Sept. 9, 2016
In Washington, as in your town, the 15th anniversary of 9/11 looms. The Daily Signal's foreign correspondent, Nolan Peterson, reflects on his generation's call to fight the Long War. In Kansas, an unresolved voter ID debate could change the election. Josh Siegel reports. Kelsey Harkness has two dispatches from the culture wars: In Minnesota, students go to court over Obama's bathroom mandate, and in Oregon, two couples ready their appeals in a wedding cake case. Plus: Ana Quintana on a Cuban dissident's deadly protest.
"There is a huge potential for aliens' votes to swing a close election," says Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. "Even if it's just a handful of votes, it's still a huge injustice."
"We still haven't figured out how to defeat an enemy that, as my brother said, 'doesn't care about being destroyed,'" writes Nolan Peterson.
In the new brief, the Kleins' lawyers challenge the argument that the government can force citizens to create art and engage in speech that goes against their religious beliefs.
Lesson No. 3: Terrorism is a much longer-term foe than any nation-state opponent. President Barack Obama blithely opined, "We can't just go on fighting forever." Unfortunately, he forgot the rule that "the enemy gets a vote."
A transgender student was allowed to enter the girls' locker room and would dance "in a sexually explicit manner—'twerking,' 'grinding,' and dancing like he was on a 'stripper pole' to songs with explicit lyrics."
"We are facing the real possibility of an international body having the ability to censor political speech if it is contrary to the norms they intend to enforce," warns Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Attempting to raise awareness of his government's brutality, Guillermo "Coco" Fariñas says he is willing to give his life for the sake of Cuba's future.
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