Plus: California Tries and Fails Again to Create Government-Controlled Health Care System
February 4 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where shadowy interests are in play as President Biden prepares to pick a Supreme Court justice. Fred Lucas reports on the influence of Demand Justice. California keeps trying to put government in charge of health care, Bob Moffit writes. On the podcast, a congressman warns of growing antisemitism in the U.S. Plus: the madness of generous unemployment checks and men’s say in whether women get abortions. A hundred years ago today, Ford Motor Co., losing market share to General Motors, acquires failing luxury automaker Lincoln Motor Co. for $8 million.
Before helping the president pick a Supreme Court nominee, Paige Herwig was in a legal group—bankrolled by a liberal firm—that listed possible justices for the Biden campaign.
The bill would have abolished virtually all private and employer-sponsored health insurance and replaced it with a state-run system promising universal coverage, including for illegal immigrants.
Rep. Ilhan Omar has made remarks many consider to be antisemitic. Rep. David Kustoff of Tennessee, one of two Jewish Republicans in Congress, is horrified by those remarks.
Plus a Heritage Foundation analysis finds that 40% or more of $873 billion in unemployment insurance benefits may have gone to criminals instead of the unemployed.
