3 Takeaways From Day 1 of Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Fight

Plus: Nike Boycott Over Kaepernick Ads Demonstrates Yearning for Patriotism Sep 05, 2018 Good morning from Washington, where Senate Democrats are assailing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh without even hearing his answers while Republicans vow to give the veteran appeals judge a fair hearing. Thomas Jipping and Elizabeth Slattery analyze the proceedings. On the left coast, meanwhile, Democrats don’t want Californians to have a cheaper health insurance option. Rachel del Guidice reports. Plus: Diane Katz on the Senate versus Facebook, Nolan Peterson on Russia’s latest move against Ukraine, Hans von Spakovsky on “elite” discrimination, and Jarrett Stepman on the politics of selling athletic shoes. Commentary [3 Takeaways From Day 1 of Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Fight]( [Photo]( Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was 30 seconds into his first remarks when Judiciary Committee Democrats began demanding that the hearing adjourn or be postponed until the latest set of documents on Kavanaugh’s record could be studied. [More]( Commentary [Nike Boycott Over Kaepernick Ads Demonstrates Yearning for Patriotism]( [Photo]( Americans are desperately seeking leaders and public advocates who are unabashedly pro-American and who aren’t afraid to lambaste elite institutions, like Hollywood, the media, the NFL, and even corporate America. [More]( Commentary [Why Government Shouldn’t Tell Facebook, Google, and Twitter What to Do]( [Photo]( Facebook, Twitter, and Google are private enterprises, not agents of government for Congress to kick around. Responsibility for protecting the nation from foreign threats belongs first with national security and intelligence agencies, and those elected to oversee them. [More]( News [California on Cusp of Banning Short-Term Health Coverage]( [Photo]( Inexpensive, short-term health insurance plans backed by the Trump administration are a cheaper alternative to Obamacare. [More]( Commentary [Racial Discrimination at Harvard and America’s ‘Elite’ Universities]( [Photo]( Harvard and these other schools long ago abandoned Martin Luther King’s objective of achieving an America where our children are not “judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” [More]( Analysis [The Daily Signal Podcast: Wednesday, Sept. 6]( [Photo]( Andreas Thonhauser of ADF International weighs in about the state of religious freedom abroad, and what his organization is doing to fight for it. [More]( News [Russia Opens a New Front in Its War Against Ukraine: the Sea of Azov]( [Photo]( This summer, Russian naval forces stepped up their harassment of Ukrainian merchant vessels in the Sea of Azov, effectively blockading the body of water through which roughly 80 percent of Ukraine’s exports pass. [More]( Commentary [South Africa Will Go the Way of Zimbabwe If It Doesn’t Change Course]( [Photo]( William Hutt, the late University of Cape Town economist who was an anti-apartheid voice, wrote that one of the supreme tragedies of the human condition is that those who have been the victims of injustices or oppression “can often be observed to be inflicting not dissimilar injustices upon other races.” [More]( [LOGO-CHARCOAL_75percent.jpg] The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. [Donate to The Daily Signal]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Follow us on Twitter]( How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at [comments@dailysignal.com](. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 [(800) 546-2843]( Add [morningbell@heritage.org]( to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as {EMAIL}. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, [please click here to update your subscription.]( -