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3 Reasons Medicare for All Would Hurt Americans
House Democrats released their plan to bring “Medicare for all” to the country Wednesday. There’s one upside: Through this proposal progressives are now being more open about what they plan to do to the American health insurance market. They intend to make private health insurance a thing of the past as they move the country… -
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Effort to Abandon Electoral College Gains Steam. Here’s What It Would Ruin for America.
Colorado is joining a list of states attempting to overturn the way Americans have selected their presidents for over two centuries. The Colorado Legislature recently passed a bill to join an interstate effort called the “interstate compact,” to attempt to sidestep the Electoral College system defined by the Constitution. Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, called… -
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6 Takeaways From Cohen’s Hill Testimony About Trump
Soon to serve a prison sentence for, among other things, lying to Congress, Michael Cohen took a parting shot Wednesday at his old boss, President Donald Trump, in testimony on Capitol Hill. “He’s a racist, he’s a con man, and he’s a cheat,” Cohen told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Democrats on the… -
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6 Key Exchanges From the Peace Cross Oral Argument
The Supreme Court heard oral argument Wednesday in a case challenging the constitutionality of a World War I memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland. In American Legion v. American Humanist Association, the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether a state’s maintenance of a 93-year-old World War I memorial that includes a 40-foot cross—known as the Peace… -
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The Conservative Legacy of Jay A. Parker
If you haven’t heard the name Jay A. Parker, you don’t know about someone who was a giant of the modern conservative movement and counted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as one of his most faithful readers. “His signal contribution to the conservative movement was the founding of the Lincoln Institute and its journal, The… -
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6 Things Trump Should Demand of North Korea
Since the first U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore, there has been no progress on North Korean denuclearization. And there has been no reduction in the North Korean nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon threat to the United States and its allies. Rather than denuclearizing, the regime instead continues to nuclearize with new capabilities at an accelerated… -
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Border Patrol Chief Agrees With Trump That There Is a Border Crisis
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost broke down in a testimony to Congress why the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border qualifies as a national security crisis. “There is an ongoing debate as to whether this constitutes a border security crisis or a humanitarian crisis. Let me be clear, it is both,” Provost, President Donald Trump’s… -
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Colorado Set to Become 12th State Moving to Kill Electoral College
Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’s signature is all that remains to include Colorado among the ranks of states prepared to abandon the Electoral College system in favor of nationwide popular voting for the next presidential election. Colorado would bring the number of states who have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to 12, plus the District of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: 1 Point Where White House Says Trump Far Surpasses Reagan
President Donald Trump has won praise from governors in both parties for outreach to states, after a high number of face-to-face meetings with the state leaders. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, said Trump’s outreach to governors is a major underreported story, while California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said his own talks with the… -
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Venezuela and the Myth of Kinder, Gentler Socialism
Venezuela is a socialist country. Venezuela is also a dictatorship. Currently, Venezuela has fallen into open violence and complete chaos, with the strongman Nicolas Maduro ordering troops to open fire on those attempting to bring humanitarian aid into the country. Yet, strangely, Maduro still has his defenders. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the leading declared Democratic… -
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Trump’s Protect Life Rule Is Good News for America
The Trump administration has taken another critically important step in strengthening the moral health of our nation, and hence our future. The Department of Health and Human Services has issued the Protect Life Rule, stopping the flow of Title X federal funds to family planning clinics that perform abortions or do abortion referrals. It also… -
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Why the Military Is Losing the Battle for the Best, Brightest Cybersecurity Talent
What do GPS satellites, F-35s, and the new Department of Veterans Affairs health care records management system have in common? The latest Defense Department annual assessment of cyberthreats has found disturbing weaknesses in each of these systems. Furthermore, Robert Behler, director of the Defense Department’s Operational Test and Evaluation, claimed that the Pentagon’s cybertesting was… -
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What a Denuclearization Agreement With North Korea Should Include
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump are now meeting in Vietnam. Going into his second summit with Kim, Trump has stated his primary objective is progress on North Korean denuclearization. But what is denuclearization? For instance, some say denuclearization includes ballistic missiles, U.S. presence on the Korean Peninsula, or even human rights. … -
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From Atheist Marxist to Christian Conservative: Sohrab Ahmari Shares His Journey
Sohrab Ahmari grew up in Iran. Then as a teen, he immigrated to America, and became an atheist and a Marxist. But as a young man, his path took another twist: He found himself interested in Christianity. Ahmari, author of the new book “From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith,” joins us to share his complicated path. Read… -
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The Kernel of Good News in Hate Hoaxes
Jussie Smollett, “Empire” actor, claimed that on Jan. 29, two masked men identifying themselves as Donald Trump supporters and using racial and homophobic insults attacked him. Smollett said the assailants yelled “This is MAGA country,” bashed his face, crushed his ribs, splashed him with bleach, and put a noose around his neck. Smollett’s telling of… -
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No One Is Safe in Maduro’s Venezuela
Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos and his team were detained in the presidential palace of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela on Monday evening. After Ramos inquired about electoral fraud and human rights abuses, and played a video of hungry Venezuelans rummaging through garbage, Maduro’s thugs confiscated their equipment and apprehended the journalists. They were released and… -
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New Study Confirms Voter ID Laws Don’t Hurt Election Turnout
Less than one week after Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams made inflammatory claims in her State of the Union response about an epidemic of “voter suppression” jeopardizing the character of our nation, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a study that demonstrates once again that voter ID laws have no measurable impact on voting behavior. In… -
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Ivanka Trump Criticizes Green New Deal: ‘People Want to Work for What They Get’
First daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump tore into New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” in an interview with Fox News’ Steve Hilton that will air Sunday. “I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something,” Trump said. “I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country… -
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House Conservatives Seek to Force Vote on Bill to Protect Babies Who Survive Abortion
Pro-life lawmakers hope to force a House vote on a bill protecting babies born alive after an abortion, in the wake of the Senate’s failure Monday to collect enough votes to pass a similar measure. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said at a press conference Tuesday that he applauds his colleagues who are “ready… -
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Blue State Refugees Flock to Conservative Florida
While most attention has been focused on immigrants trying to enter the United States over America’s southern border, there is legal migration taking place that has been largely ignored, though it may have at least as much economic and political impact as the other. People are moving out of high-tax states to Florida and other…