January 16 2023
 
Good morning from Washington,  where House Republicans demand information from the White House and Justice Department regarding classified documents kept by President Biden for at least six years. Fred Lucas reports. The discredited Southern Poverty Law Center wants first graders to learn about Black Lives Matter on the day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Check out Tyler O’Neil’s story.  Plus: why Team Biden is targeting gas stoves; how church can defeat loneliness; and privatization power in South Africa. Fifty years ago today,  the Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins, 14-7, in Super Bowl VII to cap a perfect 17-0 season. .
 
 
 
COMMENTARY
Why I Think of Clarence Thomas and the Nuns Who Inspired Him Each MLK Day
By Mark Paoletta

For many years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Thomas would visit his eighth-grade teacher and her fellow nuns in a retirement convent in New Jersey.
COMMENTARY
Election Integrity 2022 in Review: More Improvements Than Damage
By Hans von Spakovsky, Jack Fitzhenry

States like Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin made their election laws better, while Maryland, Rhode Island, and Wyoming diminished election security.
COMMENTARY
Biden’s Border Disaster Isn’t Incompetence. It’s Intentional.
By Jarrett Stepman

President Biden said “our problems at the border didn’t arise overnight.” Actually, they did start almost overnight, and dramatically so.
COMMENTARY
Nanny State Throws Kitchen Sink, Aiming at Stove
By GianCarlo Canaparo, Jack Fitzhenry

To some, our public schools are the “nurseries of democracy.” It would be just as accurate to describe the administrative state as the nursery of despotism.
COMMENTARY
‘60 Minutes’ Peddles Fake News About Humans Overrunning Earth
By Tim Graham

CBS kicked off 2023 by touting “mass extinction” blather by Paul Ehrlich, the guy who’s been peddling radical and misanthropic eco-garbage since his book “The Population Bomb” in 1968.
COMMENTARY
Forgery Cases Give Supreme Court Opportunity to Hold Unions Accountable for Shady Tactics
By Rebekah Millard

An important Supreme Court ruling freed government workers from mandatory union dues, but the unions use shady schemes to skirt the court’s intent, and some have even forged documents.
 
     
 
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