July 18, 2019
By Hans von Spakovsky and GianCarlo Canaparo
An appeals court dismisses the claim by Maryland and the District of Columbia that the president violated the Constitution because foreigners and state officials patronize his hotels and other businesses.
By Rachel del Guidice
“Google, which owns YouTube, has restricted access to 56 of our 320 five-minute videos and other videos we produce,” the conservative radio host and commentator testifies at a Senate hearing.
By Chuck Ross
The city council member who wrote the ordinance says the change is necessary because a “male-centric” city code is “inaccurate and not reflective of our reality.”
By Kaylee Greenlee
“One of the most pernicious and prevalent examples of anti-Semitism on campus is the campaign known as BDS,” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says.
By Kelsey Bolar and Lauren Evans
“Justice on Trial” authors Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino share what it was really like for the Kavanaugh family, how Christine Blasey Ford hid her liberal activism, and how Kavanaugh, who hailed from Bushworld, decided he was going to fight hard.
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Jul 19, 2019
Happy Friday from Washington, where only three Republicans join Democrats as the House votes to hike the minimum wage to $15. In a hearing, liberals harangue the nation’s homeland security chief over treatment of illegal immigrants. We have stories from Rachel del Guidice and Fred Lucas. On the podcast, EPA chief Andrew Wheeler talks about his first year on the job. Fifty years ago tomorrow night, as Lee Edwards recalls, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the moon. Enjoy the weekend.
The War Over America’s Past Is Really About the Future
If progressives and socialists can at last convince the American public that their country was always hopelessly flawed, they can gain power to remake it based on their own interests.
4 Big Border Issues in Homeland Security Chief’s House Testimony
“We’ve had egregious cases [of fraudulent families], including a 51-year-old man who bought a 6-month-old child for $80 in Guatemala,” says acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan.
House Votes to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour
“A $15 federal minimum wage would create a survival-of-the-fittest labor market, boosting the incomes of some and devastating the incomes and opportunities of others,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Rachel Greszler.
EPA Administrator Explains What's Changed at the Agency Since the Obama Years
For Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, it's important to make sure states—not the federal government—are making the calls on environmental issues when possible.
"When Georgia passed the heartbeat bill, Netflix threatened to stop doing business in the pro-life state. Thousands of pro-life customers expressed their outrage," says pro-life activist Lila Rose.
UK Knife Crime Hits Record High, Despite London Mayor’s ‘Knife Control’
Knife crime in both England and Wales is up 8% from April 2018 to May 2019.
50 Years Ago, the Eagle Landed
Although Apollo was a project of peace, it had a profound effect on the Cold War. In 1970, a few months after the lunar landing, Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov wrote in an open letter to the Kremlin that America’s ability to put a man on the moon proved the superiority of a democracy.
July 19, 2019
By David Harsanyi
CNN would never ask an Islamic radical or masked leftist arsonist to talk about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-American sentiments in an effort to tacitly tie her to those groups.
By Peter Hasson
The Minnesota Democrat and her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, filed joint tax returns while she was married to another man, Ahmed Elmi, Minnesota campaign finance officials say.
By Thomas Spoehr
When Mark Esper, nominated for defense secretary, declined to recuse himself from decisions involving Raytheon for longer than the law requires, the Massachusetts senator said his position “smacks of corruption, plain and simple.”
By Kevin Daley
Eugene Scalia, a Washington lawyer, served in President George W. Bush’s administration as Labor Department solicitor, the agency’s top legal officer.
By Victor Davis Hanson
If progressives and socialists can at last convince the American public that their country was always hopelessly flawed, they can gain power to remake it based on their own interests.
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