Good morning from just outside the nation’s capital, where Fox News star Tucker Carlson sounds the alarm on America’s future in a speech saluting The Heritage Foundation on its 50th anniversary. Elizabeth Troutman and Ken McIntyre report. Related events include a discussion of depoliticizing the Justice Department, covered by Fred Lucas, and a millennial podcast host’s challenge to parents, reported by Tony Kinnett. Plus: Victor Davis Hanson on the elderly false faces of the new Democratic Party; Pete Parisi on The Washington Post’s intentional misrepresentation of Florida’s governor; and other timely commentaries by Ben Shapiro, Terence Jeffrey, and Tim Graham. On this date in 1876, the Boston Red Caps beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 6-5, in the first official National League baseball game, played in front of 3,000 fans on the Athletics' home field.
“The second you decide to tell the truth about something, you are filled with this power from somewhere else,” says the Fox News host. “The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become.”
Older Democrat lawmakers' role has changed from that of liberals of the Clinton era to serving as the thin, power-holding veneer that masks the new real Democratic Party.
“When did we move into this post-truth era where we can’t distinguish between ‘up’ and ‘down,’ between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and ‘true’ and ‘false?’” asks the podcast host.
President Biden once again exposes his radical idiocy by opposing legislation that would prevent biological men from competing in women’s sports at federally funded institutions.
The Post’s virtue-signaling masthead deplores that “Democracy dies in darkness,” even as its own editorial board deliberately leaves readers in the dark.
It’s a heady time for badly disguised Democrats in the “objective media,” seeing Fox News settle a fake-news lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over unproven claims of mass voting machine fraud.