July 24, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where a jobs program pushed by President Obama results in 17 hires, and broken promises, in coal country. Don’t miss a Kelsey Harkness exclusive. Nolan Peterson files an up-close look at the Navy's pursuit of ISIS from the flight deck of the USS George H.W. Bush. A government bailout of Planned Parenthood expands "free" abortions in Oregon, Genevieve Wood writes. Plus: Fred Lucas on that White House communications reshuffle, Ken McIntyre on J.D. Vance’s cultural challenge to conservatives, and your comments on the fate of Obamacare.
A government-funded job training program that promised to turn hundreds of residents of Kentucky's coal country into computer coders so far has spent $2 million to place 17 people in tech jobs and may have left others worse off, The Daily Signal has learned.
So, whether you are a citizen or noncitizen, rich or poor … whether you are three months pregnant or just weeks away from giving birth … and for whatever reason, you can now get an abortion compliments of Oregon taxpayers.
"The biggest failure, not just on the left but disproportionately on the left, is the failure to recognize that our welfare state is not very good at promoting upward mobility," says J.D. Vance.
In this war, a single misstep born of a split-second decision during combat operations—both in the air and at sea—could cost hundreds of innocent lives, or perhaps even precipitate a shooting war between the U.S. and Russia, writes Nolan Peterson.
New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci recently sued CNN for a story alleging he had business ties to Russia, but accepted CNN’s apologies after three reporters were forced to resign and the network corrected its mistake.
"Now that the Republicans have proved they had no intention of repealing Obamacare, it's President Trump's turn to reveal to America those who are unwilling to reverse this nightmare," writes Juan L. Bassett.
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