Plus: IRS Official in Charge of 87,000 New Agents Played Key Role in Obama-Era Targeting Scandal
September 2 2022
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden last night made clear he’d rather divide Americans than shoot straight about his failure to rise to the nation’s challenges. Not surprisingly, our Jarrett Stepman has thoughts. A major news agency misrepresents an exposé by The Daily Signal, and Doug Blair isn’t taking it. On the podcast, Virginia Allen finds out what the leader of a Christian aid group witnessed in Ukraine. Plus: a top IRS official you should know, and Facebook and Twitter get in bed with Team Biden. On this date in 1945, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.
“Every American should be concerned that a key player in the IRS’ targeting of conservative[s] ... [will] oversee the implementation of Democrats’ tax and spending bill,” says Rep. James Comer.
Middle school math teacher Pamela Ricard addressed two students who considered themselves transgender by their legal names rather than their preferred names and pronouns.
“The city is pretty much obliterated,” Dave Donaldson of CityServe International says of the city of Bucha, where Russians are said to have massacred 1,300 people. “It's like watching a sci-fi film.”
Dozens of federal officials within the Biden administration communicated extensively with social media companies to coordinate censorship of information, according to newly released internal documents.