Plus: America’s Fourth World Vote System Is a Global Embarrassment
November 14 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Democrats will hold the Senate after winning a tight race in Nevada, regardless of what happens in Georgia’s runoff next month. Republicans will run the House, though, and already plan investigations to hold the Biden administration accountable, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, Rob Bluey finds out what one Florida school board member is doing to prep more parents to run. Plus: America’s backward elections; China rattles some sabres; and why D.C. dining just got more expensive. On this date in 1960, as a court order to desegregate schools goes into effect in New Orleans, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walks into William Frantz Elementary accompanied by federal marshals and taunted by angry crowds.
Congressional Republicans plan to look into controversies surrounding the business dealings of Hunter Biden, the crisis on the southern border, and the politicization of the Justice Department.
“Friends in Hungary and Brazil asked how their entire nations can count votes in a few hours, while it takes Arizona a week or longer,” writes one columnist.
Bridget Ziegler talks about her experiences on a school board and how she’s leveraging what she’s learned to help others through training programs at the Leadership Institute.
With completion of China’s Communist Party Congress, which included President Xi Jinping’s renewed vow to reunify with Taiwan, the future of a peaceful Asia is at greater risk.
“[T]he bottom line is that the customer’s the one who’s going to pay for it in the end,” Noe Landini, owner of Junction Bistro Bar and Bakery on Capitol Hill, tells The Daily Signal.
Massachusetts approves an initiative that upholds a law allowing the state to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, while Nebraska now will require photo ID to vote.
“While some are suggesting a so-called COVID amnesty … we are instead asking for accountability for the lies and the injustice resulting from government response,” says Rep. Chip Roy.
