Contempt for America Is Normal on the Left

Plus: MLK's 'Dream' Speech Is Coming True, His Niece Says

Aug 28, 2018   Good morning from Washington, ground zero for tributes to John McCain, a self-styled maverick among public servants. McCain's reputation as a defender of freedom stretches from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Ukraine, Nolan Peterson writes. The visionary dream of Martin Luther King Jr. is close to reality 55 years later, his niece tells Rachel del Guidice. Trump zeroes in on a trade deal with Mexico, Fred Lucas reports. Plus: David Harsanyi on liberal desperation to stop a Supreme Court justice, Jim Phillips on what's next in Iran, and Lucas and Jarrett Stepman on historic election meddling.     Commentary Contempt for America Is Normal on the Left On a daily basis, the left describes America as xenophobic, misogynistic, imperialist, greedy, and homophobic. And that's on a slow day at The New York Times, MSNBC, or your local university. More News MLK's 'Dream' Speech Is Coming True, His Niece Says "Are we living in a perfect society today? No, but the dream is being realized 55 years later," pro-life activist Alveda King says. More Analysis Iran's Saber Rattling on Persian Gulf Likely to Rattle World Oil Markets The latest saber-rattling statement by the Revolutionary Guards is a reminder that Iran maintains the ability to threaten not only its immediate neighbors, but also international shipping, global oil exports, and the economies of oil-importing states everywhere. More Commentary Why Troops Named a Street in a Ukraine Town After John McCain McCain visited the front-line Ukrainian town of Shyrokyne for New Year's Eve in 2016—it was a bold move to show solidarity with Ukrainian troops who lived under daily shelling by Russian forces (and still do, too). More Commentary The Latest Ploy Liberals Are Using to Try to Block Kavanaugh But much like their ideal Supreme Court, Democrats have set about fabricating brand-new extraconstitutional standards that happen to always align with their partisan aims. More News In Ditching NAFTA, Trump Reaches Deal With Mexico, Invites Canada to Join President Trump called a new, preliminary deal with Mexico "the U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement," announcing Monday that he had kept a campaign promise to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement. More Analysis The Daily Signal Podcast: Tuesday, Aug. 28 Former McCain staffer Walter Lohman shares with us what his onetime boss was really like, including how he celebrated the anniversary of his release as a POW. More Analysis Right Side of History: Foreign Meddling in US Campaigns Didn't Begin in 2016 On this week's episode, hosts Jarrett Stepman and Fred Lucas discuss the history of foreign powers meddling in U.S. presidential campaigns. It didn't begin with Russian and the 2016 presidential campaign. 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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