Trump Takes a Promising First Step to Resolving Our Balkanization Crisis

Plus: Men Already Enter Women's Locker Room at My Pool. Now Congress Could Make It Worse.

May 17, 2019   Happy Friday from Washington, where House Republicans hope to block what they say is Democrats' bid to make sexual orientation and gender identity more important than religious freedom or women's safety and privacy. Rachel del Guidice has the GOP take, while Natassia Grover offers a mom's personal view. President Trump outlines a way forward in reforming the nation's broken immigration system. We've got the news from Fred Lucas and commentary from Mike Gonzalez. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on diversity madness on campus and Daniel Davis on foreign policy that honors America's founding. Enjoy your weekend.     Commentary Trump Takes a Promising First Step to Resolving Our Balkanization Crisis When Trump opened his remarks by saying, "Out of many people, from many places, we have forged a nation under God," he was not "breaking norms," but returning the country to the norm that has existed for centuries. More Commentary Men Already Enter the Women's Locker Room at My Local Pool. Now Congress Could Make It Worse. When I expressed my dismay about the bathroom policy, the pool director asked me point-blank: "How much privacy do you need?" More News Trump Rolls Out Merit-Based Plan to Transform Immigration System "We discriminate against genius," says Trump, whose plan would increase the portion of legal immigrants arriving for job-related reasons from 12% to 57%. More Commentary 'Unplanned' Is Driving Abortion Workers Out of the Industry One woman said, "I … heard everyone gasping and I thought to myself, 'Oh my gosh, this really isn't normal, what I'm doing every day. ... I've been trained to believe that it is, but it's not,'" says Abby Johnson. More News Equality Act Would Impose Sexual Orthodoxy, GOP Leaders Warn The Equality Act "ultimately chips away at our religious freedoms, would jeopardize Title IX sports programs, and puts our children at risk by eliminating parental consent in life-altering medical procedures," says House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. More Analysis Pompeo: 'America First' Foreign Policy Is What the Founders Envisioned The particularity and uniqueness of America mean that it cannot be replicated elsewhere—at least not easily, and certainly not by U.S. coercion. The best we can do is protect the rare jewel that we have in America with a foreign policy that is muscular but not adventurist. More Commentary New SAT 'Adversity Score' Turns the Idea of Meritocracy Into a Sham The adversity score system makes sense for diversity-obsessed colleges, but it hardly ensures that our schools will admit and graduate the best and brightest among us. More Commentary Susan Collins, Not Pelosi, Is the True Profile in Courage Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was subjected to threats of sexual assault and even death ahead of the Senate's vote in October on the nomination of federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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