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opinion
A Vast, Divergent Land
The United States of America is 3.8 million square miles, filled with 340 million people, producing over $30 trillion in gross domestic product per year. We are the fourth largest country by land, third by population and first by GDP. We no longer know each other, care for each other or like each other. We… -
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Don’t Call Mamdani a Commie or Jihadi
Zohran Mamdani surged to an easy victory as the “democratic socialist” mayor of New York City, complete with media enthusiasm that carried echoes of silly Barack Obama love songs. The badly named “mainstream media” earnestly promoted the most extreme candidate. Andrew Cuomo must have felt so betrayed. In 2020, he was the media’s pandemic prince…. -
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How Virginia GOP Can Rebuild After Dramatic Off-Year Election Losses
Virginia Republicans fear GOP candidates’ losses on Tuesday could spell trouble come midterms if the party doesn’t figure out a strategy to appeal to working-class voters without President Donald Trump on the ticket. “There’s three elements in any election: candidate quality, environment, and money, and they all favored the Democrats,” Virginia political operative Chris Saxman… -
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Seizures by Feds of Little-Known Drug Spike
While Customs and Border Protection saw a year-over-year decline in the seizure of many drugs in fiscal year 2025, the amount of khat seized more than doubled. In fiscal year 2025, which ended on Sept. 30, CBP seized more than 46,000 pounds of khat, up from 17,600 pounds in 2024. The street value of a pound of khat is about $125, according to CBP. Khat is a flowering… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?
We can draw a few conclusions from an off-year election, when iconic races in blue states went, as expected, overwhelmingly Democrat. Nevertheless, there is only a year left before the midterms. So, Republicans must react to even these paltry results. 1) Democrats’ chaotic nihilism still works. The chaos strategy causes so much turmoil, noise, and… -
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Former Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Left the Democrat Party to Become an Independent. Cue the Sound of One Hand Clapping.
WASHINGTON—In case you hadn’t noticed, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is a black woman, as she repeatedly reminds readers in her memoir “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.” Jean-Pierre also is “openly queer”—her words, not mine, scattered like breadcrumbs throughout her 177-page treatment of her two-plus years… -
opinion
ABOUT-FACE: 6 Key Youngkin Policies Spanberger Will Likely Reverse in Virginia
Next year, Democrat Abigail Spanberger will take Republican Glenn Youngkin’s place in the Virginia governor’s mansion, and she will likely reverse many of his key policies. Spanberger will also take office with the legislative wind at her back, since Democrats took at least 12 seats from Republicans in the House of Delegates, giving them a… -
opinion
‘Hot Girls’ for Socialism: The Voters Who Backed Mamdani in NYC
New York City is giving socialism a try, and Zohran Mamdani has young women to thank. If you found yourself in the Big Apple on Tuesday night, you might have witnessed groups of young women sporting “Hot Girls for Mamdani” T-shirts. In one viral video shared on social media following Mamdani’s election night victory to become the next mayor… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: The Obamas Have Nothing to Complain About
On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc react to Michelle Obama’s book tour for her new book “The Look.” This transcript has been slightly edited for clarity. Sami Winc: For having said that, which was very strange because you would think somebody on a show like that would… -
news
Court Delivers Win in Ohio for Free Speech Rights on Pronouns
A federal court ruled in favor of a group suing an Ohio school district over its pronouns policy on Thursday as court battles continue to rage over the nation’s culture war. The Thursday decision from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Olentangy Local School District’s pronoun policy that tried to force… -
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Just How Anti-Israel Is the Professor Teaching Course on Gaza, Gender, and ‘Genocide’ at Princeton?
Princeton University is offering a course on “Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide” featuring a professor who denied the fact that Hamas militants raped women and killed babies during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. “This seminar explores genocide through the analytic of gender, with a central focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” a… -
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California Republicans in Hot Water Thanks to Newsom Redistricting Effort
Republican representatives from California will have to fight for their survival in the 2026 midterms as Democrats redraw the Golden State’s congressional maps to increase their districts after passage of Proposition 50. Proposition 50, which California voters supported by about a 2-to-1 margin in this year’s election, will temporarily suspend the state’s independent redistricting commission… -
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Virginia Governor Vows a Smooth Transition of Power
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin welcomed Democrat Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger to the executive mansion in Richmond on Thursday to discuss the transition of power coming in January. “Our administration is fully, fully standing by to support in any aspect necessary to make sure that the transition goes extremely smoothly and that Gov.-elect Spanberger is ready on Day One to do the job… -
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Major Republican Enters New York Governor Race
After months of teasing a run, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has entered the race to unseat Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2026. “Elise Stefanik will clean up Kathy Hochul’s catastrophe and restore New York’s greatness,” says a narrator in Stefanik’s announcement video, released just days after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral… -
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Sen. Ed Markey Blocks Bill That Would Ensure Lawmakers Don’t Cash Paychecks During Shutdown
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey blocked legislation that would withhold lawmakers’ paychecks until the government shutdown ends. Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott asked for unanimous consent Thursday afternoon to pass his No Budget, No Pay Act on the Senate floor, prompting an objection from Markey. The debate over lawmakers’ pay comes as… -
opinion
Hope and Principles After Defeat: Virginia Students Stand for Freedom
In the wake of Democrats sweeping Virginia’s three statewide offices and adding to their majority in the House of Delegates Tuesday, many conservatives I know are downhearted, disillusioned, and depressed. Fingers begin to feel like pointing. And to extrapolate on the old expression, “Victory has 100 fathers, but defeat is an orphan,” I’ll add that… -
opinion
Where Is the Outrage Over Ethnic Cleansing of Christians?
With so much of the legacy media’s focus spent on smearing Israel these days, you probably haven’t heard a ton about the ongoing massacres in Nigeria. Islamists have murdered tens of thousands of defenseless Christians, displacing around 15 million people from their homes. Medieval sexual violence and torture are regularly practiced by Islamist militants, who… -
opinion
Pelosi’s Losing Legacy
When the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act came up on the House floor on April 5, 2000, it had significant bipartisan support. Sixteen Democrats co-sponsored the bill, and 77 voted for it. As explained in its official summary, the bill would prohibit “an abortion in which the person performing the abortion deliberately and intentionally (1) vaginally… -
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Why Democrats Love the Shutdown
One big word worth learning is “schadenfreude.” Schadenfreude is “pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.” Nothing better captures the perverse pleasure that Democrats are deriving from the pain inflicted on our country caused by the government shutdown. Democrats precipitated this shutdown to force Republicans to back off efforts to turn around our suicidal… -
opinion
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Comey Knew Clinton Had Cooked Up the Collusion Hoax
On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc react to the release of damning new evidence against former FBI Director James Comey, a handwritten note indicating he knew full well Trump-Russia collusion was spawned by the Hillary Clinton campaign. This transcript has been slightly edited for clarity. Sami Winc: Well, Victor, let’s go…
