A Day to Honor All Who Have Served

Plus: Liberals Aren't Losing Faith in Our System. They Just Don't Like Results.

Nov 12, 2018   Good morning from Washington on this official Veterans Day. Steve Bucci reminds us of the meaning of the holiday, while Troy Worden has the responses of some veterans to a Supreme Court case that threatens a World War I memorial. Recounts of votes in Florida's gubernatorial and Senate races are underway, with suspicions on all sides, as Fred Lucas reports. Plus: David Harsanyi on what progressives get wrong about the "system," John Cooper on veterans' experience today, Melissa Quinn on an outdoor respite for veterans, and your comments on the election results.     Commentary Liberals Aren't Losing Faith in Our Constitutional System. They Just Don't Like Its Results. The "House popular vote" now joins the "national popular vote" and "Senate popular vote" as fictional gauges of governance used by Democrats who aren't brave enough to say they oppose the fundamental anti-majoritarianism that girds the Constitution. More News Trump Calls Out Embattled County Election Official in Florida Vote-Count Mess In May, a state judge ruled that Brenda Snipes violated state and federal law when she destroyed ballots from a Democratic congressional primary, even though there was a pending lawsuit seeking access to the ballots. More Special Feature The Healing Power of Fly Fishing for Combat Veterans "What this trip did for me was to restore my faith that great Americans like the people of Bozeman, Montana, are worth defending, even if it means not getting to come home," says one veteran. More News What Veterans Say About Effort at Supreme Court to Remove Peace Cross War Memorial When Jake Hill heard that an atheist activist group had sued to have a historic World War I memorial pulled down because some people were offended by the monument's Christian symbolism, the Marine got angry. More Commentary The Daily Signal Podcast: What Veterans Have Sacrificed John Cooper, who serves in the Air Force Reserve, shares about the veteran's experience in the 21st century, when many Americans don't know a single person in the military. More News This Former Navy SEAL Has a Veterans Day Message for All Americans "There are a lot of lessons to learn here, not just that the left and right can still agree on some things, but also this: Americans can forgive one another," Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw says on "SNL." More Commentary Trump Is Cracking Down on Wasted Time and Money at the VA Hundreds of doctors and nurses at the VA receive their full federal salaries—averaging $74,000 a year for nurses and $187,000 for doctors, not including generous federal benefits—even if they don't care for a single veteran. More Commentary We Hear You: Democrats Take the House, Republicans Hold the Senate, Trump Declares Victory "House Democrats, even though they won, will be viewed as obstructionist if they do not work with Trump. It may backfire on them much like what happened with Justice Kavanaugh," writes Sharon Melvin. 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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