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Media ‘Got It Wrong’ on US Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Pompeo Says

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Judge Dismisses DNC Lawsuit Against Trump Campaign, WikiLeaks Over Stolen Emails

 

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How Natural Gas Exports Are Giving America a Key Edge

 

By Nicolas Loris and Graham Filby

A growing liquefied natural gas trade in the U.S. builds the domestic industrial sector and supports our national security interests abroad by providing America’s allies with more energy choice and freedom.

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“The men and women of CBP are not running concentration camps, making those in our custody drink from toilets, nor denying them access to toothbrushes. That is simply not true,” Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, tells senators at a hearing.

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Turkey’s Anti-Western Drift Ought to Be Repudiated

 

By James Phillips and Michael Johns Jr.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan probably sees his defiance of the U.S. and the European Union as helping bolster his popularity at home as his political support wanes.

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Poll: Immigration ‘Most Important Problem’ Facing US

 

By Joshua Nelson

Poll findings make 2019 the year with the highest mentions of immigration as a concern, which began in 1993, Gallup says.

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Aug 01, 2019

 

Good morning from Washington, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has left behind for his latest trip abroad. Traveling with him, Nolan Peterson reports on the secretary’s insistence that the presidential election isn’t driving a withdrawal from Afghanistan. On the podcast, educator Warren Farrell talks about addressing the “boy crisis.” Plus: Monica Burke on the grim harvest of assisted suicide, Victor Davis Hanson on violent rhetoric about the president, Walter Williams on what it takes to be a racist, and Kelsey Bolar and Lauren Evans on what women really think.

 

 

 

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Media ‘Got It Wrong’ on US Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Pompeo Says

 

“There’s no deadline for this,” the secretary of state says of getting out of Afghanistan.

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Menacing Invective Against Trump Lowers Bar for Violence

 

Former Vice President Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump.

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ACLU Accuses Trump Administration of Separating More Families at Border

 

In a court filing, the American Civil Liberties Union accuses the Trump administration of separating nearly 1,000 migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border after a court order to end the practice.

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Assisted Suicide Is Now Legal in New Jersey. It Could Get Even Worse.

 

Lawmakers claim this policy will promote “humanity, dignity, and respect”—but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

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What’s Driving America’s ‘Boy Crisis’

 

“About 90% of the mass shooters that I studied since Columbine have been boys brought up in homes that have minimal or no father involvement,” Warren Farrell says.

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Pro-Life Activists Respond to Planned Parenthood Leader’s Asserting It’s ‘Not Political by Nature’

 

Live Action founder Lila Rose says it is “laughable” to hear Alexis McGill Johnson say the nation’s largest abortion provider is not political, “when Planned Parenthood fired its last CEO for not being political enough.”

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Problematic Women: Do Women Really Have Different Opinions Than Men?

 

Jessica Anderson, vice president of Heritage Action for America, discusses new polling that reveals the top issues of concern to women.

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Being a Racist Is Easy Today

 

Perhaps the easiest way to be labeled a racist is to suggest that a wall be built on our border with Mexico to keep people from Mexico and points south from entering our nation illegally.

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