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As the old saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. How else can you make sense of or explain how two unrelated state court judges, 1,072 miles (Massachusetts and Wisconsin) and seven years apart, broke federal law by actively assisting an illegal alien evade capture by federal agents who had all of the necessary…
The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have been stunningly transformative, even as the Left has begun to mount some counteroffensives in the judiciary and in the media. For a president to be successful, he must apply principles that one might apply to warfare or sports. The early days of a presidency are about…
At the 100-day mark, it’s an obvious fact that the border is now secure. Illegal immigration is now a trickle. The network “news” folks hate to mention it. But they are eager to cite polls that find President Donald Trump’s immigration approval number is declining. Forget the successes, and drive the notion that he’s losing…
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…
If you break a system, you can’t be upset when fixing that system requires a solution that’s outside the normal operation of the system. Congressional Democrats continue to demand the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to America. In March, the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador. Congressional Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.,…
Fifty years ago on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America’s, too. South Vietnam was our ally, whose forces we trained, armed, and supported with our own troops, ultimately at the cost of more than 58,000 of our service members’ lives. The grim anniversary is a reminder that those…
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. I’d like to talk today, if I could, about the changing of the Democratic guard. There was some news lately…
It’s 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, and his administration has continued to move at “Trump speed.” The president has signed a record-breaking 142 executive orders, taking actions such as ending the “catch and release” policy on illegal immigration, declaring a national energy emergency, cutting DEI-related funding and policies, and downsizing the federal…
Last week, North Dakota was poised to become the 17th state to make every K-12 student eligible for school choice. Instead, the failure of Gov. Kelly Armstrong and state legislators to reach a compromise has left North Dakota families in the cold. The North Dakota Legislature passed House Bill 1540, a bill to create a…
Editor’s note: Emily Johnson is a senior at Xavier University and a student ambassador for the Network of enlightened Women. During his 1984 presidential campaign, President Ronald Reagan famously claimed, “It’s morning again in America.” These words remain strikingly true over 40 years later with the dawn of the second Trump administration. The feeling of…
During the Biden administration, abortion advocates tried mightily to cover up the corruption and political maneuvering at the Food and Drug Administration that has promoted the drug mifepristone, which now causes nearly two-thirds of all abortions. A lawsuit seeking to expose how the FDA unlawfully approved and pushed this dangerous drug was cut short, with…
WASHINGTON—In all my years of covering immigration politics, I’ve never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday morning, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, had a message to migrants living illegally in the United States: Go home. If you don’t, he explained, we’ll find you, we’ll prosecute you, and…
If you thought from news coverage that a federal judge had completely knocked out President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” you’ve been misled (as usual) by the mainstream media. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia only issued a preliminary…
A great many of the cases heard by our nation’s courts, at every level, require the delicate parsing of subtly contradictory facts and opinions leading to a decision that, almost inevitably, will greatly benefit some people while frustrating the lives and purposes of others. Happily, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond is not one…
After a topsy-turvy election cycle in which the Conservatives started up 25 points before trade tensions with the United States and a Liberal leadership change, Canadian voters have given the Liberal Party another mandate in Ottawa. This is a big win for Mark Carney, the newly installed Canadian prime minister who had spent a career…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House are historic in many ways: From restoring American exceptionalism and strong leadership in the Oval Office to securing the border in record time to deconstructing the administrative state with the Department of Government Efficiency, there’s no issue too…
The second Donald Trump administration continues to ferret out racial favoritism in education and the federal workforce, and there is plenty to be found. The administration is now turning to K-12 classrooms and already has a good model to use for its latest order to end race-based quotas in school discipline. On Wednesday, the White…
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. We’re coming up over the three-month mark or the proverbial “100 days” are on the horizon…
The Trump administration is waging a necessary, multifront battle to collapse a DEI regime that’s poisoned Western institutions and caused Americans to lose faith in the equal application of standards and laws. President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term have been filled with a flurry of executive actions not seen since the…
Once in a blue moon, you run across a statistic or record that is mind-boggling. Some are amazing, like Alex Ovechkin’s 895 goals or Serena Williams’ 23 Grand Slam singles titles. But others are disturbing, like the fact that in Washington, D.C., between 2018 and 2022, only 1.7% of people arrested for carrying a pistol…