Plus: Repeat of 2020? Left-Wing Tech Group Doles Out Millions in Grants in Eerily Familiar Scheme
January 5 2023
Good morning from Washington, where 20 House conservatives continue to deny the top job to California’s Kevin McCarthy. We’ve got related reports and commentary Jarrett Stepman and Fred Lucas. On the podcast, a former DEA agent outlines the deadly threat of fentanyl. Plus: a tech entity begins to give big money to local jurisdictions to run elections; Biden boosts abortion pills; Texas stands in the way of illegal aliens; and “Problematic Women” dissects the capitulation of Crocs. On this date in 1933, construction starts on the Golden Gate Bridge as workers begin to excavate 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt to anchor what will become an iconic structure in San Francisco.
The Alliance for Election Excellence awards grants of $500,000 to at least two local jurisdictions ahead of the 2024 elections, in an echo of the 2020 “Zuckbucks” scandal.
The Biden administration formalizes a process to allow pharmacies to join the abortion-pill business, a move representing the president’s willingness to do the abortion industry’s bidding.
"The synthetic opioid fentanyl that we're talking about … is really not a drug,” Derek Maltz says. “It's really like poison, because it's made in dirty, filthy labs in Mexico.”
Whoever wins the House speakership, he or she probably will be better for the vetting of democracy. Maybe this battle is a good thing. The republic will survive.
