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What
Are Illegal Chinese Communist Government Police Stations Doing in the US? <[link removed]>  The Chinese Communist government <[link removed]> has been caught operating <[link removed]> approximately 100 overseas police stations in at least 53 countries—including at least seven illegal police stations <[link removed]> throughout the United States. Heritage Expert: Zack
Smith <[link removed]>
Democrats Refuse to Deal as House Republicans Deliver a Pro-Growth Bill to Reduce Spending <[link removed]> House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., released <[link removed]> text April 19 of legislation dubbed the Limit, Save, Grow Act. The bill <[link removed]>, a focus of internal negotiations <[link removed]> among House Republicans, would provide an increase in the federal debt ceiling <[link removed]> lasting into next spring in exchange for a package of reforms aimed
at lowering future deficits <[link removed]> and boosting economic growth. Heritage Experts: Richard Stern <[link removed]> and EJ Antoni <[link removed]> 
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Instances of Defensive Gun Use Dramatize Wisdom of Second Amendment <[link removed]> In recent decades, gun control advocates increasingly have tried to rewrite history by asserting that the Second Amendment—despite its plain text—never was supposed to protect a “right of the people” to keep and bear arms, but rather grants to state governments only the authority to maintain
militias. Heritage Expert: Amy
Swearer <[link removed]>
Columbia
Law School—EXPOSED <[link removed]> If you thought based on our coverage of the curriculums at Yale, Stanford, and Chicago that you had seen the worst of the political indoctrination that passes for a law school education these days, wait until you see the curriculum at the Colombia Law School in New York City. Heritage Expert: Hans
von Spakovsky <[link removed]>
Long-range
Navy shipbuilding plan fails on multiple levels <[link removed]> According to CIA Director William Burns, Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his army to be ready to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan by 2027. And preparing they are. On April 10, for example, Beijing dispatched a record-breaking 91 military aircraft to fly threateningly toward Taiwan. More than half of the jets crossed the de facto demarcation line, violating Taiwanese airspace. Heritage Expert: Brent
Sadler <[link removed]>

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