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    There’s Rising Potential for a Tactical Military Clash on the Korean Peninsula

    The greatest likelihood for military conflict on the Korean Peninsula is not from a full-scale North Korean invasion, but from a series of escalatory responses to a tactical-level skirmish. This is particularly true if an event occurs during already heightened tensions, as currently exists. Today’s inter-Korean exchange of artillery fire led to no injuries or…
    Bruce Klingner
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    These 10 LGBTQ Organizations Are About to Receive a Special Delivery From the Oregon Bakers

    The Oregon bakers who were ordered by the state to pay $135,000 for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding have designed and baked custom cakes to send to a handful of the most powerful LGBTQ advocacy groups along the West Coast, The Daily Signal has exclusively learned. The effort is an attempt…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    Arkansas, Utah Become the Latest States to Defund Planned Parenthood

    Arkansas and Utah have become the fourth and fifth states to block or partially block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, following a series of undercover videos depicting senior executives discussing prices for fetal body parts. Planned Parenthood spokespersons have condemned the Center for Medical Progress, the pro-life organization behind the videos, as “anti-choice extremists” and…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Should Military Chaplains Be Forced to Conduct Same-Sex Weddings?

    Last month, the United States Army celebrated the 240th anniversary of the Army Chaplain Corps. Amidst the celebrations there was also concern: there seems to be a growing threat to religious liberty for military chaplains. What happens to chaplains from religious communities that view marriage as a union between one man and one woman? With…
    Greg Davis
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    It’s a Myth That Financial Markets Have Been Deregulated in Past Century

    Why do I write so much about the myth that financial market deregulation caused the financial crisis? Because that false narrative has spread so far and wide. Even some folks who are otherwise friendly to free markets have bought into it. So here’s one more shot: financial markets were not deregulated in any meaningful way…
    Norbert Michel
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    Foreign Policy Experts Warn Against Iran Deal, Calling It ‘Threat’ to US Security

    President Barack Obama has launched a sweeping campaign to sell his historic Iran deal to Congress, advertising the accord as the sole alternative to war with Tehran to convince skeptical lawmakers to buy in. Foreign policy experts and opponents of the deal pushed against the administration’s pitch during a Heritage Foundation panel Thursday, arguing that…
    Natalie Johnson
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    ISIS Is Urging Supporters to Target Military Families. What US Should Do.

    ISIS now claims it has the names, home addresses and other personally identifiable information of thousands of U.S. military personnel and government employees. It’s called for “local” supporters to use the information to attack the Americans listed. ISIS posted this data for about 1,400 people, but asserts this was just one percent of the data…
    Steven Bucci
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    What These Veterans Are Doing to Protect Children in Chicago

    Veterans are leaving one combat zone for another. Leave No Veteran Behind is a Chicago-based organization that relieves the burden of student debt on veterans in exchange for their dedication to community service. Veterans enrolled in the program are given retroactive scholarships if they meet the criteria of having an economic hardship in which their…
    Samantha Reinis
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    Senate Committee Puts Ninth National Security Cutter on the Table

    Congress took another major step in revitalizing the U.S. Coast Guard recently when the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee voted to provide funding for a ninth national security cutter (NSC). While the official U.S. Coast Guard program of record remains at eight NSCs, a ninth hull in this fleet is merited for a number of…
    Ian Button
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    US Missile Defense Agency Conducts Successful Test

    Last week, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducted a successful test of the new SM-6 interceptor. Over the course of several days off the coast of Hawaii, the USS John Paul Jones launched four separate interceptor missiles at distant targets designed to simulate both threatening aircraft and incoming ballistic missiles. The tests proved successful. In…
    Cameron Swathwood
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    Report: Social Security Administration Paid Nearly $50 Million to Dead Representatives

    The Social Security Administration hasn’t had a great summer. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently reported that the Social Security Administration (SSA) paid $46.8 million to deceased individuals who had, prior to their death, been acting as financial representatives for Social Security recipients. This report comes just a few weeks after the OIG identified…
    Amber Athey
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    Free Health Exams Offered to Special Olympics Athletes at Summer Games

    Last week, 6,500 athletes from 165 nations traveled to Los Angeles to compete in the 2015 Special Olympic World Summer Games. “These Games change the lives of people around the world who are mistreated and excluded because they’re ‘different,’” Patrick McClenahan, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Games Organizing Committee, said in a statement….
    Leah Jessen
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    22 Moments From the 2015 Special Olympics

    The first International Special Olympics was held in 1968 in Chicago, thanks to the work of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, in order to highlight the talents and abilities of those with intellectual or physical disabilities. Forty-seven years later, the Special Olympics boasts 6,500 athletes hailing from 165 countries to compete in numerous sports and events. This year, there…
    Samantha Reinis
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    Planned Parenthood Official Suggests ‘We Alter Our Process’ to Harvest Tissue

    A fifth undercover video released this morning shows Planned Parenthood officials allegedly discussing the harvesting of organs from aborted babies, adding to growing allegations that the organization illegally profits off the sale of this tissue. The video, which is graphic, also raises questions as to whether Planned Parenthood doctors alter their abortion methods to harvest…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    The Social Cost of Carbon: It’s Not What You Think

    The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a metric that the Obama administration uses to justify increased regulations across the energy sector of the economy. It is derived using various statistical models that try to measure the extent and impact of climate change. Any statistical model, however, is based on assumptions and must be critically…
    Kirby Lawrence
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    D.C. Politicians Have Promised Seniors Trillions in Unpaid Benefits

    Medicare is still in trouble. The Medicare Trustees just issued their 2015 report. Like last year’s report, it says that the Hospital Insurance trust fund will enjoy a few years of surpluses, followed by deficits, ending in insolvency in 2030. The trustees’ report is a bracing corrective to the complacency and demagoguery that often mar…
    Robert Moffit
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    On the Trail in Iowa, Mike Huckabee Prioritizes Economy, National Security

    ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa—Shaping his message around the economy and national security, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke in small-town Iowa at the library and community center Thursday evening. “Jobs are the single most important thing we have to get underway for people to see an economic recovery,” he said. “There’s nothing that we need more…
    Leah Jessen
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    DNC Chair Won’t State Difference Between Democrats and Socialists

    DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz can’t tell the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist. WATCH! Posted by Fox & Friends on Friday, July 31, 2015 Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is the chairwoman of the Democrat National Committee, refused to answer the difference between Democrats and Socialists when appearing on MSNBC program Thursday. “The more…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Experts Agree: Islamist Terrorism Has Officially “Gone Viral”

    The threat posed by Islamist terrorism continues to grow both at home and abroad, according to a panel of experts that met at The Heritage Foundation on July 22. The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) has resulted in a surge in terrorist activity across the Middle East. Just as strikingly, it has also prompted…
    Ryan Spaude
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    5 Takeaways from Obama Officials on the Iran Deal

    Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the (deeply flawed) Iran deal with Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, and Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew. In preparation for the hearing, The Heritage Foundation published 15 questions the administration needs to clarify. A majority of senators’ questions touched upon…
    Michaela Dodge
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