Underreported: How Building a Border Wall Changed San Diego

The Daily Signal
May 2, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where Republican lawmakers appear more worried about appeasing Democrats on spending than honoring conservative principles. Justin Bogie and Rachel Greszler break it down. You'll be glad you watched Kelsey Harkness' video from the border. Michelle Obama's school lunch dictates won't survive, Rachel del Guidice reports. Plus: Kevin Mooney on a Reagan biographer's bombshell on Soviet involvement in the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, Nolan Peterson on that wild French election, and Lee Edwards on fairly measuring Trump's first 100 days. It's Israel's Independence Day.
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Underreported: How Building a Border Wall Changed San Diego

In 1986, the San Diego Border Patrol sector accounted for approximately one-third of all apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's what happened after the wall was built.

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Commentary

Massive Spending Bill Fails to Meet Conservative Priorities

This spending package fails to advance almost any key conservative policies and makes numerous concessions to the left.

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CIA Confirmed Russians' Role in Shooting of Pope John Paul II, Reagan Biographer Writes

Paul Kengor, a Grove City College political science professor and author, has acquired what he calls never-before-seen information about the Reagan administration's "supersecret investigation" into the shooting and wounding of the pope.

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Feature

France's Election Is Also a Crossroads for Europe

When French voters go to the polls for the second, decisive round in their country's presidential election Sunday, they will choose between two candidates who hold diametrically opposing national security platforms.

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What's at Stake in Trump Meeting With Palestinian Leader

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Wednesday at the White House with a U.S. president who seems decidedly pro-Israel while also genuinely interested in a Middle East peace deal.

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Commentary

Why Conservatives Should Give Trump 180 Days Before Rating His Presidency

If we apply "the first 100 days" as a criterion, President Ronald Reagan was a failure.

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Trump's Agriculture Chief Tosses Out Michelle Obama's School Lunch Rules

"If kids aren't eating the food, and it's ending up in the trash, they aren't getting any nutrition," says Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

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