Good morning from Washington, where President Biden and the Democrats accuse Republicans of “suppressing” voters with new election laws. Actually, voter turnout is up in states they most attacked, Fred Lucas reports. California residents are getting a bad taste of the Green New Deal, David Harsanyi writes. On the podcast, Matthew Peterson explains how New Founding builds alternatives to counter the left’s influence in corporate America. Plus: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis talks about education freedom; why religious freedom isn’t a second-class right; and a GOP senator sounds the alarm on how same-sex marriage legislation could affect religious liberty. On this date in 2009, thousands of protesters fill streets near the U.S. Capitol for the Taxpayer March on Washington, one of the earliest events organized by the tea party movement.
Gov. Newsom is begging Californians to stop using their appliances, turn off their lights, and keep their thermostats at a stifling 78, lest they suffer more rolling blackouts.
“We’ve put a renewed emphasis on American civics, on making sure that the kids … have an idea of what it means to be an American,” says the Florida governor.
The deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union argues in Washington Post that the constitutional right to exercise religious faith always must yield to the civil right against discrimination.
“The Department of Education’s claim that the error in the number of comments is due to a clerical error doesn’t pass the smell test,” says Heritage Foundation's Sarah Parshall Perry.
Enshrining same-sex marriage in national law would put religious nonprofit ministries at risk and send “a pretty strong message that religious beliefs don’t matter," says Sen. Kevin Cramer.
"Align is for businesses that are not woke and connecting them with consumers who want to find products and services from people who don't hate them," says Matthew Peterson.
