Aug 28, 2018
Good morning from Washington, ground zero for tributes to John McCain, a self-styled maverick among public servants. McCain’s reputation as a defender of freedom stretches from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Ukraine, Nolan Peterson writes. The visionary dream of Martin Luther King Jr. is close to reality 55 years later, his niece tells Rachel del Guidice. Trump zeroes in on a trade deal with Mexico, Fred Lucas reports. Plus: David Harsanyi on liberal desperation to stop a Supreme Court justice, Jim Phillips on what’s next in Iran, and Lucas and Jarrett Stepman on historic election meddling.
Contempt for America Is Normal on the Left
On a daily basis, the left describes America as xenophobic, misogynistic, imperialist, greedy, and homophobic. And that’s on a slow day at The New York Times, MSNBC, or your local university.
MLK’s ‘Dream’ Speech Is Coming True, His Niece Says
“Are we living in a perfect society today? No, but the dream is being realized 55 years later,” pro-life activist Alveda King says.
Iran’s Saber Rattling on Persian Gulf Likely to Rattle World Oil Markets
The latest saber-rattling statement by the Revolutionary Guards is a reminder that Iran maintains the ability to threaten not only its immediate neighbors, but also international shipping, global oil exports, and the economies of oil-importing states everywhere.
Why Troops Named a Street in a Ukraine Town After John McCain
McCain visited the front-line Ukrainian town of Shyrokyne for New Year’s Eve in 2016—it was a bold move to show solidarity with Ukrainian troops who lived under daily shelling by Russian forces (and still do, too).
The Latest Ploy Liberals Are Using to Try to Block Kavanaugh
But much like their ideal Supreme Court, Democrats have set about fabricating brand-new extraconstitutional standards that happen to always align with their partisan aims.
In Ditching NAFTA, Trump Reaches Deal With Mexico, Invites Canada to Join
President Trump called a new, preliminary deal with Mexico “the U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement,” announcing Monday that he had kept a campaign promise to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The Daily Signal Podcast: Tuesday, Aug. 28
Former McCain staffer Walter Lohman shares with us what his onetime boss was really like, including how he celebrated the anniversary of his release as a POW.
Right Side of History: Foreign Meddling in US Campaigns Didn’t Begin in 2016
On this week’s episode, hosts Jarrett Stepman and Fred Lucas discuss the history of foreign powers meddling in U.S. presidential campaigns. It didn’t begin with Russian and the 2016 presidential campaign.
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