How House Conservatives Plan to Revive Obamacare Repeal, and Why It Could Work

The Daily Signal
Aug. 17, 2017

Good morning from Washington, where House conservatives are making another run at repealing Obamacare. Rachel del Guidice talks with some of them. Attorney General Jeff Sessions calls out sanctuary cities for putting lives at risk. Fred Lucas reports. In the aftermath of Charlottesville, Michelle Malkin wants to know why corporate America isn't repudiating Black Lives Matter. Plus: Grant Strobl on teaching high school students to be victims, Amy Swearer on the government's huge fines on a farmer for farming, and Dennis Prager on being a politically incorrect conductor.

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How House Conservatives Plan to Revive Obamacare Repeal, and Why It Could Work

It's time to "put the screws" to Republican lawmakers who promised to repeal Obamacare, one House member says, and that's why he supports reviving a successful 2015 attempt to get rid of the health care law.

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Where Is the Corporate Disavowal of Black Lives Matter?

Merck CEO Kenneth C. Frazier, who served on President Obama's Export Council, felt no responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism when the White House invited leaders from the violence-inciting Black Lives Matter movement for a forum in 2016.

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Sessions Defends Withholding Funds: No Tolerance for Loss of 'Innocent Lives' in Sanctuary Cities

Sanctuary cities endanger their own citizens and police, the attorney general says, yet "have the gall to feign outrage when their police departments lose federal funds as a direct result of their malfeasance."

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Commentary

This Nationwide Program Is Teaching Millions of Students to Become Leftist Snowflakes

Programs like Challenge Day teach students to find divisions constantly: Everyone and everything is racist, poses a direct threat to their safety, or is the product of some form of social privilege.

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Farmer Faces Multimillion-Dollar Fine for Plowing Field Without Government Permission

The possible $2.8 million in fines and an estimated minimum of $13 million in "mitigation credits" could destroy John Duarte's business and put more than 500 employees out of work.

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Despite the Left's Intolerance, I Will Conduct an Orchestra

UCLA professors Michael Chwe and Andrew Apter, both violinists with the symphony, wrote in an open letter: "Dennis Prager is a right-wing radio host who promotes horribly bigoted positions. … Please urge your friends to not attend this concert, which helps normalize bigotry in our community."

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