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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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    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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    Oil-Rich Alberta Could Hold Independence Vote This October

    Alberta separatists said Monday they have collected more than enough signatures to force a referendum on whether the oil-rich province should split away from Canada. Stay Free Alberta needed 178,000 signatures to put the referendum on the ballot. It claims to have garnered 302,000. Mitch Sylvestre, the group’s head, led a convoy of seven trucks…
    Al Perrotta
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    Georgia Considers Extending Gas Tax Relief

    Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones says he is open to extending the state’s temporary suspension of the gas tax as fuel prices remain elevated. “I think the logical thing for us to do when it comes up on May 31 would be for us to extend it,” Jones told NBC41. “Gas prices can fluctuate literally…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    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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    Farm Bill Clears House as Congress Sides With MAHA

    Congress secured major wins for the Make America Healthy Again movement, including striking pesticide liability shields and passing the 2026 Farm Bill. States’ and families’ rights are protected, and pesticide companies can continue to be held liable for poisoning Americans. The Farm Bill passed the House on Thursday by a vote of 224-200. Rep. Anna…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    ‘I Did My Homework’: Zeldin Slams DeLauro During Explosive EPA Hearing

    Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin brought a fiery exchange against a progressive climate control hawk who forgot to do her homework, suggesting his defense was “BS.” Zeldin appeared before the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee on Monday to testify and defend the EPA’s 2027 budget. He soon got into a heated argument with…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Multiple Actions Being Taken to Combat Oil Theft in Texas

    THE CENTER SQUARE—Local, state, and federal efforts are ongoing to tackle oil theft in Texas.  At the state level, the state Legislature, the Railroad Commission of Texas, and the Texas Department of Public Safety are working on several initiatives.  Railroad Commission of Texas Chairman Jim Wright has been leading a new task force, addressing oilfield…
    Bethany Blankley
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    President Trump’s War on Fraud

    According to federal government data, the government loses more taxpayer dollars every year to fraud than it spends on the entire budgets of several Cabinet agencies. Thank goodness President Donald Trump has launched the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and directed Vice President JD Vance to lead the effort. The Government Accountability Office recently conducted a government-wide study to get an…
    Jenny Beth Martin
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    Democrats Have Devolved Into the Party of Cruelty and Sadism

    As the Department of Homeland Security shutdown slouches through its seventh week, this outrage should convince voters that the Democrats have devolved into a delivery system for pain. Yet again, the so-called “Party of the Little Guy” relishes in making regular Americans writhe in agony so Democrats can score political points and weaponize whatever partisan…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Newsom Is Murdering California’s Energy Industry

    When I was growing up, many Americans viewed California as the sunny state with unlimited resources, an entrepreneurial spirit that inspired people across the country, and energy sources that the U.S. and the world desperately needed. Today’s California is the exact opposite of that, and it’s truly a shame. Everyone can see that California Gov….
    Rep. Cynthia Lummis
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    Is Thorium the Future of Nuclear Energy?

    What if the future of energy has been sitting unused on the periodic table for decades? Mike Anderson, author of “Thorium-Powered Abundance,” believes it has. He talked with Jack Spencer on a recent episode of “The Power Hour” podcast about the amazing potential of thorium. This exciting element has the power to reshape the nuclear…
    Jack Spencer
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    Putin Testing ‘American Resolve’ With Oil Tanker in Caribbean 

    A Russian oil tanker moving toward Cuba during a U.S. oil blockade is an act of Russian President Vladimir Putin testing “American resolve,” according to one foreign affairs expert. Russia’s Anatoly Kolodkin tanker, carrying an estimated 730,000 barrels of crude oil, has reportedly sailed toward Cuba’s port of Matanzas but, according to United Press International,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Building Medical Preparedness for Armed Conflict in the Indo-Pacific

    Events in the Middle East have reverberated across the world, including the Indo-Pacific, where people live with the continuous threat of armed conflict with China. In Dr. Mike Cruz’s commentary “The Deluge, the Paper Cup, and Washington’s Lack of Urgency on Guam,” published in War on the Rocks, the author highlights the need for hardening…
    Eileen Natuzzi
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    Oklahoma Governor Reveals Markwayne Mullin Senate Replacement

    Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has announced that Alan Armstrong, an energy executive, will fill the vacant Senate seat left by Markwayne Mullin until the end of the year. Armstrong, 63, has never held public office and is the executive chairman of Williams Companies, an energy firm that specializes in natural gas. Mullin’s seat was left open…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Paul Ehrlich’s Failed Doomsday Predictions Expose the Media’s Climate Alarmism Double Standard

    When Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich appeared on “60 Minutes” in 2023, he warned that humanity was on an unsustainable path and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.” He explicitly linked overpopulation and consumption to climate disruption, claiming it was already killing people.  Ehrlich recently…
    Frank Lasee
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    How the Upcoming Moon Mission Transcends Anti-Scientific Climate Activism  

    The U.S. is poised to return to the moon this coming April as part of a reenergized manned space program that is emboldened rather than deterred by the risks and challenges irrevocably attached to the mission.   By pressing ahead, NASA and its many public and private sector partners are allowing scientific evidence rather than speculation to guide their decisions. They are also making a clean break with a concept known as the “precautionary principle” that has…
    Kevin Mooney
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    EXCLUSIVE: Bill to Dismantle Taxpayer-Funded Democrat ‘Talent Pipeline’ Expected to Pass House Committee

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A House committee will likely pass a bill to reform a taxpayer-funded scholarship that critics call a “talent pipeline for the Democratic Party and liberal activist organizations,” a committee spokesperson told The Daily Signal. The spokesperson for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce predicted that the bill will pass…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    AGs Demand Probe Into Taxpayer-Funded Climate Training for Judges

    Two dozen Republican state attorneys general called on the Trump administration to investigate what they say is the use of tax dollars to influence judges in climate cases. The state attorneys general, in a letter to Trump Cabinet officials, point to federal grants issued by the National Science Foundation to the National Academies of Sciences,…
    Fred Lucas
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