Plus: Liberal ‘Tolerance’ on Display After Overturning of Roe v. Wade
July 4 2022
Happy Independence Day from Washington, where the Supreme Court rules that President Biden may end a key Trump policy preventing asylum-seekers from immediately entering the country. The decision will embolden the no-borders crowd, Lora Ries and Hans von Spakovsky argue. The left shows its true face as the high court ends abortion on demand, Larry Elder writes. Plus: John Stossel on the comedy crisis; Terence Jeffrey on official cluelessness about faith; Doug Blair on the rediscovery of women; and, in a flashback, Jarrett Stepman on why America is worth fighting for. On this date in 1776, the Continental Congress adopts a document declaring the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and its king.
Nationwide protests erupted over the Dobbs decision,with the largest in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles—cities with virtually zero probability of new laws restricting abortion.
As we’ve seen many symbols of America’s past get literally smashed by mobs, it’s important for those who still love their country to reflect on why it is exceptional and worth fighting for.
“Christian conservatives used to … be very dour and self-serious,” says Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann. Today, he says, it’s the left that is self-serious.
If the men who wrote the establishment clause also voted to pay for a chaplain for Congress, how can a public school football coach violate the establishment clause by saying a prayer?
As Roe fell, protest signs outside the court referred not to “birthing people” or “people who menstruate,” but instead to women’s losing their rights or politicians’ trying to control women’s bodies.
Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them.
