Plus: 8 Problems With San Jose’s Gun Insurance Mandate and Gun Ownership Tax
February 5 2022
Good morning from Washington. Lauren Evans, Mark Guiney, and Philip Reynolds have a video report on what motivated one Virginia mom to make a powerful speech in front of her school board about how masks hurt kids. Plus: what’s bad about San Jose’s new gun restrictions; those outrageous train robberies in California; shifting Europe’s stance on Russia; and the hypocrisy of cancel culture. On this date in 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, an ill-fated bid to ease the way for his New Deal policies.
San Jose refers to the new fee imposed on gun owners as a “Gun Harm Reduction Fee,” but it’s nothing less than an unconstitutional tax on the exercise of an enumerated right.
Union Pacific said the increase in crime cost it at least $5 million last year. Between 1866 and 1930, all 261 reported train robberies caused fewer losses than that.
Starting with the disaster in Afghanistan, the faculty lounge fecklessness of the Biden administration has given the green light to the Russian dictator.
The state Health Department ordered the oral and maxillofacial surgeon to halt his practice in October after officials denied him a medical exemption to taking a COVID-19 vaccine.
