Plus: More Evidence Emerges That the Media Is on Team Biden
March 17 2021
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Washington, where the Biden administration is in denial over the border crisis. We’ve got a fact-check of the official line by three Heritage Foundation experts. You’re not imagining that most of the media is in the tank for President Biden, Tim Murtaugh writes. On the podcast, we look at the woke remaking of big corporations with the author of a book on it. Plus: hold on to your firearms; when faith makes you less equal; and “poison” on the Navy’s reading list. On this date in 1969, Ukrainian-born and Wisconsin-reared Golda Meir, 70, is elected as Israel’s fourth prime minister and to date is the only woman to win the post.
The left-wing claim that gun control legislation would save lives is demonstrably false. The cities with the highest murder rates and levels of other violent crime have the strictest gun regulations.
The Equality Act would give government free rein to restrict, compromise, or even eliminate the fundamental right to practice religion in pursuit of a political agenda.
Reps. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., and Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., ask the Navy to pull three books promoting identity politics and wokeness from its official reading list.
“Activist shareholders began pressuring companies 10, 15, even 20 years ago to do what the activists wanted … the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” says Stephen Soukup.
“If the Democrats break the rules to kill [the filibuster] … then we will use every other rule to make tens of millions of Americans’ voices heard,” says Senate Minority Leader McConnell.