Plus: Justice Department Harasses Citizens for Exercising First Amendment Rights
September 22 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the Justice Department’s intimidation of a small organization in Alabama should outrage every thinking American. Hans von Spakovsky explains why. The Left demands reparations for slavery in America, but doesn’t want to hear facts, Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, The LIBRE Initative’s Jorge Martinez suggests how conservatives can attract more Hispanic voters. Plus: China makes an example of a revered Catholic cardinal; a proposed death sentence for fentanyl dealers; and “Problematic Women” ponders illegal aliens’ stopover in Martha’s Vineyard. And 160 years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation setting a date when over 3 million slaves will become free.
The near-universal, global practice of slavery—which has dogged civilization throughout its history—mostly came to an end because of the rise and power of the West.
Never fearful of sparking the ire of Chinese officials, Cardinal Zen held Masses to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Now, he faces a fine or jail time for his activism.
“Fentanyl is killing Americans at a record high,” says Sen. Marco Rubio. “This deadly drug is widespread throughout our country and has left no community untouched.”
Instead of starting from the position that Jackson, like every other U.S. city, ought to be able to provide its citizens with clean water, many in the media wrote up the crisis as being about race.
“The message doesn’t change [for Latinos],” says Jorge Martinez of The LIBRE Initiative. “It’s the messages of freedom, of family, and values of life, and God.”
