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opinion
Senate Continues to Obstruct Trump’s Capable Nominees
If you don’t believe our government is complex and inefficient, just ask presidential appointees navigating the Senate confirmation process. Under our constitutional framework, the president hires the people he wants to run the executive branch, many of whom require Senate confirmation. This includes about 1,200 of the most senior employees, such as ambassadors or Cabinet… -
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Nancy Pelosi Is Already Attacking the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election
“Nancy Pelosi just stated that ‘it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump’s fate.’ @FoxNews In other words, she thinks I’m going to win and doesn’t want to take a chance on letting the voters decide. Like Al Green, she wants to change our voting system. Wow, she’s CRAZY!” tweeted President Donald Trump Tuesday…. -
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Chick-Fil-A Orders Values to Go
If the last 24 hours have proven anything about Chick-fil-A, it’s this: It was never about the chicken. For millions of Americans, there was a much deeper significance behind every decision to pull in the parking lot and walk through those doors. It wasn’t about the menu. It wasn’t even about the service. It was… -
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Impeachment Evidence Not Even Close to Bribery, Heritage Legal Expert Says
As impeachment hearings draw to a close, witnesses have failed to produce hard evidence of wrongdoing on the part of President Donald Trump. Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky will join the podcast to unpack what we learned this week—and what to expect going forward. Read a lightly edited transcript of the interview,… -
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New York Times and FedEx: You’re Invited to Heritage for a Tax Debate
Last weekend, FedEx became the latest company to face criticism from The New York Times for paying little or nothing in income taxes. The Times’ reporting highlights the complexity of who ultimately bears the corporate tax burden and what that means for American workers. Following the Sunday report, Frederick W. Smith, chairman and CEO of FedEx,… -
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6 Big Moments From Day 5 of Public Impeachment Hearings
Two career foreign policy officials testified Thursday that President Donald Trump altered U.S. policy toward Ukraine for a political agenda of going after former Vice President Joe Biden. Fiona Hill, a former official with the National Security Council who was Trump’s adviser on Russia, and David Holmes, political counselor to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine’s… -
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Jussie Smollett Remains Determined to Play the Victim
In the you-just-can’t-make-this-stuff-up category, we interrupt the impeachment proceedings to return to the Jussie Smollett drama. The latest head scratcher is the fact that Smollett has filed a two-count counterclaim against the city of Chicago, claiming malicious prosecution. That’s right. Smollett is suing the city for malicious prosecution because he filed a bogus police report… -
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‘My Privacy Is Being Invaded’: High School Girl Reacts to New Transgender Bathroom Policy
Video footage shows a high school girl choked up when her high school ruled that trans students have unrestricted access to bathrooms and locker rooms. A high school student identified by the Daily Herald as Julia Burca chokes up as she discusses how her school district ruled Thursday that transgender students will have unrestricted access… -
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Praise, Shade, and the Politics of Public Funerals
Public funerals have become somewhat of a unique tradition in American politics. While in times past, deceased politicians, and even famous entertainers, have laid in state—whether it was Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy—they were mostly honorific, stately affairs dedicated to honoring the dead and dutifully noting their lifetimes of service and sacrifice. But at… -
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Mexico’s New Tax Law Could Chill Its Economy, Hurt US Trade Relationship
A new tax law approved last month by the political party of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador—which holds absolute control of the Mexican Congress—gives the government the right to seize land and assets without legal due process in certain tax evasion cases. These new fiscal enforcement measures could damage Mexico’s economic freedom as well… -
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I Left England Because of Socialized Medicine. My Life Depended on It.
Imagine strapping your infant child into a car seat, only to see his body suddenly jerk forward or backward, arms and legs stiffening, and eyes rolling back in the head. Alarm quickly turns to panic, which turns to frantic weaving through traffic to get to the hospital. Within minutes of arriving, the child is rushed… -
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Impeachment Inquiry Is ‘a Trial in Search of a Crime,’ Rep. Jody Hice Says
“They are searching for every haystack they can possibly find in hopes that there’s a needle somewhere that they can bring forward and say, ‘A-ha, we have something to impeach him,’” says Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga. “And the American people are seeing it for what it is.” Read the lightly edited transcript of the interview,… -
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‘They’re Willing to Die’: What an American in Hong Kong Sees
Since early November, Cody Howdeshell has been in Hong Kong, delivering first aid to protesters. He's seen some of the violence firsthand: Hong Kong police, he says of one incident, "went in and they beat these kids that were already half dead with their nightsticks and began to absolutely tear them out with no mercy,… -
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Israel Has a Right to Its Ancient Land
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced U.S. policy toward Israel’s “settlements” is reverting to one held by the Reagan administration; that is the right of Israelis to settle in the ancient lands of Judea and Samaria “is not, per se, inconsistent with international law.” This is good news, not only for Israel and its… -
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‘Coup’ Concerns Suddenly Don’t Seem So Far-Fetched
For most of the last three years, Donald Trump’s critics have scoffed at supposed “conspiracy theories” that claimed a “deep state” of bureaucrats were aborting the Trump presidency. We have been told the word “coup” is hyperbole that reveals the paranoid minds of Trump supporters. Yet oddly, many people brag that they are proud members… -
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Problematic Women: Christine Blasey Ford, Chick-Fil-A, and Impeachment
On this week’s episode of “Problematic Women,” we tackle the news you need to know in a rapid-fire format: Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is called “trash” by feminists who oppose her role in House Democrats’ impeachment hearings. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, wins an award for courage from the ACLU. The “Charlie’s Angels”… -
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7 Key Moments From Gordon Sondland’s Testimony on Day 4 of Public Impeachment Hearings
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, delivered an apparently mixed message Wednesday to lawmakers about what President Donald Trump wanted from Ukraine. In the fourth day of House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings, Sondland first testified that there was a “quid pro quo” in which Ukraine’s new president would have to announce specific investigations… -
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Baltimore’s Answer to High Homicide Rates and Low School Performance? Ban Plastic Bags
What do you do when your community faces crushing poverty, failing schools, and disturbing homicide rates? In Baltimore, the answer is: Ban plastic bags, of course. Yes, Charm City is saving the world, one plastic bag at a time. The Baltimore City Council passed a citywide ban on retailers’ use of plastic bags at checkout… -
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Pro-Trans Advertising Doesn’t Reflect Most of America
To hear college students and corporate consumer-product commercials tell it, gender fluidity is so normal, popular even, that they’re simply communicating these ideas as a way to reflect the new progressivism in America. Only that’s not exactly the case. Their ideas aren’t at all in sync with the rest of the country. Still, that doesn’t… -
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These Law-Abiding People Used Guns to Defend Themselves in October
Far too often, those who disagree with supporters of the Second Amendment about firearm-related policies resort to assertions that we simply care more about our guns than about the lives of innocent people, and that the right to keep and bear arms has little beneficial purpose in modern America. Despite claims by many gun control…