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Just the News
- SSA rolling out 'new anti-fraud capabilities' to better 'protect beneficiaries'Leland Dudek, Acting Commissioner of Social Security says the "updates improve our ability to detect and prevent fraud while providing more flexible options for people to access their benefits."
- Russia launches more than 80 drones in overnight attack on Ukraine, injuring fourUkraine says its forces shot down 56 of 88 Russian drones.
- Blue states make up most of about $400 million in unemployment fraud from last 4 years: DOGECalifornia, New York and Massachusetts were responsible for about $300 million of the $400 million in unemployment fraud
- Envoys from Iran and U.S. agree to additional talks over Tehran’s nuclear program: ReportThe first round of indirect talks included U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei
- Trump exempts smartphones, computers and chips from new tariffsThe guidance that was issued also excludes flash drives and memory cards from the new tariffs
Real Clear Politics
- The EU Thinks It Can Rob America BlindThe EU's Digital Markets Act is a flawed experiment, born of envy rather than vision.
- The Case for a 'Trump to Tehran' StrategyHow to turn maximum pressure into personal diplomacy.
- Megyn Kelly Goes the Distance in Podcast JournalismMegyn Kelly's career in media is set to break new ground with a morning news briefing and a new media company.
- Democrats Making a Fatal Error Opposing DOGEDemocrats have failed to make a coherent case in their opposition to DOGE and its efforts to clean up government spending.
- Trump Has Created a Legal NightmareThe president is using obscure statutes in shocking ways as part of his anti-immigrant witch hunt.
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Dennis Prager
- The Democrats’ 2020 Victory Was a Blessing in DisguiseI never imagined I would think, let alone write, that the Democratic Party’s victory in 2020 was a blessing. But for those of us — meaning, it is now clear, a majority of us — who regard the Left as an entirely destructive force in America as it is everywhere else in the world, 2020 […]
- Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral RealmIt may be impossible to overstate the damage done to morality by the Democrats and other leftists calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi and declaring him “Hitler.” Asked by Anderson Cooper on CNN if she believes Trump is a “fascist,” Kamala Harris said, “Yes, I do.” With regard to calling Trump “Hitler,” Newsweek’s […]
- The Secular Keep Me ReligiousI have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my — or any — religion doesn’t make sense, I don’t accept it. That’s why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is titled “The Rational Bible.” This strikes more than a few religious people as problematic, since many […]
- Israel Made the West. Israel Is Saving the West.It is a truism that the West was formed by Athens and Jerusalem — meaning the rational thinking introduced by Greece and the moral and religious thought introduced by Israel. Of the two, Jerusalem’s contribution was the more enduring. Relatively few Westerners read Aristotle and Plato. Virtually every citizen of the West — even the […]
- People Hate Those Who Fight Evil Far More Than Those Who Are EvilI realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school. I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil. What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to […]