Plus: Why We Should Care That YouTube Has Silenced Sen. Rand Paul
August 12 2021
Good morning from Washington, where a U.S. senator’s remarks on masks and COVID-19 get him banned from YouTube. Something ugly is growing, Jarrett Stepman writes. In a video report, a Border Patrol leader tells it like it is as Biden administration policies fuel a crisis. On the podcast, civil rights leader Bob Woodson celebrates black Americans who helped make the nation great. Plus: the salon owner who stood up to Nancy Pelosi isn’t going away; unfinished Cuomo business; and “Problematic Women” explores a documentary on kids and transgenderism. On this date in 1990, fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson discovers huge bones jutting from a cliff in South Dakota, part of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton yet discovered.
“President Trump, he solved that issue with the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program,” Brandon Judd says. “But because that has been rescinded, we’re seeing this huge flood.”