Sept. 15, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where President Obama's economic promises to blacks and Latinos have had mixed results across America. Fred Lucas looks at the numbers. Two conservatives want to lead the House's biggest GOP caucus to the right. Philip Wegmann has that story, and an update on conservatives' determination to impeach the top IRS agent. Plus: Alexis Zhang on the crisis in civic literacy, Lila Rose on Planned Parenthood's dependence on aborting babies, and Naomi Schaefer Riley on Washington's betrayal of Native Americans.
"The black community has suffered tremendously under the president's policies," says Horace Cooper, co-chairman of Project 21, a black conservative group.
Reps. John Fleming, R-La. (above), and Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., introduced a "privileged resolution" Tuesday to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. The House has scheduled a roll call vote Thursday. It's the closest conservatives have come in their effort to remove the top taxman.
Some tribes are so dependent on the federal government that without money from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, their economic activity comes to a complete halt and their members may not have access to clean drinking water.
"There's disunity currently and any split in the conservative movement isn't good," says Rep. Andy Harris, a Republican. " ... The main goal is to make sure that RSC [Republican Study Committee] is part of the conservative movement."
In order to justify its half-billion dollars in annual taxpayer funding, Planned Parenthood downplays its abortion numbers by falsely claiming that abortion makes up only 3 percent of its business.
When asked, more than 70 percent of college graduates were unable to identify James Madison as the Father of the Constitution.
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