May 3 2023
 
Good morning  from Washington, where Senate Democrats talk like they’ve got stronger ethics than Supreme Court justices. Fred Lucas reports. It’s been a year since the leak of the high court opinion ending abortion on demand, and Mary Margaret Olohan reviews the fallout. On the podcast, the Job Creators Network applauds what House Republicans did about the nation’s debt limit. Plus: defunding nonprofits that enable illegal immigration; forcing federal employees to return to the office; taking back parental responsibility for educating kids; and girding for a new rush at the border. On this date in 1954,  the Supreme Court unanimously rules that the 14th Amendment applies to all races and ethnicities, declaring that civil rights laws include Hispanics and other nonwhites. 
 
 
 
NEWS
6 Takeaways as Senate Democrats Target Clarence Thomas and Legitimacy of Supreme Court
By Fred Lucas

“Only Supreme Court justices refuse to allow their conduct to be investigated or reviewed,” says Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., during a Judiciary Committee hearing.
NEWS
1 Year Later: Dobbs Leak Led to Attacks on Justices, Pro-Lifers, Catholics
By Mary Margaret Olohan

How the Supreme Court leak spurred illegal protests, attacks on Catholic Churches and pro-life pregnancy centers, and an assassination attempt.
COMMENTARY
Congress Must Defund Nonprofits Aiding Biden’s Open-Border Operations
By Lora Ries

What started out as faith-based groups helping the government resettle genuine refugees in the U.S. has evolved into an immigration industrial complex worth billions of dollars.
COMMENTARY
What If 1 Day the Federal Workforce Just Disappeared? Turns Out, It Has
By Thomas Spoehr, Rachel Greszler, Jessica Costescu

President Biden even agrees that federal workers should return to the office to restore traffic and commerce in the nation’s capital now that the pandemic is over. So what's the problem?
ANALYSIS
GOP 'Did What They Had to Do' on Debt Ceiling, Job Creators Network Head Says
By Samantha Aschieris

Alfredo Ortiz, president of the Job Creators Network, says Republicans did what they needed to do on the debt ceiling, and President Biden bears the blame for inflation.
COMMENTARY
Tucker Carlson, Transgenderism, and the Battle for Civilizational Sanity
By Josh Hammer

I hope Tucker Carlson will retain his exceptional level of cultural and political influence, because his witness to truth and civilizational sanity never have been more necessary.
COMMENTARY
Parents Get Back in Charge of Their Children’s Education
By Adam Kissel

Parents in the pandemic era have asserted themselves with new vigor for the sake of their children.
COMMENTARY
What Are Illegal Chinese Communist Government Police Stations Doing in the US?
By Zack Smith

China’s communist government operates 100 overseas police stations in at least 53 countries—including at least seven throughout the U.S. If it sounds shocking, it’s because it is.
NEWS
Biden, Texas Gear Up for Supercharged Border Crisis, Expected Wave of Migrants Later This Month
By Virginia Allen

Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: Illegal alien encounters at the southern border will increase when Title 42 expires.
 
     
 
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