Plus: Cornell University Removes Bust of Abraham Lincoln After Getting 1 ‘Complaint’
June 30 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the Biden administration dithers as gas prices skyrocket. Pain at the pump is far greater than it would be had Trump prevailed, Katie Tubb writes. You won’t believe why an Ivy League school sidelined a bust of Lincoln. Naturally, our Jarrett Stepman has thoughts. On the podcast, Gov. Tate Reeves tells Doug Blair about Mississippi’s role in reaching a post-Roe America. Plus: New York doesn’t want women to have easy access to crisis pregnancy centers, and the leader of Students for Life joins “Problematic Women.” On this date in 1971, three Soviet cosmonauts who initially crewed the world’s first space station die when their spacecraft depressurizes during reentry.
It’s telling that a single complaint led to the removal of a cherished part of our history, with seemingly no resistance whatsoever from college administrators. Par for the course.
“We want to represent to the rest of the country that every single life has worth, every single life has value, and that there are people [who] love every single mom,” says Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves.
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, demands that Google exclude crisis pregnancy centers from search results about abortion.
Boston officials concluded that allowing a private group to temporarily lift its Christian flag on a city-owned flagpole would suggest the city was establishing a religion.
