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    House Panel Forgets ‘Water’s Edge,’ Again OKs Partisan Defense Bill
    The House Appropriations Committee approved its fiscal year 2021 funding bill for the Department of Defense on July 14 on a straight party-line vote of 30 to 22. If last year’s defense budget cycle teaches us anything, it is that this level of partisanship is a path for failure. In 2019, the House Armed Services…
    Frederico Bartels
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    Judicial Council Rightly Rebukes Judge Lynn Adelman for Law Review Diatribe
    Federal district court Judge Lynn Adelman had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day late last month when the Judicial Council of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided to publicly admonish him for his intemperate 35-page article, “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy,” which personally attacked Chief Justice John Roberts, President Donald…
    Zack Smith | GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Chinese Sanctions on US Officials Are Attempt to Scare the Free World
    On Monday, the Chinese Communist government slapped sanctions on members of Congress as well as a U.S. ambassador. This action is intended to send the world a message: Fear us. The free world’s response should be to man up. Beijing’s action came after recent U.S. legislation calling for sanctions on Chinese officials over their systematic abuse of the Uighurs…
    James Carafano
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    Birmingham Officials Punish Pastor for Speech. That Can’t Stand.
    Seventy-seven years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson wrote, “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”…
    Zack Smith
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    Despicable Behavior of Today’s Academicians
    The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. The study found: “The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Soros Foundation Pledges $220 Million Toward Racial Equality
    The Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic group founded by George Soros, announced Monday that it would pledge $220 million toward initiatives focusing on racial equality in the United States. The investment will transform the efforts of political and civil rights groups across the country and comes as protests continue nationwide over the death of George Floyd while…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Dear Politicians: Please Stop Allowing Vandals to Deface America’s Statues
    The American Constitutional Rights Union just began a petition to ask America’s policymakers to put an end to the toppling and defacing of the nation’s monuments. Statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and Albert Pike are among those vandalized since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  Lori Roman, president of the American Constitutional Rights…
    Virginia Allen
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    Selective Media Reporting Further Fuels Our Racial Divide
    A man drove his car last Saturday onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd. The driver killed one person and seriously injured another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade. Reports noted that police “don’t believe impairment was a factor.” Over the weekend, news outlets…
    John R Lott Jr.
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    1619 Project Stokes Racial Division, but Offers No Real Solutions
    Controversy makes news and newspapers sell news—or sometimes just controversy. With racial tensions already running high, a recent essay in The New York Times Magazine further stoked the fires of division by proclaiming racial protests to be a “defining tradition of this country” and insisting that reparations are necessary to achieve equality. This is the latest installment…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    House Freedom Caucus Urges State, Local Officials to Reopen Schools
    The House Freedom Caucus on Thursday called on President Donald Trump, as well as state and local officials, not to let the coronavirus pandemic prevent the reopening of schools this fall.  “It is more harmful to keep children locked out of schools and less harmful and less risky for children to go back to schools,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    House Committee Shows Strong Bipartisanship in Approving National Defense Authorization Act
    The House Armed Services Committee last week unanimously approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, with all 56 members who were present voting in favor of the legislation. The July 1 action was an important bipartisan show of support that eluded the House of Representatives last year, when the committee lost all Republican…
    Frederico Bartels
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    Canadian Aluminum is Not a Threat to US National Security
    The Trump administration is considering applying tariffs or quotas to aluminum imports from Canada over concerns about a recent spike in imports from the country. The administration points to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, a trade law that allows the president to impose tariffs on imports that impair or threaten to impair U.S….
    Tori K. Smith
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    All-Mail Voting Threatens Election Security, Study Finds
    Mandatory voting by mail would undermine election security and endanger Americans’ right to have their votes counted, according to a report released Tuesday by the Honest Elections Project, a voter integrity group.  The report comes on the heels of a vote-by-mail scandal in Paterson, New Jersey, where 1 in 5 votes were disqualified.  Liberal politicians…
    Fred Lucas
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    Prosecutors, Prison Officials Refuse to Say How They Will Protect Ghislaine Maxwell
    Federal prosecutors, the FBI, and prison officials refused to say what steps they were taking to ensure the safety of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s cohort Ghislaine Maxwell. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) declined to comment to The Daily Caller News…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Black Lives Matter’s Silence on a Champion of Racial Equality
    One name that goes conspicuously unmentioned by those self-proclaimed champions of racial justice such as Black Lives Matters is an internationally acclaimed American hero who lived his life for racial equality. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his life for it, too. King’s quest for equality and his legacy are inconvenient for today’s vigilantes because his…
    Robert L. Woodson Sr.
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    Don’t Allow a Vocal Fringe Minority to Cut Our Much-Needed Defense Investments
    This is one in a series on the importance of achieving peace through strength and keeping U.S. national security strong. Both long have been Heritage Foundation principles and a great foundation for America’s national power. Some voices call for reducing defense spending to focus on the response to COVID-19, but the need to fully fund our…
    Sen. Jim Inhofe
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    Happy 90th Birthday to an Underappreciated American Scholar
    Thomas Sowell has been both a friend and a colleague of mine for over a half-century. On June 30, he completed his 90th year of life, and I want to highlight some important features of that life. Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1930. As part of the great black migration northward during…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Uncertain Times Are When We Most Need Steady Defenders. So Why Hurt the Pentagon Now?
    This is one in a series on the importance of achieving peace through strength and keeping U.S. national security strong. Both long have been Heritage Foundation principles and a great foundation for America’s national power. Some voices call for reducing defense spending to focus on the response to COVID-19, but the need to fully fund…
    Mike Turner
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    ‘It Highlights Capitalism’s Brutality’: Socialist Seattle City Council Member Blames Capitalism for Latest CHOP Shooting
    A socialist member of the Seattle City Council blamed capitalism for the latest shooting in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) in a series of tweets Monday. Council Member Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative, a national political party that advocates for policies such as a $15 minimum wage. A 16-year-old died and a…
    Thomas Catenacci
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    US Can’t Be Negligent or Irresponsible in Military Funding Decisions
    This piece is part of a series on the importance of achieving peace through strength and a strong national security for the United States. Both have long been Heritage Foundation principles and a great foundation for American national power. Some voices are calling for a reduction in defense spending in order to focus on the…
    Vicky Hartzler
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