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The World and Everything in It - January 27, 2022

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WORLD Radio - The World and Everything in It - January 27, 2022

French Christians are getting more involved in politics; the effort to trace the spread of COVID-19 has waned; and a Holocaust survivor still searching for God. Plus: commentary from Cal Thomas, and the Thursday morning news.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

France will soon elect a new president and Christians in that country are stepping up their involvement.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Also whatever happened to all those people tracking down Covid cases? We will track the tracers.

Plus today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. We’ll hear one man’s story.

And commentator Cal Thomas on integrity.

REICHARD: It’s Thursday, January 27th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

BROWN: And I’m Myrna Brown. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now the news. Here’s Kent Covington.


KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: White House mulling replacement for retiring Justice Breyer » President Biden is mulling over possible replacements for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

News broke on Wednesday that the 83-year-old justice will soon retire after nearly three decades on the court. Though the justice himself did not immediately confirm the reports.

The White House is not naming possible replacements, but Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters…

PSAKI: The president has stated and reiterated his commitment to nominating a black woman to the Supreme Court and certainly stands by that.

Senate Democrats say they will move quickly once the president has made his pick.

One senate aide said Democrats could hold committee hearings and even a full vote in the Senate before Breyer steps down. The Senate would simply hold off on sending President Biden the paperwork on the final confirmation vote until Breyer has officially retired.

Breyer is one of three liberal justices currently serving on the high court. Former President Bill Clinton nominated him in 1994.

U.S. offers no concessions in response to Russia on Ukraine » The U.S. government on Wednesday delivered its answer in writing to Russian demands involving Ukraine. Those include a guarantee that Ukraine and other ex-Soviet countries will never be allowed to join the NATO defense alliance.

Secretary of State Tony Blinken said the answer to that is still a hard “no.”

BLINKEN: I can’t be more clear. NATO’s door is open, remains open. And that is our commitment.

The United States also said Allied deployments of troops and military equipment in Eastern Europe are not negotiable.

But he said the letter did outline some areas in which some of Russia's concerns could be addressed, provided it de-escalates tensions with Ukraine.

Russia offered no immediate response but officials there have warned Moscow would quickly take “retaliatory measures” if the United States and its allies reject its demands.

President Biden said he’s not ruling out sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin himself if he gives the order to invade. And British Foreign Secretary Lis Truss also said Wednesday that all options are on the table.

TRUSS: We’re not ruling anything out. We will be bringing forward new legislation to make our sanctions regime tougher so we are able to target more companies and individuals in Russia.

Secretary Blinken said he hopes to speak with his Russian counterpart in the coming days. But he stressed that what happens next is entirely up to Russia and President Vladimir Putin.

Fed to cut interest rate soon to battle inflation » Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the Fed is planning to take action soon to help rein in inflation.

POWELL: The economy no longer needs sustained high levels of monetary policy support. That is why we are phasing out our asset purchases and why we expect it will soon be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate.

The Fed has indicated that it could raise interest rates as soon as March.

It also plans to reduce its nearly $9 trillion in bond holdings. Some analysts expect that to happen as soon as July.

The changes will, over time, raise the cost of borrowing money on everything from mortgages to credit cards to auto loans.

And some worry that higher borrowing costs could, in turn, slow consumer spending and hiring. But Powell said inflation is the top concern.

He said “The best thing we can do” to support continued gains in the labor market “is to promote a long expansion, and that will require price stability.”

Coast Guard mounts frantic search for occupants of capsized boat » The Coast Guard battled currents and winds on Wednesday as its ships and planes searched for 38 people missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Florida.

Coast Guard Captain Jo-Ann Burdian told reporters…

BURDIAN: We do suspect that this is a case of human smuggling. This event occurred in a normal route for human smuggling from the Bahamas into the southeast U.S.

As of Wednesday evening, authorities had found only one occupant of the boat alive, and one person is confirmed dead.

Capt. Burdian said “With every moment that passes, it becomes much more dire and more unlikely” that survivors will be found.

Homeland Security Investigations has opened a criminal probe.

Calif. city first to require gun liability insurance » San Jose, California has passed a first-of-its-kind ordinance that requires gun owners to buy liability insurance.

Mayor Sam Liccardo, a Democrat, said the move is designed to promote gun safety.

LICCARDO: We can’t wait for Congress. Cities are stepping up across the country. States are increasingly stepping up as well. We want to encourage folks to deploy approaches that will reduce gun harm in their own communities.

The ordinance requires liability insurance to cover losses or damages resulting from accidental use of a firearm. Those who don't get insurance must pay a $25 fine.

The new measure also assesses a fee to gun owners for firearm safety education, and domestic violence and mental health services.

Sam Paredes heads the group Gun Owners of California. He said the city cannot attach these strings to a constitutionally protected right and that legal challenges are in the works.

PAREDES: California either affects or infects what happens across the country. In this case, we would look at this as an unconstitutional infection that we want to stop here.

The ordinance is part of a broad gun control plan proposed after a fatal shooting in a San Jose rail yard in May.

I’m Kent Covington. Straight ahead: France prepares to hold presidential elections.

Plus, reflections of a Holocaust survivor.

This is The World and Everything in It.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Thursday the 27th of January, 2022.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. First up: Paris!

Ah, Listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing that classic! And just imagine Paris in the springtime! Flowering tree-lined boulevards, couples strolling arm in arm, and presidential elections!

REICHARD: Okay, maybe that last one doesn’t quite fit the romantic image you were conjuring up. But in France, every fifth spring, elections for the president roll around. And this year, Christians are wrestling with how to engage in the political sphere.

WORLD’s European Correspondent, Jenny Lind Schmitt, reports.

Macron: “Tout le monde nous disaient que c’était impossible… Mais ils ne connaissaient pas la France!” [Cheers]

JENNY LIND SCHMITT, EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT: Five years ago, Emmanuel Macron became France’s youngest president at the age of 39. He won by positioning himself as a centrist candidate who could bring differing parts of French society together. For a while, it seemed to work.

AUDIO: [Crowd]

Then came social unrest, exploding in the gilets jaunes–yellow vest protests of 2018 and 19.

AUDIO: [Siren and crowd]

Macron’s initiatives to make the economy more competitive sparked the ire of workers. They said subsequent rising fuel prices were the last straw from an administration only interested in protecting the rich.

Then came Covid. France had one of Europe’s most severe lockdowns, and is still feeling the economic repercussions. Over 75 percent of French are fully vaccinated, but Macron recently used vulgar language to say that he wanted to “make life difficult” for those who aren’t. Just months before presidential elections, some say that was a ploy to force other candidates to take a stand on the issue.

Macron’s three main opponents come from the right.

Pecresse: “Je suis la seule à pouvoir battre Emmanuel Macron”

In December, center-right Valérie Pécresse won the primary of the Republicans to become the conservative party’s first female presidential candidate. She touts a tough line on immigration, but seeks to siphon Macron voters with her own brand of economic liberalism. Her campaign has given new life to the conservative party, and polls show her neck-and-neck with Marine Le Pen to qualify for the second round against incumbent Macron.

Le Pen: “Il n'y aura que deux alternatives, soit la dissolution de la France par déconstruction et submersion…”

Le Pen, who faced off with Macron in 2017, has since changed the name of her party to the National Rally. That’s part of continuing attempts to rebrand it and tamp down its reputation of racism and anti-semitism.

Zemmour: “Je pense qu'il faut effectivement des établissements specialisés…”

Le Pen has lost some voters on the right to newcomer Eric Zemmour. He’s a political journalist and analyst. He launched his own party, Reconquest, and announced his candidacy late last year. Both critics and admirers compare Zemmour to former U.S. President Donald Trump. He has a knack for getting attention, often for controversial statements.

Macron, who hasn’t yet officially declared his candidacy, is polling at 25 percent. Many French don’t particularly like him. But even after five tumultuous years, they seem to think he’s better than any of the alternatives.

JEAN-PHILIPPE GUEUTAL: Je ne sais pas si on se rappelle, mais avant la crise Covid, il y a eu d'abord de grandes grèves, notamment à la SNCF.

Jean-Philippe Gueutal is program director for Radio Omega, an independent Christian radio station in Eastern France.

GUEUTAL: Ensuite, on a eu à partir de l'automne la crise des gilets jaunes …

VOICEOVER: It’s important to remember that before the Covid crisis, there were huge national transportation strikes. Then the yellow vest protests which started because of the jump in fuel prices. So there had been ongoing social tensions for months. Then came the Covid crisis and lockdowns. Those diluted those tensions somewhat, but they are still very much there.

Gueutal says a real problem is the public’s disillusionment with politicians and a growing disinterest in voting.

One big issue on the minds of Christians is the anti-separatist law passed last year. Thierry Le Gall is evangelical chaplain to France’s National Parliament.

LE GALL: Beaucoup de croyants en France et de pratiquants ont été émus, inquiets et même choqués …

VOICEOVER: Many believers were troubled and shocked by this decision to impose on all religions more layers of administrative, financial, and legal regulations, simply because we have religious convictions. So yes, that may have an impact on the elections insofar as we have the impression we’ve become suspect in the eyes of the government.

Christians were caught off guard by the government’s willingness to curb religious liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. But one possible good could come out of it: This may encourage more believers to participate in the process.

LE GALL: Il y a une prise de conscience politique qui grandit chez les protestants évangéliques français …

VOICEOVER: There’s a growing political awareness among French evangelical protestants. Until now there was a mindset of a radical separation between the secular world and the spiritual world. But in the last 15 years, we’ve seen a young generation take interest in political engagement for the common good.

Le Gall says French Christians have an opportunity to be salt and light in the political realm, if Christians can avoid the temptation to seek power for the sake of imposing what he calls “Christian laws.” This is especially important in a nation where 60 percent of people identify as Roman Catholic, but only 4.5 percent regularly attend church.

LE GALL: Les chrétiens que je rencontre et qui entre en politique ne le font pas pour prendre un pouvoir politique …

VOICEOVER: The Christians I meet who go into politics don’t do it to impose an evangelical or Christian point of view on the country, but to contribute to society as a “living stone.” Christ’s example is one of men and women, in the heart of society who by their behavior, their actions, and their words will impact society positively, without imposing their own beliefs.

Le Gall’s organization, the National Council for French Evangelicals, has prepared a voter’s guide to help reflect on the issues from a Christian worldview. Gueutal says Christians are called to participate, but with the right perspective.

JEAN-PHILIPPE GUEUTAL: C'est un combat interne pour les chrétiens …

VOICEOVER: It’s an internal battle for Christians: Submission to authorities mixed with the fact that at the same time, we shouldn’t expect too much from the authorities.

The first round of French elections take place on April 10th. The two candidates who win the most votes will face off for round two on April 24th.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Jenny Lind Schmitt in Delle, France.


MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: tracking COVID-19.

U.S. health officials have recorded about 66 million cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. In theory, at some point each of those cases has come across the desk of a contact tracer.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Contact tracing for communicable diseases was a common practice long before this pandemic. In fact, most states have laws mandating that doctors report disease outbreaks to the government. That’s so tracers can track the source and the spread.

In early 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spent millions of dollars hiring and training an army of new contact tracers.

BROWN: But now, two years on, many state and local officials are shutting down their operations.

WORLD correspondent Maria Baer explains why.

AUDIO: Thank you for calling New York City’s Test and Trace Corps Hotline.

MARIA BAER, REPORTER: If you test positive for COVID-19 in Manhattan, city officials have a message for you. A pre-recorded message, that is.

AUDIO: If you are calling to report that someone who has COVID-19 recently visited an indoor area with many people… please press 3.

But pressing three isn’t likely to get you to an actual human. In early January, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced her state would suspend all official COVID-19 contact tracing efforts as the Omicron variant surged.

Contact tracing usually works like this: public health officials receive a report that someone has tested positive for a communicable disease. They call the infected person to educate them about the disease and about how to avoid spreading it. Then they ask who else the patient may have unwittingly infected and notify those people.

Mark Fraser is with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Fraser knew the country would need many, many more contact tracers than it had—and fast.

FRASER: I think what we learned was early in the pandemic while we were trying to control the spread of COVID, it worked, especially early.

A few months after the first recorded U.S. case, Fraser’s organization sent a memo to Congress asking for about $8.3 billion dollars in emergency funding for state and local health departments. A portion of that would go toward hiring a recommended 100-thousand new contact tracers.

Congress has approved about $ 4.5 trillion in COVID relief spending since then. Fraser says many local governments used federal grants to hire or train contact tracers. Others delegated that responsibility to schools.

KINDERGARTEN: So yesterday was 13, today is 14!

Tree of Life Christian Schools is a group of four elementary and high schools in Columbus, Ohio. School nurse MerriLynn Osborn and one of her colleagues are responsible for all COVID-19 contact tracings among the school system’s 940 students.

OSBORN: So start with the child and the family and then also contact teachers, because they also have eyes on the situation and can say oh, he sat next to this one, and that one’s not good at wearing his mask!

At the bottom of Osborn’s keyboard is a collection of post-it notes, covered in scribbled flow charts. These are her contact tracing cheat sheets.

OSBORN:  If they’re in school you follow one algorithm, if they’re out of school you follow a different algorithm, if they’re vaccinated, there’s a different path that they take…

Osborn says contact tracing has become 90 percent of her job.

At the start of the pandemic, most families were generally cooperative with her contact tracing efforts. But she says patience is wearing thin.

OSBORN: Just this week I got an email from a parent saying what are you going to tell her classmates, and will they know that it’s her?

Michael Fraser says pandemic fatigue has made contact tracing less effective. People are less willing now to self-quarantine, or spend a half hour retracing their steps over the phone with a contact tracer.

The nature of COVID, including its easy transmissibility and the fact that infected people might not know they are infected, also made the success of contact tracing hard to quantify.

FRASER: Well this is tricky. Most public health successes are invisible, it’s things that didn’t happen. For something like HIV, it’s much more straightforward.

In fact, the metrics the CDC suggest for tracking the success of contact tracing have nothing to do with actual virus transmission. Instead they measure the process itself: how many calls were placed and how quickly after diagnosis; how many people called back.

Even by those metrics, the global success of contact tracing efforts against COVID-19 has been lackluster. Starting last summer, public health departments began buckling under the surge of cases. Contact tracers couldn’t call everyone infected in any meaningful amount of time. And hardly a person could be found who hadn’t heard of COVID-19, or who didn’t already know what they were supposed to do if they got it.

That’s why many health officials, like Johnson County Iowa Community Health Manager Sam Jarvis, have simply shut down the effort altogether.

JARVIS: Overall just the sheer amount of cases we’re seeing is just an overwhelming amount. Knowing roughly the capacity that we have currently, which we’re now down to about 20 contact tracers, there would be no way for us to catch up to this amount.

Johnson County includes Iowa City and is home to about 151-thousand people. Like many other local health departments, Jarvis said his will now rely on at-home testing, masks, and vaccines to slow the spread of COVID-19.

But that’s not the case everywhere. Ohio officials still expect school nurse MerriLynn Osborn to regularly report on her contact tracing efforts. It’s a thankless job, but Osborn says it’s worth it if kids can stay in the classroom. Or recess.

AUDIO: [Kids playing]

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Maria Baer in Columbus, Ohio.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Police in Pickens, South Carolina had some fun as they worked throughout the winter storm over the weekend.

They released rare body cam footage of a suspect they thought might be responsible for the storm.

The suspect was identified only as “Elsa.”

Yes, that Elsa. From the Disney film “Frozen.”

The video shows a woman who looked an awful lot like the iconic character—complete with a blue dress and braided blonde hair giving officers a brief foot chase.

But the officers probably should have chosen their words a little more carefully.

AUDIO: Freeze! Freeze!
Come on, guys, let it go!

You heard Elsa telling officers to let it go

MYRNA BROWN: Over two and a half billion views of that song on YouTube!

REICHARD: The Pickens Police Department posted the video to Facebook to remind drivers to play it safe on area roads this winter.

It’s The World and Everything in It.


MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, January 27th. This is WORLD Radio and we’re so glad you’ve joined us today.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: the Holocaust.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seventy-seven years ago today, liberation came to the concentration and extermination camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, January 27th, 1945.

BROWN: WORLD Radio correspondent Lillian Hamman is a recent college graduate. She admits that most of what she knows about the Holocaust comes from uninspired history textbooks. So when she recently discovered a Holocaust survivor living just a few miles from her apartment—she arranged to spend an afternoon with him and his wife for a first-hand history lesson.

RADIO NEWSCAST: The news of Europe as it occurs…

ZIFFER: My legs don’t operate very well. They get tired very quickly.

LILLIAN HAMMAN, CORRESPONDENT: Walter Ziffer lives in a one-story house—tucked away in the Blue Ridge mountains of Weaverville, North Carolina. He’s a survivor.

ZIFFER: But 94 is a pretty high number, you know?! So I'm not blaming anybody…

We’re sitting in the living room. The smell of soup drifts in from the kitchen, where his wife Gail is making lunch. Walter’s scarred hands rest peacefully in his lap. Wiry white eyebrows poke over the top of his thin-rimmed glasses.

He reaches for a nearby family photo and taps the black and white smiles of each face.

ZIFFER: That's me. That's my mom…

Walter was born in 1927 Czechoslovakia to Anny Ziffer, an avid stamp collector and magnificent cook, and Leo Ziffer, a lawyer and layman photographer. Anny was the family’s leader of Jewish religion and faith, always remembering to light the Sabbath candles, help neighbors in need, and speak prayer into Walter’s heart.

ZIFFER: It's Lieber Gott mach mich fromm dass ich in den Himmel komm. “Dear God, make me,” I don't know, “observant or pious so that I may enter heaven.” But that came to an end the first of September.

WAR RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT FROM 9/1/39: Number 1, At 6:15pm…

A lot comes to an end for many European families on the first of September, 1939. That’s when World War II began.

WAR RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT FROM 9/1/39: German airforce and regular army unexpectedly invaded Polish territory…

ZIFFER: First there was a retreat of the Polish army, which is totally chaotic. Then came the Germans in perfect order, not a shot was fired. And they settled in, and we were occupied, and that was the beginning of the misery for us.

By the next morning, the Nazis had turned two of the three synagogues in Teschen into piles of ash.

ZIFFER: Hitler really became a religious person whom the people worshiped. And I mean, you've seen probably on television, gatherings of tens of thousands of people standing there and shouting these various slogans: “Ein Blut, Ein Volk, Ein Fuehrer.” One blood. One people. One leader and, you know, way back then our minds, thought was, wouldn't it be nice to be on that side? You know, they were very impressive people.

But any admiration quickly faded.

In an attempt to “maintain law and order” in the Jewish ghettos, the Nazis created a self-governing Jewish body, known as the Judenrat.

ZIFFER: It’s a devilish thing. Rather than taking care of this relationship themselves, they put in a Jewish organism in between, as a go between. So whatever happened, you know, it's very often the Jewish people who were at the short end of the rope, blamed their leaders, the Jewish people, the Jewish council leaders, rather than the Nazis.

Although Leo Ziffer’s position as chair of the Teschen Judenrat protected his family for awhile, the Nazi’s eventually separated the Ziffers in June 1942. At 15 years old, Walter was sent to his first of seven Schmelts—or labor camps.

The smell of Gail’s warm soup provides a sobering contrast as Walter recalls the starvation he suffered in captivity.

ZIFFER: But what do you talk about in a situation like this? You know, we didn't talk about camp life, because we experienced it every day. Food is something we dreamt about. And that was the only really, you know, pleasant moment in our lives.

Walter learned Yiddish to earn the respect of his fellow prisoners. Occasionally when guards knew he was the son of lawyer Leo Ziffer, they would give him extra food or a safer job. As he shifted camps about every 6 months, Walter could only hope his family was still alive.

RADIO NEWSCAST: Permit me to tell you what you would have seen and heard. It will not be pleasant listening…

Four months after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, freedom finally arrived at the Waldenburg camp on May 8th, 1945.

ZIFFER: We just stood there like every morning to be counted. And the SS officer came in and he turned around, he walked out. And he threw the keys to the gates of the Camp across the fence. And we just stood there, we didn’t know what to do. Then a single Russian tank came and smashed one side of the fence of the camp. And kept on going.

Walter was reunited first with Anny and his sister Edith, and then his father Leo. They started over in Czechoslovakia. To this day Walter can’t describe the joy of being reunited.

ZIFFER: So my mother used to say “Volti, Volti” they called me Volti. “You're nothing but bones and skin. Yeah, we have to put some fat on you” And she built us up the whole family. My father was a skeleton, just like I was.

As communism spread after the war, Walter fled to France, before emigrating to the United States. He smiles now, remembering the taste of his first Coca Cola at Ellis Island.

His life after the Holocaust has been one of searching for the Lieber Gott—the dear God—his mother Anny prayed to. For a time he was a Christian minister before converting back to Judaism. Today he calls himself a secular humanist.

Perhaps one of the reasons to commemorate this day is to do more than just remember the Holocaust, but to lament, repent, and pray—not just that it won’t happen again, but that people like Walter Ziffer might find what he’s searching for.

ZIFFER: When you think that the DNA of the German Nazis is the same we have, we are human beings pretty much built the same way—all of us. So to say that can never happen. Uh uh. It can. I think it's not so hard to understand that what really counts is one's relationship with other people. That's what enriches you. That's what makes you a fully humane human being. Really. And that's my philosophy of life.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lillian Hamman in Weaverville, North Carolina.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Thursday, January 27th. Good morning to you! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Here’s commentator Cal Thomas on the importance of holding our leaders accountable.

CAL THOMAS, COMMENTATOR: The art of deconstructing an argument by refutation and holding a person accountable for previous statements the person now contradicts was once an honored tradition. It has now mostly gone the way of other traditions in favor of sound bite statements formulated in political party meetings and used to confuse the public.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell unpacked this once great technique earlier this month in response to some of President Biden’s outlandish claims about his first year in office. To do that, McConnell contrasted Biden’s Inaugural Address with remarks he made at a recent news conference and in a speech in Atlanta about minority voting rights.

McConnell said the Biden on display at these events was not the Biden he has known, liked, and personally respected for decades.

McConnell began his senate floor speech by recalling Biden’s Inaugural Address promise to unite the nation. Instead, McConnell said, “that very same man delivered a deliberately divisive speech that was designed to pull our country further apart.”

One year ago, Biden said “we should not see ourselves as adversaries, but as neighbors.” Now, McConnell said, he calls “millions of Americans his domestic enemies.”

McConnell went on to recall that Biden has said disagreement must not lead to disunion. But then he “invoked the bloody disunion of the Civil War to demonize Americans who disagree with him. He compared a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. How profoundly unpresidential.”

The president acts as if he has a mandate for all the far-left policies he has been pushing. But McConnell noted Democrats have “the narrowest majorities in over a century.” An evenly divided senate and a bare Democratic majority in the House. McConnell said that hardly gives the president a “mandate to transform America or reshape society.”

The president did get a mandate to do one thing: bridge the political divide, lower the temperature and end “the perpetual era of crisis in our politics.” But as McConnell noted, he has done the opposite.

During his speech in Atlanta, the president again used the label “Jim Crow 2.0” to assert Republicans are attempting to make it more difficult for minorities to vote. But that’s not true. As McConnell noted, there are more ways for people to vote in Georgia than in Biden’s home state of Delaware.

We don’t hear about that from major media outlets. They’re not holding the president accountable for his promises. Instead, their stories sound like they’ve been taken straight from the Democratic Party’s talking points.

But it’s not working. Polls show Biden voters have buyer’s remorse. Unless he changes course in the next nine months, he can expect a midterm correction come November.

I’m Cal Thomas.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: John Stonestreet joins us once again for Culture Friday to talk about the just announced retirement of US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

And, the new film Redeeming Love. We’ll review the movie that fans of Christian author Francine Rivers have been waiting for.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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