Mass Homelessness Exposes California’s Political Dysfunction

Plus: Washington State May Have Triggered the Next Major Religious Liberty Case

Jun 13, 2019   Good morning from Washington, a town crammed with the kind of elites Victor Davis Hanson ably eviscerates in his latest column. Across the fruited plain, California continues its streak of incompetence, and Washington State can't let a Christian florist live and work in peace. Jarrett Stepman sighs over the former, and Alliance Defending Freedom's John Bursch weighs in on the latter. Plus: Lauren Evans and Kelsey Bolar talk about women and socialism, and Daniel Davis interviews Ambassador Sam Brownback on the podcast.     Commentary Mass Homelessness Exposes California's Political Dysfunction As is typical for California, the state's "remedies" never address the underlying issues and instead try to quell the homelessness problem with more direct welfare methods. More Commentary Washington State May Have Triggered the Next Major Religious Liberty Case The case State of Washington v. Arlene's Flowers bears such striking similarities to the Masterpiece Cakeshop case that the U.S. Supreme Court wiped out the state court's 2017 decision in that case and sent it back for reconsideration in light of the Masterpiece decision. More News Trump Eyes More US Troops for Poland, Easing Poles' Visa Travel to US President Trump announced plans Wednesday to possibly station 2,000 more U.S. military troops in Poland and to add the country "fairly soon" to the Visa Waiver Program. More Commentary Problematic Women: Women Are Increasingly Embracing Socialism … but Why? This week on "Problematic Women" we discuss why women are embracing socialism and what can be done to stop this trend. More Analysis How the US Is Promoting Religious Liberty Around the World "If you want less terrorism, you need to give people religious freedom so that people won't act out of their frustration toward the government," says Sam Brownback, U.S. ambassador at large for international religious freedom. More Commentary Why Volkswagen Workers Should Be Wary of Unionizing Domestic auto production today has been more than halved since 1999, and at least part of that decline has to do with the United Auto Workers union pushing compensation to unaffordable levels. More Commentary Elites Have No One to Blame for Populism but Themselves Elites never suffered the firsthand consequences of their own ideological fiats. 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 johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. 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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