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November 24 2021
Good morning from Washington, where some lawmakers look for ways to coddle criminals. Deaths and injuries along a parade route in Wisconsin spotlight the consequences of letting bad guys off easy, three Heritage Foundation legal experts argue. President Biden’s plan to subsidize electric vehicles will cost more because of son Hunter’s cobalt connection with China, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, a pastor’s prescription for keeping our chins up in tough times. Plus: a Virginia trailblazer shows her true grit; a new threat to Social Security; and activists who want to make pedophilia mainstream. On this date in 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, which it will occupy amid fierce resistance for nearly 10 years.
The devastation during a Christmas parade happened because grossly reckless bail policies enabled the release of a violent man whose actions routinely placed others in serious danger.
Hunter Biden’s most recent controversy—assisting a Chinese company’s purchase of a cobalt mine—complicates a top Biden administration policy of promoting electric vehicles.
The big-government bill creates taxpayer-funded child care and paid family leave but does nothing to improve Social Security and other existing unfunded entitlement programs.
Among those charged in Arizona with illegally reentering this country from February through October were 400 aliens previously convicted in the U.S. of a violent crime.
Despite the many opinions swirling around the Rittenhouse murder trial, the jury’s decision is a reminder that in America, cases are tried in courtrooms—not the court of public opinion.
Educator and author Allyn Walker argues that it “isn’t true” that all pedophiles are sex offenders and warns against “misconceptions about attractions towards minors.”