Plus: Election Reforms Multiply in States Across Nation
May 7 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where some educrats think it’s just fine to teach kids to judge other kids based on skin color. In a hopeful sign, that’s not going down well in a Dallas suburb, Jarrett Stepman writes. States across America are passing or considering election reforms to prevent cheating, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, a state senator decries media misrepresentation of Georgia’s new election law. Plus: deportations of illegal immigrants plummet, and NASA flirts with China. On this date in 1915, a German submarine torpedoes the British ocean liner Lusitania near Ireland, sinking it within 20 minutes and drowning 1,198 of 1,959 aboard, including 128 Americans.
One of the newly elected Texas school board members, Hannah Smith, says she and other parents mobilized to fight the "false narrative" that their community is racist.
Georgia and Florida have passed election-related bills, while similar bills are working their way through legislatures in Texas, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
China is expanding its space capabilities, placing additional satellite constellations around Earth and further exploiting “cislunar” space, the area between Earth and the moon.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials performed a record low number of deportations in April despite illegal border crossings occurring at a 20-year high.
