Good morning from Washington, where the left likes to insist that nothing’s fishy about how local elections are run. So why is the same crowd trying to game the system? Fred Lucas reports. What’s more, only citizens should be allowed to vote, Hans von Spakovsky writes. On the podcast, Virginia Allen interviews a Texas congressman who hopes to rein in Big Tech. Plus: congressional Democrats eye boosting Obamacare subsidies, and Larry Elder on President Obama's recent comments on identity politics. On this date in 1848, more than 70 years before U.S. women gain the vote, the first women’s rights convention—organized by abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton—convenes at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.
"The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,” says Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project.
Expanding the Obamacare premium subsidies because of the pandemic was a bad idea. Doubling down on those expansions amid rampant inflation is an even worse one.
Election officials are simply relying on individuals who are registering to vote telling the truth when they assert they are U.S. citizens. But there’s evidence that this isn’t working.
Sri Lanka’s government banned chemical fertilizers in December to force the country to move toward organic and environmentally friendly farming. The results have been catastrophic.
