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Bannon Says China Is an Existential Threat, Everything Else a ‘Sideshow’

“We must decouple and hard decouple starting tomorrow morning.” That was former adviser to President Donald Trump Stephen K. Bannon, on the...

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JD Vance Continues To Be Vindicated About Free Speech in the UK

JD Vance Continues To Be Vindicated About Free Speech in the UK

Vice President JD Vance continues to be completely vindicated about the disintegration of free speech in Europe and the U.K. In February he told The...

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The Left’s Narrative About ‘Book Banning’ is Bogus

The Left’s Narrative About ‘Book Banning’ is Bogus

The Left is obsessed with the idea that conservatives are the real book banners. California Democrat state Sen. Scott Weiner took to X recently to......

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Here’s How You Can Tell the Trump Admistration About Harm of Gender Ideology

Here’s How You Can Tell the Trump Admistration About Harm of Gender Ideology

One of the better ways for ordinary Americans to keep our vast, federal bureaucracies in check is to submit public comments about their rulemaking....

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Americans Back Trump on Crime Crackdown, Poll Shows

Americans Back Trump on Crime Crackdown, Poll Shows

President Donald Trump’s recent moves to address crime in the District of Columbia and around the country is not just good for public safety,...

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Gavin Newsom Has Memes, But There is No There, There

Gavin Newsom Has Memes, But There is No There, There

Gavin Newsom has memes and dunks, but does he have anything else? The California governor has received a lot of attention lately for adopting a new...

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Trump’s Aim to ‘Make DC Safe Again’ Sends Message to Democrat-Run Cities

Trump’s Aim to ‘Make DC Safe Again’ Sends Message to Democrat-Run Cities

President Donald Trump has pledged to “make D.C. safe again,” with a federal intervention to stop crime in the nation’s capital. To emphasize...

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Judge Decides She Is the Law, Blocks Congressional Defunding of Planned Parenthood

Wild judicial activism has become the norm in the age of Trump, but the latest decision from a federal court on Monday to block Congress’... Read...

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Columbia’s Settlement With Trump Could Trigger a Revolution in Higher Ed

Real accountability is coming to higher education thanks to President Donald Trump. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday that...

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Russiagate Scandal Should Forever Taint Obama’s Disintegrating Legacy

Russiagate is one of the most significant scandals in American history, and it totally shatters the media-manufactured myth of Barack Obama. Newly...

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Lawsuit Over California School’s Race-Based Scholarships Could Deal Massive Blow to DEI

No matter how many times elite institutions of higher education are rebuked by the American people or the courts, they remain fanatically...

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States Returning to Traditional School Discipline Policies, Abandoning Restorative Justice

School discipline based on traditional notions of justice and common sense is increasingly returning to classrooms thanks to the Trump administration....

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Trump Pulls the Plug on Gavin Newsom’s Bullet Train to Nowhere

Are America’s taxpayers finally getting off California’s bullet train to nowhere? The Trump administration announced Wednesday afternoon that it...

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The Failure of the Department of Education

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of major layoffs at the Department of Education Monday. It’s a huge win for those who believe the department......

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Autopen Scandal Deepens. Could Pardons Be Invalidated?

The so-called autopen scandal appears to be getting worse for former President Joe Biden as more information comes to light. Biden, some of his...

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Trump Is Considering a Takeover of the District of Columbia. Here’s Why That’s a Good Idea.

The crime and dysfunction in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment to the country. President Donald Trump rightly called out the problem at a press...

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Leftist Fury Boils Over as Democrats Lose Power, Seek Confrontation

The Democratic Party establishment has been utterly discredited by four years under the Biden administration. While some of their party leaders and...

09.07.2025 5

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Fact-Checking Claims About Texas Floods

Heavy rainstorms caused widespread, deadly floods in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. According to the latest estimates, 94 people have been...

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Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize More Than Obama Ever Did

President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his second term actions as president. That was the take from The Daily Signal’s Executive...

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Zero Illegal Aliens Were Let Into US in June

The Trump administration’s border czar Tom Homan announced on X Tuesday evening that not a single person detained at the border in June was...

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Poll Reveals Democrat Pride in America Contingent on When They Have Power

For this year’s Independence Day it seems fewer Democrats will be celebrating. A recently released Gallup poll revealed a disturbing trend. The...

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As a New York Resident Here Is My Biggest Worry About Mamdani’s Socialism

New York’s socialist mayoral candidate’s ideas threaten to bring back the post-George Floyd riots surge in crime. Of all the terrible policies...

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Trump’s Iran Strike a Lesson in Executive Leadership Versus Autopen Presidency

“This wasn’t a Pentagon operation. This was a Donald Trump operation. He came up with the PR. He chose the plans. He chose the day.”... Read...

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Trump’s Iran Strike Sends a Clear Message to China

By striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and immediately getting a ceasefire in the Iran-Israel conflict, President Donald Trump was sending a message...

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New York’s Embrace of Socialist Mayoral Candidate Is About Liberal Catharsis

A far-left socialist who has supported defunding the police and replacing them with social workers, abolishing prisons, abolishing private health...

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Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race, According to Report

If the U.S. is going to maintain its military edge in the 21st century it can’t rely on defense contractors that prioritize DEI over building the...

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FTC Comments Accuse Big Tech of Widespread Censorship

Big Tech’s censorship of Americans is a threat to free speech rights according to a long list of comments submitted to the Federal Trade...

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Senate Holds Hearing on Biden’s Autopen Usage

The Senate Judicial Committee held a hearing Wednesday to assess the mental fitness of former President Joe Biden when he was in office. Following...

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Florida Bill Will Prevent Government Money Going to Media ‘Bias Monitors’

A law preventing government collusion with media gatekeepers will go to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk. The Florida legislature approved its...

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The Left’s ‘No Kings’ Protests Were All About Sanctimony

“No Kings” protests of various sizes broke in mostly blue cities on Saturday. The defining feature of these rather tame demonstrations—that...

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4 Stars in the Trump Administration Who’ve Driven Trump’s Counterrevolution Against DEI

President Donald Trump clearly made it a mission in his second go-around in the White House to make larger institutional changes to the way the......

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Here’s Why There Are So Many Mexican Flags at the LA ICE Riots

If you are protesting and rioting to remain in the United States, why wave a Mexican flag? That’s the question frequently being asked as Los...

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Trump’s Deportation Efforts Backed by Wide Margin, Poll Finds

A new poll released Wednesday shows that a majority of Americans approve of the Trump administration’s efforts to detain illegal aliens in Los...

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Trump Has Winning Message on LA ICE Riots

Riot season has started with a bang in California. Actually, many bangs, hurled rocks, torched cars, and a lot a flag waving—but not the Toby...

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Return of Warfighters: Army Hits Recruitment Numbers Four Months Early

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promised to restore the “warfighting” ethos to the military and now warfighters are...

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Biden Policies Opened the Door to Terrorists

President Joe Biden’s lax immigration enforcement and open borders policies made this country highly vulnerable to acts of terrorism. One of the...

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Trump is Right to Revoke Visas for Chinese Students Linked to the CCP

America’s top schools need to stop catering to hostile foreign powers looking to infiltrate the United States and focus more on building a talent...

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Heritage President Argues That America is Entering a ‘Golden Age’

Is America heading into a “golden age” in President Donald Trump’s second term? That was the question put up for discussion Thursday in a...

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Bottom Falling Out for Legacy Media as Washington Post Announces More Layoffs

Trust in corporate media has disintegrated in recent years and even the most powerful legacy institutions are facing a reckoning.  The Washington...

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Higher Education Faces an Existential Crisis of Its Own Making

Harvard University is having a rough time. I know, how tragic, right? On Monday, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his...

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Free Speech Is on Life Support in the UK

Every day that goes by brings more confirmation that Vice President JD Vance was right: Europe has a massive free speech problem. And nowhere is...

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Trump Was Right to Shame South African President

In one of the most incredible scenes in American diplomatic history, President Donald Trump halted his meeting with the South African...

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AP’s Shift to the Left Coincides With Support From Leftist Donors

Much has been made of The Associated Press getting the boot from the White House. It’s even sparked a protracted legal battle between AP and the...

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The Historic Scandal of Biden’s Deep State Presidency

The “presidency” of Joe Biden is one of the greatest scandals in American history. The legacy media is only now covering the mental incapacity...

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David Hogg’s Sacrifice at the Altar of DEI Shows Why Democrats Are Losing Young Men

The rise and fall of left-wing media darling David Hogg demonstrates exactly what the Left is all about and why the Democratic Party is losing... Read...

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The Left Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Whites Need Not Apply for Asylum

It looks like your liberal neighbors will have to take down their “refugees welcome” signs now. A small group of South African refugees arrived...

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Trump Administration is Exposing the Hubris of Institutional DEI

Harvard University was likely in violation of civil rights law in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the school practically said so,...

12.05.2025 5

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Bernie Sanders ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour Is a Scam

Some people are more equal than others it seems according to the Senate’s most prominent avowed socialist. Sorry for using an overused “Animal...

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Columbia University Mob Makes the Case for Trump to Drain Higher Ed Swamp

Columbia University’s pro-Hamas radicals couldn’t have handed the Trump administration an easier opening in their war on college campus...

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Media Spins Report on How Venezuela Facilitated Violent Gang’s Invasion of US

The Venezuelan government was facilitating the illegal immigration of dangerous gang members into the United States according to multiple intelligence...

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