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    How Federal Consumer Agency Puts Your Financial Data at Risk
    About 1,000 records of data containing Americans’ financial and personal information may have been hacked after breaches of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, officials say. “I am absolutely concerned about the exposure of our data in this rogue agency that has no responsibility to this Congress,” @SenDavidPerdue says. The CFPB, the government agency created…
    Fred Lucas
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    Podcast: California Tries to Silence Social Conservatives
    California state lawmakers are considering a bill that would curb speech about LGBT matters. The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman joins us to discuss. Plus: Dr. Michelle Cretella, who has written for The Daily Signal, gets dozens of protesters when she goes to speak at a church about transgender issues.
    Katrina Trinko | Daniel Davis
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    Texas A&M Shuts Down 2 Chinese Learning Institutes Deemed National Security Threats
    Tensions between the U.S. and China just reached two college campuses in Texas. On April 9, the Texas A&M University system announced its intention to close two Confucius Institutes located at its College Station and Prairie View campuses, respectively. The Chinese government-funded institutes offer language and cultural programming for students, but a recent letter from Reps. Henry…
    Helle Dale
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    No, the Pentagon Shouldn’t Plan for ‘a Lean Future’
    As part of the budget process for the coming fiscal year, the House Armed Services Committee hosted Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford. Among the many exchanges between the lawmakers and the Pentagon leaders, the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., warned Mattis: “While 2018…
    Frederico Bartels
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    Physician-Assisted Suicide in Hawaii Is an Attack on All of Us
    Earlier this month, Hawaii became the sixth state in the U.S. to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Proponents of the law hail the move as a step toward “death with dignity,” but this could not be further from the truth. Physician-assisted suicide is a direct attack on human dignity. Every human life has value, not because of…
    Monica Burke
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    Senate Confirms 3 Key Trump Administration Officials, 3 More Judges
    After months of lagging in confirming President Donald Trump’s nominees for top executive branch posts, the Republican-led Senate helped the president staff up with a former Reagan administration appointee at the Labor Department, a top deputy at the Environmental Protection Agency, and a new balance of power on the National Labor Relations Board. The Senate…
    Fred Lucas
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    Bungling Judicial Precedent, Federal Court Upholds AR-15 Ban
    Last week, a federal judge for the District Court for Massachusetts granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state’s prohibition of so-called “assault weapons,” such as the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Judge William Young held that the AR-15 and similar weapons aren’t protected by the Second Amendment, because they were originally designed for military…
    Amy Swearer
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    2,000 Veterans, Relatives Back Education Savings Accounts for Military Families
    More than 2,000 military veterans, spouses, and other family members have signed a letter in support of a bill creating federally funded education savings accounts for military families to provide more choices and flexibility in schooling the children of those in the armed forces. The signers “are writing to express our strong support for the…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    This California College Welcomes Propagandists for Venezuelan Socialism
    A women-only college in California continues to host Venezuelan propagandists, with two government officials scheduled to speak Tuesday for the failed socialist regime. Scripps College in Claremont, California, invited Venezuelan Consul Generals Jesus Chucho Garcia and Antonio Cordero to address “coups and imperial wars,” “African solidarities,” and Venezuela’s plan to create a “new society rooted in…
    Rob Shimshock
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    Racial Disparities Don’t Simply Boil Down to Discrimination
    I don’t mind saying that this column represents a grossly understated review of “Discrimination and Disparities,” just published by my longtime friend and colleague Thomas Sowell. In less than 200 pages, Sowell lays waste to myth after myth not only in the United States but around the globe. One of those myths is that but…
    Walter E. Williams
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    ‘Definition of Tyranny’: Interim Director Asks Congress to Fix Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
    The Trump administration is urging Congress to reshape a consumer agency crafted by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., before it is used as a tool for “tyranny.” The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "is far too powerful, with precious little oversight of its activities,” the agency's acting director, Mick Mulvaney, said Monday in a public statement. “The power…
    Thomas Phippen
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    Obama EPA Officials Protest Scott Pruitt’s ‘Secret Science’ Reforms. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.
    Should the public be allowed to know how bureaucrats develop policies that have major impacts on our lives? Or should we simply be left in the dark? That seems like a silly question, right? Hopefully, the answer is obvious. For some though—including Gina McCarthy, a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator from the Obama administration—transparency seems…
    Daren Bakst
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    Trump Fires Shulkin at VA, Taps White House Physician
    President Donald Trump has decided to name his White House physician, Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs as he ousts the scandal-plagued VA secretary, David Shulkin. The president announced the change at 5:31 p.m. Wednesday on Twitter. I am pleased to announce that I intend to nominate highly respected…
    Fred Lucas
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    Special Counsel Says Trump Aide Knowingly Communicated With Former Russian Spy
    Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates was in contact just before the 2016 election with a man he knew to be a former Russian spy, according to a document filed Tuesday by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. The revelation comes in a sentencing memorandum filed about Alex van der Zwaan, a London-based lawyer who pleaded guilty in…
    Chuck Ross
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  • opinion

    4 Steps to Better School Security
    America has continued the heated debate as to what must be done to adequately protect our children at schools. Some (mistakenly) just say “ban guns,” or at least the ones they don’t like. Others (I am afraid equally mistakenly) say just put more guns into schools. The answer is more complex, however, and will take…
    Steven Bucci
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    Suspect Charged in Connection With Suspicious Packages Sent to Military Bases
    A man is in custody in connection with suspicious packages found at military bases in the metropolitan Washington area. Thanh Cong Phan, 43, appeared in court in Washington state Tuesday, a little more than 24 hours after 11 packages arrived at the bases, CBS News reported. Phan previously had written crank letters to the military, CBS reported,…
    Henry Rodgers
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    US Joins Growing Coalition in Expelling Russian Officials Over Poisoning Incident
    At least 26 countries have expelled Russian citizens in retaliation for Russia’s alleged involvement in a nerve agent attack against a former double agent and his daughter in Salisbury, England. President Donald Trump moved to support British Prime Minister Theresa May by approving the expulsion Monday of 60 Russian diplomats or intelligence officers from the…
    Ginny Montalbano
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    What John Bolton Brings to the Job of National Security Adviser
    John Bolton, who has a history of advocating muscular foreign policy, will guide the White House as the new national security adviser in facing threats from Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China, experts note. President Donald Trump picked Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, to replace…
    Fred Lucas
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    Sen. Tom Cotton Backs Stricter Penalties for Fentanyl, Calling It a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
    Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has filed legislation to allow stricter prison terms for dealers of fentanyl, a substance he calls a “weapon of mass destruction.” Cotton introduced the legislation Thursday along with Senate colleagues who include Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. The bill would significantly reduce the amount of fentanyl a person…
    Steve Birr
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  • opinion

    ‘Problematic Women’: Special Edition From the White House
    On a special edition of “Problematic Women” from the White House, The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Harkness and The Federalist’s Bre Payton take on John Oliver’s targeting of Vice President Mike Pence’s daughter’s new children’s book, Jim Carrey’s attack on Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ appearance, and Hillary Clinton’s excuses for her inflammatory comments last week. We also discuss the…
    Bre Payton | Kelsey Bolar
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