Source: The Daily Beast
by Matt Lewis

“A veritable murderers’ row of nine MAGA members voted on Wednesday against The Access to Baby Formula Act. … Who would oppose such a thing? The usual suspects, that’s who. Reps. Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Clay Higgins, Thomas Massie, and Chip Roy. Under normal conditions, voting against such a bill would be controversial enough. It reinforces the negative stereotype of conservatives being pro-life only in the womb and not caring about babies after they are born. It plays into the hands of abortion supporters arguing that access to abortion is important for poor or struggling moms who can’t afford another mouth to feed. Coming on the heels of the leak about the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (but before the decision has officially been handed down), this seems like an obvious trap that pro-lifers might want to avoid. Not for the MAGA Nine.” (05/20/22)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-nine-republicans-hate-democrats-more-than-they-love-babies-or-freedom-or-democracy-or-anything-else

Source: Town Hall
by Humberto Fontova

“‘This week, White House officials announced steps to move away from the ‘maximum pressure’ approach of sanctions and diplomatic isolation toward Cuba and Venezuela that was a centerpiece of former President Donald Trump’s Latin America strategy,’ reports Foreign Policy.’ The new policies include allowing increased U.S. remittance flows and select U.S. travel to the island.’ ‘I think we’ve seen this song before. This is going to increase the amount of money that’s going to the dictatorship.’ Said DeSantis during an appearance at the University of Miami Health System’s Don Soffer Clinical Research Center. ‘I think people, particularly down in South Florida, understand, the minute you’re sending more of this to the island, that’s going right into the pocket of the Cuban dictatorship, that is not going to help the people of Cuba realize freedom,’ DeSantis said.” (05/20/22)

https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2022/05/21/biden-to-the-rescue-of-the-castro-regime-n2607582

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Daniel Larison

“Foreign policy hardliners have always been threatened by the wisdom of the earliest generations of American leaders, because the warnings of Washington, Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams against foreign entanglements and involvement in distant conflicts are an indictment of the globetrotting militarism that hardliners have championed for decades. When confronted with the foreign policy vision of the early presidents, Republican hardliners in particular try to deny the substance of what these presidents said and did and hope to co-opt them for their own cause. Sen. Tom Cotton is one of the foremost hardliners in Congress, and he has made a point of trying to claim several early presidents for a foreign policy faction with which those leaders have little or nothing in common.” (05/20/22)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/05/20/cotton-picks-fight-with-legacies-of-washington-and-john-q-adams/

Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman

“The relevance of F. A. Hayek’s essay ‘Why I Am Not a Conservative,’ the postscript to his important 1960 book, The Constitution of Liberty, is demonstrated at once by the opening quote from Lord Acton: ‘At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition.’ [Emphasis added.] Who among true liberal advocates of individual liberty and free social evolution — aka libertarians — would deny the truth of that observation?” (05/20/22)

https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2022/05/tgif-true-liberals-are-not-conservatives.html