Plus: Homeland Security Issues Another Terrorism Bulletin to Drive Narrative
June 9 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Democrats will put on a TV special tonight to claim that Donald Trump and his supporters planned an insurrection at the Capitol last year. Fred Lucas has the lowdown. What’s wrong with the Biden administration’s terrorism bulletins? Lora Ries shares. On the podcast, Rep. Kevin Hern outlines the Republican alternative to government overspending. Plus: House Democrats insist on more gun controls; why we must watch China; The Washington Post’s double standard; and “Problematic Women” examines the baby formula crisis. On this date in 1973, in a thrilling victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win the Triple Crown, which also includes the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.
The hearing Thursday night reportedly will include video excerpts of earlier testimony to the House select committee as well as other previously unseen photos and video.
“The policy of universal background checks would not have stopped the shooter at Uvalde from acquiring his weapon,” testifies Amy Swearer, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
“The Chinese Communist Party, as you know, as your constituents know, is the existential threat to freedom in this world,” says Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.
“We’re seeing the ramifications of [the federal government’s lack of a balanced budget] with high inflation, skyrocketing fuel prices, skyrocketing food prices,” says Hern.
The Pioneer Institute is out with a new book finding that vocational-technical high schools have lower dropout rates and test scores on par with traditional high schools.
San Francisco witnessed a “successful” effort to defund the police and a radical district attorney—the now-deposed Boudin—who was eager to prosecute as few crimes as possible.
