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President Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland is certainly understandable. The “gateway to the Arctic” and location of the Thule Air Base—now Pituffik Space Base—has great strategic value from a U.S. national security standpoint. It may also have prodigious untapped mineral reserves. This led Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., to introduce the “Make Greenland Great Again” bill,…
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. It’s Monday, Inauguration Day. It’s also Martin Luther King Day, and the two dates coincided this year. And Donald Trump has just finished his inaugural…
“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”—the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963 “Our long national nightmare is over.”—President Gerald Ford, Aug. 9, 1974 I’m not sure which of those two historical quotes better captures the moment Monday as America marks the end of an era—I…
The long nightmare of President Joe Biden’s devastating four years in office is finally over, but the work is just beginning. In order to achieve real change, the incoming administration needs to understand just how rotten things in Washington, D.C., have become. What made Biden’s presidency a nightmare? After all, didn’t Good Old Joe from…
As the debate rages over Pete Hegseth’s nomination to become President Donald Trump’s secretary of defense, the former soldier and broadcaster’s critics still claim that he is a closet white nationalist. Hegseth’s foes get jumpy over a tattoo on his chest. The Jerusalem Cross that Hegseth’s jackets and ties cover is, indeed, a Christian symbol—just like every…
Senate confirmation hearings are set to officially begin this week for Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. No doubt, the media and some members of the Senate will try to use this opportunity to criticize Hegseth’s personal history and lack of Pentagon experience, but this is a mistake. Indeed, if the chaos…
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. Joe Biden is on his way out of office and as a farewell to all of us, he reviewed the state of affairs abroad to…
With President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday, Republicans in Congress have a golden opportunity to pass a slate of policies that would improve the lives of everyday Americans. As always, however, Washington is hung up on the details instead of the outcomes, with members currently arguing whether to deliver on the president-elect’s policy mandate with one bill or two bills. The…
As President-elect Donald Trump takes office for a second White House term, his path bears striking resemblance to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the British bulldog who triumphed over existential threats in World War II. And like Churchill, Trump, the American lion, is uniquely equipped and battle-tested for his enormous tasks at hand. Most obviously,…
This week President Joe Biden invoked the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas drilling in most of America’s offshore areas, in perpetuity—or so he thinks. President-elect Donald Trump called the order “ridiculous” and pledged to reverse it immediately. That’s precisely what Trump should do, but it won’t be easy. In 2019,…
As 2024 drew to a close, examples abounded of ordinary Americans whose Second Amendment rights proved to be the ultimate defense against criminals. While the facts of these defensive gun uses were different, none of these encounters is necessarily “unique.” In fact, reliance on armed self-defense is almost routine. Almost every major study has found…
Seeing homes in Malibu and the Pacific Palisades burn to the ground while fire hydrants ran dry is bad enough, but knowing the water shortage resulted from bad bureaucratic decisions makes the horrifying sights even worse. Water is everywhere in California. The Golden State borders the Pacific Ocean, which contains countless gallons that could be desalinated to…
Cher has a new autobiography, “The Memoir,” which runs just over 400 pages, but apparently, that’s only half the story. We know that because the subtitle of the book, published in mid-November, is “Part 1.” “Part 2”—due out in mid-November 2025, but already available online for preorder by Cher’s biggest fans—presumably will be equally hefty….
Acquiring Greenland, or at least more closely partnering with it, is a critical element of President-elect Donald Trump’s shift on American foreign policy. In an age of increasing great power conflict, it might be necessary for the security of the United States. But it’s about more than just that. It could signal a great national…
“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.” We’re at a moment, in this week before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, when the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president is succeeding at just about every enterprise he undertakes, while his political and…
With conservatives back in power, public media is getting back to what it really excels at. No, not objective, impartial reporting. If NPR and PBS focused on that, they wouldn’t need to be so good at their side hustle: desperately lobbying Congress not to defund them. Now that they’re good at. The lobbying efforts have worked every…
In a culture dominated by feminism, young men are starved for icons of masculinity. Young men crave heroes to imitate, but a neutered, castrated, effeminate society produces precious few, if any—and many of the heroes of history are hidden away and forgotten. Ever prescient, the author C.S. Lewis warned of the dangers of such a…
The social media site Twitter now “identifies” as “X.” A different kind of “X” now marks the spot where radical gender ideology has trumped national security under the Biden administration. Over the past decade, encouraging people to be their “authentic selves” has left us with no clear and agreed upon terms for sex, gender, and…
At least one branch of the federal government is not prepared to make way for TikTok. On Friday, a mere seven days after oral arguments in TikTok v. Garland, the Supreme Court in a per curiam opinion unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the divestment law against challenges that it violated the First Amendment. The court…
With just days before leaving office, President Joe Biden has shared his personal belief that the Equal Rights Amendment is now part of the Constitution. This isn’t the first time that he’s been wrong on both the facts and the law, but, even as personal observations go, this one is particularly absurd. Here, for the…