In today’s newsletter, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is drawing criticism from some fellow conservatives over a campaign ad promoting her new welfare-to-work requirement. We examine a new study alleging that spam filters operated by major email providers disproportionately suppressed Republican fundraising messages. Law professor Jonathan Turley makes the case for legislation intended to make it easier for people to challenge government institutions over alleged free-speech violations. And in California, gubernatorial candidates Steve Hilton and Xavier Becerra face off over taxes and the state’s high cost of living.
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We make no secret of the fact that we love Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. But we can’t let personal partisanship prevent us from covering stories.
So we’ll mention that the Gov. is ** getting flak** from her own side
The ad depicts a lazy guy named Brad who would rather play video games than work, while the state supports him. Some conservatives applaud the policy but complain that the ad is “terrible optics,” since it might be taken as attacking the young, white male demo that supports Republicans, or mocking white males in general, or failing to sympathize with the plight of young white males in the current economy. Of course, we can only imagine what they’d say if she’d hired a minority actor to represent welfare recipients who refuse to work.
The real point that’s being overlooked in all this navel-gazing is that it’s nearly impossible to do anything anymore without somebody yelling about being offended and demanding that you be canceled. The ad made its point, and nobody with a working brain thinks that it was aimed at ALL young white males who are jobless under ALL circumstances. We expect the “outrage” will blow over and won’t affect anyone’s vote, although the underlying point about the welfare-to-work rule just might.
In the meantime, if you really care about the economic plight of young Americans, read this…
Must-Read! And share with any young Americans you know. It’s ** an excellent article at the New York Post** about how young people have been misled to hate capitalism and think that socialism will make things easier and more affordable for them.
But socialism means more government intervention, and the things that are the least affordable and are causing them the most problems – education, housing and health care – are “among the most regulated, subsidized and government-directed sectors of the American economy, and therefore the least* *like capitalism.”
Meanwhile, the things in their lives that are most subject to capitalism and free markets and have the least government interference, and therefore the least like socialistm – things like TVs, cellphones and software – just keep getting better and less expensive.
There’s much more at the link explaining why this is, but the bottom line that Republicans need to explain and hammer home over and over is that “socialism destroys the engine that makes life more affordable and better over time.”
Google and other tech giants have denied claims by Republicans that their email servers block GOP fundraising emails as spam while boosting Democrat solicitations. Google has denied that, but a new study claims that last year, biased spam filters on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Outlook cost Republican candidates a potential $174 million in donations while they let emails from leftist groups like ActBlue go through.
While we want to make sure that one side isn’t having its emails suppressed, judging by our own overflowing in-boxes, it is hard to believe that any political fundraising emails are ever being blocked.
Law professor Jonathan Turley ** has a must-read column** on a proposed bill called the Restoring Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Act of 2026 that could be a form of restitution for victims of lawfare that Congress would actually pass.
We’ve all heard endless stories about leftist universities crushing conservative speech. But when the victims sue, they’re at a disadvantage because the universities are able to use public funds (including money coerced from a majority of Americans who agree with the views they’re oppressing) to cover their legal fees at the preliminary injunction stage.
We’re not attorneys, so we’ll refer you to Turley for the full explanation. But if simply knowing that they could no longer intimidate people into silence by the threat of legal fees makes these university heads think twice about protecting free speech, then it sounds like a great idea to us.
Last week, California voters got their first head-to-head debate between gubernatorial candidates Steve Hilton and Xavier “Empty Suit” Becerra, and anyone who still has any doubts as to who to vote for should see the nearest psychiatrist.
PJ Media’s Catherine Salgado has some highlights, which started just a minute into the debate when Becerra blasted Hilton’s proposed tax cut that would affect people making as little as $150,000 a year or less as benefitting the “wealthiest” Californians.
In California, $150,000 will just about cover the cost of a tank of diesel.
Thank you for reading the Huckabee Post.
