June 28, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where Republicans haven't got much to show five months into the Trump administration. Here's how to get moving, Ed Feulner writes. Terrorism claims more victims in Europe and won't be stopped soon, an expert testifies before a House panel. Rachel del Guidice reports. A whistleblower tells Sharyl Attkisson how the Obama administration targeted him. Plus: Drew Gonshorowski on what the GOP health care bill would do to premiums, and Andrea Mrozek on how Canada punishes parents for not getting on the transgenderism bandwagon.
More than five months into the new Congress and the new administration, precious little draining of the swamp has occurred, writes The Heritage Foundation's Ed Feulner.
"We were essentially flooding the border region with firearms from the U.S. civilian market, and then tracking and tallying the results as they were used in crimes on both sides of the border," recalls federal agent John Dodson.
Back in 2012 "gender identity and gender expression" were added to Ontario's Human Rights Code, making Ontario the first jurisdiction in North America to pass such a law.
In 2020, average premiums would be about 30 percent lower than under current law, and about 20 percent lower by 2026.
In Germany, "there was an eightfold increase in plots between 2015 and 2016, largely due to a surge in plots involving refugees," says The Heritage Foundation's Robin Simcox.
Did the South have a right to secede from the Union? If it did, we can't label Confederate generals as traitors.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had stern words for his colleagues when the court declined to hear a case challenging California's handgun laws, saying that the jurists do not understand the importance of self-defense.
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