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Wisconsin Senator Backs Trump Admin’s Drug Boat Offensive
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin says he fully backs the military’s crackdown on Caribbean drug smuggling and that it’s the only way to deal a blow to the overseas drug trade. Since early September, the administration has been carrying out deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea it says are smuggling drugs into… -
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GOP Senators Home in on Politically Dicey Topic in Meeting With Vance
Supporting struggling cattle ranchers was the “single most discussed topic” in Senate Republicans’ lunch with Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal. Vance joined the Senate Republicans’ lunch Tuesday to discuss upcoming votes against President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but according to Cruz, the primary topic of discussion was… -
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Do Californians Realize How Badly They’re Getting Ripped Off?
Let’s say you paid top dollar to go to a fancy, five-star restaurant, and the waiter served you warmed-over McDonald’s. Would you ever go back? Maybe, if you didn’t know any better. I started thinking about that after I recently changed my residency from Virginia to California (for reasons I won’t go into) and noticed… -
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Transgender Ideology Is on the Ballot in NJ, VA
Political parties routinely dispatch high-profile surrogates to campaign on behalf of their top-of-the-ticket candidates, especially in off-year election states. But Democrats have an added incentive this year because a marquee cause held dear by the party and embraced by its two gubernatorial candidates in next week’s elections is at risk of dissolving into irrelevancy. The bedrock of transgender ideology got a seismic shock earlier this month when research from… -
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House Oversight Panel Refers Biden ‘Cover-Up’ to DOJ for Investigation
THE CENTER SQUARE—The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released its report on the investigation into former President Joe Biden’s cognitive health, resulting in referrals to the Justice Department and the D.C. Board of Medicine, citing what it said were multiple cover-ups of Biden’s cognitive decline. The report, released Tuesday morning, claims that the former… -
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The Pennsylvania Elections That Could Affect Next Year’s Midterms
Pennsylvania voters will head to the polls next Tuesday to decide whether three Democrat-appointed state Supreme Court justices will be retained to serve another term on the state’s highest judicial body. Pennsylvania’s highest court has become a lightning rod in recent years over its decisions regarding the counting of late ballots in the 2020 presidential… -
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Netanyahu Orders ‘Forceful Strikes’ in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered “forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip” after Hamas’ violation of the hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas. The order comes after Netanyahu met with the leaders of Israel’s security establishment to determine a response to Hamas’ failure to return the remains of deceased hostages. On Monday… -
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Guide to America’s Historic Landmarks—Without the Left-Wing Bias
To help celebrate America’s 250th birthday, The Heritage Foundation is releasing an interactive map and guide to America’s historic sites that is designed to help families enjoy history together accurately and without the Left’s ideological lens. “The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites: Rediscovering America’s Heritage” at historicsites.heritage.org “equips American families with the tools they need to enjoy the sites that mark some of the greatest episodes in… -
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Is NFL’s Pick of Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl Going to Backfire Against the Woke?
Bad Bunny isn’t all that bad. After all, the rapper and singer’s concert residency in Puerto Rico added over $200 million to the economy. That said, the announcement that he would headline the halftime show at the next Super Bowl engendered no end of controversy with the kickoff still over three months away. Over 50,000 fans have already signed a petition demanding Bad Bunny step… -
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What’s Behind Virginia Democrats’ Push to Change Redistricting Rules Ahead of Elections
Former Attorney General Eric Holder became infamous for the viral video in which he tells a gathering, “When they go low, we kick them.” Now we know why the National Democratic Redistricting Committee he chairs invested $300,000 in the Abigail Spanberger campaign and the Virginia House Democratic Caucus the day before the Democrat House speaker… -
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Oh, SNAP: Republicans Try to Fund Food Stamps in Shutdown
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri fears the federal government shutdown will lead to many going hungry, and he has a bill that he says would fix that. But given Democrats’ continued resistance to extending funding for government programs, it is likely to face partisan headwinds. “We have 650,000 Missourians who get SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition… -
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US Kills 14 ‘Narcoterrorists’ in Eastern Pacific Strikes
The U.S. struck four boats in the Eastern Pacific said to be carrying narcotics. “Yesterday, at the direction of President [Donald] Trump, the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth wrote on X Tuesday. The… -
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Dark Money, Sanctuary Cities, Left-Wing Terror, and the War on ICE
As we observe National First Responders Day, let us honor those who protect us every day—and give extra support to those with the courage to reestablish law and order while confronting defiance, violent discord, and even domestic terrorism. A coordinated, dark money-funded far-left movement is targeting and attacking one law enforcement agency in particular: U.S…. -
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‘Go Out and Buy Toyota’: Trump Announces Japan’s Major Investment in US Industry
President Donald Trump announced that Toyota will invest billions to open auto plants across the country. “I was just told by the [Japanese] prime minister that Toyota is going to be putting auto plants all over the United States to the tune of $10 billion,” Trump said. “Go out and buy a Toyota.” Trump spoke… -
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Free Speech in Britain—a Visitor’s Snapshot
By now, most know that free speech is under threat in Great Britain. In August, Vice President JD Vance “raised some criticism [and] concerns about our friends on this side of the Atlantic” while in England on vacation and for official meetings. I just went back to my old college, St. Andrews in Scotland. I’d… -
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The Real Problem With ‘Toxic Masculinity’
On a recent “60 Minutes” segment, UFC President Dana White was asked whether he worries that the sport might promote “toxic masculinity.” White shot back, “What does that even mean? Can you be too masculine?” It was a revealing moment—one that captured our cultural confusion around the topic of masculinity. Both White and his interviewer… -
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How Venezuelan Regime Is Supporting Radical, Left-Wing Groups in US
Venezuela’s regime is coming under increasing pressure from the Trump administration for using the cartels it controls to smuggle drugs into the United States. Last week, President Donald Trump said he had authorized covert CIA actions inside the South American country, a significant escalation. But Caracas’ transgressions extend to other areas. It has also long backed… -
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What the World’s Richest Country Can’t Afford
Undermining the principles that made America wealthy is no way to fix poverty. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently participated in a CNN town hall. Sanders appears to be passing the socialist leadership torch to AOC. Don’t expect her to support collective ownership of that prize. You shouldn’t discount her ability… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: ‘No Kings’ Protest a Facade for Leftist Virtue Signaling
In today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler described the “No Kings” protests, citing a Daily Mail article by psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert. They said that the event was an “empty expression of caring” where “elderly white baby boomers” sought “validation” through virtue signaling. This transcript has… -
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Republicans Criticize National Dems for Embracing Socialist Mamdani
Republicans are criticizing major Democratic Party figures for hitching their wagons to the campaign of self-proclaimed socialist and Democrat nominee for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, specifically targeting House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. On Friday, Jeffries, a fellow New Yorker, became the most senior national Democrat to endorse the state assemblyman from…
