Good morning from Washington, where President Biden raises new doubts by not taking early action to down China’s spy balloon as it flies over the nation. Jim Carafano calls it like he sees it. Cheering on the transgender agenda in schools puts the CDC under scrutiny, Tyler O’Neil reports. Plus: stepping on parents’ rights in Florida; red states confront woke capitalists; political comeuppance for a congresswoman; and Victor Davis Hanson on the rampant use of the race card. Forty years ago today, pop singer Karen Carpenter of the hit-making Carpenters dies of heart failure brought on by a private struggle with anorexia.
“It’s abhorrent that federal tax dollars are going to pay for a dangerous ideology that experiments on children,” says Ian Prior, senior adviser at America First Legal.
Legislation introduced in the Florida House of Representatives is touted as a “children’s rights” bill, but it would be more accurate to call it a “usurpation of parental rights” bill.
Omar should have lost her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee for downplaying 9/11 and equating America with theocratic terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the Taliban.
“If the Biden administration refuses [to] respond, it will send a message to the Chinese military that they can send even more spy balloons,” says Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla.
