Today's Commentary:  Prayers for Manchester -- Minimum Wage Hypocrisy -- Who is afraid of Mike Pence? -- VA Failure?

Please join me in praying for the victims of the Manchester bombing and their families.

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee

--------------------------------

Minimum Wage Hypocrisy

By Mike Huckabee

A prominent Washington, DC, organization just got hit with a class action lawsuit, claiming it paid workers below minimum wages with no overtime pay, even when they were working up to 90 hours a week. Extra awkward: the defendant is the Democratic National Committee. The plaintiffs were campaign field workers who knocked themselves out trying to round up voters to support the Democrats’ campaign platform of expanding overtime pay protections and raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. I suggest this defense: “You didn’t think those things applied to us, did you?”

--------------------

Who is Afraid of Mike Pence?

By Mike Huckabee

While most of the media’s attention was understandably on President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia, Vice President Pence also gave a speech at the Notre Dame University graduation that deserves to be heard as well. It was a forceful defense of free speech and diversity of ideas, something that used to be the hallmark of college campuses before the leftwing snowflakes appeared, demanding “safe spaces” and the silencing of any views they disagree with. Pence praised Notre Dame for refusing to give in to that anti-American trend. Not there isn't pressure: some students had demanded that Pence’s speech be canceled, and a group of them walked out during it. But then, what could they possibly have to learn from a forceful defense of free speech and diversity of ideas?

VA Failure?

By Mike Huckabee

The story of Richard Rojas, the Navy veteran who drove a car into a crowd in Times Square last week, killing a young woman and injuring over 20 other people, just took an unexpected twist. Worries that it was a terrorist attack quickly gave way to suspicions that it was drug-induced psychosis. But now, Rojas is allegedly claiming that his mental problems date back to before he left the Navy in 2014. An anonymous law enforcement source told the New York Post that Rojas told police that he had been hearing voices and having hallucinations, and that he wanted to fix his life, so he called a VA center. He reportedly said the counselor told him he’d call him back on Monday and “Monday hasn’t come yet.” In other words, the VA never called him back.

If this story turns out to be true, it would establish a new low for the already tarnished Veterans Administration. Its lack of timely care has been exposed as having killed veterans on waiting lists, but this would mark the first time that the VA’s failure to provide care was at least partly responsible for the “collateral damage” death of someone who wasn’t even a veteran. It’s important to note that this story has yet to be confirmed, but with Washington so preoccupied with investigating ridiculous partisan nonsense, here’s something that everyone should agree cries out for a thorough investigation.

Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this edition of the newsletter please forward it to a friend and tell them they can subscribe for free at MikeHuckabee.com/Subscribe