Plus: Can We Overcome Progressive Left’s Constitution?
March 30 2022
Good morning from Washington, where pols on the left appear to relish making our southern border less secure. You ain’t seen nothing yet, Jarrett Stepman writes. Progressives want the rest of us to bow to their phony constitution, Richard Reinsch argues. On the podcast, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers shares GOP plans to end Big Tech’s squelching of free speech. Plus: the squeeze on America’s military, and Ben Shapiro on the slap-happy Oscars. On this date in 1955, cinematographer James Wong Howe, nominated for “The Rose Tattoo” starring Burt Lancaster, becomes the first Asian American to win an Academy Award.
Power was accumulated by Congress and then dispensed to agencies to reshape our politics and replace civil society with federal rules. That scheme has redefined the country.
A China initiative at the Justice Department “was just shut down by President Biden because left-wing activists smeared it as racist and xenophobic,” Sen. Marco Rubio says.
“These tech companies have become very destructive in so many different ways, and it is time for Congress to act,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., argues.
The war in Ukraine coupled with a rising China highlights a strategic pickle for the U.S.—the need to be able to deter or potentially fight two major adversaries in different regions at once.
Widespread support greets Smith’s slap online, thanks to the now-common belief that verbal insults constitute a form of violence, to which violence is an acceptable response.
