From Heritage Media and Public Relations <[email protected]>
Subject Heritage Take: America Deserves Answers on Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
Date September 3, 2021 11:16 AM
  Links have been removed from this email. Learn more in the FAQ.
  Links have been removed from this email. Learn more in the FAQ.
Here is the Heritage Take on the top issues today.Please reply to this email to arrange an interview.
America Deserves Answers on Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal <[link removed]> – Americans want to know whether the U.S. should have blown up all the military equipment rather than have it be captured by the Taliban? What about the decision to abandon the military prison at Bagram Airfield containing thousands of the worst terrorists in Afghanistan? To Americans accustomed to seeing their military succeed, none of what they see on TV makes sense. These questions—and others like them—concerning the actions of the U.S. military are all legitimate. In the coming days, for Americans to fully understand the answers that will hopefully be forthcoming, we also need to understand the associated timing and authorities under which the U.S. military was operating. In military operations, the timing of decisions is crucial: Options that are available early in a campaign become increasingly difficult or impossible to execute as time passes. Time and enemy action impose a tyranny that is difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. Heritage expert: Tom Spoehr <[link removed]>
The Texas Heartbeat Law Is Now in Effect. Here’s What You Need to Know. <[link removed]> – Since the Supreme Court created a right to abortion on-demand in 1973 with Roe v. Wade, medical technology has evolved significantly to let all women see the reality that their babies are humans, worthy of legal protection. For too long, the Supreme Court’s arbitrary and unworkable abortion jurisprudence has been a barrier to states enacting laws that are rooted in modern science, not frozen in time and penned in by the
available science in 1973. In the decades since, millions of Americans and policymakers have worked to advance public policy that reflects evolving medical science grounded in the principle that the law should protect human life. The Texas Heartbeat Act isn’t the first time pro-life policymakers take a bold step to challenge the status quo, and it won’t be the
last. Heritage experts: Melanie Israel <[link removed]> and Sarah Perry <[link removed]>
Missing Ballots in Three States Exceed Joe Biden's Victory Margins <[link removed]> – The Wisconsin Election Commission said 6,500
absentee ballots they mailed out were sent back by the postal service as ‘undeliverable’ and 3,000 ballots that came back were rejected. They don’t say why, but usually a ballot is rejected because, for example, the signature doesn’t match, indicating it may have been a fraudulent ballot. Wisconsin authorities cannot account for 76,000 ballots. They don’t know what happened to them. In other words, voters requested an absentee ballot, or a Wisconsin officials simply decided — in some places in Wisconsin — to simply mail out absentee ballots to everybody, and the ballot never came back, so it’s unaccounted for. These are the official numbers of the election commission in Wisconsin, and we don’t know what happened to them. We don’t know if the ballots got lost or if they were stolen and somebody didn’t get to vote. This didn’t just happen in Wisconsin. The margin of victory in Arizona for Joe Biden was only a little over 10,000 votes. Maricopa County alone has admitted that they sent 110,000 mail-in or absentee ballots to what turned out to be the wrong addresses. Heritage expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>

<[link removed]>2021 Social Security Trustees Report Proves Need for Reform <[link removed]> – The fact that every dollar American workers pay in Social Security taxes goes immediately out the door to fund current retirees’ benefits makes the program an increasingly raw deal for current and future workers. Not only does Social Security strip workers of the opportunity to earn a positive rate of return on their own money, but workers have no assurance that Social Security will provide anything for them in retirement, despite decades of paying into the system. The trustees estimated that the net effects of COVID-19 will lead Social Security’s combined disability insurance and old-age insurance trust funds to run out of money one year earlier than previously estimated—in 2034 instead of 2035—but Social Security’s shortfalls existed long before the pandemic. The Heritage Foundation has proposed a more effective, better-targeted Social Security system, including a gradual shift to a universal benefit, increasing and indexing the retirement age to life expectancy, and using a more accurate inflation index. Heritage expert: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]>

-
Screenshot of the email generated on import

Message Analysis