June 20 2022
 
Good morning from Washington, where today is the Juneteenth federal holiday. Deroy Murdock says this is an occasion to remember, and celebrate, the many successful black Americans in our country's history. Plus: Terry Jeffrey on America's citizens and whether they're up to today's challenges; Larry Elder on the Jan. 6 show trial; and Doug Badger rolls his eyes at a new scientific study's findings.
 
 
 
COMMENTARY
Voting Republican Could Kill You
By Doug Badger

Voting Republican could be hazardous to your health, especially if you live in a county that Trump won. That’s the latest contribution to junk social science.
COMMENTARY
Juneteenth: A Perfect Day To Cheer Black Success
By Deroy Murdock

This and every Juneteenth, Americans of all hues should applaud black success since Emancipation rather than wallow with the critical race theorists in all the wrongs before June 19, 1865.
COMMENTARY
Biden Abuses Executive Authority to Pursue His Environmental Agenda
By Maiya Clark, Grace Hermanson

President Biden is desperately seeking a win on clean energy. So he has authorized the inappropriate use of the Defense Production Act— an egregious misuse of executive power.
COMMENTARY
America Can’t Remain Free Without a Virtuous People
By Terence Jeffrey

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people," said John Adams. "It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
COMMENTARY
If Trump Committed 'Insurrection,' Indict Him Already
By Larry Elder

A first-year law student knows the Justice Department has no hope of getting a conviction, even with a partisan Washington, D.C jury.
COMMENTARY
ICYMI: After the Guns Were Removed, the Killing Fields Began
By J. William Middendorf

Mao Zedong’s first act after gaining complete control of China in 1949 was to take away all guns from the population.
 
     
 
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