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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…
    Robert B. 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 | Daniel Davis
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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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    How Trump’s Executive Order Can Strengthen the Cybersecurity Workforce
    President Donald Trump last week took a big step toward improving the cybersecurity of the nation. Trump signed an executive order aimed at increasing the size and strength of the cybersecurity workforce in the United States and addressing a critical need for protecting America in the cyber domain. “Cyber” is an all-encompassing thing in the…
    James Di Pane
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    Cheap Shots Against State Department Official Show Critics Aren’t Serious
    It’s fair to say most of the foreign policy establishment has no use for the president’s foreign policy. What they seem to hate even more is that it seems to be working. The administration is putting the heat on authoritarian leaders in Latin America; stiff-arming Russian President Vladimir Putin in Europe; crushing the ISIS caliphate…
    James Carafano
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    This Man Grew Up in Venezuela. Here’s His Message to Americans Who Want Socialism.
    Socialism is just a theory, an ethos, for many born and raised in the United States. But for Ricardo Pita, who was born and raised in socialist Venezuela and came to America about a decade ago, socialism is not just theoretical. He has a message for those who haven’t experienced it and think it will…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    What the Left Gets Wrong About Racial Disparities
    My longtime friend and colleague Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of “Discrimination and Disparities.” It lays waste to myth after myth about the causes of human differences not only in the United States but around the globe. Throughout the book, Sowell shows that socioeconomic outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups,…
    Walter E. Williams
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    In Defense of Kate Smith
    The long arm of the PC police has reached back to the ’30s and arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced the late singer Kate Smith. Smith, who popularized Irving Berlin’s song “God Bless America” and was a female pioneer in early television, recorded songs that today in hindsight are viewed as racist. An old friend, Harry Covert,…
    Cal Thomas
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    3 of the Most Telling Failures of Socialism
    Some conservatives may be discouraged by the latest surveys confirming that nearly one-half of millennials are receptive to living under socialism and regard capitalism as a captive of greed. In fact, they present us with a golden opportunity to educate all Americans about the manifold failures of socialism and the miraculous advances the world has made under free enterprise….
    Lee Edwards
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    The Threat Isn’t Coming, It’s Here: Security Dangers Imminent If China Controls 5G
    Anyone concerned with protecting our wireless communications systems from state-sponsored Chinese surveillance should take note of several important, and troubling, developments. Last year, China’s state-sponsored Huawei Technologies, which a 2012 bipartisan congressional report labeled a national security risk, surpassed Sweden’s Ericsson to become the world’s largest telecom equipment provider. Both Huawei and the Chinese government…
    Steven Bucci
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    I’m a College Student. Here’s Why I Oppose Socialism.
    In the 2016 presidential primaries, 2.1 million people under age 30 voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders. But do young Americans really know what it means to live under socialism? Cambodia, like other countries in the past and present, offers clear evidence of the outcomes of socialist policies such as the Green New Deal championed…
    Courtney Joyner
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    What Social Security’s Shortfall Means for You
    Workers and retirees have long been warned that Social Security’s trust fund will run out of funds sometime in the future, and that the program has many trillions of dollars in unfunded obligations. But what does this year’s 2019 Trustees Report, revealing $16.8 trillion in unfunded obligations over the next 75 years and insolvency in…
    Rachel Greszler
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    Physician-Assisted Suicide Comes to New Jersey. Here’s Why It’s Badly Misguided.
    In becoming the ninth jurisdiction to legalize physician-assisted suicide, New Jersey has unleashed a Pandora’s box on its residents—and the poor, weak, and disabled will suffer the most. The Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act was signed into law by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, after it narrowly cleared both…
    Monica Burke
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    Trump’s Veto of Yemen War Resolution Protects US Security Interests
    President Donald Trump rebuffed congressional efforts to withdraw U.S. support from the war in Yemen on Tuesday, vetoing a bill that would have forced the U.S. to cease support for the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting against Iran-backed Houthi rebels. In his veto statement, Trump explained: This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my…
    James Phillips
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    Tea Party Backs ‘Stop Socialism, Choose Freedom’ Rallies on Tax Day
    Americans across the country are preparing to organize 300 or more rallies against socialism on Monday, mobilized and assisted by a major tea party group. April 15 not only is Tax Day, when income tax returns are due, but also marks the 10th anniversary of a series of protests against high taxes and an economic…
    Joshua Q. Nelson
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    How ‘Mickey Mouse Clubhouse’ Embodies Capitalism’s Edge Over Socialism
    A children’s TV show starring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and other Disney characters demonstrates that socialism can’t claim the moral high ground over capitalism, a business school professor argues. Jason Brennan, a professor of strategy, economics, ethics, and public policy at McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, spoke on the topic of “Fake Socialism…
    Courtney Joyner
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