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By Matt Margolis Patriotism used to be something that Americans celebrated. Now, kids are taught to sneer at their own country, to see only its sins and not its staggering achievements. America deserves better than that. As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, three prominent conservative voices are stepping up to change the story being told to the next generation. Dr. Ben Carson, Kirk Cameron, and Riley Gaines are joining forces in 2026 around a single, urgent mission: making sure American children grow up knowing the truth about the country they call home. They come from wildly different backgrounds — an operating room, a Hollywood set, and a swimming pool — but they're aligned on one point. What is happening to America's kids is deliberate. And it will not fix itself. The numbers are hard to argue with. A June 2025 Gallup  poll found  that only 41% of Gen Z adults say they are proud to be American — the lowest of any generation, compared with 83% of the Silent Gene...

By Chris Queen Hardly anybody likes changing their clocks twice a year. The time change disrupts sleep cycles and has plenty of other effects on health, as my friend and colleague Sarah Anderson  wrote about earlier this month . I like Daylight Saving Time because of the later sunsets. I know a lot of people are vehemently against it, but it’s what I prefer. But honestly, I’d be happy with Standard Time year-round if it meant not having to change the clocks. Georgia’s General Assembly passed legislation in 2021 that would keep Georgia permanently on Daylight Saving Time, and Gov. Brian Kemp signed it into law. The problem is that it would literally take an act of Congress to make that state law binding. This year, Georgia lawmakers have an interesting idea for putting the Peach State on permanent Daylight Saving Time. It’s called the Georgia Sunshine Protection Act. HB 154, the “Georgia Sunshine Protection Act,” would require the Governor to request that the United States Secre...

By Sarah Katherine Sisk Red and blue states are moving further apart than ever before on tax policy – and new population data shows that Americans are noticing. As high-tax Democrat states continue to bleed population, low-tax Republican states are seeing a surge in growth. A new study from The Wall Street Journal reveals just how polarized states are becoming on tax policy. “Republican-led states are racing each other to flatten, cut and eliminate individual income taxes, with 23 states lowering their top income-tax rates since 2021,” the Journal reports. “Democratic-controlled states are moving the opposite way, pushing to increase taxes on top earners to combat inequality and plug budget holes.” Meanwhile, any middle ground – states that have moderate tax burdens – is disappearing: “In 2006, 15 states had top income-tax rates on wage income below five percent and just one exceeded 10 percent, according to the Tax Foundation, a group that favors lower rates and fewer breaks. ...

By Ward Clark Let this be a lesson to all of the gun control advocates out there: There is always some source, somewhere, for bad guys to obtain guns and ammunition. In the latest and rather horrifying example of this, a Camp Pendleton Marine has been arrested and is being charged with selling weapons and ammunition, including what's reported to be a Javelin missile system, to  two corporations in his home state of Arizona . An Arizona Marine Corps corporal is in federal custody, accused of stealing weapons of war at his base in California and selling them for his own profit, according to court documents. Andrew Paul Amarillas was indicted by a grand jury this week in Arizona, accused of stealing a Javelin missile system and cans of ammunition from his base in California to sell on the streets in Arizona. Amarillas, 23, is a Glendale native who enlisted in the Marines after graduating from high school. Investigators said that while serving his country, Amarillas was stealing we...

By JOHN HAYWARD U.S. Marines and paratroopers who could be sent into combat in Iran are conducting CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) safety drills at their bases in Europe and aboard ship as they sail to the Middle East. The National  reported  on Friday that advance units of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, flown from America to Europe to prepare for possible deployment in Iran, have been supplied with “detection systems, gas masks and protective ‘Mopp’ coveralls.” MOPP (Mission Oriented Protective Posture) suits are essentially  hazmat suits  for soldiers. MOPP alerts are issued in various levels requiring heavier amounts of protective gear as the anticipated hazard condition grows more serious. Retired U.S. Marine Corps officer Jonathan Hackett told  The National  that the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is “practicing CBRN drills on deck as we speak” as they head for the Middle East aboard the amphibiou...

By Kevin Downey Jr. "How do you sleep at night!?" is something I hear a lot, typically bellowed from the pierced lips of a purple-haired, hirsute tundra wookie, or the pursed mouths of screeching liberal meemaws in high dudgeon, frequently adorned in fashionable keffiyehs, the meaning of which they likely do not understand. The truth is, I sleep great. Neither I nor the MAGA movement I proudly am part of has spent the last 11 years assuring mentally ill men that their delusions of womanhood are real. Female athletes haven't lost trophies, scholarships, sporting opportunities, or their physical safety because of us "MAGATS." Nothing we stand for has resulted in female prisoners being locked up with and raped by prisoners who possess "lady-weeners." DOJ launches investigation of trans prisoners raping women in California, Maine https://t.co/Z1keY6xPry pic.twitter.com/eD7CTHBo1J — New York Post (@nypost) March 26, 2026 Most importantly, I have not ...

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By Michael Scahwarz If nothing else, Christian charity alone requires us to assume that not every Democrat has lost his or her mind. Nonetheless, the Democratic Party’s leadership remains as contemptible and hypocritical as ever. For instance, in a clip posted to the social media platform X, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise stood on the House floor and read a decade-old quote from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in which Jeffries insisted that Republicans must vote to fund the  Department of Homeland Security  rather than “playing political games.” Scalise read Jeffries’ 2015 comments while standing next to a chart showing two recent House votes on DHS funding. In each case, nearly all Democrats voted “nay.” “I think this is an important quote that everybody should listen to right now,” Scalise said. “This is Hakeem Jeffries, and I quote, ‘We are here today to do a single job, and that should be to fund fully the Department of Homeland Security. Anything else is a...

By Susie Moore As RedState reported on Thursday, President Trump took to Truth Social to  announce  that he would sign an order directing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) workers.  Since then, the Senate passed a DHS funding measure via voice vote in the wee hours of the morning (with a carveout for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of Customs and Border Protection (CBP)). The catch there, of course, is that since the Senate bill differs from the House bill, that throws it back to the House. And —  per the latest  — the House is not keen on the Senate measure.  No telling when that will ultimately be sorted out, so the president has gone ahead and officially signed the promised order — a  Presidential Memorandum  titled "Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees."  The memorandum begins with some b...