Plus: Journalism Groups Won’t Condemn NSA ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson
August 4 2021
Good morning from Washington, where the Senate finally lets Americans see what’s in its 2,700-page “infrastructure” bill. We’ve got analysis from six Heritage Foundation researchers. Don’t hold your breath waiting for journalism groups to criticize the government for shabby treatment of a Fox News host. Fred Lucas has details. On the podcast, Virginia Allen interviews a chaplain who lost his job for a sermon resisting the LGBT agenda. Plus: President Biden takes on three governors; Sen. Elizabeth Warren touts abortion to Teen Vogue; and China beefs up its missile inventory. Eighty-five years ago today, black American Jesse Owens earns gold in the long jump on the way to four gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin.
This package would be the largest tax-and-spend bill in the history of the world. It would also seek to give amnesty, expand welfare benefits, and deliver the radical Green New Deal agenda.
Most journalism advocacy groups, while boasting of defending a free press, declined to express concern about a government spy agency’s “unmasking” of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
“I’m sure there were some embraces that were totally innocent, but apparently the attorney general decided there were things that weren’t,” President Biden says of Gov. Cuomo.
China has been engaged in an unprecedented military buildup of its conventional forces for some time, and it has recently begun to pay significant attention to building out its strategic nuclear forces.