NEWS AND OPINION:
A spherical of applause, please, for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Basis and Institute and the U.S. Postal Service, which can reveal a brand new stamp Monday to honor Nancy Reagan on the one hundredth anniversary of her beginning.
The celebration will happen on the White Home.
Amongst these readily available for the event: first woman Jill Biden; Nancy Reagan’s niece Anne Petersen; Reagan Basis Chairman Frederick Ryan Jr.; and Postmaster Common Louis DeJoy.
“Her personal stamp. I’m positive she by no means anticipated to obtain an honor like this. Neither did she anticipate to be flying everywhere in the nation caught to the entrance of envelopes,” mentioned son Ron Reagan Jr.
“She would, after all, have reacted modestly to this excellent commemoration. However secretly she could be more than happy,” Mr. Reagan mentioned in a press release shared with Contained in the Beltway.
Mr. Ryan famous in a press release that “Nancy Reagan made historical past as a frontrunner, an advocate, a confidant and a associate. Now, she’s making historical past because the sixth first woman to have her personal stamp.”
“She could be proud to affix the ranks of solely 5 first girls to be honored this manner — Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt and Woman Chook Johnson,” he mentioned.
And yet one more Reagan-centric second of word: The occasion might be livestreamed at 11 a.m. EDT; discover it on the Reagan Basis website online, ReaganFoundation.org.
‘IN MY CASE’
Home Republican Whip Steve Scalise has some recommendation about figuring out the basis explanation for gun crimes, and on decreasing the variety of these crimes.
“We should be centered extra on stopping issues earlier than they occur. This isn’t one thing that we’re having a dialog about proper now, and it ought to be. It instantly turns into about Democrats wanting to remove weapons,” Mr. Scalise instructed “Fox Information Sunday.”
“Have a look at the listening to that they’d final week in Congress. I imply, you had Democrats cursing out the Second Modification. You had members saying, ‘Properly, if we are able to’t get this, we’re going to explode the filibuster and pack the Supreme Courtroom to get across the Second Modification.’ The Second Modification is just not some guideline. It’s a part of america Structure and the Invoice of Rights, and it’s there for a purpose,” the Louisiana Republican continued.
Mr. Scalise additionally recalled that he and 4 others have been shot by a lone gunman on June 14, 2017, throughout a apply session for the annual Congressional Baseball Sport for Charity in Alexandria, Virginia.
“There are a variety of Democrat colleagues of mine who wish to take away concealed-carry permits. And once more, President Biden himself was speaking about going after handguns. There’s a case the place a handgun was used to take down the shooter. In my case, it was a cop with a handgun that took down the shooter,” Mr. Scalise mentioned.
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW
The Republican Get together continues to make use of strategic voter polls to interact GOP followers and encourage them to get to the polls when the time comes — a way employed by the Democratic Get together as properly.
The GOP is the newest to share simply such a voter engagement ballot with Contained in the Beltway on Sunday — and it consists of 24 questions. Here’s a small pattern:
Do you oppose non-citizens being allowed to vote?
Are you involved concerning the Radical Left’s impact on this nation?
Do you imagine dad and mom have a proper to have enter on what their youngsters are taught in public college?
Do you imagine Joe Biden and his administration are liable for the rise in inflation?
Do you miss President Trump?
Do you assist constructing President Trump’s border wall?
Do you wish to see a Republican Crimson Wave in November?
THAT’S THE WAY IT WORKS
Within the social media area, the Twitter hashtag #UnderTrump was highly regarded Sunday, encouraging critics of former President Donald Trump to recall all of the insurance policies, actions and occasions they hated when Mr. Trump was in workplace.
The decision for motion resulted in lots of 1000’s of anti-Trump tweets within the final 24 hours. However issues can work each methods.
“Lefties’ cute little development ‘Beneath Trump’ meant to trash ‘45 was highjacked by the Proper and it’s an excellent factor,” suggested Twitchy.com, a information group which factors out that the hassle was rapidly redirected in the direction of criticism of President Biden and reward for Mr. Trump.
“From what we are able to see, the ‘Beneath Trump’ development was some kind of effort to make Trump look worse than Biden. Or one thing. Who is aware of?” Twitchy asks.
The ensuing pro-Trump tweets have been many, together with this pattern from syndicated radio speak present host Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo: “Beneath Trump we had fewer rules, gasoline was $2 a gallon much less, we weren’t mandated to take a shot or put on a masks, Putin/Iran/China have been afraid to get out-of-line. Shall I am going on?” he requested.
IVY COVERED HALLS
Some noteworthy numbers: 27 of America’s high 30 universities are elevating their tuition and charges for the following educational yr, based on a Campus Reform, a student-written information group which primarily based their evaluation on U.S. Information & World Report “finest college rankings” from 2019 to 2022.
“Vanderbilt College elevated its tuition essentially the most in that timeframe. In the beginning of COVID-19, Vanderbilt charged $52,070. As of the 2022-2023 educational yr, tuition on the Tennessee college is up roughly 11.64% from 2019-2020 to $58,130,” the evaluation mentioned.
See the entire evaluate of notable tuition hikes at Campusreform.org.
POLL DU JOUR
• 43% of U.S. adults really feel issues in America as we speak are going “very badly”; 70% of Republicans, 42% of independents and 23% of Democrats agree.
• 33% total really feel issues are going “considerably badly”; 21% of Republicans, 36% of independents and 39% of Democrats agree.
• 18% total really feel issues are going “considerably properly”; 6% of Republicans, 19% of independents and 28% of Democrats agree.
• 5% total say issues are going “very properly”: 3% of Republicans, 3% of independents and 10% of Democrats agree.
SOURCE: A CBS Information ballot of two,021 U.S. adults performed June 1-3.
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