Lawmakers closing ranks on a bipartisan bill to fix VA’s troubled EHR rollout

House and Senate lawmakers from both parties agree the Department of Veterans Affairs’ rollout of a new Electronic Health Record is falling short of expectations. Top Democrats and Republicans on the House and Senate VA committees introduced several EHR reform bills over the past few months. But with the VA back at the bargaining table with Oracle-Cerner, seeking a tougher contract, lawmakers are starting to close ranks on which bill has the best chance of making it through Congress. House VA Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-Calif.) said he’s working…

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The New Pro-life Movement Has a Plan to End Abortion

The unpleasant reality facing the anti-abortion movement is that most Americans don’t actually want to ban abortion. This explains why the pro-life summer of triumph, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, led to a season of such demoralizing political outcomes. Voters in Montana, Kansas, and Kentucky in November rejected ballot measures to make abortion illegal; just last month, in Wisconsin, voters elected an abortion-rights supporter to the state supreme court. Yet the movement’s activists don’t seem to care. Thirteen states automatically banned most abortions with trigger laws…

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Failing to Create Brotherhood of Man, UN Promotes Sex With Children

“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law.” So says a March report released by the United Nations. In simpler terms, the U.N. is saying that minors can consent to sex, and that this is a human right. This tweet by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts gets even more to the point. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.) When we say they’re coming for your kids, we’re not kidding. pic.twitter.com/v6Yd3eKhfl — Kevin Roberts…

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Fox News Settlement Won’t Deter Efforts to Call Out Their Lies and Their Advertisers

MoveOn launches Stop Funding Fox website to expose cable providers and Fox advertisers like Comcast and AT&T “The news of this settlement changes nothing about the endless stream of dangerous lies that saturates Fox News’ airwaves. A nine-figure settlement may protect Fox News executives from the judgment of a jury, but the findings surrounding this case have exposed Fox News and forever branded them as right-wing MAGA propaganda. “Our work to call out their lies and those who enable those lies continues. That’s why we launched our Stop Funding Fox website.…

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Fort Rucker sheds its Confederate moniker with a name change

Another Army installation named for a Confederate general got a name change Monday. Alabama’s Fort Rucker, known as the home of Army aviation, will now be called Fort Novosel. Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael Novosel was awarded a Medal of Honor for flying a medical evacuation under fire during the Vietnam War. The fort previously carried the name of Confederate General Edmond Rucker, who worked in the railroad business, after the Civil War, with Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. Fort Novosel is the second in…

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