July 31, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where some Republican lawmakers apparently aren't motivated to repeal Obamacare. Bob Moffit suggests President Trump cancel taxpayer-subsidized health care for Congress and its staff. Some states are serious about ending amnesty for "dreamers," Fred Lucas reports. Tens of thousands of votes cast by folks supposedly born before 1901 show the need to expose voter fraud, Hans von Spakovsky writes. Plus: Nolan Peterson on the Navy taking it to ISIS, and Rachel del Guidice on the left's campaign to intimidate donors to conservative causes.
To put the number of fraudulent votes in perspective, Hillary Clinton won New Hampshire by fewer than 3,000 votes out of over 700,000 cast.
Ten state attorneys general, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, wrote to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for the Trump administration to end a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
"I'll happily take the fight to the enemy, rather than them taking the fight to us. That's mission accomplished," says a Navy lieutenant who goes by the nickname "Bacon."
President Trump needs to shut off the flow of illegal health insurance subsidies to members of the House and Senate and congressional staff, and force them to live under Obamacare's damage just like other Americans.
"We support Attorney General Jeff Sessions and believe he is the right man, and the best man, to lead the Justice Department at this time," reads a memo from the Conservative Action Project signed by dozens of conservative leaders.
Conservatives in states across the country say that pushes to pass laws requiring nonprofits to report their donors' private information threaten First Amendment rights.
"Inflated numbers and explosive stories about the opioid 'epidemic' give the media something other than politics to blare about," Mary Ann Ludwig writes.
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