Plus: Lawmakers Must Act as Biden Weaponizes Big Tech Against Americans
September 7 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the Census Bureau boosts Democrats by overcounting blue states and undercounting red states. Hans von Spakovsky objects. Legislators shouldn’t let President Biden get away with weaponizing Big Tech, Jake Denton writes. On the podcast, Heritage Foundation scholar Nile Gardiner tells all about Liz Truss, the new prime minister of his homeland. Plus: California lets the minimum wage run wild; one new mom’s experience at a crisis pregnancy center; and a country music showdown over gender transitions for kids. Forty-five years ago today, President Jimmy Carter and dictator Omar Torrijos sign a treaty under which the U.S. will transfer control of the Panama Canal to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999.
The past few weeks of whistleblowers and court discovery have revealed evidence of the Biden administration’s deliberate weaponization of the power of Big Tech.
Truss is “a staunch, ideological, Conservative Thatcherite. She's a committed tax cutter. She believes in limited government,” says Heritage Foundation’s Nile Gardiner.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signs a bill establishing a council empowered to raise the minimum wage for the state’s fast-food workers to more than $20 per hour.
They gave me a truck. They gave me food. They gave me a warm bed. They helped me find a job. They loved me when I felt no one else did. And they asked for nothing in return.
