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CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania—Richard Lattanzi started his morning on Aug. 11 getting ready to take his father to his doctor’s appointment at Jefferson Hospital on Coal Valley Road in nearby Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania. Within hours, the hospital would receive trauma victims from a series of explosions at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works. The former steelworker and…
One of the Smithsonian museums the White House singled out late last week for its egregious progressive narratives doesn’t even exist yet: the Latino Museum. And because it has given every indication that it will be another woke abomination, it should never come into being. So it’s a mystery why Republicans in the appropriations committees of both houses of Congress are thwarting President…
An epidemic of juvenile violent crimes endures. Why? The law presumes juveniles are intellectually and psychologically too immature to appreciate the wrongfulness of their violent ways and deserve leniency. But to borrow from Mr. Bumble in “Oliver Twist,” “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass—a idiot.” Violent juveniles have what Justice Oliver…
The bad news keeps coming for the Democratic Party. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the party “faces a voter registration crisis.” Among the 30 states and Washington, D.C., that register voters by party, Democrats dropped 2.1 million registered voters between 2020 and 2024. Republicans added 2.4 million. Nevada contributed its share to that…
Everything has a political angle now. The Left gets worked up by a jeans ad. The Right gets worked up by Cracker Barrel removing both the cracker and the barrel from their logo. Red and blue, colors on the light spectrum and in nature, are now political. A 23-year-old transgender gunman killing children is political….
Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant—often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime—surfaces.Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders, more police…
The Democratic National Committee’s Resolutions Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution affirming what it called the “American Values” of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the party’s annual summer meeting. The Democratic Party has struggled to regain its footing after a stunning loss in the 2024 election, but party leaders have so far ignored advice to avoid…
Three months after he delivered perhaps the most famous pep talk in the history of American football, coach Knute Rockne traveled to Washington, D.C., where he spoke to a gathering of Studebaker executives and then at a luncheon hosted by the Notre Dame Alumni Association. On Nov. 10, 1928, the Fighting Irish had played Army…
WASHINGTON—Some 13 years ago, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, then 16, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The Salvadoran citizen did not have a run-in with the law until 2019, when he was first taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Later, he was released. After President Donald Trump retook the Oval Office, Abrego Garcia was ordered…
Democrats sure know how to pick ’em. The donkey party’s new poster boys are not the kind of people whom most Americans would carry on their shoulders. “Maryland Dad” Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been a virtual Democrat role model since the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador on March 15. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., rushed…
On Monday, President Donald Trump moved to fire Lisa Cook, a Joe Biden-nominated member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. He moved to fire Cook for “cause,” and that cause is clear enough: According to William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Cook allegedly committed mortgage fraud by lying about her principal…
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. Recently, there’s been more revision about World War II. Tucker Carlson had on his show the…
It’s not that George Soros was born in 2008, but that’s the year he became part of the political zeitgeist as we learned about how he helped raise a fortune for the presidential aspirations of a new, young senator from Illinois named Barack Obama. Ever since then, the specter of Soros and his money has…
President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress are giving coal a chance for a comeback by rolling back burdensome regulations, approving coal projects, and repealing green energy subsidies. If coal still proves to be uncompetitive against other energy resources, then it will have failed on its own merits. But coal’s future shouldn’t be determined by…
This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed “redefinition” of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled “Inside Trump’s American identity project,” Axios posited that “President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American.” What would this new definition entail? “In MAGA’s telling,…
Look at the crowds in Washington, D.C., protesting President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime. Who do you see? Not the mothers from Anacostia who’ve lost their sons to street violence. Not the churchgoers in Southeast who just want to walk home without fear. No—what you see are aging white hippies with protest signs, desperate to…
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 hearing a lot about Europe in the news, primarily because of the Ukraine-Russian war and…
Another couple of leftists just revealed they understand nothing about Christianity. “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said Wednesday when addressing the horrific shooting at Annunciation Church. “These kids were literally praying.” That same day, Jen Psaki, former press secretary for President Joe Biden,…
The man who opened fire at a Minneapolis Catholic school Wednesday, killing two and injuring 17 before taking his own life, drew renewed attention to the threat of transgender mass shooters. He joins a surprisingly long list of violent offenders who identify or identified as transgender or nonbinary, in the context of a broader movement…
California spends billions annually on a fool’s errand: trying to unilaterally change the Earth’s temperature. “Global warming”—now called “climate change” to explain both heat waves and cold snaps—has been used by the Left for decades now to implement its radical agenda, primarily the redistribution of wealth. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that California’s…