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Ocasio-Cortez and Top Aide Should Be Investigated for Possible Campaign Finance Violations

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Mar 12, 2019

 

Good morning from Washington, where President Trump’s budget outline falls short of tackling massive debt. Heritage Foundation budget expert Justin Bogie spells out concerns. Is Al Gore the reason Apple ditched an app on climate change? Kevin Mooney reports. Two of Kosovo’s top officials tell Nolan Peterson why their country seeks peace with Serbia. Dennis Prager visits the podcast to talk campus free speech. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on environmentalists’ memorably extreme claims, Rachel del Guidice on young Americans’ attraction to socialism, and Cal Thomas on anti-Semitism on the left.

 

 

 

Commentary

Here Are 5 Hysterical Environmentalist Claims in Modern History

Former Vice President Al Gore said in 2009 that a scientist predicted a “75 percent chance that the entire polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice free within five to seven years.” The ice caps are still there.

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Commentary

Trump’s Budget Would Chip Away at the Debt, but More Work Still Needed

President Trump’s proposal fails to reach balance in 10 years and would do little to address unsustainable entitlement programs, which are driving much of the budget’s projected long-term spending growth.

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News

Geologist Accuses Apple of Political Bias in Removing App Countering Climate Alarmism

Apple’s store has removed an app that—complete with data, charts, and videos—challenges the premise of alarmist theories about climate change.

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Kosovo’s Leaders Say a Durable Peace With Serbia Is Key to Economic Growth

“I want to achieve lasting peace with an old enemy,” Kosovar President Hashim Thaçi tells The Daily Signal. “I want to avoid more tragedies. I want to make peace for the benefit of future generations.”

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Analysis

Podcast: Dennis Prager Discusses Anti-Semitism, Free Speech at Colleges

Radio host and columnist Dennis Prager joins us to talk about his upcoming movie, “No Safe Spaces,” and the rise of political correctness on college campuses.

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News

Half of Young Americans Want to Live in a Socialist Country

Two-thirds of young Americans say they think the government should pay for college tuition.

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Commentary

The Left's Anti-Semitism Problem

Maher Abdel-qader, a key fundraiser for Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., shared an anti-Semitic video that described Jews as "satanic."

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March 11, 2019

Commentary

Ocasio-Cortez and Top Aide Should Be Investigated for Possible Campaign Finance Violations

By Hans von Spakovsky

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff and former campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, are accused of serious charges in a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission.

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News

Covington Teen’s Lawyer Likely to Sue CNN Next

By Evie Fordham 

“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas [Sandmann] than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes,” lawyer L. Lin Wood says in an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News Channel.

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Commentary

The Time Is Ripe for a US-Swiss Trade Agreement

By Ed Feulner and Anthony Kim 

As Switzerland’s largest trading partner outside the European Union, the U.S. has a roughly balanced exchange of goods and services with the Alpine country that amounts to some $100 billion a year.

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Rep. Ted Deutch Calls Out Fellow Democrats for Leniency on Rep. Omar’s ‘Anti-Semitic Lies’

By Peter Hasson

The Florida congressman criticizes other House Democrats for changing a resolution condemning anti-Semitism to include other forms of hate.

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In Case You Missed It

I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.

By Jamie Shupe 

Four years ago, I wrote in The New York Times that I wanted to live “authentically as the woman that I have always been.” Three years ago, I identified as nonbinary. Now, I want to live again as the man that I am.

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