Fort Rucker sheds its Confederate moniker with a name change

Another Army installation named for a Confederate general got a name change Monday. Alabama’s Fort Rucker, known as the home of Army aviation, will now be called Fort Novosel. Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael Novosel was awarded a Medal of Honor for flying a medical evacuation under fire during the Vietnam War. The fort previously carried the name of Confederate General Edmond Rucker, who worked in the railroad business, after the Civil War, with Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. Fort Novosel is the second in…

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The Tennessee Expulsions Are Just the Beginning

The red-state drive to reverse the rights revolution of the past six decades continues to intensify, triggering confrontations involving every level of government. In rapid succession, Republican-controlled states are applying unprecedented tactics to shift social policy sharply to the right, not only within their borders but across the nation. Just last Thursday, the GOP-controlled Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two young Black Democratic representatives, and Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, on Saturday moved to nullify the verdict of a jury in liberal Travis County. In between, last Friday,…

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EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Backs State AG’s Emergency Order on Transgender Interventions Amid Legal Threat

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency regulation Thursday restricting the use of experimental transgender interventions on minors. An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals supported Bailey’s order, despite pro-transgender activist groups condemning it as based on “debunked claims” that ignore “medical evidence” and threatening a lawsuit to block it. “We absolutely support the efforts of Attorney General Bailey and his efforts to restrict transgender medical interventions,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday.…

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NEW MoveOn Billboard Awaits Trump Upon Return to Mar-a-Lago After Arraignment

West Palm Beach, FL – MoveOn Political Action launched a new billboard with the message “Trump Is Not Above the Law,” this afternoon to greet former President Trump and his acolytes after returning home from his arraignment. The billboard, located 1.9 miles away from Mar-a-Lago, directly on the route Trump will take home from the Palm Beach International Airport, is in plain view of aerial crews covering Trump’s return. The billboard will be up for the next month.  PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – APRIL 03: On the heels of Donald Trump’s…

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Admiral Steven Poulin: Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard

Lots of nation’s impinge on the Arctic Circle. Even more try to use it strategically, like China. That’s why, for years, the U.S. Coast Guard has been stepping up its patrols in the Arctic and why it convinced Congress to fund two new heavy ice-breaking ships. At the recent Sea Air Space conference, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin Federal Drive got an exclusive update from Coast Guard Vice Commandant, Admiral Steve Poulin. Interview transcript: Steve Poulin Dynamic changes in the Arctic, it’s a growing area of strategic competition. And if we want…

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