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opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: True Democratic Socialists Can’t Run on Their Real Platform
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’d like to talk about the current rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and the idea… -
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HUD Secretary Fires Up Republican Convention
Scott Turner, who serves as the 19th secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, fired up conventiongoers at the Republican midterm convention in Texas Wednesday. He began with a look back. Under President Joe Biden, “the American flag became a white flag of surrender,” Turner told the convention. That is no longer… -
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Zohran Mamdani Discovers Deregulation
A funny thing happened on the way to the Big Apple’s socialist utopia: Zohran Mamdani discovered deregulation. The democratic socialist mayor of New York, who campaigned on rent freezes, free buses, and city-owned grocery stores, has apparently learned that sometimes government itself is the problem. In July, Mamdani unveiled “OPEN for Small Business,” a package of more… -
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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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Ossoff Holds Virtual Conference as New Makeup Ad Drops
A new election advertisement criticizing Sen. Jon Ossoff’s exorbitant spending on hair and makeup was released on Friday, as the senator spoke with reporters in a virtual news conference to take jabs at his Georgia U.S. Senate race opponent, Rep. Mike Collins. The ad, released by the Senate Leadership Fund and posted to multiple social… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s, Bessent’s ‘Anaconda’ Strategy Is Tightening Around Iran
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: Let’s turn then to somebody who’s not a lunatic, Scott Bessent, our treasury secretary. And he had a couple… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s 3 Possible Responses to Trump’s New Pressure
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. Victor Davis Hanson: Just thinking about Iran, there’s some developments today that we, on one of the islands in the strait,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump USDA Faces Calls to Exit Climate Initiative Critics Call ‘Private Regulation’
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration’s Agriculture Department remains publicly listed as a participant in a Biden-era climate initiative that critics say could drive up costs for American dairy farmers, accelerate consolidation in the industry, and ultimately make milk and other food staples less affordable for consumers. The initiative, Pathways to Dairy Net Zero, was… -
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Dems Call Birthright Citizenship Hearing a ‘Bigoted’ Effort From Chip Roy
House Democrats said that a key House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, which focused on ending the birth tourism industry, was a “bigoted” effort to crack down on what they described as the baseless claim of widespread birth tourism. Led by the ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government,… -
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After Years of High-Profile Probes, James Comer Eyes a New Political Prize
Rep. James Comer—after leading congressional probes of matters such as suspected Biden family corruption, COVID-19 origins, the botched Afghanistan exit, and the Jeffrey Epstein offenses—is poised to run for Kentucky governor in 2027. Kentucky is one of three states that have off-year gubernatorial contests in 2027. Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform… -
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Michigan AG Dana Nessel Invokes Esther, Says Jews May Need to Sacrifice Their Own Future to Save Humanity
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel urged her fellow Jewish Democrats Sunday to place the “needs of the world” above “our own self-interest,” arguing that Jews may need to “sacrifice” even “the very future of our own people” for the sake of humanity. She cited the example of the Persian Queen Esther, who risked her life… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Changed Names. Trump Does It, and Suddenly It’s Tyranny.
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 in another psychodrama, melodrama controversy, and that is that [President] Donald Trump has just renamed… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Why Was the Obama White House Tracking a Florida Tech Firm’s Patent Fight? Founder Sees a Suspicious Timeline
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—A Florida-based technology firm is suing to find out whether the Obama administration obstructed its long-running patent litigation against a U.S.-based competitor that does business in China. The Oversight Project, a watchdog group, filed a lawsuit on behalf of ParkerVision Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida… -
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Poll: Independents Sour on Country’s Direction Before Midterms
THE CENTER SQUARE—Most American voters say the country is on the wrong track heading into the midterm elections, and the independent voters who often decide close races are among the most dissatisfied, a new national poll finds. The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll found 60% of registered voters say the country is going in the… -
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Hasan Piker to Dems: Don’t Quit Me
Hasan Piker, two weeks ago, delivered this message: “Democrats, listen to me, I know we don’t always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point—I know you don’t want to do this—defend me. Not because you love what I have to say, not because I’m part… -
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Mamdani Turns Rikers Murderer Into Victim in Larger Plot to Abolish Prisons
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonstrated yet again this week how much of his ideology ultimately leads to mass mercy to the guilty and cruelty to the innocent. On Tuesday, he posted a tribute on X to an unnamed prisoner at the Rikers Island facility. “I am deeply saddened by the death of a… -
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Florida Is the New Ground Zero for Both Political Parties’ Civil Wars
Florida, you might have heard, is no longer a swing state. Since Ron DeSantis became governor, Republicans have gained nearly 2 million registered voters on Democrats in the Sunshine State. It is an astonishing change in partisanship for the state that famously decided the 2000 presidential election by 537 votes. The outcome of the statewide… -
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Hunter Biden’s Lawyer: DOJ Would Not Have Prosecuted Without Pressure From IRS Whistleblowers
Hunter Biden’s lawyer asserted that the Justice Department was on the cusp of a “non-prosecution resolution” with his client had it not been for the two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers. IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler had alleged the Justice Department slow-walked the probe of the 46th president’s son. Shortly after going public with… -
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‘A Slap in the Face’: Murder Victim’s Family Outraged as Mamdani Expresses Sorrow at the Death of Accused Killer
On Aug. 8, 2024, Jose Miranda was randomly, brutally hacked to death with a meat cleaver at a Bronx laundromat, leaving behind two children. His accused killer, Clarence Woodward, who owned a rap sheet nearly 30 arrests long, was set to stand trial but was found dead in his cell Tuesday morning at Rikers Island…. -
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Iowa Democrat Wants Distance From His Own Party. His Record Won’t Let Him.
Rob Sand, the Democrat nominee for governor in Iowa, has claimed he is “not a party guy,” but his record suggests otherwise, according to his opponent. With the rise of democratic socialism, many are trying to distance themselves from the Democratic Party, including Sand in the purple state of Iowa. Sand, the current state auditor,…