⭐️ The lockdown skeptics won. From: Christian Britschi/Reason. Trump's nominee for NIH director once stirred major controversy for criticizing lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures. Yesterday, Senate Democrats didn't even raise the issue.
Don’t fall for Left’s selective outrage about government data collection. From: Mark Wheat/Daily Caller News. They have been perfectly content to let career bureaucrats collect such information from the American people.
🎯 Democrats’ principles lead to the madness of sanctuary for violent criminals. From: NY Post Editorial Board. It protects outright criminals in the name of . . . what principle?
How House Democrats became zombies. From: Newt Gingrich/Fox News. House Democrats have evolved from being a relatively rough and tumble, argumentative, and rebellious bunch into a tame, passive, robotic group today.
🤬 Corporate welfare in the federal budget. From: Chris Edwards/CATO. This study tallies corporate welfare in the federal budget and finds that the government spends $181 billion a year on aid to businesses.
AI's challenges to free speech doctrine. From: Ryan Bengert/Civitas Institute. AI complicates the free speech equation, requiring cautious application of First Amendment principles.
🤐 British blasphemy? UK government moves toward new definition of “Islamophobia” for speech regulation. From: Jonathan Turley. More efforts to regulate and criminalize speech.
The West must soon admit it: The Paris Accord was a disastrous mistake. From: NY Post Editorial Board. EPA boss Lee Zeldin’s push to rescind the White House’s 2009 finding on greenhouse gases marks another great milestone on President Trump’s climate course correction.
🍕 RFK Jr. to meet leaders of processed foods industrial complex. From: Zero Hedge. “Something is poisoning the American people, and we know that the primary culprits are changing food supply, a switch to highly chemical-intensive processed foods."
Bills filed to prohibit biological men in women’s bathrooms in state-funded facilities. From: Bethany Blankley/The Center Square. The Texas bill would ban biological males from using state-funded women’s facilities like in jail or prison cells, public bathrooms and locker rooms.
🔥 CA would rather burn than offend public unions. From: Kerry Jackson/Issues & Insights. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services “to develop regulations prohibiting privately contracted firefighters from hooking up their equipment to public water sources.”
Newsom refuses to protect women’s sports days after saying it’s ‘unfair’ for men to compete. From: Brianna Lyman/The Federalist. Newsom got credit for appearing reasonable while never actually committing to anything — and that’s exactly why he created the podcast!
🛢️ US estimates it will take $20 billion and years to refill oil reserve. From: Timothy Gardner/Reuters. The Biden administration sold nearly 300 million barrels from the reserve, pushing the SPR to the lowest level in 40 years.
Why it pays to keep your political opinions away from your money. From: Mark Hulbert/MarketWatch. Even skilled stock-fund managers lose when politics and investing mix.
🙄 Today in insanity: Three preposterous stories. From: Eric Utter/American Thinker. First up, $600,000 grant to the Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College to study menstruation in “transgender men”
92 years of government overreach. From: Libertarian. It’s time to undo the damage of the past 92 years and restore economic liberty.