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A Mark That Misses the Mark: House Democrats and the National Defense Authorization Act
The Democrat-controlled House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces is advancing policies on nuclear weapons and missile defense that would make the U.S. and its allies less safe. This is evident in the markup (or the subcommittee’s version) of the National Defense Authorization Act, which it released Tuesday. For example, the markup prohibits funding for… -
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Why Celebrity Politics Matters
Celebrities emerged from their Hollywood cocoon this week to sound off on abortion law … in Georgia. If this sounds bizarre, that’s because it is: The people of Georgia don’t spend an awful lot of time trying to control the policies of New York or California. Yet the greatest and most moral among us–people who… -
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ICE Acting Director Says Family Deportations Are on the Table
Acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Mark Morgan said his agency is not ruling out the possibility of arresting and deporting migrant families that have been ordered to leave the U.S. “The mindset is no one is exempted. You’re either in violation of the law or not, and we take it from there,”… -
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17-Year-Old Girl Dies After Request to Be Legally Euthanized in the Netherlands
A teen in the Netherlands died Sunday at her home after requesting to be legally euthanized following years of depression following sexual abuses and rape when she was younger. Initial reports claimed Noa Pothoven died via legal euthanasia, but it is now being reported doctors ultimately denied her request. The 17-year-old said that her suffering… -
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Grandmother Asks Governor Not to Scrap School Choice Program
A North Carolina woman with three grandchildren in the state’s school voucher program says she isn’t too proud to beg the governor not to reduce funding and phase it out, as he proposes. “I would just really hope to beg him not to make this cut to this program,” Lisa Davis told The Daily Signal…. -
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A Guide to Colleges Committed to Ideological Diversity
When you send your youngster off to college, you might not mind that they will have to walk on eggshells, respect taboos, snitch on fellow students for politically incorrect jokes, and learn to use ad hominem arguments as a means to attack ideas they find “disagreeable.” If that’s your preference, you can choose from a… -
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Clarence Thomas Shows Left’s Hypocrisy on Discrimination
Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is, once again, under attack. And, once again, the attacks are from liberals who cannot tolerate Thomas’ consistent, unyielding and faithful commitment to America’s founding principles. The latest concerns Thomas’ 20-page opinion offered up in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, recently considered by the Supreme Court…. -
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This New Social Media Platform Aims to Protect Your Beliefs and Privacy
Facebook has become so big that even one of its initial founders says it’s time for government to break it up. But what if the market solved the problem — and offered users better free speech protection? Enter AllSocial — a new social media platform designed for everyone, with minimal censorship. Read the interview, posted… -
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Economic Freedom Key to Ensuring We Have Dynamic Entrepreneurs
THE HAGUE, Netherlands–Proactively promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic freedom continues to be a critical pillar of U.S. engagement with the world. One sign of this is the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which the United States co-hosts this week with the Netherlands. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte opened the 2019 summit… -
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4 Things to Know About House Democrats’ ‘Dream and Promise’ Amnesty
The House has passed legislation 237-187 that would grant citizenship to an estimated 2.5 million undocumented immigrants, in a largely party-line vote. “America’s Dreamers represent the constant reinvigoration of our country. Today, the House will pass the American Dream [and] Promise Act—an historic step for immigrants and communities across America,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,… -
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Trump Prohibits Cruise Travel to Cuba, Undoing More Obama Policy
The Trump administration moved Tuesday to impose new restrictions on travel from the United States to Cuba, halting cruise ships from going to the island nation in keeping with a memorandum from the president two years ago. The new rules, coming from the departments of Treasury and Commerce, will end some travel allowed under the… -
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Trump’s Proposed Budget Adopts 61% of Heritage Proposals
“Can Congress Avoid a Debt Default and $125 Billion in Spending Cuts?” That’s the scary headline of a New York Times article by Emily Cochrane this week. The headline refers to the looming debt limit deadline, when the Treasury will run out of authority to continue borrowing, absent a change to the law. The timing… -
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Sheriff’s Deputy Who Fled Parkland Shooting Charged With Neglecting Children
A former deputy sheriff who hid rather than enter a Florida school and confront a gunman who killed 17 was arrested and charged Tuesday with neglecting children and committing perjury. Scot Peterson, normally assigned by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office to help secure the school in Parkland, Florida, came under stinging public rebuke for leaving… -
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Here Are 3 Gaping Errors Ilhan Omar Made in Attacking Pro-Life Advocates and Religious Liberty
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., unleashed a scathing statement on the House floor on May 22, in which she attacked conservatives and pro-life Americans, accusing them of hypocrisy and inconsistency, among other things. She was responding to the wave of pro-life bills that have recently swept state legislatures. And she was wrong, point after point. Here… -
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Federal Judge Rejects House Bid to Stop Trump’s Border Wall
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday ruled against House Democrats who tried to block the Trump administration from reallocating Defense Department funds for a border wall. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden said the House of Representatives does not have standing to bring the challenge, calling it a political fight between two branches. “While… -
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Why So Many Mass Shootings? Ask the Right Questions and You Might Find Out
This past weekend, Americans learned of another mass shooting, this time by an employee who decided to murder as many of the people he had worked with for years as possible. As of this writing, the murder toll is 12 people. Every American asks why. What was the killer’s motive? When we read there is… -
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Idaho’s Spring Cleaning for Regulations an Idea Worth Replicating
Imagine if government rules had an expiration date. What if, each decade, every state law, regulation, or administrative rule ended by default unless lawmakers took specific action to keep it on the books? Idaho just did that — but not on purpose. The Idaho Legislature’s inaction in April allowed more than 8,000 pages of administrative… -
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Why the Indo-Pacific is the Pentagon’s ‘Priority Theater’
The Department of Defense’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Report, released June 1, is most remarkable for its clarity. It underscores America’s enduring commitment to the region, which some of us have been trying to explain to our friends abroad since the presidential election in November 2016. It’s also crystal clear on the China challenge in ways that… -
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Child Safety Accounts Bill Is an Escape Route from Violence in DC Schools
Gerald Watson, a high school freshman in Washington, D.C., died in December after he was chased down and shot 17 times near an after-school program center. His killing occurred less than four miles from the U.S. Capitol Building. Watson’s death reverberated through the local community, affecting its youngest members. Marilyn Wiggins, a volunteer at the… -
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Averting the Next Fiscal Train Wreck
Car accidents are relatively common occurrences. Train wrecks are a little more out of the ordinary, to be sure. One would be hard-pressed, however, to find many examples of a 15-lane pileup of 435 cars, 100 semi-trucks, three trains, and a small army of app-rent scooters strangling the center of the capital of the United…