Aug. 8, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where the Justice Department is under legal challenge by violence-wracked Chicago for tightening the screws on sanctuary cities. Why did the Trump administration mimic the Obama administration on U.N. family policy? Fred Lucas reports. The U.S. is in Afghanistan for the right reasons, Kim Holmes argues. Plus: Bonner Cohen and James Conway on NASA’s modern mission, Jack Crowe on yet more suspicious Hillary Clinton emails, Jamie Shupe on being a transgender soldier, and Michelle Malkin on human smuggling.
The State Department contends it is committed to protecting the vulnerable, including those who are gay or transgender, and was concerned a U.N. resolution recognized the family unit at the expense of individual rights.
City officials from New York and Los Angeles are considering joining the lawsuit against the Trump administration's sanctuary city crackdown.
"As a former senior enlisted military leader, I have a duty to speak the truth about the problems with transgender military service," writes Jamie Shupe, a former Army sergeant.
Newly obtained documents include 91 email exchanges involving Clinton when she was secretary of state that were not turned over previously, Judicial Watch says.
"If America walks away from Afghanistan, the Taliban will likely return—if not to complete power, then surely over much of the country," writes Heritage Foundation scholar Kim Holmes, a former assistant secretary of state.
Human rights watchdogs and border reporters have exposed callous Mexican government officials selling out their own people while turning a blind eye to massacres, kidnappings, extortion, and racketeering.
We are several technological generations away from being able to colonize Mars. It makes more sense to initially focus on returning to the moon.
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