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Apr 04, 2019

 

Good morning from Washington, where Democrats want to cover men who identify as women in protecting women from violence. In a video, Rep. Debbie Lesko, no stranger to domestic violence, tells why she opposes the bill. Venezuela’s unraveling poses a missile threat to America, Nolan Peterson learns. Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff looks into “workplace culture” at one of liberals’ favorite groups. Fred Lucas reports. Plus: Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker visits the podcast, and Bob Moffit on progressives’ objections to more health care choices. Seventy years ago today, the U.S. and 11 other Western nations establish NATO.

 

 

 

Commentary

I Survived Domestic Violence. Here’s Why I’m Voting No on Violence Against Women Act.

“The Democrats’ version of the Violence Against Women Act … is a radical bill that I believe will actually hurt women more,” says Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz.

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Commentary

Why the Left Is Desperate to Sabotage Trump’s Health Care Plans

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is finishing up a series of legislative measures to roll back what Democrats call the Trump administration’s “ongoing sabotage” of the Affordable Care Act.

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News

Maduro’s Missiles Pose a Terrorist Threat to the US, Experts Say

If the regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro falls, experts warn, the country’s arsenal of Russian-made, SA-24 surface-to-air missiles might end up in the hands of terrorists or drug cartels.

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News

4 Things to Know About Former Obama Aide Hired by SPLC to Review Discrimination Charges

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a liberal activist legal group that regularly labels organizations and individuals it disagrees with as “hate groups.”

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Analysis

Gov. Scott Walker Stared Down a Leftist Mob. Here's His Advice to Other Conservatives.

"The biggest mistake conservatives can make is to push for some bold reform and then pull back at the last second because they're intimidated by the media or the left," says Walker.

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Commentary

Why Ralph Northam Must Go

Frederick Douglass denounced those who wore blackface as “the filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion denied to them by nature, in which to make money, and pander to the corrupt taste of their white fellow citizens.”

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How the Left Keeps Me Religious

The most godless, religion-free, and Bible-free institution in the West, the university, has become both the stupidest and most morally corrupt institution in the West.

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April 2, 2019

Commentary

No, Sen. Warren, Presidential Candidates Wouldn’t Visit Mississippi If We Ditched the Electoral College

By John York

Given realistic alternatives, the Electoral College system is far healthier for the country as a whole in electing presidents.

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News

4 Reasons Why Africa’s Experiments in Socialism Failed

By Courtney Joyner 

George Ayittey, founder of the Free Africa Foundation, says nationalist leaders in Africa embraced socialism in the 1960s, rejecting capitalism because they equated it with colonialism.

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Commentary

How Medicare for All Would Insert Government in Doctor-Patient Relationship

By Robert Moffit 

The leading Medicare for All bills would severely restrict Americans’ right to spend their own money to pay a doctor for legal medical services outside the government’s health care system.

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Commentary

Why the House’s Retirement Savings Bill Is a Mixed Bag

By Adam Michel and Rachel Greszler

The proposal contains important provisions to expand Americans’ ability to save, but stops short of necessary comprehensive reforms to retirement and other savings programs, such as universal savings accounts.

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In Case You Missed It

Trump Really Does Have a Plan That’s Better Than Obamacare

By Doug Badger

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2020 shows that he has a plan to reduce costs and increase choices in health care.

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