former convicts arrested at the Glass House pot farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo by Homeland Security to the dismay of local politicians and… -
opinion
Making Automobiles Great Again
In all the hoopla about the One Big Beautiful Bill, one provision went completely overlooked—but that provision is now primed to usher in the rebirth of the great American car. But first, a little history. Back in 1975, in a panic over the Arab oil embargo and phony predictions that the world was running out… -
news
With FY ’26 Looming, Congress Faces Major Decisions on How Government Is Funded
In the coming weeks, Congress could decide whether government funding is set by traditional bipartisan spending bills, or through temporary funding measures and quick-fix, surgical spending cuts. The Senate is staying in session for part of its typical August state work period, laboring through a hot Washington summer to confirm President Donald Trump’s judicial and… -
opinion
IMMIGRATION HOLD-OVER: Biden Political Appointee Still Holds Prominent DHS Position Under Trump
President Donald Trump has cracked down on illegal immigration and reversed President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, but at least one of Biden’s political appointees in the Department of Homeland Security has kept his prominent DHS job under Trump. Jeff Rezmovic, who currently serves as deputy assistant commissioner at the Board of Trade in Customs and… -
opinion
More Voter Fraud Exposed: Proven Cases of Ballot Tampering and Rigged Elections
A woman votes in two different states for four elections in a row. A small-town mayor locks away ballots and refuses to count the votes. A mayoral candidate forges over 100 absentee ballot requests and sends them to a fake nursing home address. A husband and wife, both candidates for office, fake their residence in… -
news
Nixon Foundation Honors Arkansas’ Sanders
The leadership of the state of Arkansas is a model for the rest of the country. That’s what the Richard Nixon Foundation concluded this year in honoring Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders with its Champion of the American Dream Award. The award acknowledges Sanders’ “courage, clarity, and deep commitment to American values,” both as governor of… -
news
MASSIVE STING: Authorities Arrest Dozens for Human Trafficking, Child Exploitation, Narcotics
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Combating human trafficking is a priority for the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department, but the agency can’t do it alone. That’s why HHS partnered with state and local officials in Mississippi to carry out a two-week human trafficking sting leading to 72 felony and misdemeanor arrests and 29 victim… -
opinion
The Man Who Laid the Groundwork for the Rise of Trump and the Death of the Media
It’s Andrew Breitbart’s world, we’re all just living in it. Tragically, Breitbart himself is not. He died suddenly on March 1, 2012, at just 43 years of age. In his life, Breitbart was always a pioneer, pushing media and politics to the edges of the map only to open a completely new frontier. There’s something… -
opinion
Mamdani’s $30 Minimum Wage Plan for New York Is a Guaranteed Job Killer. Just Ask California.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants a $30 minimum wage in New York by 2030, but California’s experience shows this flawed policy will kill at least tens of thousands of jobs. Policymaking doesn’t happen in a vacuum—the laws of economics still hold whether a minimum wage worker is on the East or West… -
news
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Trump Investment Firm Demands Fed Comply With Federal Transparency Law
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A pro-Trump investment firm is demanding the Federal Reserve hand over a transcript of its closed-door meeting this week, in which the committee decided not to lower interest rates. Azoria Capital applied for a temporary restraining order requiring the Federal Open Market Committee to allow the public to watch its meeting… -
opinion
Columbia Struck Deal With Trump. Will the Rest of Higher Education Follow?
There’s a reason Claire Shipman, the acting president of Columbia University, cut a deal with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon last week. Elite universities like to pose as protectors of free speech, but nobody believes that anymore. For decades, they’ve served as taxpayer-subsidized echo chambers. Then, in March, the Trump administration canceled $400 million in… -
opinion
The Washington Post ‘Fact-Checker’ Packs in the Pinocchios
Washington Post “Fact-Checker” Glenn Kessler announced on July 28 he’s hanging up his Pinocchios and accepting a generous buyout after 27 years. “Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss,” he announced. Kessler used a Pinocchio scale for his fact… -
news
Fox News Crushes Competition in July
Fox News Channel continued to dominate television ratings in July, making it the highest-rated network in all of primetime TV—topping not just its cable news rivals but also NBC, CBS, and ABC. With an average of 2.4 million primetime viewers in July, Fox News outpaced NBC with 2.1 million viewers, CBS and ABC with 2… -
news
Combative Biden White House Aide Disputes Cognitive Decline Claims
A top White House official and campaign chief for former President Joe Biden took probing questions from House investigators on Wednesday, pushing back strongly against assertions of Biden’s cognitive decline while still in office. Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president in the Biden White House and a longtime player in Democrat politics, sat down with… -
news
Georgia GOP Lawmaker Racking Up Endorsements, Campaign Cash for Senate Bid
Georgia Republican Rep. Mike Collins is entering one of the most high-stakes Senate races of the 2026 cycle armed with dollars and endorsements. The mullet-sporting congressman announced his bid Monday to unseat Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., who narrowly won the state in a 2022 runoff election. Since then, Collins has secured the support of important… -
news
Resolving Global Conflicts and ‘America First’: What Is Trump’s Philosophy?
Standing in his white golf shoes on a lush green, President Donald Trump told those gathered at the ribbon-cutting for his golf course in Scotland on Tuesday that his administration has “put out fires all over the world” and “stopped about five wars.” Since returning to the White House on Jan. 20, the Trump administration has… -
news
‘Blue Slip’ Brouhaha: Trump, Grassley Spar Over Judicial Nominee Confirmation Procedure
President Donald Trump is seeking to end the long-standing “blue slip” tradition of giving senators veto power over some judicial nominees from their states—but he’s getting pushback from the Republican senator whose mind he needs to change. “I was offended by what the president said, and I’m disappointed that it would result in personal insults,”… -
news
Could We See This Ohio Democrat Back in Political Office?
Last November, Republican Bernie Moreno beat incumbent Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat. The win helped the GOP take back control of U.S. Senate. We may not have heard the last of Brown, though, as there’s been chatter he’ll run for the Senate once more. He has the chance to do so next year. Moreno… -
opinion
Migration to Red States Is Accelerating, Study Says
America’s economic engine is moving south, according to a newly released analysis of IRS and census data by an organization called Unleash Prosperity. “The single most important thing that is going on in this country, economically and demographically, is the massive shift in migration that’s happened over the last 10 to 20 years, and it…
