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    Bowing to Party Pressure, Pelosi Calls for ‘Official Impeachment Inquiry’ of Trump

    Invoking the Founding Fathers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that existing investigations of President Donald Trump would continue “under that umbrella” of an impeachment inquiry.  Pelosi, D-Calif., who has long resisted the push by the left wing of her party to impeach the president, was moved by the recent questions surrounding Trump’s admission that…
    Fred Lucas
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    How Trump Won Round 1 in the Long Fight for Border Security

    If President Donald Trump is for it, his liberal opponents are against it. Nowhere is that truism more true than regarding securing the border and enforcing immigration law. In Congress, traditional bipartisan support for funding border security and carrying out the laws on the books have broken down. The more stridently Trump emphasized the importance…
    James Carafano
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    Tea Party Rallies for Freedom, Against Socialism in Nation’s Capital

    Conservative leaders denounced socialism and celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the tea party movement during a rally Thursday on the U.S. Capitol grounds. Dubbed “Stop Socialism, Choose Freedom,” the rally on the west lawn of the Capitol drew perhaps 150 tea party activists and supporters of President Donald Trump from across the…
    Jackson Elliott
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    Judicial Confirmations Became Political Because Judges Became Political, Experts Say

    The confirmation process for Supreme Court justices has deteriorated because the process has become about politics, legal experts say.  “I think unfortunately we’ve reached a new low,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director for the Judicial Crisis Network, said Monday as part of a “Preserve the Constitution” panel discussion at The Heritage Foundation. Part…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Bolton Leaves Big Shoes to Fill as National Security Adviser

    John Bolton served with distinction as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser and significantly strengthened the strategic posture and outlook of the United States as the world’s superpower. Bolton advanced a clear-eyed approach to dealing with the myriad threats facing the United States today and was uncompromising in his view that the U.S. must project…
    Nile Gardiner
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    12% of Judiciary Is Empty

    The Senate will soon return from its August recess. What kind of judicial-confirmation progress should we expect during the rest of the 116th Congress? Senate Democrats are sure to claim that the so-called “Thurmond Rule” requires the confirmation process to shut down early next year. Here’s a close look at this claim; it’s not a rule, and it…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Ignorance of the Past Fuels Young Americans’ Enthusiasm for Socialism

    “Socialist” is no longer a McCarthyite slur. Rather, the fresh celebrity “squad” of newly elected identity politics congresswomen—Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.—often either claims to be socialist or embraces socialist ideas. A recent Harris poll showed that about half of so-called millennials would like to live in…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    White House Correspondents’ Association Backs Reporter’s Lawsuit Against Trump

    The White House Correspondents’ Association filed a brief Monday expressing support for Playboy reporter Brian Karem’s lawsuit after his press pass was revoked by the White House earlier in August. Karem, also a CNN political analyst, got into a verbal confrontation with former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka in July. A video appeared to show Gorka yelling at…
    Shelby Talcott
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    Fellow Millennials: Here’s Why We Must Reject Socialism

    Have you ever looked at your paycheck and thought, “Man, I really wish I earned less money!” I’m going to take a wild guess and say, “Probably not.” Here’s a similar thought: Do you like big government? It seems like a loaded question, but it really isn’t. For the vast majority of Americans, a mention…
    Reaghan Waites
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    ‘We Are Facing One of the Biggest Authoritarian States’: A Hong Kong Politician Speaks Out

    Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong continue as China flexes its muscles and warns of an intervention. Today, we feature an exclusive interview with Alvin Yeung, a politician from Hong Kong who supports the protests and hopes to achieve reforms. Read the interview, posted below, or listen on the podcast: We also cover these stories: A…
    Katrina Trinko
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    The Media’s Latest Smear of a Trump Judicial Nominee

    Left-wing opponents of an impartial and independent judiciary have picked another target: appeals court nominee Steven Menashi. It’s one thing to be honest about a nominee’s record, but disagree about whether he belongs on the bench. The attacks begun on Menashi, however, amount to nothing more than dishonest smears. Menashi, whose Jewish family came to…
    Thomas Jipping
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    In Military Affairs, Quantity Really Does Matter

    In a recent article, the staff at Stratfor Worldview noted how the unwillingness and/or inability of allies to work with the U.S. to address regional security concerns ultimately limits the ability of America to meet new challenges. In early 2018, then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis made the case that a period of  “long-term strategic competition”…
    Dakota Wood
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    Trump Court Nominee Rebuts Rachel Maddow’s ‘Racial Purity’ Charge

    A White House lawyer nominated for a federal judgeship sharply defended himself Friday from accusations based on a 2010 law review article that he, the son and grandson of Jewish immigrants, is an advocate of “racial purity.” President Donald Trump nominated Steven Menashi on Wednesday to a seat on the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit…
    Fred Lucas
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    This Group Is Educating Young Americans About the Ills of Socialism

    President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised, “America will never be a socialist country.” Since Franklin Roosevelt began expanding government in the 1930s, the United States has increasingly adopted big-state policies associated with socialism. We may not be at the stage Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., would advocate, but more millennials appear to favor a system under…
    Cal Thomas
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    American Bar Association Postpones Sexual Assault Resolution That Would Criminalize Normal Behavior

    What do Prince Charming, quarterback Brett Favre, and an awkward teenager angling for a first kiss all have in common? They could all be criminals under the American Bar Association’s proposed new sexual assault law. The American Bar Association is considering whether to push states to amend their criminal codes to define consent in sexual…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Study: Humans Hold Racial Bias Against Robots

    Americans perceive robots to have a human race corresponding to their physical features and color, according to a new study. The study “Robots And Racism” from the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand indicates that a robot’s color will determine how it is racially perceived. This supposedly explains why so many robots happen to be…
    Matt M. Miller
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    ‘Medicare for All’ Will Further Lower Physician Morale

    Last week, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, spoke at The Heritage Foundation on the effect “Medicare for All” would have on American health care Verma said many of current problems in the American health care system would only be exacerbated under Medicare for All, including access issues, payment…
    Kevin Pham
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    Warning: How the VA ‘Red Flags’ Patriots

    Gun-grabbing crisis vultures just can’t let the latest mass shootings go to waste. “Red flag” laws are now all the rage in the Beltway as the magic pill to prevent homicidal maniacs from wreaking havoc on the nation. Even President Donald Trump has endorsed the idea of preemptively confiscating people’s firearms if they are deemed…
    Michelle Malkin
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    The Senate Ups Judicial Confirmations Despite Democrats’ Obstruction

    The Senate adjourned for the August recess last week, but not before confirming another 13 judges to the U.S. District Court. Now is a good time to evaluate what the Senate has accomplished with respect to President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees. The Heritage Foundation’s Judicial Appointment Tracker shows some of the good news, as well…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Socialism May Be Absurd, but It’s No Laughing Matter

    Socialism is no laughing matter, but it’s sometimes difficult to refrain from chuckling at the absurdities of its most devoted adherents. Several videos of a Democratic Socialists of America conference in Atlanta have been making the rounds on social media. In one video, posted on Twitter by Young Americans Against Socialism, an audience member identifying…
    Jarrett Stepman
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