Plus: Under Top Prosecutor’s Policies, Sheriff Says, ‘It’s Profitable to Do Crime in Los Angeles County’
April 12 2022
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden continues to wave more and more illegal immigrants into the country. This can’t go on, Jarrett Stepman writes. In LA, our Virginia Allen reports on Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s frustration with the crime surge under a “rogue prosecutor.” On the podcast, a scholar argues that black students and other minorities actually aren’t helped by critical race theory. Plus: wasteful pork in the new spending bill; a Virginia parent prevails in bucking racial preferences; and a seasoned sidewalk counselor joins “Problematic Women.” On this date in 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., jailed with other activists for protesting racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, begins to write what will become his celebrated “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”
Earmarks like these have a sordid history in the swamp, making it easier to pass bad legislation by letting incumbents “bring home the bacon” at taxpayers’ expense.
A former PTA president who opposed changes to a high school’s admissions policy faced libel and slander charges after saying a proponent had exhibited “grooming behavior.”