Plus: COVID-19 Data Shows It's Time for America to Return to Normal
March 1 2022
Good morning from Washington, where tonight President Biden will deliver his first official State of the Union address. The speech comes as Americans express dissatisfaction with Biden’s mounting failures, Jarrett Stepman writes. Science shows it’s time to put COVID-19 restrictions behind us, Doug Badger and Kevin Dayartana argue. On the podcast, Seattle radio talk show host Jason Rantz rounds up the left’s assault on public safety and law and order. Plus: what conservative lawmakers want to hear from Biden tonight and parents fight to oversee their kids’ schooling. On this date in 1971, a bomb planted by the redical Weather Underground explodes in the Capitol in Washington, hurting no one but causing about $300,000 in damage in protest of secret U.S. military operations in Laos.
“I believe that the majority of the country believes in the goodness of us, in the goodness of Americans ... But they’ve been told to shut up.," says Michele Tafoya.
Lawmakers had considered preventing school employees from being compelled to affirm racist concepts, but such language has since been erased from a proposal.