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DC criminal code isn't reform; it's insanity <[link removed]>–The DC Council’s latest move to withdraw their radical criminal code shortly before the Senate is expected to override it with bipartisan support shows the unseriousness with which they have approached the very serious task of protecting the District’s visitors and residents. Despite the Mayor, the Chief of Police, and the U.S. Attorney for the District all expressing grave concerns about the contents of this bill, D.C.’s local elected leaders pushed forward anyway, at a time when homicides, car thefts, carjackings, sexual assaults, and a host of other violent crimes are spiking within the District. Fortunately, the Framers of our Constitution gave Congress the responsibility of overseeing our nation’s capital precisely so that those visiting and working there on our nation’s business would not be held hostage by the whims of a few local radical legislators. Heritage Expert: Zach Smith <[link removed]> and Cully Stimson <[link removed]>
Memo to President Biden: Lots of Dems Want to Sunset
Medicare – No Joke! <[link removed]> - Last year, more than half of all House Democrats joined Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in cosponsoring H.R. 1976 <[link removed]> , the “Medicare for All Act,” which would have “sunset” Medicare. In the Senate, 14 Democrats cosponsored <[link removed]> companion legislation by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). Of course, these politicians do not advertise the fact that their legislation would abolish Medicare. Instead, they played word games by entitling it “Medicare for All.” That way, people would think the bills aimed expanding Medicare as we know it. Heritage Expert: Robert Moffit <[link removed]>
North Carolina lawmakers must support this bill to empower
families <[link removed]> - No one can say “parents’ rights” aren’t popular in North Carolina, with state lawmakers introducing more than one proposal this year to advance them. But there are stark contrasts between the competing pitches to empower parents. Heritage Expert: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]>
The scary Fed idea to turn your dollars into a digital power grab <[link removed]> - The digital dollar being advocated by members of the Treasury and Federal Reserve <[link removed]> is
an example of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). At first blush, our currency already appears to be digitized. Many people no longer carry physical cash and instead use digital payment methods like a chipped credit card or their smartphones. Likewise, direct deposit has become the standard method of payment for labor. Dollars are transferred in a stream of ones and zeros, not paper bills and metal coins. But those dollars are inherently fungible. It’s irrelevant if you accept or pay with any particular dollar, because each one functions exactly the same way as any other. CBDCs are different. They are programmable, traceable, trackable and taxable. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
SPLC Lawyer Arrested in Atlanta Molotov Cocktail Riot, Faces Terrorism
Charges <[link removed]> - A staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center <[link removed]>, a left-leaning civil rights group notorious for branding
mainstream conservative and Christians nonprofits “hate groups” and putting them on a map with Ku Klux Klan chapters, was arrested Sunday on terrorism charges for allegedly taking part in a violent riot where agitators threw rocks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police. According to DeKalb County Jail records, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Thomas Webb Jurgens, a 6-foot male with brown hair and brown eyes, on Sunday, March 5. He faces one charge of “domestic terrorism.” Heritage Expert: Tyler O’Neil <[link removed]>
Thwarting the push to make inflation permanent <[link removed]> - Today, this fallacy is making a comeback among left-wing radicals who bill their permanent inflation “Modern Money Theory” (MMT). The idea in MMT is that the government can take as much as it wants by simply printing money, because government dollars will magically grow the economy and any resulting inflation can be magicked away by taxing the people into oblivion. This means the federal government can spend endless trillions on Green New Deals, mass welfare, crony capitalism or any new utopias that come bouncing down the pike. All those trillions would be on top of our current deficit running over $8.3 trillion over the past four years — levels not seen since the World Wars. Heritage Expert: Peter St. Onge <[link removed]>
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