Plus: Republicans Must Fight Continuing Resolution Funding of Third Year of Biden-Pelosi Priorities
September 27 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Republican lawmakers skewer the Justice Department for harassing a pro-life activist over an incident outside an abortion clinic a year ago. Mary Margaret Olohan and Gillian Richards report. It’s a clear abuse of power, Hans von Spakovsky and Cully Stimson write. On the podcast, Jarrett Stepman talks with a playwright who was “canceled” for not embracing transgenderism. Plus: Heritage Action’s Jessica Anderson on rejecting Democrats’ spending and Derrick Morgan on what’s behind gas prices. Sixty years ago today, Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring,” credited with sparking the modern U.S. environmental movement, is published.
“This appears to be nothing less than a brazen continuation of the abuse of power by federal authorities against average American citizens that must stop,” says Rep. Chip Roy.
If conservatives don’t block Democrats’ latest spending gambit, Democrats still will control the power of the purse through September 2023, regardless of election results.
Libby Emmons, the editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial, explains how she was canceled in the theater industry for making even mild critiques of transgender ideology.
During her childhood, Tori Hope Petersen lived in 12 different foster care homes. Yet she went on to be one of the 3% of foster care children who graduate from college.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sees the recent wave of American pro-life legislation protecting unborn lives as comparable to the oppression of women living under radical Islam.
