America Is Heading Straight Into Its Most Avoidable Crisis Ever

The Daily Signal
Aug. 21, 2017

Good morning from the nation's capital, where President Trump faces multiple political challenges on his return from a working vacation. Fred Lucas looks at possible effects of a chief strategist's departure. Trump could show renewed leadership in reducing the threat posed by the national debt, Chase Flowers and Justin Bogie suggest. Plus: Elizabeth Slattery and Melanie Israel on a rare loss for Planned Parenthood, and Peter Parisi on an odd defense of Al Gore's outsize energy use. It's Senior Citizens Day.

Commentary

America Is Heading Straight Into Its Most Avoidable Crisis Ever

The federal debt is projected to increase from $20 trillion to $92 trillion in the next 30 years, according to the most recent long-term projections from the Congressional Budget Office.

Read More

Commentary

Al Gore's Carbon Footprint Hypocrisy

How much energy the former vice president consumes becomes an issue with the theatrical release of the follow-up to "An Inconvenient Truth," his 2006 global warming horror film.

Read More

News

'Hillary-Lite Administration'? Conservatives Worry About Bannon Ouster

"There is no question that Steve Bannon was one of the only people who could keep Trump true to Trumpism," says Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Read More

News

Why Patricia Heaton Is a Problem for Feminists

On this week's "Problematic Women," we discuss actress Patricia Heaton's powerful response to CBS News' report that Down syndrome is "disappearing" in Iceland.

Watch the Video

Commentary

Court Decision Gives Hope to States Trying to Defund Planned Parenthood

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced in August 2015 that the state would terminate its contract following the release of videos that raised disturbing allegations that Planned Parenthood profited from the sale of organs from aborted babies.

Read More

News

Trump Justice Department Ends Operation Choke Point

"The Obama administration created this ill-advised program to suffocate legitimate businesses to which it was ideologically opposed by intimidating financial institutions into denying banking services to those businesses," says a group of GOP lawmakers.

Read More

The Daily Signal

The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation.

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 johnmhames@comcast.net. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

-

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

FOLLOW THE MONEY - Billionaire tied to Epstein scandal funneled large donations to Ramaswamy & Democrats

Readworthy: This month’s best biographies & memoirs

Inside J&Js bankruptcy plan to end talc lawsuits