April 9 2021
 

Good morning from Washington. Across the nation, states have different laws to ensure election integrity, but you wouldn’t know that from the leftist freakout over Georgia’s law. Fred Lucas looks at the facts. How do our current free speech laws apply to social media? Justice Clarence Thomas pondered that issue in a new release, and GianCarlo Canaparo has analysis. Plus: Victor Davis Hanson eviscerates the hypocrisy of the woke, and Autumn Leva explains how Arkansas’ new law will protect kids. Fifty-eight years ago today, President John F. Kennedy makes Winston Churchill an honorary citizen, calling him “a firm and steadfast friend of the American people.” 

 
 
 
NEWS
How Georgia’s Voting Law Compares to 7 Blue, Purple States’ Laws
By Fred Lucas

Democrats have repeatedly denounced the new Georgia election integrity law that requires IDs for absentee ballots, but seldom criticize blue states that have comparable laws.
COMMENTARY
The Woke Revolution Is Powered by the Elites
By Victor Davis Hanson

Self-righteous elites rant about carbon footprints, defunding the police, gun control, and charter schools. But they rarely forgo their private jets, armed security guards, and prep schools.
ANALYSIS
How Public Sector Unions Are Failing Government Employees
By Virginia Allen

Public employees across America are growing weary of unions that do not represent their interests, says Elisabeth Kines, the national executive director of Americans for Fair Treatment.
NEWS
Over 172,000 Migrants Encountered at Southern Border in March
By Kaylee Greenlee

Officials apprehended nearly 19,000 unaccompanied migrant minors, around 53,600 family units, and over 99,000 single adults. Encounters were up 71% in March from February.
COMMENTARY
Justice Thomas’ Thought Experiment on Novel Issues With Social Media, Free Speech
By GianCarlo Canaparo

The case Justice Thomas weighed in on was originally brought against then-President Trump after he blocked several users from his Twitter account.
COMMENTARY
Arkansas Transgender Treatment Law Lets Kids Be Kids
By Autumn Leva

If a tattoo or piercing on nipples or genitalia is harmful to children and prohibited, then these sex-change interventions are also harmful and should be prohibited.
NEWS
Pennsylvania Agrees to Exhume Dead From Voter Rolls
By Fred Lucas

Pennsylvania has agreed to remove the names of about 21,000 dead people from voter registration rolls before the general election this year.
 
     
 
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