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What’s Behind the Struggle Over the Supreme Court
An unprecedented fight over judicial power is taking place on Capitol Hill as part of fierce partisan opposition to President Donald Trump, legal experts said Tuesday at a gathering of conservatives in Washington. “The conflict over judicial appointments has always been a conflict over judicial power,” Thomas Jipping, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation,… -
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‘Nonpartisan’ Rock the Vote Goes After Electoral College, Embraces Other Liberal Talking Points
The nonprofit Rock the Vote is sponsoring a petition bashing the Electoral College and pushing the National Popular Vote Compact, though the organization advertises itself as "nonpartisan." Rock the Vote sponsored the petition, which urges voters to “Fix the broken Electoral College with National Popular Vote,” alongside a slew of other groups, including the liberal… -
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Grassley Suspects ‘Deep State’ Responsible for Delay in FISA Abuse Report
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, expressed frustration Monday at a monthslong delay in the release of the Justice Department inspector general’s report on possible FBI surveillance abuse against the Trump campaign, questioning whether the “deep state” has somehow slowed the release of the document. “All of the delays and excuses why the Horowitz IG FISA report… -
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Facebook Announces Effort to Clearly Mark Fake News
Facebook announced Monday an effort to “protect the 2020 U.S. elections” by clearly marking fake news posts, offering protections to politicians’ accounts and offering more transparency. The effort comes after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg defended the social media site’s new advertisement policies, which will effectively allow political campaigns to release misinformation to voters, in an… -
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Dictators Wrap ‘Evil Behavior’ in Talk of Human Rights, Pompeo Says
Dictators too often pervert the word “right” for nefarious means, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday morning, as the U.S. prepared to assemble a new commission focused on human rights. “When I came to the State Department, it became very clear to me—I had seen this in my time in Congress too—people throw around… -
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Separation of Powers at Stake in Constitutional Challenge to Consumer Bureau’s Structure
The Supreme Court agreed Oct. 18 to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The court will decide whether, by sharply curtailing the president’s ability to remove the head of this executive branch agency, Congress violated the Constitution’s separation of powers. Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010… -
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The Real Collusion, and the Lessons of the Mueller Investigation
Was there ever a valid reason for the Mueller investigation? What are the lessons for the country about this two-year process and how it unfolded? And what about this new impeachment push? We speak about all this with Andrew McCarthy, author of a new book “Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and… -
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Why LBJ’s Great Society Gets a Failing Grade in Improving Education
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vision for a Great Society unleashed an army of bureaucrats on American schools but produced little or no improvements to public education in 54 years, according to a new report published by The Heritage Foundation. The report, titled “The Not-So-Great Society,” delves into the impact of Johnson’s string of initiatives—among them… -
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Ukraine Is Now Europe’s Bulwark Against Russian Aggression
KYIV, Ukraine—Thousands of Ukrainians marched through central Kyiv last week to celebrate the Day of the Defender, a holiday meant to honor the country’s veterans and active-duty soldiers. The date, Oct. 14, also coincides with the anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a paramilitary fighting force that fought against both Nazi Germany… -
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This E-Cigarette Tax Could Be Hazardous to Your Health
Sin taxes of all types have unintended consequences. A new proposal in the House Ways and Means Committee to tax electronic cigarettes could harm the health of Americans—and could even be deadly. The tax will slow the decline in traditional smoking-related health complications as fewer adults switch to smokeless alternatives that research has demonstrated to… -
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Democrats Consider Undermining Administration’s Crackdown on Tax Avoidance
Senate Democrats are trying to chip away at critical elements of the 2017 tax cuts. Included in the 2017 tax cuts is the new $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, one of the reform’s signature achievements. The cap advanced the bipartisan goal of treating taxpayers across the income scale more fairly… -
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Biological Male Wins Women’s Cycling World Championship
Biologically male cyclist Rachel McKinnon won a women’s world championship Saturday. McKinnon, representing Canada, won gold for the sprint event in the women’s 35-39 age category at the 2019 Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, England. McKinnon set a women’s world record in the qualifying event, the BBC reported. McKinnon, a philosophy professor at the… -
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We Need More Rapists in Prison, Not Fewer. Why AOC Is Wrong Again.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently offered another unusual idea on Twitter: Abolish prisons. Seriously. The freshman congresswoman wants Congress to pass a law abolishing all prisons. Setting aside the fact that Congress has no authority to require states to abolish prisons, let’s take a look at her idea. Based on Justice Department numbers, abolishing prisons would… -
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They Aren’t Whistleblowers. They’re Double Agents.
The New York Times on Oct. 4 reported that a second intelligence official “alarmed by President [Donald] Trump’s dealings with Ukraine” is considering whether to file a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general. Like the first whistleblower, however, this individual is apparently trying to advance his agenda outside of the process provided by federal… -
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Are High Health Costs Really Forcing Americans to Go Overseas?
A recent piece in Medical Xpress drew attention to the high costs of U.S. health care—and just how far some Americans are going to escape them. The piece shares the story of one patient, Veronica Merrill, who sought bariatric surgery that would have cost $12,000 in the United States but less than $4,000 in Mexico…. -
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Mary Millben on What It’s Like Being a Conservative in the Entertainment Industry
Working in politics is not the usual springboard into a singing career, but this was the unorthodox path of Christian conservative Mary Millben. In today’s episode, Millben sits down with The Daily Signal to discuss her unique career path, and what it’s like to be a conservative in the entertainment industry. Millben also talks about… -
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‘True North’ Outlines 14 Conservative Principles
The Heritage Foundation will introduce a set of 14 conservative principles Monday at the outset of the influential think tank’s annual President’s Club meeting in Washington. Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James said the laser-focused definition of conservatism in the document, called “True North: The Principles of Conservatism,” is designed to unite the movement. “While… -
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California’s War on Citizenship
California—a one-party state dominated by progressives—has become the model for where progressivism will go when completely unchecked. Now, even the basic concept of citizenship is under full-blown assault as the state has moved on from being a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants to outright insisting that noncitizens have the same access to the levers of… -
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San Francisco’s Blacklist of Pro-Life States a ‘PR Tactic,’ Activists Say
San Francisco’s blacklisting of 22 states with pro-life laws is only a “PR tactic” that indicates growing desparation within the abortion industry, the head of an activist group based in the city says. “I don’t think [San Francisco’s government] has any real power with this boycott,” Terrisa Bukovinac, executive director of Pro-Life San Francisco, told… -
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Syria Cease-Fire Should Avoid Needless Bloodshed
Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and national security adviser Robert O’Brien showed they know how to talk Turkey when they announced Thursday that they negotiated a five-day delay in the Turkish military’s advance into Kurdish-held territory in Syria along Turkey’s border. The U.S. officials met for nearly five hours with Turkish…