Once Again, Obamacare’s Constitutionality Comes Into Question

Plus: How Germany Has Changed After the Influx of Migrants

Jun 18, 2018   Good morning from Washington, where the Supreme Court may revisit what's left of Obamacare as early as this fall. Paul Larkin explains why. Journalists' freebies for FBI agents, exposed by a Justice Department inspector general, are serious infractions, Fred Lucas reports. Leftist "advisers" shouldn't be allowed to push the Census Bureau into scrapping a legitimate citizenship question, Mike Gonzalez writes. Plus: Justin Bogie and Romina Boccia on the right medicine for the federal budget, David Harsanyi on what's wrong with tariffs, and Robin Simcox on refugees' toll on Germany.     Commentary Once Again, Obamacare's Constitutionality Comes Into Question The Justice Department agrees with several states in a lawsuit that Obamacare will become unconstitutional once the individual mandate penalty effectively disappears next year. More Commentary How Germany Has Changed After the Influx of Migrants One recent study demonstrated that violent crime in Germany increased by more than 10 percent in 2015 and 2016. Ninety percent of that increase was because of violent crimes committed by male refugees. More News Sports Tickets, Other Freebies for FBI Leakers Raise 'Bribery' Issues, Legal Experts Say The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General noted that "dozens" of FBI agents had contact with the news media, and many were taking sports tickets, golf outings, and other gifts from reporters to whom they were leaking unauthorized information about a criminal investigation. More Commentary Census Bureau Has Been Co-Opted by Leftist Ideologues The vast majority of the members of the Census Bureau's National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations hail from leftist ethnic special-interest groups or from equally leftist faculty lounges. More Commentary These 5 Changes Would Fix the Nation's Budget Woes By reducing government debt and taxation, The Heritage Foundation's new budget blueprint would create the conditions for more jobs, higher take-home pay, and a growing economy. More Commentary Free Trade Already Puts America First One reason the United States is running a trade deficit is that we are wealthy and larger and can spend more on foreign-made goods and services than others can spend on U.S.-made goods and services. More Commentary We Hear You: Climate Change, Wedding Cakes, Social Security, Planned Parenthood, and Transgender Soldiers "Climate does change, as it has over the past centuries over and over. It will continue to do so, and we will not all die due to some people's wrong belief that climate change will kill the world," writes Vernon Helmke. More           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 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 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.

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