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    Homeland Security Chief Orders Review of State Laws Allowing Driver’s Licenses for Illegal Aliens
    Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, ordered a review of state laws that allow illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses and restrict data sharing with federal immigration authorities. Wolf on Tuesday ordered all of the components of DHS to conduct a department-wide review of the state laws to determine how…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Anti-Trump Christians, Would You Prefer a President Who Supports Secular Social Agenda?
    The battle between church and state is as old as church and state, as is the conflict within religious circles over who supposedly speaks for God. The latest dustup occurred after the departing editor of Christianity Today magazine, Mark Galli, wrote an editorial in which he said President Donald Trump is an immoral man and…
    Cal Thomas
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  • opinion

    A Win-Win Contracting Tool for the Pentagon and the Private Sector
    The Defense Department is taking measures to get new capabilities to warfighters more quickly, and they’re working. One of these tools is called Other Transaction Authority.  The Pentagon has made increasing use of this contracting method, which has existed since the space race but was expanded dramatically in the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. The…
    Maiya Clark
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  • opinion

    Problematic Women: Sex, Feminism, and Socialism
    From the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Palm Beach, Florida, “Problematic Women” dives into the history of feminism and the rise of socialism within the women’s movement. Hosts Lauren Evans and Virginia Allen explain how the women’s movement was hijacked by the sexual revolution. The right to vote, equal treatment in the workplace,…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans
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    Netflix Refuses to Comment on ‘Holiday Special’ Implying Jesus Christ Is Gay
    Netflix refuses to comment on outrage from Christians over a “holiday special” portraying Jesus Christ as gay. More than 2 million people signed a petition against “The First Temptation of Christ,” a reportedly satirical representation of Jesus, his mother Mary, and his father Joseph created by the comedy group Porta dos Fundos and produced in Brazil. The…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    DHS Chief Says Spending Bill Will Help Build ‘Significant Amount of Wall’
    The nation's acting homeland security secretary said Thursday that the $1.4 trillion spending package making its way through Congress will pay for an enormous amount of new barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. The House passed a $1.4 trillion spending package Tuesday with days to go before the federal government would enter a shutdown. Included in the…
    Jason Hopkins
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  • opinion

    An Agenda That Corrupts Our Social Norms
    Here are several questions for biologists and medical professionals: At all levels, governments ignore biology and permit people to make their sex optional on a birth certificate, Social Security card, or driver’s license. If a person is found to have XY chromosomes (heterogametic sex), does a designation as female on his birth certificate, driver’s license,…
    Walter E. Williams
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  • opinion

    2020 NDAA Represents a Big Step Forward in Rebuilding Our Military
    The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020 is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature. It represents a big step in the right direction in the long process of rebuilding our military. As the Index of U.S. Military Strength shows, it will take a military of sufficient quality and size to defend…
    Frederico Bartels
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    ‘This Will Protect Criminals’: Homeland Security Blasts New York Law Allowing Illegal Aliens to Get Driver’s Licenses
    The Department of Homeland Security rebuked a New York law that took effect Monday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses. The state’s “Green Light” bill, which Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed in June, makes it possible to apply for a driver’s license without a Social Security number, and makes foreign documentation valid for the…
    Peter Hasson
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  • opinion

    If Jeremy Corbyn Wins, Britain Will Move in a Socialist Direction
    The outcome of the British Parliamentary elections on Dec. 12 may not interest very many Americans. But it could have a measurable impact on U.S. presidential politics. If the Labour Party wins a majority, its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has promised to move Britain in an openly socialist direction, undoing many of the Margaret Thatcher privatization reforms…
    Lee Edwards
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  • opinion

    Native Venezuelan, Now Proud American, Warns of ‘Fruits of Socialism’
    In the 1980s, Patricia Rucker’s family left Venezuela, planning that her father would work for a time in the U.S. “Venezuela to me was the most perfect country you could have on this earth,” Rucker recalls. “Not only beautiful weather—beautiful people, very moral, very safe, very free, never had an income tax. The Constitution of…
    Daniel Davis
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  • opinion

    Was It Terrorism in Pensacola? What We Know, and What’s Next
    Family members are grieving after a shooter killed three Navy servicemen at a Pensacola, Florida, Navy base. Details are just starting to emerge about the shooter, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a Saudi Arabian air force pilot training in the U.S. Heritage Foundation scholar Cully Stimson discusses possible motives and the FBI investigation. Read the…
    Daniel Davis
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  • opinion

    The Case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher: Trusting the Military Justice System and Its Essential Role in National Security
    The case of Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, which ultimately resulted in the firing of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, should have been handled differently.  The prosecution mishandled the case, President Donald Trump intervened prematurely, and the Navy secretary got caught between trying to do the right thing, an unorthodox president, and keeping the…
    Thomas Spoehr | Dakota Wood | John Venable | James Carafano
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  • opinion

    Hollywood Socialism
    Hollywood is now obsessing about increasing ethnic and gender diversity. Good. There’s been nasty racial and gender discrimination in the movie business. Unfortunately, Hollywood has no interest in one type of diversity: diversity of thought. In most every movie, capitalism is evil. Greedy miners want to kill nature-loving aliens in “Avatar.” Director James Cameron says:…
    John Stossel
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  • opinion

    Rise of Social Liberalism Disproportionately Hurts Lower-Income Americans
    This week, Paul Krugman of The New York Times posited a theory: Red states cause depression and suicide. In a column titled “America’s Red State Death Trip,” Krugman wrote: “In 1990, today’s red and blue states had almost the same life expectancy. Since then, however, life expectancy in Clinton states has risen more or less…
    Ben Shapiro
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  • opinion

    The Pentagon Auditing Process Is Expensive, Inefficient, and in Arrears
    Many months and about $1 billion in taxpayer funds later, the U.S. Department of Defense recently announced that it had failed its second comprehensive audit, chalking up another “F” on its audit report card. The 1990 Chief Financial Officers Act requires extensive annual audits of U.S. federal agencies, but the Pentagon was only required to…
    Thea Dunlevie | Thomas Spoehr
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  • news

    Trump’s ‘Diplomatic Persistence’ Spurs Decline in Illegal Border Crossings, DHS Deputy Says
    The president’s “diplomatic persistence” has deterred illegal migrants and led to a sharp decline in unlawful border crossings, a top U.S. immigration official said Wednesday in an interview with The Daily Signal. “Previous administrations were unwilling to push as President Trump has,” said Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.  “In…
    Fred Lucas
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  • opinion

    How Pentagon’s ‘Trusted Capital’ Program Can Secure Financing for Defense Industrial Base
    The Department of Defense this month partnered with Texas A&M University to co-sponsor Drone Venture Day, the first event of the Pentagon’s new Trusted Capital Marketplace initiative. The Nov. 13 event brought American manufacturers of unmanned aircraft and counter-unmanned aircraft systems together with trusted capital providers, with the hope that the connections made might lead…
    Jack Penders | Maiya Clark
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  • opinion

    I Left England Because of Socialized Medicine. My Life Depended on It.
    Imagine strapping your infant child into a car seat, only to see his body suddenly jerk forward or backward, arms and legs stiffening, and eyes rolling back in the head. Alarm quickly turns to panic, which turns to frantic weaving through traffic to get to the hospital. Within minutes of arriving, the child is rushed…
    James Schmitz
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  • news

    Feds Hosted Meditation, Massage, and Social Justice Retreat for 450 Employees, Including IRS Workers
    The federal government hosted a “Mindfulness & Resiliency Summit” in August where 450 employees from the IRS and other agencies spent two days receiving new-age wisdom, learning to meditate, and receiving on-site massages, photos of the event and a website show. Participants sat through an hour of talks before taking a half-hour “stretch and self-care…
    Luke Rosiak
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