Plus: Republicans Used to Defend Traditional Marriage. What's Changed?
July 25 2022
Good morning from Washington, where House and Senate Republicans are abandoning their previous opposition to legalizing same-sex marriage. In a commentary, Tony Perkins asks why. The president’s open borders policies will swell the size of the nation’s “Bidenvilles,” Simon Hankinson predicts. On the podcast, Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts tells Rob Bluey about challenging Google’s antipathy to conservatives with his new search engine, Freespoke. Plus: immigration activism invades America’s defense strategy, and one mom’s appreciation of a shelter for pregnant women. On this date in 1832, the first known railroad accident in U.S. history occurs when one person is killed and three others injured falling from an otherwise vacant car and over a 34-foot cliff near Quincy, Massachusetts.
When I came home to Washington, D.C., a few months ago, I was surprised to see shantytowns both outside the State Department, where my old office was, and Union Station, near my new office.
Todd Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, is challenging Google's dominance by launching Freespoke, a search engine that promises unbiased and uncensored information.
Special interests are attempting to include dangerous and pricey provisions in the legislation that would encourage, and throw more money at, illegal immigration.
The transformation of the Democratic Party from a working man's labor party into today's identity politics-driven woke monstrosity did not transpire overnight, but that transformation is now complete.