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Ukraine crisis emerges as talking point in U.S. gun debate <[link removed]> - President Biden opened his State of the Union address by
praising the courage of countless Ukrainian civilians bravely taking up arms to defend democracy. And then, without a hint of irony, he called on Congress to pass a slew of constitutionally questionable restrictions on Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. None of Biden’s proposals would make Americans safer from criminal gun violence. But they do highlight the hypocrisy of gun control advocates who laud the “triumph of freedom over tyranny” on one hand, and then undermine our Constitution’s ultimate safeguard against tyrants and foreign invasions on the other. Heritage Expert: Amy Swearer  <[link removed]>


White House unveils plan for next phase of COVID-19 fight <[link removed]> - The latest White House plan is more of the same: more spending, along with the threat of new mandates and restrictions if COVID cases rise in the future. We now have high levels of immunity to the virus and promising new treatments that can drastically reduce hospitalizations. There is no need for the government to fall back on mandates and restrictions. The president's latest plans, like his previous ones, continues to threaten such actions. President Biden said that we shouldn't learn to live with the virus. Instead, he believes, we need to learn to live with government limitations on our freedom, policies that have not arrested the spread of the pandemic. He should scrap this plan and produce another one, a plan that lets us return to normal lives in our communities, businesses and schools. Heritage Expert: Doug Badger <[link removed]> 


Don’t Buy Democrats’ Cries of GOP ‘Racism’ and ‘Misogyny’ on Biden’s Supreme Court Pick <[link removed]>- Even before Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, prominent Democrats began accusing Republican senators of being racists. No doubt this drumbeat will continue and grow louder as the date of Jackson’s confirmation hearing in the Senate nears. To be sure, Republican senators are going to have to be careful about how they approach this nominee, but that doesn’t mean they should buy into that narrative. Let’s recount a bit of confirmation history on how the Democrats have treated minorities and women who were nominated to federal judgeships by Republican presidents. Heritage Expert: John Malcolm <[link removed]> 

A Racist Virginia School Board and Principal Get Called Out <[link removed]> - In a
terrific win for parents, hardworking students, and those who want to end discrimination in our schools, a federal judge has thrown <[link removed]> out the racist admissions policy of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a prestigious public magnet school in Fairfax County, Virginia. What is crystal clear from this decision and the evidence that was introduced is that the members of the Fairfax County School Board, the principal of Thomas Jefferson High School, and numerous others inside the school system had no hesitation in implementing a racially motivated, discriminatory admissions policy intended to achieve a racial quota system that would allocate seats in the
entering class based not on the qualifications, credentials, and hard work of those students, but their skin color. All of them should be ashamed for betraying the public trust and engaging in such egregious conduct. Heritage Expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]> and Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
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