April 9, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where Congress returns amid the left's toxic campaign to oust EPA chief Scott Pruitt. Many conservative leaders, including lawmakers, urge calm, as Rachel del Guidice reports. The war in Ukraine provides lessons in how Russia operates, Nolan Peterson finds. One teen mom's choice to buck the culture over an unexpected pregnancy is the subject of a moving feature by Kelsey Harkness. Plus: Alexis Mrachek and Nathaniel DeBevoise on getting tough with Putin, David Harsanyi on liberal indignation about one media bent, and Amy Swearer on the wrong narrative in the YouTube shooting.
When Kelly Clemente saw that pregnancy test, she thought: "My life is over."
"Conservatives stand behind Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency … and thank him for the significant actions he has taken to implement President Trump's deregulatory agenda," says a letter signed by 113 conservative leaders.
Since 2000, when California first began imposing more restrictive firearms legislation, the state has suffered through more mass public shootings than any other state.
The concept of free will has little part in any of our national conversations these days. You’d think that Russian bots, Facebook posts, and local news anchors all have the preternatural ability to burrow into your brain and make your choices for you.
Russia's modern hybrid warfare doctrine combines use of conventional military force with other nonkinetic means such as cyberattacks and propaganda to sow chaos and confusion among the enemy—both on the battlefield and deep behind the front lines.
The West's lenient attitude toward Russian acts of aggression has served only to embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin.
If anyone ever truly deserved a Profiles in Courage Award, it was the late Leo Damore, author of the book "Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up."
"With a national popular vote that does away with the Electoral College, only the interests of large populations of urban dwellers will count as big city votes overwhelm suburban and rural voters," writes Chas Bassos.
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