Plus: What Could Have Stopped the Highland Park Shooting?
July 7 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Congress keeps spending taxpayers’ money like there’s no tomorrow. With seven charts, David Ditch illustrates why this has to stop. And yet President Biden piles on new budget-busting outlays, three other Heritage Foundation analysts write. On the podcast, Doug Blair explores how the Highland Park shooter could have been foiled. Plus: China’s unexpected dependency; celebrities go pro-women again; and a dangerous post-Roe appeal to violence. On this date in 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O’Connor, an Arizona Court of Appeals judge, to become the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Two months later, the Senate will confirm O’Connor unanimously.
Is it true that more mass shootings are occurring? How strict are Illinois gun laws? Amy Swearer, a legal scholar at The Heritage Foundation, answers these questions and more.
China’s direct political confrontation with the U.S. has only exposed its weakness in a solid technological hierarchy and its unbreakable dependence on the U.S.
Hillary Clinton says of Justice Clarence Thomas, “He’s been a person of grievance for as long as I’ve known him. Resentment, grievance, anger.” That’s exactly the kind of take that’s dividing our country.
