Tag Archives: Conservatism

Foreign policy doesn’t stop for turmoil here at home. The U.S. can’t afford attention deficit disorder overseas. That is doubly true for meeting the challenge of China, the most consequential test this generation could see in its lifetime. Last Friday, President Donald Trump rolled out a number of punitive measures designed to discourage the increasingly aggressive and threatening Chinese communist regime.  The action fully comports with the administration’s recently published China strategy, a […]

“Freedom has a taste to those who fight and almost die that the protected will never know.” Those words were etched into the wall of the now infamous Hanoi Hilton prisoner of war camp by one of Sam Johnson’s fellow prisoners of war. Now, they are imprinted in a handwritten note from Rep. Sam Johnson […]

In the wake of riots that have spread across America, leaving shattered businesses and wounded communities in their wake, it feels as though our nation is collapsing around us. That’s bizarre, considering that virtually all Americans agree with the following two propositions: first, that it is evil for a police officer to place his knee […]

Editor’s note: A ray of hope in these troubled times is that nearly 12,000 donors have contributed almost a million dollars to a GoFundMe for Korboi Balla, who lost his unopened bar in the Minneapolis riots. Here’s an article from The Daily Caller News Foundation sharing Balla’s story. A black firefighter who invested his life savings […]

Over this weekend, there were protests over the death of George Floyd, the African American man who died after a Minneapolis police officer had his knee on Floyd’s neck for an extended period of time. There was also the launch of the Crew Dragon by SpaceX and NASA, the first time in almost ten years […]

Remember the old public relations maxim: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”? Try telling that to Beijing. Having loosed a pandemic, China finds itself (quite deservedly) deluged with bad publicity. Yet, oddly, the regime seems to think the best way out of its image nightmare is to make it worse. Well, alrighty then. If that’s its play, the U.S. ought to spend more […]

Americans must not miss the opportunity to advance the cause of justice in the wake of a black man’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, black leaders and commentators told The Daily Signal.  The digitally recorded images of George Floyd’s dying breaths under the knee of a city police officer Monday evening sparked large […]

The veteran Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of a man in his custody had 18 previous complaints of misconduct against him, according to news reports.  Only two of the old complaints against Derek Chauvin resulted in disciplinary actions, according to The Wall Street Journal.  Chauvin, 44, who is seen with a knee pressed […]

Hillsdale College will be one of the only colleges, if not the only college, this year planning to hold an in-person commencement ceremony for its graduates. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College and a trustee of The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast today to discuss why the college has chosen to take this […]