Plus: Why No Media ‘Reckoning’ Over Phony Steele Dossier?
November 23 2021
Good morning from Washington, where leftist educrats don’t like to see conservatives elected to school boards. Our Doug Blair introduces you to one who campaigned against critical race theory. Students at Catholic University of America object to art depicting George Floyd as Jesus, Mary Margaret Olohan reports. On the podcast, Indiana’s junior senator explains his commitment to killing President Biden’s vaccine mandate. Plus: David Harsanyi skewers the dishonest media; police file charges in Wisconsin parade mayhem; and “Problematic Women” celebrates a small town’s new mayor. Forty years ago today, President Ronald Reagan signs a secret directive allowing the CIA to recruit and support 500 rebels in Nicaragua for covert actions against the leftist Sandinista regime.
“We tried for like the whole year to get [school closures] reversed and ... weren’t successful. But as we did that, all of the parents started to talk about how we just don’t have a voice,” says Matt Audette.
Is anyone at The Washington Post or The New York Times going to return a Pulitzer? Is anyone going to explain how multiple sources regularly buttressed the dossier’s central fabulistic claim?
“I’ve had more traffic from phone calls, emails, anyway you can get ahold of your senator on this one issue more than anything else since I’ve been a senator in a little under three years,” says Braun.
Darrell Brooks had been released from custody after posting $1,000 cash bail on charges of running over the mother of his child in a gas station parking lot early this month.
“I love my hometown. … I spent some years here in D.C., and I think that kind of informed my decision on how important that rural America is,” says Brianna Howard.
“There are many students, faculty, and staff who are concerned about this, but there is nothing we can do,” says one student. “And if we sound the alarm, we will be labeled racists.”
