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May 12, 2016
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| Good morning from Washington, a long way from secret air bases where U.S. special operations forces take the fight to ISIS in Iraq. Nolan Peterson is there. A school superintendent is under fire for implementing transgender policies without consulting parents. Leah Jessen reports. In North Carolina, Kelsey Harkness interviews Lt. Gov. Dan Forest on the state's bathroom battle. Plus: Robert Moffit exposes health care subsidies for Congress, and Jim DeMint celebrates what school choice can do. |
NewsExclusive: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Calls Obama Administration's Jim Crow Claim 'Shameful' Days after North Carolina and the U.S. Justice Department announced dueling lawsuits, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest talks to The Daily Signal about his state's bathroom battle. Read More |
CommentaryHow Congress Mysteriously Became a 'Small Business' to Qualify for Obamacare Subsidies Rushing to enact the giant Obamacare bill in March 2010, Congress voted itself out of its own employer-sponsored health insurance coverage—the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Read More |
News'People Are Going to Get Hurt': America's Quiet War in Iraq For many U.S. military personnel on the ground in Iraq, the death of Navy Seal Charles Keating IV underscored something they've known for a long time—U.S. special operations forces are neck-deep in the daily grind of the ground war against ISIS. Read More |
NewsTexas School District Adopts Transgender Guidelines Without Parental Approval "The local reaction is strongly against this for two reasons—the way it was adopted and the substance of what was adopted," said Julia Keyes, a mom of five. Read More |
CommentaryTexas Can't Afford to Miss Out on School Choice Publicly funded education savings accounts provide a promising path forward, writes Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint. Read More |
CommentaryThe Conservative Lessons of 'Captain America' While the Avengers are well versed in handling enemies with powers like super strength, shape shifting, and power beams, the United Nations' powers of regulation and sovereignty usurpation represents their toughest foe yet. Read More |
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Daily on Defense: Jeffries plots end run for Ukraine aid, Austin back working from home, Ukraine donor group meets, Russian warship sunk, Putin’s poor memory
Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT JEFFRIES: ALL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: The pressure is on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to find a way to bypass House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the $95 billion foreign aid bill that sailed through the Senate 70-29 to a vote on the House floor, where it would surely also pass with a wide bipartisan majority. "There are clearly more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, the overwhelming amount of Democrats and a significant number of Republicans, who would support the national security legislation, were it to receive an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House," Jeffries said on CNN yesterday. Jeffries’s best bet is a long shot, a rarely successful legislative maneuver known as a "discharge petition," which would require at least four Republicans