Aug. 23, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where overhauling the tax code soon will be front and center. House Speaker Paul Ryan makes his pitch during a nationally televised town hall back home in Wisconsin, as Rachel del Guidice reports. Is President Trump delivering on immigration enforcement? Fred Lucas checks. It's not just Confederate statues under attack. Jarrett Stepman has a tally. Plus: Amy Swearer on the ACLU's misunderstanding of basic freedoms, Walter Williams on the police failure in Charlottesville, and Katrina Trinko on the truth behind a Cabinet spouse's viral faux pas.
The monuments targeted for destruction are not just of Confederates—they are of Founders, explorers, emancipators, and religious men as well.
The White House points to results, with illegal border crossings down by more than half since this time last year and arrests of convicted criminal aliens up by about 20 percent during the same time period.
According to the ACLU of Virginia, police were reportedly ordered to "not intervene until given command to do so." That kept them from suppressing the numerous scuffles that broke out.
"What we are proposing on the individual side is get rid of the loopholes, get rid of the carve-outs, just lower people's tax rates," says House Speaker Paul Ryan. "Let you keep more of your own money. And simplify the code so much that you can fill out your taxes on a postcard."
"Antifa is a radical, anti-America, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard-left censorial organization that tries to stop speakers on campuses from speaking," Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz says.
The Twitterverse and the media are up in arms over an Instagram post and comment from Scottish actress Louise Linton, who is married to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Despite Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's claim that 80 percent of protesters in Charlottesville came armed with semi-automatic weapons, the Democrat admits not a single shot was fired.
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