A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of  This Just In…

HEROES OF THE WEEK

Fallen officers

Liam Morrison MORE

VILLAINS OF THE WEEK

I repeat…I could list him every week

Shari Rodriguez

Be Kind movement

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“To put it mildly, the Bidens are not good people. They make up not the First Family but the Worst Family, worthy of a week of episodes on the late Jerry Springer’s sordid show. The Biden family is an American disgrace. And we can’t help but surmise that Joe’s rationale for reelection, to ‘finish the job,’ has less to do with policy wins than with pulling the strings of power to keep his family out of prison.”
Nate Jackson

“Having failed to destroy Clarence Thomas 32 years ago with preposterous sexual harassment charges (disbelieved at the time by 60% of Americans), now the left is resorting to attacking the ethics of a man vastly more honorable than the collection of degenerates reviling him. … The media want us to believe that generosity from personal friends is an ethical issue, but that’s because that’s not how liberals bribe government officials. They bombard their targets with the sort of public adoration that money can’t buy — or the sort of public hate that money can’t block. Your choice: Be beloved from every corner of society or be subjected to nonstop ridicule.”
Ann Coulter

“The Left despises Clarence Thomas because he is a conservative African American. Here’s what Clarence Thomas said at [his 1991] confirmation hearing. He said if you are a free-thinking African American, quote, ‘You will be lynched, destroyed, and caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate.’ Well, in three decades, that hasn’t changed and it’s gotten worse.”
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

“Gay movement: the sex you’re attracted to is hardwired at birth, even though there’s no gay gene. Trans movement: your sex is entirely fluid, even though there is a definitive sex chromosome. LGBT movement: you must believe both of those things at once, or else you’re a bigot.”
Vivek Ramaswamy

“Here’s what I think. I think [Republicans are] losers. They’re losers. They’re losing on guns. … They’re losing on women’s right to choose, which is a losing issue for them and was during the last midterm election. … So now they turn to the trans and drag communities because they think that that has some salience. I don’t know, does anybody really think that the drag issue is a threat? Of course not, so they’re going to lose on that too.”
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

“If the border’s secure, why is President Biden sending 1,500 active-duty military down to the border? When they can’t enforce immigration law, all they can do is change diapers and push paper.”
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)

“The invasion of migrants is untenable for everyone. This humanitarian crisis is entirely Biden’s fault, and it is his job to fix it. It’s especially important that progressive Democrats who foolishly champion these policies face the music.”
Emmy Griffin

“Governor Abbott is once again deciding to play politics with people’s lives by resuming the busing of asylum seekers to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, and Washington, D.C. Not only is this behavior morally bankrupt and devoid of any concern for the well-being of asylum seekers, but it is also impossible to ignore the fact that Abbott is now targeting five cities run by Black mayors. Put plainly, Abbott is using this crisis to hurt Black-run cities.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams

“If you truly want to ‘work together to find a real solution’ to this border crisis gripping our nation, you must call on the Biden Administration to do its job by securing our border, repelling the illegal immigrants flooding into our communities, classifying the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and intercepting the deadly fentanyl that is endangering our country. You are right that ‘this situation is completely untenable,’ but this is not a Texas problem — this is a problem for the entire United States of America. Texas began busing migrants to sanctuary cities such as your ‘Welcoming City,’ along with Washington, D.C., New York City, and Philadelphia, to provide much-needed relief to our overrun border communities. Until President Biden secures the border to stop the inflow of mass migration, Texas will continue this necessary program.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott in response to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot

“New research shows what unites Democrats — abortion on demand. According to the Pew Research Center, Democrats have become dramatically more pro-abortion. So much so that 84% of Democrats now believe abortion should be ‘legal in all or most cases.’ That’s up 21-points since 2007. Meanwhile, Republican views on the issue haven’t changed. All the talk of the GOP ‘moving too far right’ is just nonsense.”
Gary Bauer

“The difference between Democrats and Republicans today is that among Democrats, there is unity. … Democrats don’t care about fiscal and moral profligacy. They like it and are not afraid to say it. This is who they are. But Republicans continue to be all over the place despite the very deep, clear and, yes, dangerous problems confronting the nation.”
Star Parker

“Biden has a strategy that has already begun to emerge: He will tell voters that things are, in fact, going well for them, that he has done so, so much for them, and what really matters is MAGA. Americans should be so afraid of Make America Great Again Republicans, even if former President Donald Trump is not on the GOP ticket, that they should vote to keep a president who brought on a recession.”
Byron York

OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK

Covid Hospital Protocols Destroyed Thousands of American Families

‘Transabled’

MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK

Hunter Biden and child support

Recession is coming

MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK

Writers’ strike

MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK

She had WHAT during a classical muisc concert?