It did not become a midterm issue because America suddenly enrolled in a seminar on large language models. It became a midterm issue because the building that trains the model drinks like a city, sits on a cornfield, and the bill shows up at a house that did not ask for ChatGPT. That is the […]
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Ground Zero on the twenty-fifth anniversary is not a cocktail hour. It is a list. Families read the names. A man puts his face in his arms. The plaza is supposed to be quiet enough to hear a voice crack. Into that feed, for about four seconds, the camera found the mayor of New York […]
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Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Republican National Committee’s Midterm Convention was not a formal kickoff to an expected 2028 presidential campaign. But a close look at what he said suggests that, informally, in some respects, that’s exactly what it was. Vance did not mention his rumored campaign, but he didn’t exactly deny that […]
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The Daily Signal has learned that the Sharia-Free America Caucus is looking to expand its efforts in preserving the U.S. Constitution beyond Washington in the 120th Congress. The caucus, which has previously raised awareness of the controversial Islamic rule known as Sharia law and pushed legislation to protect the U.S. Constitution from it, is looking […]
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Rob Bluey: How remarkable is it that Donald Trump was able to mount a comeback given where he was at the beginning of 2021 when he was leaving the White House? On the premiere episode of the Daily Signal’s new weekly podcast, “Midterm Report,” Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson talks about the upcoming midterm elections, […]
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Lindsay Clancy strangled her children in the basement in January 2023. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months. Exercise bands. Husband out on an errand. Then she cut herself and went out a second-story window. That is not a metaphor. That is the crime. The trial in Plymouth was never about whether […]
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Al Green is leaving. Redistricting ate his old seat. He jumped into another Houston district, lost the runoff in May, 69 percent to 31, and his term dies on January 3. That is the part that is not optional. The rest is a Thursday press conference in Houston, a letter dated September 4, and a […]
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Dallas was not a nominating convention. Nobody left with a running mate. They left with a two-day reminder that the man whose name is not on the ballot still thinks he is the ballot. First midterm convention in party history. American Airlines Center. September 9 and 10. The president wanted a show. The party changed […]
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Wednesday night in Dallas he made it simple. If Republicans keep the House and the Senate on November 3, every adult citizen gets $5,000. He called it the Trump dividend. Spend it here. Not in Canada. Not in China. Not in Germany. A company cutting a check to the shareholders, he said. Like the $1,776 […]
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I’d like to offer an update on the Canadian-American trade spat. 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. Earlier, I had staged it. I said […]