Plus: Fact-Checking 4 Claims in Biden's Jan. 6 Anniversary Speech
January 7 2023
Good morning from Washington, where the nation finally has a House speaker. Samantha Aschieris has the latest on Republicans’ leadership fight. President Biden mangles history while roughing up facts in his speech on the Capitol riot, Fred Lucas reports. Plus: Bob Moffit on a new scheme to socialize medicine; Amy Swearer on false gun control claims; EJ Antoni on why welfare is becoming more attractive than work; and Victor Davis Hanson on what’s happened to America. Seventy years ago, in his final State of the Union address, President Harry Truman tells the world that the U.S. has developed a hydrogen bomb. Enjoy the weekend.
Although the campaign to create a health care “public option” may have waned in Washington, D.C., this left-wing project is very much alive in some states.
During the pandemic, idled workers received unemployment “bonuses” so high that many were pocketing more than twice what they had been making on the job.
