Oct. 16, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where key members of President Trump's national security team visit The Heritage Foundation to tell why they want to retain a useful tool for tracking terrorists. The president himself will speak to a Heritage audience tomorrow night. Fred Lucas has both stories. Jarrett Stepman talks with a professor in hot water for his views on transgenderism. Should a baker have to make a cake celebrating Satan? Read Kelsey Harkness' story. Plus: Tiffany Bates and Elizabeth Slattery on seating conservative judges faster, Nolan Peterson on reviving the drive for Scottish independence, and your comments on tax reform.
A Boise State professor learns what happens when you challenge left-wing social narratives on college campuses.
Jack Phillips, whose case about a wedding cake for a same-sex couple will be heard by the Supreme Court, is asked to quote a price for making a birthday cake depicting an "upside down cross, under the head of Lucifer."
As he did during speeches in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and North Dakota, Trump is expected to tell personal stories to illustrate how tax reform would benefit average Americans.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., supports an important step toward fixing the backlog of judicial nominations piling up in the Senate.
Scottish nationalists' dreams of independence from the U.K. get a fresh set of legs due to the tandem effects of Catalonia's ongoing gambit for independence from Spain and Britain's floundering Brexit negotiations.
A program that allowed the FBI to stop a terrorist attack on the New York City subway system in 2009 is set to expire Dec. 31.
"Our tax system is the greatest teacher of irresponsibility we have," Michael Watson writes. "The 47 percent not paying taxes are plundering our country."
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