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DC Council chairman withdraws controversial crime bill, but Senate may still consider it <[link removed]> –The DC Council’s latest move to withdraw their radical criminal code shortly before the Senate is expected to override it with bipartisan support shows the unseriousness with which they have approached the very serious task of protecting the District’s visitors and residents. Despite the Mayor, the Chief of Police, and the U.S. Attorney for the District all expressing grave concerns about the contents of this bill, D.C.’s local elected leaders pushed forward anyway, at a time when homicides, car thefts, carjackings, sexual assaults, and a host of other violent crimes are spiking within the District. Fortunately, the Framers of our Constitution gave Congress the responsibility of overseeing our nation’s capital precisely so that those visiting and working there on our nation’s business would not be held hostage by the whims of a few local radical legislators. Heritage Expert: Zach Smith <[link removed]> and Cully Stimson <[link removed]>
Promoting U.S. Security Cooperation from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Caucuses <[link removed]> - Congress has considered notable legislation to improve the U.S. contribution to Black Sea security and stability. This effort is laudable and should be supplemented with a broader array of security cooperation initiatives to ensure U.S. actions match the level of U.S. interests. Focusing diplomatic and security engagement activities to build maritime security capacities in the wider eastern Mediterranean region can best position the United States to navigate the myriad and often conflicting national interests of regional partners. In this strategic environment, a maritime approach can bring lightly aligned nations together for common cause. Heritage Expert: Brent Sadler <[link removed]>
Climate-Driven Technology Forces Out Europe’s Farmers <[link removed]> - Thousands of Belgian and Dutch farmers are being sacrificed on the altar of climate change. They are losing their livelihoods as their governments crack down on emissions of nitrogen oxide (from manure) and the use of ammonia in fertilization. Heritage Foundation: Diana Furchtgott-Roth <[link removed]>
Southern Poverty Law Center Has Long History of Carrying Water for Antifa Extremists <[link removed]> - The Georgia
Bureau of Investigation charged a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center with domestic terrorism for his involvement <[link removed]> Sunday in a violent attack on police officers at
the construction site for a police training facility near Atlanta. Although the SPLC claimed the attorney was a legal observer, the agitators were dressed in Antifa-style black bloc for the attack on the facility they call Cop City, and the SPLC has a long history of carrying water for Antifa rioters The SPLC claimed <[link removed]> that the lawyer’s arrest “is not evidence of any crime, but of heavy-handed law enforcement intervention against protesters.” Heritage Expert: Tyler O’Neil <[link removed]>
Memo to President Biden: Lots of Dems Want to Sunset Medicare – No Joke! <[link removed]> - Last year, more than half of all House Democrats joined Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in cosponsoring H.R. 1976 <[link removed]>, the “Medicare for All Act,” which would have “sunset” Medicare. In the Senate, 14 Democrats cosponsored <[link removed]> companion legislation by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). Of course, these politicians do not advertise the fact that their legislation would abolish Medicare. Instead, they played word games by entitling it “Medicare for All.” That way, people would think the bills aimed expanding Medicare as we know it. Heritage Expert: Robert Moffit <[link removed]>
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