June 1, 2018
Happy Friday from Washington, where President Trump sees an entrenched bureaucracy as a huge obstacle. Opponents—surprise—misrepresent his reforms, Jarrett Stepman writes. From Ukraine, Nolan Peterson reports on a faked murder that reminds Western media that a war’s on. And you don’t know Genevieve Wood if you thought she’d let Samantha Bee’s ugly rhetoric go unanswered. Plus: Fred Lucas on presidential pardons, Elizabeth Slattery and Scott French on what the Supreme Court did in that Arkansas abortion case, and Kelsey Harkness and Ginny Montalbano on some problematic women. Enjoy the weekend.
An NBC News report in 2017 found that hundreds of federal employees were caught watching porn for hours a day while on the job, but few paid serious consequences.
Samantha Bee has come out and apologized, but it's not because everybody on the left was encouraging her to do so.
“The murder was staged, but the plot was not,” Ukrainian journalist Gosha Tykhyi tells The Daily Signal.
There have been 22 reported deaths caused by medication abortions since the drug was approved in 2000.
“Although I will be interested to hear what the president has to say and will keep an open mind, I am not aware of any manifest injustice that occurred in the cases involving Dinesh D’Souza, Martha Stewart, or Rod Blagojevich,” says The Heritage Foundation’s John Malcolm.
The T-shirt reads “I am a feminist too.”
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