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The escalating Israel-Hamas war means that the Abraham Accords between Israel and two former enemies in the Middle East “are needed now more than ever,” Jared Kushner said in a post last week on social media. Kushner should know. As a top White House aide as well as son-in-law to then-President Donald Trump, Kushner was…
After President Joe Biden met last week with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a statement and a photo on its website. The photo showed Biden shaking hands with Wang. “Biden asked Wang Yi to extend his greetings to President Xi Jinping and expounded on the position that the U.S….
We’re finally getting an alternative to the Pulitzer Prize, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The Dao Prize, an annual award that aims to showcase and support investigative journalism, is the result of a partnership between two conservative organizations: the National Journalism Center, created by the Young America’s Foundation, and the Dao…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz blasted the Left’s attacks on Federalist Society Board Co-Chairman Leonard Leo and other conservative friends of Supreme Court justices as an attempt to undermine the Constitution itself. “From Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme to the attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas, and from the smear tactics used to defame…
Donald Trump doesn’t know Thomas Robertson. But the former president’s fate appears inextricably tied to that of the former Army Ranger, who was convicted last year for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol. That’s because the prosecutions of Trump and his supporters, including Robertson, have often depended on reimagining…
President Joe Biden was unable to overcome the judicial and legislative roadblocks to his full set of COVID-19 vaccine mandates two years ago, but the damage of that policy lingers. If the Supreme Court and Congress had failed to block the mandates, the costly consequences of our COVID-19 crisis could have been worse. Now we…
Dinesh D’Souza’s newest film, “Police State,” chronicles the real-life stories of everyday Americans who have endured the wrath of a weaponized government and of the whistleblowers who are exposing its abuse of power. The film will be shown Wednesday at a red-carpet event at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump,…
One of the textbook marketing flops of all time was the Ford Edsel sedan, which was heralded as the hot new car in the late 1950s. All the automotive experts and Ford executives said it was a can’t-miss. Henry Ford (the car was named after his son) guaranteed hundreds of thousands of sales. But one…
It is rare to see a university publicly complain about regulatory harassment, but Grand Canyon University has good reasons to do so. One of the largest universities in the country, GCU has 25,800 students in person and 92,000 online. It’s a Christian university, but in the eyes of intolerant federal regulators, its brief period as…
At a congressional hearing about global religious persecution last week, some House Democrats hijacked the event to fearmonger about a small school of political thought that espouses a position that its proponents call “Christian nationalism.” The Oct. 25 hearing was held by the House Oversight subcommittee on national security, the border, and foreign affairs. Yet, rather than…
The good news for Republicans is they finally elected a new speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson. The bad news for Republicans is the “objective” media exist to create bad news for Republicans. The “Politico Playbook” announced the breaking spin over the breaking news: “Johnson is about to become for Democrats what Nancy Pelosi…
As the Israel Defense Forces enter Gaza to wage war against Hamas, it’s important to remember the extent to which Israel works tirelessly to meet and vastly exceed the requirements of international law, including the law of armed conflict. The four basic principles of the law of war: distinction, proportionality, military necessity, and limitation. …
The public health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic ended long ago, but America faces a new emergency. Faith in health agencies has plummeted more rapidly since 2019 than any other government institution, with almost two-thirds now rating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “only fair or…
The U.N. General Assembly called Friday for a “humanitarian truce” between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, but a cease-fire isn’t an option for the Jewish nation, activist Boris Zilberman says. If the Israel-Hamas war is put on pause, Zilberman says, Hamas terrorists will use the time “to retool.” Zilberman, director of public policy and strategy…
Few Romans in the late decades of their fifth-century A.D. empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals. These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were focused on destroying the civilization…
China's recent military activity around Taiwan reached new heights after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting in April with then-U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. This increase in China's military activity and long-term trends point to troubling times ahead, and our military and political leaders need to be ready. With wars in Ukraine and Israel grabbing so…
Democrats are trying to make Halloween extra spooky this year by exhuming the boogieman of Christian nationalism. The news hook is the election of a conservative Christian as speaker of the House. Rep. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, won the election last week. In the left-wing media’s lexicon, Christian nationalism doesn’t refer to the handful…
Is President Joe Biden trying to get us killed? His Nagasaki-like destruction of the southern “border” is like a mating call that lures terrorists to have their way with us. Customs and Border Protection reports that 269,735 illegal aliens invaded America in September alone, a one-month record. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,912,663 illegal aliens during President Donald…
Since she began serving on her local school board in Arizona in January, Heather Rooks has made it a practice to begin her meeting comments by reading a Scripture verse she found encouraging. Rooks says citing Scriptures such as Isaiah 41:10—“Do not fear for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for…
Promoting the gospel of diversity, equity, and inclusion isn't an extracurricular activity at the Department of Commerce—it's an essential part of every employee's job, according to a new memo obtained by The Daily Signal. If the hard-nosed economists at Commerce don't preach about institutional racism or display their preferred personal pronouns in their bios, they…