Aug. 19, 2016
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In Washington, liberals want to move on from Obamacare, or expand it. Today, Melissa Quinn tells the story of a retired Delaware couple who are fed up with rising premiums. Could foreign interests hack Election Day? Fred Lucas reports what folks in charge say. And talk about Olympic drama. Leah Jessen writes about the track star who might upend women's sports. Plus: Jason Snead and Peter Tapsak on actual cases of voter fraud, and local boy Norbert Michel on what the media miss in Louisiana. It's National Aviation Day. |
NewsHer Health Care Plan Was $257 a Month. Now Her Obamacare Plan Could Go Over $650 a Month.Faced with a huge Obamacare hike, Gavin and Louellen Braithwaite are getting ready to spend from their retirement account: "All you can do is keep digging into savings." Read More |
CommentaryVoter Fraud Is Real. Here Are 4 More Cases.Liberals insist that voter fraud is a myth, a charade meant to justify repressive voting laws. The facts, however, tell a different story. Read More |
NewsThe Truth About How Many Americans Are Living on Less Than $2 a DayIn Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer's book "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America," Edin and Schaefer allege that 4 percent of all families with children live on less than $2 per person per day and that poverty is on the rise. Read More |
CommentaryI'm From Louisiana. Here's the Flooding Story the Media Should Cover.Although 40 percent of the state's population is in official disaster areas, there's hardly a peep out of the national media. Read More |
NewsSecurity Officials Consider National Hacking of Voting Machines Extremely Unlikely. Here's Why."The threat of hacking is greatly exaggerated," Heritage's Hans von Spakovsky says. "It could be a problem with individual voting machines, but individual electronic voting machines are not part of any national network." Read More |
NewsThis Olympic Star Could Signal Big Change in Women's SportsA star athlete poised to win gold in the women's 800-meter race at the Rio Olympics has sparked an ethics debate over gender and sex in competitive sports. 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