With little more than a week left before the midterms, the main Democratic group backing House candidates has cut its advertising plans in several districts the party once treated as serious targets. The money is being moved to closer contests. The cuts are large, the districts are red, and the decisions came after redistricting and […]
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The City of Glendale has decided that the right to carry a firearm for self-defense comes with a four-figure price tag. Local officials recently raised the application fee for a concealed-carry license from $100 to $1,078. The renewal fee jumped from $50 to $826. When the city adds the required training course, fingerprinting, and a […]
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Sabato’s Crystal Ball is out with its midterm projections, predicting 225 House seats at least “lean” Democrat. But polls and predictions are designed, the author argues, to suppress turnout, which research shows historically benefits Democrats. Election Day turnout will be the true decider of the midterms in Virginia. With four days to go until the […]
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Microsoft offered voluntary buyouts on Monday to roughly 60,000 employees. That is more than a quarter of its global workforce of 223,000. The packages are available to workers at the vice-president level and below in selected teams in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom. Eligible groups include parts of Windows, Xbox, Copilot, […]
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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 Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So Victor, we have the midterms coming up very soon and lots of things going on. I was wondering, before you […]
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Democrats have made it plain what they plan to do if they take the House or the Senate next month. They intend to haul Elon Musk before committees, demand his records, and turn his companies and his time in government into a multi-year legal spectacle. Musk answered them in two short sentences. Live by the […]
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Ilhan Omar has spent the past two weeks calling the search of her Washington home and the federal probe into her immigration records a political hit job. The record shows something else. The first serious look at whether she married her brother to help him stay in the country began under Barack Obama. A second […]
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The DSA has endorsed 10 House candidates. While the DSA hasn’t endorsed Senate candidates, three are in the DSA orbit. The DSA is also pushing state and local candidates, as well as ballot initiatives. Socialism is on the ballot in the midterm elections, and not just in high-profile congressional races. The Democratic Socialists of America […]
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Candidates such as Abdul El-Sayed and Bernie Sanders treat “Medicare for All” as a simple slogan. It is not. The phrase describes a specific set of bills that would eliminate private health insurance, employer-sponsored coverage, Medicaid, and the existing Medicare program, then replace them with a single federal insurance system covering every resident. The government […]
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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 at about 240 days since the Feb. 28 beginning of the so-called Iran war. We’re about […]