Plus: Republicans Rally to Senator’s Defense for Holding Pentagon Promotions Over Abortion Policy
April 1 2023
Happy April Fool’s Day from Washington, where colleagues back a GOP senator as he fights the Pentagon’s new abortion policy. Our Rob Bluey reports. The head of a center that studies extremism pulls no punches over the massacre at a Christian school in Nashville, Tyler O’Neil writes, while Victor Davis Hanson argues that the left-wing attack machine is papering over that shooting. Plus: the nation’s homeland security chief subverts his duty; two new state AGs take on trial lawyers; critics of China are the victims of a cruel hoax; and trans activists team with Antifa to spoil a pro-life event. On this date in 1970, President Richard Nixon, himself known for liking a pipe, signs legislation banning cigarette ads on television and radio. Enjoy the weekend.
Actress Jane Fonda boasted that women weren’t going to retreat on abortion rights. And if their marching and protesting weren’t enough, Fonda smirked, “Well, I’ve thought of murder.”
Brian Levin, president of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, refers to the Nashville school shooting as “an apparent terror attack targeting Christians.”
Testifying in two hearings, Mayorkas reveals the utter empty shell that is Biden’s stated plan for border security, while unwittingly laying out the real six-pillar plan.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach both terminate state contracts with Morgan & Morgan, a megafirm with more than 800 trial lawyers.
“Antifa came for a fight,” says Students for Life’s Tina Whittington. “The protesters had three chants they kept recycling: ‘Fascists Go Home,’ ‘Nazis Go Home,’ and ‘F— Pro-lifers.’”
The Justice Department’s complaint in a federal court in Ohio, filed on behalf of the EPA, seeks penalties for what it calls the unlawful discharge of pollutants, oil, and hazardous substances.
“It takes a lot of chutzpah to indict somebody for essentially a scrivener or bookkeeping error for an alleged incident that occurred almost a decade ago,” Heritage Foundation scholar Cully Stimson says.
