July 16, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump sticks to his guns despite a political uproar over tweets suggesting unnamed progressive congresswomen “go back” to their countries of origin. His supposed targets fire back. Fred Lucas reports. What’s our health care got that Canadians want? Kevin Pham tells. On the podcast, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., talks illegal immigration and citizenship. Plus: Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino on when a Supreme Court nominee’s enemies went too far, and Lee Edwards on the failure of socialism. Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 blasts off, its mission to put two astronauts on the moon.
After being advised that they need a procedure done, only about 35% of Canadians had their surgery within a month, whereas in the United States, 61% did.
"You are diluting the vote of American citizens when you count illegal aliens for the purposes of distribution of political power," says the Alabama congressman.
President Trump is “launching a blatantly racist attack on four duly elected members of the United States House of Representatives, all of whom are women of color. This is the agenda of white nationalists,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
Socialism is not only or even principally an economic doctrine, concludes the British author Theodore Dalrymple, “it is a revolt against human nature.” It refuses to believe that man is a fallen creature and seeks to improve him “by making all equal one to another.”
As far as the chattering classes of D.C. were concerned, if Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation had any life left in it before Michael Avenatti announced a new allegation, it was indisputably dead now.
“I got violated for a lawn mower in my yard,” says one resident who has been fined $32,000. “They violated me for a hole the size of a quarter in my stucco … They find people they can pick on … and they keep picking on them.”
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July 16, 2019
By Cathy Ruse
California instructs teachers to talk to youngsters about sex “partners” and to avoid terms such as “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” because “some students may be non-monogamous.” This is in the lesson plan for 12-year-olds.
By Katrina Trinko
President Trump’s racially charged tweet stirred hurtful memories among minorities and did a grave disservice to himself.
By Rachel del Guidice
“The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game,” the president tweets. “Republicans should not show ‘weakness’ and fall into their trap.”
By Andrew Kerr
The Missouri Republican’s proposal also would prohibit universities from increasing tuition rates to offset increased liability.
By Jake Dima
The Justice Department decides not to level charges against the police officer seen as responsible for the death of a man whose last words became a rallying call for the Black Lives Matter movement.
By Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino
As far as the chattering classes of D.C. were concerned, if Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation had any life left in it before Michael Avenatti announced a new allegation, it was indisputably dead now.
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July 15, 2019
By Fred Lucas
Asylum-seekers will be required to apply for protection from prosecution or torture in at least one other country outside their country of citizenship or nationality before entering the United States.
By Tony Perkins
In a shocking blow to Planned Parenthood's ego, the judges decide 7-4 that a Trump administration rule stopping federal grantees from promoting abortion can go into effect.
By Hans von Spakovsky
If a news report is accurate, congressional staffers either have lied to immigration officials or coached migrants to lie as a way to get the migrants into the U.S.
By David Ditch
The nation’s Highway Trust Fund is running an annual deficit and its depletion in the next two years will require bringing taxes and spending into alignment.
By Rob Bluey
What I saw at the White House’s summit on social media were freedom-loving Americans who believe deeply in the principles articulated in the First Amendment.
By Jarrett Stepman
While many socialists insist that their ideas don’t align with or condone authoritarian societies, their actual ideology is in no sense distinct.
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