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    A Mark That Misses the Mark: House Democrats and the National Defense Authorization Act

    The Democrat-controlled House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces is advancing policies on nuclear weapons and missile defense that would make the U.S. and its allies less safe. This is evident in the markup (or the subcommittee’s version) of the National Defense Authorization Act, which it released Tuesday. For example, the markup prohibits funding for…
    Michaela Dodge
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    Why the Indo-Pacific is the Pentagon’s ‘Priority Theater’

    The Department of Defense’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Report, released June 1, is most remarkable for its clarity. It underscores America’s enduring commitment to the region, which some of us have been trying to explain to our friends abroad since the presidential election in November 2016. It’s also crystal clear on the China challenge in ways that…
    Walter Lohman
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    Why a Former CEO Says Capitalism, Not Socialism, Encourages Morality

    Andy Puzder grew up in a blue-collar home. He went on to be the CEO of a major fast-food company and he credits capitalism for helping him improve his lot in life. Now he wants young Americans to understand that socialism isn’t just ineffective, but is morally inferior to capitalism. Read the interview, posted below,…
    Daniel Davis
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    Why Conservatives Should Take Heart Despite Socialist Upsurge

    Socialism is the zombie ideology of our era: It fails everywhere, and yet it keeps rising back from the dead. Despite embarrassing socialist failures in China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and now Venezuela, the true believers march onward. Good intentions are unassailable. The revolution must go on. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arguably has done more…
    Daniel Davis
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    Podcast: Andy Biggs on Mueller’s Statement, Border Security

    Special Counsel Robert Mueller recently broke his silence on the Russia investigation, and Democrats are ramping up calls for impeachment. Today, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., joins the podcast to weigh in on Mueller, impeachment, and a subject very important to his state: border security. We also cover these stories: President Donald Trump steps up attacks…
    Daniel Davis
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    The Weaponization of Feeling ‘Unsafe’

    “I don’t feel safe,” says a Harvard student in a video. What threatens her? The dean of her Harvard dormitory, law professor Ronald Sullivan, agreed to be part of accused sexual harasser Harvey Weinstein’s legal defense team. Sullivan and his wife were deans of the dormitory for years, but no matter. Now the professor is…
    John Stossel
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    Podcast: How to Achieve Racial Unity in America

    We live in divided times—that’s no secret. And sometimes, those divisions fall along racial lines. Former NFL player Miles McPherson dealt with racism daily growing up in an interracial family. Now as a pastor, he’s seeking to build a more perfect and racially unified nation. Today, I’ll have Pastor McPherson on the show to share…
    Daniel Davis
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    Federal Transportation Officials Launch Probe of Chick-Fil-A Bans

    The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday that it will investigate whether two airports violated federal law or transportation regulations by denying a contract to Chick-fil-A on religious grounds. “The Department has received complaints alleging discrimination by two airport operators against a private company due to the expression of the owner’s religious beliefs,” DOT said…
    Molly Prince
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    Liberals Seeking to Jail Top Trump Administration Officials Face Big Obstacles

    Some congressional Democrats want nothing more than to hand Attorney General William Barr and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (among others) a “GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL” card like the ones you find in the game of Monopoly. But calls to lock them up are unjustified and uncalled for. What would jailing two Cabinet members be based…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Socialism Promises a Utopia, but Delivers Suffering

    Presidential contenders are in a battle to out-give one another. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proposes a whopping $50,000 per student college loan forgiveness. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposes free health care for all Americans plus illegal aliens. Most Democratic presidential candidates promise free stuff that includes free college, universal income, “Medicare for All,” and debt…
    Walter E. Williams
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    New York Helped Birth the Entrepreneurial Spirit. Now, It’s Exporting Socialism.

    “As goes (insert state), so goes the nation…” is one of the most overused clichés in modern political writing. It’s used to describe the outsized influence some states have over the nation as a whole. But the dangerous thing about clichés is that sometimes, they’re true. It was New York that nurtured and exported the…
    Jadan Horyn
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    This Congresswoman Has a Warning for High Schoolers About Socialism

    Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., is taking a leading role Tuesday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s passage in the U.S. House on May 21, 1919. The Daily Signal recently spoke to her about a range of issues affecting her constituents, including the disconnect between the people in Washington state and Washington,…
    Rob Bluey
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    In Defense of Wealth

    There’s been a lot of conversation these days among America’s wealthy class about whether capitalism can—or even should—survive in an age of increasing wealth disparity. Some, like billionaire hedge fund owner Ray Dalio, seem downright ambivalent about their wealth. Dalio, whose net worth stands at about $14 billion, believes that wealth disparities between rich and…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Interview: Sebastian Gorka on How We Should Fight Socialism

    “The most powerful thing is … people who have actually lived under these systems and escaped,” Sebastian Gorka, a former White House aide turned radio host tells The Daily Signal, saying we need to share these stories. “People who’ve swam across shark-invested waters from Cuba, people who’ve, like the blind pro-life lawyer from China, escaped…
    Rob Bluey
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    Slain Cop’s Family Lauds Trump as President Demands Better Border Security

    The day after Christmas, police Cpl. Ronil Singh was fatally shot, allegedly by an illegal immigrant, during a routine traffic stop in Newman, California. President Donald Trump on Wednesday noted that just the day before, Singh, 33, had posed for a Christmas photo with his wife, their infant son, and a police canine. At the…
    Fred Lucas
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    No, Socialism Won’t Make Americans’ Lives Better

    According to a recent survey, a majority of Americans say socialism is incompatible with American values, with only 10% of voters in a new poll expressing a positive view of socialism. That’s welcome news, but it’s rather troubling to see even 10% of those polled with a positive notion of socialism. Regrettably, socialism is trending…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    House Democrats Are Shortchanging the Military

    House appropriators have now released their budget top lines for every government agency, and their number for the Department of Defense shows they acknowledge the defense budget needs an increase. But that increase still isn’t enough, as it falls short of the president’s budget request and of what the military needs to continue its rebuild….
    Frederico Bartels
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    Acting Defense Chief Shanahan Tapped to Succeed Mattis at Pentagon

    President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan to be the secretary of defense—and none too soon. Shanahan has been the longest-serving acting secretary of defense in the nation’s history, assuming the position upon the departure of James Mattis on Jan. 1. The nomination of a permanent secretary of defense is…
    Thomas Spoehr
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    A Pediatrician Explains How ‘Dangerous’ Equality Act Would Force Doctors to ‘Do Harm’

    Doctors who are uncomfortable prescribing hormone treatments or doing gender reassignment surgeries could soon potentially be in violation of federal law, warns Dr. Michelle Cretella, a pediatrician and executive director of the American College of Pediatricians. And they’re not the only ones at risk: Parents, too, could find themselves unable to decide on their own…
    Katrina Trinko
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    The Green New Deal Is a ‘Guise’ to Usher in Socialism, Lawmaker Warns

    Members of the conservative Republican Study Committee say Democrats’ Green New Deal would be an economic wrecking ball. “This is something that should concern every single American, because it will impact their pocketbooks. It will impact their families. It would, in a literal sense, change the very nature of our country,” Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La.,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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