May 8, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump revives a tradition by asking Congress to rescind $15 billion in spending for starters. Rachel del Guidice reports. Who is the businessman whose book wins presidential praise? Ginny Montalbano interviews him. In Ukraine, Nolan Peterson profiles a city that coexists with war. Jarrett Stepman examines the left’s celebration of Marxism. Plus: Rep. Francis Rooney on penalizing Putin, Stepman and Fred Lucas on the history of special counsels, and Kelsey Harkness on Michelle Obama’s feelings about how women voted.
Writing in The New York Times, a professor characterizes modern social justice crusades as fundamentally Marxist.
“It’s capitalism that really encourages more of an altruistic approach to life, and socialism that really encourages greed,” says former CEO Andy Puzder.
“Choice,” according to Michelle Obama and her fellow feminists, has evolved to mean supporting Hillary Clinton—or whoever the Democratic candidate of the day is—based on your body parts.
“This first package will be the first of several,” says a senior administration official. “It will be designed to go after unobligated balances, things that have not been spent and programs from prior years.”
One important option is to apply pressure on the Russian energy sector. Another is to present a credible military deterrent in Russia’s back yard, writes Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla.
“America is the only country that cares about us,” says a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
In 1875, President Ulysses Grant named the first special prosecutor to investigate the Whiskey Ring scandal and later fired him.
"In today’s fast-paced and ever-connected world, children can be less prepared to express or manage their emotions and oftentimes turn to forms of destructive or addictive behavior," says Melania Trump.
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