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    Hollywood vs Individualism
    Many popular movies make a constructive point: If you work hard enough and push through tough times, you can achieve your dreams. In “The Pursuit of Happyness,” a struggling father tells his son, “Don’t let anyone tell you, you can’t do something.” The movie is a true story about a man who overcomes homelessness and…
    John Stossel
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    Investors Approach Values-Based Hollywood Alternative to Produce Charlie Kirk Film
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Investors have approached Angel, seeking to front cash for a feature film about the life of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk after his assassination in Utah last week. “I’ve had multiple people call me already who have offered to fund Charlie Kirk’s story and to release Charlie Kirk’s story on…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Derangement Syndrome Grips Hollywood Writers
    The entertainment press found it very important to report that Hollywood thinks President Donald Trump is an authoritarian. This is still somehow considered “news.” Over 2,300 members of the Writers Guild felt compelled to speak out in an open letter because they believe in their “role in a healthy democracy.” In 2024, democracy was healthy…
    Tim Graham
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    Reclaiming Hollywood: An Opportunity for Conservatives
    Superman is an alien conservatives should protect. I’m talking IP and icons here, so if James Gunn’s newest installment of the Superman franchise deserved critique, conservatives should not be shy. But because the Man of Steel properly understood soars higher than anything as a symbol for what America means, conservatives should use this moment to…
    Ty Ruddy
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    Take It From a Former Hollywood Liberal: Giving Up the Democratic Party Won’t Hurt as Much as You Think
    Dear Democrats in Los Angeles, Mind if we have a little heart-to-heart? Oh, I hear you. “You’re a Trump supporter. You don’t have a heart.” No, I’m not offended. If I can deal with high school friends who think I stink like sweaty socks from a boys’ gym locker because of my politics, I can…
    Al Perrotta
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    2 Polls in Va. Governor’s Race Paint Very Different Pictures. Why Is Media Only Showing Democrat-Friendly One?
    The “unofficial” start to summer 2025 has arrived, and with it, Virginia’s campaign season with its national implications—it’s touted as a barometer for how the electorate feels about the party in power in Washington. The state never has an “off year”—what pundits call election years without a federal or statewide elections. Every year in Virginia…
    Joe Thomas
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    6 Hollywood Classics Worth a Watch This Memorial Day Weekend
    On Memorial Day, we honor the Americans who have died protecting and serving this country in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. It is a time when all of us should—no matter who we are, where we come from, or where we fall along the political spectrum—forget about politics and our differences…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    WATCH: Trump Declares War on Hollywood Outsourcing
    President Trump announced a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films Sunday evening, claiming that outsourcing production poses a “national security threat.” No final plan has been solidified. Here’s what we know so far about Hollywood’s deals with foreign studios and what the tariffs could do to the industry.
    Elise McCue
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    Minneapolis’ Rogue Prosecutor Orders Assistants to Discriminate Based on Race
    Minneapolis’ disgraced-public-defender-turned-prosecutor, Mary Moriarty, put out a memo innocuously entitled “Negotiations Policy for Cases Involving Adult Defendants.” But the policies she puts forward in it are far from innocuous. In fact, they’re illegal. Beginning on Monday, April 28, she has ordered prosecutors in her office to begin treating people differently based on their race. Of…
    Zack Smith
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    Key Hollywood Players Quietly Turning Away From Wokeism
    One of the unintended—but providential—side effects of America’s anti-woke wave isn’t just that companies are walking away from LGBT extremism, but that entertainment is. In a market pivot that’s gone somewhat under the radar, key Hollywood players seem to be quietly turning away from the wokeism that’s financially punished the industry for years. Families in…
    Suzanne Bowdey
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    The House’s Harness Race of the Horrible
    When I was little, I lived down the street from Rosecroft Raceway, a harness racing track just outside the Washington Beltway.   Occasionally, we’d go watch the races at night or simply hear the race calls and roar of the crowd echo through the neighborhood.   When the wind was right you could smell the manure from…
    Al Perrotta
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    Course Correction: How Conservatives Are Reclaiming Pop Culture
    Conservatives struggled to engage the culture for years, and in some cases, willingly left the space to the radical Left. Because of that, Adrienne Gray says, she “always felt like sort of the black swan here in the conservative movement.” Many conservatives “condemn pop culture, we suppress it a lot, because we don’t, again, align…
    Virginia Allen | Elise McCue
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    The Left’s Continued Obsession With Race and Voting—and Why Courts Keep Feeding It
    Left-wing activists sued Louisiana for not having enough black-majority populated congressional districts. But after creating an additional black-majority district, the state was then sued by voters for creating the district on the basis of race, which is illegal. Also on the legal front, activist judges are imposing nationwide injunctions to try to stop President Donald…
    Tony Kinnett
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    South Africa Denies Elon Musk’s Accusations of Racial Genocide
    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday denied Elon Musk’s claim that white people are being persecuted in that country, calling it a “completely false narrative.” Musk, a native of South Africa, drew attention to a political rally last Friday at which black leaders of a far-left opposition party sang a song that includes the lyrics “Kill…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Faith Narratives Gain Traction in Hollywood With Amazon’s ‘House of David’
    Most people know the story of David and Goliath. It’s an epic tale of a shepherd boy vanquishing a giant with nothing more than a pebble and sling, putting him on a path to become the most famous king of Israel. The story has war, politics, fracturing kingdoms, powerful seers, an underdog hero, and of…
    Jenneth Dyck
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    Republican Race for Virginia Governor Intensifies as Nation Watches
    Virginians are bracing for another onslaught of national politicians and pundits hell-bent to prove during the commonwealth’s upcoming off-year gubernatorial election that Donald Trump’s win in November was either a mandate or a fluke. And for once, there appeared to be a clear, primary-free, path for Republicans in the state to rally early around a…
    Joe Thomas
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    The Ludicrous Reason Hollywood Barred ‘Reagan’ From a Best Picture Nomination
    No conservative could honestly have expected the 2024 biopic “Reagan” to be a viable contender for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars. Ultraliberal Hollywood could never honor a film that dares to depict our 40th president as a hero. But the fact that it’s officially ineligible for nomination because it doesn’t meet new diversity requirements?…
    Ed Feulner
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    When a Judge Incorrectly Rules Race as Legit in Naval Academy Admissions (Part 3 of 3)
    Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, even though the Supreme Court last year expressly forbade the use of race in college admissions in two related cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC?  The answer is "yes," according to U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett,…
    Cully Stimson
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    US Naval Academy on Trial for Unconstitutional Use of Race in Admissions (Part 2 of 3): The Witnesses
    Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, even though the U.S. Supreme Court expressly forbade the use of race in college admissions last year in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC? I believe the clear answer is “no,” as I have argued in this article in the…
    Cully Stimson
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    Tuesday’s Other Big Losers Besides Harris: Hollywood, Liz Cheney, Lawfare
    The Biggest Loser? After Tuesday, it’s not just the title of the long-running reality TV weight-loss show anymore. The biggest loser of the Nov. 5 elections, undeniably, was Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite raising and spending a staggering $1 billion in campaign cash and having the sycophantic support of the Hollywood glitterati, the now-lame-duck vice…
    Peter Parisi
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