Plus: White House Won’t Say Whether Pope Benedict, Vatican Uninvited Biden From Papal Funeral
January 4 2023
Good morning from Washington, where a group of wary conservatives yesterday prevented Kevin McCarthy from becoming House speaker in three ballots. Sam Aschieris reports. Twitter exemplified an assault on free speech engineered by the Left and Big Tech, Tyler O’Neil writes. On the podcast, a preview of the new, Republican-led Congress. Plus: Mary Margaret Olohan on Biden’s status for a papal funeral; Tony Kinnett on Axios’ CRT lie; Sarah Parshall Perry on a blow to the trans agenda; and Virginia Allen on a demolished border wall. On this date in 1965, Democrat Patsy Mink is sworn in as the first Asian-American woman and first woman of color in Congress. She represented Hawaii in the House until 1977, and again from 1990 to 2002.
President Biden doesn’t clarify whether the Vatican requested that he avoid Pope Benedict XVI’s funeral, after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggests the Vatican did.
The Left uses the notion of scientific consensus as a tool to silence debate on controversial issues, but “The Twitter Files” reveal just how far some Big Tech companies go.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit rules that the word “sex” means biological “male” or “female,” upholding a school board’s bathroom policy.
