Plus: Is My Money Safe? Financial Expert Explains Recent Bank Failures, Questions Activity of JPMorgan Chase
May 15 2023
Good morning from Washington this National Police Week. Based on a left-wing group’s say-so, the FBI apparently checked out the editor of a traditionalist Catholic newspaper. Tyler O’Neil has that troubling story, as well as interviews with congressmen from three states bracing for a surge of illegal immigrants. On the podcast, investment adviser David Bahnsen unpacks the effects of bank failures, woke capitalism, and interest rate hikes on ordinary Americans. Plus: back to basics with poetry in class; responding to the plight of unaccompanied kids at the border; and the Left’s misleading assault on the Supreme Court. On this date in 1982, Paul McCartney’s duet with Stevie Wonder, “Ebony and Ivory,” hits No. 1 on Billboard’s pop chart, where it will remain for seven weeks.
The FBI appears, at least briefly, to have joined the Southern Poverty Law Center’s attempt to demonize Catholics who follow the church’s teachings on marriage and celebrate the Latin Mass.
A JPMorgan Chase shareholder explains why he has proposed a resolution calling on the bank to investigate whether it is discriminating against clients for their religious or political views.
Reciting great works of poetry will reacquaint students with the existence of truth, goodness, and beauty, teaching them what no ideology can—namely, how to be at leisure.
Unaccompanied alien children are often brutally mistreated on the journey, and many don’t have happy endings. Sadly, unknown numbers are sex-trafficked, subjected to child labor, and face other abuses.
The current disinformation operation amounts to one big, crass intimidation tactic—a flexing of muscle by what the late Andrew Breitbart famously called the “Democrat-media complex.”
It is eerie how each tragedy prompts a desperate effort to spin narratives of a racist America, where only right-wing killers and vigilantes prey on people of color and those who are transgender.
