Plus: The Inconvenient Truth About COVID-19 Relief Scandals
July 2 2022
Good morning from Washington, where we accidentally sent out yesterday's newsletter edition this morning. (Clearly we need more coffee.) Here's today's edition, first looking at how the left is melting down over not getting its way at the Supreme Court and on other fronts. As usual, Victor Davis Hanson keeps his head. Billions in wasted taxpayer dollars for COVID-19 “relief” reveals government’s characteristic irresponsibility, Veronique de Rugy writes. Plus: Twitter suspends psychologist Jordan Peterson for “misgendering” an actor; Cal Thomas celebrates the end of Roe; and Star Parker laments America’s turning away from God. On this date in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law, prohibiting racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawing racial segregation in schools and other public places.
Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them.
According to the Labor Department, at least $163 billion of the $873 billion in unemployment insurance benefits was spent in error, and little of this sum was recovered.
Jordan Peterson is suspended from Twitter for tweeting: "Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.”
Former President Trump named three of the justices in the 6-3 majority. Whatever else happens to him, this will be his legacy. He kept his promise to nominate constitutionalists.
On CNN, Brian Stelter touted the growing new trend in the “objective” media of creating a “democracy beat” because former President Donald Trump and his devotees are a constant threat.
The vision of the Founders of the country was freedom. The point was to keep government intrusion at a minimum and permit individual freedom at a maximum. But can this work with a secular population?
