Plus: Texas Set to Give Boot to Leftist DEI Offices at Public College Campuses
May 24 2023
Good morning from Washington, where politicians on the Left keep trying to gaslight the rest of us about raising the nation’s debt limit without requiring new spending discipline. David Ditch knocks down seven silly arguments. Wonder whether any of your favorite companies disdain your values? Here’s a useful tool, Gigi De La Torre writes. On the podcast, Tyler O’Neil interviews a former Israeli mayor with firsthand experience of terrorism who warns Americans of the radical threat here. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on Texas’ move to abolish diversity officers at public universities; Joshua Arnold on Nebraska’s double play on abortion and gender transitions; and Virginia Allen on a mother’s story of an MS-13 killer. On this date in 1935, the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1, in Major League Baseball’s first night game, played under lights at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field.
Our colleges and universities are the woke Left’s equivalent of religious institutions. Too long have public universities been given a blank check to do as they please.
Democrats have deployed at least seven false, misleading, or nonsensical claims over the past few weeks to pressure House Speaker Kevin McCarthy into caving in on the debt limit fight.
Under Biden, the southern “border” has become a giant, open-air staging ground from which illegal aliens bludgeon U.S. territorial integrity and national sovereignty.