Good morning! Here is your news briefing for Tuesday October 15, 2019.

THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON

Iranian-American Businessman Coordinated With UAE Monarch to Target Iran Critics, Lawsuit Alleges By Adam Kredo Review: ‘Tough Love’ by Susan Rice By Andrew Stiles ABC News Airs Phony Syria Footage By Alex Griswold Booker: Buttigieg ‘Doing the NRA’s Work for Them’ By Cameron Cawthorne CNN Failed to Disclose Warren Town Hall Questioner Was Maxed-Out Donor By Alex Griswold Asked to Condemn Omar, Dem Congressman Calls Crenshaw Racist By David Rutz Iranian Supreme Leader Orders Construction of Advanced Weaponry By Adam Kredo Steyer: If GOP Wins in 2020, ‘Literally It Could Be the End of the World’ By Elizabeth Matamoros You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. Copyright © 2019 Free Beacon, LLC, All rights reserved.  To reject freedom, click here. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

THE DAILY SIGNAL

Oct 15, 2019

Good morning from Washington. How many lives do guns save every year? Cooper Conway and Amy Swearer look at how many good guys have been able to use guns in self-defense recently. What’s happening in our nation? Victor Davis Hanson has a nostalgic look back at the strength of older generations, and their achievements. Plus: Lousiania Democrat Katrina Jackson explains how you both be on the left and pro-life, Armstrong Williams weighs in on what’s motivating Trump impeachment cheerleaders, and Nicole Russell on a sad story from our nothern neighbor.

	Commentary These Gun Owners Were Able to Confront Criminals in September Example No. 2: After a woman parked her vehicle outside her home in the early morning, two men attempted to rob her. The woman drew her firearm from her purse and fired two rounds at the men, who ran away. More Commentary Canadian Court Strips Father of Rights, Allowing Teen to Transition Against His Wishes In addition to stripping him of his right to have a say in his child’s medical treatments, the lower court ordered the father to use the child’s chosen pronouns, which are now male. More Analysis A Democrat Explains Why She’s Pro-Life “We ran midweek service one night and got to the Book of Proverbs and said, ‘God hated the shedding of innocent blood,’” says Sen.-elect. Katrina Jackson. “What’s more innocent than a baby’s life? I said, ‘Anything that God hates, I’m going to hate.’” More News 3 Big Wins for Religious Liberty Indicate Tide Is Turning In 2017, Air Force Col. Leland Bohannon’s superiors tried to suspend him for not signing a “certificate of appreciation” for a same-sex spouse of a retiring service member under his command. More Commentary Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants Our ancestors were builders and pioneers and mostly fearless. We are regulators, auditors, bureaucrats, adjudicators, censors, critics, plaintiffs, defendants, social media junkies, and thin-skinned scolds. More Commentary The Deep State Plot Against Trump Trump’s personal peccadilloes and petty offenses seem to be just that—a petty justification for removing the president by the extreme measure of impeachment. More

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THE EPOCH TIMES

View this email in your browser “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ROBERT FROST Good morning,  Newly released trade data shows both imports and exports dropped for China last month.  This comes after over a year of U.S. tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods.  China has so far refused to comment on the details of a “phase one” trade deal with the United States. Read full story here   Trump Signs Executive Order to Impose Sanctions, Visa Bans on Turkey Health Care for Illegal Immigrants Could Cost Up to $23 Billion a Year: Report Trump: 1,000 US Troops To Stay in Syria to Stop ISIS Revival 3 Economists Who Study Poverty Win Nobel Prize   President Donald Trump’s former Russia adviser testified behind closed doors as part of the Democrat-run impeachment inquiry focused on the president’s request for Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Read more The state of California is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide if they want to file lawsuits, the latest in a growing trend among states to loosen statute of limitation laws in the United States. Read more CNN President Jeff Zucker has insisted the cable news network has to maximally focus on pushing the story of Democrats trying to impeach President Donald Trump, despite objections by staffers that the push is harming the organization’s journalistic integrity, according to undercover recordings. Read more After Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) attempted to enter a closed-door impeachment hearing on Monday, he accused the Democratic House leadership of barring the House Judiciary Committee members from hearings. Read more Five public universities in Virginia racially discriminate against would-be students, particularly Asian Americans, in the admissions process, according to a study by the Center for Equal Opportunity. Read more ABC News put out a correction and took down a video recorded at a Kentucky gun range after falsely claiming it was footage of the armed conflict in Syria. Read more   See More Top Stories You can now turn your phone into a beacon of real news! With the new Epoch Times app, you won’t miss any important news and deep analysis, wherever you are! Try the app, at the moment it’s only for iPhones, android coming soon. Download Your App Here The Rise of Young Black Conservatives By Larry Elder This past weekend, I spoke for the second time at the second annual Black Leadership Summit in Washington, hosted by Turning Point USA. Turning Point was founded in 2012 by then-18-year-old Charlie Kirk. Its website describes its goal as seeking “to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.” Read more Blackouts and Cover-Ups: Why ALL Americans Must Work to ‘Secure the Grid’ By Michael Mabee & Tommy Waller The current self-inflicted Pacific Gas & Electric Co. blackouts in California are a cautionary tale for the rest of the United States. In fact, we shouldn’t be as shocked as we are that over 800,000 customers are likely to lose power this week as PG&E struggles to maintain its aged infrastructure… Read more   See More Opinions China’s Economy: Is There Something We Are Missing? By Valentin Schmid (May 7, 2016) On the surface, things are quite straight forward: China has been growing fast thanks to a historic expansion in debt and recently failed to transition its economy from investment in things that don’t move to consumers who move around and buy stuff. Read more Today we sit down with Dr. Michael Rectenwald, a former professor at New York University and author of “The Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom.” This book actually shook me to my core. We discuss Dr. Rectenwald’s vision of how Big Tech, influenced by marxist and postmodernist thought, increasingly enables a toxic mix of censorship, surveillance, social engineering and “social justice” policies that in effect create a digital equivalent of the Soviet Gulag. The Dangerous Mix: Big Tech & Social Justice Ideology Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account.