October 12 2021
 
Good morning from Washington, where President BIden’s lax enforcement of immigration laws gets even looser as the Department of Homeland Security declines to go after illegal aliens with criminal rap sheets. Fred Lucas has details. Open borders is one way Biden has caved into the far left, Neil Patel argues. Plus: Preston Brashers describes the bite of Biden’s taxes and “Problematic Women” examines how free societies depend on constructive debate. On this date in 2002, two terrorists in a dinghy loaded with explosives blow a 40-by-40-foot hole in the hull of the USS Cole as it refuels at Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors and wounding 38 others. 
 
 
 
NEWS
Biden Exempts Some Crimes by Illegal Immigrants as Basis for Deportation
By Fred Lucas

“The default position is that if you enter the U.S. illegally you get to stay permanently,” a former immigration judge says of President Biden's policy.
COMMENTARY
Americans Reject President Too Weak to Take On Radicals in His Own Party
By Neil Patel

The American people do not like weak leaders, and they do not like the craziness that's infiltrating their daily lives.
ANALYSIS
'We Have to Reassert Citizenship': Victor Davis Hanson's Challenge to Americans
By Rob Bluey

"The left is not the Democratic Party anymore, and it's not even the Progressive Party. This is a Jacobin, out of the French Revolution, or proto-Bolshevik party," says Hanson.
COMMENTARY
Biden’s Taxes Would Hit Many Americans
By Preston Brashers

If implemented, the proposed taxes will hit the pocketbooks of anyone with a 401(k), anyone that works for a business in America, and anyone that buys U.S. products.
NEWS
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ANALYSIS
How to Save Freedom: Discourse, Debate Good Places to Start
By Virginia Allen

Concerns over a lack of constructive debate in classrooms—and society as a whole—led Inez Stepman to create the "High Noon" podcast.
NEWS
ICYMI: New Group Equips Parents With 7 Tools to Combat Wokeness in K-12 Education
By Virginia Allen

It’s no secret that the far left has infiltrated higher education with its radical ideas. But now, woke ideology has come for K-12 classrooms across the country. 
 
     
 
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