Nov. 8, 2017
Good morning from Washington. After lawmakers put the spotlight last week on how Russians used social media to try to affect the election, Americans have considered the issue—and now the number of people who don't want government regulation of social media has grown. Rob Bluey reports. Should we respond to the Texas shooting with more gun laws? Emily Miller explains why that makes no sense, and Katrina Trinko weighs in on why, contra the left, praying is a good response to the shooting. Plus: Genevieve Wood and Jim Phillips on a Saudi prince to watch, and Walter Williams on the importance of free markets. A year ago today, Donald Trump pulled off a win the D.C. establishment never saw coming.
"[Since Ed] Gillespie's ads criticizing MS-13 and sanctuary cities, [Ralph] Northam has now flipped and said that if some city did declare it a sanctuary, he would act to stop it if he were governor," says Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies.
"The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive," tweeted an actor.
Tech companies have pledged to take steps to increase transparency of political ads and crack down on "fake" news. Those changes, however, don't go far enough for lawmakers who have proposed legislation to regulate the companies.
Mohammed bin Salman has called for a return to a more moderate form of Islam.
"Over the past century, communist totalitarian regimes around the world have killed more than 100 million people," says the White House.
The fact that we have gross ignorance about how the world operates is ignored by the know-it-all elites who seek to control our lives.
The government passing more firearms laws is not going to "do something" other than infringe on a constitutional right.
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