Recently, the Trump administration, as most administrations do at the beginning of their four-year term, issued a National Security Strategy—I guess we would call it a white paper—outlining the approach of the administration to foreign affairs and the protection of the security in the United States. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s […]
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LEHIGH VALLEY, Penn.—When Vice President JD Vance recalled his grandmother’s choice between putting food on their table and paying for her medications, he arose as the Republicans’ secret weapon on affordability messaging. “I know what it’s like for a woman who’s trying to support a grandson but can’t afford her prescription drugs because pharmaceutical companies […]
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Well, folks, it’s December 2025, and Uncle Sam just played pirate in the Caribbean—seizing a rogue oil tanker named Skipper off the Venezuelan coast on December 10. This floating rust bucket was lugging nearly two million barrels of Venezuela’s heavy crude, the kind that sticks to your boots like bad karma, probably headed for Cuba […]
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Listen up, folks. That viral graphic floating around—the one spelling out the sweet relief America gets when the illegal alien invasion finally dries up? It’s got the left squirming because it hits too close to home. Hospitals unclogging, schools slimming down, wages climbing, and the whole country snapping back like a rubber band after Biden’s […]
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I’ve talked about affordability, this new meme, this new theme that the Democrats are using against the Trump administration. 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 […]
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No one spends a dollar better than the person who earned it. That adage reveals the crux of massive fraud and improper payments that plague federal health insurance programs and drive up costs for taxpayers. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, more than 95% of the fictitious applications the GAO created and attempted […]
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Brooke Rollins, the bulldog at the helm of the USDA, is done playing nice with the welfare wasteland that’s SNAP. She’s blasting the program for hemorrhaging billions in taxpayer dollars to deadbeats, double-dippers, and outright crooks, and she’s got the numbers to back it up. This isn’t some feel-good handout—it’s a slush fund for fraudsters […]
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Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz, that squishy socialist who couldn’t secure a border if it was his own backyard, is at it again. In the face of the biggest fraud heist in state history—a Somali-led scam that vacuumed up over a billion dollars in taxpayer cash meant for hungry children—he’s got the gall to point the […]
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Listen up, Chicagoans. Your radical mayor, Brandon Johnson, that teachers’ union puppet who’s turned the Windy City into a fiscal dumpster fire, is at it again. Facing a whopping $1.1 billion budget hole for 2026, he’s dusting off the old “head tax” playbook—a per-employee shakedown on big employers to rake in cash for his pet […]
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In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss former President Joe Biden’s failure to make sure our adversaries in Syria paid a cost for attacking Americans, and the failure of so many immigrants to say “thank you” for all we do. Editor’s note: This is […]