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Two coalition letters penned by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts are calling on President Donald Trump to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Heritage’s late founder, Ed Feulner, and to Pat Buchanan, a longtime titan of the conservative movement and adviser to three Republican presidents. The medal is the highest civilian honor a president can bestow. Past honorees have included Pope John XXIII, Walt Disney, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Armstrong, and Reinhold Niebuhr. Recent recipients include Pope Francis, Steve Jobs, Simone Biles, and Jane Goodall. Feulner was the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and served as its president from 1977 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018. He served as a Heritage trustee from 1973 to 2025. He was previously awarded the country’s second-highest civilian honor, the Presidential Citizen’s Medal, by President Ronald Reagan in 1989. He passed away last month at the age of 83, so the new honor would be presented posthumously. Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, and nine other House Republicans introduced H.Res.614 in July honoring the conservative leader and asking Trump to award Feulner the medal.  Roberts’ letter lists the bevy of accomplishments by Feulner, including as president of The Philadelphia Society, chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s board of trustees, and executive director of the Republican Study Committee, among other distinctions.  “These roles amplified conservative ideas, launched countless careers, and embodied his belief that ‘people are policy.’ His ‘briefcase test’ ensured concise, actionable policy solutions, empowering lawmakers and grassroots movements alike,” the letter explains, adding: Feulner’s passing marks the loss of a great patriot, yet his legacy endures through the institutions he built and the leaders he inspired, ensuring his influence will burn as long as liberty thrives. Awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom would honor a lifetime of service, recognizing his profound effect on American policy and the global cause of freedom. Feulner was also highly respected by America’s East Asian allies, earning honors from the governments of South Korea and Taiwan. He wrote the afterward for Heritage’s Mandate for Leadership titled “Onward!” so named after his famous catchphrase. “There are always new battles and new opportunities ahead to challenge us to do even more, and we must be ready for them, willing to engage, and use them to work for the betterment of this nation and her people,” Feulner said at the end of the policy manual. The coalition letter for Buchanan comes after Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., shared a letter last week that he sent to Trump urging him to honor the longtime conservative columnist, talk-show panelist, and presidential adviser with the award.  ? I have submitted a letter to President Trump asking him to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Patrick J. Buchanan. He was right about everything 20 years before people realized it and deserves recognition for his contributions to American political life. pic.twitter.com/1viCMUVcWZ— Riley Moore (@RileyMooreWV) August 22, 2025 Buchanan is a former aide to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and served as White House communications director from 1985 to 1987 under President Ronald Reagan. He also ran for president three times: as a Republican in 1992 and 1996 and as a member of the Reform Party in 2000.  The coalition letter praises Buchanan, now 86, for leading “the way in proclaiming that America’s strength lay with its working and middle classes.” “Decades before these ideas became mainstream, he prophetically warned that unfettered globalization, open-border immigration, and endless military engagements were threats to our nation,” it contends. Buchanan would go on to found The American Conservative in 2002. That magazine counts the president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Johnny Burtka, Vice President JD Vance, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., among its contributors.  Buchanan didn’t just predict the challenges we face today; he laid the intellectual foundation for the America First resurgence that has redefined our politics.From his time as a speechwriter in the Nixon administration to his founding of The American Conservative in 2002,… https://t.co/JOrskM7TWu— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) August 25, 2025 The letter praises the magazine for providing “a vital home for sober realism and cultural rootedness.” The post Heritage Chief Urges Presidential Medals of Freedom for Feulner, Buchanan appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Parents are condemning as hypocrisy the fact that a Northern Virginia high school notorious for allowing boys in girls’ bathrooms and girls in the boys’ locker room also has a bathroom specifically designated for “male staff only.” “This sends a mixed signal to everybody about the expectations of privacy,” a father of a junior at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Tuesday. “How do they have their own bathrooms if our own students don’t have their own bathrooms?” the father asked. The Daily Signal reached out to Loudoun County Public Schools and Stone Bridge Principal Timothy Flynn for comment but did not receive a response by press time. The ‘Male Staff Only’ Sign ABC News reporter Nick Minock shared the photo of the sign on Monday. The father said he took the photo in May. “I saw the sign in the school when I was with my son for that sports physical and I just snapped it,” the father told The Daily Signal. Someone sent me this photo from Loudoun County’s Stone Bridge High School. A sign was placed on a faculty bathroom which says “male staff only.”School staff get their own sex-segregated bathrooms at school, but students don’t? pic.twitter.com/NMwQQVzd0o— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) August 25, 2025 The sign remained on the door as of Tuesday morning. The father sent The Daily Signal a photo of his son standing by the sign, which he said had been taken earlier Tuesday. Transgender Bathroom Politics Loudon County Public Schools, which includes Stone Bridge, adopted Policy 8040 in 2021. This policy allows students to use their chosen names and gender pronouns, and opens sports, restrooms, and locker rooms to students on the basis of claimed gender identity, rather than biological sex. The policy drew scrutiny in May 2021, when a 15-year-old male student forced a girl to commit sex acts in the girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge. The school district moved the male student to Broad Run High School, where he then sexually assaulted another girl in a girls’ restroom in October of that year. The Loudoun County Juvenile Court had found the perpetrator “not innocent” of charges of forcible sodomy and forcible fellatio. The student also pleaded “no contest” to charges of abduction and sexual battery on Oct. 6. This March, a girl who identifies as a boy entered the boys’ locker room and filmed the shocked response of multiple boys. The school district opened an investigation into the boys, claiming they had violated Title IX—a federal law barring sexual harassment and discrimination. The district later dropped the charge against one of the boys, who is Muslim, while keeping it against the two other boys, who are Christian, leading to religious discrimination concerns. Earlier this month, the school district found the two boys guilty of sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination, imposing a 10-day suspension. The boys have appealed the suspension, which the school temporarily lifted. One of the boys moved out of state, but the Title IX charge remains on his record. ?'BLATANT RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION'@TFFVA atty Josh Hetzler notes that Loudoun County Public Schools dropped its Title IX claim against a Muslim student, but kept it against the two Christian boys?"We think it's blatant religious discrimination."https://t.co/DHY1T7Umb2 pic.twitter.com/3MUwEgGttm— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 21, 2025 ‘Hypocrisy’ The parents of the boys who now face Title IX claims also condemned the bathroom sign. “[Loudon County Public Schools] gives male-only bathrooms to staff but brands my son a predator for wanting the same privacy,” Renae Smith, the mother of the boy who left the state, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “They protect their own while destroying a teenager’s name for speaking up,” she added. “This is not equality—it’s hypocrisy, and it’s harming kids.” “Nothing rots character faster than hypocrisy,” Seth Wolfe, the father of the Christian boy who remains at Stone Bridge, told The Daily Signal in a statement. “When educators and administrators fail to stand behind what they teach, students and parents become victims of policies designed not to protect but to oppress their individual freedoms.” Tumay Harding, the boys’ Title IX coordinator, described the school as “the epicenter of crazy.” “Why are the rules different for adults than they are for the children?” she asked in a phone interview with The Daily Signal Tuesday. “Is it because they’re uncomfortable if there’s a person of the opposite sex in their private spaces?” “That would only make sense,” she added. “[The Loudon County Public Schools] Title IX office was put there for the trans agenda and the trans agenda alone,” Harding concluded. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights found Loudoun County and four other Northern Virginia school districts in violation of Title IX for their transgender policies earlier this year. ?DAD WOULD GO TO SCOTUSSean Wolfe says that if LCPS insists on punishing his son for not calling a girl a boy, he would fight in court all the way to the Supreme Court?? if need be."Yes," he told me. "I think as a father, that is a father's duty."https://t.co/DHY1T7Umb2 pic.twitter.com/ISOEW6PFez— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 21, 2025 The Loudoun County Public Schools’ Title IX office did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about whether the “male staff only” sign might violate the school district’s reading of Title IX. Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, a Republican running for governor, has championed the cause of “the Loudoun 3,” speaking at a press conference on the issue last week. Her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, has yet to address the issue. The post Virginia School ‘Brands My Son a Predator’ for Desiring the Same Bathroom Privacy Afforded to ‘Male Staff,’ Mom Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

One day after President Donald Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook—who refused to vote to lower interest rates and has been accused of mortgage fraud—he already has a replacement in mind. “I think I, maybe, in my own mind, I have somebody that I like,” the president told The Daily Signal. “Look, we just put a very good man in one position. We might switch him to the other,” he said. “It’s a longer term, and I could pick somebody else, but we’re very happy with the person we have in there, and we’ll have a majority very shortly. So, that’ll be great.” I asked @POTUS who he will nominate to replace Fed Governor Lisa Cook, who he fired yesterday. “We have we just put a very good man in one position, we might switch him to the other”?? pic.twitter.com/UATsfAhNNF— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) August 26, 2025 Trump could be alluding to economist E.J. Antoni, who Trump recently nominated as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS commissioners have four-year terms, while Fed governors serve 14-year terms. Trump thinks housing prices will decrease once his supporters have a majority on the Fed Board of Governors. “People are paying too high an interest rate,” he said. “That’s the only problem with housing. We have to get the rates down a little bit, and when we do, it’s going to be a tremendous difference. The country is doing so well, it sort of blows through the fact that we have a man who’s too late, but not doing a very good job.” He was referring to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he often references with the pejorative “too late.” “The recommendation from a certain person was not a great recommendation,” Trump said. “That person vouched for him, but we’re doing a very careful study.” He said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are involved in the decision-making. Cook, the Fed governor Trump fired, has said she will challenge the president in court. “Cook has indicated through her personal attorney that she will promptly challenge this action in court and seek a judicial decision that would confirm her ability to continue to fulfill her responsibilities as a Senate-confirmed member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,” the Fed said in a statement. The post Trump Hints at Nominee for Open Fed Post After Firing Governor appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The leader of a Druze village in the Golan Heights spoke out against the efforts by the world media and the left to dismiss the story of the recent slaughter and raping of his people’s kin in Syria by radical Islamic terrorists and Syrian government forces. During the Newsmax delegation to Israel, we visited the Ein Qiniyye village on the southern foothills of Mount Hermon, and spoke with Druze mayor Wael Moghrabi about the plight of the Druze people. Not only did he praise Israel for intervening in Syria to halt the carnage through a bevy of airstrikes, but he emphasized that the attempts by Islamists to exterminate his people underscore why the media and the left whitewashing the story is nothing short of barbaric: “Just like the Nazis in the past, their goal is one: They want to eradicate the Druze community and then they want to eradicate Israel.” He continued, offering up a strong warning to the world media: “They will come with tens of thousands of jihadis to the border with Israel and they will try to eliminate us.” Moghrabi isn’t alone in calling out the media silence on the attacks on the Druze people. Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation director general Jack Simony wrote in a July 21 op-ed that “[m]uch of the media has ignored the scale of these atrocities — or framed them as tribal clashes, erasing the truth of systematic extermination. This distortion compounds the violence and obscures the urgency of intervention.”  British journalist Melanie Phillips also condemned in a July 17 column how “[v]arious media outlets reported these atrocities as ‘tit for tat’ skirmishes between the Druze and Bedouin tribes.”  MRC Business decided to use the opportunity with the Ein Qiniyye mayor to tell the Druze story that the world media was ignoring. Moghrabi highlighted how “the Druze community has been oppressed for centuries. And the Arab world is bashing the Druze just like they did also with the Jews.” What is happening in the city of As Sweida and Jabal al-Druze (also known as “Mountain of the Druze”), said Moghrabi, “they are oppressing the Druze community.”  Moghrabi blasted attempts by media outlets to make Islamist Syrian president Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, out to be some kind of civilian convert after openly leading terrorist organizations like Jabhat al-Nusra and Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS). “Suddenly, he’s taking off his Islamist clothes and he puts on a suit and a tie and the entire Western world is hugging him.” He’s right. A litany of media outlets have gone to great lengths to prop up the jihadist al-Jolani as if he had found religion or something, no pun intended.  The BBC ran a ludicrous December 2024 piece headlined, “From Syrian jihadist leader to rebel politician: How Abu Mohammed al-Jolani reinvented himself.” CNN absurdly framed al-Jolani as a “Syrian rebel leader” whose “goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regime” in another December 2024 piece of propaganda. Readers wouldn’t know until the seventh paragraph down that al-Jolani’s HTS was designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. Not to be outdone, a story by the anti-Israel New York Times made al-Jolani out to be some kind of unsung hero against Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorial regime: “Leader of Syria’s Resurgent Rebels Lays Out Strategy to Oust Assad.” But it would be his new regime that would be behind wanton slaughter of the Druze people, as the Foundation for Defense of Democracies research fellow Hussain Abdul-Hussain summarized: With electricity and internet restored, videos surfaced: hundreds of summary executions, an unarmed Druze man shot by Sharaa’s forces without question, another pleading for his life before being killed for being Druze. Government forces looted shops and homes, desecrated houses of worship and left graffiti vowing to exterminate the Druze and establish an Islamist state. The massacres are an open indictment upon media organizations that have tried to legitimize al-Jolani, as Moghrabi suggested. “The world does not see the real face of al-Jolani. After he took power, he went to the mosque and in his sermon, he said, ‘We have freed Syria but now we are facing towards Jerusalem. The next goal that we have is to free Jerusalem,” Moghrabi said in warning Americans that al-Jolani’s real mission is jihad against the Jewish State. As for his people, Moghrabi emphasized that “al-Jolani’s message is very simple: He hates the Druze community. He said that the Druze split off from Islam and that they should be oppressed,” Moghrabi stated. “They regard the Druze as people that betrayed Islam and their faith is to be oppressed.” Al-Jolani, said Moghrabi, “wants to erase all the minorities. He’s trying to eradicate the Druze community and he’s trying to bash Israel.”  The world media should be utterly ashamed of themselves for assisting al-Jolani’s phony attempt to rebrand himself.

A teenage girl was charged with brandishing a weapon after a viral video appeared online.Scottish police reportedly responded to a call from the Lochee area of Dundee, Scotland, on Saturday evening, the National reported. Multiple police units were reportedly on scene after a young girl was seen with a bladed weapon, and to make matters worse, the young girl has been connected to a disturbing viral video from the weekend that has garnered over 20 million views.'Don't f**king touch us.'"Around 7:40 p.m. on Saturday, we received a report of a female youth with a bladed weapon in St Ann Lane, Dundee," Police Scotland said, per the Daily Record. "Officers attended and a 14-year-old girl was charged in connection. She will be reported to the relevant authorities."The reason the girl was carrying the blade is allegedly linked to a viral video where two young girls are seen yelling at a man recording them. The man did not seem to have a Scottish accent, while a Dundee bus in the background appeared to confirm the location.The video was dated August 24, with reports of the charges coming the following day."Don't f**king touch us," one girl is heard saying in the video. One of the young ladies is seen brandishing a large knife and small axe as she and another girl demand the man filming the video to leave them alone. At the same time, other alleged details posted to X made the story even more disturbing.RELATED: Why the English flag now terrifies the regime "The story keeps getting worse," the account that posted the video later wrote.An attached image said the teen's 12-year-old sister was being approached by a Muslim man when she brandished the weapons. However, another X user claimed the young girl was having an altercation with another girl and attached an article from the Scottish Sun. That article did not provide any additional details, though.Blaze News contacted Police Scotland for additional comment on the matter. Spokeswoman Lisa Smith told Blaze News, "There were no adults arrested or charged" in relation to the incident.The spokeswoman confirmed, "Around 7:40 p.m. on Saturday, 23 August, 2025, we received a report of a female youth with a weapon in St Ann Lane, Dundee."RELATED: Police drag away a man for saying he likes bacon near a sprawling mosque construction site Police in Glasgow, Scotland, April 10, 2019. Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images "These kind of areas have a lot of violence, and I've seen weapons brandished several times like this before," Scottish content creator Robin Alderslowe told Blaze News."Authorities should not be delicate if this indeed was a case of a migrant failing to integrate properly. Progressives may be quick to label this as a reaction to 'far-right fearmongering,' but when we bring in people from different cultures, there are bound to be cultural issues."Restore Britain's investigative reporter Lewis Brackpool remarked to Blaze News, "If 12-year-old girls need to carry knives on the streets of the United Kingdom, it's a bad sign.""When will liberals and progressives admit that multiculturalism has failed?" Brackpool asked.Blaze News asked Police Scotland to confirm whether the young girl was having an altercation with another teen girl or if she had brandished the weapons at an adult; a response was not provided.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!