Jul 22, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where Democrats hope to gain fresh ammo against President Trump from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday before two House committees. Meanwhile, let Fred Lucas tell you more about the son of a conservative icon who is the president’s choice to be labor secretary. America’s achievement in space still resonates in faraway Ukraine, Nolan Peterson reports. Anti-communist educator Chris Wright talks socialism on the podcast. Plus: Hans von Spakovsky on the Electoral College and small states, Romina Boccia on a way out of crippling national debt, and Tom Spoehr on defense priorities.
Maine and Nevada Show Why the Electoral College Helps Small States, Not Red States
States are agreeing to ignore what the majority of voters in their state decides when it comes to who they believe should be president.
Socialism 101: Myths and Realities
“One of our speakers is from Czechoslovakia … [he] says … in communist Czechoslovakia, if you’re not stealing from the state, you are robbing from your own family. That’s how inherently corrupting a socialist system is,” says the president of the Anticommunism Action Team.
The Debt Is Mounting. Here’s How to Rescue Our Children’s Future.
Our national debt averages $67,000 for every single American. If you’re a family of three, that’s over $200,000. And just like the credit card bill you get at the end of the month, this bill is coming due.
3 Things to Know About Eugene Scalia, Trump’s Pick for Labor Secretary
Eugene Scalia—former solicitor for the Labor Department and now a partner in the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher—is the second-oldest son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
The ‘Spirit of Apollo’ Inspires a New Generation of Ukrainian Spaceflight Pioneers
Veterans of Ukraine’s Soviet-legacy space program retain a sense of admiration for what America’s Apollo moon program was able to accomplish in so little time. “I just don’t understand how America did it,” says Alexsandr Bobrov, a 26-year veteran of Yuzhmash, Ukraine’s national spacecraft manufacturing firm.
Cartoon: One Small Step for Man
The latest weekly cartoon from The Daily Signal’s Michael Ramirez.
Global Threats Make US Defense Spending an Urgent Priority
A new commission concludes, “America is very near the point of strategic insolvency, where its ‘means’ are badly out of alignment with its ends.”
We Hear You: What American Socialists Say They Want
“These are cowardly, pampered whiners who have reaped all the benefits of a free, capitalistic society but have taken it all for granted and are now offended by it. I doubt any of these spoiled malcontents ever had to support themselves, let alone a family,” writes Drew Page.
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