1. Michele Steeb: HUD's Homelessness Reforms Put
Human Lives Ahead of Housing Bureaucracy
2. Judd Dunning: Overinflated Controversies
Shouldn't Decide Midterms
3. Michael Levine: How the Democratic Party Turned on
Israel
4. Todd Sheets: Trump & Xi – It's Not Time to
Poke the Panda
5. Kenneth Rapoza: Senate Aging Committee Chairman
Makes Bold Prediction on Rx Labeling Laws
6. Daniel Greenfield: DOJ Secures Guilty Pleas for
Dozen Non-Citizen Illegal Voters
7. James Hirsen: How Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Became a Digital Influencer
HUD's Homelessness Reforms Put Human Lives Ahead of Housing
Bureaucracy
By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert
Chronic homelessness rose 81% since 2013
despite soaring spending under the previous strategy.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to move forward with
desperately needed reforms to the nation's homelessness system. After months of
litigation by the Homeless Industrial Complex to repeatedly block these
reforms, the decision allows HUD to redefine success and fund the programs that
generate the greatest success in moving the homeless toward recovery,
restoration and self-sufficiency... and not a moment too soon. Success will now be measured by whether people are
getting better: recovering, working, reconnecting and reclaiming their lives.
[more...]
Overinflated Controversies Shouldn't Decide Midterms
By Judd
Dunning, Talk Show Host, Newsmax Columnist
With the midterms fast approaching, voters should know that President
Trump has become one of the most consequential deconstructionist,
anti-globalist and anti-bureaucratic presidents of the modern era. He's
challenged the administrative state, decades of free trade orthodoxy, our
approach to illegal immigration, and basic assumptions governing America's
relationships abroad. Whether you like him personally is irrelevant. Voters
should know about his enormous policy changes. Deregulation and the
administrative state may be the most important and least discussed part of
Trump's presidency. He ordered agencies to eliminate at least 10 regulations
for every significant new one. [more...]
How the Democratic Party Turned on Israel
By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert,
Author of Authentic
PR
The Democratic Party's long-standing support
for Israel has reached a turning point, and a July House vote put the division
on public display. On July 15, 103 House Democrats voted for an amendment that
would have eliminated $3.3 billion in U.S. security assistance to Israel. 98
Democrats voted against it, while 10 voted "present." The amendment
failed, but the tally exposed a party split on one of America's closest
alliances. For years, support for Israel was a point of bipartisan agreement. Now
more than half of House Democrats who took a position voted to cut its security
aid. That is no longer a fringe argument. It is a roll call. [more...]
Trump & Xi – It's Not Time to Poke the Panda
By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist,
Author of 2008: What Really Happened
Both the left and right have panned Trump for the pomp and
circumstance he afforded Xi in their recent meetings. But this once again
misses the mark. I believe Trump's current agenda includes: a) dominating and
reaping the economic, social, and security rewards of AI, b) finishing the job
in Iran (after the mid-terms), c) taking on the drug cartels and turning Cuba
in Latin America. At some point, we will be forced to deal with China's
expansionist ambitions, which include Taiwan and the control of internationally
critical waterways and technologies. Ideally, we will postpone this
confrontation until after we have completed our objectives in the Middle East
and Latin America. Giving Xi the international recognition he craves costs us nothing
and hopefully will help defer this inevitable confrontation until we are best
positioned to deal with it. [more...]
Senate Aging Committee Chairman Makes Bold Prediction on Rx
Labeling Laws
By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for
Coalition for a Prosperous America
Chairman Rick Scott (R-FL) of the Senate Aging
Committee made a prediction during a hearing on domestic generic
drug manufacturing saying that his CLEAR Labels Act will become
law this year. The law would require drug makers put the source of their active
pharmaceutical ingredients, or APIs – the key active ingredients that make up
the final product itself – on the label. As it is, drug companies tend to put
nothing on the label, or only where the medicine was distributed and packaged.
There is a hope that labeling requirements would be a step in the direction of
giving U.S. generic drug manufacturers more preferential treatment, but this
would require more acts of Congress, the FDA, or new rules for defense
department procurement officers in charge of buying medicine for veteran
hospitals. [more...]
DOJ Secures Guilty Pleas for Dozen Non-Citizen Illegal Voters
By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center
You know that thing that we keep being told
never happens? It somehow keeps happening. Apparently given a chance, people
will indeed vote illegally. That's backed up by the entire history of democracy
and the recent guilt by a dozen non-citizen voters. There's
no question that illegal voting is real and states that refuse to implement a
simple fix, Voter ID, to implement it, are aiding and abetting it. [more...]
How Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Became a Digital Influencer
By James
Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business
Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator
At a time when content creators are competing for attention
through the use of stunts, dance routines, and street brawls, Christianity's
most unlikely rising digital star is a man who passed away fourteen years
before the first iPhone was released. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, renown
philosopher, theologian, and television pioneer, is now officially on a path
toward sainthood. What is remarkable is that he has already achieved something
quite unlike anything the modern world has seen before; a posthumous social
media influencer whose reach is larger now than when he first conquered the
airwaves. In language that ordinary folks could understand, an estimated 30
million viewers tuned in weekly to watch a Catholic bishop explain the
existence of God, the problem of suffering, and the meaning of sacrifice. He
was, by any modern metric, a true influencer. [more...]
