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In the little over 100 years since its founding, the American Bar Association has transformed from an organization designed to promote best practices in the legal profession to one promoting partisan political positions that are immoral, illegal, and unethical. But despite its woke commitments, the ABA has remained the nation’s only nationally recognized law school…
Many of us find ourselves drawn away from prayer. Why? My personal take is that the temptation to abandon prayer largely comes from our subconscious belief that if we are doing good for God we have a good excuse not to pray. There are many temptations that can lure us away from prayer, even in…
Nearly a week into the federal government shutdown, Senate Democrats are still withholding their support for a short-term funding extension, but pressure to reopen the government could soon intensify as the government runs out of money to fund certain programs and paychecks. On Monday, Republicans gained no ground in their latest attempt to reopen the…
The hypocritical sexism of the Left knows no bounds, including in our beautiful Commonwealth of Virginia. America’s modern Left claims to hold a monopoly on caring for women, but Virginia Democrats have abandoned us, proving they are incapable of protecting women’s safety and governing in a bipartisan, reasonable manner. The official Democrat Party nominee for Virginia attorney general…
September was not a good month for the advocates of government schools—across the nation and here in Virginia. In Des Moines, Iowa, the city’s school superintendent was the subject of a high-speed car chase followed by a K-9 manhunt leading to his capture. Why? He’s been in the country illegally since 2000 and has been…
On Sept. 5, we filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education and the Department of Justice against our alma mater, Davidson College. We did not make this decision out of anger toward Davidson but from our hope that Davidson can become an institution of free expression that encourages students to pursue truth. We had chosen Davidson as student athletes and recall being high school seniors, eager to attend a college where we could simultaneously pursue a high level of…
Some Democrats are apparently looking to pull off a big Civil War reenactment to the detriment of the whole country. On Monday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker blasted the Trump administration’s call to send National Guard troops to Illinois. Pritzker’s thread on X announcing that he would resist federal authorities sounded like a message in a…
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. President Donald Trump is sending federalized troops into Portland, Oregon, because the Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Jesse Jackson Jr. will reportedly announce a run to reclaim his old congressional seat in Illinois after vacating it more than a decade ago following his conviction on fraud charges. “We must fight them at every level to restore decency, fairness, and equity back into the federal government,” reads a line from the Jesse Jackson…
The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to grant a stay of a lower court decision telling South Carolina it has to allow a transgender girl to use the boys’ bathroom in a public school emphasizes the importance of issues the court will be reviewing when its new term starts Oct. 6. The court’s last term featured…
The federal government is shut down, at least in part, because Democrats are attempting to reverse Medicaid spending cuts that were enacted earlier this year as part of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Democrats are refusing to support a continuing resolution that would keep funding the government unless it restores those cuts. ABC News is determined to help the Democrats make their case for reversing Medicaid cuts, even at the…
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution,” said the late David Horowitz, quoting a 1960s rebel. The Palestinian conflict, the climate, transgenderism, immigration, and abortion are all proximate causes for protests and now terrorism. But they are all also part of an amalgamated “omnicause” whose real purpose is to bring down the United States and the West….
Less than a month after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Virginia Democrats are carrying water for a candidate who wished death on his political opponent, hoped his opponent’s wife would watch as her children died, and said he would urinate on his opponent’s grave. Jay Jones, the Democrat nominee for attorney general in the Old…
Harvard is a drag, literally. Amid its ongoing fight with President Donald Trump over whether Harvard University violated the civil rights of students and even deserves to receive millions of dollars from the American taxpayer, the school decided that it was a smart idea to hire a literal drag queen to teach courses. “Harvard University hired a drag performer…
There has been talk for millennia about the wheat and the tares and the eventual separation of the two that Jesus foretold. I don’t know if that separation is happening in the ultimate sense right now, but something is happening and it is significantly unsettling. I admit, I thought any major, society-wide division would be…
Soviet show trials were not just sham proceedings. The charges were often purposefully absurd, as if to communicate that it wasn’t about justice, or even retribution, just a naked demonstration of the party’s power. Bereft of any real law, punctilious attention to procedure gave the trials a phantasmagorical aspect, both farcical and terrorizing. Something similar has…
One of Zohran Mamdani’s most harmful proposals is getting the least attention: his plan to restrict “gig” work—the freelancing that’s so popular across the Big Apple. Mamdani wants to wrap freelancing in so much red tape, it’ll be significantly harder for New Yorkers to work for themselves or get side income. New Jersey, too, is flirting…
It is not common for prayer to be a consistent talking point in the mainstream media. Usually, the topic concerning conversation with God is something that is reserved for churches and religious magazines. However, the shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis in August and the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September have created a…
The sign outside the little Baptist congregation in Sewickley read simply: “In Memory of Charlie Kirk 1993-2025.” It was one of dozens of images on Facebook feeds showing houses of worship honoring Kirk since he was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University. On the steps of the Pittsburgh City-County building on Grant Street in…
On X, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted, “Let me be perfectly clear: Undocumented people CANNOT AND WILL NOT receive ACA premium tax credits BY LAW. PERIOD. This is a LIE from Republicans to divert attention from their shutdown. Republicans are refusing to lower healthcare costs for the American people.” The capitalization was his. It…