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Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About Oct. 7 Massacre, 3 Years Later
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. This week marks the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israelis, civilians, some people in the… -
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CAIR Sued to Get El-Sayed’s Sister-in-Law Removed From Terror Watchlist
The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed two lawsuits with the federal court system during the administration of former President Barack Obama in an attempt to remove Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s sister-in-law from a terrorist watchlist, claiming it violated her Fifth Amendment rights. CAIR filed the lawsuit, along with another seeking damages, after Mariam… -
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Trump Approves Firing Squad for Radical Islamic Terrorist
President Donald Trump has approved execution by firing squad for convicted mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan, the Islamic terrorist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended—and President Donald J. Trump has approved—death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan,… -
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Don’t Let Flydubai Terror Scare Derail Abraham Accords Progress
Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace. It’s why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain indiscriminate missiles on civilian populations. The response to such terrorism isn’t to cower. It is to lead with boldness, courage and, sometimes, outright heroism. The world just saw precisely such heroism in the high drama… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options
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. Sami Winc: Iran, let’s turn to. It looks like internal strife is increasing, not because of the protesters out there, although… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Blind Spot on 9/11, Charlie Kirk, & Oct. 7
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: Douglas Murray’s a friend, a great writer. He’s written this essay for The Free Press, “The 9/11 Failure That Still… -
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Hasan Piker: US Worse Than Al-Qaeda When It Comes to Terrorism
Just days after America commemorated the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 of its citizens, influencer Hasan Piker declared the United States a greater purveyor of terrorism than the ones who did the deed. Appearing on “The Axios Show,” Piker, who previously declared “America deserved 9/11,” confirmed his earlier statement that “America is the top dog… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: 25 Years After 9/11—Has America Forgotten?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest 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. Sami Winc: It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and I know that we’ve been watching New York… -
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Reflections on 9/11 After 25 Years
Twenty-five years later, the images remain seared into our national memory: A brilliant September sky blackened by smoke; office papers drifting through the canyons of lower Manhattan; strangers running toward danger while thousands fled from it; and, by evening, an America stunned, grieving, and suddenly united. Sept. 11, 2001, was not merely a date on… -
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Saddles and Satellite Radios: The Heroism of 9/11’s Immediate Response
Only three times in American history has the United States been attacked on its home soil: during the War of 1812, on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and on Sept. 11, 2001. In every case, America fought back. With roughly a third of the American population under 25 years old and living in a… -
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Remembering the Sept. 11 Attacks
The largest terror attack in history and the deadliest attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor occurred 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. In 2026, with a whole new generation who were either too young to remember the attacks or were born after they occurred, it is worth pausing to reflect as a… -
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Mamdani’s Sick, Sly Slap in the Face to 9/11 Families
On Friday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a proclamation commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack. He then quickly ensured the pen used to sign the proclamation was given to a man who represented an al-Qaeda terrorist and a Gitmo detainee described as the “20th hijacker.” Mamdani may as well have… -
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The Jokes of 9/11
As someone paid to deal with the news each day, it is perhaps not in my best interest to admit that almost everything that comes across your X news feed is disposable. Whatever news has you hot and bothered today, whatever juicy entertainment gossip has you licking your chops, whatever fills the late-night comic’s monologue… -
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On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Excise the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now. Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why,”… -
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Trump Admin Links Jane’s Revenge to Foreign Network Supporting Antifa Violence
An Italy-based organization provided key infrastructure for violent leftist movements in the U.S., including Antifa and Jane’s Revenge, the Trump administration announced this week. The State Department and the Treasury Department exposed how Autistici/Inventati, also referred to as the A/I Collective, provided key online services for Rose City Antifa in Portland, the Stop Cop City… -
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Woman Charged With Planning ISIS-Inspired Attack on New York State Capitol Building
REUTERS—U.S. authorities arrested and charged a New York woman with planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack on the state’s Capitol building in Albany, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, was charged with planning to deploy an explosive device at the state capitol with the intention of killing public officials and destroying “as… -
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TRANS POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Man Confessed He Planned to Assassinate Trump Official
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a man who confessed to planning the assassination of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Judge Rudolph Contreras, an appointee of President Barack Obama, sentenced 24-year-old Ryan Michael English to 73 months in prison, far short of the 121 months prosecutors sought. English, who identifies as transgender and uses female pronouns… -
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‘Sharia Takeover’? What Conservatives Miss in the Debate Over Airport Foot Washing
Conservatives who are serious about combatting the threat of Islamism need to be very careful not to undermine our case by attacking reasonable accommodations for peaceful Muslims. Muslim reformer M. Zuhdi Jasser has long warned against the threat of Islamism, the political approach to Islam that aims at conquest and subjugation. However, he also has… -
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Supreme Court Deals Another Blow to Palestinian Authorities in $656 Million Case
The Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority lost again at the Supreme Court, this time in their effort to stop a settlement to pay American victims of attacks. Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday signed an order rejecting an emergency application from the Palestinian authorities to stop a $656 million judgment in favor of Americans… -
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Boyfriend of Oct. 7 Massacre Victim Dead in Apparent Suicide at Her Grave
The boyfriend of one of the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks was found dead in an apparent suicide at her gravesite. Bar Asraf, 30, was discovered by family members Saturday evening with a gunshot wound to the chest at the Elkana Cemetery in the West Bank, at the grave of Liron Barda,…