Plus: What China Is Learning From Putin’s Ukraine Invasion
March 8 2022
Good morning from Washington, where “misinformation” is now the buzzword for politicians and Big Tech lobbyists who seek to censor and suppress. Our Doug Blair has thoughts. China looks to apply lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Jim Carafano writes. On the podcast, Cesar Ybarra, vice president of policy at FreedomWorks, talks about Latinos’ growing identification with conservatives. Plus: Hans von Spakovsky on preserving Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy; Rep. Liz Cheney’s obsession with Trump; and “Problematic Women” ponders a court battle over free speech at a Texas school. On this date in 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, loses contact with air traffic control within an hour of takeoff from Kuala Lumpur, then veers off course and seems to disappear.
If China wants to take Taiwan by force, it won’t act until convinced it can win decisively and quickly. Beijing thinks the West is going to get only weaker, so time is on its side.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Biden v. Texas, an appeal filed by the Justice Department that seeks to end a policy essential to deterring fraudulent asylum claims.
Spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for college is “a huge investment to live four years in fear and self-censorship,” says Cherise Trump, executive director of Speech First.
"Democrats label Trump as the most racist, anti-Hispanic president in America in history, and what happened?" says Cesar Ybarra. "He increased his share of the Latino vote … by nearly 10 points."
Democrats are trying to use the House select committee, whose sole purpose is to find out what happened on Jan. 6, to prosecute Trump and his advisers for a crime they have yet to discover.
