Plus: 8 Things to Know About Whether COVID-19 Leaked From Chinese Lab
June 7 2021
Good morning from Washington, where more lawmakers are focusing on the origins of the new coronavirus and whether U.S. funding of Chinese research had anything to do with it. Our Fred Lucas rounds up key elements. The cofounder of a nonprofit shares how it survived a mutiny by woke employees. More Californians are becoming Texans, and today’s podcast unpacks that trend. Plus: U.S. citizens take drug money to help illegal immigrants elude capture; the president’s pro-abortion budget; and your letters on hot topics. On this date in 1942, the Battle of Midway ends with a decisive victory for the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet, which destroys four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one.
In order to withstand attacks, you’ll need to be armed with an understanding of the ideas in play, and the courage to stand up to bullies. I hope my story can help give you both.
The renewed attention comes amid mounting circumstantial evidence that the new coronavirus that causes the disease came from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
An increasing number of U.S. citizens are taking money from Mexican cartels to receive illegal immigrants into the U.S. from the Mexican border and smuggle them into the interior of U.S.
“People come here for their own, very deeply personal reasons,” says Chuck DeVore of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “You can't assume that because someone came here from a blue state that they're...
"If voter ID is not going to happen, then no one should ever have to show ID to get on a plane, go into a courthouse, get a job, cash a check, or get a driver’s license," writes Larry Farrell.
Rebekah Randall’s son’s teacher wrote the letters “BLM” on the board one day to describe something that inspires her, a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement.
