Plus: Hungering for Relief From Fast-Rising Food Prices? Don’t Look to Biden
March 15 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the left yells about “misinformation” on climate change. A California Democrat pushes Facebook and other social media giants to suppress inconvenient facts, Fred Lucas reports. For now, Americans must learn to stomach soaring food prices, Daren Bakst writes. On the podcast, Trump’s ambassador to Mexico analyzes what Biden is doing wrong on the border. Plus: a plan to diminish Tony Fauci’s power; Americans use guns to protect themselves and others; and—this time we mean it—your letters on the Supreme Court vacancy. On this date in 1926, American engineer and physicist Robert H. Goddard successfully launches the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts.
“Facebook is preventing us from taking action on climate change by allowing climate misinformation to spread. Congress must step up and hold them accountable,” says one lawmaker.
“We’ve learned a lot over the past two years, but one lesson in particular is that no one person should be deemed ‘dictator-in-chief,’” says Sen. Rand Paul.
“I’m not sure … Biden has a vision about the relationship with Mexico. To be honest with you, I think he just doesn’t want to do what Trump did,” says Christopher Landau.
In Bowie, Maryland, four armed teenagers drove to a senior center in a stolen car and tried to rob an elderly man at gunpoint. But the man was legally armed and shot at them.
“If Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed, that will be 8 out of 9 [justices with Ivy League backgrounds] on the high court,” writes Pete Farris of St. Michaels, Maryland.
Republicans did the left’s bidding in exchange for eliminating electronic, straight-ticket voting. So state legislators passed a law to allow no-excuse, mail-in ballots.
