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From Illegal Immigration to ‘No Tax on Tips,’ Youngkin Models States Working with Trump on America First Policies

December 21, 2024 illegal, tips, 'no', models, first, Youngkin, America, Trump on, from, policies, States, Immigration, working0 comment

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is demonstrating how states should work together with President-elect Donald Trump to enact a smart, conservative agenda. This is key leadership by Youngkin as some blue state governors vow to impede Trump’s agenda at every turn. For example, Youngkin recently announced his budget proposal to crack down on the Old Dominion’s sanctuary cities. Youngkin’s “No Sanctuary Cities” budget proposal would require local law enforcement, sheriffs, and jail directors to fully comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers and provide notification to U.S. Customs 48…

We Still Need to Trump-Proof America

August 19, 2024 still, need, TrumpProof, America0 comment

What will happen if Donald Trump secures a second term as president? Polling remains close—and though a Democratic victory seems far more likely than it did before the Biden-Harris swap, it’s hardly assured. Should Trump pull out a win in November, voters might imagine that they know what to expect: more chaos, more grievance, more all-caps rants on social media. But a second Trump term would be much more dangerous than the first. Trump’s unexpected victory in 2016 left him flailing to staff the executive branch and unequipped with the…

Her Husband Paid the Ultimate Sacrifice in Service to America

May 27, 2024 America, Service, paid, Husband, ultimate, Sacrifice0 comment

Audri Beugelsdijk had been married for less than 11 weeks when she received a visit from a casualty officer. Her husband has been lost at sea on the USS Kinkaid. “It’s just the last thing that you could imagine happening and it just turned my world upside down,” Beugelsdijk says. Beugelsdijk and her husband Jason Springer met in the Navy and the two “became very good friends and then it turned into something else, as often happens,” she says. “He loved what he did. He had a bounce in his…

A Lesson for America: Green Policies Crush German Economy

March 8, 2024 Lesson, 'crush, Economy, America, policies, “green”, German0 comment

Germany’s gross domestic product has been falling since the third quarter of 2022, causing fears of the first two-year-long recession since the early 2000s. German farmers are openly protesting new climate regulations that would raise the price of diesel fuel, vital for tractors and farm machinery. This discontent is mirrored by the general public, which is opposed to higher energy costs that drag down the economy. Recent polls show a significant shift in public opinion that’s increasingly opposed to the coalition government. Unlike the U.S. House of Representatives or the…

How Wrestling Explains America

March 26, 2023 America, Explains, wrestling0 comment

Awash in strobes, Seth “Freakin” Rollins begins his waltz to the ring. His nemesis, the YouTube star Logan Paul, is there waiting for him. Rollins pauses beneath the jumbotron and holds his arms outstretched like Christ the Redeemer. Green and purple spotlights dart and swirl around Boston’s TD Garden. Thousands of fans start screaming the “whoa-ohh-ohh” part of Rollins’s theme song; exponentially more are live-tweeting the broadcast at home. It’s just before 9 o’clock on a frigid Monday in March—we haven’t even reached Act II of the three-hour pageant. RAW…

Mall of America Security Order Man to Take Off ‘Jesus Saves’ T-shirt or Leave Mall

January 17, 2023 security, America, Take, leave, Mall, order, 'Jesus, Saves, Tshirt0 comment

Mall security guards at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, ordered a man to remove his “Jesus Saves” t-shirt or leave the mall, footage shows. “I didn’t do anything,” the man, Paul Shoro, told The Daily Signal in a Facebook message on Tuesday. “They forced me to take off my shirt.” The mall later said security later allowed Shoro to remain in the mall while wearing the shirt. Bystander Kameko Rawls took footage of the incident, which has since gone viral on social media. In the video of the…