A five-dollar check is not a conspiracy. It is a grocery-money gesture from a person who liked a candidate and put a stamp on it. As of Tuesday, the government has at least 4,782 of those checks in a file that will outlive the special counsel who collected them. Home addresses. Bank account numbers. Routing […]
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As the 81st session of the United Nations Assembly concludes, President Donald Trump has departed after keeping the pressure on the U.N. to reform. Trump lambasted the U.N. for “criticizing the United States for protecting our children from transgender mutilization and transgender insanity.” The president observed that U.N. agencies seem to have “little to say […]
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Sunday morning the Treasury secretary put a date on it. About fifteen million barrels of Iranian oil still on the water. Final deliveries to China in the next two weeks. After that, he said, they will have nothing left to trade for anything. An empty set. That is why they want a deal. He has […]
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The boast traveling the wires is simple and ugly. More people were put to death by doctors in Canada last year than were shot to death in the United States. An old woman in an Ontario home cried and said she had made a mistake. Now the same project is being talked about for children. […]
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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: So, Victor, lots on the agenda, but I understand you were at a political event last night with Steve […]
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In the spring they wanted her in the room. They wanted the video, the crowd in the rain, the post that told the faithful this was the real thing. By late September the same campaigns were telling her people to stay home. One of them took her name off the website. Another stopped putting her […]
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The foreign minister sat for an American Sunday interview and said his country was ready for a doomsday war. He said it the way a man says he is ready for rain. The same morning he said Tehran still wanted to talk. He wanted the frozen money released. He wanted the oil moving again. He […]
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Last February was the first time in the life of the company that the paychecks did not land when they were supposed to land. Staff in Arlington woke up on a payday Tuesday and found empty accounts. Management called it a technical error between the bank and the payroll vendor. The money showed up later […]
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New York discovered a large share of would-be teachers could not clear a basic literacy exam. The state’s answer was not to fix the colleges that minted them. It was to kill the exam. That was March 2017. Nine years later there is still no standalone academic-literacy gate for a teaching certificate, half the state’s […]
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With a growing number of Americans saying they have a positive view of socialism, it’s a good time not only to explain the efficacy of capitalism (see my September 8 article No, Capitalism Doesn’t “Work”), but individualism as well. Leftists insist that individualism is a selfish philosophy devoid of compassion. But is it? To address […]