No one had a better chance to prevent Team Canada's 2-1 overtime loss to the United States than Nathan MacKinnon, and it seems like he's having issues with that.
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President Trump will deliver the first State of the Union of his second term on Tuesday, an address that lands near the 250th anniversary of a nation built on freedom and enterprise. He will likely highlight ending foreign conflicts, restoring border security, reasserting American strength, and advancing his legislative agenda. He will point to economic gains — growth returning, inflation easing, energy prices falling, tax relief delivered, and markets responding. He will argue that the Trump economy is putting Americans back in charge of their own prosperity.
But one success story may not make the headlines: Under pro-investment, pro-competition policies, America’s wireless market has delivered lower prices, better service, and more choice — without mandates, price controls, or government-run networks.
Wireless shows free markets still work when Washington lets them.
Since Trump took office, wireless prices are down 4%. The White House even lists it as Win No. 132 in “365 Wins in 365 Days.” Backed by Bureau of Labor Statistics data, wireless plans and smartphones cost less in real dollars today than they did decades ago — while delivering hundreds of times faster speeds and vastly more data.
Twenty years ago, wireless networks mostly carried voice calls. Today they power work, school, health care, navigation, banking, entertainment, and small business. A wireless subscription also takes a declining share of the household budget.
That didn’t happen by accident. Competition, private investment, and smart policy drove it.
Better service, more choice, lower costPlans now deliver more data, faster speeds, and wider coverage than most people imagined 20 years ago. What once required a wired connection at home now works almost anywhere.
Fixed wireless access has helped drive that shift — home internet delivered over wireless networks. Nearly 15 million households now use wireless service instead of a fixed line, giving families a new, often cheaper alternative.
Americans also benefit from real choice. Most people are covered by three or more national wireless networks, each offering multiple brands, including lower-cost and prepaid options for families, seniors, students, and budget-conscious users. Dozens of smaller carriers and resellers add even more price competition. Companies need to earn customers’ business.
Wireless saves families real moneyWireless doesn’t just connect people — it cuts costs.
Parents save time and fuel by working remotely. Seniors can use telehealth instead of driving long distances. Students can learn from anywhere. Small businesses can reach customers without expensive storefronts or phone systems.
No other essential service — housing, health care, food, or energy — has improved this much while becoming more affordable. Wireless quietly delivers more value every year.
America leads because America investsNone of this works without investment. U.S. wireless companies invest about $30 billion a year to build and upgrade networks. Per person, that’s nearly double what Europe invests.
As a result, the United States leads the world in wireless performance, coverage, and innovation. That leadership didn’t come from government-run networks or price controls. It came from letting companies compete, invest, and take risks.
President Trump’s first-term spectrum auction raised a record $90 billion and helped fuel today’s 5G networks. Now FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is moving quickly toward another auction to free up more airwaves — the raw material wireless networks need to grow.
The spectrum bottleneck is realWireless runs on spectrum, and America is running tight.
Large blocks of valuable spectrum remain locked up by federal agencies, even when lightly used. Other countries — China, South Korea, and Japan — have moved faster to free spectrum for commercial use.
More spectrum means better service, more competition, and lower costs. Without it, growth slows and prices rise. That makes unlocking spectrum a national priority.
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The hidden fee on your phone billAnother problem stays mostly invisible to consumers.
The Universal Service Fund is meant to support rural connectivity and essential communications. But instead of being funded broadly, it gets tacked onto phone bills, often as a separate line item. Seniors and working families pay about $9 a month without ever voting on it.
Meanwhile, the biggest users of America’s networks — massive internet platforms — pay little or nothing into the system. They generate enormous traffic, earn billions, and rely on wireless infrastructure built by others.
President Trump has argued that Big Tech should pay its own way when it comes to energy-hungry AI data centers. The same principle should apply here. If you benefit from the network, you should help pay for it.
The bottom lineWireless shows free markets still work when Washington lets them. Competition pushed prices down. Private investment built world-leading networks. Smart spectrum policy unlocked innovation.
Now policymakers face a choice: Protect what’s working, or burden it with bureaucracy and political favoritism. Free up more spectrum. Preserve real competition. End Big Tech’s free ride on infrastructure funded by American consumers.
If President Trump wants a model of American strength and market-driven success in his State of the Union, he doesn’t have to look far. It’s already in the hands of nearly every American holding a cell phone.
On this week's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday," House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the Trump administration is using taxpayer dollars to "brutalize or kill" Americans.
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That is a page from the Standard Encyclopedia from the late 1960s, before the onslaught of islamization and sharia in America....
Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) said it would be "wrong" for President Donald Trump to remove the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians.
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President Donald Trump showered the United States men's hockey team with praise Sunday for its historic victory at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
The men's hockey team took home the gold for the first time in 46 years after Jack Hughes scored the winning goal over Canada in overtime. It was the first American gold-medal effort in men's Olympic hockey since the "Miracle on Ice" squad improbably won it all in 1980. Trump himself hosted that iconic team at the White House in December.
'I'm so proud to be American.'
"Congratulations to our great U.S.A. Ice Hockey team," Trump said in a Truth Social Post. "THEY WON THE GOLD. WOW!"
"LOTS OF WINNING!!!" Trump added.
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A teary-eyed Hughes patriotically praised the United States moments after the historic win, saying how proud he is to be an American.
"This is all about our country right now," Hughes said. "I love the U.S.A. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable."
He added that "the U.S.A. hockey brotherhood is so strong, and we had so much support from ex-players. I'm so proud to be American today."
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"Unreal game by our team," Hughes also noted. "Just a ballsy, gutsy win. That's American hockey right there. That's a great Canadian team, but we're U.S.A. We're so proud to be Americans. Tonight was all for the country."
Hughes' brother Quinn scored an overtime goal to beat Sweden 2-1 Wednesday, which advanced the U.S. men's hockey team to the semifinals. Quinn Hughes remarked after the contest, "I love the U.S., and it's the greatest country in the world. So [I'm] happy to represent it here with these guys."
Adding to the theatrics, the U.S. women's hockey team also won Olympic gold, also beating Canada in the finals — and also in overtime — by a 2-1 score Thursday.
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The armed man who was shot and killed Sunday morning at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, has been identified as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin, and was reported missing by his family about the time the shooting occurred.
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Team U.S.A. brought fallen NFL star Johnny Gaudreau’s young children on the ice for a team photo after taking Olympic gold in hockey.
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After 35 years, it appears that Disney Gay Days — the annual LGBTQ+ event where participants, their families, friends, and allies visit the Walt Disney World parks and wear red shirts for visibility — are on their last legs.
The group that organizes the event recently announced that shifting hotel agreements and the loss of key sponsors forced it to cancel the 2026 celebration. Although organizers are encouraging gay fans to visit the parks on the usual dates and wear themed attire, the coordinated celebration appears to be on its way to history’s ash heap.
Some people, particularly in Christian outlets, are claiming that boycotts are behind the sponsorship losses that led to the 2026 pause of the organized Gay Days events at Disney, but BlazeTV Auron MacIntyre disagrees.
“Evangelical Christians tried to cancel Gay Days with an on-again-off-again boycott for decades. What finally wounded the LGBTQ leviathan wasn't conservative activism. It was cultural apathy,” he says.
“I remember the first wave of evangelical pushback as Disney began signaling support for homosexual lifestyles in the 1990s,” says Auron.
But it was a “strangely inconsistent boycott,” he says.
“One year, the Southern Baptist Convention urged members to avoid Disney. The next year, churches were showing up to the Night of Joy, Disney's Christian music festival.”
As a result of this “sloppy, intermittent resistance,” Disney "leaned in harder” to its pro-homosexuality agenda, moving "from park celebrations and employee benefits” to “progressive messaging” in its cinematography.
“'The Little Mermaid' became black, gay couples were kissing in 'Star Wars,' and diverse girlbosses dominated Marvel. As acceptance of gay marriage shifted from taboo to required corporate orthodoxy, Disney replaced entertainment with propaganda,” says Auron.
Thus the fading of Gay Days had nothing to do with either Christian resistance or a rolling back of support from Disney.
Auron says that "apathy" is why Gay Days “suddenly [fell] apart.”
“Apathy doesn't mean that Americans suddenly disapproved of Disney's agenda sadly. It just means that normal people stopped granting it the honor of a fight,” he explains.
“Many families quit watching new releases, not as part of a coordinated boycott, but because the product became preachy, weird, and dull. Others kept their subscriptions but tuned out of the messaging and rolled their eyes. Either way, the ritualized drama lost its electricity.”
“Corporate sponsors,” says Auron, “follow attention, and attention follows the next outrage.”
“A movement built on being shocking can't survive once it becomes background noise.”
So what’s the lesson here?
Citing Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” Auron says, rulers must “leave opponents alone or crush them entirely. A complacent enemy might grumble, but they avoid taking risks; a crushed enemy can't retaliate. The most dangerous enemy is one that has suffered a minor bloodying. He gains the motivation to fight and keeps the means to harm.”
“Conservatives gave the LGBTQ movement exactly that minor bloodying — outrage finger-wagging, but never any real consequences,” he explains.
The “LGBTQ leviathan” responsible for Disney Gay Days, he argues, “didn't lose because the right defeated it; it lost because it exhausted its own cultural energy.”
“The lesson here is pretty simple,” says Auron. “If the right fights, it must pick battles carefully and commit fully to winning them. ... If you fight, you must crush the enemy's capacity to operate; otherwise, you invigorate his cause while draining your own. Clumsy half measures feed your foe, and you end up hoping he defeats himself.”
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Millions of Americans in the northeast corridor will be impacted by a crippling, late-winter snowstorm that is expected to dump up to two feet of snow in some areas, delivered by 70-mile-per-hour winds.
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