President-elect Donald Trump is expected to launch his promised large-scale deportation operation the day after he is sworn into office, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The incoming Trump administration will immediately begin mass deportation efforts in major sanctuary cities across the United States, with Chicago predicted to be first on the…
These remarks were presented at the Philadelphia Society meeting in Plano, Texas, on March 22, 2025. In thinking about the practical and philosophical threats to America’s principles and way of life, I thought it might be useful to look back to a notable American’s description of such threats in an earlier era. And since I come…
Robert Marmet knew he was supposed to inspect Martha Boneta’s farm, but he didn’t know exactly what for. He knew there were limits on what he could inspect, but he had no idea where they were. So when Marmet, a senior energy policy analyst with the Piedmont Environmental Council, and his partner Mike Kane, a…
This week I will be offering an amendment to this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prevent scarce defense dollars from being squandered on President Barack Obama’s executive orders regarding climate change. These executive orders require the Department of Defense (DOD) to incorporate a host of climate change bureaucracies into its acquisition programs, logistics…
Senior White House official Kellyanne Conway made the case for some intraparty conflict in remarks Friday. “I’m happy that the Republican Party is not a party just in lockstep, always agreeing with each other,” Conway said at the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit. On the issue of health care, Conway referred to the GOP as…
Amid a government shutdown fight that highlights disagreements between New York-born President Donald Trump and two Democrat leaders from New York in Congress, the Empire State has found itself in the spotlight. After Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., denied Republicans his party’s votes necessary to pass a stopgap funding bill to keep the government…
Republican Rep. Scott Perry staved off a stiff challenge from Democrat Janelle Stelson in a U.S. House race in Pennsylvania to win a seventh term. On Wednesday afternoon, The Hill/Decision Desk HQ called the race for Perry. With 99% of the vote reporting, Perry leads Stelson by more than 6,000 votes with more than 400,000 votes…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A proposed law in Washington state would require priests to violate Catholic Church law by breaking the seal of confession. The bill would amend the current state law that requires law enforcement, teachers, medical professionals, or child care providers to report cases of child abuse or neglect to include church clergy that…
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has signaled mixed feelings over President Obama’s support for tougher regulations on Internet providers. Obama said Monday that a free and open Internet is a necessity like electricity and telephone service, and should be regulated like those utilities to protect consumers. Hours after Obama made his comments, The…
A pizzeria in Indiana has come under fire for supporting the state’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Memories Pizza is owned by the O’Connor family of Walkerton, Ind. Crystal O’Connor told Indiana’s WBND that the family business is “a Christian establishment.” “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding,…
The GOP lawmaker charged with devising a plan to rescue Puerto Rico from its debt crisis uses a word dreaded by most Republicans—bailout—only to describe what could happen if Congress doesn’t act now. “The soonest you solve this problem or get a structure in place to solve the problem, the more you lessen the problem,”…
President Donald Trump’s Cabinet is more conservative than President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet was in the 1980s, a top official with the American Conservative Union declared during a Thursday panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Addressing fellow panelists and hundreds of conservative activists gathered at the annual conference, Dan Schneider, executive director of the…
The nonprofit organization building a coalition of states that favor choosing the president by popular vote promotes itself as nonpartisan, but is financed by millions of dollars from left-leaning groups. Some of the leaders of the movement are prominent Republicans, and most of the funding for the nonprofit, National Popular Vote Inc., has come from…
At its recent United Facts of America Festival, PolitiFact interviewed Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. Its executive director, Aaron Sharockman, began with some light humor, telling Warner he was one of the more accurate members of Congress. Sharockman complimented Warner for having zero “Pants on Fire” rated claims. Warner joked: “That feels like it should be…
No one among the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the “objective media” and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification. NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent Laura Jarrett was going to be a co-host of the “Today” news program on Saturdays. She is the…
Age is not coextensive with legal merit where judicial opinions are concerned. As then-Justice Antonin Scalia remarked, longevity “alone does not make up for brazen invention” and weeds become no less weedlike simply by deepening their roots. So, when outlets like National Public Radio report with alarm that “The Supreme Court … could overturn a…
Five Democratic mayors have asked President Joe Biden for a meeting to discuss the illegal alien crisis their cities are facing. The mayors of Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York City sent a letter to Biden on Saturday “requesting an urgent meeting with you to directly discuss ways we can work with your…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans seen as insufficiently strong on border security should proceed with caution, warns a political action committee that plans to spend more than $1 million to defeat them in the 2024 elections. “If you support open borders and illegal immigration, you will find no safe haven in state legislatures,” Katie Miller,…
Note: major movie spoiler alert. The lead, disabled character in the newly released movie “Me Before You” chooses to end his life, leaving the newfound love of his life instructions to “live boldly” and encourages her to live well. Live a life worth remembering. #LiveBoldly pic.twitter.com/6nOjNIM9Vn — Me Before You (@mebeforeyou) April 6, 2016 “‘Me…
As Republicans prepare to hammer out the details of a replacement for Obamacare, governors and state insurance commissioners are asking for a seat at the table. Under the Affordable Care Act, much of the regulatory framework that in the past fell to states and their respective insurance commissioners was transferred to the federal government, which…