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    Government’s Role in the Financial Crisis
    After seven years of hindsight, the conventional explanation for the world’s second greatest financial crisis remains the same: The private banking sector was insufficiently regulated, allowing Wall Street to engage in excessive risk-taking behavior and questionable trading practices, thus triggering the sudden burst of the housing bubble and collapse of housing prices. This narrative is…
    David Allen
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    How to Reform Social Security Disability So Program Focuses on Needs of Disabled Americans
    What happens when Social Security Disability Insurance, an integral program that provides benefits to the disabled who are unable to work, runs out of money in 2016? All disability insurance beneficiaries currently face a nearly 20 percent benefit cut. Lawmakers are understandably scrambling to find a solution that prevents this indiscriminate and sudden benefit cut,…
    Michael Sargent
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    New Index of U.S. Military Strength: The Cyber Threat
    The growing number of cyber attacks in recent years has highlighted the risks that U.S. interests, critical infrastructure, and military operations face in cyberspace. Cyber threats, once relatively weak in nature compared to other military offenses, are now potential weapons of war, and considered hard-power tools of armed attack. Yesterday, The Heritage Foundation released the…
    Jennifer Guthrie
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    Tips for Politicians: How to Not Have an ‘Uh-Oh’ Moment at CPAC
    It’s that time of year again – the week when conservative activists and politicians convene in the Washington, D.C. area for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Anyone who has attended CPAC knows it’s a feat of endurance. Only the tried and true politico sits through hours upon hours of speeches. And since the repetitive…
    Beverly Hallberg
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    As US Grapples With Global Threats, This Is How We Should Approach National Security
    In one of his first actions as secretary of defense, Ashton Carter met over the weekend with top U.S. officials to determine a path forward in the fight against ISIS. While threats have clearly grown, the president has sought to shrink military capability. This radical Islamic group has increasingly shown the gruesome lengths it is…
    Brian Slattery
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    Patricia Arquette’s ‘Make Believe’ on Women and Equal Pay
    The political diatribe from actress Patricia Arquette about “equal pay” during the Oscars showed Hollywood’s talents for “story-telling” and “make believe” are alive and well.  Sadly, instead of a passionate speech filled with facts, Arquette followed the same old left-wing script that just doesn’t measure up to the truth. Audiences deserve better. Interested in more…
    Genevieve Wood
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    What Patricia Arquette Got Wrong About the Founders and Women
    In a harried Oscar acceptance speech which culminated in a hackneyed call for wage equality, actress Patricia Arquette blamed the Founders for the so-called gender pay gap. “It’s inexcusable that we go around the world and we talk about equal rights for women in other countries when we don’t have equal rights for women in America,”…
    David Azerrad
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    Homeland Security Funding Expires Friday. Is Congress Any Closer to a Solution?
    As the Feb. 27 deadline for funding the Department of Homeland Security looms, Congress appears no closer to a resolution to the ongoing funding dispute. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told George Stephanopoulos today on ABC’s “This Week” that it’s “imperative that we get it resolved.” “Because if we don’t, by Friday at midnight,  the…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Republicans in Congress Demand Answers About Military Chaplain Disciplined for Referencing the Bible
    A group of 24 Republican lawmakers are demanding an explanation about why the Army disciplined a military chaplain for making references to the Bible during a suicide-prevention seminar. In a letter addressed to Army Secretary John McHugh, lawmakers wrote: We believe this administrative action sets a dangerous precedent for Army suicide prevention initiatives, the role…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Why Washington Shouldn’t Control Transportation Decisions
    Predictably, President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget request calls for higher taxes to partially finance a $4-trillion spending tsunami. One of the more senseless tax hikes would fall on multinational businesses and is sought to pay for a transportation budget more lavish than necessary. It’s baffling why Obama would propose this tax on businesses’ foreign income,…
    Emily Goff
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    Boehner: House ‘Has Done Its Job,’ Homeland Security Funding Up to Senate Democrats
    House Speaker John Boehner said today that if funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires on Feb. 27, then the responsibility lies with Senate Democrats. During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said he is “certainly” prepared to allow the agency to shut down because Senate Democrats “would be to blame.” “The House has done…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Cartoon: The Fight Over Department of Homeland Security Funding
    From Daily Signal senior contributor Genevieve Wood's column earlier this week: Are Senate Republicans caving? House Republicans successfully passed a bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security, but ensures President Obama’s amnesty, engineered in an executive action in November, won’t be funded. Senate Republicans have tried three times to bring the bill up for…
    Glenn Foden
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    Conservatives ‘Aren’t Scared’ to Hold Their Ground on Homeland Security Bill
    A group of conservative members of Congress are urging Senate Republicans to stand their ground in the high-stakes standoff with Democrats over funding the Department of Homeland Security and rolling back President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. “I would strongly encourage … Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hold the line on this,” said Rep. Mark…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Abigail Fisher Asks Supreme Court to Review Racial Preferences … Again
    This week, Abigail Fisher asked the Supreme Court to review her case against the University of Texas at Austin for race-based discrimination for a second time. Students who graduate in the top 10 percent of Texas high schools are automatically admitted to all state-funded schools, and remaining applicants, such as Fisher, receive a “holistic review”…
    Elizabeth Slattery | Tiffany Bates
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    GAO: High-Risk Gaps Remain in U.S. Cybersecurity
    The current state of the U.S. government’s cybersecurity is in critical need of improvement according to the “High-Risk” report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO found serious problems with the way that the Administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are addressing cybersecurity as well as the protection of personally…
    Jennifer Guthrie | David Inserra
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    Obama’s National Security Strategy Favors Wishful Thinking Over Reality
    Do more with less. That is the theme of the 2015 National Security Strategy President Obama released last Friday. The president’s vision for American diplomatic and military engagement naively envisages an America capable of responding to a growing list of threats with shrinking forces. The Obama administration consistently has argued this approach is realistic. But…
    Max Meizlish
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    How This Phony CIA Agent Pulled Off a ‘Scam’ to Impose Environmental Regulations on Americans
    Remember the EPA bureaucrat who got caught receiving $900,000 in pay without working because he claimed he also was employed by the CIA? According to a report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the man, former climate policy expert John Beale, “retired” when questions arose about his spotty attendance and expense records. Only he…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Why Are Democrats Blocking Homeland Security Funding Bill?
    We have heard this story before: A funding deadline is approaching and Congress must act quickly to pass a bill to address the issue. In a twist, the chamber continuously labeled by the left as filled with “obstructionists,” passes a bill that simply funds the program in question. All should be in agreement that this…
    Gerren McHam
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    Not Much Security in Obama’s National Security Strategy
    Today, the Obama Administration released its new National Security Strategy (NSS), replacing its predecessor that was issued in May 2010. As the top national-level document framing the president’s approach to national security, it must necessarily address the range of issues that affect the United States’ core interests, to include economic, foreign policy, and physical security…
    Dakota Wood
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    Support Family-Friendly, Economically-Wise Policies—Not Transportation Pork or Dependency
    Is Obama’s new federally-funded infrastructure package the key to strengthening our nation’s families? That’s the argument of W. Bradford Wilcox of the American Enterprise Institute and Robert Lehrman of the Urban Institute in their essay “How to Revive the American Dream in Blue-Collar America.” It’s a misguided policy prescription, the fruit of a commitment to…
    Ryan T. Anderson | James Sherk | Emily Goff
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