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Smartphones, social media

reshape smuggling operations
Apps used in 68% of border crimes, database review finds
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Second of three parts
Mark Delgado told Border Patrol
agents he was scrolling through TikTok
one day when he came across a video
asking for drivers and offering $4,000
a trip.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
He needed the money, so he reached
PLUGGED IN: Smartphones play a large role in illegal immigration from the south. out to the guy on WhatsApp, a messag-
Often lured by photos sent by relatives and friends who have reached the U.S., ing service owned by Facebook. They
migrants find apps to be vital resources in their own attempts to cross the border. made arrangements to meet this month
in the Rio Grande Valley, where the
TikTok recruiter put a man in the trunk
of Mr. Delgado’s Nissan Altima and
piled clothes on top to try to conceal the
migrant, according to court documents.
Mr. Delgado was sent on his way with
a warning — stay relaxed while going
through the Border Patrol checkpoint
— and a promise of $5,200 when the mi-
grant was dropped off outside Houston.
A canine at the checkpoint alerted on
Mr. Delgado’s car, and agents found the
migrant. Agents said Mr. Delgado begged
them to cut him a break: “Can’t you let
me go since this is my first time?”
A day later, at the same checkpoint,
agents nabbed another man, Alvaro
Vazquez-Ruiz, who said he was recruited
over Telegram, another social media
app. He was promised $1,500 for every
person he was able to get through the
checkpoint.
He turned the fuel tank of his Ford
F-350 truck into a compartment to hide
» see BORDER | A5

REPUBLICANS

Election audit
turns Arizona
into a mecca
for candidates
Examining process
helps hone messages
BY SETH MCLAUGHLIN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Kristina Karamo wants voters to know she made

the 2,000-mile trek from Michigan to Arizona
Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix to get a
firsthand glimpse of the Maricopa County election
audit that has become a cause celebre for supporters
of former President Donald Trump.
Ms. Karamo, a candidate for secretary of state, is
among a growing number of Republicans running
for public office who have made the pilgrimage to
Arizona to learn about the process and pay homage
to Mr. Trump and his supporters.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
“I think it is the next chapter in the political
SUMMIT GREETINGS: U.S. and Russian flags lined the Mont Blanc Bridge in Geneva on Tuesday, the eve of a series of meetings between President Biden and wave that is the Trump presidency and the residual
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Biden said he hopes the Russian leader will be motivated by a desire to change “the perception that the world has in him.” aftereffects,” said Stan Barnes, an Arizona-based
Republican Party strategist. “The audit itself is a
historic anomaly in Arizona, and in the afterglow
FOREIGN RELATIONS of the 2020 election outcome, it is surreal but im-
portant, and it is going to have its effects not only

Biden to confront Putin on malicious actions
Russian takes defiant stance on U.S. accusations
BY DAVE BOYER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Biden is bringing a long list of U.S.
grievances to his highly anticipated summit with
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland
on Wednesday.
Consider some of Moscow’s actions in the past
decade. Russia has:
⦁ Interfered in the U.S. presidential elections
in 2016 and 2020, according to U.S. intelligence
officials.
Mr. Putin rejects the accusations. Pointing to
the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, he says the U.S. is
hypocritical when it tells other countries how to
run a democracy.
in Arizona but all over the country.”
It is not out of the ordinary for politicos to make
fact-finding missions to other states to bolster
their mastery of issues, hone their messages and
» see ELECTION | A9
“They weren’t just a crowd of robbers and rioters.
Those people had come with political demands,”
the Russian leader told NBC News.
⦁ Harbored hackers who have waged ransom- ECONOMY
ware attacks this spring on key parts of the U.S.
economy. The cyberattacks have disrupted op-
erations at a fuel pipeline company, a major meat Theorists dismiss
supplier and other entities.
Again, the Russian president denies any knowl-
edge of the attacks.
debt worries, say
“Where is [the] evidence? Where is [the] proof?
It’s becoming farcical,” Mr. Putin said this weekend.
⦁ Initiated through its foreign intelligence ser-
government can
vice the SolarWinds cyberattack against several PUMPED UP: Ransomware attacks such as the
one that disrupted gas supplies last month in the
spend all it wants
» see SUMMIT | A9 U.S. are on Mr. Biden’s list of grievances for Mr. Putin.
BY JAMES VARNEY
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

PHILANTHROPY The $6 trillion budget President Biden has pro-

posed may strike many Americans as astronomical,

Americans set new record in charitable giving
BY MARK A. KELLNER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Americans remained among the world’s most
charitable people last year, increasing their dona-
tions 5% despite pandemic-induced shutdowns,
layoffs and economic turmoil, a survey released
Tuesday found.
Individuals, bequests, foundations and corpora-
tions gave an estimated $471.44 billion to U.S. chari-
ties in 2020, according to “Giving USA 2021: The
Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2020.”
“Total charitable giving grew 5.1% measured in
current dollars over the revised total of $448.66
Money flows during
pandemic, turmoil
billion contributed in 2019. Adjusted for inflation,
total giving increased 3.8%,” states the survey, which
has been published each year since 1956 and is billed
as “the longest running, most comprehensive report
on philanthropy in America.”
Individual giving increased 2.2% to $324.1 billion.
Although that was the highest total dollar figure to
date, the Giving USA report said, it “comprised less
than 70% of total giving for the third consecutive
year.”
Charitable foundations donated an estimated
$88.5 billion, a 17% increase over 2019’s total and the
category’s “highest-ever dollar amount,” according
to the survey. Bequests totaled $41.19 billion in 2020,
up 10.3% from 2019, but corporate giving dropped
6.1%, to $16.88 billion, last year.
Giving to religion, one of the largest donation
categories, totaled $131.08 billion in 2020, up 1%
before being adjusted for inflation. After those
adjustments, religious giving was down 0.2% from
2019, the survey reported.
» see CHARITY | A9
but one school of thought supports his spending
binge and much more.
Supporters of Modern Monetary Theory say
the brand of economics signals a brave new world,
but detractors fear it could lead to fiscal calamity.
“I’m not sure any White House economists
would describe themselves as MMT adherents, but
the policies they are pursuing sure do look a lot like
MMT or MMT-lite,” said Tyler Goodspeed, a Stan-
ford University economist and former chairman of
the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
The core principle of Modern Monetary Theory
is that a government that controls its money, and
thus has what is known as a “sovereign currency,”
will never default because it can print as much
» see BUDGET | A5

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LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS GETS GLOBAL CONDEMNATION THE FASCINATION NEVER FADES

The Aussies get it. Liberal bias in the U.S. has become so pro-
nounced that it has attracted international attention. Critics from
many miles away — many, many miles away — have taken notice.
Australian broadcasters discussing this phenomenon on Sky
News this week blasted the coverage of President Biden during
the Group of Seven summit — noting in no uncertain terms that
former President Trump got no such courtesy when he made an
appearance at the event in 2018.
“Taking aim at CNN, in particular, the anchor compared the net-
work reporting on Biden in 2021 vs. Trump in 2018. The difference
was absolutely striking, with CNN saying that Trump was in op-
position to every world leader around him, while everything about
Biden seemed perfect and without trouble,” writes Brandon Morse,
senior editor for RedState.com who monitored the coverage.
“They drive to give the illusion that he doesn’t have any disputes
with any of these international leaders,” said anchor Chris Kenny,
who called the Biden coverage “gushing,” and the reporters “ste-
nographers,” among other things.
“It’s really quite appalling to watch. And what happened to
straight news reporting which doesn’t seem to be existent there?”
asked Sophie Elsworth, media writer for The Australian.
“Trump can do no right,” noted Nick Cater, an analyst with the
Menzies Research Centre think tank, adding that “there are consid-
erable question marks over Biden’s foreign affairs policies. They’re
not proven yet.”
“I would be much happier to see Donald Trump at the G-7, I
think,” he added.
‘CONFUSION AND DISUNITY’
Catholic public officials who oppose church teachings of the
Catholic Church create confusion and disunity and should not
present themselves for communion, according to a poll released
Tuesday by Catholic Vote, a national religious organization based
in Wisconsin.
The survey has arrived at a pivotal time — just as President
Biden is poised to visit the Vatican.
The new poll found that 83% of Catholics who regularly attend
mass believe Catholic public officials who oppose essential church
teachings create “confusion and disunity” among the churchgo-
ers. It also revealed that 74% of Catholics say these public officials
should not present themselves for communion — while 72%
agreed that bishops should address such complex matters.
In addition, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is set to
consider the controversial question of whether Catholic politi-
cians who support abortion and other policies contrary to Catholic
teaching should receive communion.
“Catholic politicians who advocate for policies considered
BELTWAY
INSIDE THE
BY JENNIFER HARPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Australian media experts have joined U.S. critics in denouncing the
political bias and unfair reporting, which persists in the U.S. press.  tively. As has been the norm for quite some time, “Tucker Carlson
‘gravely immoral’ create confusion and discord among believers,”
Brian Burch, president of Catholic Vote, said in a statement.
“Catholics’ concern about the flouting of Catholic social teach-
ing by public leaders is less about politics and more about the in-
tegrity of the faith, along with reverence and respect due the Holy
Eucharist,” Mr. Burch said.
The survey also found that 84% agree of the respondents agree
that it is “hypocritical of any politician to campaign on their faith to
get votes” and then advocate for policies contrary to their religion
once in office.
“This polling data should bolster the confidence of Catholic
bishops as they prepare to discuss how to recover an understand-
ing of the beauty and richness of the sacrament — among all
Catholics. The data is very clear: Bishops have an obligation to act,”
Mr. Burch noted.
In addition, 87% of the poll respondents also believe Catholic
bishops should defend the teachings of the Church, even if some
Catholics might disagree with them on fundamental issues. An-
other 88% believe it is important for Catholic bishops to teach and
lead others in matters of the faith, including those who are public
officials and other people in influential or powerful positions.
The poll of 600 Catholic respondents was conducted June 1-8
and has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Let’s take a brief detour and visit with Julien’s Auctions, which has
just auctioned off 1,000 personal items belonging to rock ’n’ roll icons.
And now (drum roll please), the Los Angeles-based auction house
shares the final bid of a few select items with Inside the Beltway:
Kurt Cobain’s self-portrait ($281,250); Alex Van Halen’s Lud-
wig drum set ($230,000); Elton John’s high gloss red Yamaha baby
grand piano with bench ($150,000); Cher’s black jersey bodysuit
and matching black motorcycle jacket ($115,200) and an original
brick from studio number 2 at London’s iconic Abbey Road Stu-
dios, used for recording by The Beatles ($16,000).
FOXIFIED
Fox News reigns over the cable news competition for the 17th
consecutive week, according to Nielsen Media Research ratings for
the week of June 7-13, enjoying an audience of 2.2 million prime-
time viewers.
MSNBC attracted 1.4 million and CNN 776,000 during the same
period.
New weekend programs “Unfiltered with Dan Bongino” and
“Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy” bested the two rival
networks, drawing 1.5 million and 1.2 million viewers, respec-
Tonight” with 2.8 million viewers and “Hannity” with 2.5 million
viewers are the ratings kingpins.
And for the 10th week in a row, “Gutfeld!” ruled the late-night
talk-show field with 1.5 million viewers, topping ABC’s “ Jimmy
Kimmel Live,” NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” TBS’s “Full Frontal with
Samantha Bee,” and HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” and “Real Time
with Bill Maher.”
POLL DU JOUR
• 28% of U.S. adults say “all” of their family members have
received a COVID-19 vaccine; 24% of Republicans, 23% of indepen-
dents and 38% of Democrats agree.
• 28% overall say “most” of their family have received the vac-
cine; 26% of Republicans, 26% of independents and 31% of Demo-
crats agree.
• 23% say “a few” of their family have received it; 27% of Repub-
licans, 29% of independents and 17% of Democrats agree.
• 8% say “none” of their family have gotten the vaccine; 13% of
Republicans, 9% of independents and 3% of Democrats agree.
• 13% are not sure; 9% of Republicans, 13% of independents and
11% of Democrats agree.
SOURCE: AN ECONOMIST/YOUGOV POLL OF 1,500 U.S. ADULTS CONDUCTED JUNE 6-8.
• Kindly follow Jennifer Harper on Twitter @HarperBulletin.

ARIZONA

POLITICS
INSIDE IMMIGRATION

Harris vows to do ‘everything in our power’ to protect Dreamers State attorney

REPUBLICANS
Harrington hired as Trump spokeswoman
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday
that he’s hired former Republican National Com-
mittee official Liz Harrington as his new chief
spokeswoman.
“Liz Harrington is a fighter,” Mr. Trump said
in a statement released by his Save America PAC.
“She was an important part of our receiving more
votes than any incumbent president in U.S. his-
tory, far more than we received the first time we
won.”
Ms. Harrington served as national spokes-
woman for the RNC. She also has worked as
editor-in-chief of Warroom.org, and as a senior
writer for the Washington Free Beacon.
The statement said she has “long been a
staunch supporter of President Trump.”
She replaces Jason Miller, who is entering the
private sector, where he’s expected to become
CEO of a tech start-up. His new venture could
lead to a new social media outlet for Mr. Trump,
who is banned from Twitter and Facebook.
Ms. Harrington called it “an honor of a lifetime
to represent President Trump and to stand for the
truth.”
— Dave Boyer
WHITE HOUSE
Hero pilot leads ambassador nominees
That’s “Ambassador Sully” to you.
President Biden moved to fill some high-profile
diplomatic posts Tuesday, including nominating
famed Hudson River pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullen-
berger to be the U.S. ambassador to the Interna-
tional Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal.
The White House also announced that Mr.
Biden would pick Morgan Stanley Vice Chairman
and veteran diplomat Tom Nides to be the new
ambassador to Israel and former Secretary of Inte-
rior Ken Salazar to be ambassador to Mexico.
Also nominated were Julie Smith, a longtime
aide to Mr. Biden, to be the U.S. ambassador to
NATO and Cynthia Telles, a professor at UCLA, to
be ambassador to Costa Rica.
As ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Salazar, who
also served as a Democratic senator from Colo-
rado, would work on issues tied to the strained
U.S.-Mexican border.
Meanwhile, Mr. Nides will deal with Israel’s
newly minted governing coalition headed by
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who was sworn
in Sunday after 12 years of rule by Benjamin
Netanyahu.
— Jeff Mordock
Vice President Kamala Harris marked the
ninth anniversary Tuesday of the Obama-era pro-
gram that shields some immigrants who are in the
U.S. illegally from deportation, saying the Biden
administration will do “everything in our power”
to protect them.
“It is critically important that we provide a
pathway to citizenship to give people a sense
of security,” Ms. Harris said as she called on
the Senate to approve legislation that would
provide permanent legal status for an estimated
11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
“Dreamers” are immigrants who came to the
U.S. illegally as children.
The vice president met with Democratic
Sens. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and Robert
Menendez of New Jersey and members of the
National Domestic Workers Alliance.
She recalled a hearing when she was a sena-
tor, questioning Trump administration Home-
land Security Secretary John F. Kelly about his
commitment to the Deferred Action for Child-
hood Arrivals program.
“We knew it was under threat by the admin-
istration at the time,” she said. “We are here on
this day on the anniversary of DACA … to tell
you this administration fully intends to do ev-
erything in our power to protect our Dreamers.
… There is no question about that.”
DEMOCRATS
Schumer apologizes for ableist remark
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer
said Monday he is deeply sorry after he used an
ableist term to refer to children with developmen-
tal disabilities during a recent interview.
On the “OneNYCHA” podcast Sunday, host
Saundrea Coleman called
it “unbelievable” that some
politicians were against a New
York City proposal to house
the homeless population when
Mr. Schumer spoke about his
experience as a state legislator.
“I wanted to build —
when I first was assembly-
Schumer man — they wanted to build
a congregant living place for
retarded children, and the
whole neighborhood was against it,” he said.
A spokesman for Mr. Schumer apologized in
a statement calling the term “outdated,” “hurtful,”
and “inappropriate.”
“For decades, Sen. Schumer has been an ardent
champion for enlightened policy and full funding
of services for people with intellectual and devel-
opmental disabilities,” the statement read.
— Jessica Chasmar
ASSOCIATED PRESS
“It is critically important that we provide a pathway
to citizenship to give people a sense of security,”
Vice President Kamala Harris said.
She said of the Dreamers, “There is an
urgency to this moment, and your stories are
America’s stories.”
— Dave Boyer
THE LIFE OF THE MIND
Panel passes bill to curb foreign influence
A bipartisan group of House members is push-
ing a new effort to stop taxpayer dollars from going
to researchers purportedly compromised by China.
The House Science, Space and Technology
Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that lawmak-
ers amended to prohibit researchers from getting
National Science Foundation (NSF) grants if they
have participated in malign foreign talent pro-
grams, such as China’s Thousand Talents Plan.
Foreign adversaries like China use talent re-
cruitment programs to incentivize and influence
U.S. government-funded researchers to act in the
adversaries’ interest.
Rep. Randy Feenstra, Iowa Republican, intro-
duced the amendment to the National Science
Foundation for the Future Act that would ban
NSF money for researchers who have participated
in such talent programs or received a benefit in
exchange for transferring knowledge and expertise
to China and other countries of concern, including
Iran, North Korea and Russia.
Mr. Feenstra’s amendment passed by a voice
vote without opposition and earned the praise
of the committee’s Democratic chair, Rep. Eddie
Bernice Johnson of Texas.
— Ryan Lovelace
general warns
DOJ to stay away
from vote audit
BY EMILY ZANTOW
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich
wants the federal government to back off the
state’s ongoing audit of the 2020 election.
In a letter Monday, Mr. Brnovich said Attor-
ney General Merrick Garland’s comments last
week expressing concern about post-election
audits were “troubling.”
“Your statements displayed an alarming dis-
dain for state sovereignty,”
Mr. Brnovich said. “My
office is not amused by
the DOJ’s posturing and
will not tolerate any effort
to undermine or interfere
with our State Senate’s
audit to reassure Arizo-
nans of the accuracy of
Brnovich our elections.”
Mr. Garland vowed
Friday to scrutinize post-
election audits “to ensure they abide by federal
statutory requirements to protect election
records and avoid the intimidation of voters.”
Mr. Garland said that “some jurisdictions,
based on disinformation, have utilized abnor-
mal post-election audit methodologies that
may put the integrity of the voting process at
risk and undermine public confidence in our
democracy.”
The audit of the vote in Maricopa County, the
state’s most populous county, was orchestrated
by state Senate Republicans. It began in April
and now ranks as the nation’s longest-running
election review.
Former President Donald Trump, who con-
tinues to make baseless claims that Democrats
stole the election from him through wide-
spread voter fraud, has praised the audit and
urged other states to launch their own election
reviews.
Mr. Brnovich, who is running to be the state’s
Republican nominee for the Senate, said Arizona
is “ready to defend federalism and state sover-
eignty against any partisan attacks or federal
overreach.”
“As I have demonstrated several times, how-
ever, Arizona will not sit back and let the Biden
administration abuse its authority, refuse to
uphold laws, or attempt to commandeer our
state’s sovereignty,” he said.

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Politics
CONGRESS

Republicans call for Omar to be removed from House panel

McCarthy escalates response after latest remarks
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
AND JOSEPH CLARK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
House Minority Leader Kevin
McCarthy on Tuesday called on
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to
remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
and he promised he would do so
if Republicans take the majority
in the House, speaking to “Fox
and Friends.”
Mr. McCarthy’s escalation is in
response to Ms. Omar’s statements
last week equating the U.S. and
Israel to Hamas and the Taliban
while questioning Secretary of
State Antony Blinken.
“This is an individual that
has not once, but on numerous
occasions, been antisemitic,” said
Mr. McCarthy, California Repub-
lican. “Her own entire Congress
had to rebuke her in last one. But
she’s just not antisemitic, she’s
anti-American now. She’s equat-
ing America to Taliban, to Hamas.
She’s discrediting our greatest ally
in the Middle East, Israel, the only
democracy.”
Several Jewish Democrats
quickly condemned Ms. Omar
for her statements, a move that
led to intense infighting within the
caucus before Ms. Omar issued a
statement clarifying her remarks.
Mrs. Pelosi, California Dem-
ocrat, and her leadership team
strongly discouraged Ms. Omar’s
rhetoric but refused to impose a
penalty.
By Sunday, Mrs. Pelosi insisted
that the statement wasn’t “a re-
buke” of Ms. Omar, the first Somali
American and the first naturalized
U.S. citizen of African birth elected
to Congress.
In response, a group of House
Republicans, led by Rep. Michael
Waltz of Florida, introduced a
resolution to formally censure
Ms. Omar and the three other
members of “The Squad” for their
rhetoric, which they said defended
terrorist organizations and con-
tributed to antisemitic attacks.
The other Republicans who
introduced the bill was Rep. Jim
Banks of Indiana. Rep. Vicky
Hartzler, Missouri Republican,
also signed on to the bill Tuesday
morning.
“This is an individual that has not once, but on numerous occasions,
been antisemitic,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
While Mr. McCarthy was re-
portedly considering a separate
resolution to strip Ms. Omar of
her seat on the Foreign Affairs
Committee, his remarks Tuesday
marked his first public statement
highlighting his intent to do so.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The matter was also a point
of discussion at a House Republi-
can Leadership news conference
Tuesday morning, where House
Minority Whip Steve Scalise of
Louisiana called on Democrats
to take action.
“Why won’t President Biden
stand up to the antisemites in
his own party?” Mr. Scalise said.
“You’re seeing this big fight within
the Democrat Party right now
over antisemites and whether
they’re going to stand up and
confront this problem. It’s a real
problem. It’s yet another crisis that
they refuse to confront. But we’re
going to continue to call them out.”
Mr. Scalise said Republicans
are keeping all options on the
table.
“Clearly you’re seeing a num-
ber of pieces of legislation,” he
said. “I think you’re seeing some
internal conversations on the
Democrat caucus side. Frankly,
they should be the ones to take ac-
tions to police their own members.
But they’re having that internal
fight. We’re looking at options on
our side right now.”

CONGRESS

Pelosi: ‘We can’t wait any longer,’

vows to launch Jan. 6 investigation
BY KERY MURAKAMI
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on
Tuesday that House Democrats
will move forward unilaterally to
investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the
U.S. Capitol.
She said she has run out of pa-
tience waiting for a bipartisan deal
for an independent probe of the
pro-Trump mob that stormed the
Capitol and temporarily delayed
Congress’ certification of Presi-
dent Biden’s election win.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
“We can’t wait any longer,” Mrs.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a new strategy to uncover domestic terrorism on Tuesday at Pelosi said. “We will proceed.”
the Justice Department. He said the new strategy is “focused on violence, not ideology.” It remained unclear what form
the House probe will take.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT “We’ll see. To be determined,”
she said when pressed for details.
contemplating.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell delivered what ended
up being the death blow last week
when he came out against the
commission.
The Kentucky Republican said
it was a “purely political” move.
Mrs. Pelosi said that what-
ever course the House takes, the
Democratic-run committees will
continue their probes.
“Whether we have a commis-
sion today, tomorrow or the next
day over in the Senate, or not, the
work of the committees will be
very important in what we’re seek-
ing for the American people — the
truth,” said Mrs. Pelosi.
Mrs. Pelosi said she still hoped
the Senate would work out a deal
Guard did not arrive for several
hours as the police were over-
whelmed and brutally beaten by
the rioters.
Echoing previous testimony
from Defense Department lead-
ers, Gen. Flynn and Lt. Gen. Piatt
said the military needed time to
develop plans for the National
Guard response. Gen. Piatt insisted
that he did not deny or have the au-
thority to deny Guard help during
a call with former Capitol Police
Chief Steven Sund.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the New
York Democrat who chairs the
committee, criticized Mr. Wray for
not providing documents her staff
had requested and asked him if he
believed the FBI should be blamed
for the law enforcement failures

DOJ announces plan to “When we’re ready, we will make

an announcement.”
The move comes a little more
than two weeks after Senate Re-
to create a commission, she said.
Senate Majority Leader Charles
E. Schumer, New York Democrat,
has left open the possibility of
on Jan. 6.
“Our goal is to bat 1,000 and any
time there’s an attack, much less an
attack as horrific and spectacular

uncover domestic terrorism publicans blocked the creation of

a bipartisan 9/11-style commission,
saying it would be a partisan hit job
another vote on the commission.
Meanwhile, most Republicans
are making clear that they want
as what happened on Jan. 6, we
consider that to be unacceptable,”
Mr. Wray replied.

Garland says strategy ‘focused on violence’ against Republicans and former

BY JEFF MORDOCK AND EMILY ZANTOW
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Biden administration on
Tuesday announced a sweeping
new strategy to root out domestic
terrorism, tying the rising threat of
extremism to the Jan. 6 attack on
the U.S. Capitol.
Attorney General Merrick Gar-
land vowed to “do everything pos-
sible to prevent similar attacks.”
“The resolve and dedication
with which the Justice Department
has approached the investigation
of the Jan. 6 attack reflects the
seriousness with which we take
this assault on a mainstay of our
democratic system,” he said in
remarks at the Justice Department.
While Mr. Garland said the new
strategy is “focused on violence,
not ideology,” conservatives say
it ignores left-leaning groups that
violently looted American cities
enforcement in all of these cit-
ies and who are the victims? The
American people. Is that not do-
mestic terrorism?”
Law enforcement and left-lean-
ing groups, including the Center
for American Progress hailed the
strategy as tough measures to com-
bat extremism.
Katrina Mulligan, acting vice
president for national security and
international policy at the center,
called the plan a necessary road
map to stamping out domestic
terror.
“The strategy rightly identifies
racism, bigotry, gun violence, on-
line recruitment and mobilization,
and a lack of civic engagement
as long-term contributors to do-
mestic terrorism and commits the
administration to working on these
issues,” she said in a statement.
But conservatives fret the plan
could result in muffling free speech
administration has allocated $100
million in the proposed 2022 bud-
get to increase staffing at the Jus-
tice Department and Department
of Homeland Security to screen
existing employees who could
pose an insider threat.
Officials at the Pentagon, Jus-
tice Department, and Department
of Homeland Security have already
launched an effort to remove do-
mestic terrorists from the military
and law enforcement.
The plan also calls for the im-
proved sharing of threat informa-
tion across all levels of government.
 A Senate report released last
month found numerous intelli-
gence failures ahead of the attack
on the Capitol by supporters of
former President Donald Trump.
The FBI and other federal law
enforcement have been widely
criticized for not effectively pass-
ing along intelligence related to the
President Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump strongly opposed
the commission. He labeled it a
“Democrat trap.”
Mrs. Pelosi, California Demo-
crat, made the announcement after
a meeting with leaders of several
House committees that are already
conducting separate investigations
into aspects of the Jan. 6 riot.
One option for a Democrat-run
probe would be the creation of a
select committee.
Senate Republicans who sup-
ported the creation of a bipartisan
commission, which would have
had equal numbers of Democrats
and Republicans, had argued
it would avoid the type of par-
tisan probe Mrs. Pelosi is now
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to move on from the Jan. 6 attack,
brushing aside the many unan-
swered questions about the insur-
rection, including how the govern-
ment and law enforcement missed
intelligence leading up to the riot-
ing and the role of Mr. Trump
before and during the attack.
The hearing Tuesday in the
House Oversight and Reform
Committee was to examine “un-
explained delays and unanswered
questions” about the siege, with
public testimony from FBI Di-
rector Christopher A. Wray, Gen.
Charles E. Flynn and Lt. Gen. Wal-
ter E. Piatt, the director of Army
staff.
All three men were involved
that day as the Capitol Police
begged for backup. The National
Mr. Wray at a separate hearing
before the House Judiciary Com-
mittee last week stonewalled ques-
tions about whether the bureau
was investigating Mr. Trump, his
aides, or members of Congress for
any role leading to the riot.
Seven people died during and
after the rioting, including Trump
supporter Ashli Babbitt who was
shot and killed outside the House
chamber and two police officers
who died by suicide in the days
that followed. A third officer, Capi-
tol Police Officer Brian Sicknick,
collapsed and later died after en-
gaging with the protesters but a
medical examiner determined he
died of natural causes.
• This story is based in part on
wire service reports.

during last summer’s racial justice
riots.
“Why are people who pro-
tested, perhaps violently, for a few
hours [on Jan. 6] more of a threat to
our national security than people
who burned and looted our cities
for a few months? It seems entirely
political,” said Curt Levey, presi-
dent of the Committee for Justice,
a conservative advocacy group.
“This about driving a narra-
tive,” he continued. “They have a
window of opportunity that they
know won’t last forever where they
can say ‘Jan. 6.’ And they intend to
use that to its fullest.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,
protected under the Constitution.
Mr. Garland said the Justice
Department will not prosecute
people for their beliefs, adding that
espousing a hateful ideology is not
unlawful.”
But he also voted to root out
extremists who “advocate for the
superiority of the White race.”
“Hate speech is protected by
the First Amendment,” Mr. Levey
said in rebuttal. “But no one wants
to say that because no one wants
to seem like they are in favor of
hate speech.”
The new strategy is the first-
ever proposal by an administration
to combat the rise of domestic
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Greene said of Antifa and Black
Lives Matters activists while ap-
pearing on The Real America’s
Voice podcast. “They’re trying
to dismantle every bit of law
terrorist groups.
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seen a significant ramp-up in do-
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CONGRESS

Democrats’ new bill would end ‘war on drugs’

Introduce legislation on 50th anniversary of Nixon declaration
BY KERY MURAKAMI
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Two House Democrats on
Tuesday introduced legislation to
make drug possession no longer
a federal crime and clear the
records of those convicted of
drug crimes.
One of the bill’s authors, Rep.
Cori Bush, said it would right the
wrongs for victims of America’s
50-year-old war on drugs.
“I lived through a malicious
marijuana war that saw Black
people arrested for possession
at three times the rate of their
White counterparts, even though
usage rates are similar,” said Ms.
Bush, Missouri Democrat. “As a
nurse, I’ve watched Black fami-
lies criminalized for heroin use
while White families are treated
for opioid use.”
The bill was introduced in
advance of the 50th anniversary
on Thursday of President Nixon
declaring a war on drugs.
On June 17, 1971, Nixon called
drug abuse “public enemy num-
ber one,” and launched what has
become a decades-long crack-
down that lasted through Repub-
lican and Democratic adminis-
trations, leading to a dramatic
and expensive increase in the
country’s prison population.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Cole-
man, New Jersey Democrat
and co-author of the bill, said
the criminalization of drug use
“stands as a stain on our na-
tional conscience since its very
inception.”
Reps. Cori Bush (left) and Bonnie Watson Coleman introduced legislation to make drug possession no
longer a federal crime and to clear the records of people who had been convicted of drug crimes. The
congresswomen introduced the bill on the 50th anniversary of President Nixon’s war on drugs declaration.
“The War on Drugs has de-
stroyed the lives of countless
Americans and their families,”
she said. “As we work to solve
this issue, it is essential that we
change tactics in how we address
drug use away from the failed
punitive approach and towards a
health-based and evidence-based
approach.”
The bill faces long odds in
Congress but adds to a grow-
ing movement to roll back the
drug laws. So far, 17 states and
the District of Columbia have
legalized marijuana and many
more decriminalized it or allow
medical marijuana.
Opponents of the legalization
of drugs argue that it won’t cure
the ill effects of drug abuse on so-
ciety and in many ways threaten
to make the damage worse.
During a drug legalization de-
bate in the 1990s, the Connecticut
General Assembly’s legislative
research office outlined some
of the chief arguments against
decriminalizing drug use:
• Legalization would increase
the number of drug users.
• The adverse physical effects
of drugs destroy families and
cause drug abusers to engage in
criminal activity.
• Legalization sends the
wrong message to children.
• Drug abuse causes increased
costs to business.
• Legalization jeopardizes
the safety of society because
drug use diminishes the ability
to think and react quickly and
thereby causes job- and travel-
related accidents.
Still, the head of a national
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
organization representing alco-
hol and drug counselors backed
the idea of decriminalizing drug
possession.
The idea of sending addicts
to jail defies the science of ad-
diction as a medical condition,
said Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, ex-
ecutive director of the National
Association for Alcoholism and
Drug Abuse Counselors.
“Do we send diabetics to jail?”
she asked.
Criminalizing drug offenses,
she said has disproportionately
jailed Black people and other
people of color more than White
people, and it has meant their
children have been robbed of
having parents.
However, she said that if
decriminalizing efforts suc-
ceed, the nation would have to
dramatically increase what it
spends on preventing and treat-
ing addiction.
Associations representing the
nation’s police chiefs and sheriffs
had no immediate comment.
A spokeswoman for Sen.
Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top
Republican on the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee, didn’t return an
inquiry. Neither did a spokesman
for Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mr.
Grassley’s counterpart on the
House judiciary committee.
A half-century after Nixon
declared a drug war, the effort
has drawn criticism from the
political right. Mark J. Perry, a
scholar with the conservative
American Enterprise Institute,
called it a “failed, costly and
inhumane federal war on Ameri-
cans that continues to today” in
a blog post this week.
Mr. Perry wrote that John
Ehrlichman, Nixon’s counsel and
Assistant for Domestic Affairs,
revealed in a 1994 interview with
The Atlantic that “the real public
enemy in 1971 wasn’t really drugs
or drug abuse. Rather the real
enemies of the Nixon administra-
tion were the anti-war left and
blacks, and the War on Drugs
was designed as an evil, decep-
tive and sinister policy to wage a
war on those two groups.”
Mr. Perry quoted Mr. Ehrli-
chman from the article: “’You
want to know what this was re-
ally all about?’ he asked with the
bluntness of a man who, after
public disgrace and a stretch in
federal prison, had little left to
protect. We knew we couldn’t
make it illegal to be either against
the war or blacks, but by getting
the public to associate the hip-
pies with marijuana and blacks
with heroin, and then crimi-
nalizing both heavily, we could
disrupt those communities. We
could arrest their leaders, raid
their homes, break up their meet-
ings, and vilify them night after
night on the evening news. Did
we know we were lying about the
drugs? Of course we did.’ ”
Mr. Perry wrote, “If the real
goal of the War on Drugs was to
target, convict and incarcerate
subversive anti-war ‘hippies’ and
black Americans, as Ehrlichman
describes it, it sure worked.”
He noted that between 1926
and the early 1970s, about 200
men out of every 100,000 were
incarcerated. “By 1986, about a
decade after the War on Drugs
started locking up drug users
and dealers in cages, the male
incarceration rate doubled to 400
per 100,000 population. Then
within another decade, the male
incarceration rate doubled again
to more than 800 by 1996 before
reaching a historic peak of 956
in 2008 (about one in 100) that
was almost five times higher than
the stable rate before the War on
Drugs,” he wrote.
“The arrest and incarceration
data show that the War on Drugs
had a significantly much greater
negative effect on blacks and His-
panics than whites, making the
Drug War even more shameful
for its devastating and dispro-
portionately adverse effects on
America’s most vulnerable and
disadvantaged populations,” Mr.
Perry wrote.
• S.A. Miller contributed to
this story.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Top federal watchdog rules Biden’s border wall halt legal

Calls stoppage a ‘delay,’ not an
override of congressional intent
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Government Account-
ability Office ruled Tuesday
that President Biden was
within his powers to stop bor-
der wall construction, calling
it a “programmatic” delay, not
an attempt to thwart the will
of Congress.
Though Mr. Biden said last
year that he wouldn’t build
“one more foot” of wall, GAO
investigators said the presi-
dent’s Inauguration Day proc-
lamation halting construction
contained a caveat that he
would follow the law.
And at least as of now, GAO
said, the White House insists it
is committed to building bar-
riers — just not as quickly as
the last administration.
The ruling is a major blow
to Republicans who had ar-
gued Mr. Biden’s halt, an-
nounced in a proclamation
just hours after he was sworn
in as president, was an illegal
“impoundment” of money.
GAO, which is Congress’s
investigative arm, said neither
the Department of Homeland
Security nor the Office of
Management and Budget has
siphoned the money from the
wall accounts. Instead, they
have merely added a layer of
environmental studies that
must be completed before
construction can begin.
“OMB and DHS have met
their burden to justify why the
funds have not been obligated,”
wrote Thomas H. Armstrong,
the GAO’s general counsel.
“We see nothing to indicate
that either OMB or DHS is at-
tempting to override congres-
sional intent that these funds
be used for constructing bar-
riers at the southern border.”
But that ruling carried a
warning to the administration.
Should the delays run too long,
Mr. Biden might run afoul of
the law.
Mr. Armstrong said Con-
gress could require the Biden
administration to submit a
concrete timeline for how it
plans to obligate and spend the
money Congress allocated. “A
detailed timeline could serve
as a tool for rigorous oversight
to ensure the president does
not substitute his own poli-
cies and priorities in place of
those established through the
legislative process,” he said in
his ruling.
Congress has earmarked
about $5 billion in wall money
since 2017, with a new post of
$1.375 billion approved for the
current fiscal year.
Much of the money re-
mains unspent.
Republicans argued Mr.
Biden’s border wall pause is
similar to President Trump’s
decision in 2019 to halt secu-
rity assistance money destined
for Ukraine. GAO did rule that
move illegal, and it played a
role in the first impeachment
trial of Mr. Trump.
But Mr. Armstrong said the
wall decision was different
because the Trump team didn’t
ASSOCIATED PRESS
give good enough reasons
for the delay in the Ukraine The Government Accountability Office ruled Tuesday that President Biden was within his powers to halt border wall construction. But
money. should the delays run too long, the president might run afoul of the law.
In the case of the wall, he
said, there are laws that the
past administration waived
but that the new administra- Trump to visit ‘disaster zone’ at U.S.-Mexico border
tion doesn’t want to waive.
Mr. Armstrong said working BY VICTOR MORTON on Wednesday, June 30, 2021.” disaster zone,” he said. and visit with the Border Patrol
through those issues is a legal THE WASHINGTON TIMES Mr. Trump said the Biden In what he called “a grave and ICE heroes risking their
reason to derail Congress’ in- administration had deliber- and willful dereliction of duty,” lives to defend our Nation at
tended spending. Former President Donald ately undermined border se- the former president noted a time when the White House
He also said that the fact Trump is set to visit the U.S.- curity and turned the entire that President Biden and Vice is doing everything it can to
that money allocated in past Mexico border at the end of country into “one giant sanctu- President Kamala Harris have make their job totally impos-
years remains “obligated,” in the month. ary city.” refused to visit the border and sible,” he said.
budget terms, means that Con- Mr. Trump said in a state- “The Biden Administration instead have concentrated “My visit will hopefully
gress’s purpose has not yet ment Tuesday afternoon that inherited from me the stron- their efforts on nation-building shine a spotlight on these
been foiled. he had “accepted the invita- gest, safest, and most secure in Central America. crimes against our Nation —
Rep. Jason Smith, the top tion of Texas Governor Greg border in U.S history and in “If this weren’t bad enough, and show the incredible people
Republican on the House Bud- Abbott to join him on an mere weeks they turned it into Biden and Harris won’t even of ICE and Border Patrol that
get Committee, said he feared official visit to our Nation’s the single worst border crisis in tour the scenes of the wreckage they have our unshakeable
the Biden team will consider decimated Southern Border U.S history. It’s an unmitigated they created, or come down support.”
the ruling a green light for
more aggressive moves against
Congress’ powers. Mr. Smith said the current and the president’s proclama- that Congress did intend the be spent on border barrier
He also questioned the surge of illegal immigrants at tion directed federal agencies money to go to border barriers, construction.
GAO’s attempt to distin- the U.S.-Mexico border is evi- to comply with appropriations meaning the administration He said some of the money
guish the Ukraine and wall dence for why wall construc- law at every step,” the budget cannot spend it on technol- will be used to deal with soil
decisions. tion is needed. office said in a statement. ogy or other projects it deems erosion he said was spawned
“To be clear, the only thing The White House budget The ruling, while backing more worthy that the wall. by Trump wall construction.
that has changed since GAO’s office saw vindication in Tues- the pause, does not excuse Last week, Homeland Se- But he acknowledged that
opposite ruling on a similar day’s ruling. Mr. Biden from spending the curity Secretary Alejandro won’t absorb all of the billions
matter in 2019 is the occupant “As we said all along, this money eventually. Mayorkas announced plans still to be spent, and he asked
of the White House,” Mr. Smith administration is committed Mr. Armstrong’s wording for wall money, acknowledg- Congress to pass a new law
said. to upholding the rule of law, underscored GAO’s conclusion ing Congress’s intent that it revoking the money.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021 ☆R POLITICS | A5

SMARTPHONE SMUGGLING
Social media and cellphone connections are becoming
indispensable for illegal immigrants making the journey
north, and the smugglers who shepherd them along the
way. Here’s a snapshot of a hypothetical journey.

ARIZONA NEW MEXICO

5 A woman sees video on TikTok offering
to pay people to drive cargo. She
4 responds and gets instructions to pick
up migrants at a predetermined spot.
3
2
TEXAS

A cartel scout with a cellphone

keeps organizers abreast of
Border Patrol activity.

Armed with drop pin locations, the migrants meet up

with a smuggler driving a vehicle. The driver gets
real-time updates of Border Patrol movements.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
A foot guide leads a group of migrants to the border, texts
Scouts use smartphone communication to alert smugglers to Border Patrol agents. In some cases, smugglers use technology to make sure illegal them a map of the route through the desert, complete
with GPS waypoints, and sends them on their way.
border crossers are spotted. While agents are distracted by the migrants, smugglers sneak more valuable loads across the U.S. border.

A Mexican man gets a Snapchat

BORDER and boat captains who tossed, contacted him and gave him video from a cousin who has
TERMS smashed or wiped data from their instructions.
reached the U.S., and he begins to
look on Facebook for smugglers to
MEXICO
From page A1 OF THE TRADE phones once they saw Border
Patrol agents closing in.
He picked up two illegal immi-
grants and was to be paid $1,000
help make the journey himself.

a migrant, but the smugglers told
him he had to transport two peo-
ple, so he tried to stash the second
person underneath the back seat.
Agents manning the checkpoint
spotted that person and swooped
in to make the arrest, according
to court files.
Social media apps such as
TikTok, Snapchat, Telegram,
Facebook, Instagram and What-
sApp have upended the smug-
gling world.
Connecting a driver to a group
of migrants is as easy as messag-
ing a GPS “pin” location. Scouts
can alert smugglers to Border
Patrol agents so they can avoid
them or, in some cases, to make
sure the migrants are spotted,
distracting agents while a more
valuable load is sneaked through.
FBI agents in California re-
vealed that smugglers holding
illegal immigrants for ransom
also use WhatsApp to arrange
meetups with relatives to transfer
the cash.
Recent news reports show
smugglers advertise their ser-
vices on social media like regu-
lar businesses. The difference is
that the “customers” are desper-
ately poor migrants willing to go
$10,000 into debt for an attempt to
cross illegally into the U.S.
The value and dangers
of a smartphone
There seem to be few areas
where social media has not
touched the smuggling world and
few cases where it is not a factor.
The Washington Times re-
viewed 25 criminal smuggling
cases filed in Arizona over
the past two months in which
Pollo: Literally, chicken; the
nickname smugglers use for
migrants they are shepherding
north
Pollero: Literally, chicken
farmer; in this context, a
smuggler
Coyote: Another term for
smuggler
Guia: Foot guide
Piso: Also known as the
“mafia fee,” the amount a
cartel charges for crossing the
border from its territory
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
migrants were held as witnesses
— court documents usually pro-
vide the information — and found
17 had indications that smart-
phones were involved. That’s a
rate of 68%.
The actual figure could be
higher because Border Patrol
agents filing other cases might
not report smartphone use in
court documents.
In about half of the Arizona
cases, migrants were guided
across the border and to rendez-
vous locations by smartphone.
Smugglers in several cases
received real-time instructions or
scouting reports. One smuggler
said a text message gave a pin-
drop location for his pickup. An-
other said he was communicating
via WhatsApp with the smug-
gling coordinator throughout his
trip. When agents got on his tail,
he said, he was ordered not to pull
over and to try to escape.
Smuggling organizations
know the value — and the
dangers — of the smartphone.
Criminal case files are full of
reports about foot guides, drivers
When agents do get access
to texts or apps, they can build
better cases and often puncture
smugglers’ stories and excuses.
Smartphones also are valuable
to migrants.
“I’ve never met an immigrant
who didn’t have a modern cell-
phone, a smartphone, that was
fully plugged into the social
media world and that gave them
live-time intelligence informa-
tion about where to go, when
to go and how people upstream
were doing,” said Todd Bensman,
a national security fellow at the
Center for Immigration Studies.
He said the most powerful lure
is the collection of selfies their
relatives, neighbors and friends
text back home, advertising the
ease of gaining a foothold in the
U.S.
Smugglers have been using
Facebook and Snapchat for years,
but TikTok is relatively new, ac-
cording to The Times’ database.
Most major social media plat-
forms have been used to recruit
drivers or connect them with
migrants.
Malik Jackson was nabbed in
2019 for smuggling after a citizen
tipped off authorities. He said he
responded to a Snapchat ad seek-
ing drivers, according to court
documents. He told agents the
ad offered $300 per person to
smuggle Mexicans and $600 per
Chinese migrant.
Gequon Willis, nabbed at a
highway checkpoint in California
in 2019, said he saw a Snapchat
video titled “Want to make some
money.” He had been fired from
his job and needed work, so he
clicked through and someone
per person.
WhatsApp is the most popular
platform for smugglers, according
to The Times’ database, followed
by Facebook and Snapchat. What-
sApp is particularly useful once
drivers are recruited. Smuggling
organizers use the app to relay
instructions, help connect drivers
and migrants and make sure they
get through checkpoints.
Connecting migrants with
drivers, which used to be tricky
in remote areas, is now as easy as
messaging a GPS pin to the driver
over one of the apps. Smuggling
scouts can give step-by-step di-
rections to help migrants on foot
avoid checkpoints.
Drivers about to be caught
are ordered to trash phones or
erase data. Smuggling networks
have been derailed by undeleted
texts with stash house locations
or names that can be used to
build cases.
Trying to crack down
Customs and Border Protec-
tion said it is “aware of the use
of social media” to connect with
migrants and recruit operators.
The agency’s answer: public
relations.
“CBP works in close coor-
dination with its federal, local
and international partner agen-
cies, including local community
leaders to message the inherent
dangers to all would-be migrants
thinking of crossing the border il-
legally, especially those using the
services of smuggling organiza-
tions,” the agency told The Times.
Neither Telegram nor TikTok
responded to questions about the
platforms’ use in smuggling.
SOURCE: The Washington Times
Snap, the company that runs
Snapchat, also didn’t answer
questions.
Facebook, which owns Insta-
gram and WhatsApp along with
its own platform, said it tries
to ban illegal activity such as
advertising for smuggling. The
company pointed to an exchange
between CEO Mark Zuckerberg
and Rep. Buddy Carter, Geor-
gia Republican, at a hearing this
spring.
“That’s against our policies,
and we’re taking a lot of steps to
stop it,” Mr. Zuckerberg said.
Mr. Carter told The Times this
month that whatever Facebook is
doing, it’s “clearly not enough.”
“We are facing a crisis at the
border, and Facebook’s products
are contributing to it. More needs
to be done by them faster,” he
said. “Congress has a responsi-
bility to provide oversight over
these companies, and I will con-
tinue to press them until their
products are no longer used for
human smuggling at the border.”
Republicans on the House
Homeland Security Committee
have begun to probe TikTok’s use
as a recruiting tool, particularly
for the teenage audience that the
app attracts.
Rep. John Katko of New York,
the top Republican on the panel,
said TikTok does have the power
to flag and remove messages and
can control which videos “go
viral” and which clips are aimed
at certain users.
“With such control, TikTok
should be able to eradicate the
1
cartel activities outlined above
from the platform,” the Republi-
cans wrote.
Illegal activity is sometimes
in plain sight for those who know
where to look.
Rolando Lucio, nabbed at the
Falfurrias, Texas, checkpoint in
December, told agents he used a
YouTube video to coach the three
migrants he was carrying on how
to act and what to say to agents.
He got tripped up when he told
the agent the two migrants were
family members but couldn’t re-
member their names.
An agent dryly wondered
whether a relative wouldn’t know
his family’s names. Lucio then
came clean, according to court
documents.
He pleaded guilty and was
sentenced this spring to 15
months in prison.
At times, social media ac-
counts come back to bite the
smugglers.
Edward Olivas, arrested at
a Laredo, Texas, checkpoint in
March, said he was a Lyft driver
on a run from Laredo to San An-
tonio, albeit one booked outside
of the app. He said he charged
about $100.
When agents looked through
his phone — after getting his
legal consent — they found mes-
sages confirming that he knew
he was smuggling and expected
to be paid $2,000 to transport
a Mexican woman through the
checkpoint. He even checked
to see whether her English was
“decent.”

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money as necessary to cover its
debt. Should the money supply
trigger inflationary pressure,
the government can mop up the
excess dollars through higher
taxation.
In other words, the con-
cept of “spending too much” is
antiquated.
Mr. Biden’s $6 trillion budget
proposal, on the heels of trillions
of dollars in COVID-19 relief bills,
seems to reflect MMT’s philoso-
phy that the government does not
need to put a brake on spending.
The theory seems tailor-made for
fulfilling a liberal wish list, but
economists across the spectrum
believe the school is rooted more
in politics than economics. At
some point, they warn, the old
rules about printing money and
inflation are sure to apply.
“There’s this fundamental ten-
sion between ‘this is a bold new
world, the second coming of FDR
or LBJ,’ and the fact they are look-
ing only in the recent rearview
mirror on inflation,” Mr. Good-
speed said.
Consciously or not, Washing-
ton seems to have embraced the
idea that government spending
binges are no cause for concern.
“There seems to be a presump-
tion we could just get anything,”
said Joel Griffith, an economy and
taxation expert at the conserva-
tive Heritage Foundation. “Just in
the past year, during COVID and
since, we’ve seen an implementa-
tion of some of the ideas of MMT
on a monumental level.”
Mr. Griffith pointed to the ex-
plosion in the federal deficit from
in the last quarter of 2020.
Yet Congress has gone on a se-
ries of bipartisan spending binges
in the 21st century, and inflation
has remained a lurking rather than
pressing issue.
“There is a ‘boy who cried
wolf’ negative aspect to all this,”
said Scott Sumner, an economist
at George Mason University’s
libertarian Mercatus Center who
opposes MMT but is not unduly
alarmed that inflation will spike.
“People who have been warning
about this or that might lose some
credibility, and now the more dov-
ish sorts have got the upper hand
at the Fed.”
Mr. Sumner says he thinks sev-
eral factors in addition to MMT
have contributed to the spending
frenzy that has gripped the Biden
administration and took hold in
the administrations of Presidents
Obama and Trump, leaving the
U.S. more than $26 trillion in debt.
“There’s been a real change
in the thinking about how much
we have to worry about deficit
spending,” Mr. Sumner said. “You
could certainly tell a story of fis-
cal stimulus without MMT, and
there is this perception now that
we are comfortable with much
bigger deficits.”
Indeed, the national debt grew
robustly under President George
W. Bush, and Democrats and Re-
publicans in Congress have shown
no appetite for curbing spending.
Mr. Bush created a Cabinet-level
agency — the Department of
Homeland Security — and added
$5.85 trillion to the national debt.
Mr. Obama then blew it out with
$8.59 trillion more.
Bipartisan blowout
Under Modern Monetary
Theory, those enormous spurts
in spending are no problem. Low
inflation rates in the past decade
have played into MMT propo-
nents’ hands, economists said.
The “quantitative easing” used to
counter the Great Recession from
December 2007 to June 2009,
followed by trillions of dollars
in COVID-19 relief bills in the
Trump and Biden administrations,
seem to lend credence to MMT’s
laissez-faire philosophy on the
government’s checkbook.
Biden administration officials
did not respond to questions
about how big a role MMT has
played in the administration’s eco-
nomic thinking and to what extent
Mr. Biden ascribes to the theory.
MMT proponents have circled
the president. One of the school’s
most influential members, Steph-
anie Kelton, a professor at Stony
Brook University in New York,
was a longtime economic adviser
to Sen. Bernard Sanders, a demo-
cratic socialist from Vermont, and
became a key member of what
the combined Biden and Sanders
presidential campaigns called the
“Economy Unity Task Force.”
In that role, Ms. Kelton was
asked to “identify ways to trans-
form our country,” according to
her webpage.
Ms. Kelton did not respond to
questions from The Washington
Times.
Another high priest of MMT,
Bard College professor L. Randall
Wray, confirmed that he and other
MMT economists have been
working closely with lawmakers
in Washington.
“MMT has definitely influ-
enced the Dem side of the budget
committee as well as some oth-
ers,” Mr. Wray said. “I recently
gave a presentation to the [Con-
gressional Budget Office], and I
think Stephanie Kelton did too, or
is set to do one — by invitation, so
they are at least interested.”
Mr. Wray said it made sense
for lawmakers to embrace
MMT because its tenets are not
hypothetical.
“MMT is not chiefly a theory;
it is a description of reality,” he
said. “Sort of like evolution versus
creationism. We do have some
policy prescriptions, but most
of our work is simply describ-
ing the way sovereign govern-
ment spends. The ‘creationists’
— deficit hawks and doves — are
describing a world that does not
exist.”
Ms. Kelton has pushed MMT
as a viable concept for Wash-
ington. She wrote that “Biden
could go bigger and not ‘pay for
it’ the old way,” and other pieces.
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spending can be modulated by
ratcheting up taxes, if necessary,
also has been embraced by far-left
members of Congress such as
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
a New York Democrat who says
MMT is the ticket to a Green
New Deal and other enormous
projects.
MMT has lurked among aca-
demic economists for some 40
years. American economist War-
ren Mosler is generally regarded
as its father. Still, most econo-
mists across the spectrum remain
unconvinced.
Although MMT can be found
in some textbooks, it remains a
fringe notion that some scholars
find intellectually ham-handed.
Even Nobel Prize-winning econo-
mist Paul Krugman, a supporter
of more spending, has labeled
MMT “Calvinball,” a reference
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Hobbes.” The characters some-
times played a game in which they
made up beneficial rules as they
went along.
A relatively novel ivory tower
theory with shifting principles
should not leave Americans com-
fortable with ever-increasing debt,
even if it has proved appealing to
both sides of the aisle in Washing-
ton, many economists say.
“There needs to be a very stern
warning sent to Republicans and
Democrats that if you’re going
to dramatically grow the size of
government by printing money
to buy government debt or spend
it, you are simply going to run
the risk of higher inflation,” Mr.
Griffith said. “This is not a new
thing. They’ve just given it a new
name. And there’s no doubt these
theories have worked their way
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Supreme Court asks Biden DOJ to weigh
in on Harvard’s affirmative-action case
BY ALEX SWOYER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Supreme Court could
decide the legality of affirmative
action during its next term, an-
nouncing Monday the justices
want the Biden Justice Depart-
ment to weigh in on a case against
Harvard College’s admission
policy.  It’s not an unusual move for
The case, Students for Fair
Admissions Inc. v. President and
Fellows of Harvard College, is
pending before the court after
the organization asked for the jus-
tices to hear arguments that the
Ivy League school discriminates
against Asian American students
on the basis of race, saying the
school prefers to admit under-
represented minorities.
Lower courts ruled against
Students for Fair Admissions, but
earlier this year the group asked
the high court to reconsider.  sions across the country and be-
The organization charges in
court papers that Harvard pe-
nalizes highly qualified Asian
American students because “they
lack leadership and confidence
and are less likable and kind.”
In the group’s filing, they argue
Harvard uses race during every
part of the admissions process,
Southern Baptists open annual meeting amid push from right
BY TRAVIS LOLLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE, TENN. | The
largest Southern Baptist Con-
vention gathering in decades
opened Tuesday amid debates
over race and sexual abuse, a
concerted effort to push the
conservative denomination
even further to the right and a
bellwether election to pick its
next president.
Nearly 15,000 church repre-
sentatives were on hand as the
meeting began with prayers
for unity. Immediately after,
debate began on the hot-button
controversies that have roiled
the nation’s largest Protestant
denomination.
Members heard an impas-
sioned plea for survivors of
sexual abuse and were asked
to consider competing resolu-
tions on critical race theory,
an academic theory on struc-
tural racism that has been a
target of religious and political
conservatives.
Tennessee pastor Grant
Gaines, speaking with an
abuse survivor at his side, pro-
posed a task force that would
oversee a sweeping review of
the denomination’s response
to sexual abuse — a broader
ILLINOIS
Feds inspected Illinois chemical plant weeks before blast
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A northern Illinois chemi-
cal plant that was rocked by an
explosion and massive fires that
prompted evacuations was in-
spected by a federal agency less
than a month before the blast
sent debris raining down onto
nearby areas.
Inspectors from the Labor De-
partment’s Occupational Health
and Safety Administration on
May 20 investigated a com-
plaint at Chemtool Inc., a plant
northwest of Chicago, WLS-TV
reported.
Fires continued to burn
Tuesday following Monday’s
explosion.
A summary record of that
inspection does not explain what
was being inspected at the Rock-
ton-area plant that manufactures
lubricants, grease products and
other fluids. That record states
including while recruiting high
school graduates.  file a brief before this term ends
“Harvard’s mistreatment of
Asian-American applicants is ap-
palling,” the filing reads.  break for a summer recess from
Edward Blum, president of
Students for Fair Admissions,
said he anticipated the high court
would request the view of the
solicitor general in the case.  high court’s request of the Biden
cases, especially after a change
in administrations.  discouraged the high court from
“Students for Fair Admissions
hopes the justices will grant our
petition and end race-based af-
firmative action in college ad-
missions,” Mr. Blum told The
Washington Times.  “Harvard does not automati-
But if the high court were to
take the case, it could have nation-
wide implications if the justices
strike down Harvard’s policy.
“It would be a big deal because
of the nature of college admis-
cause of the stakes of having this
issue before the Supreme Court,”
Gregory Garre, who defended the
University of Texas’ admissions
policy before the justices in the
past, told The Associated Press.  standards because it withdrew a
Court watchers predict it’s
unlikely for the acting Solicitor
General Elizabeth Prelogar from
The largest Southern Baptist Convention gathering in decades
opened Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee. Debate on race and
sexual abuse resolutions began almost immediately.
investigation than the one an-
nounced last week by the SBC’s
Executive Committee.
“I stand with SBC church
abuse survivors, and right now
I’m standing beside one such
SBC church abuse survivor,”
Mr. Gaines said.
Other representatives pro-
posed actions that would re-
pudiate critical race theory, in-
cluding one that would rescind
a 2019 resolution that said the
theory could be a useful tool.
only that the complaint involved
safety and health, and the case re-
mains open, the station reported.
OSHA officials said they have
six months to complete their
investigation involving the plant,
and no further information will
be made public until that work is
finished, WLS-TV reported.
There are no other outstand-
ing cases or any violations in U.S.
records pertaining to the plant.
A company spokesperson said
that Chemtool has been safely
operating since 2008, employ-
ing about 200 employees, and
Chemtool said all employees on
site “at the onset of the fire got
out without anyone getting hurt.”
Chemtool has no U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency viola-
tions during at least the last three
years, the TV station reported.
Fires continued burning Tues-
day at the ruins of the plant,
the Biden Justice Department to
later this month and anticipate it
will come in the fall. The justices
July to October.  School of Law, said there were at
A spokesperson from Harvard
did not immediately respond to
a request for comment about the
administration to weigh in.
In court papers, the school
hearing the case, arguing the trial
court conducted a three-week
trial and concluded the school
doesn’t discriminate against
Asian Americans.  With the court’s new makeup
cally award race-based tips but
rather considers race only in a
flexible and nonmechanical way;
consideration of race benefits
only highly qualified candidates;
and Harvard does not discrimi-
nate against Asian-American ap-
plicants,” the college wrote in
its brief.
Legal scholars predict the
Justice Department is likely to
argue for Harvard’s admission
case earlier filed by the Trump ad-
ministration against Yale Univer-
sity’s admissions policy, saying it
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The SBC’s resolutions com-
mittee floated a resolution that
didn’t specifically name critical
race theory but rejected any
view that sees racism as rooted
in “anything other than sin.”
The committee also reaf-
firmed a 1995 resolution apolo-
gizing for the history of racism
in a denomination that was
founded in 1845 in support of
slavery, and it apologized for
“condoning and/or perpetuat-
ing individual and systemic
Chemtool, a chemical plant in Rockton, Illinois, was rocked by an
explosion and fires Tuesday. A federal agency had inspected a
complaint at the plant just weeks before.
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discriminated against White and
Asian American students.
It only takes four justices to
agree to hear a case, and Rich-
ard Sander, a professor at UCLA
least three of the court’s members
who disagreed with upholding af-
firmative action policies when the
court last considered a challenge
just five years ago.??
The court upheld the Univer-
sity of Texas’ policy in a 4-3 ruling
in 2016. Chief Justice John Rob-
erts Jr., Justice Samuel A. Alito,
and Justice Clarence Thomas
dissented. 
in recent years and three new
Trump appointees, Chris Haynes,
a professor at the University of
New Haven, said there could be
some interest among the bench
in hearing the arguments. 
“They might see this as an op-
portunity to cement some legacy
there and change this law,” he
said. 
But the justices could also be
punting the case into the next
term.  after the “Vax for the Win” vaccination incentive program lottery
“You can just look at the
makeup of the court and assume
they will take the case eventually,”
Mr. Haynes said.
racism in our lifetime.”
Separately the committee
proposed a resolution declar-
ing that “any person who has
committed sexual abuse is
permanently disqualified from
holding the office of pastor.”
SBC churches are self-govern-
ing, and critics have said the de-
nomination hasn’t done enough
to exclude congregations that
mishandle abuse.
In the upcoming vote
for president, Mike Stone, a
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUGGLING FOR PRIZES
California Gov. Gavin Newsom juggles balls with winning numbers
contest held Tuesday in Universal City, California. Winners were
eligible for vacations, food and merchandise. California lifted most
of its COVID-19 restrictions Tuesday and ushered in what has been
billed as the state’s “Grand Reopening.”
Georgia pastor, is the preferred
candidate of a new group
within the denomination that
calls itself the Conservative
Baptist Network. Some net-
work members have adopted
a pirate motif on Twitter while
declaring their intention to
#TakeTheShip.
Mr. Stone has been campaign-
ing hard, speaking in churches
around the country, and the
network has been encouraging
supporters to attend the annual
meeting as voting delegates.
As of Tuesday, 14,827 church
representatives were registered,
making it the denomination’s
largest meeting in 25 years.
Also vying for the presidency
is Albert Mohler, who leads the
denomination’s flagship South-
ern Baptist Theological Semi-
nary in Kentucky. He’s not part
of the new conservative network
but has angered some Southern
Baptists for endorsing Donald
Trump last year and for signing
a statement denouncing critical
race theory.
A third candidate, Alabama
pastor Ed Litton, was among an
ethnically and racially diverse
group of Southern Baptists who
signed a statement asserting
that systemic injustice is real.
He is supported by Fred Luter,
where helicopter footage showed
plumes of dark smoke still rising
as fire crews directed water onto
a portion of the smoldering site.
Blackened and collapsed portions
of the plant were visible along
with fire-damaged semi-trailers.
A message seeking an update
on fire crews’ efforts was left
Tuesday for a spokeswoman with
the Rockton Fire Department.
Fire Chief Kirk Wilson said
Monday that about 70 employees
were evacuated safely from the
plant, and that one firefighter
suffered a minor injury following
the explosion.
Chemtool’s parent company,
Lubrizol Corp., later said there
were closer to 50 employees
present when the plant was
evacuated.
Fire officials had ordered a
mandatory evacuation of homes
and businesses near the plant, but
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
the only Black pastor ever to be
denomination president.
Mr. Litton and Mr. Mohler
have not run aggressive cam-
paigns like Mr. Stone.
The Southern Baptist Con-
vention is structured as a
loose network of independent
churches that pools money
for tasks like missions and
evangelism.
The role of president is pri-
marily a bully pulpit, but the
president does have the power
to make committee appoint-
ments that can then set the
direction of the denomination.
That’s what happened in the
1980s when a group carried out
what they called the Conserva-
tive Resurgence, pushing out
more liberal leaders and help-
ing forge an alliance between
White evangelicals and Repub-
lican conservatism.
The recent charges of lib-
eralism in high places have
stunned many in a convention
where leaders have to affirm
a deeply conservative state-
ment of faith. Among other
things, it declares that mar-
riage is between one man and
one woman, that human life is
sacred and begins at concep-
tion and that only men should
be pastors.
later in the day, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s
office expanded the evacuation
zone from a 1-mile radius to a
2-mile radius from the plant “out
of an abundance of caution.”
Mr. Pritzker’s office also en-
couraged people within that zone
to wear masks to prevent them
from inhaling soot.
Rockton is located in Win-
nebago County, near the Wis-
consin border, about 95 miles
northwest of Chicago.
Trisha Diduch, the planning
and development administrator
for Rockton, said Monday that
she estimated that about 1,000
people were affected by the evac-
uation order.
A message seeking an update
on the evacuations was left Tues-
day for Rockton officials.
Chemtool, which touts itself
as the largest manufacturer of
grease in the Americas, has been
in business since 1963. Its was
purchased nearly eight years
ago by the global chemical firm
Lubrizol, owned by Berkshire
Hathaway.
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Cookie crumbles: Girl Scouts report 15 million unsold boxes

BY DEE-ANN DURBIN Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails,
ASSOCIATED PRESS said her council had 22,000 boxes
left over at the end of the sell-
The Girl Scouts have an un- ing season in late spring, even
usual problem this year: 15 million though girls tried innovative
boxes of unsold cookies. selling methods like drive-thru
The 109-year-old organiza- booths and contact-free delivery.
tion says the coronavirus — not Ms. Latham said troops in her
thinner demand for Thin Mints area sold 805,000 boxes of cook-
— is the main culprit. As the ies last year; this year, they sold
pandemic wore into the spring just under 600,000. That shortfall
selling season, many troops nixed means the council may not be
their traditional cookie booths for able to invest in infrastructure
safety reasons. improvements at its camps or
“This is unfortunate, but given fill some staff positions, she said.
this is a girl-driven program and The council is now encouraging
the majority of cookies are sold people to buy boxes online through
in-person, it was to be expected,” its Hometown Heroes program,
said Kelly Parisi, a spokeswoman which distributes cookies to health
for Girl Scouts of the USA. care workers, firefighters and oth-
The impact will be felt by ers. It also organized one-day sales
local councils and troops, who with organizations like the New
depend on the cookie sales to Mexico United soccer team, to
fund programming, travel, camps whittle the total down further.
and other activities. The Girl Ms. Parisi said Girl Scouts
Scouts normally sell around 200 of the USA did forecast lower
million boxes of cookies per year, sales this year due to the pan-
or around $800 million worth. demic. But coronavirus restric-
Rebecca Latham, the CEO of tions were constantly shifting,
— remain with the two bakers,
Louisville, Kentucky-based Little
Brownie Bakers and Brownsburg,
Indiana-based ABC Bakers. An-
other 3 million boxes are in the
hands of the Girl Scout councils,
which are scrambling to sell or
donate them. The cookies have
a 12-month shelf life.
It’s unclear how much of a
financial hit the Girl Scouts suf-
fered because of the decline in
sales since the organization won’t
reveal those figures. And it isn’t
the biggest blow the cookie pro-
ASSOCIATED PRESS
gram has ever faced. That likely
As the coronavirus pandemic wore into the spring selling season, came during World War II, when
many Girl Scout troops nixed their traditional cookie booths for safety the Girl Scouts were forced to
reasons. That resulted in about 15 million boxes of unsold cookies. shift from selling cookies to cal-
endars because of wartime short-
ages of sugar, butter and flour.
and the cookie orders placed by cookies in person. Online sales But the glut of cookies has laid
its 111 local councils with bakers and even a delivery partnership bare some simmering issues within
last fall were still too optimistic. with Grubhub failed to make up the Girl Scouts’ ranks. Some local
By early spring, when troops the difference. leaders say this year’s slower sales
usually set up booths to sell cook- As a result, around 15 million should have been better predicted be-
ies in person, U.S. coronavirus boxes of cookies were left over as cause falling membership was threat-
cases were still near their peak. the cookie season wound down. ening cookie sales even before the
Hundreds of girls opted not to sell Most — around 12 million boxes pandemic began. Around 1.7 million
girls were enrolled in Girl Scouts in
2019, down almost 30% from 2009.
“Without girls, there is no
cookie program. Unfortunately, it
took a global pandemic to bring
all the problems to the surface,”
said Agenia Clark, president and
CEO of Girl Scouts of Middle
Tennessee, a local council.
Ms. Clark and some other
local leaders were able to avert
a cookie stockpile because they
calculated their own sales pro-
jections instead of relying on
guidance from the national office.
Ms. Clark believes a new tech-
nology platform adopted by the
Girl Scouts isn’t adequately fore-
casting membership declines and
their impact. In April, she sued the
Girl Scouts of the USA because she
doesn’t want to her council to be
forced to use that platform.
Ms. Parisi acknowledged
that membership fell during the
pandemic as troops struggled to
figure out ways to meet safely.
But those numbers are already
rebounding, she said.

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Police: 4 dead, 4 hurt shooting that followed an argu- purchase, but he immediately later inside a car in Gunters- formerly used for the Pacific educational and humanitarian
in shooting in Chicago ment over wearing masks in the returned inside. ville, about 15 miles away. Tsunami Warning Center even- projects Monday as they seek
CHICAGO | An argument in a supermarket, authorities said. — Associated Press Chief Smith said it wasn’t tually will provide up to 400 to build on an alliance formed
house on Chicago’s South Side DeKalb County Sheriff immediately clear what homes. with the NAACP in 2018 as part
early Tuesday erupted into gun- Melody Maddox said the shoot- ALABAMA prompted the shooting. The land transfer also will of the faith’s efforts to improve
fire, leaving four women dead and ing occurred inside the Big Bear — Associated Press help fulfill the terms of a settle- race relations.
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Gunman dead after killing HAWAII ment authorized by Congress The Utah-based church
said. The shooting happened at several people were inside the 2 at fire hydrant factory in 1995 to compensate Native will donate $3 million to fund
5:42 a.m. in the city’s Englewood business. ALBERTVILLE | A worker who
U.S. to transfer property Hawaiians for 1,500 acres that scholarships for three years
neighborhood, and no arrests She said a female cashier killed two people and wounded for Hawaiian home lands were set aside for homelands for Black students through the
were immediately made. was killed when a man opened two more at an Alabama fire HONOLULU | The U.S. is but subsequently acquired by United Negro College Fund,
Police said it appeared none of fire. hydrant plant early Tuesday has giving Native Hawaiians the federal government, officials said church President Russell
the victims were juveniles. The customer was identi- been found dead, apparently surplus land as compensation said. M. Nelson.
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World
CHINA
China, Russia affirm alliance
ahead of Biden-Putin summit
New statements in wake of NATO meetings
BY GUY TAYLOR
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
China and Russia are going
to great lengths to express their
warming alliance against the
United States ahead of Wednes-
day’s much-anticipated summit
between President Biden and
Russian President Vladimir Putin
in Geneva.
President Biden has played up
revived U.S. relations with NATO
and European Union allies this
week as leverage ahead of his first
meeting as president with Mr.
Putin. But Moscow and Beijing
are employing some leverage of
their own.
“China and Russia are united
like a mountain, and our friend-
ship is unbreakable,” Chinese For-
eign Ministry spokesman Zhao
Lijian told reporters in Beijing on
Tuesday, days after Mr. Putin had
heaped his own praise on China.
During an interview with
NBC News on Friday, Mr. Putin
said Moscow and Beijing “have
developed a strategic partnership
U.S., EU end long-running Airbus-Boeing air wars
BY LORNE COOK AND AAMER MADHANI
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS | The deal the
United States and the Euro-
pean Union reached Tuesday
to end their long-running dis-
pute over subsidies to Boe-
ing and Airbus will mean the
phase-out of billions in puni-
tive tariffs. It will ease trans-
Atlantic tensions. And it will
allow the two sides to focus
on a common economic threat:
China.
But the breakthrough leaves
other trade frictions between
the Biden administration and
its European allies unresolved.
Most prominently, the import
taxes that President Trump
imposed on European steel and
aluminum three years ago have
been left in place by President
Biden. Whether progress on
that vexing issue can be re-
solved soon remains unclear.
But on the Boeing-Airbus
dispute, U.S. Trade Representa-
tive Katherine Tai said the two
sides have come to terms on a
five-year agreement to suspend
the tariffs at the center of the
conflict. Ms. Tai cautioned,
though, that the tariffs could be
re-imposed if U.S. companies
aren’t able to “compete fairly”
with those in Europe.
“Today’s announcement re-
solves a long-standing irritant
MYANMAR
Prosecutors outline their case against deposed leader Suu Kyi
BY GRANT PECK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGKOK | Prosecutors in
the trial of deposed Myanmar
leader Aung San Suu Kyi argued
Tuesday that she incited public
disorder and flouted coronavirus
restrictions, part of a package of
charges the ruling military junta
has rolled out to discredit her and
consolidate its control.
Mrs. Suu Kyi and other mem-
bers of her government and party
were arrested by the military
after its Feb. 1 coup, and criminal
charges were brought against
some of the top figures that their
supporters and independent ob-
servers say are bogus.
The coup reversed years of
civilian democratic reforms follow-
ing decades of harsh military rule
and sparked widespread protests
and international condemnation.
relationship” that “previously had
not been achieved in the history
of our nations.”
“We do not believe that China
is a threat to us,” Mr. Putin said.
“China is a friendly nation. It has
not declared us an enemy as the
United States has done.”
Asked about those comments
Tuesday, Mr. Zhao responded that
relations have “withstood the
test of the changing international
landscape, setting an example
of a new type of major-country
relationship.”
Western analysts say China
and Russia stand together as
autocratic rivals as Mr. Biden
explicitly seeks to rally an alli-
ance of democratic governments
to uphold the liberal interna-
tional order and prove Western
governments can out-compete
economically and militarily the
increasingly assertive Commu-
nist regime in Beijing in the de-
veloping world.
One of the major questions
in the Biden-Putin summit is
whether the U.S. and Russia can
The U.S. and the European Union reached a deal which will end
the long-running dispute over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus. The
agreement will ease trans-Atlantic tensions.
in the U.S.-EU relationship,”
Ms. Tai said, as Mr. Biden met
with EU leaders in Brussels.
“Instead of fighting with one
of our closest allies, we are
finally coming together against
a common threat.”
The deal brings a fresh dose
of international goodwill for
Mr. Biden as he heads into
a potentially thorny summit
on Wednesday with Russian
President Vladimir Putin. It’s
also good news for an airlines
sector that has been ravaged by
coronavirus travel restrictions.
The trade dispute skyrock-
eted under the Trump admin-
istration, and saw tit-for-tat
duties slapped on a variety of
companies that have nothing
to do with aircraft production,
including French winemakers,
Ms. Suu Kyi and her Na-
tional League for De-
mocracy party had been
due to start a second
five-year term in office
after winning a land-
slide victory in a general
election last November.
Ms. Suu Kyi, who
won a Nobel Peace Prize Suu Kyi
for her long campaign
as a dissident to restore
civilian rule, has not been seen in
public since her arrest, and her
lawyers say they don’t know exactly
where she is currently being held.
She has also had only limited time
to consult with her legal team.
Her lawyers declined to tell
journalists many details of the
proceedings on the second day
of the trial Tuesday in the court-
room in the capital, Naypyitaw,
but said Ms. Suu Kyi was “very
strong” and followed the process
work together to update the set
of Cold War-era nuclear arms
control agreements in a way that
brings China, which has more
than 300 of its own nuclear war-
heads, into the fold of a new
global nonproliferation strategic
architecture.
Chinese officials have so far
resisted U.S. calls for Beijing to
be covered by future nuclear
arms agreements. Beijing has
also sharply criticized what they
say in the anti-China tone of
the Group of Seven and NATO
summits.
Mr. Putin said this week Rus-
sia wanted no part of Washing-
ton’s campaign to draw China into
the nuclear talks, backing Bei-
jing’s argument that its nuclear
arsenal is overshadowed by those
of the U.S. and Russia.
“The Chinese justly say, ‘Why
would we make reductions if
we are already far behind what
you have?’ ... Making [Russia]
responsible for China’s position
is just comical,” Mr. Putin told
NBC News.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
German cookie bakers in Eu-
rope and Kentucky bourbon
producers in the United States,
among many others.
The U.S. imposed what
could have amounted to $7.5
billion in tariffs on European
exports in 2019 after the World
Trade Organization ruled that
the EU had not complied with its
rulings on subsidies for Airbus,
which is based in France. The EU
retaliated last November with up
to $4 billion in punitive duties
after the WTO ruled that the U.S.
had provided illegal subsidies to
Seattle-based Boeing.
In March, weeks after Mr.
Biden had taken office, the
two sides agreed to suspend
the tariffs. That suspension
started on March 11 for four
months. The new agreement
with close interest.
“She carefully lis-
tens to what the prose-
cutor says and she even
discusses some points
with us during the ses-
sion,” said one of her
lawyers, Min Min Soe.
Tuesday’s session
covered a sedition
charge brought against
Ms. Suu Kyi, along
with a second count of violating
COVID-19 restrictions.
The sedition charge, which is
sometimes described as incite-
ment, provides for up to two
years’ imprisonment for anyone
found guilty of causing fear or
alarm that could create an of-
fense against the state or public
tranquility. Ousted President Win
Myint and the former mayor of
Naypyitaw, Myo Aung, who are
her close political allies and
☆R
“China is a friendly nation. It has not declared us an enemy as the
United States has done,”Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an
interview. Mr. Putin is set to meet with President Biden this week.
A NATO statement this week
lumped China with Russia as a po-
tential threat to the pro-democracy
global order. The statement made
reference to China’s growing mili-
tary and expanding nuclear weap-
ons activities, asserting that “China
is rapidly expanding its nuclear
arsenal with more warheads and
a larger number of sophisticated
delivery systems.”
Mr. Zhao on Tuesday accused
NATO of hypocrisy and described
the alliance as being “up to its neck
in debt morally.”
“NATO urges its member states
to increase their military spend-
ing to at least 2% of GDP, while
criticizing China’s normal defense
development and military mod-
ernization,” the Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesman said. “This is
typical double standards. In fact,
will officially go into effect on
July 11.
“This really opens a new
chapter in our relationship be-
cause we move from litigation
to cooperation on aircraft —
after 17 years of dispute,” said
European Commission Presi-
dent Ursula von der Leyen. “It
is the longest trade dispute in
the history of the WTO.”
Both sides said they would
also work together to analyze
and address the “non-market
practices of third parties that
may harm our large civil air-
craft sectors,” according to the
EU’s executive branch.
Ms. Tai said the two sides
would cooperate “to challenge
and counter China’s non-mar-
ket practices in this sector in
specific ways that reflect our
standards for fair competition.”
Airbus, which has head-
quarters in France but also has
centers in Germany and Spain,
welcomed the agreement.
“This will provide the basis
to create a level playing field
which we have advocated for
since the start of this dispute.
It will also avoid lose-lose
tariffs that are only adding
to the many challenges that
our industry faces,” an Air-
bus spokesperson said in a
statement.
France’s finance and Eu-
ropean affairs ministers also
co-defendants, were also in court.
The plaintiff, a local Naypy-
itaw official, cited two statements
posted on the Facebook page of
Ms. Suu Kyi’s party as evidence
supporting the sedition charge,
said another defense lawyer, San
Mar La Nyunt. She said the de-
fense raised an objection to the
evidence, noting that all members
of the party’s central executive
committee, including Ms. Suu
Kyi, had already been arrested be-
fore the statements were posted.
The prosecution and defense
will both file arguments on the
matter at the next court session,
she said. The court is scheduled to
meet every Monday and Tuesday.
The sedition charge has been law
since Myanmar was a British colony,
and has been criticized as a catch-all
statute that infringes on freedom of
speech and is used for political re-
pression. The trial, which is closed to
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
China’s defense accounts for about
1.3% of its GDP, much lower than
the standard of NATO countries.”
According to Reuters, China’s
reported defense budget in 2021
is about a quarter of U.S. defense
spending, which amounted to
$714 billion in fiscal year 2020
and is expected to increase to
$733 billion in the 2021 fiscal year.
Officials in Beijing will be
watching the Biden-Putin sum-
mit closely. The Chinese Com-
munist Party-allied Global Times
newspaper on Tuesday quoted
Chinese experts who said they
believe the “biggest expectation
for Biden” in the summit is to
“stabilize U.S.-Russia relations
and split China-Russia ties as
much as he could.”
“This won’t work,” the article
claimed.
hailed the deal.
“We are now going to be
able to focus on finally putting
these differences behind us,
and to define the conditions
for fair competition on a global
scale to support the aerospace
sector, which is strategic for
both Europe and the United
States,” they said in a joint
statement.
Despite the breakthrough,
the deal does not end the
Trump-era trans-Atlantic trade
row. The previous adminis-
tration also slapped duties
on EU steel and aluminum.
That move enraged European
countries, most of them NATO
allies, because it was justified
as a measure to protect U.S.
national security.
The so-called Section 232
proceeding both hurts Euro-
pean producers and raises the
cost of steel for American com-
panies. The EU retaliated by
raising tariffs on products like
U.S.-made motorcycles, bour-
bon, peanut butter and jeans.
But Ms. von der Leyen said
that to secure progress on Air-
bus-Boeing, the EU agreed to
hold fire for six months on a set
of steel and aluminum-related
counter measures it could have
imposed just before this sum-
mit. She expressed cautious
optimism that a deal could be
reached here too by year’s end.
the public and media, began Monday
with police outlining several of the
cases against her.
They covered charges she had
illegally imported walkie-talkies
that were for her bodyguards’
use; the unlicensed use of those
radios; and violation of the Natu-
ral Disaster Management Law by
allegedly breaking pandemic re-
strictions during last year’s elec-
tion campaign, her lawyers said.
Ms. Suu Kyi faces additional
charges that have yet to be tried,
among them accepting bribes,
which carries a penalty of up to
15 years in prison, and violating
the Official Secrets Act, which
carries a maximum prison term
of 14 years. But a conviction on
virtually charge any could result
in Ms. Suu Kyi being banned
from running in any future elec-
tion, which many believe is the
military’s goal.
BRIEFLY
THE WORLD
NICARAGUA
Sanctions demanded
over political arrests
A bipartisan group of
House lawmakers Tuesday
called for new sanctions on
the government of leftist
Nicaraguan President Daniel
Ortega, in the wake of a
concerted crackdown that
has put many of the coun-
try’s top opposition figures
in jail ahead of elections in
November.
Mr. Ortega, a leading fig-
ure of the Sandinista revolu-
tion of the 1980s, has imposed
an increasingly authoritarian
rule since returning to the
presidency in 2007. But the
government was rocked by
popular economic protests
starting in 2019, and in recent
days has arrested not only
potential rivals to Mr. Ortega
in November’s national vote
but top figures in the coun-
try’s opposition political
movements.
“In little over a week, the
Ortega regime has unlawfully
arrested seven opposition
leaders and several other
individuals affiliated with the
political opposition or non-
government organizations,”
the House letter said. “All are
facing meritless legal charges,
devoid of substantial evi-
dence, as part of a concerted
effort to criminalize dissent.”
The U.S. sanctioned four top
Ortega allies earlier this month.
— David R. Sands
CHINA
U.S. Navy carrier group
challenges Beijing claims
A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier
strike group led by the USS Ron-
ald Reagan began conducting
operations in the disputed South
China Sea on Monday amid
mounting U.S.-China tensions.
“The South China Sea is
pivotal to the free flow of com-
merce that fuels the economies
of those nations committed
to international law and rules
based order,” said Rear Adm.
Will Pennington, commander
of the Reagan strike group, in a
statement by the Seventh Fleet.
The carrier and accompany-
ing warships entered the stra-
tegic waterway where China
has expanded and militarized
disputed islands.
China has ramped up its
military presence in the South
China Sea by building up ar-
tificial islands and putting
air bases on the islands. The
militarization, according to the
Pentagon, includes deployment
of advanced anti-ship and anti-
aircraft missiles on some of the
disputed islands.
— Bill Gertz
ISRAEL
Ultranationalist parade
tests new government
JERUSALEM | Hundreds of
Israeli ultranationalists, some
chanting “Death to Arabs,”
paraded Tuesday in east Jeru-
salem in a show of force that
threatened to spark renewed
violence just weeks after a
war with Hamas militants in
the Gaza Strip. Palestinians in
Gaza responded by launch-
ing incendiary balloons that
caused at least 10 fires in
southern Israel.
The march posed a test for
Israel’s fragile new govern-
ment as well as the tenuous
truce that ended last month’s
11-day war between Israel and
Hamas. Palestinians consider
the march, meant to celebrate
Israel’s capture of east Jerusa-
lem in 1967, to be a provoca-
tion. In a scathing condem-
nation on Twitter, Foreign
Minister Yair Lapid said those
shouting racist slogans were
“a disgrace to the Israeli
people,” adding: “The fact that
there are radicals for whom
the Israeli flag represents ha-
tred and racism is abominable
and unforgivable.”
— Associated Press
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021
SUMMIT
From page A1
U.S. government branches that sustained
data breaches, in addition to an attack on
a company providing services to the U.S.
Agency for International Development.
The U.S. expelled 10 Russian diplomats
and announced further sanctions against
Moscow in April.
Mr. Putin, who responded by expel-
ling U.S. diplomats from Russia, called
the cyberattack another of America’s
“unfounded accusations.”
⦁ Forcibly annexed territory from
Ukraine in 2014.
Russia is still backing military aggres-
sion in eastern Ukraine, and Mr. Putin has
drawn a red line over Ukraine’s applica-
tion for membership in NATO, which Mr.
Biden generally supports.
⦁ Engaged in continued human rights
violations and crackdowns against politi-
cal opponents, including imprisoned op-
position leader Alexei Navalny. Mr. Biden
said Tuesday that it would be a “tragedy”
if Mr. Navalny dies in prison.
“It would do nothing but hurt [Mr.
Putin’s] relationships with the rest of
the world, in my view, and with me,” Mr.
Biden said.
Mr. Putin again denied that the Krem-
lin poisoned Mr. Navalny last year with a
nerve agent that nearly killed him.
“We don’t have this kind of habit, of
assassinating anybody,” Mr. Putin said.
“Did [Americans] order the assassina-
tion of the woman who walked into the
Congress and who was shot and killed
ELECTION
From page A1
strengthen their political brands.
Democrats rushed to the southern
border in 2018 to protest “kids in cages”
and criticize Mr. Trump’s approach to
immigration.
Republicans are now trying to high-
light how President Biden’s unwinding of
Trump policies has created a humanitar-
ian crisis at the border.
In Maricopa County, they are tending
the “stolen election” flames months after
recounts and court challenges failed to
keep Mr. Trump in the White House.
State Rep. Mark Finchem, a candidate
for Arizona secretary of state, said audi-
tors have welcomed delegations and visi-
tors from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alaska,
Michigan, Wisconsin, South Carolina,
Utah, Washington, Nevada, Virginia and
Colorado.
“More are sure to follow,” Mr. Finchem
said last week on social media.
Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli
Ward said the visiting delegations “have
toured the audit operations and are look-
ing at what should and must be done
in their own states to ensure election
integrities.”
Some of the out-of-staters have wel-
comed the chance to appear on One
America News, one of Mr. Trump’s pre-
ferred television networks.
“I was blown away. This is a logistical
masterpiece,” Jackson Lahmeyer, a U.S.
Senate candidate from Oklahoma, said
of the audit. “We don’t just need this
here in Arizona; we need this in several
other states like Georgia. We need this
in Pennsylvania [and] Michigan because
what happened in 2020, it cannot ever
happen again.
“We believe that that was a stolen
election,” he said. “In fact, I believe it was
a stolen election.”
After recounts and court challenges
failed to reverse Mr. Biden’s win, Mr.
Trump and his followers have waged a
relentless campaign to keep challenging
election results. Polls consistently find
CHARITY
From page A1
Donations to education and human
services rose. Education got a 9% hike,
to $71.34 billion, aided by megadonor
MacKenzie Scott’s gifts to historically
Black colleges and universities and do-
nations to American Indians, Hispanic
communities and community colleges.
Human services giving increased by
9.7%, totaling $65.14 billion.
Donations to environmental and ani-
mal welfare charities increased 11.6%,
DEATH NOTICE
Ledwidge,
Augustine Thomas
Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Age 88
Ledwidge, Col (Ret). Augustine “Gus”
Thomas, age 88, of Springfield, Va.,
passed away peacefully surrounded by
his family, as he left this temporary home
to be with his Savior on June 09, 2021.
He was born October 28, 1932, in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island to Mr. Augustine T.
and Josephine R. Ledwidge.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years,
Joanne Ledwidge; his daughters Mary Kay
Russian interference in the U.S. presidential elections in 2016 and 2020 is a point of
contention between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Putin
rejects the accusations and says the U.S. is hypocritical about promoting democracy.
by a policeman?”
He was referring to Trump supporter
Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a
U.S. Capitol Police officer as she climbed
through an interior window near the
House floor during the Jan. 6 riot.
⦁ Imprisoned two Americans: Paul
Whelan, convicted of espionage, and
Trevor Reed, a former Marine convicted
of assaulting police while drunk. U.S. of-
ficials say both men were convicted on
trumped-up charges in unfair trials.
Mr. Biden arrived Tuesday in Geneva
after days of high-level meetings of the
Group of Seven leading industrial nations
in Britain and with NATO and European
Delegations and visitors from other states have toured operations of an unprecedented election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Many are on fact-finding missions, and some want to appear on one of former President Donald Trump’s preferred TV networks.
that most Republicans believe Mr. Trump
won reelection.
Republicans in the Arizona state Sen-
ate hired Cyber Ninjas, even though the
cybersecurity company had no experi-
ence with election audits.
The effort has raised the eyebrows
of election experts and angered the Re-
publican-led Maricopa County Board
of Supervisors. Board members say the
effort has made Arizona a laughingstock.
The supervisors’ objections, how-
ever, resonate more with Democrats and
left-leaning news media than with the
Republican Party base.
Mr. Barnes said the audit and claims of
a stolen election are helping Republican
candidates bolster their brands with the
to $16.14 billion, but donations to arts,
culture and humanities groups fell 7.5%,
to $19.47 billion.
In an interview with The Washington
Times, Laura MacDonald, chair of the
Giving USA Foundation, credited the end-
of-year rebound in the stock market for
much of the rise.
“I was pleasantly surprised by the
strength of giving in 2020,” said Ms. Mac-
Donald, a principal and founder of the
consulting firm Benefactor Group. “I think
that to a large degree, the recovery of the
stock market, which really built up momen-
tum toward the end of the year, played a
Jarrett of Richmond, Va., Beth Shotwell of
Eldersburg, Md., and Pam Orsi (Kevin) of
Richmond, Va. Also surviving him are his
grandchildren: Will Jarrett (Leah), Cate
Jarrett, Jack Orsi, Alec Orsi, Gavin Orsi,
Alise Shotwell, and Ethan Shotwell who
loved their Papaw dearly.
After graduating from the University of
Rhode Island, Gus had a distinguished
and honorable 26-year career in the
United States Army including tours in Ko-
rea, Germany, and two tours in Vietnam,
first as Company Commander, then as a
Battalion Commander. He had multiple
assignments including a variety of avia-
tion tours flying both fixed wing aircraft
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allies in Brussels. The president, who has
called Mr. Putin a “killer” who lacks a
soul, said he hopes the Russian leader will
be motivated by a desire to change “the
perception that the world has in him.”
That hope is doomed to fail, said Wil-
liam Pomeranz, a Russia specialist and
deputy director of the Kennan Institute
at the Wilson Center in Washington. He
said Mr. Putin cares about the percep-
tions of only one audience — Russians
— and is focusing on parliamentary elec-
tions in September.
“Russia really needs an enemy to
rally around,” Mr. Pomeranz said in an
interview. “Russia needs that type of
party’s base.
“Where the audit plays most dra-
matically is in the Republican primary
in Arizona and in similar Republican
primaries in other states,” Mr. Barnes said.
“It is important for the Republican voters
that turn out in primary elections to know
where candidates are on the issue of the
audit and the election.
“It is something the candidates can’t
duck and dodge,” he said.
Ms. Karamo told OAN that the audit
was “remarkable” and was being con-
ducted with integrity.
“The voters in Michigan have lost
confidence in the election’s system,” Ms.
Karamo said when asked why she was in
Maricopa County.
significant role in that, particularly in some
of the largest gifts that are given.”
Ms. MacDonald also emphasized
the importance of the Coronavirus Aid,
Relief and Economic Security (CARES)
Act in keeping the economy afloat and
creating a “strong environment” for
giving.
“Without the CARES Act, we would
have seen in an even steeper decline in
GDP, we might not have seen the return
of the equity market, we likely would
have seen a greater decline in disposable
personal income,” she said.
Una Osili, associate dean for research
and helicopters. He earned an MBA from
Syracuse University.  He was assigned
as a Weapons System Analyst in the Of-
fice of the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of
the U.S. Army and was then selected to
attend the National War College. Follow-
ing that, he assumed command of the 7th
Transportation Group at Ft. Eustis, Va. His
decorations include the Legion of Merit,
Air Medal (2nd OLC), Distinguished Flying
Cross, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service
Medal, Army Commendation Medal and
Senior Army Aviator Badge.
After his military retirement, he worked
in telecommunications for many years and
retired from General Electric. Though his
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antagonism, or it needs an enemy, to
solidify its unity. And so I don’t see Rus-
sia as having an alternative source, other
than the United States, to rally around the
Russian patriotic flag.”
Senior administration officials again
downplayed expectations Tuesday for
the Biden-Putin summit. One official
cautioned that “a big set of deliverables”
is unlikely.
Mr. Biden and Mr. Putin will talk for
up to five hours in three separate meet-
ings, aides said. The negotiated script
calls for Mr. Putin to arrive at the meeting
site first, followed by Mr. Biden. Both men
will confer together with Swiss President
Guy Parmelin.
Next will be a smaller meeting of
Mr. Biden, Mr. Putin, Secretary of State
Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign Minis-
ter Sergey Lavrov and translators. “No
breaking of bread” is scheduled, a Biden
official said.
The U.S. and Russian presidents will
later participate in an expanded meeting,
including five aides from each side.
After the meetings, Mr. Putin and
then Mr. Biden will hold separate press
conferences. Mr. Biden is scheduled to
return to the U.S. late Wednesday.
A senior administration official said
the two leaders will discuss nuclear
stability, the future of the New Stra-
tegic Arms Reduction Treaty and the
prospect of “smaller or different arms
control agreements” before New START
expires in February 2026. Mr. Biden will
raise the issues of cyberattacks and ran-
somware attacks, the need for Russia to
stop harboring criminal groups and the
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“We are encouraging our state legisla-
tors to do the same exact thing that we
see in Arizona in Michigan,” Ms. Karamo
said. “So I wanted to see the forensic audit
in Arizona firsthand to make sure the
process in Michigan would be replicated
to the T.”
On Monday, Ms. Karamo blasted out
a press release announcing plans to share
what she learned.
She suggested that Secretary of State
Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, is afraid of
what an audit might find in Michigan.
“If the Democrats have nothing to
hide, what’s the problem with a complete
audit?” Ms. Karamo said in the press
release.
David A. Dulio, a professor of political
and international programs at the Lilly
Family School of Philanthropy at In-
diana University, worked on the study
and pointed to several factors for the
leveling-off in religious giving. She cited
lockdowns that canceled religious ser-
vices as a primary factor.
“Reduced attendance often leads to
less contributions,” said Ms. Osili, adding
that congregations that increased their
online presence fared better.
She cited the rise of “nones,” people
without religious affiliation, as a factor.
A Gallup report in March found for the
first time that less than 50% of Americans
career was defined by success, leadership
and courage, his true love was his family.
His greatest joy was his wife, Joanne, rais-
ing their daughters and continuing to be
involved in the lives of his children and
grandchildren. They will miss him dearly
and look forward to seeing him again.
A Memorial Service will be held Friday,
June 18, 2021 at 1:30pm at Way of Faith
Assembly of God, 8800 Arlington Blvd, Fair-
fax, VA 22031. Burial to follow at a later date
at Arlington National Cemetery. In lieu of
flowers, contributions may be made to Way
of Faith or the Dave Roever Foundation.
Please sign the Guestbook at
www.legacy.com/washingtontimes
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expected U.S. response if state-directed
hacks continue.
“We will respond,” the U.S. official
said.
The adviser said the U.S. will bring
up human rights but did not specify
whether that includes the treatment of
Mr. Navalny.
“Nothing is off the table,” the official
said.
Republicans have criticized Mr. Biden
for taking the Nord Stream 2 natural gas
pipeline off the table. The administration
decided last month against sanctioning
the Russian company building the pipe-
line, believing it would raise tensions
between Russia and European countries
that will receive fuel from it.
The president said Tuesday of his
looming meeting, “I’m always ready.”
But Mr. Pomeranz cautioned, “I think
the best that he can walk away with is a
downplaying of tensions between the
two countries. It’s just a chance to start
a dialogue with very little expectations
as to what can result from it, especially
from the Russian side.”
A senior administration official said
the U.S. is seeking three “basic” goals.
“First, a clear set of taskings about
areas where working together can ad-
vance our national interest and make the
world safer,” the official said. “Second, a
clear lay-down of the areas of America’s
vital national interests, where Russian
activities that run counter to those in-
terests will be met with a response.
And third, a clear explication of the
president’s vision for American values
and our national priorities.”
science and director of the Center for
Civic Engagement at Oakland University,
said there is “great energy and enthusi-
asm in the Republican base — as long as
it is about 2020.”
“That is where the grassroots are right
now, and they are charged up,” Mr. Dulio
said. “I think that making a trip to Arizona
and coming back with a report for Re-
publican activists simply establishes that
individual’s bona fides as someone who
is squarely in the Trump camp.”
Ms. Karamo plans to appear Thursday
at a Michigan Conservative Coalition
event, where activists are set to deliver
more than 7,000 notarized affidavits de-
manding a statewide audit of the 2020
election to legislative leaders.
“Michigan voters know something
very wrong happened in our 2020 presi-
dential election,” said Marian Sheridan,
co-founder of Michigan Conservative
Coalition and leader of the affidavit col-
lection process. “It will be up to our
elected officials to either hear or con-
tinue to ignore the voices of the people
of their state.”
The heated rhetoric keeps hope alive
that Mr. Trump will somehow be re-
turned to the Oval Office. It also illu-
minates widespread distrust of the U.S.
election process.
Mr. Trump has applauded the Arizona
effort and pressured elected leaders in
other states to follow suit.
On Monday, Mr. Trump called out
Pennsylvania state Senate President Pro
Tempore Jake Corman and Sen. David Ar-
gall, chair of the Senate State Government
Committee, which oversees elections,
over their reluctance to call for an audit.
“Corman is fighting as though he were
a Radical Left Democrat, saying that a
Forensic Audit of Pennsylvania not take
place,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.
“Why is Senator David Argall playing the
same game? Are they stupid, corrupt, or
naive? What is going on?
“I feel certain that if Corman con-
tinues along this path of resistance,
with its lack of transparency, he will be
primaried and lose by big numbers,” Mr.
Trump said.
said they were affiliated with a religious
community.
“Younger households are less likely
to attend services and affiliate,” Ms. Osili
said. “A very large [part] of charitable
giving overall is correlated with attend-
ing services frequently, and also [with
religious] affiliation.
“We do have this concern that as
fewer households affiliate and attend
services, that has an impact on their
giving to congregations,” she added. “So
there is concern about religious giving,
growing more slowly over time than it
has in the past.”
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REGION
Hogan announces end to virus restrictions
State-mandated rules to be lifted in July, cites improving metrics in Maryland
BY SHEN WU TAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
State-mandated COVID-19 re-
strictions, including mandates for
masks at camps, childcare facili-
ties and schools, will be lifted in
Maryland on July 1, Gov. Larry
Hogan announced Tuesday.
The Republican governor
cited improving pandemic met-
rics in making the announcement.
“We have finally reached the
light at the end of that long tun-
nel,” Mr. Hogan said. “While the
end of the state of emergency is
an important step in our recovery
from COVID-19, it does not mean
that this virus and the variants no
longer pose any threat. If you have
been vaccinated, you are safe. But
those who have not gotten vacci-
nated will continue to be at risk.”  and lifted its remaining coronavi-
There also will be a 45-day
grace period from July 1 to August
15 where relaxation of certain
regulations will continue in order
to help people transition out of
the pandemic. This includes a
45-day extension for people to
renew their expired driver’s li-
censes and an extension of the
moratorium of evictions related
to COVID-19. Health officials will
Critical entities targeted in suspected Chinese hacking
Campaign exploited Pulse Secure
BY ALAN SUDERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND | A cyberespio-
nage campaign blamed on
China was more sweeping
than previously known, with
suspected state-backed hack-
ers exploiting a device meant
to boost internet security to
penetrate the computers of
critical U.S. entities.
The hack of Pulse Connect
Secure networking devices
came to light in April, but its
scope is only now starting to
become clear.
The Associated Press has
learned that the hackers tar-
geted telecommunications
giant Verizon and the coun-
try’s largest water agency.
News broke earlier this month
that the New York City sub-
way system, the country’s
largest, also was breached.
Security researchers say
dozens of other high-value
entities that have not yet been
named also were targeted as
part of the breach of Pulse
Secure, which is used by many
companies and governments
for secure remote access to
their networks.
It’s unclear what sensitive
information, if any, was ac-
cessed. Some of the targets
VIRGINIA
Investigation into state parole case finds no political interference
BY SARAH RANKIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND | An outside probe
into how Virginia’s government
watchdog agency conducted an
investigation of a controversial
parole decision found no inappro-
priate political interference by Gov.
Ralph Northam’s administration
and concluded the lead investiga-
tor was likely biased.
The findings came Monday
in a 65-page report by a law firm
that was requested and funded by
the Democrat-controlled General
Assembly.
The report was essentially an
investigation of an investigation
into the highest-profile part of a
long-running, bitter and mostly
partisan dispute over the state pa-
role board’s work.
“We have finally reached the light at the end of that long tunnel,”
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said on Tuesday. Mr. Hogan announced
that state-mandated COVID-19 restrictions were set to lift on July 1.
also have time to transition from
emergency operations.  ment figures show.  waivers to attend events, and
The state on Tuesday reported
a record-low weekly positivity
rate of 0.82% as well as a case rate
of 1.57 per 100,000 people, accord-
ing to Mr. Hogan. More than 6.5
million Maryland residents, about
72% of adults in the state, have
received at least one COVID-19
said they did not see any evi-
dence of data being stolen.
That uncertainty is common
in cyberespionage, and it can
take months to determine data
loss, if it is ever discovered.
Ivanti, the Utah-based
owner of Pulse Connect Se-
cure, declined to comment
on which customers were
affected.
But even if sensitive infor-
mation wasn’t compromised,
experts say it is worrisome
that hackers managed to gain
footholds in networks of
critical organizations whose
secrets could be of interest
to China for commercial and
national security reasons.
“The threat actors were
able to get access to some re-
ally high-profile organizations,
some really well-protected
ones,” said Charles Carmakal,
the chief technology officer of
Mandiant, whose company
first publicized the hacking
campaign in April.
The Pulse Secure hack
has largely gone unnoticed
while a series of headline-
grabbing ransomware attacks
have highlighted the cyber
vulnerabilities to U.S. criti-
cal infrastructure, including
one on a major fuels pipeline
that prompted widespread
Law firm Nixon Peabody LLP
examined how the Office of the
State Inspector General handled a
review it conducted last year into
the parole board’s decision to re-
lease Vincent Martin, who served
more than four decades for the
killing of a Richmond police officer.
The firm wrote that the watch-
dog’s review was not of the highest
quality and its most “troubling”
finding was the agency’s failure to
identify apparent bias in the lead
investigator, Jennifer Moschetti,
who has since been fired and
couldn’t be reached for comment.
“Internal communications, the
manner in which the investigation
was conducted, the content of wit-
ness interviews, and the tone of the
report, all indicate a high likelihood
that the lead investigator was moti-
vated to see Mr. Martin returned to
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vaccine dose, state health depart-
The Maryland announcement
came as the U.S. topped 600,000
lives lost to the viral infection on
Tuesday, hitting another mile-
stone even as daily cases and
deaths have trended downward
and more places are lifting pan-
demic restrictions. The death toll
VIRGINIA
A Chinese
cyberespionage
campaign exploited the
Pulse Connect Secure
networking devices.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
shortages at gas stations.
The U.S. government also
is still investigating the fallout
of the SolarWinds hacking
campaign launched by Rus-
sian cyber spies, which infil-
trated dozens of private sector
companies and think tanks as
well as at least nine U.S. gov-
ernment agencies and went on
for most of 2020.
China has a long history
of using the internet to spy
on the U.S. and presents a
“prolific and effective cyber-
espionage threat,” the Office
of the Director of the National
Intelligence said in its most re-
cent annual threat assessment.
Six years ago, Chinese
hackers stole millions of
background check files of
federal government em-
ployees from the Office of
prison and such motivation likely
impacted the investigation and
report,” the report said.
Another key finding backs up
what Mr. Northam’s administra-
tion and the watchdog have said
about the initial investigation: that
there was no outside interference
to cover up unflattering findings.
Some Republican lawmakers
began floating such allegations
after news outlets obtained a lon-
ger, draft version of the watchdog’s
Martin report containing more
critical conclusions about errors
made in the case.
Monday’s report confirmed
that version was a draft, and said
there was only one official report
and its investigations and findings
were not influenced by outside
actors.
“This report clearly repudiates
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is comparable to the number of
American lives lost to cancer on
an annual basis, statistics show.  the power to require face cover-
Maryland this weekend is also
partnering with Major League
Baseball and the Baltimore Ori-
oles for its Go Vax summer tour to
hold vaccination clinics at Cam-
den Yards. Everyone who gets
vaccinated will receive two free
lower-level Orioles game tickets.
The state is also halfway through
its $2 million lottery for adult
residents who are or get vac-
cinated by July 4. Twenty two
people have won $40,000 cash
prizes, which will continue to
be awarded through July 3. On
July 4, a final grand cash prize of
$400,000 will be awarded.  quired at public and private K-12
Meanwhile, on Friday, the Dis-
trict of Columbia fully reopened
rus restrictions.  also says masks should be worn
Sports fans no longer need
pandemic-related capacity lim-
its at bars, nightclubs, entertain-
ment and sports venues have been
lifted.  than 4.8 million residents, or 57%
However, mask mandates are
still in place for schools, child
care facilities, health care settings,
correctional facilities, homeless
Personnel Management. And
last year the Justice Depart-
ment charged two hackers it
said worked with the Chinese
government to target firms
developing vaccines for the
coronavirus and stole hun-
dreds of millions of dollars
worth of intellectual property
and trade secrets from compa-
nies across the world.
The Chinese government
has denied any role in the
Pulse hacking campaign and
the U.S. government has not
made any formal attribution.
In the Pulse campaign, se-
curity experts said sophisti-
cated hackers exploited never-
before-seen vulnerabilities to
break in and were hyper dili-
gent in trying to cover their
tracks once inside.
“The capability is very
unsubstantiated allegations repeat-
edly made by some legislators. …
For [the parole board] to operate as
intended and maintain the public
trust, it’s vital that investigators do
their work in an impartial manner,
without bias toward a conclusion,
and that information presented in
public reports is valid and verified,”
Mr. Northam said in a statement.
Inspector General Michael
Westfall’s office said it appreci-
ated the review and the suggested
areas for improvements. The of-
fice’s statement did not mention
Ms. Moschetti.
Nixon Peabody, which was paid
$250,000, was directed to evalu-
ate only the watchdog’s “policies,
process, and procedures” in the
Martin case.
Republicans, who are cam-
paigning heavily on the issue in
shelters and public transporta-
tion. Private businesses also have
ings for customers and to ask for
proof of COVID-19 vaccination.  gating a weekend incident in
The District had a coronavirus
test positivity rate of 0.8 as of June
10 and a daily case rate of 2.2 per
100,000 people as of June 13, the
most recent city health depart-
ment data shows. Nearly 58% of
D.C. residents are partially or fully
vaccinated, according to the D.C.
Health Department.  security vendor hired to protect
In Virginia, all of the distanc-
ing and capacity limits for busi-
nesses, restaurants, offices and
other venues were lifted last
month. Face masks are still re-
indoor schools and when using
public transportation. The latest
executive order by the governor
in health care settings, correc-
tional facilities and homeless
shelters.  from it, no man should ever
Virginia on Tuesday reported
a test positivity rate of 1.7%. More
of the state’s population, have
received at least one COVID-19
vaccine dose, according to the
Virginia Department of Health.  PORTSMOUTH
strong and difficult to defend
against, and the profile of
victims is very significant,”
said Adrian Nish, the head of
cyber at BAE Systems Applied
Intelligence. “This is a very
targeted attack against a few
dozen networks that all have
national significance in one
way or another.”
The Department of Home-
land Security’s Cybersecu-
rity & Infrastructure Security
Agency, or CISA, issued an
April alert about the Pulse
hack saying it was aware of
“compromises affecting a
number of U.S. government
agencies, critical infrastruc-
ture entities, and other pri-
vate sector organizations.” The
agency has since said that at
least five federal agencies have
identified indications of po-
tential unauthorized access,
but not said which ones.
Verizon said it found a
Pulse-related compromise
in one of its labs but it was
quickly isolated from its core
networks. The company said
no data or customer informa-
tion was accessed or stolen.
“We know that bad actors
try to compromise our sys-
tems,” said Verizon spokes-
man Rich Young. “That is why
internet operators, private
companies and all individu-
als need to be vigilant in this
space.”
a critical election year, have criti-
cized the limited scope.
The firm was not tasked with
evaluating the actual findings of
the agency, which last year con-
cluded the board and its former
chairwoman violated state law
and the board’s own policies and
procedures in the Martin case. Nor
was the firm tasked with looking
into any of the watchdog’s other in-
vestigations into the parole board’s
work. Inspector general reports
into other inmates’ cases obtained
by news outlets showed a similar
pattern of violations and painted a
picture of a board that for years, or
possibly decades, did not properly
notify victims.
“Today’s report is merely a
campaign document,” House Re-
publican leader Todd Gilbert said
in a statement.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021
BRIEFLY
THE METRO AREA
DISTRICT
Guards fired after woman
dragged down bar stairs
The owners of a D.C. bar said
Monday that they are investi-
which security guards were seen
dragging a Black woman down a
staircase and throwing her out of
the bar.
Nellie’s Sports Bar’s owners
also said on Facebook that they
have “terminated, with imme-
diate effect, the independent
our guests during Pride Week.”
Video posted on social media
early Sunday shows a bouncer
dragging the woman — identi-
fied by media as Keisha Young,
22 — down the stairs as observ-
ers scream, “Oh my God!” Some
patrons are then seen fighting
with the guards.
On a video call Monday with
her lawyer, Young said: “I feel
like, even just separating race
handle a woman in that way.
That should never be OK.”
— Associated Press
VIRGINIA
Police probing after
2 girls shot, one fatally
Police say that a 14-year-old
girl is dead and a 15-year-old girl
is in critical condition after a
shooting in Portsmouth.
Police said Sunday that
they’re searching for two people
of interest.
The shooting occurred early
Saturday evening.
The two teenage girls were
found with life-threatening gun-
shot wounds following a 911 call.
Both were taken to hospitals.
The 14-year-old, Jada McNiell
of Chesapeake, died from her
injuries.
The 15-year-old remained in
critical condition Sunday.
— Associated Press
PORTSMOUTH
Biden returns $26 million
in wall money to shipyard
President Biden is sending
$26 million in federal funds back
to a Navy shipyard in Virginia.
The money had been diverted
by President Donald Trump to
pay for a wall along the Mexico
border.
The Virginian-Pilot reported
Monday that the shipyard money
is a sliver of the $3.6 billion that
Mr. Trump had moved from the
Department of Defense to pay
for the wall. The Biden admin-
istration is now sending billions
of dollars back to a series of
military projects.
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in
Portsmouth will use the $26 mil-
lion to address numerous safety
violations in one of its buildings.
They include a lack of sprinklers,
poor placement of fire alarms and
no mass notification system.
— Associated Press
WINGMEAD
Police: Car abandoned,
body under highway
Virginia State Police are
investigating how the apparent
driver of an abandoned Cadillac
sedan ended up dead beneath a
highway.
The Richmond Times-Dis-
patch reported that the car had
run into the jersey wall and was
left across the travel lanes of a
flyover from Route 288 to Inter-
state 64 in Goochland County
early Sunday.
Police couldn’t find anyone
associated with the car nearby,
but a body was found in thick
brush beneath the flyover about
eight hours later.
Police identified the body as
Devin Dickerson, 27, of Charlot-
tesville, and said they believe he
was the driver of the car. The
body showed “no obvious sign of
trauma,” and there was no indica-
tion that Mr. Dickerson had been
ejected from the vehicle.
— Associated Press
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Biden’s bumbling, Tehran’s nuclear secrets have been exposed

stumbling, blundering But President Biden has not revised his policies in response
By Clifford D. May
and — embarrassing — Mr. Albright notes that by “secretly storing and curating an exten-
sive archive focused on developing and building missile-deliverable

S
pies steal secrets. Sometimes, those secrets must be care- nuclear weapons,” Iran’s rulers also violated their “JCPOA pledge that

trip to Europe fully studied and analyzed by experts to turn them into
products useful to policymakers.
The spies I’ll be talking about here worked for the
The president took few questions, and always Mossad. The expert who has painstakingly transformed the
secrets they collected into actionable intelligence is David Al-
from pre-selected members bright. And the policymaker who should be revising his policies
of the friendly mainstream media in response to a clearer picture of reality is President Joe Biden.
The story begins on a cold night in January
By Joseph Curl 2018 when Israeli agents stealthily broke into
a warehouse in southern Tehran where Iran’s
‘under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any
nuclear weapons.’ ”
The Islamic Republic’s secret nuclear weapons development pro-
gram, the Amad Plan, was suspended in 2003, after the U.S. military
toppled regimes in both Afghanistan and Iraq, causing Iran’s rulers to
fear they might be next. But that was a “tactical retreat, not an aban-
donment” of the regime’s “nuclear weapons ambitions or activities,”
Mr. Albright writes.
“The post-Amad goals are among the most
critical revelations of the archive,” he continues.

J
oe Biden is on his first overseas trip as president of the
United States, and if you’re only reading the mainstream, es-
tablishment media or watching liberal network TV, it couldn’t
be going better.
But nothing could be further from the truth. The 78-year-
old is blundering his way across Europe, mumbling incoher-
ently at press conferences, dissing Queen Elizabeth II, and
winning little support from the world’s richest nations to take
on China.
Case in point: Mr. Biden’s view of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Over the weekend, Mr. Biden called Mr. Putin a “killer” — not exactly
diplomatic rhetoric when dealing
with another world leader. So
POLITICA
POLITICAL CAAL
AL in a press conference Monday,
rulers had stored an archive of their nuclear
weapons program.
In an interview broadcast on Israeli television last week,
former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed new details of the op-
eration. Planning required two years and included the construc-
tion of a replica of the warehouse. Twenty agents were trained
for the mission. None of them were Israelis. They had less than
seven hours to carry out their risky mission.
“In the morning, trucks, guards, and workers arrive, and there’s
a crowd and you can’t
just jump over fences and
break through walls,” Mr.
Cohen said. “Only when
they broke into the formi-
Over the past decade, an Iranian Ministry of De-
fense entity known as SPND has been responsible
for developing various nuclear capabilities. “Iran’s lack of coopera-
tion with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] up until
today has increased concerns that a subset of SPND’s activities have
remained focused on preserving or carrying forward the activities of
the Amad Plan.”
The archive also reveals that Iran’s rulers have “a host of un-
declared nuclear sites and activities, all previously dedicated to a
covert, and illegal, nuclear
weapons program.” What
activities are taking place
at those sites now is un-
known because inspectors

THEATER
Mr. Biden was asked about his dable safes and began to from the IAEA have been
opinion of the former KGB intel- go through the images and barred from visiting most
ligence officer. Farsi descriptions did we of them.
BY JOSEPH CURL “In a weekend interview, realize that we have what Under the flawed
Vladimir Putin laughed at the we wanted on the Iranian JCPOA, the IAEA also is
suggestion that you had called him a ‘killer.’ Is that still your belief, sir, that military nuclear program.” not permitted to inspect
he is a killer?” CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny asked. The agents quickly military facilities where
Here is Biden’s answer verbatim from the official White House spirited the materials — nuclear weapons research
transcript: more than 55,000 pages of has been conducted in the
THE PRESIDENT: (Laughs.) To answer the first question — (laughs) documentation and nearly past and may be ongoing
— I’m laughing too. They actually — I — 200 computer disks — out in the present.
Q : So he is a killer? of the country. None of Mr. Albright deduces
THE PRESIDENT: Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that — the an- the agents was captured that Iran’s rulers currently
swer is: I believe he has, in the past, essentially acknowledged that he was but, Mr. Cohen said, some have “a robust capability
— there were certain things that he would do or did do. But look, when I had to be rescued from to make weapon-grade
was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly. But it’s not much of Iran. uranium, a capability that
a — I don’t think it matters a whole lot, in terms of this next meeting we’re Three months later, will eventually grow more
about to have. Prime Minister Benjamin than ten-fold” as restric-
Huh? By the end of that meandering non-answer, Mr. Biden had forgot- Netanyahu held a press tions in the JCPOA “sun-
ten the second question. conference. He said the set” — expire according
“Let’s be honest, our American president is not very good on his feet,” materials proved that to dates on the calendar
former House Speaker Newt Gingrich later said on Fox News in a grand Tehran had a “program and regardless of Tehran’s
understatement. to design, build and conduct.
There was so much more. On Sunday, Mr. Biden confused two coun- test nuclear weapons “At a minimum, Iran
tries, one in Africa, the other in Asia — three times. … to use at a time of its has a coordinated set of
“We can work together with Russia, for example, in Libya. We should choice to develop nuclear activities related to build-
be opening up the passage to be able to go through, provide food assis- weapons.” ing a nuclear weapon,” Mr.
tance, and economic — I mean, vital assistance to a population that’s in That meant that the Albright writes. “At worst,
real trouble,” Mr. nuclear deal President the weaponization team
Biden said. Obama had concluded in has already conducted a
White House 2015, the Joint Compre- cold test, fulfilled its post-
aides later told hensive Plan of Action, ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS Amad goal of building an
reporters Mr. Biden was predicated on lies industrial prototype, and is
meant Syria, not told by Iran’s rulers, and that the JCPOA did not, as claimed, block regularly practicing and improving their nuclear weaponization craft
Libya. their path to a nuclear weapons capability. under various covers or in clandestine locations.”
At the G-7 sum- Proponents of the JCPOA insisted there was nothing earth-shatter- Which leads to this conclusion: “A reinstated JCPOA combined
mit in England, Mr. ing in the materials, and that Mr. Obama had concluded as good a deal with less than vigorous IAEA verification of Iran’s military sites, of the
Biden also tried as could be expected. President Trump, long mistrustful of the deal, type that existed from 2015 until 2018, appears particularly unstable
to correct British soon formally withdrew. and dangerous.”
Prime Minister David Albright, a physicist, and the founder and president of the Spies risked their lives to steal secrets from an Islamist police state.
Boris Johnson for Institute for Science and International Security, also known as the An esteemed American expert has detailed what those secrets reveal.
not introducing Good ISIS, persuaded the Israeli government to allow him access to President Biden can adjust his policies to reflect the reality that has
“the president of the materials. Since then, he and his team have conducted a compre- been exposed.
South Africa” — hensive forensic analysis. Or he can gift militant theocrats whose rallying cry is “Death to
ASSOCIATED PRESS
even though Mr. The result is a new book: “Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weap- America!” billions of dollars and let them develop a nuclear weap-
Johnson had just
President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister ons,” co-authored with Sarah Burkhard. He points out that the very ons capability over the years ahead. That is almost certain to lead to
moments before
Boris Johnson at the G7 Summit “existence and maintenance of a secret archive containing nuclear runaway nuclear proliferation and devastating conflicts. This should
introduced him by name. World leaders around the table laughed at Mr. weapon design and manufacturing data is not compatible with Iran’s not be a tough call.
Biden. legally binding nuclear non-proliferation commitments” under the
There were more substantive blunders, too. Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the fundamental international Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of
At the G-7, Mr. Biden urged foreign leaders to crack down on China, agreement for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for The Washington Times.
but a bunch of them said, “Nah.” The chancellor of Germany, which
exports millions of cars to China each year, wasn’t on board, nor was the
president of Japan, a close neighbor and trading partner of China.
In the end, the G-7 leaders put out a watered-down communique with
far weaker language on China than Mr. Biden desired.
It didn’t go much better when Mr. Biden urged leaders gathered in
Reaching greenhouse
Belgium for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. The
upshot of the trip: leaders announced the formation of a joint council to
gas emissions goals
address China’s predatory economic practices after putting out a luke-
warm communique on the rising communist power.
There were less egregious failings, too (but which, had former Presi-
depends on innovation
dent Donald Trump committed them, would have been all over the head- Biden administration must support
lines). When Mr. Biden met Her Majesty at Windsor Castle, he kept on his
trademark aviator sunglasses (considered very poor etiquette). At another technological advances and a regulatory
event, Mr. Biden arrived after the Queen, another diplomatic no-no.
And Mr. Biden got some more bad press in the U.K. when he report-
environment that facilitates experimentation
edly kicked members of the British Broadcasting Corporation out of their
table at a pub garden so he and first lady Jill Biden could enjoy the view. By Daniel Simmons
While throughout his trip, Mr. Biden took few questions from the press

R
— and always from pre-selected members of the friendly mainstream ecently, President Biden unveiled a goal for the
media — he ended up clashing with one reporter who (gasp!) asked a United States to reduce our greenhouse gas emis-
tough question. In answer, Mr. Biden leaned down close to the micro- sions by 50 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels. In
phone, and in an odd voice said, “120 days. Give me a break. Need time.” In the weeks since then, however, his administration
fact, Mr. Biden had been president for 145 days, so he even got that wrong. has yet to articulate a plan to accomplish his goal. If the
In the end, Mr. Biden dodged a joint press conference with the Russian administration wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
leader — something every president has held at summits for decades. in an economically sustainable way, then his plan needs to
Instead, he will hold a solo presser Wednesday, where he’ll once again take focus on energy innovation like we have seen with wind,
softball questions from a pre-selected handful of friendly members of the solar, and, especially, natural gas in recent years.
establishment media. For most of the last four years, I led the Office of Energy Effi-
But you won’t hear about any of this in the MSM. Instead, Mr. Biden’s ciency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy. In
trip will be portrayed as a ringing success and the media will sell the idea that time, I oversaw nearly $10 billion in funding for renewable
that the Democrat — like the Chosen One, Barack Obama — has raised energy, advanced manufacturing, transportation, and building
the stature of America. technologies. I spent a lot of time thinking about improving and
Nothing could be further from the truth. driving down the cost of technologies which reduce greenhouse
gas emissions such as various forms of renewable energy.
Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Deployment of renewables have expanded in recent years
Washington Times. He can be reached at jcurl@washingtontimes.com
and on Twitter @josephcurl. ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS » see SIMMONS | B4
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS

COVID-19 lockdowns decimated

small businesses
Lockdowns are disastrous pandemic policy that should never be repeated

L
ast year’s COVID-19 lock-
downs resulted in a mas-
sive transfer of wealth from
this nation’s small businesses to
mega-corporations.
In the U.S., as of June 2, the
number of small businesses open
dropped 39% compared to Janu-
ary 2020, according to newly re-
leased economic data compiled by
Harvard and Brown Universities.
More than half of the businesses
in the leisure and hospitality in-
dustry were destroyed.
Nearly half of Black small busi-
nesses had been wiped out by the
end of April of last year, according
to a report from the New York
Fed. Yelp’s Local Economic Im-
pact Report found about 100,000
businesses listed on Yelp had
small businesses, which generates
53% of all U.S. sales. There will be
no economic recovery, without
small businesses leading the way.
Even now, as the country starts
to reopen, the headwind against
small business is strong. Many
can’t operate at 100% capacity
because they simply can’t find
the workers. According to the
National Federation of Indepen-
dent Business (NFIB), nearly half
of businesses report having job The left is taking over
openings they couldn’t fill — a
record high. Most can’t compete
with the generous unemployment
international organizations,
benefits being doled out by the
Biden administration, and others and it should terrify everyone
don’t have the margins to be able
to afford to pay their workers By Neydy Casillas from forums in which they do not feel
they are directly affected. The prob-
more than minimum wage.

closed permanently due to the
pandemic, an average of more
than 500 a day.
America’s second-largest
source of private employment,
the restaurant industry, has also
been ravaged. According to the
National Restaurant Association,
110,000 restaurants have closed
their doors permanently, and an-
other half a million are “in an un-
precedented economic decline.”
Meanwhile, national chains
thrived. Chipotle, McDonalds and
Papa Johns were able to record
sales growth over the past year
and were even able to give out
year-end bonuses to their front-
line workers. Big box retailers like
Target, Walmart and e-commerce
behemoth Amazon also scored
record profits, with their stocks
soaring.
Yet, small businesses are the
backbone of the American econ-
omy. Almost half of this country’s
total workforce is employed by
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Left quickly destroying our costly freedom
Millions of voters are fed up to the
hilt with the lack of government
representation. We are told by our
Representatives, both federal and
state, that if we’re dissatisfied we
should vote them out. Well, we tried
and the result was a fraudulent elec-
tion the pundits say we must accept
because our Constitution doesn’t
provide the means to overturn it.
If the 2020 presidential election
turns out to be proven fraudulent,
was it not also unconstitutional?
Would that not render the latter ar-
gument moot and allow the Supreme
Court to rule it null and void, paving
The ‘woke’ want only destruction
I have enjoyed exploring and looking
at many of Europe’s old buildings,
gardens, art and statues. I have also
learned, through the continent’s de-
liberate preservation of the terrible
landmarks of the Holocaust, how
humankind must never again allow
such hatred to take root. Yes, having
lived in Luxembourg and Germany
I have seen much of it. Yet I’ve seen
also that Europe takes pride in its
The Paycheck Protection Pro-
gram loans helped stave off bank-
ruptcy for many businesses, but
the best stimulus of all is custom-
ers. Without employees to service
those customers, the harder the
economic recovery will be. Not
only are business owners compet-
ing with shops across the street,
but they’re now competing against
the federal government.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned
from the pandemic it’s that lock-
downs are disastrous pandemic
policy that should never be re-
peated. No scientific study has
been produced that proves they
slowed down the virus’ spread,
and the economic reverberations
from them will be felt for years
to come.
Lockdowns were merely hys-
terical reactions by many politi-
cians motivated out of fear. Fear
that unreasonably killed many
hard-earned, blue-collar Ameri-
can livelihoods.
the way for true justice to prevail? Star for heroism. He was scheduled
To the many who claim this to come back to the States after
wrong can be righted with the up- enough missions served, but when
coming midterm elections, that is he was notified that his younger
wishful thinking. Such hopeful in- brother had lost his life when his
dividuals seem to forget the illegals plane was shot down in the Pacific,
will still be in charge at the White he volunteered for extra duty — and
House, still hell-bent in turning it cost him his life on a bombing raid
our free country into a communist over Berlin.
paradise. Their success at this in The fragility of the freedom for
just six months is proof they won’t which so many paid the ultimate
need four years to complete their price doesn’t seem to dawn on too
treachery. many people in our country.
My mother lost two of her four
sons in World War II. The elder was DANIEL J. COLGAN
posthumously awarded the Silver McSherrystown, Pa.
various cultures, even with the scars systematically looting, burning
of two world wars on its lands. and stealing. Whatever fits their
The United States also has a agenda. This isn’t building. These
wonderful history, and many want to people are trying to rewrite his-
come here permanently. But of late tory — but once rewritten, it isn’t
our history, values and landmarks history, is it? It is just more de-
are being disfigured, dismantled, struction and waste. Not a pretty
denigrated and despised — all by picture.
those with a “woke” mindset.
These people do not love this WANDA GARDNER
land. We hear them say so while Bryans Road, Md.
O
ur country is in a cultural cri- lem is that we are indeed very much
sis, and the rest of the world affected and for many reasons. The
is soon to follow. Not because first, and biggest, is that our taxpayer
the world is changing, but be- dollars fund these organizations.
cause the left has been playing the long The U.S. is the largest funder of
game and playing it well. They’ve spent these organizations; its contribution
years’ worth of time and our own tax towards the United Nations alone
dollars to promote their radical agenda is $11,076,513,918 (billion). Germany,
on the international stage through which is the second-largest donor,
organizations such as the United Na- contributes $3,957,073,432. To put it
tions, Organization of American States, simply, there is no other country in
UNICEF, WHO and more. the world that contributes equal to
As Americans, and conservatives or higher than the U.S., and all of our
especially, we tend to not pay too funding comes right from our own
much attention to the work that the pockets. Here’s a taste of where that
United Nations or other international money is going:
bodies are doing. We assume that these UNICEF, a United Nations’ agency
organizations are caring for those in whose mission is to advocate for the
need, providing health care, education protection of children’s rights, in its
and food to people worldwide, but this most recent report, stated, “There is
is only partly true. no consensus on the degree to which
We forget that these organizations pornography is harmful to children.”
operate as a political forum The World Health Orga-
through which public nization (WHO) published
policy is then created. Despite the recent its standards for sexual-
It is precisely because lean to the left, ity education in Europe.
they are political forums every international As part of its standards,
that progressive groups treaty on human it recommended giving
strategically have been information to babies from
advocating for their agenda
rights protects 0-5 years old on the “enjoy-
within them for many the right to life, ment and pleasure when
years. These progressive the family as touching one’s body, early
groups recognize the reach the fundamental childhood masturbation.”
and impact their agenda We can blame our gov-
group of society,
can have on many nations freedom of ernment for the outrageous
at once. promotion of abortion and
For instance, Planned
conscience and gender ideology, for using
Parenthood created its in- religion and our money to kill babies
ternational branch named
International Planned
the right of the around the world, for at-
parents to educate tempting to undermine one
Parenthood Federation their children in of our most fundamental
(IPPF), which actively has
conformity with freedoms and even for in-
advocated for abortion, doctrinating our children.
“comprehensive sexuality their convictions. However, there is one
education” and LGBTG+ thing for which we cannot
rights in the United Nations since 1973. blame our government, and that is for
Now, we witness the fruits of their not getting actively involved and hold-
engagement. IPPF is partnering on a ing them accountable for how our tax
vast range of publications, programs, dollars are being spent. Our absence
and events with the United Nations and rare presence towards these inter-
and its agencies, through which they national forums have left an open path
are expanding their pro-abortion for the left to advance their abortion
agenda worldwide by presenting agenda.
abortion and sexuality education as a If we surrender the culture battle
human right. International organiza- globally, it is only a matter of time
tions have become the primary source until it is surrendered here in America.
to spread their agenda worldwide At Concerned Women for America, we
through the creation of public policy are determined to be the voice of hun-
that has a direct impact on countries’ dreds of millions of women and girls
national laws, frequently undermining worldwide who care for the unborn,
their national sovereignty. the family, their children and their
Despite the recent lean to the left,
every international treaty on human
freedom to believe and express their
beliefs free of coercion. We will fight
rights protects the right to life, the tirelessly to defend these values and
family as the fundamental group of call on all Americans to wake up and
society, freedom of conscience and join us in the fight.
religion and the right of the parents to
educate their children in conformity Neydy Casillas is vice president of inter-
with their convictions. national affairs for Concerned Women of
People tend to distance themselves America.

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Black Africans were rounded up by
other Black Africans and Arab Mus-
lims and transported under poor
conditions to the United States by
Europeans, then sold as slaves. Over
hundreds of years many people suf-
fered the horrible effects of slavery.
Today we hear that all Whites are
guilty and there is systemic racism
in our society.
These false narratives are used
in our school systems to indoctri-
nate our young, vulnerable children.
The truth, however, is that it was a
majority of White men and women
who over the years ended the preju-
diced Southern Democrats’ racist
policies. It was under Republican
President Abraham Lincoln that the
Civil War freed the slaves. White
Republicans ended the Democrats’
post-war segregationist policies
and played a major role in pushing
through the Civil Rights Act (which
was opposed by the Democrats).
Over many years integration in
all areas, including the acceptance
of interracial marriage, has made
our country stronger. There is no
question that there are still racists in
this country, as well as anti-Semites,
anti-Christians and anti-Muslims.
There is and always will be such
people.
But we need to end the narrative
and indoctriation of critical race the-
ory and make it a priority to have all
our citizens respect each other and
stand firm on equal justice for all.
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By Abraham Wagner the new coalition and govern-

ment together, with a range of
Assessing Israel’s American-Jewish left. His
immediate priority, however,
has already made clear that
Mr. Lapid will be their point

A
fter four elections
and two
months of
political
wrangling
Israel
finally
has a new
government, now headed by
Naftali Bennett for the next two
years. Under Israel’s political
system this is a coalition, now
called a “unity government”
but united in only in agreement
that Bibi Netanyahu no longer
serve as prime minister. Sadly
after a 12 years as prime minis-
ter, and a total of 15 years in the
post, Bibi did not go quietly.
Even though the left-wing
Labor Party, which ruled Israel
in the early days, managed
to include itself in the new
coalition, it won only seven of
the 120 Knesset seats and will
have few government posts.
Right-wing, or ultra-right-wing
parties won some 80 percent of
the vote and dominate the new
government, while the Israeli
press describe Mr. Bennett
as “10 points to the right of
Netanyahu.”
Under a novel agreement,
Mr. Bennett will serve as prime
minister for two years, and then
rotate this post to Yair Lapid
who will serve as alternate
prime minister and foreign
minister before the change.
Aside from neither being Mr.
Netanyahu, both have much to
recommend them. Mr. Bennett
spent much of his life living
in the U.S., and speaks perfect
English. Mr. Lapid, who is self-
educated, became popular as a
journalist and broadcaster, also
has excellent English, and many
credit him with deftly putting
parties that are most unlikely
bedfellows.
Both have a deep understand-
ing of American culture and have
also built up relationships on
both sides of the political aisle
over the years, having visited
the U.S. numerous times while
serving in official state capacities.
Mr. Bennett most recently while
defense minister in February
2020 and Mr. Lapid as an opposi-
tion leader in January 2020.
While most of Mr. Lapid’s
earlier trips to the U.S. have been
focused on politics and relation-
ship-building with lawmakers
behind closed doors, Mr. Ben-
nett’s trips have been dedicated
to appearances on international
media and explaining Israeli
positions on issues of the day. It
is widely believed that Mr. Lapid,
who comes from the centrist
Yesh Atid party, will become the
face of the Israeli government to
the U.S. in the near-future. Both
Mr. Bennett and Mr. Lapid enjoy
strong relations with U.S. Jewish
establishment organizations.
From the outset Mr. Bennett
and Mr. Lapid, will prioritize
restoring bipartisan U.S. sup-
port for Israel in D.C. Their
preexisting contacts and per-
sonal backgrounds, as well as
a shared desire to improve and
build upon ties, help provide
insight into how the incom-
ing Israeli government will
approach the so-called “special
relationship” with its most
important strategic ally.
Mr. Lapid, a former journal-
ist and TV host, first entered
the Knesset in 2013, and has
met several times with leading
Democrats including House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate
Majority Leader Sen. Chuck
new leadership
What it means for Israel
in life after Netanyahu
Schumer, and others including
some of the more progressive
Jewish Democrats in Congress.
Earlier Mr. Lapid has met
with Republican officials such
as Sens. Lindsey Graham and
Ted Cruz, as well as House Mi-
nority Leader Kevin McCarthy,
as well as with Joe Biden, when
he was vice president. Speaking
at a Brookings conference this
year, Mr. Lapid told delegates:
“We need to go back to making
Israel acceptable for both sides
ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER
of the aisle, for Democrats and
Republicans,” adding, “I’m
going to do much better work
in making sure Israel goes back
to being a bipartisan issue in
the United States.”
For this part Mr. Bennett
is well-regarded among his
right-wing, establishment
base, although he was often
cast aside for Mr. Netanyahu,
but like Mr. Netanyahu his
policies are often diametri-
cally opposed to those of the
will be staffing up and setting
a government policy agenda
before determining which of
those preexisting relationships
in the U.S. he can count on.
Since the coalition’s success-
ful formation last week, some
Democrats have raised con-
cerns, looking to old footage of
Mr. Bennett’s appearance at
Brookings where he put forth
stances on settlements, an-
nexation and the Palestinians
that they find unacceptable.
He has previously said that
a two-state solution would
be “suicide” for Israel and
called for the annexation of
60 percent of the West Bank.
At the same time, there is a
general openness toward him,
however, because his success
means keeping Mr. Netanyahu
in the opposition and also
because the new coalition
includes left-wing parties and,
for first time in Israel’s his-
tory, an Arab party.
More recently Mr. Ben-
nett has adapted rhetoric on
“shrinking” the Israeli-Palestin-
ian conflict as a notable diplo-
matic signal to the U.S., a path
that is seen as an alternative
to “solving” or “managing” the
conflict. It seeks to contain the
conflict by empowering Pales-
tinians without compromising
Israeli security. Although Mr.
Bennett might adapt this phi-
losophy with the understanding
that the Palestinians would also
need to make similar gestures,
it is a clear sign that he intends
to not disregard the Biden
administration’s desire for
improved relations on the
ground between Israelis and
Palestinians.
Secretary of State Blinken
of contact in the new govern-
ment — particularly after Mr.
Blinken managed to add Mr.
Lapid to his schedule during
his recent visit to the Middle
East, but not Mr. Bennett.
While there is much to say for
this approach, and consider-
able hope for better relations
across the political spectrum
with Bibi Netanyahu and Don-
ald Trump both gone, there are
major issues to be considered.
How the U.S. deals with
Iran in the ongoing nego-
tiations remains a matter of
major concern, and a new era
of good will cannot eliminate
Israel’s concerns. Dealing with
the security concerns raised
by Palestinians in Israel and
Gaza will also be a matter
of great concern, as the new
Israeli government largely
rejects the “two state solution”
and have made the most limited
of gestures to the Arab party
added to the coalition.
Clearly Mr. Bennett and Mr.
Lapid have their work cut out
for them, not only at home with
a “unity” coalition that has been
over-promised, but in dealing
with the new Biden adminis-
tration in the U.S. Hopefully
they will enjoy the broad base
of support they have enjoyed
within the American political
establishment and Jewish com-
munity that has eroded in the
past few years.
Abraham Wagner has served in
several national security posi-
tions, including the NSC Staff
under Presidents Nixon and
Ford and is the author of the
forthcoming book “Israel and the
Search for Peace: New Realities
and a Way Forward.”

Expressing one contention with the 1776 By Tammy Bruce

At G7, Biden
Commission’s approach to American slavery
“I is slow, confused
’m going to get in trouble with
mom and dad if I don’t do this
the right way … ” This could be
Reversing the growing divide in America requires more than educating citizens a normal comment by a 10-year-
old who is being allowed to handle the
and seemingly
through a narrow historical interpretation
By Eldridge Singleton
microwave for the first time. But now
replace the words “mom and dad” with dazed
established a new ancestral history derived from the lived “the staff ” and what you have is a verbatim

T
he 1776 Report’s call for “restoring patriotic
education” (Report, p. 16) is a positive initia-
tive to reverse the growing divide in America.
Unfortunately, calling it an “illusion that slavery
was somehow a uniquely American evil” oversimplifies
the complex history of America and the transatlantic slave
trade (Report, p. 10). The report factually states that “the
institution of slavery has been more the rule than the excep-
tion throughout human history” but proposes a degraded
context for key American social and political practices
(Report, p. 10). As an ethnically diverse global superpower
pursuing freedom for people worldwide, teaching a history
that justifies why “neither America nor any other nation has
perfectly lived up to the universal truths of equality, liberty,
justice, and government by consent” (Report, p. 1) falls
short of America’s high international status. This underlies
the contention with the report’s proposal to educate its
citizens through narrow historical
interpretation.
The report’s labeling of crit-
ics as “prey to the false theories
that have led to many nations to
tyranny” amplifies that contention
(Report, p. 16). That insinuation
implies that embracing the history
of American slavery somehow
conveys disloyalty to the ideals of
the United States. This contra-
dicts my experiences during two
decades in uniform “defending
the fundamental truths of human
liberty” of America, navigating
the impact of its influence in
Caribbean, Latin American and
other nations (Report, p. 1). It also
challenges my lived experience in
a home where cultural tensions
between a matriarchal Afro-Carib-
bean Black British immigrant and a patriarchal descendent
of American slaves were evident. Foreign officials often ask
pointed questions about “the Black perspective” of Ameri-
can values, either to refine domestic policies impacting their
indigenous or marginalized populations or to hypocritically
criticize America’s model of freedom and liberty. In both
cases, the most effective answers require historically com-
prehensive and individually authentic foundations.
A survey of slavery via museums, libraries and historic
sites in key hubs in Jamaica, Haiti and Brazil reveals facts
relevant to America’s history often omitted from an “ac-
curate history of how the permanent principles of America’s
founding have been challenged and preserved since 1776”
(Report, p. 17). First, most American slavery happened
within the U.S. homeland, whereas British, Portuguese and
French slavery was primarily practiced on external colonial
holdings. This skewed the domestic basis of the master/
slave, White/Black American power balance as these
countries transitioned from slave to egalitarian nations. This
power imbalance in the United States was the impetus for
American identity politics which leverage “White guilt” as
an instrument of power for American political elites.
Second, American slavery stripped slaves of their native
identity, in contrast to slaves under British, Portuguese
and French control who retained their drums, religious
figures, and self-governance systems at the local level. Black
Americans were not a part of the “one united people — a
people descended from the same ancestors” but gained a
common legacy as descendants of freed Blacks and post-
Civil War Whites under chattel slavery (Report, p. 3). Many
experience within the American slavery system; the struggle
to end, elude or preserve it; or the traditions for resisting,
conforming, or exploiting its demise.
Third, perpetuating slavery decades after the British
(1833), French (1794) and Portuguese (1761), further entwined
it into America’s identity. Though President Lincoln led the
nation to end slavery in 1865, the three-fifths compromise
served as a catalyst for identity politics by “prevent[ing]
the South from counting their slaves as whole persons for
purposes of increasing their congressional representation”
(Report, p. 11). America’s internationally publicized journey
from the mandating equal rights in 1868 via the 14th Amend-
ment, through denouncing Jim Crow Laws, to pursing
political harmony “assert the true principles of political le-
gitimacy and justice” as a manifestation of “those principles
among an actual people, in an actual government, here on
earth” (Report, p. 6).
Teaching a comprehensive history has relevance to
domestic and international
affairs. America needs narra-
tives and counter narratives
to “reject any curriculum that
promotes one-sided partisan
opinions, activist propaganda,
or factional ideology that
demean American’s heritage,
dishonor our heroes, or deny
our principles” (Report, p.17).
It also empowers U.S. legisla-
tors, diplomats, and senior
military leaders with the em-
pathy to address suppressive
power dynamics in foreign
lands and the insights to assist
foreign governments preempt
obstacles to democracy.
Marginalizing America’s
uncomfortable historical facts
ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH
contradicts the report’s “nec-
essary — and wise — cautions against unrealistic hopes and
checks against pressing partisan claims or utopian agendas”
(Report, p. 1).
There is no need to dye the Chicago River red on June-
teenth to commemorate the bloody days between eman-
cipation and notification or for Blacks to establish “Little
Plantation Towns” as cultural enclaves in major cities. In-
stead, providing comprehensive American History classes
educates citizens throughout the year and gives them
the ability to choose to either celebrate or abstain from
African-American heritage events, just as Americans do
with descendants of the Germans during Octoberfest,
the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day or the Chinese on the Lunar
New Year.
American should not omit facts, suppress opinions
or craft a historical fiction to make themselves seem so.
Leveraging The New York Times’ 1619 Project as a counter-
narrative, rather than vilifying it (Report, p. 36), may allow
both documents to vector Americans back toward Ameri-
ca’s Founding Fathers, like Alexander Hamilton and Thomas
Jefferson, as “hallmarks of how differences of opinion,
expressed within the guardrails of the Republic, are essential
to democracy” (Executive Office of the President).
Eldridge R. Singleton, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, is a
2020-2021 National Security Affairs Fellow at the Stanford
University Hoover Institution. He has served for 22 years
in Infantry, Special Forces, and Foreign Area Officer as-
signments and will return to international relations duties
supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) this summer.
statement from President Joe Biden speak-
ing to a gaggle of international media at
the G7 summit.
Mr. Biden’s overseas trip joining the G7
summit has been nothing less than a catastro-
phe, peppered throughout with reminders to
the world that the American president is not
just following the instructions and orders of
a faceless “staff,” but there might be a good
reason for this to be the case.
For the times when media was allowed to
be present at a G7 interactions, Mr. Biden ex-
hibited cognitive deficiencies that are not just
an embarrassment but must be considered a
national security risk for no other reason than
the comfort and inspiration it must give our
enemies.
The meeting, hosted by British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson in Cornwall, England
issued several alarms about Mr. Biden’s con-
dition. In an episode garnering international
attention, during a statement to the media
a perplexed Mr. Biden confused Libya with
Syria no less than three times in a 90-second
period. A spokesman later confirmed the
president meant Syria when he mentioned
Libya repeatedly. This confusion was not the
only concern. Throughout, his delivery and
demeanor were often confused, slow and
seemingly dazed.
For those who might have thought Mr.
Biden’s puzzlement during those Syria-Libya
remarks were a one-off to be dismissed as
fatigue suffered by an elderly man during
a long trip, more disturbing behavior was
observed during a round-table discussion led
by Mr. Johnson.
As Mr. Johnson was concluding the intro-
ductions, Mr. Biden interrupted, aggressively
pointing to President Cyril Ramaphosa of
South Africa, who was sitting directly across
from Mr. Biden and said with a firm tone as
though he was ordering Mr. Johnson, that he
introduce “the president of South Africa.” Mr.
Biden then clenched his fists and pumped
them as though he had done the South Afri-
can leader a favor.
Then, no doubt to the delight of every-
one who prefers to see the United States of
America embarrassed and weak, Mr. Johnson
had to interrupt Mr. Biden to tell him he had
already introduced the South African. Then
everyone around that table, the leaders of
the G7 representing the core of our allies,
laughed. They were not laughing with Mr.
Biden, they were laughing at him, and ulti-
mately at us.
Two possibilities exist to explain this:
Either Mr. Biden did not know Mr. Rama-
phosa’s name (whom Mr. Johnson clearly
introduced just seconds earlier), and the only
Black participant at the table, or he genuinely
had no clue what had just transpired despite
sitting next to Mr. Johnson.
Like having a toddler escape from the
children’s table in another room and sneaking
onto the adult table, Mr. Johnson then twice
had to shush Mr. Biden with a hand gesture
to keep him from continuing to interrupt. Is
Confusing Libya with Syria no
less than three times, the
president’s slip-ups have national
security implications
there any other president in American history
whom any other leader would have been
comfortable shushing? Or who would have
allowed it? Donald Trump? Barack Obama?
Either Bush? Bill Clinton? Either Roosevelt?
One thinks not.
At one point during the summit, Mr. Biden
was seen at a casual dining area in a suit
paired with white sneakers, alone, wander-
ing aimlessly giving the impression he was
lost. A reporter then shouted a question at
him at which point Mrs. Biden ran up onto
the dining platform from an offside location,
grabbing him by the hand saying, “Come on!”
The tendency of some may be to see these
episodes as “I told you so” moments, or to use
them as convenient and appropriate politi-
cal arguments about the serious problems
coming from the Biden administration. But
the most serious issues, separate from the
American people’s embarrassment, are the
national security implications.
Events like the public G7 conference, are
in large part a public relations theater demon-
strating to the world the unity of these global
allies and the power and leadership of the
United States of America in particular.
Meanwhile, there are tyrants and monsters
around the world watching as well. Russia,
China, al Qaeda, North Korea and Iran, no
doubt, are enjoying themselves immensely re-
alizing American leadership is not in any way
prepared to deal with a serious Black Swan
event challenging the global feckless “order.”
The Macrons, Merkels and Johnsons of
the world may want to check their glee, and
consider if the American president doesn’t
know what’s happening from one moment to
the next, what happens when China decides
now is the time to invade Taiwan? Or if
Russia decides, with a bewildered American
president being pushed around by flustered
bureaucrats, this would be the perfect time to
invade Ukraine? Or if the North Korea luna-
tics decide there is no time like the present to
teach Japan a lesson?
We’ve already seen what Mr. Biden’s
presence on the scene has encouraged Iran
to pursue. Its death squad Hamas already
attacked Israel with thousands of missiles, as
they, too, were looking forward to a “return to
normal.”
What we must hope for at this point is
any damage being done can be somehow
contained, while we pressure good people on
both sides of the aisle to admit and recog-
nize the national security implications of
the Penny Dreadful theater troupe currently
running the country.
Tammy Bruce, president of Independent
Women’s Voice, author and Fox News con-
tributor, is a radio talk-show host.
B4 | OPINION ☆R WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021

On border security: ‘Heck of a job, Kamala’

Why imagine we could end corruption in Guatamala, Honduras and El Salvador when we couldn’t do it in Afghanistan?
By Gary Anderson on her failure to visit the border.
Even if we assume that billions of dollars sent

A
nyone who watched the Obama
administration closely
knows that Joe Biden
failed at just about every
special assignment given
to him by his president
— remember stabilizing
Iraq and limiting ISIS, the
Cancer Moonshot and gun violence reduction?
Consequently, when President Biden announced
that Kamala Harris would reprise his role as
vice presidential problem solver by making her
the border security czar, any informed observer
could expect a debacle. Foolishness ensued
almost immediately.
Having been appointed the president’s point
person for border security, most reasonable
individuals would immediately head to the bor-
der and get some facts and show the public that
someone is trying to get a handle on the situa-
tion. Not Kamala Harris, she immediately headed
to Central America to address the root causes of
the immigration problem. That should surprise
no one. Ms. Harris is a dyed-in-the-wool pro-
gressive, and progressives love root causes. The
progressive response to the skyrocketing crime
rate in our major cities since the spring of 2020
is to defund police departments and redirect the
money to solving the root causes of urban crime.
The unprecedented slaughter of young Blacks at
the hands of other young Blacks since the George
Floyd incident surprised no one but well-mean-
ing progressives.
The Biden-Harris indirect approach to the
problem is based on a flawed assumption; that
being that the United States can solve the prob-
lems of corruption and violent crime that are
driving citizens of Central American nations to
head for the United States. It apparently is lost
on administration strategists that we have spent
the last two decades trying to solve the problems
of corruption and violence in Afghanistan, and
we have failed miserably. Why would anyone
reach the conclusion that we can do in Guate-
mala, Honduras and El Salvador what we couldn’t
do in Afghanistan? For that matter, we cannot
even address rampant corruption in New York
State government much less in foreign nations.
The one thing Ms. Harris did right in her
Central American swing was to issue a stern
warning to citizens of those nations not to head
north, and that immediately got her in trouble
with her fellow progressives in the left wing of
ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH
the Democratic Party. Almost immediately, that
seasoned stateswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
accused Ms. Harris of fomenting violence against
immigrants and labeled the Biden immigration
policy — if there is one — inhumane. This could
well signal the end of the tenuous truce between
Biden moderates and the extreme left wing of
the Democratic Party. Although The Washing-
ton Post has remained loyal, some members of
the mainstream media have questioned the vice
president’s handling of the border crisis. To her
chagrin, Lester Holt of NBC pressed Ms. Harris
to Central America will discourage some illegal
immigration and asylum seeking — and that is
a big if — it will take years to show results, and
Republicans will use that time to hammer the
administration on lack of progress.
Let’s summarize what Czar Harris has accom-
plished to date in addressing border security and
immigration. She has based a policy approach on
a false premise that would take years to imple-
ment even if it did work, and she has managed to
alienate the far left of the Democratic party in the
process while handing the Republicans an issue
in 2022.
This places Mr. Biden in a bind. If his glass-
ceiling-busting-minority woman vice president
fails her first big test, what does he do with her?
When Mr. Biden screwed up one of his special
assignments, President Obama quietly swept it
under the rug since no one paid much attention
to Mr. Biden anyway. Ms. Harris is a different
kettle of fish. Those who live by identity politics
stand to suffer the consequences when the identi-
ties in question show that they perform poorly. If
Mr. Biden is lucky, there will be a humanitarian
disaster somewhere in the world. The U.S. mili-
tary is superb at fixing things like that, and Mr.
Biden could send Ms. Harris there to take credit.
However, I would recommend against sending
her too soon. If the disaster happens in Bangla-
desh, she might well head to Oklahoma to study
how the oil industry and climate change were the
root causes.
President Biden wants Ms. Harris to continue
his vice-presidential legacy, and she is off to a
great start. Mr. Biden went 0 for three in special
projects over eight years, and it has only taken
Ms. Harris six month to goon up the first. Heck of
a job Kamala.
Gary Anderson lectures on Alternative Analysis at
the graduate level.

By Kristan Hawkins and

Kristi Hamrick
ypocrisy is a problem for more
H than Catholic politicians when
it comes to the issue of abor-
tion, but the divide between
what the Catholic Church teaches
and the actions of those who claim
to be faithful followers will create
worldwide headlines this month.
This week, the U.S. Catholic Bishops
Committee on Doctrine opens a con-
versation on what to do about those
who say one thing and do another,
not once, but day in and day out and
with taxpayer funding.
“Because President Biden is Cath-
olic, it presents a unique problem for
us,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann,
chair the USCCB’s Committee on
Pro-Life Activities, told The Associ-
ated Press. “It can create confusion.
... How can he say he’s a devout
Catholic and he’s doing these things
that are contrary to the church’s
teaching?”
In some ways, hypocrisy over
abortion is uniquely highlighted in
the Catholic Church because Com-
munion, during which believers
honor Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for all,
is to be received by those in good
standing with the Church and to be
denied to those who deliberately live
in ways they know contradict Church
teaching. The Protestant and Evan-
gelical church worldwide have plenty
of examples of people claiming to
believe one thing but acting quite the
opposite. Yet current events make
possible a huge debate over whether
you should enjoy the benefits of your
church while daily and aggressively
undermining what it teaches.
Mr. Biden wants to have his spiri-
tual cake and eat it too. He advertises
his faith as part of his lifestyle, and
his “speeches are woven with refer-
ences to God, biblical language or the
pope,” reporters note.
But on the issue of abortion, Mr.
Biden’s deeds are in direct opposi-
tion to those taught by his church.
His administration has pursued the
most radical abortion policies in
U.S. history working to end limits on
Biden’s communion issue is not just a Catholic problem.
Hypocrisy is one-size-fits-all
On the issue of abortion, the president’s deeds are in direct opposition to those taught by his church
taxpayer-funded abortion, expand
abortion through foreign aid, open
the door to more inhumane experi-
ments with the body parts of babies
taken from abortions and allow
ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH
deadly, on-line, no-test Chemical
Abortion sales, to name a few. The
personnel he has surrounded himself
with also consistently embrace the
most radical of abortion policies.
Many faithful Catholics find this life is negotiable creates chaos and
heartbreaking. The Catholic Church confusion and must not stand unchal-
rejects abortion and infanticide and lenged by people of faith or their
always has. The USCCB Committee leaders.
on Pro-Life Activities observes that Catholic leadership delayed hav-
“to claim that some live human be- ing this conversation until after the
ings do not deserve respect or should election, but it should be delayed no
not be treated as ‘persons’ (based longer. The pro-life laity — ordinary
on changeable factors such as age, people who worship and participate
condition, location, or lack of mental in the life of a church — are looking
or physical abilities) is to deny the for clarity from the church in line
very idea of inherent human rights. with the scriptures that articulates
Such a claim undermines respect for the eternal worth of each life.
the lives of many vulnerable people But other churches debating how
before and after birth.” clear to be on the issue of abortion
That conviction is shared by other should take note. We stand ready to
Christians as well. The confront them as well.
Bible directly refer- Downplaying the sig-
ences God’s deliberate Catholic leadership nificance of protect-
creation of life, each delayed having this ing young life cannot
with a unique make up conversation until after be ignored without
and destiny. In Psalm the election, but it deadly consequences
139, we read that God
“created my inmost
should be delayed no for women and the
preborn.
being. You knit me to- longer. The pro-life laity Our love and care
gether in my mother’s are looking for clarity for “the least of these”
womb … I am fear- from the church in line can’t be put on hold
fully and wonderfully with the scriptures that until a child is at the
made.”
Because the need
articulates the eternal border or in need of
an education. Oppos-
for the church to worth of each life. ing abortion as an act
affirm the value and that ends a unique
sacredness of all life, life, willed by God,
Catholics within Students for Life and created with eternal worth and
will lead “Follow Your Faith” Rallies purpose, is the duty of the church,
this month, calling on the bishops to and we stand ready to hold the
stand firm for the teachings of the church accountable to practice what
Catholic Church. it preaches.
Working every day with women
considering abortion, we’ve seen Kristan Hawkins, a committed Catho-
firsthand the conflicts it causes when lic, is president of Students for Life
people can’t look to the leaders of America. Follow her @Kristan-
of their church for clear guidance Hawkins or subscribe to her podcast,
on spiritual principles. When any “Explicitly Pro-Life.” Kristi Stone
church fails to lead on the moral is- Hamrick, a life-long Protestant and the
sues of our day, other voices become daughter and granddaughter of minis-
loud and drown out the still, small ters, is chief media and policy strate-
voice of conscience. gist of Students for Life of America/
The pretense that ending preborn SFLAction.

Simmons (mainly wind and solar).

From page B1
as their costs fell. These reduced costs
will lead to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions continuing into the future.
One surprising fact, however, is that the
renewable energy isn’t the biggest con-
tributor to the drop in U.S. greenhouse
gas emissions in recent years.
According to data from the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, 93 percent of
the reduction in greenhouse gas emis-
sions in the U.S. from 2000 to 2019 came
from the electricity generation sector.
The majority of those emissions reduc-
tions came from natural gas replacing
coal-fired generation. In fact, in 2019
natural gas contributed 60 percent more
to the reduction in greenhouse gas emis-
sions than new non-carbon generation
The technological change that
increased U.S. natural gas supply was a
joint effort of the Department of Energy
and the private sector. Starting in the
1970s, the Department of Energy and the
private sector started working together to
attempt to extract hydrocarbon resources
from shale formations. The Department
of Energy spent millions of dollars on
various technologies that advanced the
state of the art. But advancing the state
of the art was not enough to make these
new drilling and fracturing technologies a
cost-effective reality.
The next critical step was real-world
experimentation, and the regulatory
environment played an important role
in making this natural gas revolution
happen. Entrepreneurs had to take the
information and technology that was de-
veloped with the Department of Energy
and then experiment to figure out how
to make these drilling and fracturing tech-
nologies work in a cost-effective manner.
This experimentation mostly oc-
curred on state and private land rather
than federal land, primarily because of
the regulatory environment associated
with federal lands.
One illustrative example of the differ-
ence in the regulatory environment is the
amount of time necessary to obtain a per-
mit to drill. In 2012, it took an average 307
days to obtain a permit to drill on federal
lands, but only 10 days in North Dakota,
14 days in Ohio, and 27 days in Colorado.
The regulatory and permitting morass on
federal lands made the necessary experi-
mentation difficult on federal lands.
The shale revolution was helped along
by federal funding to advance technology,
but hindered by federal regulations on
federal lands. As a result, the shale revo-
lution gathered speed almost exclusively
on private and state lands in places like
Pennsylvania, Texas, North Dakota, Ohio,
and Colorado.
As the Biden administration and Con-
gress consider policies intended to lower
greenhouse gas emissions, it’s important
to consider the example of natural gas as
a key example of energy innovation. The
Department of Energy, working with the
private sector played an important role,
but the regulatory environment on state
and private lands was critically important
as well. If the administration wants to
accomplish President Biden’s greenhouse
gas emissions goal, it will need to help en-
ergy innovators advance technology, and
also need a regulatory environment that
facilitates the experimentation necessary
for large scale, cost-effective deployment.
Daniel Simmons is the principal of
Simmons Energy and Environmental
Strategies. He served as the assistant
secretary for the Office of Energy Ef-
ficiency and Renewable Energy at the
Department of Energy during the Trump
administration.
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Man finds little support
from so-called partner
DEAR ABBY: I’m a gay
man who has been in an
on-again/off-again relation-
ship for three years. My
partner still lives at home
with his mother. He has
never left the home, aside
from a
ABIGAIL four-
VAN BUREN month
period
DEAR ABBY when
he and
his
mom weren’t getting along.
My issue is, aside from
never fully committing, my
partner, “Damien,” seems
to always find a way to
abandon me when I hit a
rough patch. I lose my job
and I’m low on money? He
yells at me and leaves. And
he manages to not return
until I’m “back on my feet.”
When the coronavirus
hit and I had all my bills
paid but nothing to eat, I
finally had to say, “Hey, can
you get me something?”
We go to a burger place,
the line’s long and he com-
plains nonstop about the
wait. We leave and go to
my place to hang out. Then
he leaves and calls me and
talks about what he’s going
to eat. I hang up.
Before, when I was
homeless, even though
he doesn’t have a place of
his own, he never offered
any help. If I say, “I know
you’re really guarded with
your money,” he becomes
enraged. And when he
hears about my difficulties,
he talks down to me and
mocks the situation I am
in. He attributes his never
leaving home to his family
helping him and caring
about him. The fact that I’m
not in a situation like his
implies my family doesn’t
care. Can you help? — A
LOT WRONG IN TEXAS
DEAR A LOT WRONG: I’ll
try. It’s time you recognized
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY
(June 16). It’s action time.
You’ve already processed
your situation, and now
you’ll move without think-
ing, although thousands of
decisions get made below
your consciousness that
will ultimately land you in a
sweeter
HOLIDAY place
MATHIS than
you ever
HOROSCOPE thought
pos-
sible. In
love, you’ll shake a historic
influence to embrace an
improved way of operating
in relationships. Scorpio and
Leo adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 7, 9, 28, 40 and
11.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). While it’s possible that a
self-sacrificing act will help
a relationship, it benefits
you to consider the opposite
tactic as well. You’ll be sur-
prised at the improvements
that come from answering
the question, “What’s in it
for me?”
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). Ultimately, the mother
of frustration is desire. Team
an expectation with a time
frame and suddenly the
climate is perfect for desire.
There are at least two im-
mediate solutions. Let go of
the desire or lengthen the
time frame.
GEMINI (May 21-June
21). The duality of the twins
will fascinate others. You’ll
be many things at once. Ex-
hilarated yet patient; hopeful
yet reasonable. You’ll have
trepidation and still move
forward in boldness, ready
for what comes.
CANCER (June 22-
July 22). Thinking a thing
through can happen in a
flash. Carrying it out takes
much longer than you an-
ticipate, though, especially
in light of the complexity of
your current endeavor.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You have the grit that will
propel you forward, regard-
less of obstacles. And while
you would prefer to reach
your destination as soon as
that Damien is NOT your
“partner.” Partners HELP
each other when they are
in trouble. The sooner you
lose this person, the sooner
you will start to feel better.
Damien is all about Damien.
His character is fully formed.
You can’t change him,
and neither can I. Leaving
Damien may help you be-
come more independent —
and that’s a good thing. Trust
me on that.
DEAR ABBY: I love my
wife dearly. We’ve been
married for 21 years. I’m
frustrated with how she
dresses for work and when
we go out. Her idea of
fashion is wearing clothes
that are too large in size
for her. I don’t like going
out in public with her
when she dresses that
way. Granted, she put on
some weight after our third
child, but she still has a
nice, shapely figure. I have
seen women with similar
body shapes who wear
closer-fitting clothes, and
they look great. How can I
convey that her style is un-
flattering without upsetting
her? — FRUSTRATED WITH
FRUMPY
DEAR FRUSTRATED:
Your wife may dress the way
she does because she’s self-
conscious about her weight
or simply because she thinks
loose-fitting clothes are
more comfortable. Because
you feel they don’t flatter
her, start by asking why she’s
dressing the way she does.
Tell her you think she is
beautiful and that the items
she is choosing don’t do
justice to her “nice, shapely
figure.” You might even
volunteer to go with her to
help her choose some things,
if she’s interested. But if she
isn’t, let the subject drop be-
cause, ultimately, she’s going
to wear whatever she wants.
ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
possible, the important thing
is not how long it takes but
that you do it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22). The golden rule will ex-
tend like a blanket of karma
over your whole scene.
Everything counts. Stay on
the safe side. Spare feelings.
Spare spiders! Practice the
compassion of catch and
release.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
23). The group participa-
tion route isn’t always your
favorite, but your current
endeavor really does require
a team effort. When one per-
son is tired and ready to give
up, another will be ready to
help.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). You are, in fact, in the
process of change. You hap-
pen to be so deep in it that it
would be impossible to see
what’s happening, and you
don’t need to. That’s a job for
future you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). You are well aware
of how everyone likes a
good storyteller and that bad
ones are tolerated to varying
degrees. You’ll make sure
you’re interesting to talk to,
which is partly about brevity
and partly just reading the
room.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19). Your heart defies
logic like that’s it’s job. For
instance, the bigger your
heart gets, the less worried
you are about breaking it.
Love seems to provide its
own kind of protection.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-
Feb. 18). Your ego likes to
think it’s the source of your
strength and therefore it
beats its chest in a display of
dominance when its position
is challenged. The truth is
real strength has nothing to
do with posturing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Don’t assume that being
happy is better than being
other emotional tones. The
best feeling is the one that’s
coming up, no matter what
it is. Fully feeling is fully
processing, and eventually,
this leads to peace.
CREATORS.COM
Ellen Burstyn stars as a woman forced into a retirement home who gains a romantic interest in James Caan’s character in “Queen Bees.”
Burstyn remains tireless at age 88
Unlike her character, ‘Queen Bees’ actress has no plans to retire
BY JAKE COYLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK | That Ellen Burstyn
plays a woman who recoils at
the very mention of a retirement
community in the upcoming
film “Queen Bees” is extremely
appropriate.
Rarely has an actor been as
good for as long as Ms. Burstyn
has. She is still, at 88, tireless, her
vitality almost preternaturally
undiminished.
As intense as her early career
was — Lee Strasberg’s The Actors
Studio in the late 1960s followed
by ‘70s classics like “The Last
Picture Show,” “The Exorcist”
and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any-
more” — her later years have
been no less probing or chal-
lenging — “Requiem for Dream,”
“Interstellar,” last year’s “Pieces
of a Woman.”
She has the awards to show
for it. A six-time Oscar nominee
and one-time winner (for “Alice,”
a movie she might have directed
until she picked a young film-
maker, Martin Scorsese, to do so
instead), she has a Tony and two
Emmys, too.
And while “Queen Bees,” now
in theaters, is more of fun diver-
sion, Miss Burstyn remains a
magnificent and fierce screen
presence. She plays a proudly
independent senior temporar-
ily staying at a retirement com-
munity that turns out to be as
rife with comical cliques and
Politics pack a punch(line) for Iranian-born comic
BY MALAK HARB
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
| For Iranian-American Maz Jo-
brani, a stand-up show in Dubai
marked the first time he’s been
in front of a major live audience
overseas since the start of the
coronavirus pandemic — and
he feels it.
“Doing stand-up comedy is
kind of like going to the gym —
you have to get up on stage five,
10 times a week,” said Mr. Jobrani,
sitting in a Dubai hotel overlook-
ing Burj Khalifa, the world’s tall-
est building. “You have to keep
going or the muscles are going
to be rusty.”
Mr. Jobrani had a calm de-
meanor during a recent interview
with The Associated Press. It
was a far cry from the exagger-
ated expressions and dancing he’s
known for in his performance.
Taking to the stage at the re-
cent Dubai Comedy Festival, Mr.
Jobrani broke into an Iranian
dance routine to one of Dua Lipa’s
hit pop songs, drawing laughter
from an audience eager to be out
as the coronavirus pandemic still
rages across much of the world.
The United Arab Emirates has
one of the world’s highest per-
capita vaccination rates and its
economy largely has reopened.
Being on stage has become
a luxury for comedians, Mr. Jo-
brani said, with some not being
able to perform for over a year.
After venues shut down last year,
extra creativity was required.
First, Mr. Jobrani started doing
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romantic possibility as “Mean
Girls.” The cast includes James
Caan, Ann-Margret, Jane Curtin,
Loretta Devine and Christopher
Lloyd.
Miss Burstyn’s own retirement
plans aren’t just unmade. They’re
unfathomable. When she turned
80, she decided to move from
Rockland County, up the Hudson,
into the city.
“Time for a little action,” she
explained in a recent interview
by phone.
She has since lived in an apart-
ment overlooking Central Park,
which she strolls daily. “It’s my
garden,” she said. During the
pandemic, Miss Burstyn has
mostly laid low, spending time
with friends in the Catskills and
at a condo on the Connecticut
waterfront.
“Otherwise, I’ve been in the
city. I’ve been in my apartment,”
said Miss Burstyn. “I am abso-
lutely a cooped-up person ready
to hit the road again.”
Remarks have been edited for
clarity and brevity.
AP: What do you attribute
your longevity to?
Miss Burstyn: I must have
some good genes. I was sort of
wild in my 20s and 30s. When I
got into my 40s, I started drop-
ping bad habits slowly. First hard
liquor went, then wine went,
exercise began, changing my diet
and giving up meat. Marijuana
was also part of the mix. I just
gave it up all up. I think it really
COMEDY
shows on Instagram,
updating his fans on
what he did daily dur-
ing the lockdown, or
doing workouts using
random objects.
Then he tried drive-
in shows, which posed
the same problem for
stand-up comedy as Jobrani
online video calls: “You
don’t hear their laugh-
ter,” he said. “You need to remind
them: ‘If you like what I’m saying,
if you like the joke, please honk,’ ”
he recounted. “So people would
honk at you, you tell a joke [and]
they would honk at you.”
In some U.S. states, he per-
formed at outdoor venues to a
limited capacity audience. At oth-
ers he performed indoors. In Ari-
zona and Florida, he performed
in comedy clubs, where he said
he felt nervous because it was
before the vaccine was rolled out.
“Comedians need interaction
— we’re best in a room, with an
audience, laughing, talking,” he said.
“And this remote world took that
away from us but again I think we
adapted, a lot of people adapted.”
Mr. Jobrani, originally from
Iran, moved to California at age
6 with his family. Like many Ira-
nians they had fled the country’s
1979 Islamic Revolution. He grew
up in the San Francisco area.
His acting credits begin just
after the Sept. 11 attacks with
a major role in the American
action series “24,” in which he
played a member of an Afghan
militant group hoping to detonate
a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
paid off.
AP: Has acting evolved for you
over time?
Miss Burstyn: I’m not sure
I know how to answer that. It
must have. You know, I’m very
well trained. I had the great, great
fortune of studying with one of
the master teachers of all time —
Lee Strasberg I’m talking about
— and he influenced me so much.
I found as I went on in my career
that the things I had to work hard
for early on became easier and
easier to access. I became more
relaxed in my efforts. But I never
lost interest in it.
AP: You had a somewhat tu-
multuous early life. Was acting
initially an escape for you?
Miss Burstyn: No, I think it
was something that I discovered
pretty young that I could do.
From the first time I went on
stage, I felt at home there. Not
that it wasn’t scary — it was. But
it felt right to me. It’s a gift that I
came in with.
AP: You must meet a lot of
young actors through the Actor’s
Studio, where you’re co-president
with Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin.
What do you tell them?
Miss Burstyn: It’s a process.
It’s one of those things that the
more you do it, if you’re really
approaching it from the point
of view of wanting to get better
and better, then you’re always
learning. I tell actors that where
you start out from is just the
beginning.
Later he stopped
taking such roles, but
still played with the
theme, setting up the
“Axis of Evil” comedy
tour. He wrote a book
titled “I’m Not a Terror-
ist, But I’ve Played One
On TV.” His comedy is
largely fueled by that
and his background.
During President Don-
ald Trump’s term in office, he fo-
cused on the U.S. president.
“You know in the past four
years, I was very political, con-
stantly with the Trump stuff,
Trump, Trump, Trump,” he said.
“You know the Muslim ban, you
know kids in cages, you know
the mishandling of coronavirus.”
Mr. Jobrani’s visit to Dubai
came at an edgy moment for the
wider Middle East. Tensions still
remain high between his native
Iran and the U.S. as negotiations
continue over Tehran’s tattered
nuclear deal with world powers
as a hard-liner appears poised to
take the presidency.
The day of his set, Israel and
the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers
agreed to a truce after an 11-day
war killed more than 250 people,
mostly Palestinians in Gaza, and
caused heavy destruction in the
impoverished coastal territory.
While Mr. Jobrani discussed
the conflict and the region’s poli-
tics in an interview with the AP,
he didn’t mention it in his set.
“It’s interesting because what
you do as a comedian, you know,
your job is to make people laugh,”
Mr. Jobrani said. “If I lived here and
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021
GRAVITAS VENTURES VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
AP: Did any advice you re-
ceived have a dramatic influence
on you?
Miss Burstyn: The most im-
portant thing was connecting the
character and myself emotionally
so that I could understand on an
emotional level what was hap-
pening to her — that I wasn’t just
saying words.
AP: Do you still immerse your-
self so much in a character?
Miss Burstyn: It’s just that
some characters are more avail-
able than others. I don’t have to go
very far to understand them. And
then some of them are strangers
to me and I have to go deeper to
find a place where I align with
them.
AP: Your character in “Alice
Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” was
one close to you. What’s one that
was a stranger?
Miss Burstyn: Well, I did a
film in Greece with Melina Mer-
couri (“A Dream of Passion”)
where I played a character who
was in jail for killing her children.
It was a Medea theme. That really
took a lot of work for me to be
able to go there. I don’t mean that
I wanted myself to be able to kill
my children. (laughs) But I had to
find the thing in her that allowed
that. I did get to that point where
there was a maniacal fury. I found
that what she was doing was
hurting her husband in the best
way she possibly could. It wasn’t
about the children. It was about
her fury with him.
if … I felt there was some injustice
and I really wanted to speak up
about it, I’d probably find the right
way to do that within this society.”
The UAE only last year
reached a diplomatic recognition
deal with Israel and signed the
accords at the White House with
Mr. Trump — but Mr. Jobrani
thinks Mr. Trump shouldn’t be
praised for the accord.
“There had not been a will to
solve that problem, the Israeli-
Palestinian” issue, he said. “I feel
again maybe governments, espe-
cially America, did not prioritize
it, even under Obama and then
especially under Trump.”
“It was laughable that a lot of
conservatives in America were
like, ‘Well, Trump made peace in
the Middle East,’ ” he said. “I go:
‘They weren’t at war, what are
you talking about?”’
Life doesn’t seem to be slowing
down for the comedian. He is con-
tinuing to tour, creating his podcast
“Back To School With Maz Jobrani,”
spending time with his wife and
two kids and taking care of a dog
they adopted during the pandemic.
But even as his jokes touch on
politics, he says he feels whiplash
from what he described as all the
material — and chaos — of the
Trump presidency.
“I will say I’m almost ex-
hausted from it, it’s almost we’re
suffering a PTSD from the past
four years,” Mr. Jobrani said. “But
the problem is, what I feel is injus-
tice in the world has not stopped,
it continues. So sometimes I’m
like, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to get back
on that roller coaster.’ ”
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Wizards still undecided on Brooks’ future with the team
BY MATTHEW PARAS
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Jay Gruden knows what it’s
like to be in limbo. After the 2018
season, the former Washington
Football Team coach conducted
his end-of-the-year press confer-
ence, but there was one problem:
Gruden hadn’t been told yet if
he’d be allowed to return for an-
other year.
“I really don’t know why I’m
up here, to be honest with you,”
Gruden said from the lectern.
Washington waited four days
before Gruden was officially noti-
fied that his job was safe for 2019.
The reality, however, was that the
wait turned out to be an ominous
sign — The team fired Gruden
just five games into the following
season after an 0-5 start.  It was a
MLB
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his nose, manager Dave Marti-
nez called for a “happy medium”
when it comes to enforcement.
“I’m afraid if we don’t come
up with something — something
unified for everybody — you’ll
see a lot more of that,” Martinez
said at the time. “And that’s a
scary feeling because these guys
throw 95, 96, 97, some guys throw
100. So hopefully they’ll come
up with some kind of a happy
medium to resolve the baseball
issue with the sticky stuff.”
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right before Rees Jones —
known as the “Open Doctor”
— overhauled the South Course
with hopes the municipal
course could host a U.S. Open.
Since then, Mickelson has
missed the cut as often as he
finished in the top 10 — five
each — and he has rarely
contended.
How much of that was the re-
design? How much was attitude?
Hard to tell. Mickelson has never
lacked for enthusiasm — how
else to explain how he has gone
a record 30 years between PGA
Tour victories? — though even
he has questioned his effort at
Torrey.
He grew up in San Diego
LEDECKY
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history — 3:56.90.
Ledecky wasn’t close to Tit-
mus’ performance, either.
“Very much a blur,” Ledecky
said. “I thought I could go a little
faster than that, so I’m a little
surprised. But I’ll take it for now.”
Titmus, the 20-year-old whose
nickname is “The Terminator,”
has made it clear that she’s not in-
timidated by Ledecky’s longtime
dominance in the distance events.
Titmus told reporters Down
Under that the American super-
star is “not going to have it all her
own way. I can’t control what she
does, (but) if I do the best I can
and put myself in the position to
win a gold medal, it’s going to be
a tough race.”
Ledecky made only brief com-
ments after her race in the virtual
mixed zone, declining to attend
the usual in-person news con-
ference for those who make the
Olympic team.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Groin problem lands
Scherzer on injured list
The Washington Nationals
placed staff ace Max Scher-
zer on the 10-day injured list
Tuesday with a groin problem,
retroactive to Sunday.
Scherzer
“tweaked”
SPORTS his groin in
BRIEFS the first in-
ning during
his start on
Saturday. He warmed up in the
outfield Monday before begin-
ning a bullpen session, which
was expected to be 31 pitches.
Scherzer threw 10 pitches, then
stopped, saying the groin issue
prevented him from driving
commitment that wasn’t.
Two years later, the Washing-
ton Wizards are in a similarly
awkward position with Scott
Brooks.
Two weeks have passed since
the Wizards were eliminated in
five games by the Philadelphia
76ers — and Washington still
hasn’t decided whether Brooks
will be retained for next season,
a source with knowledge of the
situation said.  General manager
Tommy Sheppard said after the
season he would take his time to
evaluate the situation, and that
appears to be the case. But that
leaves Brooks’s status up in the
air: Do the Wizards truly want
him?
“There was a whole bunch
of people pulling together
and Scotty was absolutely an
When speaking to the media
Monday, Washington ace Max
Scherzer echoed a similar idea. He
understood “that there’s been bad
actors throughout the game” trying
to find a competitive advantage,
using adhesive substances that go
beyond pine tar or sunscreen and
rosin. But there is a benefit to in-
creased control of the baseball, and
there are advocates on the mound
and at the plate.
“Pitchers want to have that tack
and hitters want pitchers to have
that tack to prevent serious injury,”
Scherzer said. “That’s the delicate
balance that we’re having to play
with.”
and still lives here, but Torrey
wasn’t his primary course as a
junior and he never comes to
Torrey except for the week of
the PGA Tour event in Janu-
ary. That changed last week.
Mickelson typically likes to play
the week before a major. This
time, he took two weeks off for
a crash course.
“I put a lot of time in on the
greens, because even though
they’re not at tournament speed,
I needed to relearn and see the
breaks and know what the ball
does on these greens,” Mickelson
said. “Because when you see
the way the ball rolls, you know
where you have to be for your ap-
proach, and you know what kind
of shot if the best shot to hit into
certain approaches.
“Granted, I’ve played out here
a bunch since the redo, but I
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Katie Ledecky earned her third
trip to the Olympics after winning
the 400-meter freestyle at the
U.S. Swim Trials.
“It was just good to be here
and lock in my spot,” she said,
her muted comments a striking
contrast to Titmus’ bravado.
While Ledecky is a familiar
face on the U.S. team — she’s won
five gold medals and one silver at
the last two Summer Games —
the trials in Omaha, Nebraska,
this week have signaled that there
is a changing of the guard under
way among the Americans.
Two Olympic rookies also
locked up their spots for Tokyo on
through his pitches.
Scherzer was scheduled to
pitch Wednesday against the
Pittsburgh Pirates. The Nation-
als considered pushing his start
back as opposed to placing the
three-time Cy Young winner
on the injured list, but opted for
the 10-day stint away from the
field. Scherzer (5-4, 2.21 ERA)
should miss one start.
Reliever Justin Miller
was called up from Triple-A
Rochester.
SOCCER
Eriksen sends public
thank you message
COPENHAGEN | Christian
Eriksen sent his first public
message from the hospital on
WIZARDS
orchestrator of keeping
everybody positive and
moving through some
very dark moments,”
Sheppard said. “I give
him great credit for
that. We all, collec- Brooks
tively, have to evalu-
ate what’s best for the
Wizards moving forward. That’s be an indication whether Brooks’
what we’ll do, it’s just not going seat is safe next year — or if the
to happen overnight.” Wizards are leaving wiggle room
The major difference between to make an in-season change like
the situations is that Gruden was the football team did.
already under contract for 2019
whereas a new deal must be ne- contract extension just to make a
gotiated for Brooks. That can change. But it has happened. The
complicate factors and suggests Sacramento Kings gave former
that if Washington signs Brooks general manager Vlade Divac a
to an extension, they believe in four-year extension in April 2019
his vision. — and fired him in August 2020.
Still, the details will matter In the NFL, the Los Angeles Rams
if Brooks is given a new deal. ousted then-coach Jeff Fisher in
The delicate balance is hard
to navigate when some pitchers
began manipulating spin rate —
adding velocity and movement
to pitches — through foreign
substances such as Spider Tack.
But MLB isn’t straddling that line.
Instead, the league is outlawing
the use of any foreign substances,
including the more innocuous
substances.
Michael Hill, MLB’s senior
vice president of on-field opera-
tions, said in a statement the more
traditional substances can still be
used to find a competitive advan-
tage and asking umpires to dis-
cern between those substances
Phil Mickelson holds the U.S. Open record with six runner-up finishes.
really haven’t spent a lot of time
to learn the nuances,” he said.
“And I did that early last week.”
He spent Monday playing 18
holes with the defending cham-
pion, Bryson DeChambeau, and
teenager Akshay Bhatia. Mickel-
son placed cup-sized placards on
four quadrants of the green and
Monday. Teenager Torri Huske
captured the women’s 100 but-
terfly, while Michael Andrew
held on to win the men’s 100
breaststroke.
Huske, an 18-year-old from
Arlington, Virginia, was under
world-record pace at the turn but
faded just a bit on the return leg.
Still, she touched first in 55.66 sec-
onds, breaking the national mark
of 55.78 that she set the previous
night in the semifinals.
She just missed the world re-
cord (55.48) set by Sweden’s Sarah
Sjostrom in Rio.
Huske is one of the swim-
mers who benefited from an extra
year of training when the Tokyo
Olympics were postponed a year
because of the pandemic.
She is set to attend Stanford
in the fall.
“I feel like [the one-year delay]
really helped me because I was
able to work on my strength train-
ing,” Huske said. “I feel like it
makes a big difference in my sec-
ond 50. I tend to fly and die – how
fast can I go out and hang on.”
Tuesday, thanking supporters
for their “sweet and amazing”
well-wishes after his collapse at
the European Championship.
Eriksen remains in the
hospital after suffering cardiac
arrest during Denmark’s game
against Finland on Saturday,
when he had to be resuscitated
with a defibrillator on the field.
“Big thanks for your sweet
and amazing greetings and
messages from all around the
world. It means a lot to me and
my family,” Eriksen wrote in a
message that was shared by the
Danish soccer association on
Twitter.
The message was accompa-
nied by a photo of the 29-year-
old Eriksen giving a thumbs up
from his hospital bed.
☆R
Will it be shorter or for
less money than the
original five-year, $35
million contract he
signed in 2016? Will he
be forced to make any
changes to his staff as
a condition to stay?
Those factors could
Ideally, a team doesn’t give a
during a game “is not practical.”
“Pitchers used sunscreen &
rosin everyday (myself included)
for control of the baseball,” for-
mer Nationals reliever Jerry
Blevins tweeted . “Other pitch-
ers used foreign substances to
enhance the spinrate. The old,
‘give an inch, take a mile.’ It went
too far. This is why we can’t have
nice things.”
The league disputed the idea
that foreign substances improve
player safety. According to MLB,
the foreign substance use ap-
pears to “contribute to a style of
pitching in which pitchers sacri-
fice location in favor of spin and
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putted from different angles.
There also was time for a
teaching moment. He set a few
balls short of the 18th green to
hit some full-swing flop shots
that went as high as they went
far, about 12 feet. This wasn’t a
shot he planned to play, rather
an illustration of how to hit the
HOULIHAN
From page B10
into just to see how good I was,”
Houlihan wrote. “I want to be
very clear. I have never taken
any performance enhancing sub-
stances. And that includes that of
which I am being accused.”
The saga began Dec. 15, accord-
ing to Houlihan’s Instagram post,
when she took a drug test. She
discovered Jan. 14 in an email from
the Athletics Integrity Unit that
she tested positive for nandrolone.
“I had to read it over about
ten times and google what it was
that I had just tested positive for,”
Houlihan write. “I had never even
heard of nandrolone.”
She later learned that eating
pork can lead to these positive
tests, with offal — pig organ meat
— containing the highest levels
of nandrolone. She recounted ev-
erything she ate the week of Dec.
15 in the five days following her
positive test result, and she felt
as if she pinpointed the source:
WNBA
Mystics’ Charles earns
player of week honors
Washington Mystics guard
Tina Charles was named
WNBA Eastern Conference
Player of the Week after averag-
ing 21.3 points a game last week.  have been in a social media spat
Charles, the 2012 WNBA
MVP, led the Mystics to a 2-1
record while averaging 8.3
rebounds a game through the
three-game stretch. Washington
beat the Minnesota Lynx 85-81
on June 8 and the Los Ange-
les Sparks 89-71 on Thursday,
before falling to the Atlanta
Dream 101-78 on Sunday.  another tournament.
The award is the first of
the season for Charles, but it
marked the 31st of her career
2016 just one week after details of
a two-year extension were leaked
to the media. (Fisher’s deal was
signed months before.)
In fact, the Wizards have even
done it.  Washington quietly gave
former executive Ernie Grunfeld an
extension during the 2017-18 season
— and he was gone a year later.
In five years with the Wizards,
Brooks has gone 183-207 with
three playoff appearances. The
Wizards haven’t topped the suc-
cess from Brooks’ first year when
they were a game from the East-
ern Conference finals, but Brooks
has strong support in the locker
room from star point guard Rus-
sell Westbrook. Westbrook told
reporters Brooks “wouldn’t be
going anywhere” if the decision
was up to him.
After the season, Brooks could
velocity, particularly with respect
to elevated fastballs.”
MLB noted that through May
31, the 2021 season has the high-
est rate of hit-by-pitches of any
season in the past 100 years.
The enforcement will take the
form of random checks during
games from umpires. Starting
pitchers will have more than one
mandatory check each game, and
each relief pitcher will be checked
once the inning ends or once they
are removed from the game. A
“thorough check” will include
looking at a player’s hat, glove and
fingertips. Catchers will also be
subject to inspections.
shot. DeChambeau crouched
and held his phone a few feet
from the turf to capture video
as his swing coach looked on.
“There’s kind of a misunder-
standing on how the flop shot
works,” Mickelson said. “Bryson
and Chris Como, they under-
stand it, which is you hit the
ground first and then the club
bounces into the ball. Most peo-
ple kind of try to flip with their
hands and catch the ball first.
They were getting a close-up.”
The rest of Monday felt
casual in warm weather and a
mixture of blue sky and marine
layer. This is not the same Tor-
rey Pines the players face in
January. The fairways are faster,
and the kikuyu rough is preva-
lent and punishing.
There wasn’t a lot of stress.
There figures to be plenty on
a pork burrito.
“We concluded that the most
likely explanation was a bur-
rito purchased and consumed
approximately 10 hours before
that drug test from an authentic
Mexican food truck that serves
pig offal near my house in Bea-
verton, Oregon,” Houlihan wrote.
Houlihan said her levels of
nandrolone were consistent with
someone who ate that type of pork
within 10 hours of a test. She passed
a polygraph test, she said, and had
her hair sampled “by one of the
world’s foremost toxicologists.”
The result of that test led the
World Anti-Doping Agency to
agree “there was no build up of
this substance in my body, which
there would have been if I were
taking it regularly.”
“Nothing moved the lab from
their initial snap decision. In-
stead, they simply concluded
that I was a cheater and that a
steroid was ingested orally, but
not regularly,” Houlihan wrote.
“I believe my explanation fits
the facts much better- because
— most of any player in the
league’s 25-year history. It was
the first time since July 2019
that Charles received the honor.
Charles is averaging 24
points and 8.4 rebounds a game
through the first 10 games, the
best scoring start in her career.  DeChambeau and Koepka
GOLF
DeChambeau, Koepka
kept apart at U.S. Open
SAN DIEGO |Anyone clamor-
ing for Bryson DeChambeau
and Brooks Koepka to play in
the same group to start the
U.S. Open will have to wait for
DeChambeau, the defend-
ing U.S. Open champion, will
play the opening two rounds
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only answer so many questions
about his future — all phrased a
slightly different way. Yes, Brooks
said, he wants to stay with Wash-
ington. No, he wasn’t going to
sell himself. In an awkward mo-
ment, Brooks appeared to be fed
up with the line of questioning
when a reporter circled back to
the topic.
“Let’s be real,” Brooks said.
“You can have three or four years
on your contract. Does that really
mean anything? Players get cut
and bought out. Coaches get fired
and paid off. ... Like I said, I was
raised better (than) to be worried
about myself.”
Brooks may not be worried,
but eventually, he’ll have to get
some form of clarity. The Wiz-
ards can’t afford to keep dragging
this situation out.
An umpire can also perform a
check at any point during the game
if they notice the baseball has an
unusually sticky feel to it, or if they
notice the pitcher repeatedly touch-
ing his glove, hat, belt or any other
part of their uniform to potentially
apply a foreign substance to a ball.
The rosin bag behind the mound
will still be permitted.
There is no challenge system
for teams; the umpiring crew
has sole discretion on whether
a player has violated the rules.
And if a position player applies
a foreign substance to a ball for
a pitcher, both he and the pitcher
will be ejected and suspended.
Thursday, and that’s what Mick-
elson is trying to avoid. Few
other players over the years
have delivered so much creativ-
ity and excitement with shots
only they can imagine.
Mickelson is trying to keep
this simple. He put in the work.
He has a plan.
“There’s a proper way to
play here to each pin, and I just
have tried to do too much in
the past,” he said. “I felt like if
I could learn the greens and
know what a lot of the 30- and
40-foot putts do, then I don’t
have to try to get it into these
tiny little shelves, and I can
make easy pars and make a few
of the longer putts. That was
kind of my thought process.
“That will hopefully allow
me to play a little bit more
stress-free.”
it’s true. I also believe it was
dismissed without proper due
process.”
Houlihan’s ban comes days
before the U.S. Olympic track
and field trials are set to begin
in Eugene, Oregon, and about a
month ahead of the Olympics in
Tokyo. Houlihan was expected to
compete for a medal.
In a statement posted to the
Bowerman Track Club’s website,
Houlihan’s coach Jerry Schum-
acher said the last six months
“has eroded all the faith I had”
in the Athletics Integrity Unit’s
“ability to fairly serve and pro-
tect clean athletes.” Schumacher
said he learned “that anti-doping
authorities are okay with convict-
ing innocent athletes so long as
nine out of ten convictions are
legitimate. That is wrong.”
Houlihan’s ban holds her out
of this summer’s Olympics, but
also runs through the 2024 Olym-
pics in Paris. Teammate Karissa
Schweizer said on Instagram “a
four year ban is a death sentence
to [Houlihan’s] career.”
at Torrey Pines with Masters
champion Hideki Matsuyama
and U.S. Amateur champion
Tyler Strafaci. Koepka is play-
ing with fellow former PGA
champions Collin Morikawa
and Justin Thomas.
that began nearly two years ago.
From wire dispatches and staff reports.
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MLB to impose 10-game bans for use of foreign substances

BY ANDY KOSTKA
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The weeks and months of
hemming and hawing over what
MLB should or shouldn’t do re-
garding pitchers using foreign
substances — also known as
“sticky stuff ” — came to a con-
clusion Tuesday, when the league
announced steep enforcement
measures to curb the use of any-
thing from Spider Tack to the
seemingly benign combination
of rosin and sunscreen.
The punishment for pitchers
found using — or even possessing
— a foreign substance will be an
ejection and 10-game suspension,
according to a release from MLB on
Tuesday. The enforcement will in-
clude random checks from umpires
during games, beginning Monday.
The use of foreign substances to
doctor baseballs has long been pro-
hibited, but enforcement has often
been lax or even entirely absent.
As offensive numbers slide
to near-record lows this
season, though, the
issue has come to a
head. The league-
wide batting average
entering play Tuesday
was .238 — one percentage
point above 1968, coined the Year
of the Pitcher. The average 8.95
strikeouts per game this year is
the highest-ever total.
In March, MLB began a data-
collection process to assess the
prevalence of foreign substance
use. That included
daily on-site moni-
toring reports
from the club-
house and dug-
out areas before
and during games; video
review; collecting baseballs used
in-game by every team; and analyz-
ing spin rates through Statcast data.
The information was incon-
clusive, MLB said. Many of the
baseballs collected had dark-col-
ored marks that were sticky to the
touch, and testing by third-party
researchers confirmed that the
use of foreign substances does
impact performance by increas-
ing spin rates.
“I understand there’s a history
of foreign substances being used
on the ball, but what we are seeing
today is objectively far different,
with much tackier substances being
used more frequently than ever
before,” MLB commissioner Rob
Manfred said in a statement. “It has
become clear that the use of foreign
substance has generally morphed
from trying to get a better grip on
the ball into something else — an
unfair competitive advantage that
is creating a lack of action and an
uneven playing field.”
The largest argument for the
use of foreign substances is to
enhance the pitcher’s grip. After
Nationals pitcher Austin Voth
was hit in the face by a fastball
while batting June 6, breaking
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The
clock
is
ticking Despite his special exemption,
Mickelson leaving nothing to chance
in chase for elusive U.S. Open title
ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY DOUG FERGUSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN DIEGO | Phil Mickelson ac-
cepted a special exemption from
the USGA with reason to believe
this might be his last shot to finally
win a U.S. Open.
Now he gets five more years,
courtesy of his stunning victory last
month at the PGA Championship
that made him the oldest winner in
161 years of the majors.
The clock is still ticking, though.
Mickelson turns 51 Wednesday
on the eve of the U.S. Open, and
Lefty is leaving nothing to chance.
He took a few days to celebrate his
sixth major title, and then it was
time to get to work.
“It’s a unique opportunity be-
cause I’ve never won a U.S. Open,”
Mickelson said Monday. “It’s in my
backyard. I have a chance to prepare
properly, and I wanted to put in the
right work. So I’ve kind of shut off
all the noise. I’ve shut off my phone.
I’ve shut off a lot of the other stuff
to where I can focus in on this week
and really give it my best chance to
try to play my best.”
If his victory at Kiawah Island
was a surprise, this would be sheer
fantasy.
Mickelson holds the wrong kind
of U.S. Open record with his six
runner-up finishes, most recently
in 2013 at Merion, and it stands out
even more considering it is the only
major keeping him from joining the
most elite group in golf with a ca-
reer Grand Slam.
He is a three-time winner of the
PGA Tour event at Torrey Pines,
though to call it a home-field ad-
vantage can be misleading. It has
been 20 years since Mickelson last
hoisted a trophy at Torrey Pines,
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Ledecky remains dominant in U.S. Record-setting U.S. runner blames

as bigger challenge awaits in Tokyo pork burrito for positive steroid test
BY PAUL NEWBERRY showdown in Tokyo with But the winning time BY ANDY KOSTKA the 2016 Rio de Janeiro she heard June 11 that the
ASSOCIATED PRESS a younger rival known as was far off Ledecky’s THE WASHINGTON TIMES Olympics in the latter court “did not accept my
the Aussie Terminator. world record of 3:56.46, race. The 28-year-old, explanation of what had
OMAHA, NEB. | Katie Ledecky Ledecky earned a which she set almost Shelby Houlihan, an Ameri- though, wrote Monday occurred.” The Athlet-
touched the wall far ahead of trip to her third Olym- five years ago at the Rio can record holder for distance night on Instagram that ics Integrity Unit an-
Ledecky Houlihan
everyone else at the U.S. swim- pics with a never-in- Olympics. running, was banned from the the Athletics Integrity nounced Houlihan’s ban
ming trials. doubt victory in the Another time on ev- sport for four years after testing Unit banned her from Tuesday morning.
No surprise there. women’s 400-meter freestyle eryone’s mind: Ariarne Titmus positive for an anabolic steroid. the sport after testing positive “I feel completely devastated,
But the 24-year-old Bethesda, Monday night. won the 400 free at the Austra- But she blames a pork burrito for nandrolone, a steroid that lost, broken, angry, confused and
Maryland, native was taken She was a good 3.6 seconds lian trials on Sunday with the for the positive test. can be found in pork. betrayed by the very sport that
aback by the time. It wasn’t ahead of runner-up Paige Mad- second-fastest performance in Houlihan holds the American She appealed the decision I’ve loved and poured myself
as fast as expected, raising den, touching the wall in 4 min- records in 1,500- and 5,000-meter to the Court of Arbitration for
the stakes for an expected utes, 1.27 seconds. » see LEDECKY | B9 events, and she finished 11th at Sport, but Houlihan wrote that » see HOULIHAN | B9