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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - The TAC Interview: Carrie Prejean Boller on MAGA’s Israel Divide

The author and former Miss California USA sat down with The American Conservative to discuss her removal from the Religious Liberty Commission. The post The TAC Interview: Carrie Prejean Boller on MAGA’s Israel Divide appeared first on The American Conservative .

Politics The TAC Interview: Carrie Prejean Boller on MAGA’s Israel Divide The author and former Miss California USA sat down with The American Conservative to discuss her removal from the Religious Liberty Commission. Carrie Prejean Boller, who was recently removed from a federal religious freedom advisory commission, says her ouster followed months of conflict over her public criticism of Israel and objections to defining anti-Zionism as antisemitism. In an interview with The American Conservative, she discussed the dispute, her role in a contentious commission hearing, and divisions on the right over Israel. You were involved in a viral exchange on the Religious Liberty Commission. It ultimately led to your removal from that group.…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Joseph Addington) - Companies Are Skeptical of Venezuela’s Oil Fields

Almost the moment Venezuela’s ex-President Nicolás Maduro began cooling his heels in an American jail cell, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be taking over Venezuela’s oil resources for pleasure and profit.  “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in and […] The post Companies Are Skeptical of Venezuela’s Oil Fields appeared first on The American Conservative .

Latin America Companies Are Skeptical of Venezuela’s Oil Fields Multinationals with existing investments in the region are happy, but new investment may be hard to come by. Almost the moment Venezuela’s ex-President Nicolás Maduro began cooling his heels in an American jail cell, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be taking over Venezuela’s oil resources for pleasure and profit.  “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in and spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” he said in his address to the nation after the raid on Caracas and Maduro’s capture.…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Daniel Allott) - After Assad, Syria’s Alawites Test the New Order

On the morning the regime fell, Rashid Saad left his house before dawn and stepped onto the road outside Al-Rusafa, a village in Syria’s Alawite heartland along the Mediterranean coast. Cars clogged the road in every direction, overloaded with people and their belongings. It was bitterly cold, but that is not what he remembers most. […] The post After Assad, Syria’s Alawites Test the New Order appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs After Assad, Syria’s Alawites Test the New Order Can the new state serve all Syrians? Syria Bashar al-Assad Credit: Jordan Allott On the morning the regime fell, Rashid Saad left his house before dawn and stepped onto the road outside Al-Rusafa, a village in Syria’s Alawite heartland along the Mediterranean coast. Cars clogged the road in every direction, overloaded with people and their belongings. It was bitterly cold, but that is not what he remembers most. “There was a kind of fear,” he said. “Of something unknown.” Life in the village had never been easy. Rashid was poor, and work was hard to find. But under Bashar al-Assad, Alawites like him didn’t worry for their safety. “That was what mattered…Open

NYTIMES (Megan Specia and Stephen Castle) - In Windsor, Some See Family Drama in the Andrew Accusations

“Her children have let her down,” said one woman, referring to Queen Elizabeth II. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s fall from grace drew strong reactions from some. Others said they just did not care.

STRIPES (Linda F. Hersey) - Veterans group warns of eroding VA health services as private-sector coverage grows | Stars and Stripes

Some veterans worry the $1 trillion plan to expand private-sector health coverage over the next decade will hollow out VA coverage.

THEFEDERALIST (Eddie Scarry) - Confrontational State Of The Union Speeches Help America And Should Be The New Norm

There were rumors that President Trump’s first State of the Union address was going to run two hours and anyone would be forgiven for dreading it, but it turns out it was a politically confrontational spectacle that this country needed and deserved. Trump used his nationally televised speech Tuesday to draw attention over and over […]

AMERICANGREATNESS (Debra Heine) - DHS Blasts Democrats For Bringing Illegal Aliens to Trump’s SOTU Address

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday called out Democrat members of Congress for inviting noncitizens and an anti-ICE agitator to attend President Donald […] Source

YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Democrats are laser-focused on affordability: Gov. Spanberger | State of the Union

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger delivered the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address, highlighting one of the most pressing concerns to Americans: affordability. “Is the president working to make life more affordable? ... We all know the answer is no,” Spanberger said. #affordability #stateoftheunion #democratresponse NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.