Daily News Brief For Wednesday March 2nd, 2022
 
As you know, we are going to be in Rapid City for our Liberty Tour April 7th, and special guests include comedian John Branyan, Uncle Gary DeMar, and Larry Elder. Go to https://crosspolitic.com/libertytour/ to register.
 
So now that you have already signed up for Rapid City, save the dates for our national conference in Knoxville, TN October 6th-8th. The theme of this year’s conference is Lies, Propaganda, Storytelling and the Serrated Edge. Satan is the father of lies, and the mother of those lies is a government who has rejected God. We have especially been lied to these last two years, and the COVIDpanic has been one of the central mechanisms that our government has used to lie to us and to grab more power. Because Christians have not been reading their bibles, we are susceptible to lies and weak in our ability to fight these lies. God has given us His word to fight Satan and his lies, and we need to recover all of God’s word, its serrated edge and all. Mark your calendars for October 6th-8th, as we fight, laugh and feast with fellowship, beer and Psalms, our amazing lineup of speakers, hanging with our awesome vendors, meeting new friends, and more. Early bird tickets will be available starting in the middle of March. 
 
House passes bill making lynching a federal hate crime
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/596219-house-passes-bill-making-lynching-a-federal-hate-crime
 
According to the Hill:
“The House passed legislation on Monday that would classify lynching as a federal hate crime.
 
Lawmakers easily passed the bill, which is named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955, on a 422-3 vote.
 
While the bill sailed through with bipartisan support, three Republicans — Reps. Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Chip Roy (Texas) — voted against it.
 
The legislation's passage comes more than 120 years after the first federal anti-lynching legislation was introduced by then-Rep. George Henry White, who was the only Black member of Congress at that time.
 
The House previously passed the bill in 2020, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected to clearing it by unanimous consent in the upper chamber.
 
Paul's objection came even though the Senate had previously passed a version of the bill in 2018 by unanimous consent.
 
Paul said that he was concerned it might "conflate lesser crimes" like minor assaults as lynching.
 
Paul is now indicating that he supports the latest iteration of the bill after working with senators leading the effort in the upper chamber.
 
“I’m pleased to have worked with Senators Cory Booker and Tim Scott to strengthen the final product and ensure the language of this bill defines lynching as the absolutely heinous crime that it is, and I’m glad to cosponsor this bipartisan effort,” Paul said in a statement on Monday.”
 
The bill, authored by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), would designate lynching as a hate crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison.”
 
Note that lynching is already illegal, so the bill doesn’t really do anything to make lynching illegal, it just labels lynching as a hate crime.
 
Most republicans get suckered into these virtue signaling bills, because they are cowards. I really appreciate Massie and Chip Roy on their principled stances. Just because it has the word "anti-lynching" as the name of the bill, does not mean it is a good bill. 
 
Massie Tweeted out a thread explaining why he voted against this bill:
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1498451879029837830
 
‘(1) The Constitution specifies only a handful of federal crimes, and leaves the rest to individual states to prosecute.
 
(2) This bill expands current federal “hate crime” laws. A crime is a crime, and all victims deserve equal justice. Adding enhanced penalties for “hate” tends to endanger other liberties such as freedom of speech.
 
(3) Lynching a person is already illegal in every state. Passing this legislation falsely impli