Links for 3–20-26
Dems fight to protect alien fraudsters
🚩 186 Democrats vote NO to booting immigrant scammers that defraud America. From: DBS Wire. House Democrats overwhelmingly lined up Wednesday to oppose a Republican-backed bill aimed at kicking fraudsters out of the country.
Blue state Democrats block debate on bill to notify ICE of illegal immigrants arrested for violent crimes. From: Harold Hutchison/Daily Caller. Democrats in the Minnesota House of Representatives blocked consideration of legislation that would require prosecutors to notify the federal government when they arrest illegal immigrants for violent crimes.
🔎 NYC spent over $368 million to combat homelessness this past fiscal year. Now the state can’t track the money. From: Meagan O’Rourke/Reason. The Big Apple is spending more than ever on services for the unsheltered, but state auditors don’t know if it’s working.
The unraveling in New York. From: Mike Kimelman/Sovereign Sunday. New York City has always flirted with self-destruction. Sometimes the dance was stylish. Sometimes it was theatrical. But rarely has the romance been quite this explicit, or quite this grotesque.
👉 CBS News investigation uncovers massive Medicare hospice fraud In L.A. County. From: Bryan Hyde/American Greatness. An investigation by CBS News has discovered massive Medicare fraud at more than 700 out of 1,800 licensed hospice providers in Los Angeles County.
Congress knows it has a spending problem, but won’t fix it. From: Romina Boccia/Daily Economy. Fiscal discipline is politically costly, but inaction will be disastrous. How can we restore sanity to federal budgeting?
👀 The feds are investing in wearable health trackers. That could put your private data at risk. From: Singer & Eddington/Reason. Government-backed biowearables could generate vast streams of personal health data with few legal safeguards.
Brendan Carr’s crusade to reshape TV journalism is blatantly unconstitutional. From: Jacob Sullum/Creators. The First Amendment does not allow the FCC chairman to police news coverage.
🎯 Leftism, not masculinity, is toxic. From: J B Shurk/American Thinker. Being masculine is a good thing.
Understanding the Overton Window. From: Don Stacy II/Mises Institute. How do new or even “radical” ideas become part of the body politic? The Overton Window provides a way of better way of helping us understand how things change.
👎 Iraq born man released from jail after bringing gun to Texas elementary school. From: Tyler O’Neil/Daily Signal. The Iraq-born naturalized citizen makes bail after allegedly entering the school with a load-bearing vest, taser, and holstered firearm.
The Democratic Socialists of America stand up for Cuba! From: Francis Menton/Manhattan Contrarian. Cuba has become the first nation in the world to achieve the climate activists’ Holy Grail of “Net Zero” carbon emissions. I had looked around for news of the big celebration of Cuba’s achievement, but I couldn’t find any mention of it.
💉 The final humiliation for everyone who pushed Covid jabs on kids. From: Alex Berenson/Unreported Truths. A new British study shows how badly the mRNA shots failed on teens and especially kids. It is long past time for public health bureaucrats to admit the truth and beg forgiveness.
9th Circuit denies California’s request on gender policy. From: Esther Wickham/Center Square. The court denied California’s emergency request to modify a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving a policy that allowed public schools to withhold information from parents about a student’s gender transition.
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