March 8 2023
 
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden makes the Left’s dreams come through with “equity” and “inclusion” initiatives. A growing number of states reject such wrongheaded policies, Mike Gonzalez writes. Antifa’s violent extremists have a friend in the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tyler O’Neil reports. On the podcast, two border security officials under Trump analyze the worsening humanitarian crisis there. Plus: increasing taxes to fund Medicare; eyeing China’s military buildup; questioning the Biden administration’s get-out-the-vote effort; and going soft on crime in the nation’s capital. Forty years ago today, in a Florida speech  to the National Association of Evangelicals, President Ronald Reagan again calls the Soviet Union “an evil empire”—nine months after doing so in an address to the British House of Commons.
 
 
 
COMMENTARY
These States Are Leading the Charge in the Fight Against the Left’s Marxist Agenda
By Mike Gonzalez

You don’t need a political science degree from the Sorbonne to know there are forces attempting regime change in America.
NEWS
Southern Poverty Law Center Has Long History of Carrying Water for Antifa Extremists
By Tyler O'Neil

In June 2020, the SPLC attacked then-President Donald Trump for announcing his intention to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.
COMMENTARY
Biden’s 2023 Medicare Proposal Doubles Down on Failed Policies of Past
By Robert Moffit

President Biden’s Medicare budget proposals are a tiresome combination of misrepresentations and scare tactics, plus old-fashioned tax increases and Medicare payment cuts.
COMMENTARY
Chinese Defense Spending Rises 7.2% to $225 Billion, but Data Gaps Indicate It’s Higher Than That
By Wilson Beaver

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has a goal of achieving a world-class military that is fully “mechanized & informationized” by 2027.
ANALYSIS
Former ICE Chief Explains Why Women Illegally Crossing Border Carry These Pills
By Virginia Allen

Many young women and girls cross the southern border carrying “morning after” pills, also known as Plan B, because “they know they’re going to be raped,” Tom Homan says.
COMMENTARY
DC’s Radical Criminal Code ‘Reform’ Would Make City Even Less Safe. Congress Is Right to Rebuke It.
By Zack Smith, Cully Stimson

About one carjacking and 18 car thefts occur each day in the District of Columbia.
ANALYSIS
Biden ‘Weaponizes’ Feds to Boost Democratic Voter Turnout, Ohio Secretary of State Says
By Fred Lucas

“They’re shuffling federal money to unaccountable sources to do what they call voter registration,” says Ohio’s secretary of state.
COMMENTARY
ICYMI: Why the Left Is Pro-Mask
By Dennis Prager

One reason the Left insists on forcing others to wear masks is that controlling others’ lives is in the Left’s raison d’etre.
 
     
 
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