Plus: Biden Chief of Staff Backs Green Energy Despite His Costly Role in Solyndra Scandal
September 7 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden’s chief of staff is inclined to put taxpayers on the hook to subsidize clean energy projects. Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, Heritage Foundation scholar Mike Gonzalez previews his new book about the Marxist message of the Black Lives Matter organization. Plus: the media tantrum over election reform in Texas; what America can do for Afghan women; North Korea’s nuclear ambitions; and corporations curb their liberal enthusiasm. On this date in 1940, 300 German bombers strike London, killing 448 civilians in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing as part of a “blitzkrieg” that would continue until May 1941.
Mike Gonzalez, author of “BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution,” says the Black Lives Matter organization has encouraged Americans to embrace communist ideology.
The Energy Department gave a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra as part of the 2009 stimulus bill. In 2011, the company filed for bankruptcy protection and the FBI investigated.
The left’s instinct to make abortion the central “women’s issue” leaves it ill-prepared to protect fundamental rights—to life, religious belief, conscience, and speech—of Afghan women.
In 2017, the U.S. intelligence community assessed that North Korea had between 30 and 60 nuclear weapons and could produce an additional seven to 12 a year.
Political leaders on the left and Big Tech are joining arms to bar dissidents from the digital space entirely, including from having the ability to make and receive payments online.
