After Nice, France Grapples With How to Combat Terrorism

July 18, 2016
It's another solemn Monday in Washington after an ambush in Baton Rouge leaves three police officers dead and three others wounded. Some say body cameras for police are part of the solution, and Sen. Tim Scott tells Josh Siegel his own experience convinces him. Republicans say Democrats are impeding a House probe of the fetal tissue industry, Kelsey Harkness reports, and Philip Wegmann has conservatives' plan to topple the IRS chief. Plus: Nolan Peterson on France's struggle against Islamist terrorism and Luke Coffey on the crisis in Turkey.
News After Nice, France Grapples With How to Combat Terrorism Focus has partially shifted away from eliminating terrorism's root causes and toward finding ways to effectively mitigate the terrorist threat through better security. Read More
News Republicans Accuse Democrats of 'Privately' Obstructing Probe of Fetal Tissue Market An interim report released by Republicans suggests that, motivated by a need for revenue, abortion clinics and middleman procurement companies engaged in regulatory shortcuts that violate federal law and regulations. Read More
News Personal Experience Convinced Sen. Tim Scott on Need for Police Body Cameras Sen. Tim Scott wishes the police officers who he believes egregiously stopped him various times were wearing body cameras, so that the public could see what he saw. Read More
Commentary The Attempted Coup Reveals Turkey's Instability. That's Bad News for the US. Instead of being a leader in the region, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will focus a lot of resources and energy at home bringing the plotters to justice. This invites Russia and ISIS, for example, to take advantage of the situation. Read More
News House Conservatives Explain Latest IRS Chief Impeachment Push: 'Leadership Has Been Too Timid to Go After Corruption' "It raises a fundamental question: Are folks in Washington above the law?" Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., told The Daily Signal. Read More
Commentary These Are the Tools We Need to Win the Long War Against Islamist Terrorism The U.S. has faced 89 Islamist terror plots or attacks against the homeland since 9/11, with over a quarter of those occurring in the past 18 months. Read More
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