Plus: US Far Left, Chinese Communist Party Are Ideological Kissing Cousins
April 2 2021
Good morning from Washington, where House Republican leaders demand to know why taxpayers paid for Democrats’ get-out-the-vote efforts in California. Fred Lucas reports on that and Hunter Biden’s troubling business ties in Ukraine. America’s far left takes cues from China’s communist leaders, Mike Gonzalez writes. On the podcast, a firearms dealer with an intriguing backstory touts gun safety amid new calls to restrict the Second Amendment. Plus: returning to the Constitution and pinpointing responsibility for the border mess. On this date in 1917, Jeannette Pickering Rankin, a Republican and the first woman ever elected to Congress, takes her seat in the Capitol as a representative from Montana. It’s Good Friday.
House Republicans say they still want to know why $35 million in taxpayer dollars went to a Democrat-aligned consulting firm to boost voting last year in California—and whether it was even legal.
Moving against Igor Kolomoisky could indicate the Biden administration won’t take the political risk of interfering in legal matters that could lead back to the younger Biden.
Border crossers with COVID-19 “are being confined in large groups and small areas where it’s much easier to spread,” says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Geneva Solomon, a black woman living in California, may not look like the media’s idea of a stereotypical gun shop owner. But she’s passionate about gun education and the dangers of gun control.
The federal appeals court’s decision is the first of its kind, and establishes a needed boundary against American culture’s brutish new sexual orthodoxy.
