Good morning from Washington, where President Biden surprises critics by taking reporters’ questions for nearly two hours. He wouldn’t talk about his mental fitness, though, as Fred Lucas reports. In Virginia, parents can help a new conservative governor make good on promises, Mike Gonzalez writes. On the podcast, welfare expert Robert Rector explores the insanity of the far left’s “anti-work” movement. Plus: Deroy Murdock assesses the first year of the Biden presidency, and “Problematic Women” considers an Olympian’s take on today’s threat to women’s sports. One year ago today, the same day Joe Biden is sworn in as president, Kamala Harris takes the oath of office to become the nation’s first female vice president.
The Virginia governor’s first executive order says he is acting “to end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including critical race theory, and to raise academic standards.”
Positive results on prenatal genetic screenings can be wrong up to 85% of the time, and yet hundreds of thousands of those tests are performed annually.
On “Problematic Women,” we discuss the debate over biological males competing in women’s sports and how a D.C. restaurant canceled a pro-life group’s reservation.
After dispensing with medical advice on COVID-19, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets down to business—or rather, to the business of avoiding doing business.