Plus: Yes, a Black Kyle Rittenhouse Would Still Be Acquitted
December 7 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Joe Biden is using Medicaid to upsize government control of Americans’ health care. Mike Pence and Seema Verma show how. If Kyle Rittenhouse were black, would he be found not guilty? Of course, Amy Swearer argues. On the podcast, Virginia Allen interviews a Texas couple whose “maternity ranch” serves single mothers. Plus: problems sheltering migrant kids don’t derail a nonprofit from a lucrative contract; what’s wrong with reviving tax breaks for the rich; and a watchdog group slams how a leading Catholic school portrays Christ. Eighty years ago today, Japanese warplanes attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, crippling the Pacific fleet and drawing America into World War II.
Several commentators asserted that no person of color ever could shoot someone intentionally with a gun carried in public and be acquitted on grounds of lawful self-defense.
Raising the state and local tax deduction cap—a benefit almost exclusively for the wealthy—is the most expensive provision in the bill, says the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The Biden administration is paying over $175 million to a nonprofit that has faced allegations of financial mismanagement to house unaccompanied children who illegally crossed the border.
A prominent nonprofit that guides families in choosing universities says that The Catholic University of America exhibits artwork “inconsistent with Catholic education.”
