Plus: Fact Check: Trump Says 3.5 Million People Have Been Lifted off Food Stamps
Aug 06, 2018
Good morning from Washington, a bit sleepier this week with both the House and Senate in recess. Weâve got a story and video from Kelsey Harkness about survivors of a school shooting in Texas with ideas to make schools safer. Katherine Rohloff tells about a teenager who is determined to defend life before he dies of a terminal disease. Nick Loris joins the podcast to discuss proposed fuel economy standards that some blue states wonât like. Plus: Bob Moffit on strong leadership to improve health care, Emily Larsen on freedom from food stamps, and Nolan Peterson on Ukraineâs uplifting role in commercial spaceflight.
News
[Underreported: The Santa Fe School Shooting Survivors the Media Ignored](
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Grace says she opened the door to see a bunch of people screaming: âThen I heard a really loud noise, and thatâs when I saw somebody go down. I donât know if it was a kid, I donât know if it was a teacherâbut somebody fell.â
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Special Feature
[Teen With Terminal Cancer Forgives Cyberbullies as He Fights âCulture of Deathâ](
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With perhaps only weeks left to live, Jeremiahâa former all-star, state champion football player from Waco, Texasâhas been told numerous times on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook that he is not dying soon enough ⦠because he took a stand for life.
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[Ukraineâs Soviet-Era Space Program Boosts a US Commercial Spaceflight Companyâs Chances for Liftoff](
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For Fireflyâs Soviet space program veterans, who form the backbone of its burgeoning operations in Ukraine, working for an American commercial spaceflight company would have been unimaginable during the Soviet era, when Ukraineâs space program was a state secret of the highest order.
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Commentary
[Trumpâs Health Secretary Is Implementing Bold, Reaganesque Reforms](
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar recently outlined an ambitious health care policy agenda that is positively Reaganesque.
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News
[Fact Check: Trump Says 3.5 Million People Have Been Lifted off Food Stamps](
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Under President Obama, the number of people receiving food stamp benefits peaked at about 47.8 million in December 2012.
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Commentary
[We Hear You: Nikki Haley, the UN, Identity Politics, Obamacare Costs, and Liberal Tantrums](
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âThe U.N. is like socialism. It sounds great but eventually devolves into what it has become todayâa place for brutal, repressive countries to pretend that theyâre not and point the finger at someone else,â writes Stephen P. Fitzmaurice.
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Analysis
[Podcast: California Not Happy With Trumpâs Regulation Rollbacks](
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The Heritage Foundationâs Nick Loris discusses the Trump administrationâs move to try to loosen fuel-efficiency and emissions regulations for cars and light trucks put into place by the Obama administration.
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