Plus: Forgotten DC Riots Did Far More Than Physical Damage to America
June 5 2023
Good morning from Washington, where Black Lives Matter-inspired riots three years ago left a stain on the nation’s character. Jarrett Stepman reviews the lasting effects. New evidence may make it harder for a left-wing cause to defend itself for throwing around the “hate group” label, Tyler O’Neil reports. On the podcast, commentator-activist Star Parker says conservatives can learn to connect with black Americans. Plus: Elon Musk comments on injustice in trans orthodoxy; a judge sees Big Brother in Biden’s censorship via Big Tech; and the D.C. mayor’s effort to put the National Guard under her command.Fifty-five years ago today, an assassin fatally shoots Sen. Robert F. Kennedy as he departs Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel after celebrating his victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy dies the next day.
D.A. King unearthed an article on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website showing that it had stated publicly that his organization wasn’t a “hate group” before reversing course.
Billionaire Elon Musk tweets about The Daily Signal story of a Vermont family who spoke out against a biological male using their daughter’s locker room.
Author and activist Star Parker notes that although black Americans often identify with the Left and the Democratic Party, many are evangelical Christians and social conservatives.
“This bill gives Biden a blank check until after the election while only giving a promise on meager spending cuts,” says Richard Stern, a budget policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation.
President Biden’s censorship efforts with Big Tech companies shock a federal judge, who asks the administration whether the president’s staff ever read George Orwell’s novel “1984.”
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser attempted to take control of the D.C. National Guard last year, with the stated goal of addressing a surge in illegal immigrants, by pressuring the White House.
Teachers unions can’t tolerate one sin, and they’re willing to break the law in order to virtue signal. That sin? Exercising one’s religious freedom by choosing not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
