Plus: Can One Resignation Save Seattle's Police Force?
August 21 2020
Good morning from Washington, where identity politics threaten to overwhelm equality under the law. A new book by Heritage Foundation scholar Mike Gonzalez lays out how bad it’s become, our Jarrett Stepman writes. Will the resignation of Seattle’s police chief prove to be a turning point in the lawlessness? Jason Rantz sounds off. On the podcast, we talk to a barber who took on his home state to do his dream job. Plus: school districts charge parents twice; good news on entitlements; and a new low in pop music. On this date in 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii as the 50th state. Have a great weekend.
Instead of being turned off by criminal behavior, City Council members kept supporting the mob’s wishes. But they ran into problems fulfilling their pledge to defund the police.
“I know nothing about the project other than I didn’t like it when I read about it,” the president says of ex-aide Steve Bannon’s indictment for fraud.
When a business shuts its doors, it normally doesn’t get to charge customers for a product they no longer can access. It certainly doesn’t get to charge customers twice for the privilege.
“The president is not afraid to take on special interests to make the health care system more sustainable,” Medicare and Medicaid chief Seema Verma tells The Daily Signal.
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