Plus: What I Saw at Fourth Protest Outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Home
May 27 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where too many politicians seem to take pleasure in stoking racial tensions. Dr. Ben Carson has a more hopeful vision, and he shares it with our Virginia Allen on the podcast. Americans better brace for even tougher economic times, Richard Stern writes. Plus: protests again target a Supreme Court justice’s home; the rightness of the fight for life; good guys with guns who stopped active shooters; and how Biden woos journalists on the left. Eighty-five years ago today, about 200,000 pedestrians check out opening day for the Golden Gate Bridge, an iconic, 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California.
“I’m not going to sit around and blame somebody for something that their forefathers did to my forefather,” says Carson, author of the new book “Created Equal.”
Our work also must extend beyond the womb. We will embrace the mothers and fathers who find themselves considering abortion and are struggling with what to do.
In one incident, armed employees at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie, Louisiana, returned fire after an active shooter killed two and injured two others.
Not only did the U.S. not have the most frequent mass shootings, it was No. 62 on the list, lower than places such as Norway, Finland, and Switzerland.
