Tuesday Morning Minute

Good morning, and welcome to RedState's "Morning Minute" — a brief glimpse at which stories are trending at the moment and a look ahead at what the day may bring. Consider this your one-stop shop for news to kickstart your day.

TOP O' THE MORNIN'

An Inconvenient Truth—EVs Emit More Particulate Matter Than Gas-Powered Vehicles, According to Report

California says tailpipes are the problem with fossil-fuel-powered cars, but the WSJ writers argue that tire wear from the far-heavier EVs is more contaminating:

More Hilarious Liberal Media Cope As They Spin How the SCOTUS Ballot Decision Was Really '5-4'

But the hilarious liberal media cope was so wild that they're even trying to spin how this is really a "5-4" decision because they don't want to accept that it was unanimous.

HALLELUJAH: It Looks Like Another Soros DA in California Will Face a Recall Election

Since taking office, Price has implemented a policy that punishing crime is unfair to, um, people who commit crimes.

WHAT'S ON TAP?

Today on Capitol Hill...

Several Senate hearings are set for Tuesday:

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - Hearings to examine the U.S. technology fueling Russia's war in Ukraine
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Business meeting to consider the nominations of Julie A. Su, of California, to be Secretary of Labor, Moshe Z. Marvit, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, Stephen H. Ravas, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Corporation for National and Community Service, and other pending calendar business
Foreign Relations - Hearings to examine Yemen and Red Sea security issues
Environment and Public Works -
A joint hearing to examine the presence of microplastics in water

White House What's Up

President Joe Biden is set to return to the White House from Camp David. He's scheduled to meet with his "Competition Council" in the afternoon.

Full Court Press...

I hesitate to suggest it will be a "quiet" day court-wise, but given that Monday was a rather eventful day on the legal news front, Tuesday may pale in comparison. No oral arguments are scheduled and no opinions are set to be handed down from the Supreme Court.

Of Primary Concern

It's SUPER Tuesday! Presidential primaries are taking place in 16 states and American Samoa:

Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Iowa (Dem caucus)
Maine
Massachusetts
Minnesota
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia

Five states are also holding congressional and state primaries:

Alabama
Arkansas
California
North Carolina
Texas

We'll have a live results thread up Tuesday evening — be sure to stop by and share your thoughts in the Comments.

MORNING MUSING

Today marks the 78th anniversary of Winston Churchill's famed "Iron Curtain Speech," delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and ushering in the Cold War. I don't know that I've ever listened to or read the entire speech, but as long as I can remember, I've known that it took place at Westminster, which is kind of intriguing — a small (very small — the enrollment in 2020 was 609 students) college in the middle of Missouri seems like an unlikely venue for such momentous remarks. But he was invited by President Harry Truman (Missouri's one and only president thus far) and accepted.

The full speech can be found here, but here's the most notable section:

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.