Plus: Election Watchdog Probes Colorado Offer of Voter Registration to 30,000 Noncitizens
October 13 2022
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden weighs Russia’s latest threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. On the podcast, a Heritage Foundation expert in nuclear deterrence and missile defense assesses the likelihood of such a confrontation. In Colorado, election officials try to explain why they asked 30,000 noncitizens to register to vote, Fred Lucas reports. Plus: what an ID card found at the border exemplifies; a green light for abortion on demand is on the Michigan ballot; and “Problematic Women” explores a new group to help “detransitioners.” And 230 years ago today, workers lay the cornerstone for a presidential residence, later called the White House, at a site chosen by President George Washington in the new capital city of Washington, D.C.
“When we look at the nuclear threat from Russia … surely it’s real. Russia has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world,” says Patty-Jane Geller, a senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold admits that her office sent out the notices to noncitizens and calls it an error that she is trying to address.
Meet Luis Antunez, your new neighbor from (probably) Venezuela. He’s a 40-year-old trader from Tucupita. Or a policeman from Puerto Carreno, or a criminal from Caracas. We may never know.
Importantly, the Navy has maintained a near-constant and elevated presence in the Western Pacific throughout historically high and sustained Chinese military operations.
Chloe Cole began taking puberty blockers at 13. She was 15 when she had her breasts surgically removed. Now, at 18, she is an activist against children “transitioning” to the opposite sex.
PayPal begins assuming the role of the thought police by modifying its terms of service to allow it to collect a $2,500 fine in addition to freezing a person’s funds if he spreads “misinformation.”
