October 5 2022
 

 

Good morning from Washington, where the Biden administration continues to allow illegal aliens to pour over the nation’s southern border. Visiting a Texas border county, Virginia Allen finds out what the sheriff and other officials must cope with. A heroic “coastie” exemplifies the folly of the president’s determination to fire unvaccinated service members, Joshua Arnold writes. On the podcast, we explore how “medication abortions” affect women. Plus: Rep. Ralph Norman objects to a congressional abuse; Dennis Prager takes on secularism; and Google goes to the Supreme Court. Seventy-five years ago today,  President Harry Truman, in the first televised presidential address from the White House, asks Americans to help starving Europeans by using less grain.
 
 
 
NEWS
Inside a Texas County That Declared Border Crisis an ‘Invasion’
By Virginia Allen

Many migrants who cross into Kinney County don’t want to be caught, which sometimes results in high-speed car chases. A school uses boulders as a barricade to deter cars.
COMMENTARY
‘Heroic Work’: Biden Congratulates Coast Guard Hero He’s Trying to Fire
By Joshua Arnold

Zach Loesch, a Coast Guard aviation survival technician who rescued a disabled 94-year-old woman and her husband, is going to be discharged for not getting a COVID-19 vaccination.
COMMENTARY
Dock Lawmakers’ Pay to Curb Abuse of Continuing Resolutions
By Rep. Ralph Norman

This marks the 26th consecutive year that members of Congress have failed to fund the government on time with all the necessary spending bills.
ANALYSIS
Study Uncovers Psychological Effects of Medication Abortions on Women
By Virginia Allen

Many women experience “grief, regret, shame, [and] remorse” after having an abortion, says Janine Marrone of Support After Abortion.
NEWS
Americans Often Hear About 'Religious Extremism,' But Rarely About 'Extreme Secularism,' Says Dennis Prager
By Gillian Richards

According to Prager, society is seeing in modern culture what 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche captured in his infamous statement, “God is dead.”
COMMENTARY
Big Tech’s Big Moment Finally Arrives at Supreme Court
By Sarah Parshall Perry

The Gonzalez case provides a golden opportunity for the Supreme Court to clarify exactly what the shield in Communications Decency Act Section 230 covers and what it doesn’t.
COMMENTARY
ICYMI: ‘Time Has Arrived’ to Legalize Polygamy, Writes New York Judge
By Tony Perkins

In 2003, Justice Antonin Scalia warned of a day when state laws “based on moral choices” against “bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution … ” would all fall.
 
     
 
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