June 14 2021
 
Good morning from Washington, where the Biden administration continues to deny that the nation’s southern border is being rushed by illegal immigrants whom it invited to come. The experience of one Texas border town illustrates the crisis, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, we learn how American capitalism is threatened by foundations endowed by great capitalists. Plus: exposing more fake news on Trump; the origins of the Army; and your letters on woke craziness. On this date in 1922, President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to be heard over radio; the occasion is a speech at a memorial site for Francis Scott Key, composer of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
 
 
 
NEWS
Border Town of Del Rio Blames Biden for Flood of Illegal Immigrants
By Fred Lucas

Illegal immigrants have started fires on the Texas ranch and twice tried to break into the house where she and her husband live with three young daughters, Allison Anderson says.
COMMENTARY
Communism Survivor Speaks Out Against Critical Race Theory
By Daily Signal Staff

"What's going on in our schools and in our country is really a replay of the Cultural Revolution in China," Xi Van Fleet says.
ANALYSIS
Ford, Mellon, Rockefeller Made Their Fortunes Thanks to Capitalism. Now, Their Foundations Seek to Undermine It.
By Rob Bluey

Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon flourished because of America's free enterprise system. But their foundations are now pursuing a much different agenda, warns Rick Graber of the Philanthropy...
COMMENTARY
Celebrating the 246th Birthday of America's Army
By Thomas Spoehr

When the Army fights a major campaign, it adds a streamer—a narrow ribbon—to the Army flag. The Army flag has 190 campaign streamers today.
COMMENTARY
Trump Park-Clearing Story Latest in Long Line of Media Narratives to Fall Apart
By Tim Murtaugh

“A narrative we thought we knew is not the reality.” That sentence, uttered by NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian, could be applied to a number of “accepted as fact” news stories in the Trump era.
COMMENTARY
We Hear You: Woke Employees, Race in Schools, and Defunded Police
By Ken McIntyre

“We had an African American president for eight years. A racist country doesn’t do that. We have a black and a Hispanic on the highest court in the land,” writes Michael Scotto.
COMMENTARY
ICYMI: This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution
By Victor Davis Hanson

Woke revolutionaries are not panhandlers, street people, or Grateful Dead groupies. They are “the Man.”
 
     
 
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