May 31, 2022

Tuesday Executive News Summary

Nancy Pelosi’s husband arrested for DUI, NRA forges ahead with convention in Houston, 47 shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, and more.

Top of the Fold

  • Nancy Pelosi’s husband arrested for DUI: Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband Paul was arrested in Napa, California, over the weekend on suspicion of driving drunk. Paul crashed his 2021 Porsche into a Jeep around midnight on Sunday evening. No injuries were reported. Nancy, who was on the East Coast at the time of the incident, released a statement saying that she would not be commenting on this “private matter.” Paul likely faces misdemeanor charges but was released after he posted bail. Beyond the allegation that he was driving drunk, Paul’s advanced age might mean it’s time for him to stop driving and hire a driver. With their tens of millions, there’s no doubt the Pelosis can afford it, and Nancy could finally claim credit for creating a job.

  • NRA forges ahead with convention in Houston: Less than a week after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the National Rifle Association pressed on with its scheduled annual convention in Houston, despite a number of significant figures dropping out of the event. One noted individual who refused to bow to the anti-gun pressure groups was Senator Ted Cruz, who delivered a stirring and timely speech in defense of Americans’ right to self-defense. Immediately following the convention, the NRA board announced, predictably, that it had reelected Wayne LaPierre as CEO. Notably, after Mark Alexander wrote critically about the NRA's self-inflicted wounds, including suggesting it's time for new leadership, he was flooded with responses from grassroots folks of all ages — former NRA members and some previously major benefactors — who vowed not to return until LaPierre is gone. Not one single commenter supported LaPierre.

  • Forty-seven shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend: The all too predictable pattern of violence continued over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, where the number of individuals shot surpassed last year’s total of 37. This year, 47 individuals were shot, with nine people dying from their wounds. Domestic and gang-related disputes were responsible for most of the violence, with innocent victims unfortunately caught in the crossfire. Sadly, this is nothing new for the Windy City; the weekend prior, 32 people where shot. Meanwhile, prior to the holiday weekend, Mayor Lori Lightfoot changed a citywide youth curfew from 11 p.m to 10 p.m. Clearly, that change had little effect in stopping the violence.

Headlines

  • Justice Department will review Uvalde response as furor mounts over law enforcement actions (Texas Tribune)

  • Border Patrol agent who killed shooter got gun from barber, sped to school after getting text from wife who was inside (Daily Wire)

  • Biden calls 9mm “high-caliber weapons,” suggests banning them (Fox News)

  • Kamala Harris calls for “assault weapons ban” (Fox News)

  • Justin Trudeau introduces strict gun control on handguns in Canada (Axios)

  • Michael Sussmann trial goes to jury after former Clinton attorney declines to testify (Daily Wire)

  • Daily Beast releases apology to Hunter Biden’s laptop repairman (NY Post)

  • Biden falsely claims J6 rioters “killed two police officers” (Daily Wire)

  • Inconvenient truth: Al Gore’s “woke” firm invests in Chinese slave labor (Free Beacon)

  • Some Democrats voting in GOP primaries to block Trump picks (AP)

  • Price of some agricultural fertilizers has skyrocketed as much as 60% over last year’s prices (Just the News)

  • Inflation and gas prices are the top concerns in swing House districts (Washington Examiner)

  • Emerson College promotes professor who publicly fantasized about massacring white people (The Federalist)

  • “Home of the brave?” Giants manager Gabe Kapler to skip national anthem “going forward” after Uvalde tragedy (Fox News)

  • NYC offers driver’s licenses with “X” gender option, because the city couldn’t get anymore woke (Townhall)

  • EU leaders agree to watered-down compromise on Russia energy sanctions (Washington Times)

  • Russia test-fires new hypersonic missile (Hot Air)

  • Policy: Let’s get serious about school safety (Heritage Foundation)

  • Satire: “Guns should not be in the hands of the mentally unstable,” says senile man with nukes (Babylon Bee)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report.

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