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Sen. Joni Ernst Calls Out Use-It-or-Lose-It Government Spending
The fourth-ranking Republican in the Senate called on colleagues Tuesday to pass her legislation to reduce wasteful government spending and rein in agencies’ spending practices. “Government agencies are going on their annual ‘Christmas in September’ use-it-or-lose-it shopping spree,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said in remarks prepared for delivery on the Senate floor. “If not spent… -
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Planned Parenthood Advised Hollywood Over 150 Movies, Shows Since 2014, Director Says
Planned Parenthood advised Hollywood on more than 150 productions since 2014 as part of an effort to influence the abortion dialogue, a director at the nonprofit said. The nation’s largest abortion provider is losing the abortion battle in Washington but is upping its game through Hollywood, freelance journalist Nora Caplan-Bricker wrote Monday in The Washington Post… -
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Here Are Key Differences House and Senate Need to Resolve in National Defense Authorization Act
The leaders of the Armed Services committees of the House and the Senate met Thursday to formally start negotiations on a bicameral version of the National Defense Authorization Act under a conference committee process. There are substantial differences between the Senate and House versions of the bill that need to be hammered out to create… -
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The Left’s Abuse of Children
The entire American left—the mainstream media, the environmentalist movement, and Democratic politicians in particular—are celebrating the involvement of teenagers and even younger children in protesting the world’s “inaction” with regard to global warming. And not just the American left, of course. The left throughout the world is celebrating. A 16-year-old Swedish girl whose contempt for… -
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s Misleading Fracking Claim
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested to her millions of Twitter followers that a “fracking” site she visited was releasing toxic emissions, but experts pointed out that the site is not even fracking, and the video she tweeted about caught heat signatures—not emissions. Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., visited Colorado on Saturday to attend Boulder County’s Truman dinner and headlined… -
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China’s Quiet Campaign to Change UN
Turtle Bay is awash with heads of state this week. They’ve come to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are among those in attendance, and they come with an agenda of their own. Item 1 for the Americans is to remind world leaders—in… -
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Empowering Women by Advancing Economic Freedom Around the World
The Trump White House has been pushing Ivanka Trump’s brainchild, the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, to a greater global audience. The program, which involves the National Security Council, the State Department, and other relevant agencies, focuses on empowering women and seeks to support them in the workplace in developing and Third World countries. How? By helping these women… -
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How Trump Won Round 1 in the Long Fight for Border Security
If President Donald Trump is for it, his liberal opponents are against it. Nowhere is that truism more true than regarding securing the border and enforcing immigration law. In Congress, traditional bipartisan support for funding border security and carrying out the laws on the books have broken down. The more stridently Trump emphasized the importance… -
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Why Pelosi’s Drug Price Control Scheme Would Be a Poison Pill to Innovation and Access
An earlier version of this post was based on a summary of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s prescription drug pricing bill that was leaked to the press prior to the bill’s introduction. The post has been updated and revised to describe the bill as introduced and to incorporate additional material. The House of Representatives this week… -
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For Bureaucrats, It’s ‘Christmas in September’
For the federal government, September is the real holiday: with the federal fiscal year ending, it’s spending mayhem. Adam Andrzejewski of Open the Books joins us to explain just how much spending occurs at the end and what can be done. Read the interview, pasted below, or listen on the podcast: We also cover these… -
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Nominee’s Hearing Advances the Prospect of Reforming US Broadcasting Abroad
Confirmation hearings in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sept. 19 were full of fireworks aimed at three nominees of President Donald Trump, but none made a dent in the nomination of Michael Pack, the administration’s pick to be chief executive officer at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Pack made a persuasive case… -
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In UN Address, Trump Makes International Call: ‘End Religious Persecution’
President Donald Trump, speaking Monday at the United Nations in New York, announced an initiative to protect religious liberty, saying the administration would spend $25 million in related efforts internationally. Trump made the announcement in remarks at a U.N. event called the Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom, noting that business leaders are involved in… -
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How ‘Medicare for All’ Could Block Medical Progress
The introduction of penicillin in the 1940s was a revolution in medicine. Within a decade of its widespread use, however, bacteria began to develop resistance to the drug. Since then, pharmacologists have been waging an ongoing battle to overcome infectious microbes’ resistance to lifesaving drugs. The Democrats’ insistence on single-payer health care and demonization of… -
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We Went to the DC Climate Protest. Here Are 5 Things We Saw.
Protesters young and old descended Monday on Washington to call for immediate action on climate change, stopping rush-hour traffic and taking over city parks. Environmental activists designed the event, called "Shut Down D.C." or #ShutDownDC, to disrupt morning commutes for government workers and bring attention to their cause. While world leaders attended the United Nations… -
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Why the Hong Kong Protesters Keep Marching
Students, young professionals, and not-so-young Chinese have now demonstrated in Hong Kong for many weeks, despite the brutal attempts by the government to stop them. The police have used clubs, tear gas, and water cannons—everything but dogs—to silence them. “If we didn’t protest,” one young woman said, “this might become just another Chinese city.” Why… -
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Mike Pence to Headline First-Ever Heritage Honors Gala
The Heritage Foundation announced Monday that Vice President Mike Pence will deliver the keynote address at the first-ever Heritage Honors gala dinner Oct. 22. Pence’s speech will be part of the leading conservative think tank’s annual President’s Club Meeting, which runs Oct. 21-23 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C. The event is Heritage’s largest… -
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Wise Judge Blocks California Law Targeting Trump
We’re all used to seeing California throw its weight around, but its new law requiring a presidential candidate to provide five years of tax returns to be eligible to appear on a primary ballot is a new low. Now, however, a federal district court judge has blocked the state from enforcing it, at least temporarily. It’s the right decision. The law is nothing more… -
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Trump Has Made Some Real Progress Changing the 9th Circuit
Judge Stephen Reinhardt, once the liberal lion of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had a stock response whenever he was asked why he wrote decisions that had little chance of surviving Supreme Court review. “They can’t catch them all,” Reinhardt would quip. It was the kind of display that inflamed conservative animosity for… -
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Before Kavanaugh, 3 Previous Attempts to Impeach Supreme Court Justices
Numerous Democrats have demanded the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh following discredited allegations by The New York Times of sexual misconduct in his college years. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., introduced a resolution to impeach Kavanaugh on Sept. 17. Although Democrats’ congressional leadership isn’t embracing the unlikely venture, U.S. history includes one instance of… -
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Educating America’s Youth, One Cross-Country Trip at a Time
Education is fundamental to American flourishing. However, many young people today are not being taught how to think critically, to reason, or even to understand our nation’s founding principles. Billy Planer founded Etgar 36 in 2002 in an effort to educate students on America’s history and to teach youth how to have meaningful discussions around…