Plus: Socialism Destroyed His Homeland. Here’s a Venezuelan’s Warning for America.
December 10 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where some policymakers deny that a racist ideology has infiltrated the nation’s public schools. Maybe they can learn something from Virginia Allen’s video report on the role of parents’ concerns in the outcome of a governor’s race. On the podcast, a native of Venezuela describes that country’s disintegration under socialism. Plus: Congress goes hog-wild for big-government socialism; Biden’s vaccine mandate gives indigestion to a Florida restaurateur; New Zealand moves to stamp out smoking; and an atheist helps light the Capitol Christmas tree. On this date in 1974, Rep. Wilbur Mills, D-Ark., resigns as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee two months after police stop him at 2 a.m. near the Jefferson Memorial for driving without lights and find the married man intoxicated and in the company of a popular stripper.
"My son received an assignment in his seventh grade English class asking him to essentially check his white privilege,” says Tiffany Polifko, a mom of two school-age children.
"My aunt got kidnapped one time, and when she went to report the kidnapping in the police station, one of the police officers was one of the kidnappers," says Daniel Di Martino.
“President Biden's policies are threatening to send our nation back to the anemic economic growth that we were experiencing at the height of the pandemic,” says Pence.
This big government, socialist legislation is meant to “transform our economy,” but it would only exacerbate increases in prices, labor shortages, and supply chain disruptions Americans are facing.
