This time we have an opportunity to make right a crime committed in the immediate past while all the co-conspirators and perpetrators are still alive. Well, it was a hell of a State of the Union speech. Throughout it, multiple Republicans rudely interrupted the president by shouting, "Secure the border!"

It's important to remember what happened when Republicans were in charge of securing the border: their "big new idea" was to forcibly separate children from their parents and put bewildered and terrified youngsters in cages for the world to see.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address" by Elise Hammond, Maureen Chowdhury, Tori B. Powell, Amir Vera, Melissa Macaya and Seán Federico O'Murchú.

Article: "Full text: President Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union address" by UPI.

Video: President Biden's State of the Union Address (2023).

Article: "What the Fork Do You People WANT?!?" by Jonathan V. Last.

Article: "Dems rally behind Biden — and the political press weeps" by Aaron Rupar and Noah Berlatsky.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Biden's State of the Union set new records for dishonesty and emptiness" by NY Post.

Article: "Biden's State of the Union Vows 2 More Years of Misery" by Daniel Greenfield.

Article: "The State of the Union Contradiction" by WSJ.

Article: "Biden's Fantasyland" by National Review.

Article: "It's unlikely Biden's rambling State of the Union inspired Americans to 'finish the job'" by Liz Peek.

Article: "The Morning Briefing: Hear Me Out—Let's Scrap the State of the Union Address" by Stephen Kruiser.

Article: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders goes at ‘woke' left in State of Union response" by Colby Itkowitz.

Article: "Letters from an American: February 7, 2023" (SOTU) by Heather Cox Richardson.

Article: "Video: Reagan Called For An End To ‘Crazy' Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers" by Pat Garofalo.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Shouts 'Liar' At Joe Biden During State Of The Union" by Arthur Delaney.

Article: "Rick Scott just laid out a Republican agenda. He has done his party no favors." by Jennifer Rubin.

Video: Senator Mike Lee caught ON TAPE saying he wants to "phase out Social Security.

Article: "Why Some Members of Congress Are Wearing AR-15 Assault Rifle Pins" by Anisha Kohli.

Article: "How to Stop a Senator From Blocking a Federal Judge" by NY Times.

Article: "Blue slip" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here are truth-challenged Sarah Huckabee Sanders' biggest whoppers" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Greene says she ‘didn't take any bait' by heckling Biden" by Jared Gans.

Article: "Here's How Much Joe Biden Is Worth" by Michela Tindera.

Article: "How Australia Restricted Guns After a 1996 Massacre" by Krishnadev Calamur.

Article: "Chris Jones concedes Arkansas governor race, congratulates Sarah Huckabee Sanders" by Alex Kienlen.

Article: "Chris Jones, Democratic candidate for Arkansas governor" by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Article: "Women with bare arms scare the devil out of Missouri Republicans, leading to dress code legislation" by Christopher Reeves.

Article: "Florida student-athletes ask why they should be forced to inform schools about menstrual cycles" by Rebekah Sager.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Will the Children Tortured as a Trump Policy Tool Receive Justice? " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: ""You Will Never See Your Child Again": The Persistent Psychological Effects of Family Separation" by Hajar Habbach, MA, Kathryn Hampton, MSt, and Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS.

Quote: "A Single Death Is a Tragedy; A Million Deaths Is a Statistic" - attributed to Joseph Stalin.

Article: "Title : 9. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" by UN.

Article: "Fact Sheet: A Review by the Family Reunification Task Force on the Second Anniversary of Its Establishment" by DHS.

Article: "Section 2340A of Title 18" by DoJ.

Article: "Trump Cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say officials" by Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff.

Article: "Christian Non-Profit Faces Scrutiny Over Government Foster Care Contract for Separated Children" by Dan MacGuill.

Video: Weekend Update: Jane, You Ignorant Slut - SNL.

Video: MTG Slams Ex-Twitter Execs For Ban: 'Thank God Elon Musk Bought Twitter'.

Article: "Card check" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Is the PRO Act?" by AFL-CIO.

Article: "Discharge petition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Climate Change Could Cause an Ocean "Disaster"" by University of California - Irvine.

Article: "Romney told Santos ‘You don't belong here' in tense exchange in House chamber before SOTU" by Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju,.

Video: State of the Union: Romney and Santos share tense exchange.

Article: "Senator Rick Scott wants to "sunset" Social Security and Medicare" by Michael Meeropol.

Article: "Sen. Johnson suggests ending Medicare, Social Security as mandatory spending programs" by Amy B Wang.

Article: "Video of Mike Lee Vowing to Gut Social Security Resurfaces" by Nick Mordowanec.

Article: "US works to recover debris, intel from downed Chinese ‘spy' balloon" by Julia Shapero.

Article: "How long can Kevin last? Here's what would have to happen for McCarthy to lose his job as House speaker" by Chad Pergram.

Article: "Fact Sheet: The Biden Economic Plan Is Working" by White House.

Article: "Was Nearly 25% of the US National Debt Incurred During Trump Administration?" by Alex Kasprak.

Article: "Did Ashley Biden Accuse Joe Biden of Inappropriate Behavior in a 'Leaked Diary'?" by Alex Kasprak.

Site: Media Bias Fact Check.

Article: "New York sees demand for concealed carry permits spike, as new gun control law threatens backlogs" by Danielle Wallace.

Article: "Fact Check: Did Sarah Huckabee Sanders Say She Banned Racism in Classrooms?" by Tom Norton.

Video: Video: Reagan Called For An End To ‘Crazy' Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers.

Quote: "A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Address at Worcester, Mass.," October 21, 1936.

Article: "Fact Check: Did Donald Trump Face Lawsuit Along with Jeffrey Epstein Due to Inapt Behavior?" by Sieeka Khan.

Article: "ICE, A Whistleblower And Forced Sterilization" by NPR.

Article: "Fact check: Did Obama administration separate families?" by Jane C. Timm.

Article: "Federal official warns $191 billion in covid unemployment aid may have been misspent" by Tony Romm.

Article: "Google targets low-income US women with ads for anti-abortion pregnancy centers, study shows" by Poppy Noor.

Article: "Well, Trump Is Now Suggesting Ron DeSantis Is a Pedophile" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "DeSantis floats bill making it easier to sue news outlets" by Emily L. Mahon, Kirby Wilson.

Case: "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan", 1964.

Article: "A federal judge mocks the Supreme Court on abortion" by Ian Millhiser.

Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion).

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".

Case: "United States v. Handy" (2023).

Article: "Alito Mouths 'NOT TRUE' At State Of The Union (VIDEO)" by Sam Stein.

Article: "Joe Biden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stephen Miller (political advisor)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marc Short" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Final destination: For many of the world's refugees, Mexico is their new home" by Albinson Linares.

Article: "Hungry and desperate: Climate change fuels a migration crisis in Guatemala" by Denise Chow, Carlos P. Beltran.

Article: "Was J. Edgar Hoover black?" by Barbara A. Reynolds.

Article: "The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores" by Joshua Clark Davis.

Article: "Anthony Summers" by Wikipedia.

Book: Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers

Movie: "The secret life of J Edgar Hoover".

Article: "Duval County, Florida has removed books about Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente from schools" by Tim Kelly.

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