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6 Examples of Woke Pork Projects in Omnibus Spending Bill <[link removed]>- When congressional leaders rolled out the 2,700-page, $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill <[link removed]> this week, they made sure to lard it up with plenty of pork. Such so-called earmarks <[link removed]> were banned by conservatives a decade ago after high-profile cases of corruption were exposed, sending members of Congress <[link removed]>and lobbyists <[link removed]> to prison, and after clear examples of waste were uncovered, such as the infamous “bridge to nowhere <[link removed]>.” Unfortunately, earmarks are making a big return in President Joe Biden’s first appropriations
package. Tucked away in the explanatory statements <[link removed]>
accompanying the legislation are thousands of special-interest funding provisions inserted at the request of members of Congress. A list <[link removed]> of all the earmarks attached to the bill spans
367 pages by itself. Heritage Expert: Matthew Dickerson <[link removed]>
South Korea’s New President Is Welcome Development for US Policy on North Korea, China <[link removed]>- South Korea concluded a bitterly divisive presidential campaign season with the election of Yoon Suk-yeol on March 9. Both he and his opponent, Lee Jae-myung, engaged in a battle of mudslinging and accusations, making this an acrimonious campaign. Both candidates were highly unfavorable, making this a true “election of the undesirables.” The contest was unusual since, for the first time, neither candidate had legislative or Cabinet experience, nor were seen as reflecting the mainstream of their party. Both were unconventional candidates, but their foreign and security policies were conventionally conservative and progressive, pro-U.S. and less so, respectively. Heritage Expert: Bruce Klinger <[link removed]>
Economic sanctions won't cause Putin to change his actions <[link removed]> - President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the U.S. will ban all imports of Russian energy <[link removed]> saying, “The United States is targeting the main artery of Russia’s economy,” said Biden. “That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable in U.S. ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine.” However, It certainly won't cause Putin to change his actions in Ukraine by themselves. These economic sanctions <[link removed]>will constantly have to change and be updated to have a sting. <[link removed]> The sanctions in place right now won’t have a sustained impact, with China able to provide Russia a lifeline. Heritage Expert: Brent Sadler <[link removed]>
“Ignorant” for DC mayor to say carjacker 'probably didn't intend to kill anybody' <[link removed]>- The Mayor’s
comments are ignorant and indicative of someone who is not serious about lowering the crime rate in Washington DC. There is no way the Mayor can know the state of mind of the criminal who stole Dr. Patel’s car, and ran him over and killed him. Saying in an interview that the criminal “had no intent” to kill Dr. Patel is inexcusable, especially since the police have not even apprehended the suspect much less questioned him. This is the same Mayor who directed the words BLACK LIVES MATTER to be painted on a D.C. street to honor George Floyd, and chastised the U.S. Attorney’s Office for not addressing the rise in crime that she enabled, as we wrote in, “DC Mayor’s Attempt to Shift Blame Falls Flat <[link removed]>.” Even the Washington Post took her task in a scathing editorial in 2019 for criminal justice “reforms” she signed, saying that “common sense may be losing out to enthusiasm for reform.” Heritage
Experts: Cully Stimson <[link removed]> and
Zack Smith <[link removed]>
Left’s Devotion to ‘Land Acknowledgements’ Amounts to Empty Virtue Signaling <[link removed]> - The radical left’s new favorite way to virtue signal <[link removed]> is something called “land acknowledgement. Hordes of woke businesses and universities have started meetings or other gatherings by declaring that they’re holding them on land where Native Americans once lived. As an example, take this land acknowledgement from San Diego State University about the Kumeyaay tribe. We stand upon a land that carries the footsteps of millennia of Kumeyaay people. They are a people whose traditional lifeways intertwine with a worldview of earth and sky in a community of living beings,” it reads. As students, faculty, staff and alumni of San Diego State University we acknowledge this legacy from the Kumeyaay. We promote this balance in life as we pursue our goals of knowledge and understanding. … It is the land of the Kumeyaay. Heritage Expert: Douglas Blair <[link removed]>
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