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Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Unassimilated Immigrants Will Make a Failed State in the United States’
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript 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: A 26-year-old sub-Saharan African, Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu, I’m sure I’m saying that wrong, allegedly murdered a white man, 62-year-old… -
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Watchdog Exposes Hidden Academic Pipeline Behind Left-Wing Election Litigation
Left-leaning law schools are directly affecting elections, according to a new study by a legal watchdog group. The Public Interest Legal Foundation released a new report Thursday titled “Dangerous Imbalance: Why Law Schools Graduate an Army of Activist Election Lawyers.” The report focuses on the disparity in election law course offerings and the overwhelming number… -
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Dominion Energy Merger Under Scrutiny on Final Stop of ‘Listening Tour’
Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi will host her final meeting next week in Roanoke to discuss the purchase of Richmond-based utility Dominion Energy by Florida-based NextEra Energy. Hashmi, who scheduled five total sessions for her “Energy Costs Listening Tour,” has already held meetings in Loudoun, Norfolk, Richmond, and Charlottesville. Opponents of the merger want to… -
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Top Trump Official Responds to Rural Americans’ Concerns About AI
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the issue of artificial intelligence must be approached with intentionality, as many of the rural Americans she talks to have serious concerns about the rapidly developing technology. “I do trust the president. I do believe that if we don’t stay focused on winning the AI… -
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Russian National Sentenced to 6 Years in Voter Fraud, ID Theft Scheme
A Russian national was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for his involvement in a voter registration conspiracy. Dmitry Shushlebin, 45, a Russian citizen living in Miami Beach, Florida, was also given three additional years of supervised release after the six years in prison. He was charged with organizing an identity theft fraud… -
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Make Education Roman Again
Today’s universities are increasingly self-destructive, hell-bent not only on deconstructing the Western canon in the classroom but on dissolving the American nation itself. Conservative reformers can’t be satisfied with turning the clock back to the 2010s—or even the 1950s. The classical education tradition that formed the American Founders was repudiated long ago. But there is… -
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Top Cabinet Official Signals Prices Will Drop Soon
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins told the Daily Signal that she predicts beef prices will decrease before the November midterm elections. Beef prices fell 1% in August, after a 0.8% decline in July. But Rollins said the Trump administration is not done working toward lower prices. “I think there’s a lot… -
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House Closes Up Shop a Day Before Scheduled 7-Week Recess
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., moved to close down the House of Representatives on Wednesday, angering Democrat and Republican lawmakers alike. The speaker’s move comes as the House already had a seven-week recess, which was supposed to start Thursday. While Johnson did not state that the potential impeachment proceeding against Secretary of War… -
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Parents Give NC School District 15 Days to Protect Religious Freedom or Face Lawsuit
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A group of parents has given a North Carolina school district 15 days to provide religious accommodations related to a transgender teacher or face a lawsuit, according to a demand letter obtained by the Daily Signal. Thomas More Society attorneys argue that recent Supreme Court precedents require the Wake County Public… -
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After Years of Silence, New House Bill Targets the Tactics Used to Shield Epstein
House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., introduced the Survivor’s Voice Protection Act on Wednesday based on a monthslong investigation into government failures in the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking operation. The Daily Signal first reported this month the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was drafting a bill defining human trafficking to prevent offenders from using loopholes… -
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Ballot Harvesting Concerns in Nursing Homes Spur New Push to Protect Vulnerable Seniors
As the Trump administration seeks to crack down on potential voter fraud in nursing homes, an election watchdog group is providing additional information to long-term care facilities, citing several past criminal cases involving political operatives and staff who took advantage of vulnerable elderly residents. A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services memo from late July… -
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After Millions in Federal Benefits, Watchdog Pushes Senate Probe of NYC Hospital and ‘Rural’ Designation
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative group is calling for a Senate investigation into a nonprofit hospital, the New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, because of its federal grants, executive compensation, and reported “rural” status. Save Our States noted in a letter Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., that Mount Sinai has filed… -
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Congress Hears Pleas for Release of God-Fearing Chinese Democracy Advocate
A top congressional panel on Wednesday examined the imprisonment of Chinese media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai and the state of press freedom and judicial independence in China. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing, titled “A Son and Daughter’s Appeal to Xi Jinping to Release Their Dad, Jimmy Lai,” comes a week before the Chinese Communist Party… -
High Tariffs Could Harm American Semiconductor Industry. Here’s How to Get the Policy Right.
All Americans should congratulate President Donald Trump on his progress to insource more American manufacturing. That being said, tariffs are tricky things. If a country imposes no tariffs, it may well see its domestic industry bleed away to other countries. America saw a lot of that in recent decades. However, raise tariffs too high and… -
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Blanche: AI Shouldn’t Be ‘Breaking News’
Attorney General Todd Blanche said fears about artificial intelligence “should not be breaking news.” “This AI issue that’s suddenly come up two months before our election is being—the president calls it a hoax,” he said. “The way this has come around today and not three months ago. I mean, I was watching the news today…. -
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Hearing on America’s Bad Actors Examines Islamic Extremism
A top Heritage Foundation scholar sounded the alarm to a key House panel on Tuesday about the merger of Islamism and Marxism, which he said has been increasingly prevalent in the United States by the alliances of Marxist and Islamist groups. Throughout the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia’s hearing, titled “Trojan… -
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Patel: FBI Purged Political Weaponization to Focus on Violent Crime
FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau has held bad actors accountable for political weaponization under the Biden administration and touted the success of arresting the entire FBI Most Wanted list. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked Patel to “walk me through what you have done, what steps you have taken to remove weaponization from the… -
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Kappa Kappa Gamma Violated Its Own Rules to Admit Men Into the Sorority: Lawsuit
Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae are suing the national sorority for changing its own rules to allow men to join, and a circuit court heard the case Monday. “When Kappa tells you, we promise you a sisterhood of women, and a man shows up, that is the opposite. It is breaking the contract,” Allie Coghan, one… -
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‘Medicare for All’ Means More Government Control—Just Look at Monoclonal Antibodies
Here we are in another election cycle, and just like the migratory birds that return every season, so has the progressive cause célèbre of single-payer universal health coverage, also being marketed as “Medicare for All.” This has become a central part of the socialist platform and is the cornerstone of the Senate campaigns of Abdul… -
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Massie Moves to Impeach Hegseth, Citing ‘Illegal’ Military Operations
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is working to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The Republican congressman brought the charges to the House floor on Tuesday and is attempting to force a vote in the next two days. “By engaging in hostilities in Iran for more than 90 days without congressional…