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    What Are the Current US and Iranian Strategies in the War?

    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.    I’m speaking on the 71st day of the Iran war, but of course, it hasn’t been 71 days. The last real date…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Balancing Religious Liberty and National Security: A Lesson From Ancient Greece

    Pericles, a leader of the first democracy in Athens, gave a famous speech extolling Athenian greatness at a funeral for fallen soldiers. “Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves,” Pericles boasted in Thucydides’ account of the speech. Athens served as the “school”…
    Matthew Ladner
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    Netanyahu Insists Iran War Is ‘Not Over,’ Says Trump Wants to ‘Physically’ Remove Uranium

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a “60 Minutes” interview airing Sunday that President Donald Trump wanted to remove Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium. The United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28 after talks regarding the Islamic regime’s nuclear program broke down. Netanyahu told CBS News reporter…
    Harold Hutchison
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  • Ohio Warning, Iran Threat: Mehek Cooke Says Midterms Could Change Everything

    The Daily Signal’s Senior National Security and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke warned after the May 5 primary vote that Ohio’s status as a Republican state is more fragile than many voters assume, saying that Democrats are organized and working to reclaim ground ahead of critical midterm elections. Appearing on “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Trump White House Takes Transgender-Motivated Terror Threat Seriously

    America’s counterterror forces can no longer ignore the threat of extremism motivated by transgender ideology, and President Donald Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy rightly addresses this threat. The counterterrorism strategy, released Wednesday, outlines three major threats: narcoterrorists and transnational gangs; legacy Islamist terrorists; and violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists. That third category includes transgender…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    On Iran, Battleground District Republican Stakes Own Path

    Michigan Republican Rep. Tom Barrett, seeking reelection in one of the nation’s most competitive congressional districts, is attempting to stake a new path on the Iran issue that would empower the president but forbid a lengthy engagement. Barrett has introduced a bill that would authorize the use of military force against Iran. However, the bill…
    George Caldwell
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    CORRECTING THE RECORD: The Palisades Fire Was Yet Another Example of Leftist Political Violence

    Democrats’ heated rhetoric may have contributed to the Palisades Fire—but not by warming the global climate. When the Los Angeles-area fire burned 23,707 acres, destroyed 6,833 structures, and killed 12 people, those on the left rushed to blame it on man-made climate change. Only later did we learn that the human causation was far more…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Homan: ‘Mass Deportations Are Coming’

    “Mass deportations are coming,” border czar Tom Homan declared Tuesday during his keynote speech at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona. “If you think last year’s historic number was good, wait until next year, when we have 10,000 agents,” he told the more than 2,200 attendees. “You ain’t seen (expletive) yet.” Homan specifically put…
    Al Perrotta
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    Trump: ‘Project Freedom’ on Hold Amid Iran Talks

    President Donald Trump says he is putting a pause on his “Project Freedom” operation to restore commerce in the Strait of Hormuz, instead seeking to finalize a deal with Iranian officials for longer-term stability in the global shipping lane. Citing as his motivation “Great Progress” in talks with Iran, Trump wrote on Truth Social on…
    George Caldwell
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    The Iran War and the Energy Transition’s Missing Math

    The Iran conflict has delivered an uncomfortable reminder that energy is not an environmental talking point but a matter of national survival. Nations without reliable, affordable energy do not just struggle economically. They become vulnerable. Yet even as missiles fly and shipping lanes tighten, the green energy chorus is back at the microphone, insisting this…
    Frank Lasee
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Epilogue of the Iran War

    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. I think we’re coming to the last chapter, the epilogue, the postscript of the Iran war. It’s been going on for over 60…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    • News

    Hegseth: Iran Has Lost Strait of Hormuz Bargaining Chip

    Secretary of War Pete Hegseth argued Tuesday morning that the United States has removed Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz as a bargaining chip in negotiations by gaining control of the vital global shipping lane. “For too long Iran has been harassing ships, shooting at civilian tankers from all nations, and trying to impose…
    George Caldwell
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    Mehek Cooke Warns Ideological Decisions Are Hurting American Consumers

    Mehek Cooke, senior national security and legal analyst at The Daily Signal, warned that the shutdown of Spirit Airlines exposes a broader failure by the Biden administration and Democrat leaders to think through the real-world consequences of ideologically driven policy decisions, which she says are now directly hurting American consumers. Appearing on NewsNation over the…
    Mehek Cooke
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    Riley Moore Acts to Protect Catholic Veterans’ Right to the Crucifix

    Nearly 1 in 5 veterans who serve our country are Catholic, yet the Department of Veterans Affairs does not grant them the option to display the crucifix on their headstones when buried at national cemeteries—but this is about to change. With strong Catholic members on the House Appropriations Committee, this will soon be mandated by…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Trump Signs Bill to Fund DHS

    President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, ending a record 76-day shutdown. Agencies within the department that do not deal with immigration enforcement are now funded, including the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, Secret Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Congress has…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    • Opinion

    Iran Is Losing This War, and the Global Balance of Power Is Shifting

    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 approaching 60 days of the so-called Iran war, and we’re still getting these loud voices that Donald Trump has failed, that the war’s…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    It’s Time for Democrats to Dial Down the Violent Talk 

    We all know what needs to happen for the nation to dial down the temperature of our political discourse—Democrats need to chill. Sadly, that’s unlikely to happen any time soon.  Why would it? Before Saturday night’s foiled attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton, there were at least two known assassination attempts against President…
    Jenny Beth Martin
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    From Carson to Clowns: How Trump Derangement Syndrome Destroyed Late Night

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Jimmy Kimmel, who’s got a role in this kerfuffle—it’s not a kerfuffle. This is an assassination attempt egged on by…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    • News

    Moreno Demands Answers Over Deadly Truck Crash Involving Illegal Immigrant

    Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is looking to do something about deadly truck crashes involving foreigners. This week, Moreno sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, demanding answers regarding Modou Ngom, an illegal immigrant alleged to be responsible for a deadly incident earlier this month in…
    Rebecca Downs
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    ‘Could Have Been a Lot Worse’: Vance Thanks Secret Service After WHCD Attempted Shooting

    Vice President JD Vance described his experience at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night, where a shooter attempted to assassinate the president and other Cabinet officials. “I’m sitting up there on the stage with some journalists and obviously with the president of the United States a few seats to my right, and there’s a…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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