Plus: 5 Key Questions in Senate Panel’s Hearing on Chinese Spy Balloon
February 10 2023
Happy Friday from Washington, where senators yesterday questioned Pentagon officials about how the military responded to that Chinese spy balloon. Samantha Aschieris has highlights. The need to outlaw “gender-affirming care” for kids is dramatized by one whistleblower’s description of drugging children, Katrina Trinko writes. On the podcast, Virginia Allen interviews a former Border Patrol chief about the power of the drug cartels. Plus: China outpaces America in missile launchers; the need for Congress to reclaim war powers; and Airbnb discriminates based on politics. On this date in 1962, the Soviet Union releases American spy plane pilot Gary Powers in exchange for a senior KGB spy caught in the U.S. five years earlier.
How did we let our children get manipulated and mutilated like this? A whistleblower’s harrowing story of drugging minors makes the case for laws banning transgender “treatments.”
“If you had the opportunity to shoot the Chinese spy balloon down either over the remote mountains of Alaska or over water near Alaska, why didn't you?" Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., asks a witness.
From July 2021 to July 2022, more than 142,000 Illinois residents moved out than newcomers moved in. Only New York state experienced a faster rate of population decline.
“They're either directly paying the cartels or the cartels are controlling their movements … to systematically overwhelm Border Patrol [and] then bring the narcotics across,” Rodney Scott says.
You don’t need the government to directly silence people and chill speech. Instead, left-wing institutional power—both public and private—is brought to bear to punish people for what some regard as “wrongthink.”
In response to a request for comment, the FBI told The Daily Signal today it has rescinded a document on “radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology” that cites the Southern Poverty Law Center.
