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    Push to Police Social Distancing Clashes With Calls to Defund Police
    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice protests have come together to produce one of the strangest ironies of 2020: Many of the same people who publicly support defunding the police and curtailing the reach of the criminal justice system are calling for law enforcement to police minor behaviors. New York City Mayor Bill de…
    Emily Mooney | GianCarlo Canaparo
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    USPS Faces Financial, Logistical Hurdles Before Mail-In Ballot Surge
    The final votes of the 2020 primaries were cast Aug. 11, concluding a primary season marred by confusion, lawsuits, and an investigation by a United States Postal Service inspector general. Threats of fraud, foreign interference, and large-scale voter disenfranchisement have brought the Postal Service’s ability to transport the expected surge of mail-in ballots this November…
    Thomas Catenacci
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    1 Question Remains in Trump’s Underappreciated Middle East Victory
    Anything that reduces tensions in the Middle East and contributes to Israel’s security should be applauded. The agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to establish diplomatic relations in exchange for Israel’s suspension of settlements and claims to sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (as Israel refers to the West Bank) is a tremendous policy…
    Cal Thomas
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    State Department Official ‘Destroyed’ Records at Foreign Agent’s Request
    A former State Department official told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he destroyed records in January 2017, the month President Donald Trump took office, at the request of former British spy Christopher Steele, according to a new report. Jonathan Winer, who served as special envoy to Libya through early 2017, was Steele’s contact at the…
    Chuck Ross
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    ‘Great Nightfall’ Provides Extraordinary Overview of Military Challenges Facing America
    Americans who want to better understand the complex threats the United States faces might assume that they need to read at least several books to get the full picture. Indeed, the landscape is complicated. The range of threats today includes cyber, space, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence-guided weapons, and robots; not to mention the more traditional…
    Thomas Spoehr
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    A Defense of Our Founding Ideas
    It’s not just statues and American history that are under attack. The most essential ideas from America’s founding are under siege and on trial. Robert R. Reilly, the director of the Westminster Institute and widely published author, joined “The Right Side of History” podcast to discuss his new book “America on Trial: A Defense of the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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  • news

    Border Chief Rips Media, Oregon Politicians for Anti-Law Enforcement Rhetoric
    A top homeland security official is calling out leaders in Portland, Oregon, as well as the mainstream media over criminal rioting and the smearing of federal law enforcement there.  “This is really about politics over public safety,” Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said Monday during a virtual event held by…
    Fred Lucas
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  • opinion

    Administration Ramps Up Use of Defense Production Act
    In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration was criticized for not using the Defense Production Act quickly enough or in sufficient quantity to counter the spread of the coronavirus. Now, after using the act 33 times since March 18, there is no denying that the administration is utilizing it to fight…
    Maiya Clark
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    ‘Severe, Fundamental Security Failures’ in This Federal Agency Need to Be Investigated
    A strongly worded press release by Michael Pack, the new chief executive officer of the U.S. Global Media Agency, dropped quite a bombshell July 23. The Global Media Agency is a federal agency that operates various state-run media outlets, and Pack has headed it since June 4. In his press release, Pack said he plans…
    Helle Dale
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    California State University’s Mandate of Ethnic, Social Justice Studies Driven by Hatred of America
    Pan-African studies are “the intellectual arm of the revolution,” the unrepentant communist Angela Davis triumphantly told students at California State University, Los Angeles, in a candid moment in 2016. Well, that arm got a lot longer this week. The entire California State University system just announced Thursday that it was making ethnic and social justice…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Here’s How China’s New National Security Crackdown Is Changing Hong Kong
    On June 30, China imposed a so-called national security law that sparked protests across Hong Kong. How is this “national security law” impacting Hong Kong’s relationship with the U.S.? As a global financial center, how is this law hampering Hong Kong’s influence? Mike Gonzalez, author of the forthcoming “The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Young Americans’ Ignorance of Socialism Threatens Our Freedom and Vitality
    Vice President Mike Pence last week powerfully described the stark choice facing America as it recovers from the effects of the coronavirus. In a speech, Pence said: Before us are two paths: one based on the dignity of every individual, and the other on the growing control of the state.  Our road leads to greater…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    Rioters Are Using Racial Discontent to Promote Marxist Agenda
    I’m going to get straight to the point. It’s time for bold action. It’s time for Americans everywhere who love their country to heed the words of President Ronald Reagan: “If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.” All around us, the forces of socialism, Marxism,…
    Kay C. James
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    House Panel Forgets ‘Water’s Edge,’ Again OKs Partisan Defense Bill
    The House Appropriations Committee approved its fiscal year 2021 funding bill for the Department of Defense on July 14 on a straight party-line vote of 30 to 22. If last year’s defense budget cycle teaches us anything, it is that this level of partisanship is a path for failure. In 2019, the House Armed Services…
    Frederico Bartels
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    Judicial Council Rightly Rebukes Judge Lynn Adelman for Law Review Diatribe
    Federal district court Judge Lynn Adelman had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day late last month when the Judicial Council of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided to publicly admonish him for his intemperate 35-page article, “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy,” which personally attacked Chief Justice John Roberts, President Donald…
    Zack Smith | GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Chinese Sanctions on US Officials Are Attempt to Scare the Free World
    On Monday, the Chinese Communist government slapped sanctions on members of Congress as well as a U.S. ambassador. This action is intended to send the world a message: Fear us. The free world’s response should be to man up. Beijing’s action came after recent U.S. legislation calling for sanctions on Chinese officials over their systematic abuse of the Uighurs…
    James Carafano
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    Birmingham Officials Punish Pastor for Speech. That Can’t Stand.
    Seventy-seven years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson wrote, “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”…
    Zack Smith
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    Despicable Behavior of Today’s Academicians
    The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. The study found: “The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In…
    Walter E. Williams
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  • news

    Soros Foundation Pledges $220 Million Toward Racial Equality
    The Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic group founded by George Soros, announced Monday that it would pledge $220 million toward initiatives focusing on racial equality in the United States. The investment will transform the efforts of political and civil rights groups across the country and comes as protests continue nationwide over the death of George Floyd while…
    Andrew Trunsky
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  • opinion

    Dear Politicians: Please Stop Allowing Vandals to Deface America’s Statues
    The American Constitutional Rights Union just began a petition to ask America’s policymakers to put an end to the toppling and defacing of the nation’s monuments. Statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and Albert Pike are among those vandalized since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  Lori Roman, president of the American Constitutional Rights…
    Virginia Allen
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