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Why Bailing Out the Postal Service Isn’t a Good Idea
The U.S. Postal Service is feeling the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. It recently asked for $75 billion in taxpayer funding. President Donald Trump said that any bailout must be conditioned on reform. Romina Boccia, a fiscal and economic expert at The Heritage Foundation who focuses on government spending and the national debt, joins… -
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6 Big Points From the Senate’s COVID-19 Hearing With Fauci
In one of the most unusual Senate hearings in U.S. history, top Trump administration health officials testified remotely Tuesday from their homes and offices to senators who also mostly were at home. Here are six big moments from the three-and-a-half-hour hearing on the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic held via video by the… -
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Judge in Transgender Athlete Case Dictates Use of Politically Correct Language
A federal judge in a high-profile Title IX case has ordered lawyers representing four girls track stars to refer to two biological males who outraced them as “transgender females.” The lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom who represent the four high school girls filed a motion Friday arguing that the judge should recuse himself because he… -
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5 Key Provisions in Democrats’ COVID-19 Bill That Will Hurt Our Economy
House Democrats have released a completely unserious proposal to respond to the public health and economic crisis the nation is confronting as a result of COVID-19. Spanning more than 1,800 pages, the bill represents a partisan laundry list of mostly bad policies, calling for trillions of dollars of additional deficit spending on handouts and items… -
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The US Postal Service Needs Big Reforms, Not a Big Check
If you followed only the headlines and mainstream press coverage, you might think that the U.S. Postal Service was on the verge of bankruptcy and needs an immediate taxpayer bailout of $75 billion or more to keep functioning. However, a financial report that the USPS released on Friday revealed a crucial piece of information that… -
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Don’t Expand Federal Energy Loan Programs. Unplug Them.
Amid the economic downturn caused by COVID-19, some in Congress are calling for more stimulus programs to jump-start and sustain an economic recovery. Many policymakers are calling for it to be done in a climate-friendly way, which has renewed interest in the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. The Loan Programs Office offers taxpayer-backed loans… -
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Protecting Property Rights Now and in a Post-Pandemic Economy
The United States was ranked 17th in The Heritage Foundation’s latest Index of Economic Freedom. That’s not what Americans should expect from a nation whose foundation is built upon freedom. How do we get back on course? A new Heritage report, “Restoring America as the Land of the Free,” outlines the path. >>> When can… -
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11 More Cases in Which Responsible Gun Owners Saved Lives
In recent weeks, several instances involving the reckless use of firearms dominated national headlines. In one case, a Georgia man tragically lost his life when armed civilians crossed the line between defensive necessity and vigilantism. But such headlines tell only one side of the story. Every day, many law-abiding and responsible Americans use their firearms… -
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As Investigations Continue, More Could Come After Flynn Exoneration
For three years former national security adviser Michael Flynn was put through a legal and financial wringer by top officials within the FBI, including its then-director, James Comey. The FBI investigation threatened to destroy Flynn’s career, finances, and life, as, according to the New York Post, agents tried to get Flynn to lie “so they… -
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18 Attorneys General Demand Congressional Probe Into How China Willfully ‘Misled the World’
Eighteen Republican attorneys general called Friday for a congressional probe into China’s deliberate concealment of the severity of the coronavirus outbreak at its onset. “Recent reports suggest that the communist Chinese government willfully and knowingly concealed information about the severity of the virus while simultaneously stockpiling personal protective equipment,” stated the letter from South Carolina Attorney General… -
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California’s Dangerous Voting Experiment
“One of the reasons I believe in the resurrection,” Mike Huckabee once joked, “is because we’d see dead people vote every year!” Well, he’s about to make a lot of converts in California, where liberal Gov. Gavin Newsom just ordered a vote-by-mail system through November—a decision that’s scaring the daylights out of anyone who cares… -
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In Ukraine the ‘Great Patriotic War’ Is History
KYIV, Ukraine—What a difference a day makes. Along with Europe and the United States, Ukraine on Friday marked the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany —a day earlier than in Russia, where “Victory Day” is celebrated on May 9, according to Soviet tradition. Nazi Germany initially surrendered to the Allies in the French… -
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I’m an ER Physician. Here’s Why Abortion Isn’t an ‘Essential Health Service.’
Although we appear to be “flattening the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic, with governors slowly lifting stay-at-home orders and hospitals beginning to schedule surgeries again, infection spikes in certain regions remain a possibility. Throughout the coming months, we need to focus as a society on medical care that will not only help us survive but… -
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Parents Wade Into ‘Hybrid’ Homeschooling
A majority of parents now say they are “somewhat” or “much more” favorable to homeschooling, after experiencing it because of the recent coronavirus-spurred school closures. Many parents likely think that the increased time with their children has been valuable in some way, but they are not prepared, for a variety of reasons, to become full-time… -
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How a Nurse Practitioner Is Using Telemedicine to Treat Patients
Medical practices have been forced to quickly adjust the way they care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. In just one week, Dede Chism, the co-founder of Bella Health and Wellness in Englewood, Colorado, successfully shifted her practice to see half of patients using telemedicine in an effort to keep patients and doctors safe during… -
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COVID-19 Testing Reaches 300,000 Per Day as States Get $11B Aid Package
As the United States is about to pass the milestone of doing 10 million tests for the coronavirus, the White House announced an $11 billion aid package to help states boost testing. “This will give them the resources to partner, as they have, with the federal government … and to achieve their testing goals,” Adm…. -
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning 1619 Project Set to Advance Socialism Teaching in the Classroom
The Pulitzer Prize Board recently awarded its commentary award to The New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay launching the “1619 Project.” This will accelerate a trend already underway: subjecting schoolchildren to a curriculum that blames slavery on capitalism and whose creator believes socialism offers the best path to racial equity. The overt political nature of… -
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In a Retaliatory Move, the US Shortens Visas for Chinese Journalists
The Department of Homeland Security is throwing the next punch in the escalating journalism battle between the U.S. and China. The U.S. is shortening the validity period of visas for Chinese journalists to a maximum of 90 days to reciprocate for China’s recent expulsion of American journalists and nonrenewal of visas. This journalism visa tit-for-tat… -
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How ‘Stakeholder’ Movement Could Hinder Economic Recovery From COVID-19
A crisis could be the worst time to pressure companies to adopt policies that aren’t in the best interest of the bottom line or their workforce, conservative shareholders say. “This is particularly true in an economic crisis,” Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, told The Daily Signal in a… -
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Justices to Decide If Religious Schools Can Choose Who Teaches the Faith
The Supreme Court’s final week of oral arguments for its 2019-20 term this week included two cases that involve an important religious freedom issue. In a 2012 decision, Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, the Supreme Court said that federal employment discrimination laws do not apply to cases where churches or religious schools fire…